Billiardesian - Old Timer

[jogilli]

Good day girls... I'm hoping your Sunday is going as good as mine is... I'll be lucky to get a new mouthpiece cut for another pipe that was also finished before I'm off on travel again for a few weeks.

Enjoy your weeks.. and comments are welcome

A little Mischling... Billiard + low riding Rhodesian = Billardesian

[wdteipen]

Nice bamboo work, James. I'm not sold on the bowl shape because it looks as though it has a beer gut. Otherwise, your execution is beautiful overall.

[jogilli]

tks wayne... beer guts are sexy.. so I'm told.. I realize it's not everybodies cup of tea.. but thats me... unfortunately, any more off the front and I'd be running too close to the tobacco chamber..

james

[uniquebriar]

Nice shank to bamboo execution but the stummel does not look well sanded to match the bowl. It almost looks like a billard and comes to a volcano type of pipe. Overall nice looking pipe thanks for sharing.

[andrew]

The bamboo came out nice.

Not crazy about the bowl shaping. To much weight at the bottom (beer gut).

[staffwalker]

Bamboo work looks good but bowl shaping leaves much to be desired. Way to fat at bottom to be called a billiard and nothing that I can see to suggest it has a Rhodesian look about it. bob gilbert

[jogilli]

Thanks guys.. I appreciate your comments....I guess it's one of those pieces that's nice in the eyes of the beholder..

Enjoy
james

[Cory]

Don't listen to these hooligans. I dig it. I can see the billiardesian thing you were going for. I think it would have worked a bit better if the point where the angle started was a bit higher - it would alleviate the beer belly thing that everyone keeps gabbin about.

[SchmidtN]

I like the brandy shaped bowl but I'm not a fan of bamboo on pipes, even if it is done well. One of my favorite pipes is a Svendborg that they call a billiard but has a lot of brandy in it. That bowl reminds me a bit of it, but the bottom rounds off quicker and the shank sits a little higher.

[Mark Beattie]

Cool. How did you achieve the finish? Is it a blast with a shellac application?

[jogilli]

I rusticated it... I cut off my spade bits shanks and then take the shank portion and cut a pattern in it .. basically so it has 8 points.. mount that in a wooden handle.. thats the complicated part.. and just rusticate it

Sorry, though I don't use shellac.. i've tried it in the past and don't like it.. but that's probably because I was applying it wrong.. it's neither here nor there.. I won't use it again anyway

james