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Only reference to Alligator Wood on Google is “Alligator Juniper”. One site said “This wood is wonderfully fragrant with a cedar like aroma – burning or not! Medium hardness, good mixer. Alligator juniper is excellent in the fireplace or backyard fire pit with a cozy lively fire with crackle, pop an...

I would; 1. Put a flat on a on a band, parallel pliers work great. 2. Cut a hard wood dowel or two, to shape and fit band. 3. Cut shank to fit band using dowel size as pattern. Remember the band will enlarge during shaping. I find it much easier to size the shank to fit an odd shape band than the re...

Rikki Sixx As you can see this is primarily a briar community, I haven’t made a meerschaum pipe since the seventy’s. If you’re planning to make a few pipes for yourself starting with a meerschaum kit is fine . It’s not really harder than briar just different, in fact in some ways it easier. My secon...

What are you all blind. It’s a bass.
I love it!

I found this helpful and picked up four bags, after more reading I wish I had picked up six.
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Congratulations
What a cutie, it been a long time since I had grandkids that small, it’s a great time of life, plus it gets better!

That's amazing

RadDavis wrote:I would just shy away from those.

Rad

Sasquatch wrote:Yup. Just run.

That's some kind of filler slopped on there, who the hell knows what those will finish like.

Ditto

Drilling the draft hole would be fairly straight forward using the freehand method. Would like to know what all the black gunk is though? Filler maybe? If you look at the two on the right, Filler yes! It could be so soft it needs to be removed and replaced or so hard it will need to be carefully ru...

Позвольте мне показать эксперимент. Очень интересный материал для курения. Я сделал их три года назад для себя и друзей. Теперь они похожи на курительные свойства с мееершаум, для сухой, истинный вкус табака. (наверное, свой жаргон, не очень хорошо, я использую переводчика) Wut? Translated with Bin...

Vermont Freehand has briar starting at $5.00 a block. His blocks seem to be larger than others that I’ve seen. I started with twenty of his $5.00 blocks Grade 3 Plateaux and Grade 1 Ebauchons.
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Don’t know about pear, but anytime your polishing or staining wood that you’re in doubt about test with a please of scrap.

Steve

Jon Yoo Suk wrote:Nice looking jaws, when i first saw them i thought hope they are not steel, if they were you would be spending a fortune in new head stock bearings.

Why?

I have received responses from makers I highly respect Thank you Disclaimer: I’ve been on this forum for over three years now; I make ugly pipes, I’m working on that, I have also been working on training my eye, as to what makes a great pipe. I don’t think I could make a pipe this excellent if I mad...

I don't know what you think you see, but I think so all the same. Is it the flattened top line? The insert tenon? The ridiculous briar? I would assume that the flattened top line of the stem was intentional and it is obviously done flawlessly (to my eye), The insert(s) is (are)well executed and I t...

Do I see what I think I see?

BOY! that was quick.

A big Thank You

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Vermont Freehand wrote:5 left, who wants em?

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