Thanks to Love Geiger for boring some blocks, since I don't have any equipment yet to start from scratch.
This one picture to give you an impression. More pics can be found here.
Please feel free to criticize anything you think that oughta be mentioned. I appreciate applause, but please don't be unnecessarily polite. It's our only way to learn.
My thoughts:
Very tiny, lightweight, somewhat inspired by the summer moods coming up. Made like an impromptu. No drawing. No grain searching, since there are no spectacular patterns in the block. Just ging for the shape. The only thing I knew when I started I wanted to make something "with edges". I had some estate a few weeks ago with some unusual proportions. My lady said, she liked it. She commented it as somewhat "Bauhaus"-style. That went through my head. It did not really come out as a Bauhaus-pipe. Squares are a bit clumsy to smoke. But I tried something with defined edges and to involve some proportions to make it look somewhat architectural. Thus the bowl heigth is a bit tall, which gives some formal elegance to the rest, which could otherwise be seen as a quotation of a corn-cob made of briar.
I tried to push the idea of the bowl’s taper onto the taper of the shank and even on modifying the taper of the mouthpiece.
Known issues:
Stem/bowl junction not symmetrical when seen from above: Disk sander grabbed on one side while I was working on the bowl. I did not want to sand the opposite side to a symmtrical size, since the juntion would have been too thin.
Maybe the bowl wall is too thin in the lower part of the bowl. I did not consider the width of the tobacco chamber when I started the shaping. I only took to some measuring when I had sanded it down to that taper angle seen. I will know, when I break it in.
The bowl rim is not as circular as it should have been. I had the feeling of running around in circles when I tried to give an even curve (remember: no lathe). The second one I am finishing now has already tought me: It's all a matter of patience.
The photos might give the impression of a somewhat dull finish (esp. on the mouthpiece). I tried to set up a very soft lighting when I took the pics. This produces very even reflection without contrast edges. So the dull, greyish look on the stem is this kind of soft reflection. I like the ambient light, but there may be some edges. I have to work on that. There was some black cardbox somewhere around…
I have been spitting some critics without ever having displayed my own thing. Now go for me…
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