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I quit using shellac several years ago, (four or five), not because I don't like the look of a shellac-ed pipe but because I could never get the application of shellac correctly. I have tried all the 'tried and true' methods in this thread, both pre-packaged and mixed. Sometimes they worked and some...

Got mine today. Thanks. bob gilbert

I find that really funny. My husband orders cigars all the time from cigar.com. They are all shipped UPS surepost. Comes UPS to KC and then are delivered by the post office. USPS makes nnoooooo sense at all. Yes, I order tons of tobac online, no prob, most of it comes through the USPS. According to...

Be sure you don't tell post office you are shipping tobacco, they don't allow tobacco. I sold a couple of pipes to a guy in Ft Worth. When I sent them to him tried to put in a tin of tobacco I thought he might like. The Post Office guy said anything breakable, being a wise ass, I said no just a coup...

I'll take a pound.

Comrades! Thank you folks for electing the right guy. :wink: I'm pretty sure they elected the left guy. Far left. Far far far left. I did it again, I have voted for the Presidential winner each race since Jimmy Carter. So next time I'll just tell you who I am voting for and if you are voting for th...

RadDavis wrote:I agree with Bob Gilbert.

Rad

Now that produces pure terror in all who read it.

A Canadian by definition means a long briar shank and a short stem with at most, a very narrow, 1/4" or less ring. If you have to put an extension on the briar, IMHO, you have not made a Canadian but rather a billiard whose ratios are all wrong. bob gilbert

A friend asked me to fix a stem on an old Meer. Streight-forward job except I have never worked with Meer. It's a push tenon, the mortice walls are slightly under 1/8" thick and it appears it has always had a push tenon. No indication it ever had the normal, for Meers, kind of screw in stem. Th...

The main problem I want to solve is the connection between shank and stem, which has a considerable gap. I don't have lathe to perfectly square everything, and the "sandpaper with a hole in it"-trick always seems to end up with rounded corners on the edges. Take something like a plastic c...

Why the F@#k wont my Fiebings Dyes mix together? I just tried a top coat on my contrast stain, all I got was a butt ass ugly splotchy top coat. A mixture of yellow, maroon and medium brown. Help. Read the labels and make sure are mixing the same base dye. They should be all alcohol or all oil or al...

I agree. Chubby should mean chubby in all aspects, both bowl and shank. You have produced three chubby, (over sized shanks), with normal sized bowls. As such, they look completely out of proportion and shank heavy. bob gilbert

Bob I think the difference you're not indicating here is that there's such a thing as a shellac finish, where you apply layer after layer of shellac and are constantly re-dissolving the lower layers and sort of polishing as you go, and you wind up with umpteen layers of shellac and it's shiny as he...

I think it's pretty important to note that no one is doing a "shellac finish" - french polishing a pipe is basically impossible. What we are suggesting is that some kind of hardening impregnator needs to be used to set the stain on a pipe. Sorry, I don't buy it. All you guys who maintain ...

How long does it take you guys to cut the slot? Like most of you guys, I cut the slot while the rod is still round, right after I've finished turning the tenon, but cutting the slot takes me 5 minutes at most(I've timed it). I'm not sure what I could do to save time. Ok, maybe I'm being an asshole ...

Well, the ayes have it then, and this is great as water is a hell of a lot cheaper than alcohol. Especially when you use Ketel One to spray your blocks of briar! FWIW vodka is about half water... so you've already been spraying them with water. expensive water cut with alcohol but water still. I wa...

It is my opinion that some of the newest members are getting to far ahead of themselves, they get some positive feedback and away they go making more of the same and the mistakes and faults get worse. For those of them selling pipes it is more important to stop them before they sell to much crap an...

I cannot remember where I got the bit from. I just found it while I was looking for another bit in my disorganized drill bit box :o I will try to find the link and post it. Just a note, I would not use the side cutting bit with the process that I use currently. It is way too aggressive and will mak...

My process is as follows: Right after the stem comes off the lathe, cut a shallow slot using the small metal-circular-saw-Dremel-thingy. Take a 56-54 wire gauge bit--1/16" is really too big if you want a very thin bit, and I usually try to cut mine to around .135--and chuck it into the hand pi...

Okay, you can only embed three quotes in a reply. Lost my response, but here it is re-typed, though not as eloquent and pithy as my first! LOL, you are assuming too much, actually. I use tower jaws in my wood lathe, no pins, so when I have to move the block it's just like re-chucking, not just rota...