Then something I been thinking about a lot lately finally caught up with me:
I realized that even though I just sent over a hundred pipes to Pipestud I still got a couple hundred in the racks... I don't want to be in the pipe business so I have never had plans to sell new pipes.. I need another pipe like I need a hole in the head....I really got other things I want to make... especially that grandfather clock I been wanting to make for a few years...
So I said screw it, gave the stem a little bend, ran the speed up on the shopsmith, hit the dang pipe with trip at about 5 billion rpm's and called it a shop pipe.
Now I am gonna spend the bits of spare time I get this summer researching grandfather clocks and next winter I am going to build myself one from scratch with my own movement. The money I been saving up for briar should buy all my parts for the clock.
Ya never know, I might make some more briar pipes, I might make some more cobs too, but as of now I am gonna take prolly the next year off of pipes and work on a really nice grandfather clock.
Thanks for all the advice everyone here has given me, I have appreciated your friendship and will surely be buying a few of yours pipes as time goes by, I am really proud of the pipes I have made and will be smoking them the rest of my life.
PS - I will file down the button on this sometime or other and apologies for the crappy cell phone pic but its not a pretty pipe anyhow
