Thread: What are you working on?

Originally Posted by xiaotuzi

Ya, most pen blanks are 5 inches and that's a bit too small. If you search around google you can find some that are 6 inches but there are far fewer of those.

Oh I wouldn't say that as this site has many, many 6" long Inlace Acrylic 1.5"X1.5" blocks and for a Very Reasonable Fee will cut them into 1/8"+ blanks for you.

I just counted and there are 94 different colors all in 6" long blocks (with most available in 12" lengths).

Plus under the Pen sized Inlace Acrylic is an assortment of basic colored blocks that are 3/4"X3/4" that can be used for wedges.

Inlace Acrylester Spindles - Woodturningz

When it looks like dis outside,

A man needs to smoka da morta man!
All done my first pipe.



Hope it smokes as good as it looks. The cross grain really pops. Almost looks like tiny script running across the pipe.. And now back to shaving stuff, lol.
Cheers.

Beautiful pipe Mike well done! what ya smoking in there...

The pipe looks great Mike! That grain is spectacular, very cool effect.

You should post a pic of that pipe in the pipe thread!

Originally Posted by MikeB52

When it looks like dis outside,

A man needs to smoka da morta man!
All done my first pipe.



Hope it smokes as good as it looks. The cross grain really pops. Almost looks like tiny script running across the pipe.. And now back to shaving stuff, lol.
Cheers.

Absolutely Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!! Great Job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ty

I was gonna say something about the grain, but ya beat me to it, Mike.

Had one like that back in the day. Held a bit more than a 1/8 oz. Or let's say 5 grams.

Those were some hazy days.[emoji44]

Two questions Mike, What is the stem made from? What tobacco blend do you smoke? I know nothing about pipes and tobacco but I am very curious.


Tuzi that is a heck of a pile of shiny steel you've got there. Good luck with the honing!

I,'ve used them for years. The 1.5 square MOP...silver is nice and not gaudy for scales
~Richard

Didn't know there was a pipe thread. Will have to go check it out.
Amphora was the blend I remember my dad smoked,so I'm going to start with that.
Never smoked a tobacco pipe before but I thought the project looked cool, and I have read that pipe tobacco can be quite delicious, for those that find flavor in smoke delicious that is.

The stem is one piece of delryn Rod turned down with a brass accent added as an afterthought. I read that folks use wood, or acrylic with delryn inserts for their stems, but found the acrylic kind of hard against the teeth so decided to try the one piece design. Biggest problem I read about the delryn was that it's hard to repolish once turned. So I took my time with the micromesh and it came back shiny enough for me.