after some trouble with bad briar now I catched a nearly perfect piece of wood:
After planning on the smaler side of the plateau I got out the blank shape with my band saw:
Grinding the bowl I saw some little spots, but nothing to worry about and all disapearing with grinding - up to the shank, wher I got a big hole in the briar again! So I had to shorten the bowls length on both sides 2 mm, what made the bowl a little bit rounder as planned. Grinded with 100, 240, 400 up to 600 grid and adjusting the handcut ebonit stem I got this:
I decided to use a contrast stain with mahagoni and ocker, followed by a glossy shellack finish and got this:
Only one spot couldn't be removed by grinding (look at the arrow):
Carnaubawax polish is still missing on the pictures (but done) and finally I'm quiet happy with this "giant" so far.
The metric dimensions are:
Length: 160 mm (Mouthpiece 62 mm). hight 50 mm, bowl length 64 mm, bowl width 50 mm, tobacco chamber diameter 24 mm, depth 42 mm.
Any comments?
Heinz_D
