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So...my girlfriend has been watching my first experiments with Fiebings dyes on test pieces of briar to get a feel for the colors and how to apply them. She noticed that there is a purple stain and asked if "we" could make a pipe together.

So, does anyone have pictures of a purple pipe? I think it might be good to contrast it with some other color? Any suggestions?

hey Gpipe,
funny you should mention this. my girlfriend also has seen some pipes i make and now wants a novelty pipe to look at but not smoke. she wants it pinky with a deep purple contrast. id like to see if anyone else has used these odd colours from feibings.
i hear ox blood is a pinky colour?? also anyone done a pink stem from pink happens acrylic sold by PME.

oh how i feel like im degrading the pipe making community.

evan

wisemanpipes wrote: oh how i feel like im degrading the pipe making community.

Just feel like you are enhancing the bond between you and your girlfriend. How's that for a positive spin?

GPipe wrote:

wisemanpipes wrote: oh how i feel like im degrading the pipe making community.

Just feel like you are enhancing the bond between you and your girlfriend. How's that for a positive spin?

No no. Your initial statement was correct. You will lose a piece of your soul making a purple pipe. That said, remember grade school, red+blue=purple. Both base colors are available from fiebings. Now I'm no better because I helped *sigh*.
If a purple pipe will help your girlfriend accept pipes... by all means, make a purple pipe. Just be prepared if you post it...

I may have some purple powder for a denatured alcohol stain that I could send you for free

check out the pipe I posted on this topic, great example of purple

(and yes, you do lose part of your soul using purple stain, but if the project calls for it.....)

viewtopic.php?f=15&t=8146&hilit=ladies+pipe

Vermont Freehand wrote:I may have some purple powder for a denatured alcohol stain that I could send you for free

check out the pipe I posted on this topic, great example of purple

(and yes, you do lose part of your soul using purple stain, but if the project calls for it.....)

viewtopic.php?f=15&t=8146&hilit=ladies+pipe

ohh good god steve, someone actually ordered that colour. yikes!
i was going for a little less hippie chic and more like deep purple leather lol. nice freehand tho!
and yes andrew i told her if i made it, the IPRA (internal pipe regulation agency) would take away my lathe and briar and leave me with my pink acrylic and ugly purple stain, to sob in a corner and think about what ive done.

evan

Oh, Purple *Stain*.... I thought this was about The Artist formerly known as Prince.

For me, purple or pink on a pipe is like purple or pink on a gun.....You just shouldn't do it. But, the gun industry has a lot of new customers becuase they started slapping pink plastic on their rifles and semi auto handguns. I actually saw an assult rifle just before Christmas that had pink skull and crossbones all over. They said they sell them like crazy. If someone wants one, why not make it?

Fiebings makes both Purple and Ox Blood which, when diluted, is pink. One of the P&T Magazine pipes I made last year had a purple under stain and a pink over stain. I already had it pre-sold when I sent it to Chuck, but I think he still had a mild heart attack. I can't remember who owns it, and I can't post photos of it because I jokingly photographed it with certain "inappropriate" background elements.

I can't say it was that much "different" than a normal looking pipe, but it will definitely be PURPLE.

TJ

ToddJohnson wrote:Fiebings makes both Purple and Ox Blood which, when diluted, is pink. One of the P&T Magazine pipes I made last year had a purple under stain and a pink over stain. I already had it pre-sold when I sent it to Chuck, but I think he still had a mild heart attack. I can't remember who owns it, and I can't post photos of it because I jokingly photographed it with certain "inappropriate" background elements.

I can't say it was that much "different" than a normal looking pipe, but it will definitely be PURPLE.

TJ

Todd, we're almost all grownups here, post them photos!

Pink Lady just for my Wife, - sometime she like the pipe smoking.

Carsten

Funny I just finished making a churchwarden for my wife and we used oxblood, and straight out it is kind of a wine color


Not a great pic sorry took a quick picture on a cell phone

the extension is mother of pearl acrylic

The Smoking Yeti wrote:

ToddJohnson wrote:Fiebings makes both Purple and Ox Blood which, when diluted, is pink. One of the P&T Magazine pipes I made last year had a purple under stain and a pink over stain. I already had it pre-sold when I sent it to Chuck, but I think he still had a mild heart attack. I can't remember who owns it, and I can't post photos of it because I jokingly photographed it with certain "inappropriate" background elements.

I can't say it was that much "different" than a normal looking pipe, but it will definitely be PURPLE.

TJ

Todd, we're almost all grownups here, post them photos!

Uuuum, yeah, I'm not sure were all that grown up, but I will see what I can do.

TJ

Alright, here we go, people.











Original shape--not the pipe--by Brad Pohlmann, but stamped by Steve Morrisette, Todd Johnson, Jeffery Allen Burt-Gracik Esquire IV, and Brad Pohlmann. After a stint in the Jody Davis household in Yuma, AZ, this piece currently resides in The Briar Studio, Nashville.

The pipe is sold and resides "somewhere else." Where, I don't know.

TJ

Did they come as a pair?

I was gonna ask if they both went in the same bag. I love it....Great stuff

ToddJohnson wrote:
Uuuum, yeah, I'm not sure were all that grown up, but I will see what I can do.

TJ

Well, I'm all grown up *now*.

I actually didn't even see the pipe... my eyes couldn't travel aways from the "art" in the other corner

The Smoking Yeti wrote:I actually didn't even see the pipe... my eyes couldn't travel aways from the "art" in the other corner

Well isn't that telling.

UberHuberMan wrote:

The Smoking Yeti wrote:I actually didn't even see the pipe... my eyes couldn't travel aways from the "art" in the other corner

Well isn't that telling.

Don't lie. You looked too.