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Bad flaw cover
Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 8:16 pm
by T3pipes
I have several pipes that have rather large flaws in them. They are not so deep as to bother the smoking, but they are too large to do anything with.
I came up with the following idea. It is a work in progress and I would like some inputs before i go any further with it.
Not sure if i want to leave it as is, go deeper with the battering, or maybe sandblast it. Thoughts?
Re: Bad flaw cover
Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 10:21 pm
by kbadkar
The twine looks sloppy. How about a little... leather.
Re: Bad flaw cover
Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 10:29 pm
by bikedoctor
Re: Bad flaw cover
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 2:13 am
by Frank
kbadkar wrote:The twine looks sloppy. How about a little... leather.
Leather cord or waxed string - tidier job.
Re: Bad flaw cover
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 9:51 am
by JHowell
Drill 'em out and glue in taxidermy eyes. THERE'S a conversation starter.
Jack
Re: Bad flaw cover
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 10:12 am
by m.c.
JHowell wrote:Drill 'em out and glue in taxidermy eyes. THERE'S a conversation starter.
Jack
And sell the pipe to Hollywood sci-fi movie makers for 1000 bucks!
Re: Bad flaw cover
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 11:35 am
by Sasquatch
Waxed twine or leather. Yep. In fact, to do a neat job of this, which is possible and rather sharp, there is a technique called "whipping" (do NOT google "leather whipping"!) which allows a tight wrap and shows absolutely not string ends - they tuck under the wraps.
Re: Bad flaw cover
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 12:03 pm
by RadDavis
All this talk of leather and whipping is making me hot.
Rad
Re: Bad flaw cover
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 12:12 pm
by Sasquatch
Rad, I don't care what you say, running "leather whipping" through Google does NOT constitute "research".
Re: Bad flaw cover
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 12:14 pm
by Sasquatch
The other thing you need to do, T3, to make this look decent, is cut/file a slot where the twine is going to sit. If you can get it so that the twine surface is flush with the rest of the pipe, it will look a lot less like a wounded soldier (Egyptian Mummy, gardening accident, you choose the joke) and a lot more like a dressed up pipe.
Re: Bad flaw cover
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 2:15 pm
by RadDavis
Sasquatch wrote:The other thing you need to do, T3, to make this look decent, is cut/file a slot where the twine is going to sit. If you can get it so that the twine surface is flush with the rest of the pipe, it will look a lot less like a wounded soldier (Egyptian Mummy, gardening accident, you choose the joke) and a lot more like a dressed up pipe.
It doesn't matter how you do it, twine is *NOT* going to "dress up" a pipe.
Rad
Re: Bad flaw cover
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 2:57 pm
by baweaverpipes
RadDavis wrote:Sasquatch wrote:The other thing you need to do, T3, to make this look decent, is cut/file a slot where the twine is going to sit. If you can get it so that the twine surface is flush with the rest of the pipe, it will look a lot less like a wounded soldier (Egyptian Mummy, gardening accident, you choose the joke) and a lot more like a dressed up pipe.
It doesn't matter how you do it, twine is *NOT* going to "dress up" a pipe.
Rad
If it's hemp, you might be able to sell to a "Head Shop"
Re: Bad flaw cover
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 5:05 pm
by JHowell
RadDavis wrote:Sasquatch wrote:The other thing you need to do, T3, to make this look decent, is cut/file a slot where the twine is going to sit. If you can get it so that the twine surface is flush with the rest of the pipe, it will look a lot less like a wounded soldier (Egyptian Mummy, gardening accident, you choose the joke) and a lot more like a dressed up pipe.
It doesn't matter how you do it, twine is *NOT* going to "dress up" a pipe.
Rad
What if it were woven in a tight, complex macrame that covered the entire pipe? Eh? Eh? The OP, for the record, said nothing about "dressing up," he just wanted to cover the flaws. The twine *is* non-slip. In that spirit, how about some other ideas?
Plasti-Kote tool handle dip. Band-Aids. Thick coat of epoxy and roll it in aquarium gravel -- comes in all colors!
Damn, probably should have kept that last one for myself.
Jack
Re: Bad flaw cover
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 5:27 pm
by Charl
No, no, no!
Six months or so ago, a guy emailed me about my pipemaking, telling me that he also makes and would like to meet. Well, a guy making pipes in SA is quite rare, and I was really, really interested. That was, until he came around one Saturday, and showed me a pipe with a leather thong around the stem/shank joint!
Well, at least I learned my lesson!
Re: Bad flaw cover
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 4:40 pm
by Nick
I saw a guy fill a flaw with silver once. Looked pretty darn cool.
Re: Bad flaw cover
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 9:51 pm
by Sasquatch
Rad, your jealousy is obvious, and unbecoming.
Try to be more like Jack - that aquarium gravel idea is a license to print money. Maybe we should be talking to Stanwell about a new series????
Re: Bad flaw cover
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 12:28 am
by ToddJohnson
Jody's wife Laurie made him a lovely pipe. It is covered in yellow and purple "floam." One hell of an insulator and lovely too. As far as I know, the $4 pipe underneath is flawless . . . and SEXY!
TJ
Re: Bad flaw cover
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 4:18 am
by kbadkar
I actually think my flaws are sexy, like Marilyn's mole. I don't understand the obsession with hiding them.
On one of my favorite pipes, I went so far as to exploit a gnarly gash.
Re: Bad flaw cover
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 4:20 pm
by Nick
FLOAM! Why didn't I think of that?
Re: Bad flaw cover
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 9:27 am
by T3pipes
Here is the finished pipe.
Thanks for all the ideas. Will try some of them on other pipes that I don't want to have the overly-distressed look.