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After several hours of struggle, I made a lathe chuck arbour that works beautifully holding the pipe by the mortise hole steadily, while cutting the face of the joint. If that is of interest to anyone, I will go into further detail. Brad Brad, I would love to hear further details on the arbor you c...

One more comment--the knuckles on that piece of bamboo look almost perfect--it's a gorgeous piece.

Big thanks to Tyler for encouraging everyone to work with the stuff--I was never a bamboo fan but now I'm firmly in the "I love it" crowd.

Dave

Brad that's beautiful! Did you start out intending to rusticate it--if not, the briar did you a favor because the rustication looks FANTASTIC. Did you use the nail tool or some other technique?

Dave

Add me to the "I think Kurt is a heck of a guy" column.

Thanks Kurt.

Best,
Dave

Tyler wrote:Now that's funny!

Tyler <calling Jody right now to say Todd said mean things about him.>

That's where I read it at.

Thanks, Dave! How'd you do that? Rad You're welcome Sir! The least I could do after messing up your post. I just hit the "Img" button and pasted in the link to your pictures then hit the "Img" button again. I got the picture link by right clicking on the picture and going to &qu...

http://www.tylerlanepipes.com/modules/coppermine/albums/userpics/10238/normal_bamboo1.jpg http://www.tylerlanepipes.com/modules/coppermine/albums/userpics/10238/normal_bamboo2.jpg http://www.tylerlanepipes.com/modules/coppermine/albums/userpics/10238/normal_bamboo3.jpg Stem needs work--needs to be ...

Rad... I'm sorry I added pictures after you and it jacked up your link. I'm going to try and post your pictures... http://tylerlanepipes.com/modules/coppermine/albums/userpics/10111/normal_new%20pipes%20001.jpg http://tylerlanepipes.com/modules/coppermine/albums/userpics/10111/new%20pipes%20008%7E0....

I was sure it was that article where I read about weight. I'm going to have to go back and figure out where I read it. (Read below--it's a quote from Jody Davis' website) Anyway, I don't want to give the impression they felt my pipes were boat anchors. They seemed genuinely impressed however, I aske...

Do you consider weight when deciding what shape to use on a particular piece of briar? I'm asking because I went to Uptown's Thursday--I wanted some feedback on my work--one of the things we talked about was weight. To be honest I had never considered weight before. Then I remembered reading the art...

ArtGuy wrote:Nope, in it, does he make a long profane speach just before bludgeoning
someone with a violin? If so, I am there :thumb:

Blood is used to stain the violin however the application method wasn't bludgeoing...

Sorry for your thread being highjacked Ben.

Dave

Anyone seen the movie "Red Violin" with Samuel Jackson?

Kurt, Do you cut a tenon on the bamboo itself? Nope. I use Delrin. I use .25" OD Delrin and drill a 5/32" airway in it before epoxying it into the bamboo. Works really well for me. I've made exactly one bamboo pipe with a steel tenon - nothing wrong with it, I just prefer to work with del...

Kurt, Do you cut a tenon on the bamboo itself? Bill the only pipe I've made with bamboo is still on the bench. However, I've installed the bamboo--the way I got it square was I drilled an 11/64" hole through the bamboo then glued it onto a piece of stainless tubing with 11/64" OD and 5/32&...

Bill,
Looks really nice... I like the shape and the stem brings alot to the pipe as well. What type of wood is the shank extension?

Dave

Occaionally I'll have a block say something... it's usually something like "At least Trever would have gotten the proportions right." Or the other day when I was tossing a stummel onto the "dead" pile it said "Jack Howell would have at least taken me fishing". Once, whe...

LexKY_Pipe wrote:I'd like to hear from Tyler on this issue. He uses a Taig on the videos he produced.

Don't worry... I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night! :thumb:

ScoJo I just found a page that may offer some help... if anything atleast you'll know the nomenclature. It covers setup pretty well.

http://www.cartertools.com/setup.html

Dave

Thanks for the reply, Dave. Yes, I am referring to the cross slide. I tried to explain what was happening in an email to the dealer but apparently I could not get my point across. If you're not able to get help from the dealer you may try and contact Nick Carter; http://www.cartertools.com/ Unless ...

Ever since I got my Taig, I have had trouble trying to dial in the diameter of my tenons. It seems that there is a certain part of the range of the dial where it seems to turn too freely (i.e. will "wander" away from the number that I dial in). Has anyone else had this problem, and if so ...