Pipe making hobby

[Cantó]

Hello, I'll use this post as a kind of presentation. I'm Joan Cantó and I'm a commercial photographer from Catalonia (Spain). During the moving from my old studio to the new one that I bought there was some unuseful time without working. then I decided to try to make my own pipe from a predrilled kit. It was two months ago and after 6 pre drilled kits, I bought some wood and a drilling machine and started making the whole pipe myself. Now I'm totally addicted to this hobby and very happy with this learning process.

I'll be very happy if you can show me how would you improve anything because I'm like a a white blackboard. My tools are my hands and a drilling machine with some sandpaper discs, but being honest, the limits are not in the equipment yet, but in my lack of experience.

Hope you judge them as an honest exercise from somebody who is learning. I didn't sell any of them and I don't plan to do it in an immediate future. I just want to improve and have fun in the process.

These are the first pipes I did after the 6 kits. I did 2 more pipes after these ones, but I'll post them in another post.

7th pipe. Nosewarmer to celebrate the birth of my first son. Deer horn ring. Mouthpiece too narrow I see now.







8th pipe. Lovat with deer horn ring. Mouthpiece too narrow also.









9th pipe. Ball or tomato. Acrilic ring.











10th pipe. Horn. Rosewood ring.











Hope you like them and any comment or critique will be welcome!

PS: Sorry for my poor english.

[WCannoy]

So, these are among your frist 10 or so pipes? I find that hard to believe...
Who is this really? Someone is playing a trick on us!

[wmolaw]

Beautiful, and first ten? I'm also amazed.

Love the horn.

[Growley]

What a great start to pipe making. The horn is my favorite as well. I really like the lines.

[the rev]

I should f'n quit

rev

[Ocelot55]

I feel the same way rev!

Excellent first couple of pipes!

[d.huber]

Really nice work for your first 10! My favorite is your bent ball. IMO, it's got the best balance and composition to my eye.

You can take more wood off of the shank/bowl junction from the top and both sides. All of your pipes are a little heavy there. On your next pipe, try imagining that the bowl and shank are two different pieces that you're attaching together. The bowl will round on all sides, and the shank will meet right in the middle.

Like this:



Please forgive the crude visualization.

There will always be a little rounding in these areas, but if you can define your bowl and shank more at that juncture, you'll improve the look of your pipes a lot. I highly recommend getting some needle files. Those will help a ton.

Again, great work for your first ten. Keep it up!

[wmolaw]

I should f'n quit

rev

Same here.

[d.huber]

I should f'n quit

rev

Same here.

You guys are so melodramatic.

[the rev]

I should f'n quit

rev

Same here.

You guys are so melodramatic.

oh sure kick me when I am down, you cruel bastard, I hate you

rev

[wmolaw]

Melodramatic or not, all I can say is HELL, ten pipes! TEN!

[d.huber]

oh sure kick me when I am down, you cruel bastard, I hate you

rev

[Cantó]

Thank you guys for your comments. I did two more pipes since then, with a 2 weeks stop in between (my first son born in that time ).

I didn't post the previous ones because I didn't drilled them (they were kits) and then i don't consider them MY pipes... I just did them more beautiful, but the pipe technically was already done.

I will post the next two this afternoon if I have some time. Should I post them here or in a different post?

[Cantó]

Really nice work for your first 10! My favorite is your bent ball. IMO, it's got the best balance and composition to my eye.

You can take more wood off of the shank/bowl junction from the top and both sides. All of your pipes are a little heavy there. On your next pipe, try imagining that the bowl and shank are two different pieces that you're attaching together. The bowl will round on all sides, and the shank will meet right in the middle.

Like this:



Please forgive the crude visualization.

There will always be a little rounding in these areas, but if you can define your bowl and shank more at that juncture, you'll improve the look of your pipes a lot. I highly recommend getting some needle files. Those will help a ton.

Again, great work for your first ten. Keep it up!

I really appreciate your advice and the visualizations is totally clear. I agree with you at 100% but every pipe I do is an exercise for me and I try to to solve or improve some new things. In the next one I did after the ones showed here, I tried the kind of juncture you're talking about and it was not as difficult as I imagined (that's why I didn't tried it before) but it can be probably sharper in the future. Thank you very much for your advice. As I'm a beginner, I totally apreciate any advice also if it is very obvious. Twelve pipes done is not a great experience so also very obvious information is lacking in my knowledge

PS: Sorry guys, I don't know you personally but, yes, you sound so melodramatic. I would pay for learning from any of you.

[The Drinking Yeti]

Ya'll are a bunch of whiners. Just make a better pipe.
Granted, I am not one to talk...I seem to produce a pipe once
every 3 months.

[The Smoking Yeti]

Ya'll are a bunch of whiners. Just make a better pipe.
Granted, I am not one to talk...I seem to produce a pipe once
every 3 months.

It's pretty lame... I've got some lower grade briar and a design for you to try! The one I showed you last night in the garage. It'lll be dope... if you actually try to make it.

[the rev]

lame, are you calling me lame?

I am sorry sir, but prepare to defend your self, I am a black belt in interwebs



rev

[The Smoking Yeti]

lame, are you calling me lame?

I am sorry sir, but prepare to defend your self, I am a black belt in interwebs



rev

Less talk more pipemakin'