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I have a few more pipes to make for some friends and then I am going to follow the advice of the forum and make traditional pipes so I can actually learn the craft properly. I have ordered some briar to make a few billiards, and I have seen mentioned that it is so much taller than this and that ect. I have also read people saying, "well technically that isn't a bulldog" or other type critiques.

So my question is, if I am going to make three billiards what are the dimensions I am looking at? and what are the things I should pay most attention to?

What should my next pipe be? and what are those dimensions?

Is there a page or a list or something that gives all of the formal regulations?

rev

Look for a thread I started a while back. "Laying out a Billiard"...or something along those lines. They also did a "Billiard Contest" around the end of last year that is a really, really good thread to read through.

Hi Rev,
You find dimensions of pipes in my German pipemakerforum. Use this link and move the mouse about the pictures. Not all pipemakers edit the data, but many. There you also find an amount of billiards with dimensions.
Yours sincerely
Peter

PS: Tommi Teichmann makes fine billards and show also the dimensions.

The usually accepted guidelines are:

1) bowl canted forward a few degrees, not a perfect right angle.
2) the length of the shank should be equal to the distance from the top of the shank to the top of the bowl
3) stem length should roughly equal stummel length

bowl size should also be proportional to shank diameter but that is more of an eyeball thing to make sure it all looks right.