Baby Poker

[kamkiel]

I didn't get a chance to take better pictures, but my wife took some because she thought it was cute.







This is my first attempt at a poker. Pretty sure it is a first attempt at a nose warmer too. This piece of wood for whatever reason didn't suck up stain like I used to seeing. I have been using sanding disks more during shaping, and my 320 grit wheel gets a nice smooth surface. The 400 grit wheel gets a super fine sanding effect. Is it possible that my sand paper needs to be changed? I almost feel like 320 and 400 are polishing the wood. Also, while buffing with white and up, the pipe started loosing a lot of color.

Thanks for looking!

As always, critiques and comments welcome

Kiel

[LatakiaLover]

The yellow arrows in the first shot show the direction of offset between the stem and shank. You either drilled or shaped something wrong (depending on the sequence you used), but the stem's saddle and shank should line up exactly.

The green lines are drawn parallel with the stem saddle and show misalignment on another plane. In this case a "tilt" or slight elbow at the stem/shank joint.

You might want to re-visit your process when turning these parts. I suspect you are doing some things separately (removing and re-chucking) that should be done WITHOUT removing and replacing them.




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The fat yellow arrow is pointing to the overall wavy gravy surface of the bite zone. That's a no no.

The thin yellow arrows are to point out how the button extends past the profile line of the stem. Also a no no.

The blue line is about all the thicker (front to back) that a button should be.

[sandahlpipe]

The wood might not soak up stain if the surface is too smooth. You could try wiping it down with denatured alcohol or water to clean the surface from any dust and heating it up before staining and see if that makes a difference.

[kamkiel]

Thanks George for your critique. I'll have to check out my order of operations. The only time it was chucked up on a lathe was when I threw a pin gage in it to face it and to shape the shank.

The stem was shaped seperately on the lathe. The little flair was supposed to be a fishtail.

Thanks Jeremiah. If I encounter the problem again I'll give it a try.

[DocAitch]

Turn that stem 180 degrees and see what that does to the alignment.
DocAitch

[sam a]

Either

A. Your stamp is big

Or

B. Your hands is small

You tell me.

Also I am excited to have my homeboy back in the States soon !!!!!!

[kamkiel]

Either

A. Your stamp is big

Or

B. Your hands is small

You tell me.

Also I am excited to have my homeboy back in the States soon !!!!!!

A. The stamp is yuge, smallest one I could get

and

B. Those are Feifei's hands, they're kinda small

I'll tell you

We are pumped about moving back too. Counting the days and trying to make some pipes. Chicago is going to be fun.

[pipedreamer]

Keep that one and make another. I like the pipe , but saw the same as George. Sometimes if you go back down in grit or rebuff with the red, then re color seal with shellac and go up to final polish,it will even out.

[sam a]

Those are Feifei's hands, they're kinda small

Haha... Now things make sense again.

Somehow, I hadn't considered that... Hi Feifei.

[kamkiel]

She says hi Sam