First Prince, but he died safely ...
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2020 3:55 am
Good day!
I have been without briar for the past week. The Briard that I ordered was driving towards me rather slowly. It was necessary to kill time and I decided to try to make my first prince. I had 2 ebauchons of trash briar, bought special for making models of future pipes. I used one of these ebauchons to make a prince.
I knew that nothing good would come of this briar, so I decided to learn how to do useful operations in pipe making on it.
The first thing that was done was a stainless steel reverse spike. and an insert made of horn and two cupronickel plates.
The prince is a completely new classic form for me. In my opinion, there are no rigid standards for its manufacture. Someone makes the Prince look rather like a pot, someone makes it in the style of an apple. I need to learn how to make this form correctly, so if someone notices inaccuracies and inconsistencies, please give your comments.
I don’t know what it’s connected with, but I rarely see a prince in the form of a full-sized smoking pipe. The prince I made is a full size smoking pipe. The dimensions of the tobacco chamber are 19 by 34 mm. Typically, the Prince's tobacco chamber is 23 to 25 mm deep.
Here are his photos.
When all the work on making the prince was finished and he was photographed, I decided to repaint him with a new stain. I bought "Chocolate".
In its pure form "Chocolate" did not make any impression on me. I decided that I would try to put a third paint on top of it, and at that moment the shank of the smoking pipe broke off. There was a micro crack in the shank, so I did not notice this crack. The contours of the crack are now clearly visible, the stain has entered it well.
This ended my torment with the Prince.
Now I have to make one more Prince, I have to somehow save the already finished stem.
Or maybe two ...
Best regards, Odissey
P.S.
You probably have a question .. What was wrong with this briard?
At the cost of great efforts, the grain was shown. But there were also very large numbers of sandpits. The shank alone had 8 sendpits. And some are pretty big. They are practically not visible in the photograph. But they were clearly visible on the pipe, which made this pipe virtually unsaleable.
I have been without briar for the past week. The Briard that I ordered was driving towards me rather slowly. It was necessary to kill time and I decided to try to make my first prince. I had 2 ebauchons of trash briar, bought special for making models of future pipes. I used one of these ebauchons to make a prince.
I knew that nothing good would come of this briar, so I decided to learn how to do useful operations in pipe making on it.
The first thing that was done was a stainless steel reverse spike. and an insert made of horn and two cupronickel plates.
The prince is a completely new classic form for me. In my opinion, there are no rigid standards for its manufacture. Someone makes the Prince look rather like a pot, someone makes it in the style of an apple. I need to learn how to make this form correctly, so if someone notices inaccuracies and inconsistencies, please give your comments.
I don’t know what it’s connected with, but I rarely see a prince in the form of a full-sized smoking pipe. The prince I made is a full size smoking pipe. The dimensions of the tobacco chamber are 19 by 34 mm. Typically, the Prince's tobacco chamber is 23 to 25 mm deep.
Here are his photos.
When all the work on making the prince was finished and he was photographed, I decided to repaint him with a new stain. I bought "Chocolate".
In its pure form "Chocolate" did not make any impression on me. I decided that I would try to put a third paint on top of it, and at that moment the shank of the smoking pipe broke off. There was a micro crack in the shank, so I did not notice this crack. The contours of the crack are now clearly visible, the stain has entered it well.
This ended my torment with the Prince.
Now I have to make one more Prince, I have to somehow save the already finished stem.
Or maybe two ...
Best regards, Odissey
P.S.
You probably have a question .. What was wrong with this briard?
At the cost of great efforts, the grain was shown. But there were also very large numbers of sandpits. The shank alone had 8 sendpits. And some are pretty big. They are practically not visible in the photograph. But they were clearly visible on the pipe, which made this pipe virtually unsaleable.