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Very nice pipes. The first one really floats my boat.

Good Stuff.

I messed up a couple of slots holding by hand as well so now I use my drill press and pen vise. My drill press's shelf (Shopsmith) has a lever to move it in and out, so I just put the stem in the vice and pull the lever.

Not the best methodology I am sure, but it works for me

So check it out, my lovely daughter gave me a brand new Zippo lighter! Take a look: http://www.billboylepipes.com/uploads/8/9/3/2/8932036/7364938_orig.jpg Well I guess you can't really see the engraving on it in the above photo, so here is another one: http://www.billboylepipes.com/uploads/8/9/3/2/8...

I ate the bones...

I ate the bones?

I ate the bones?!

On cell phone sorry short.

Try this order:
Release red button
Put in f or r
Push green button

I do like above and never touch f\r switch when running. On my 920 these magnetic switches.

Thanks gents and big congrats on the 40th!

Whoops!

Change the "though sometimes" to "It's not like I am" - really just hiding and having a beer in the shop instead

cause I don't hide my beer, I raise my jug to the sky!

Thanks much guys, and congrats on the 15 and both the 25s! For me, with the day job, wife, kids, etc, pipe making as a hobby works out great. Most steps in making a pipe take about 15 minutes and that's usually all I get. So if I can grab a couple hours on the weekend to knock out the lathe work the...

Thanks guys

Sas sponsored an OomPaul contest on here not all too long ago. There was some good conversations and links re the drilling, might be worth the read: viewtopic.php?f=18&t=6720

Very Cool!

My wife and I have been married for 20 years this week. As her gift to me I got both some shop time and to keep this pipe I made for myself. http://www.billboylepipes.com/uploads/8/9/3/2/8932036/7725729_orig.jpg http://www.billboylepipes.com/uploads/8/9/3/2/8932036/8155044_orig.jpg No critique of th...

Pic #4 down. Is that SAS in the stem??? That would indeed be. I thought it was a nice partly cloudy day here in the Puget Sound so I went into the yard to take some pictures of this pipe. Turned out it was the deadly Cirrus-Sasquatch cloud that had came in from the north! Soon as I let my guard dow...

Congrats, Jet makes a nice mini-lathe. I got the same one sitting here and it worked well for a spell, at some point the pull of the Jet 9X20 took me over (the cross slide and all that). Now though you are gonna need the chuck, the adaptor to make the chuck fit on the lathe, and proper jaws to hold ...

the rev wrote:that pipe is bad ass

and thanks for the Tom, it always goes down like cheap bourbon

rev

Thanks much Rev!

oklahoma red wrote:You've got a serious termite problem!

Wait, you can see them too Chas? Heck I thought they were just in my mind, well, so long as they keep outta my cider I'll quit trying to stomp on em I reckon!

That's a great pipe Bill. It's gnarly, but very clean. Thanks much Andrew, I appreciate it. Your craftsmanship has not plateaued. I'm most definitely still on the ramp up the learning curve but more than anything I am still in the "tooling up" process. Things like sand blasters are way ou...

As I go to post this it occurs to me that there are very few shapes you can specify simply with a number yet have everyone know what you mean. Even using something as simple and well known as the name "billiard" or "apple" can lead to confusion. Is the billiard in question an Eng...

I really like this pipe, well done.

Btw, Halo or Hakuna Matata? Wait, nevermind

That is a very impressive workshop, thanks for sharing it George.