Very nice!maxmil wrote:These are my tools:
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Very nice!maxmil wrote:These are my tools:
Estas son mis herramientas:
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Felix, I see what you mean. Reflections sometimes look different than what is really there. BUT, on this pipe the light reflection is definitely showing that your shank is not straight.maxmil wrote:I gladly accept constructive criticism as both destructive, but influence is something like a tiny noticeable curvature only through a reflection in a photograph for me it is still nonsense.
Best regards.
Félix
Acepto de buen grado tanto las críticas constructivas como las destructivas; pero incidir en algo como es una ínfima curvatura apreciable únicamente mediante un reflejo en una fotografía para mí no deja de ser un sinsentido.
Saludos.
Félix
Alden wrote:Felix, I see what you mean. Reflections sometimes look different than what is really there. BUT, on this pipe the light reflection is definitely showing that your shank is not straight.maxmil wrote:I gladly accept constructive criticism as both destructive, but influence is something like a tiny noticeable curvature only through a reflection in a photograph for me it is still nonsense.
Best regards.
Félix
Acepto de buen grado tanto las críticas constructivas como las destructivas; pero incidir en algo como es una ínfima curvatura apreciable únicamente mediante un reflejo en una fotografía para mí no deja de ser un sinsentido.
Saludos.
Félix
You can look at almost every picture and see several places where the shank is not perfectly straight.
Again, if you do not care that is okay. But George is right, it could be done better.
keilwerth wrote:Wow, we're discussing light reflections again, kind of a deja vu
Maxmil, whether the slight imperfection is important to you or not, that pretty much ends the subject.
You're probably right when you say nobody would notice it in person.
On the other hand, it's still there. And it is important to emphasize that, as George wrote, it is not easy to fix, quite the contrary. Those teeny tiny irrelevant things are what sets apart very good work from truly great work. This is bound to be taken personally, but I'm sure you understand what I mean and that I have no intention of diminishing your work.
Not everyone has to chase perfection, let's get it stated clearly, because very few of us want/can afford to spend hours trying to carve a perfect line. But when Bo Nordh saw a wavy line he kept working on it untill it looked so good that it even fooled the light into thinking it was perfect
keilwerth wrote:It all depends on the approach.
If we think in absolute terms, without any relation to price, work time invested, etc., then 99,9% of the pipes shown on this forum have visible imperfections that could, theoretically, be corrected.
If we think in practical terms many of those imperfections are, as you said, irrelevant. Both because the pipe doesn't cost $5000 and because subjective aesthetic appel rarely leaves room for such detailed analyses.
LatakiaLover wrote:Most of the mud in this swamp is produced by disconnected expectations. a.k.a. The first rule of effective communication is know your audience.
There's a road out of it, I think.
Proposal: Any pipe posted to the gallery board must be accompanied by a code of some sort (number or letter) that describes the target the poster was aiming for when he made it.
Something like:
1 -- Early or first attempt, just trying to make a functional pipe. Will be given away or kept for personal use.
2 -- Marketable pipe intended for shop or outdoor use
3 -- Marketable, solid, middle-of-the-road pipe on the same level as Savinelli or Peterson's mid grades.
...[etc]...
Up through:
X -- I wanna make Bo Nordh my bitch
With the maker's desires and intentions known in advance, and the board's feedback tuned accordingly, there's little room for things to go sideways, I think.
Ccoolee wrote:As a noob to this and only being on the forum for a couple of weeks. I think some of us might need to specify what type of critique we are looking for in our work.
However, most of you seem
to know each other work and skill level. If not personally, from experience. I would be willing to guess that most of you can eye a pipe and measure a skill level of the maker. I also think that you automatically go to a grading level equal to the hand of the carver. I expect no one will mention on my first critique that there might be an uneven line or possibly could be lens distortion. There will be other much more glaring issues with mine and I'll be measured at my skill level.
Maxmil I strive to someday me measured at that level, beautiful work.
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,Ccoolee wrote:True I'm still trying to figure out how not to rocket briar across the room haha do I need a hockey mask?
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It doesn't take long to figure out what gallery posters are looking for... it's that sometimes "not long" isn't quick enough.The Smoking Yeti wrote:...I think it's important for us to be willing to push each other to the next level, which [can be] quite nit-picky.
That being said, I personally appreciate being held to a very high standard- possibly one I may never measure up to.