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It's more that if you bend it a bunch of times, you have to make sure of what it looks like each time, that you get the old bend out. I often bend a pipe more than once, bend, touch up the shape, bend more or less, touch it up more, then finish it for real.

Agree with wavy stem, looks like it was bent, then straightened. 4th pic really shows this. Not sure why it's being bent though, the stummel is straight, it's a straight pipe. Put a file under the length of the stummel, looks like there's some bowl sagging. That bottom line needs to be flat on this ...

Well, as you found out, green is hard, getting it even, getting it shiny without buffing through to brown somewhere.... well done. Pipe looks pretty good, two little things - there's a slight pinch in the shank in pic 2, and I think it's genuine... keeping those lines firm is really hard, and these ...

A pile of things hit me, I'm absolutely not of the 'fanboy' school, I don't really fall into that sort of hero worship, and yet everything JC says there about process, about result, about ... everything, what pipe making is about, really resonated with me. Making shit people really want to smoke.

Rusticating is usually a process where you carve, hack, scrape etc with one of many tools, for whatever surface effect you like. There's also CARVED finishes, like the Radice Underwood, which is like a gesture towards a wax drip I guess...a whole gamut. Pretty ordinary cluster-tool rustication: I di...

One of my closer attempts shape wise, and I wasn't trying to make an author: https://i.imgur.com/f47wfLj.jpg Close, but no cigar: https://i.imgur.com/UPmfKBx.jpg Better but again a little brandyish or something... https://i.imgur.com/3WIlmFy.jpg It's a hard shape, less well defined than a billiard, ...

Authors are hideously difficult. Hideously. Difficult. I thought the carving contest a few years ago where the shape was "author" absolutely sucked, I thought most of the winning pipes looked like a bloated sperm. And these were from people who make nice pipes. Authors are hideously diffic...

Dear Walt, what the fuck are you doing?

Hope this helps
Todd

Jesus George where do you find this shit?

Dude I update my blog like every 3 years, whaddya want??

Okay, had my dumplings, Rocco's working on a bowl of Lamb and Apple, wife's watching Star Trek, so I can focus. :thumbsup: Briar comes out of the mill soaking wet, and often ships that way. Mimmo and Makis are pretty good about sending blocks that have had a little dry time, the wettest I've had wer...

Without waxing mystical, I will offer a few thoughts. First, there's no such thing as "dry" briar. Like any wood, it has a component of moisture based on the ambient humidity. In winter, my briar is more dry than it is the following summer, because it's really really really dry around here...

Lots to like, basic proportions pretty nice, that domed rim makes an attractive, open bowl. I'm not a fan of the rustication, looks very much like a Peterson, I think texturing should should not leave flat surfaces, it looks unfinished. I think the bright white ring is far too much action visually o...

Lots to look at here.... the good, I think the rim treatment and the squared off bottom of the bowl compliment each other, it's a fresh approach. I'm not sure on the angles used, or rather, I'm not sure how I feel about the front of the pipe being very much angled off on the bottom, and the back of ...

Be pretty surprising if he didn't like it!

Eeeyeah. Quick story. There's a guy who lives a couple hours from me and he makes pipes as a steady hobby. I will call him Joe. And one day he announces the birth of Joe's Pipe Repair, International Specialties, Attentions Paid to Gentlemanly Things..... and everybody's all happy for him. So I sent ...

It's funny how many pipe makers DON'T have a wood shop, or any actual shop skills that don't pertain to pipes. It's a big advantage.

I think a bunch of us in here got started with "Oh shit I gotta fix this somehow" so you're in good company!

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