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Sasquatch wrote:Trying to make "a billiard" and designing it with 1/2" thick walls and a plateau top just kicks it right out of "ordinary billiard" territory.
Roughly speaking, that's a billiard, because it has basically vertical walls.
If you want to practice "ordinary" draw up a pipe where the height of the bowl is about the same as the shank lenght, both measured from where they meet. Once you have this stummel mostly shaped, figure out a stem that is about the same lenght overall as the stummel. Then we can critique it as a billiard.
To me, the gigantic pot/billiard/poker here is not really critiqueable as a billiard. I can tell you what's technically better or worse on the pipe (and I think objectively judged the bocote ring doesn't go with the green highlights).
Thanks for the help SAS i did post this pipe in this forum looking for your help. BTW this briar pipe is made from A CUT ABOVE BRIAR i had order a sack of 288 PLS blocksSasquatch wrote:1/4" is great - there's no set rule here, what a guy is shooting for is building a pipe that looks balanced, well constructed, well proportioned. Very roughly speaking, if we assume 1/4" of wall, and 3/4" of chamber, adding that on to the end of a 2" shank is going to give us a total stummel length of 3 1/4" and a total pipe length of 6.5" which is pretty long. So I'd chop that shank down to maybe 1.5" total, look for a bowl about 1.5" taller than the top of the shank, and the whole thing being about 5 1/2" long. Put about 3 degrees of cant forward on the entire bowl.
Now, this is a recipe for size, but there's still all kinds of ways to shape the pipe.
Here's a great example of the species:
http://www.smokingpipes.com/pipes/new/d ... _id=113485
Once you can make that pipe, once the lines start to make sense, when you go to cut another shape, ANY other shape, you'll be able to put a grace and a balance into it. There's so many little touches of goodness on these shapes they really train a guy.
Yep 288 Blocks from Makis i also got around 200 plateau blocks from Sam on the bay since last year and i also got my foredom kit 5240 today. with other FD accessory.Sasquatch wrote:288? Holy crap.