1. Can anyone reccomend the best place to buy a stain for a pipe? Or perhps even a favorite stain?
2. How does one make and or purchase a rusticating tool?
Thanks. Matt :pipe:
Stains and Rusticating
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PastorPipe
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Re: Stains and Rusticating
Fieblings seems to be a good place to get dye. You can buy from a bunch of people online:PastorPipe wrote:1. Can anyone reccomend the best place to buy a stain for a pipe? Or perhps even a favorite stain?
http://www.aleathersource.com/Dyes.htm
I get Tandy Leather Co. dye, but that is just because I have a local shop and I hate waiting for shipping.
Check out tyler's "Pipe Making" section on the left. Go to "Finishing" and there's a section on rusticating with insructions to make the tool. I just made it a few days ago, works like a charm! It cost me about $10. Could have been less if I could have found less nails.PastorPipe wrote:2. How does one make and or purchase a rusticating tool?
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As for the dyes. There are some, that simply put pigments into the wood. There are some that interact chemically within the wood with parts of the wood. I can't find a proper translation for the German term for the wood part it reacts with. Last one produces a longer lasting stain.
How can we tell the difference? Are leather dyes generally that interactive? Is there a conmprehensive guide somewhere or is it part of the well hidden voodoo of every pipemaker?
Alex
How can we tell the difference? Are leather dyes generally that interactive? Is there a conmprehensive guide somewhere or is it part of the well hidden voodoo of every pipemaker?
Alex
There is more than one way to rusticate.
Currently on my web page are two examples. Pipe 1505 was done entirely with a dremel and different sized round carving bits. (I've made two pipes in this type style. One I kept that gets positive comments everytime I smoke it, and this one that sold within two hours of me delivering it to the Pipe & Pint).
Pipes 1104 and 1605 were done with a woodworking chisel and the rusticating tool.
If you decide to rusticate with a dremel, don't keep the speed too fast, and don't let the bit sit in one place too long, or the wood will burn.
Now, I wonder what it would look like if I combined the two styles..... :think:
Good luck!!
Currently on my web page are two examples. Pipe 1505 was done entirely with a dremel and different sized round carving bits. (I've made two pipes in this type style. One I kept that gets positive comments everytime I smoke it, and this one that sold within two hours of me delivering it to the Pipe & Pint).
Pipes 1104 and 1605 were done with a woodworking chisel and the rusticating tool.
If you decide to rusticate with a dremel, don't keep the speed too fast, and don't let the bit sit in one place too long, or the wood will burn.
Now, I wonder what it would look like if I combined the two styles..... :think:
Good luck!!