Looking for pics of...

bscofield · Post by **bscofield** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 9:54 pm

Someone has been making, perhaps more than 1 someone, bamboo pipes with a transition disc that is a non-flush disc. I found one Todd Johnson the other day, but the pictures were not of the area that I wanted to see. I wanted to see how it looked where the little "valley" intersects with the disc and didn't "indent" into the transition disc but stopped. Anyone have any pictures of another one of Todd's pieces where you can catch a glimpse of this? Or any other makes doing this where a guy could sneak a peak? Thanks!

JHowell · Post by **JHowell** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 9:59 pm

http://jwh.fastmail.fm/catalogpages.htm ... g_pos7.htm

If I may be so bold. Clicking on each picture will link to a full-size one.

I've also done them without the indentation in the ring.

bscofield · Post by **bscofield** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 10:05 pm

Perfect!! Thanks Jack!

How do you like it? Find it aesthetically pleasing? Well, I guess that's a dumb question since you use it, you must like it... Thanks for the pics. That's exactly what I needed!

JHowell · Post by **JHowell** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 11:30 pm

Well, there are three choices -- straight briar to bamboo, flush spacer, or proud spacer. What I have found is that briar expands and contracts seasonally and over time, no matter how aged your briar is to begin with. A proud spacer insulates the pipe's aesthetics from a someday slight mismatch between briar and spacer or briar and bamboo. This is more of a risk with thicker shanks than with a little skinny bamboo join since seasonal movement is a percentage. Still, you can feel a thou with your fingernail, and either the fit is perfect or it's not. You live by the fingernail, you die by the fingernail.