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Got ya down PH
I bet the person who gets your pipe would probably want it out of briar. its the most commonly used wood for a reason. im definitely not trying to be a jerk, I just know I would be kinda let down to get a pipe made from something other than briar or strawberry wood. sorry LW. not to slap your wrist or anything, im just throwing it out there. walnut or pecan extension would be great though.Literaryworkshop wrote:I've got a couple of ideas. I'm really tempted to do a strawberry, or maybe a nut shape.
Does it have to be briar? If not, I'm highly tempted to do a walnut in walnut or a pecan in pecan.
phirty wrote:If not too late to jump in I would love to do so, just saw this string this morning. I am a newer carver and my son and I have been working together on some pipe building and designs, would like to join if relative newbies are still welcome (maybe could be a "newbie" category if there are enough of us?). I have a piece of briar and a design in mind . . . sounds like big fun.
That's kind of what I figured, but I wanted to check. If there were going to be lots of other alternate woods floating in and out, I wouldn't feel bad experimenting with one, but I didn't want to be the only one. I'll stick to briar for now. Might still do a nut shape with an appropriate extension. Hmmm.....the rev wrote:phirty wrote:If not too late to jump in I would love to do so, just saw this string this morning. I am a newer carver and my son and I have been working together on some pipe building and designs, would like to join if relative newbies are still welcome (maybe could be a "newbie" category if there are enough of us?). I have a piece of briar and a design in mind . . . sounds like big fun.
The whole idea is that newbies play. That way I get one of your shitty pipes, and you get one of my shitty pipes, and we tell each other how shitty our shitty pipes are and then we cry in our beer. In fact we should rename this crying in the beer pipe trade.
In all seriousness we hope that the better pipe makers cans critique and help us that are novice pipe makers so we can improve our craft. In addition, those of us that are just learning can get a higher grade pipe in our hands to let us see how we can become better.
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I hope so because I'm thinking about experimenting with one as well.Massis wrote:I'm still struggling with the shank length, do we count calabash chambers as length as well?