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ToddJohnson wrote: Dude, I know you're Swedish and everything, but you really should cut your fingernails.

Todd

LoL.... working with my spouse I need to protect myself

that finish is achived by my hands

Todd Thanks for reposting it... ment to do so myself but my oldest daughter is turning 4 this weekend wich has turned into a 3 day party and I'm already sick from all the cake

Jaaay ...Apple fight

Congratulations Tod what a cutiee

Hey Cariztian Im in sweden and pretty much know where to get most of the stuff you need for pipemaking. Heres a good place to get narvsvärta : http://nordellknives.com/indexS.shtml Look under "läderbehandling" there's also other usable stuff for pipemakers there... T-röd works just be care...

I memory serves me well it is poisonus

In some cases when the ring is not flush with the shank like a wedding type ring I glue it on after staining. For flush fit rings adding some lacquer on the boxwood without getting any on the briar will stop stain from bleeding into the insert and can be sanded of afterwards. A thin liner of ebonite...

Great to see you back Tod

When I was making my first pipes I was gifted a box of premade ebonite stems that all came with aluminum screw on tenons. They usually had these boxes in pipe shops for repair work on broken stems and inside the case was a decription of how you within a minute could efficiently make a replace stem, ...

I think Stephen is right that kevin wants to reinforce the shank by adding a ring around the mortise . let me illustrate http://www.scandpipes.com/log/gallery/databasebilleder/full/195-2.jpg cutting teeth in a brass tube the same size will do fine as long as the shank is made in briar or other softe...

Thanks for your comment guys and a pleasure to meet you here..new members growing steady I see :D on that first picture of the pipe, int he lay out, is their a scratch towards the end of the briar? Nepenthes no.. no scraches there..I make smoking pipes for a living and scraches are the least of my w...

Since the arivval of our second child my time for hanging around and ejoying forums like this one has drastically decreased I do check in from time to time but seldom have time to post or comment on anything :x However I have a few new pipes i'd like to show yall i hope you like :roll: http://www.ge...

The last years of being a parent to small children, doing more comissioned work as well as selling to pipe shops has halted the new creations from us being shown on the web gallery... I have just spent a day editing and posting over 20 "new" pipes to our Gallery ( still have many more unpo...

Kurt is there any way to make it viasible in the forum section when the chat is active?

Im In the Chat for a bit...or actually Im in the shop with my computer near by please join in

Hey Ronny

Good to see you post here again and hope you get the shop wired soon

That pipe looks like its inspired by Bos favorite cracked pipe and hey whats a shiny finish any way ...we all know its the inside that matters the most

In simple terms.... inspirational !!

yeah yeah just don't get too inspired

Thanks guys I'm glad you liked them :D I love the look of blasted bamboo and after testing the strengt of it I've made several pipes with it the nodes where filled with pigmented epoxy ... Kurt I feel you I wish that I was economically independent ( I doubt pipemaking will get me there though) so th...