That bulldog a page ago looks familiar! Fantastic job!
I think you found your calling brother.
I think you found your calling brother.
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My wife would be so happy lol
Don't you have one on the way? How long?
That sounds rather personal don't you think???....
Guess so. i withdraw the question.
DGBAMA
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That was my last Osage Orange pipe. I found out Osage smoke causes impotence.
bet the people at GOOGLE are scratching their heads right now trying to figure why there are suddenly so many searches for "osage orange smoke side effects".
Boboro
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Thats perty hard wood. I dont think it would cause a softy.
DGBAMA
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woodworkers info on Osage:
http://www.wood-database.com/lumber-identification/hardwoods/osage-orange/
http://www.wood-database.com/lumber-identification/hardwoods/osage-orange/
That's a great link, thank you. I added it to my favorites folder.
Here's a new pipe I finished last night and got polished this morning. Another Poker with handmade ebonite stem. I think my stem work is improving slowly. I have CRS disease and forget how many pipes I've made, so I may have to just start naming them. How about Sitting Bull for this one?
DGBAMA
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very nice, but missing something............maybe the trademark metal ring at the base of the stem?
I was actually copying a picture and decided to go with the original look. Did I get close?
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DGBAMA
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unless you have a lathe jig set up to rough shape, I continue to be amazed by how consistently you are able to shape your pipes.
No jig. I print a picture, enlarge or reduce it until the picture matches the measurements, cut out the picture and glue it to my block, white side out. After the glue dries, I lay out my chamber, mortise and air way lines on the paper and then drill on the lathe by the lines. Then I rough turn the chamber and shank as best I can on the lathe to get me headed in the right direction, rough shape what I could not get to on the lathe on the belt sander and the rest is rasps, files and sandpaper, looking at the pictures as I go. Here's the first step:
This is off the lathe but before the belt sander. The curved shank wouldn't allow me turn the shank on the lathe:
This is off the lathe but before the belt sander. The curved shank wouldn't allow me turn the shank on the lathe:
Formel&Eltang 086 was on my list and 265. Also Ascorti 651, 599.
Now I found Leo Borgart 259 that is realy something special.
I believe that you will slowly start with your own design.
10 x 16 x 5cm is this piece of olive:
wall ace U take it ?
It's big enough. The cracks worry me and there's not much figure to the sap wood on the edges. With the knot where it is, I may get one nice looking pipe from the heartwood above the knot. I'll know more when I see it and cut it down to size. The outside edges are uninteresting but there is good figure in the center. I don't see a Former & Eltang 265 or a 065. Recheck the number. I can do any of them I think. The Leo Bogart 259 is going to be some very difficult drilling. Just understand I may misdrill on that one, but I'm not afraid to try, if you're not afraid of losing your wood. Keep looking and pick out one pipe you like and I will do my best to get close. No hurry.
edit: Sorry I miss spel it. It's Tom Eltang.
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