Let me start with a short introduction of myself. My name is Mathias Lundell. I was born in 1977 in Malmoe, Sweden. After 35 years living in the city, me and my wife bought a house in a small village. There was room for a small workshop in the basement and after two years I had figured out what I wanted to do with it. I wanted to make my own pipe! So in September last year I bought a predrilled kit with a fitted stem and had a go at it. I had never before made anything out of wood, or out of anything else for that matter, so when the final result actually resembled what I had in mind, I got excited and bought myself a drill press…
Since then I have been drilling my own briar, but using finished stems with fitted tenons. Although for the pipe I’m working on at the moment, I have bought an acrylic rod and some teflon tenons to try and make my first own stem.
I’m here to learn. I know there is about a million things I need to get better at, some of them are obvious even to me, but the rest I’m counting on you guys to point out for me!
So what have I been doing the last six months? Well here’s some of it. If you want to comment on these pipes, you’re welcome to, but it’s the ones coming up in the future I’m really interested in hearing about.
Here goes…
My first pipe:
Second pipe:
Third pipe:
Seventh pipe:
Eight:
Nine:
Ten:
Eleven:
Twelve:
Thirteen:
Well, there you go. Pipes 4-6 is missing because I didn't have any pictures of them.
One thing I promise to try and get better at is taking pictures!
Thanks for your time!
/Mathias
