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How about graphite? (P&T article)

Naw, thanks anyway for trying.

That's Kris to you Buddy!

Um, let me see, where'd I get that thingy...

Ahh yes, Rockler:

http://www.rockler.com/product.cfm?page=5518

yes you swap pads from lower to higher grits, but no, I do not swap pads for different materials - briar and ebonite share pads. I use a sanding "eraser" to clean up a loaded pad.

Good luck, Uncle! Keep us updated - share any insights, successes, failures, lessons learned, etc.- especially when it comes to curing and all that post harvest stuff.

Wow. This is all getting too personal.

Given the style of writing/stamping it is quite possible the pipe is a BBB made by A Frankau in France circa 1900 or the small BBB pipe factory at College Pt. NY circa 1915 and not forgetting the BBB's made by Blumfield. The style of the pipe (pictures now removed) had nothing to do with those eras...

*mods feel free to close this thread, I dont think anything productive will come from it. Aww, comm'on, we got a very funny little routine from BAWeaver, no? Gobs, you are not unwelcome but I think you kinda stumbled into the wrong forum, or at least the wrong part of the forum. Folks here are pipe...

I think Kurt needs to add an Evening at the Improv section in the Pipe Making category.

Yes, elegant... distinguished, straight-forward, well groomed... a true gentleman's pipe

I think Kurt needs to add a Poetry Slam section in the Pipe Making category.

I'm not a big fan of rustication, but this works for me. It's like saggy baggy elephant skin.

Kris that's better than I managed, but I'm still not fond of the greyish parts... the black vs orange looks great but the washy bits piss me off. Maybe I'm just silly that way. Just sand less after the black stains between grits. Polishing shouldn't gray the transitions between grain patterns if yo...

I don't have a problem with black as the base. I use Angelus Shoe Dye - Jet Black. I doesn't appear to have any green issues. Here's a close up of a recently finished "contrasty" stain - first black, then light brown. http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u200/jdiddley/finishcloseups.jpg Not ...

You can't smoke in the car if there's a minor in the vehicle, otherwise, no problem.

The other issue with black, even if it's black black, is that when you polish any part of the pipe, you get the wood contrast showing back through, and the black comes across as sort of smoky. This in itself can be really cool, but it tends to look a lot more artificial than a real dark brown. It l...

After final staining and sanding?

buff- Brown Tripoli
buff- White Diamond
wax- Carnauba
polish- Clean loose-stitch Flannel Wheel

The Abralon and padded pads are good for finish shaping and finish sanding, but not the best for rough shaping. For rough shaping, a hard backed sanding disc/belt sander deal like this: disc belt sander does the job nice and quick, the belt gets in tighter spots and those weird areas the disc won't ...

Cigar leaf is air dried, but "pilones" cured. The pilones are piles of fermenting leaf that are rotated and moistened according to ancient oral tradition. Then they are further aged for a few years. A curing chamber mimics the "composting action" of the pilones. You can air dry y...

staffwalker wrote:Trust me, it doesn't need to be mixed with tobacco or at least, that's what my brother told me. (

I should have said "which needs to be mixed with tobacco to burn properly (as in not constantly re-lighting)"... at least that's what some brother told me.

Me too. I imagine a Euro pipe with filter removed.