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I would finish it and offer it as a flawed pipe on ebay. Some find the surface flaws a nice bit of character. I'm one of those people who find that surface flaws add a bit of pleasant character. One of my favorite pipes has a huge gash up the front of the bowl. I didn't make it. It was an estate pi...

Sadly, I have to bow out at the last minute. Life got in the way. I look forward to seeing all the entries, and I hope everyone posts them here.

Since I already had jewelry polishing tools in my shop, I've simply adopted the same setup to polish pipes as well. Jewelers need to switch buffing wheels constantly for various tasks, so they use tapered spindles on the ends of their buffer shafts. The tapered spindles are threaded, so that they fe...

All this talk of rubble sacks and bitumen to prevent water soaking into the wooden legs reminds me of a solution I use routinely: simply soak the bottoms of your wooden legs in motor oil before building your bench. The oil won't evaporate, and water can't soak into pore space in the wood that is alr...

Welcome Michael! I'd love to see photos of your Manzanita pipe. (even if it looks like my own first pipe! :o ) I've been planning to try making a Manzanita pipe as well. I have a thirty-year old Manzanita root ball that I plan to cut up and turn. Wish me luck! Do you have any observations on Manzani...

What's going on with the middle of the bowl? Is it supposed to be a billiard bowl or a Rhodesian? I'm amused by the frequency of comments like this. On a website that seems to be largely dedicated to making "artisan" pipes, why would you assume that the pipemaker intended a pipe to be a s...

LatakiaLover wrote:Ted, did we meet at Chicago last year in that repairman's meet-up thing with Tim & Co?

Your story and approach sounds familiar...

Nope! Must be another lapidary/goldsmith/pipemaker. I'm planning to go to Chicago this year, but it will be my first time there.

It's pretty obvious that you sanded the bottom off. Why would you do that? From time to time I feel irresistible urge of doing something unconventional. I get that urge as well, and I don't think there's anything wrong with doing things that are unconventional. That's the way a craft evolves throug...

I'm in!

Howdy, gang! I'm CowboyTed, a Wyoming native living in Colorado. I've made a few pipes, and restored or modified a bunch in the course of learning how pipes have been made by others. The bug has bitten, and I'm in the process of setting up a proper shop with all my tools for pipemaking in one room. ...