but truly I just do this to drink beer in my garage once in awhile an get my break from work/family/reality. If my day job ever ends (and I sure hope it doesn't) I will put the beer up and try like heck to make pipes I can sell for a lot of money... until the bank takes the house away that is... and that wouldn't take long if I had to rely on my pipes! SO it is just me doing for fun, and that's all.That said, here are the most recent two I made.
This first one is another one of them nosewarmer's and I have made enough of these now that I am going to stop making them for a few shapes so I can learn something else. I only took these two pics, sent them to my email list as "upcoming" as it wasn't all cleaned up yet but it got claimed, so these are all the pics:
This next one is what I call "Over Bent". I made it for a friend of mine who likes really bent pipes.
It's got an off centered tenon so I could exagerrate the bend. I pretty much made it without power tools, really just to see how much work\time it is, prolly won't make more that way since I could have made a couple of other pipes just in the time it took to make the stem on this one. More pics and write up here if anyone is interested. Likewise I doubt if I will ever do the full metal lathe thing and all that... but the 12" disc sure makes it fast and maybe someday a bandsaw if I ever run across a real good deal on one.
Now family visiting for the holidays and I will much look forward to my next spell in the garage.
Cheers all,
Bill
