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Thanks guys ! I've got 30 or 40 designs kicking around in my head right now so I guess the first step is to get a hunk of briar...

Hey guys! Its me Paul from Kiziel Pipes. I'm back after over a year and a half hiatus. Long story short was I went through a nasty divorce where she went to jail and my pipe making equipment got a good going over by an angry soon to be x-wife. Needless to say my creative juices were at an all time l...

For Sale guys is a Southbend 9A 3FT bed lathe woth motor tailstock complete. It needs a head bearing due to some excess play ( can order from Grizzly as they now own Southbend). Does not include a chuck .Looking to get $500.00 OBO

pffffffffffff Whats it do man, Get you high?!?!?!?!

ave you tried Craigslist in your area? I did a quick search for lathes on Craigslist and came up with a ton of quality wood lathes as well as some decent metal lathes. For instance a servicable meta lathe http://louisville.craigslist.org/tls/1781003489.html . I found an old southbend I redid up here...

I think they look great! Nice creativity, bold and daring. I like it.

As far as his pipes go they are really nice indeed. I saw how he inlays the metal logo in the stem but I wonder how he inlays the metal into the briar. If anything I got some good ideas from that video.

If you got $200-$400 bucks to spend you can pick up a good used Pantograph engraving machine with some type set and do it yourself. Lasers are nice but a good manual machine I think is more versitile. You can cut your own templates and make any design you want. I use a old Gorton 3U Pantograph machi...

I found this searching the site here but it is not a Fraising bit per say. The main problem I am seeing with making one is that you are locked in to one shape / size per bit. I will mess around a bit and see if it works or I put an eye out! lol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUHPW_u5AwQ&feature=...

Does anyone know where you can get frazing bits? I am screwing around with an idea to make a frazing bit from 3/8 steel plate. Sort of like a reverse padle bit that I can chuck up in the tool post on the lathe. Any ideas?

I go to my local craft supply place like an AC Moore or somthing like that. I get small wooden boxes that cost like 4 bucks each. I stain them black and affix my logo on a business card to the top. I like the look.

I like that neither bronchitis nor kidney stones could keep you from purchasing and wrestling another 10 million pound machine. :lol: Heheheheh Yeah I am dedicated you might say! I actually have had this machine sitting in the garage waiting to make it down to the shop. I did hit one hurtle with th...

Man I dont know! I swore when I bought my Gorton Engraver that it was the last piece of machinery but I felt funny the other night and when I woke up the following morning this other one was sitting in my basement! WTF??? Sorry about the photography but I have bronchitis and worse than that I was in...

Kurt; Maybe, make an offer. The only problem is now that it is in the shop in the basement I dont know how in the hell you would get it back out! I went down the 3 stairs easy enough thanks to gravity and 4 large men but coming back up the 3 stairs????? :shock: Man! You might need 8 guys , a winch, ...

BeatusLiebowitz wrote:That includes free shipping, right?

That would be local pick up only!!!!! I got it into my shop, you can get it out!

I may just take you up on that Simeon. Hmmmm Maybe a full blown Bridgeport Machine might be my next thing. lol actually I have 3 pipes gathering dust that need to be finished.

I actually like the one with the copper tubing. Make it out of brass with a slightly longer stummel and I think you got a winner! lol Unusual but I like it!

O.K Guyus, You all saw the before images, If not here is one or two. http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d174/pkuziel/Lathe/Gorton1.jpg http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d174/pkuziel/Lathe/Gorton8.jpg Now here is the finished product. Not as comprehensive as the other guys Gorton but just as cool. htt...

Wow! Now that is a nice restoration!!!!! I did a resto on my Southbend and now I am doing one on a old Gorton Panto Engraver, It is a labor of love is it not?
Paul

What do you use it for ? how will that work on a pipe? hope that's not a dumb Question :?: Instead of stamping the pipe I have a jig that holds the pipe and I engrave the name and logo into the briar to a debth of 10 thousands. I also engrave my logo into the stem itself and fill it with a red pain...