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RocheleauPipes wrote:
May you be overun with visitors.

even better, may you be overun with purchasing customers...

Hi Jeff! Congrats for your website! The photos are beautifully made and your pipes are beutiful. The only suggestion I make is that your website is all flash based but makes nearly no use of such technology and still is quite heavy to load, so maybe it's the case for you to talk to the webdesign tea...

(...) Sorry to hear of your ordering issues. That has got to be a real disappoinment! :( I'd contact Pimo with your complaint if I was you. Tyler Well, it would work for the simple purpose of making them know they messed things up but the cost of and eventual replacement is not worth of it. Maybe I...

Hey guys! It's been a long time! Finally last week I've put my hands on my first PIMO kit. Everything was ok (despite I suspect I requested a tapered stem and they sent me a saddle one, but I'm not sure), but a huge disapointment was the churchwarden stem I included in the order. It is a poorly mold...

Thank you for the information, John. I'm a lot more confident about it now.

I'm still waiting for my first Pimo kit (yeah, STILL waiting, but it's not Pimo's fault) and the one I ordered was with a regular bent stem and a churchwarden stem machined to fit the kit, so I could switch them. Hope to work fine with the whole thing. Most of my tools and gadgets are already purcha...

Hi guys! I was about to ask this question in a thread created by Trever in the General section, but I thought it would fit better here. Trever told us he uses "cast acrylic". Since I'm not sure the difference every process (casting, extrusion, etc.) may cause to material properties (like s...

I don't think you would ever see school children in America setting up a website showing how a pipe is made. Sad, isn't it? I don't mean to offend anyone here, but the impression I have is that the media in US has a constant need to "promote campaigns" for or against something, when letti...

Nice to see a few more pics of the shop!

Those pens are made by you? They look great!

What is that "resin" block you're holding in that picture you make stems of? Amber?

Hey, Mark! Great "class"!

Here in Brazil there's a small company making pipes of Grevillea Robusta , if I'm not mistaken (don't know the common name in english) and they work wonderfully providing a very cool and tasteless smoke. It's very lightweight and the wood is clear colored. I have a few pipes of such wood, one of the...

Hi Tyler! Watched you new videos and they are great, as usual. No explanation can reach the power of seeing it being done, sometimes. The only suggestion is that some subjects that may require a closer look are taped in closeups, like the shaping video. You could do it smaller (greater time steps) a...

Hi guys!

Was wondering if that would not do the job:

http://www.mlcswoodworking.com/shopsite ... _core.html

What do you think?

First of all I'd like to congratulate you, Tyler, for willing to share, not only through the forum itself, but on your tutorials that include those FANTASTIC videos. All effort and concern in helping anyone willing to follow the path of pipe making, no matter the purpose in mind (commercial or hobby...

Hi Kurt!

Funny you mention it. A friend of mine who works with antiques (including pipes) suggested me exactly what you did. I can puchase grinders and polishers here in Brazil in a range of about $40 - $50. Now you got me curious on how much would such a motor costs me.

Thank you for the tip.

I currently use a hand drill with 6" buffs. To tell you the truth, aside from the rig being a bit cumbersome, it works very well. All of my pipes have been buffed this way. I have tried the Dremel route before, but the success has really been limited. Like you, I found that the RPM is simply t...

Could any of you guys take pics of the details of any similar equipment set ups so I can clearly understand what is needed and how it works?

Thank you all for your patience!

Do you have the space to rig up a pulley reduction setup? That would reduce the speed, if you get a pair of ganged pulleys you would have adjustable speeds. If not, you'd need to use smaller buffs to get the same number of feet-per-second where the buff meets the pipe. Hi random! The buffers I foun...

Hi Jeff!

Don't leave us waiting like this, LOL!

Hi guys! I've been looking for a motor that I could use as grinder, buffer and maybe, in the future, use it as a general purpose motor, using pulleys, with a lathe ora bench router. The problem is that here in Brazil I found two kinds of motors: some are sold as grinders only and others as polisher/...