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SmokeyBert wrote:

Dodson wrote:Good morning! I was wanting to make a 4 paneled billiard

Hiya Dodson, do you have any pics you can share with us yet? I'm curious how it's coming along for you and what method(s) you decided on?

Thanks for your interest man!! I'll post it when im done with shaping.

I wouldn't do it at all cuz I hate fukkin panels. Quit fukkin them. You will come to appreciate them more when you're just friends. Ha! Maybe your right Ryan, the friends with benefits thing didn't work out. Iv been looking at old pipe catalogs and there's a lot of paneled pipes out there.. Or used...

Thank you all for the tips. joe, I think right about not moving the tail stock, when my tail stoke is not clamped down it has side to side play.
Jeremiah. What hand tools are you facing with?
Pooka. Is a chamfer the same as counter sinking the mortis?

Thanks again!!'

That's funny Scottie I used the 12" disk and it was coming together until I fucked it up in a split second. I'll try it again later. I got my symmetry down on the panels so it wasn't a waste.

Thanks y'all. This site is awesome!

That's the thing I am working on a lathe and you think facing would be easy.... Not so much

Thanks!! I'm using a forstner bit. I just bought a nice expensive one that I will use on my next pipe. Hopefully that will do the trick.

Thanks Bruce. When you say "cut" are you doing this on a bandsaw? I was thinking of using my 12" disk, would that work as well or would the disk be more difficult to control and get the panels symmetrical?

Excuse the double

Still working on getting pics posted

My 7 th pipe please rip it apart. From the top view the chamber looks off but I assure you it's centered. Also I can't seem the make the stem/shank junction without a gap. Thanks for looking

Good morning! I was wanting to make a 4 paneled billiard and I'm not sure if I do the panels last or square the block as best I can and turn it until the panels develop? Or maybe there's another way? Any bit of info I can get on panels would be awesome. Thank y'all very much and have a great Sunday

Great job!

Thanks for the feedback!

I got happy with the dremal and caused a dip in the shank. Other then that I'm ok with how it turned out. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Don't hold back

Iv been smoking out of it so the chamber is dark

Took some meat off the stem to take away from taper look as suggested. Better?

Thank ocelet!! I was planing on doing two thin rings and the tool I used ( I have a set of easy turn carbine tip deals from woodcraft) turned out wider then I thought it would so I didn't have enough room for the second ring :shock: . Thank you for your input on the stem. I was going for a saddle, I...

Couple more pics

I noticed you can't see the top of the shank/bowl junction. I'll get a pic with better lighting tomorrow.