I got to pondering this and thought I might ask it of all of you.
Custom orders excluded, do you let the briar determine what type of pipe you make out of it? As a religeous thing? Or do you pick the wood around the "pipe"?
Obviously most of the guys who choose the latter have a more than a few blocks laying around.... perhaps not.
So.... I thought I pose the question and see what your approaches are when you grab up a block.... and map out your course.
some days it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.
The briar is the boss. There's no sense forcing a pipe out a of a chunk of briar that doesn't want to make that shape. You can, however, massage things a little if you know how to read the wood.
KurtHuhn wrote:The briar is the boss. There's no sense forcing a pipe out a of a chunk of briar that doesn't want to make that shape. You can, however, massage things a little if you know how to read the wood.
Ditto, I had some nice pipes turn out poorly until I learned this.
