Please read my short preface: I am a pipe smoker and collector. I'm not an artisan, nor do I aim do be, I have never sold a pipe I made and have no intentions as far as I can currently see in the future. I just occasionally make pipes for the heck of it because it is fun. In other words I just spend a few hours to make a pipe, like I did yesterday morning, because it's fun. Sometimes I make other things, one year I built a jeep and right now besides making pipes I am working on a clock as well as display rack for a different hobby.
I lurk here frequently and feel that I know many of you, so this is really just me saying hi to some of you that I have read enough from that I consider you friends... well not all of you, but some. HA!
All that said here are the latest 3 pipes I made for myself. No real need to critique them as it is just me goofing around.
3 pipes ago was this riff off of a Castello 55 in a nosewarmer. It's a great smoking pipe but since this pic I had to go back and take the stem down a little. The part behind the button was thin enough but I felt like my lips were open when puffing so it was uncomfortable, it's fixed now. I know this pipe is a little out there but since I am a stickler for mechanics sometimes I just make them look however the heck I want.. plus I aint that good, so they just comeout like this
2 pipes ago I made a "fat boy" on father's day. I still haven't smoked it yet but I will sooner or later. It's a short fat Nosewarmer and I like it:
Yesterday morning I made a classic billiard. Well at least I attempted a classic billiard, it looks billiardish to me and since I am billiard and I made it that makes it a billiard, LOL. It's got some beautiful birdseye on the bottom but my pics just show glare.
I might not have time to make more this summer but fall always comes around. I have a leather bound 39 pipe rack that I custom made for myself that fits over the mantle in my home office and my goal is to someday have 39 briar pipes I have made for myself in it. The rack is full now but most are custom corn cob creations I made and I would like this rack to be all briar.
On the collection side of the house I think I am going to send another 50-75 estates to Pipestud so that I can pick up a few pipes from you guys. I obviously like smoking the pipes I make for myself since I made them and take pleasure in them and I think it would be equally enjoyable to have a few of yours as I would enjoy smoking them when I read the forum and some of your blogs, kind of give me a connection.
Thanks for allowing me to be part of the forum. I don't post much but I read every post made,
Billiard
