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I love my Petersons, but the P-lips are a challenge to de-gurgle. I like the P-lip, don't get me wrong. The biggest problem with them is they're nearly impossible to keep cleaned out. When they get hard to draw I tend to go at the stem with a bristle-type pipe cleaner under hot running water until i...

As a matter of fact German forests are not just humid, they´re acid . :( I knew drugs were involved in the making of Walle's pipes..... :lol: :whisper: Putting together what little I have heard hinted about how to get that finish, I arrived at the obvious conclusion: Walle is using brair from Venus...

Pear, like most fruitwoods, is pretty dense and thus okay for pipes. Its traditional use is making large endgrain blocks for woodblock printing.

And then there's Sapient pearwood (found only on the Diskworld), which is good for magical objects with minds of their own...

Black walnut is just the species name, mostly 'cause the outside of the nut is black once the green smelly goo wears off.

The wood ranges from dark brown in the heartwood to nearly white in the sapwood. It's never actually black.

I use a lot of PME's lucite. Things I've noticed about it as compared to vulcanite/ebonite: Drill slowly with lots of lubricant, lest your bit stick and snap off. It melts fast and resolidifies even faster, so if you notice the bits starting to melt the stuff pull it out while it's still turning or ...

Now THAT's just gorgeous!

I'll third the dozuki. I have one from Woodcraft, the Ice Bear brand 300mm length. It's the only woodsaw I have that easily cuts briar. A high-tension hacksaw with alternate-set teeth on a 10-14tpi blade does pretty well also, as does my jewelers' saw with a #3 blade. I still much prefer my bandsaw,...

I'm glad somebody finally did this. Good work, guys, even if no Mormons were smoked during the experiment.

A javeling is a knife tied to a stick, of course. :roll: You use it to try to spear javelinas. :fencing: And it ain't just low country folk who respect hawk dawgs and know what a pig-sticker is, it's just that the pig is usually being strung up by his heels before you stick 'em. I'm not afraid to hu...

Ooh, that's a nice clean-lined slicing machine! :fencing: For the record I do know a guy who loads up a bunch of drunken rednecks in a truck, drives them to a remote location in the South Carolina mountains, and turns them loose after the dogs in hopes of jumping on a wild boar armed only with a 13&...

David, that's an excellent idea! Not only could you open your own bog oak mine, you might come across some nifty bronze-age through late iron age goldwork and be able to retire...

I feel your pain, man!

I'm down to my last half-pound of SG 1792, my daily smoke and a peculiar substance for which there is no known equivalent. I've reserved a few pounds from a couple of different retailers to be filled whenever the ship comes in.

Sasquatch wrote:I wound up doing one in a Y, drilled back from the bowl to hook up. Smokes good, apparently.
Using that same pic, roughly like this:

That's how I did the one and only cavalier I've done, and it works perfectly.

Now THAT is a slap-the-forehead moment of genius if ever I've seen one!

Those are not typically used in tobacco pipes. I'm afraid that, for that screen, you're going to have venture into a head shop. Or find an online source - probably eBay. Kurt, Kurt, Kurt... you're showing your straightness again! You buy those screens at the hardware store after you've swiped all o...

I think I understand what you mean, it is chipping out when used across the grain (the "lines" in the wood). Luckily, briar doesn't do that nearly as much as regular wood. Its grain is so tight and interlocked you'll just get chatter marks if you're lucky. When Briar chips out, it comes of...

Really nice job on the wood, but you certainly get the award for most insightful use of a compression washer!

Really, I do like it, I just couldn't resist.

Well, it may be a little thick, but the only glaring problem I can see is that in your second picture, the left-hand side of the bit needs more relief. I'm guessing it shakes and judders, takes chunks out of the bowl rim, and generally wreaks havoc on precision? I say that because that's what my fir...

To be fair, Rad, if this is what the guy from TN sounds like, how wacky is the guy who is running in Alabama? Of course, we may never know, because he probably lacks electricity and/or internet access in order to share his views with the world... Now that I have finished that completely un-called f...

Drilling the stem without a drill press or lathe is hugely frustrating and wasteful, if not impossible. Probably it's only viable bo buy some predrilled rods or prefabricated stems. On the contrary, I drill all my stems freehand with a cordless drill and a set of 6" bits. And a couple of taper...