BR13-27 - "Gjallarhorn" Pipe

[brurobas]

Good evening my friends,

Here is a pipe i finished today.

Italian Briar. Acrylic Black Stem.















Lenght - 137 mms / 5.39''
Height - 118 mms / 4.63''
Bowl Diameter - 46 mms / 1.81''
Chamber Diameter - 25 mms / 1.02''
Chamber Height - 60 mms / 2.36''
Weight - 90 grams

Please let me know what you think, i would really love to hear your opinions and comments.

Sweet Smokes!

Bruno Robalo

[wisemanpipes]

bruno, shes sweet!
grain and stain is nice.

[Jthompson1995]

Nice, though I wouldn't want to look down quickly whist smoking it, it would end up sticking me in the chest.

[The Smoking Yeti]

Interesting composition!

It's tough to provide critique to un-orthodox shapes, this pipe is obviously short, which seems to be your desired effect, so no critique there.

However, two things to think about,
-The stem taper seems a bit goofy starting where it does, I feel like it would look better starting right at the briar-acrylic transition, it would feel less contrived that way.

-The stain is actually sanded fairly unevenly. You might try heating the briar next time you stain, and applying a dark coat until it is opaque. Then, you could buff it back evenly, or alternatively move forward with a contrast staining procedure, which has been covered fairly in-depth on other threads.

All in all, good stuff, keep making pipes!!!

Cheers!

Yeti

[pipedreamer]

I can't tell, is that green for base stain? S.Yeti covered the stem. On a unique
pipe, such as this sanding the chamber takes it to a higher level. I like this pipe, Reminds me of some italian pipes of the 1960s I could not afford. Make more.

[brurobas]

Thank you for your words guys!

I can't tell, is that green for base stain?

The base stain is black

[RDPowell]

I'm no pipe-maker by any stretch of the imagination but, I like it and the only thing I find exceptionally wrong with this pipe is that...........
it's not mine!