Hi Nick ,Heinz,Ben,
You guys make me red in the face
And it must be said,if it wasn't for you all...
Will bent the stem,for shure,when I hear everyone I realised my first feeling was the good one.
For Heinz,
I did shape the bowl by hand on my sading disk and with a rough sandpaper wrapped around a halfround file.
The mouthpiece is made from Vulcanite and was pre made,I glued in a 7mm tennon and shaped it together with the stem and stummel.
I left it natural,cause Idon't have yet the experience to use stains,didn't wanna ruin it.
And the pits are very shallow,not deep at all,but I think still to deep to keep cutting away the briar,one is little ad almost gone there is a deeper,1mm,one
and one emerged during the sanding so thats why
I had did stop also not to lose the shape.
For the future I hope to learn al lot more and improve with every pipe I make
For now I only have one big piece of briar left,so it's gonne be time for me to look for good briar.I will bare in mind what you said.
This block I orderd with Marco Janzen
But I am a half Italian,my grandfather came from Calabria,
so I try now to find a good contact with a briarcutter from there
and see if my roots can get me some roots
Now I am resanding it,cause IMO it didn't had that shine yet.
Then I will set up a place to take better pics.
Ben, I don't know about the shape's name,I combined a horn with the Stanwell 124,I think it 's a half bent Dublin,that I got here
If you say it 's an Elephant I will take your word on it.
Anyway thank a lot everyone for the comments on my first efforts in becoming a real pipemaker.
And it smokes well,so far...
frank