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Wow! Fantastic pipe. Where do you get the wood? That is some top notch stuff.

Tom Eltang and Trevor Talbert.

There are indeed long traditions of smoking ceramic pipes in europe, which would not absorb SFA. I wonder if they have water traps or what.... Most of them are built with a bowl that separates from a long stem. Unglazed ceramic or bisqueware is actually extremely absorbent. When you dip the once-fi...

I love it! Excellent carving!

While it's harder to make a pipe to fit a ring, it can be done. Especially for a ring like this where one would want the texture to stand a bit proud of the stem/shank junction anyway. The material actually shrinks very predictably. I could do the ring whatever inner and outer diameter the maker wa...

Here are some of the other things that I like to make in my spare time. Knives [img][img]http://i469.photobucket.com/albums/rr54/kpc8245/HPIM1900.jpg[/img][/img] [img][img]http://i469.photobucket.com/albums/rr54/kpc8245/100_0757-1.jpg[/img][/img] [img][img]http://i469.photobucket.com/albums/rr54/kpc...

Anyone tried to use metal clay for pipe silverwork? I just found a book on this in the library and it looks very intriguing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_clay It's bit pricey but the flexibility it offers might be worth the extra money. Any comments? Karol Sorry to resurrect such an old threa...

Any of you guys have experience with this? A cryo treatment is mainly used during the heat treatment of stainless steels, but I have heard of it being used to improve the martensitic steel transformation in high speed tool steels as well. Depends on what the end mill is being used for, but it could...

Did this one for a friend as a gift for his ordination. Unfortunately, I can't afford any more briar right now so I will be making only clay pipes for a while. This was the first pipe I've made and I'm pretty happy with it. I look forward to making my second. [/img] http://i469.photobucket.com/album...