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good looking pipe, and excellent brain food!

that's awesome. I look forward to seeing more.

so..... I have a couple questions. In anticipation of this PITH I had ordered 3 pieces of briar. of the three only one was suitable to attempt a bulldog/rhodesian. while shaping last night i found a nasty hair-line crack running down the heel. I was able to remove it, but i ended up with a much thi...

so..... I have a couple questions. In anticipation of this PITH I had ordered 3 pieces of briar. of the three only one was suitable to attempt a bulldog/rhodesian. while shaping last night i found a nasty hair-line crack running down the heel. I was able to remove it, but i ended up with a much thin...

i think i like the sparse rustication

i'm in

oh ya, i also had a very bad experience trying to cut my tenon into this stuff. it didn't like being twisted in the mortise. i kept chewing it up so i switched to delrin with these. of course it's entirely likely that had more to do with me and less to do with the blanks.

these rhinoplastic blanks are what i've been using in my attempts. so far i've only bent one and it's been holding its shape fine for about 3 months now. It was one of the molten copper ones. i'd also say that in my very limited experience with these and acrylics, the rhino blanks seem to have more ...

Hello Bob! Welcome!

beautiful! all of them.

[quote="SimeonTurner"]Welcome, Aaron! What part of Colorado you from? Did you know pipes made at high altitude smoke better than pipes made at Sea Level? That's why guys like Bruce and Rad make such atrocious pipes. 8)[/quote wow. that makes complete backwards sense... why didn't i think o...

Greetings everyone! My name is Aaron, I've been reading this forum for about a year now and i wanted to take a moment to thank everyone for all the work they've done here. This is an amazing resource for a novice pipemaker like myself, and has been very helpful to me. I am completely addicted now :-...