wdteipen wrote:oklahoma red wrote:Very, very nice!
BTW, how was the Chicago show for you? I hope you came home empty handed (that is no pipes and a pocket full of loot).
Chas.
I only sold one pipe at the show but sold several the following week so I consider it a success. I'm still a nobody in the pipemaking community. Pipe collectors go to the Chicago Show to buy from makers they don't get the opportunity to buy from or meet any other time. I'm not one of them.....yet.
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Well, you would have been one if I'd been there. The shaping, texturing and finishing of the stummel is exquisite.
The only thing that strikes me, and it's because I'm an architect, not a pipemaker (yet, hopefully), is the juncture of the shank and bamboo stem. I have learned here that by tradition, most pipemakers seek to get a smoothly flowing line at this meeting of the two materials but the tendency in architecture is to express such a joint. The meeting of two dissimilar materials in a building is the potential site for water and air intrusion due to the differential expansion of the materials. Consequently. it's typically the location for an expansion joint or flashing that makes it very difficult to get a flowing line so it's far more practical to treat the surfaces differently and separate them with a setback or reveal or even the introduction of a third material. Add to that the common axiom of "form follows function" and such joints are usually treated as opportunities to introduce differentiation or expression.
Forgive me if I speak out of turn. I would be overjoyed should I ever make such a nice pipe; I only offer this thought for your consideration to introduce an alternative conceptual approach that might someday be of value. Thank you for sharing your work and reading my words.
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"Creativity is the residue of time wasted."
Albert Einstein, famous pipe smoker