Yet another pipe making thread :)

[Coda]

If it wan't hotter that two rats humping in a wool sock I might got try blasting it.

Throw the pipe in the wool sock and make the best that way...that’s how Alfred Dunhill used to do it...in the basement of his shop in London...all day and night you could here him down there with the socks and the rats. He wouldn’t have eaten if he didn’t have to leave the basement twice a day for more rats...and more socks...

 

[DGErwin11]

 

[Rodfather]

Good job, I sure as he!! couldn’t do it.

 

[dwaugh]

Throw the pipe in the wool sock and make the best that way...that’s how Alfred Dunhill used to do it...in the basement of his shop in London...all day and night you could here him down there with the socks and the rats. He wouldn’t have eaten if he didn’t have to leave the basement twice a day for more rats...and more socks...

If there was a GRE type test for pipe smoker's forum moderators, this post would be would be a model for an essay question. The question would simply be, how would you react to this post, discuss?

 

[DGErwin11]

Well, now we know why Dunhills are so spendy.

 

[Coda]

If there was a GRE type test for pipe smoker's forum moderators...

There isn’t?...

 

[dwaugh]

There isn’t?...

res ipsa loquitur

 

[Coldspring]

Wow! Handy with tools, and he speaks Latin!

 

[JRobert]

Very nice. What are you smoking in it?

 

[dwaugh]

Very nice. What are you smoking in it?

I haven't smoked anything out of it yet. My plan was to send it to @jpberg, because he will smoke out of anything, but now I might blast half of it and send it to @Coda

 

[S Mac]

Very nice. I wish my first had been any where that well done. Surely you won't quit with only one.

 

[RickB]

Way to go David! That looks like the best first pipe I’ve ever seen - hands down. Here’s hoping you catch the bug...

Took the words right outta my mouth. Looks great. You'll be back.

 

[bluesy]

Doc, youve done a splendid job and are now ready to graduate to electric screwdriver

 

[bluesy]

@dwaugh you open for commission work yet?

 

[gnossos]

Damn that looks nice! Good work!

 

[dwaugh]

Doc, youve done a splendid job and are now ready to graduate to electric screwdriver

No batteries.

 

[Terminus]

Awesome job, it's hard to believe it's your first time.

 

[MikeInMaine]

That’s not too shabby looking. I mean it has pits and stuff but not bad!

 

[dryan]

love it.

 

[michaelc]

I figured I would need a drill but with a rounded bottom, so I started modifying a spade bit...
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Above I have scored a line with the approximate radius and have ground the bit down just shy of the line using a coarse stone on a bench grinder (with lots of dunks in water too cool as I don't want the bit to loose its temper-no one likes a mad bit).

You have a good start on that shaping your drill. I have not drilled out a pipe chamber. Do you plan to pilot drill the hole finishing it with your bottom drill?