Wow! I'm almost kinda shocked!
I like it a lot, Random. It's a pretty much in stark contrast to some of your other pipes - which is not to say I don't like your others, because I do. What most impresses me is that it's a bent pipe. You don't mention, is this a onepiece, or is the stem removable?
I almost want the stem to be bent *slightly* more. Not much, just a little, to better follow the line begun by the shank. Pictures can be deceiving though, so keep that in mind.
The rustication looks alomost like a reverse pebble grain. That must have taken a long time. It's good, but, but in some spots it doesn't seem random enough - with the bit touching down right next to the last place it was, some even in a row. This isn't a bad thing - it just shows up in the pictures, especially since the pictures show it about twice its actual size.
All in all, most excellent. I think buyers of "traditional" shapes will be very drawn to it.
first bent pipe in a long long while
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I've found that, for all the carvers making wonderful new freehand shapes, the bread and butter (at least for me) is the catalog shapes. I sell more churchwardens, bulldogs, and billiards than I can easy count. The big freehands tend to hang around on the site for a long time.random wrote:That's what I'm wondering. I'm trying to home in on what calls out to the most people and then lean that direction. As I make more pipes, my carving skills seem to be improving, slowly; now sometimes a pipe actually looks like what I envisioned. When I get lucky. <g>kurthuhn wrote: All in all, most excellent. I think buyers of "traditional" shapes will be very drawn to it.