a change of direction...
Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 8:35 pm
Today I spent a couple hours sketching and then getting my drilling just right on the last piece of briar I have. I drilled a rod from both ends and got lucky and they met perfect, I cut the tenon on my shopsmith wood lathe, ran the tapered 11/64" I made down it, and cut the slot. Then I rough shaped the whole thing on my 12" sanding disk, including as much of the button as I can do on it before going to files. Super happy with the mechanics of it.
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![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
![Image](http://i419.photobucket.com/albums/pp276/spokanistan/Photo04161657.jpg)
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
![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
![Image](http://i419.photobucket.com/albums/pp276/spokanistan/Photo04161657.jpg)