Small Billiard

Heinz_D · Post by **Heinz_D** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 3:13 pm

Just finished another pipe. A little Billiard from a smaller plateau block:

The pipe is 135 mm long (stummel 78 mm, stem 57 mm) and 42 mm high. The diameter is 35 mm in the widest range and 29 mm at the border. The tobacco chamber is 19 mm in diameter and 35 mm deep.
The stem is handcut from vulcanit. Diameter (stummel/stem) is 13 mm.
The weight of the pipe is 35 g.
The finish is contrast stained with black and orange and lightly grinded with steel wool to take off too much orange... Than polished with carnaubawax.

Ther are no scratches of the stem on picture #2 - I just didn't wipe of some dust (the pipe layed on my worktable) before I made the pictures.

Thank you for any comments...

ckr · Post by **ckr** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 3:28 pm

Nice one Heinz. keep em comin'.

smokepiper · Post by **smokepiper** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 3:33 pm

this pipe is very nice Heinz. keep up the good work.

sethile · Post by **sethile** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 6:04 pm

Wow, that's a very nice pipe Heinz! Nice grain, and well oriented with the classic Billiard shape. Your stain brings out the grain very nicely too. I think you did an excellent job overall on this one!

flix · Post by **flix** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 6:12 pm

Heinz,
Beautiful job on a classic shape. I like it very much.
--Michael

JSPipes · Post by **JSPipes** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 11:26 pm

Heinz, that's really nice! The only thing I would like to see you do is to run the taper in the stem all the way to the shank. It helps to balance it out and gives it a cleaner overall look.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 10:03 am

Nice looking pipe bud. I had the same thought about the stem. Taper it all the way to the shank.

PapaDuke · Post by **PapaDuke** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 4:22 pm

Very nice job.
Each pipe you do it just gets better and better.
Love the choice of stain and the grain is amazing!

Selling or Smoking this one?

magruder · Post by **magruder** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 6:42 pm

Very nice billiard. I agree about the stem.
Cool pipe :thumb:
Best,
Steve

Heinz_D · Post by **Heinz_D** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 6:25 pm

Thank you guys for the kind comments! I realy like this pipe and at the weekend it'll get the final buffing as Kurt explained me in an other thread...

PapaDuke wrote:Very nice job.
Each pipe you do it just gets better and better.
Love the choice of stain and the grain is amazing!

Selling or Smoking this one?

This one was thought as an experiment with small plateau blocks! I wanted to figure out, if I'm able to make a smaller one! You may think, that it must be as easy as big pipes - but if you've little issues with symmetry on big pipes they'll be much more on smaller ones, I thought!

Don't know, if I'm rigth - but this one realy satisfied me!

For your question, Duke: I've 2 interested customers of an German forum and the price is fitted on 100,- € (about 125,- US $). Now I'm waiting for an answer, who of the guys want to buy the pipe...