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And this isn't a "personal preference" thing in terms of what LL and I are getting at - it's personal preference if you build a billiard a certain way, or like a pipe of a certain set of proportions. But when you are talking about "classic" or "English" billiards, go ba...

And the truth is, these are all French shapes in the first place, out of the factories in St Claude etc.

Dear Wayne, go home, you're drunk. Danish billiards almost always have a low center of gravity and straighter walls, in fact I absolutely hate them, they represent a bunch of things I find absolutely critical in billiard shaping, a lightness, and upward lilt, a masculine aggression, by having them m...

So, just horsing around with the pipe... I blot out a bunch of the adornment and add "shank color" instead, and the mathematical proportions are pretty close.... but I don't love the pipe yet, as a billiard. https://i.imgur.com/o2W1JA9.png What needs to change? If I tighten up that bowl sh...

It's an attractive pipe, and goes to show how nice a straight pipe can be and still not quite be a billiard! The bowl is a little chubby and a little square or chinnish. And the shank length.... well here's the fun part - that adornment, is it shank or not? Visually, it very much alters the balance ...

Technically, super well done on the harder parts, shank to bowl transition is tight but relaxed, cheeks are defined but not overly so. Agree that the shank is a little more tapered and just a hair longer than usual. The only iffy spot for me is the flattened back and front of the bowl, that curve is...

The issue with the conversion is that the run of the mill p lip is a very round stem and often slim, so even if you lop the penis tip off and cut a slot, it's still not a great stem pretty often.

Welcome, I think google translate is pretty good these days, it lets us all speak with Russians and Koreans and even Canadians!

I have a second box of 11 pieces, some uncut, some cut, 1 drilled completely, if anyone is interested in practice pieces. There's some perfectly decent stuff in here, just mostly pieces I walked away from because there weren't going to to whatever I was hoping for smooth or blast or a flaw in some p...

I don't believe for one second that you sat down, drew this pipe, designed this pipe , and said "There we go, that's the pipe I'm going to make." The result is a pipe that has a straight shank and a bent stem, a huge underhung belly, and no visual balance at all, just a random assemblage o...

There's about 400 details like this in a billiard, you can't possibly assess, process, and reproduce them without a) guidance and b) practice. The simplicity of the shape is utterly real, and utterly illusory.

One of the stranger posts on this board for sure. Congrats Wayne on setting a new bar.

I have a huge box of stuff I have abandoned, screwed up, forgotten about, passed over etc that I am either going to chuck out or sell. I was going to split it into 2 lots, include at least one uncut block in each lot, but if this is something that you are interested in, let's talk. I have probably t...

That really is terrible wood.

I don't mind the bowl for tall, but it's a bit square and a bit "jowly", the weight is low. Think about your hand if you make a fist vs offering someone an apple. This one's more "fist".

These are both harder to critique and harder for the new maker to understand the critique, but here goes. The biggest problem the pipe has overall is that it's your first shot at this kind of thing, so it's full of ideas - too full. It's bordering on what I call the "Macaroni Art" school o...

Welcome aboard, you'd not be the first home-maker-come-pipe-maker around here, it's an activity that fits reasonably well into other things (like making dinner).

On one hand, it's total bullshit right? Like, it reminds me of a parable about a little kid asking you how catch a sparrow, and he's told "Oh it's easy - you just shake a little salt on their tailfeathers." But on the other hand, there is something so massively profound about this, the ide...

There's only 5 minutes in it (in ebonite. 10 minutes in acrylic!) for the basic v. Then a little cleanup inside and out, files, tiny pieces of sandpaper, emery cloth, etc.

Ugh, acrylic too, you poor dear.

Cook Ting was cutting up an ox for Lord Wen-hui. As every touch of his hand, every heave of his shoulder, every move of his feet, every thrust of his knee — zip! zoop! He slithered the knife along with a zing, and all was in perfect rhythm, as though he were performing the dance of the Mulberry Grov...