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Hi all!
My interest in pipes is rather new, infact it started this cristmas when i thougth about making a pipe for my father. The briar/ebonite/gear shippingtime took a month due to errors made by the mail, so i got time to do reserch during this time and i found myself more and more interesting in pipemaking! Now when the first pipe is done (way to late for cristmas!) i have spent many hours on this forum and pipedia etc. THANKS for all information!! Now i plan to do some more pipes, and i wish to be better. Perhaps so good that some day somewone would pay fore a pipe so that i dont have to smoke them all by my self! I would be very greatful if you would comment my pipe so can lern from it!
No criticism here since I still don't even have all the tools yet to start making pipes, but if my first pipe looks half as good as that I'm gonna be very happy!
That thing is sweet! Congrats
Brent
"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education." Albert Einstein
Två svenskar i den här tråden, inte dåligt
Det verkar som att du startade av samma anledning som mig, att göra en till farsan.
Ser väldigt bra ut för att vara din första pipa, mycket bra jobbat!
Thank you for all the nice comments! And also for the advice! I will try to start the taper in line with the steam on my next pipe . Hopefully that will make it easier to do the bit thinner aswell. This was a problem for me. It was hard to go thinner on the bit without destroying the sweeping line of the whole pipe, if you understand what i mean..
How much material do you leave in the bit wall? I made the flat section of the smoke-tunnel 1.5mm(or 1/16 inch). Is thar to much?
After some reading i decided to make the smoke tunnel 4mm(5/32 inch). To keep laminar flow in the smoke tunnel i kept the cross section area the same over the flat part. therefor i would like to have 1.5mm hight on the smoke-tunnel instead of doing a very broad hole. That made me nervous when i made the outside of the steam close to the bit.. How do you guys solve this?
And for the taper on the bowl, should it be 1/3 of the whole height of the pipe or 1/3 of the height over the shaft?
It's really hard to critique this knowing it's your first pipe, because it's a really great first pipe. So, let's pretend you've been making pipes a while and this is your 15th pipe or so. With the button thickness already mentioned, I'd add that you don't typically want to stain the inside of the bowl. It looks like it is in a few of the pictures. Your stain looks good, but your polish could come up a bit.
Growley wrote:It's really hard to critique this knowing it's your first pipe, because it's a really great first pipe. So, let's pretend you've been making pipes a while and this is your 15th pipe or so. With the button thickness already mentioned, I'd add that you don't typically want to stain the inside of the bowl. It looks like it is in a few of the pictures. Your stain looks good, but your polish could come up a bit.
There's really not much more I could add.
Great job!
Brian.
Thank´s Brian! The stain only goes as deep as shown in the pictures, from there on the tobacco chamber is just sanded. I will read up on the polishing. I finish with a 1200 grit paper before polish. Is that enough? wish to know if i lack in the sanding or the polishing or both...
Approx 30h of wich almost 10 h on the inside of the steam. I have made a fixture to drill the transition between the round and flat section. I hope this will reduce the time spent on the smoke canal to around 30 min instead... Hope it will work!
D.S
