Today I spent a couple hours sketching and then getting my drilling just right on the last piece of briar I have. I drilled a rod from both ends and got lucky and they met perfect, I cut the tenon on my shopsmith wood lathe, ran the tapered 11/64" I made down it, and cut the slot. Then I rough shaped the whole thing on my 12" sanding disk, including as much of the button as I can do on it before going to files. Super happy with the mechanics of it.
Then something I been thinking about a lot lately finally caught up with me:
I realized that even though I just sent over a hundred pipes to Pipestud I still got a couple hundred in the racks... I don't want to be in the pipe business so I have never had plans to sell new pipes.. I need another pipe like I need a hole in the head....I really got other things I want to make... especially that grandfather clock I been wanting to make for a few years...
So I said screw it, gave the stem a little bend, ran the speed up on the shopsmith, hit the dang pipe with trip at about 5 billion rpm's and called it a shop pipe.
Now I am gonna spend the bits of spare time I get this summer researching grandfather clocks and next winter I am going to build myself one from scratch with my own movement. The money I been saving up for briar should buy all my parts for the clock.
Ya never know, I might make some more briar pipes, I might make some more cobs too, but as of now I am gonna take prolly the next year off of pipes and work on a really nice grandfather clock.
Thanks for all the advice everyone here has given me, I have appreciated your friendship and will surely be buying a few of yours pipes as time goes by, I am really proud of the pipes I have made and will be smoking them the rest of my life.
PS - I will file down the button on this sometime or other and apologies for the crappy cell phone pic but its not a pretty pipe anyhow
a change of direction...
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Best of luck with the clock...that's cool, man.
"No reserves, no retreats, no regrets"
"When you're dumb...you've got to be tough." - my dad
"When you're dumb...you've got to be tough." - my dad
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Yes, good luck with your clock work!
I truly hope it all works out for you.
I truly hope it all works out for you.
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Yes, best of luck with the clock! It's great to change up the sort of hobbies one is working on to keep things fresh and interesting.
I myself also have a plan to build my own clock movement from scratch. Maybe some day when I've had enough of pipes for a while, I'll make like you.
Cheers,
Greg
I myself also have a plan to build my own clock movement from scratch. Maybe some day when I've had enough of pipes for a while, I'll make like you.
Cheers,
Greg
Jack of all trades, master of one.
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Well gents, here it is one month later and well...
I guess my wife didn't like me moping about the house, lurking here on the forum, and what not.. so she gave Carolyn at Pipe Makers Emporium a call and yesterday, for my birthday, I recieved a nice box with a couple of really nice pieces of briar from my wife and a couple nice little things from Carolyn! Even cooler was today my wife told me she was taking the kids out and I could have the garage to myself for a few hours!
What a lovely birthday present, I got to make myself a pipe today and I have 3 more blocks to play with as time allows I will need to give Carolyn a call and say thanks to her as well this week.
Thanks for the comments above on the clock and I will slip back into lurk mode again now,
Bill
I guess my wife didn't like me moping about the house, lurking here on the forum, and what not.. so she gave Carolyn at Pipe Makers Emporium a call and yesterday, for my birthday, I recieved a nice box with a couple of really nice pieces of briar from my wife and a couple nice little things from Carolyn! Even cooler was today my wife told me she was taking the kids out and I could have the garage to myself for a few hours!
What a lovely birthday present, I got to make myself a pipe today and I have 3 more blocks to play with as time allows I will need to give Carolyn a call and say thanks to her as well this week.
Thanks for the comments above on the clock and I will slip back into lurk mode again now,
Bill
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Did you pull that pipe out of a fire?
Or did you do that on purpose?
If you did that on purpose, well,... Hey,... nice pipe!
Or did you do that on purpose?
If you did that on purpose, well,... Hey,... nice pipe!
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Yeah your right, I deleted the pics.Boekweg wrote:Did you pull that pipe out of a fire?
Or did you do that on purpose?
If you did that on purpose, well, . . . hey, . . . nice pipe!
Apologies for bumping this thread,
Billiard
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Ya, i did write that, but it was just a little humor, you know,...like funny humor, haha, not hurtful ripping humor that was ment to hurt. I would never purposely do that. I'v always been told that i have a morbid sence of humor. In all fairness i did PM billiard and personly apologize if he was hurt by what i wrote. I asked him if he would please repost the pic and get some propper critique by the professionals (since im not). He sent a reply basically telling me (in a very polite way mind you) to "f" off and mind my own business.
Just for future reference, if anyone thinks im being hurtful with my humor, im not. And i will apologize in advance.
peace.
Just for future reference, if anyone thinks im being hurtful with my humor, im not. And i will apologize in advance.
peace.