Beginnings of a carved pipe

If my retrospective analysis is of any value to someone who wants to try this project, I felt like I had a lot of success using sand/bowdrill to get the shape started, and then coal blowing to give it depth. :thumbup:
 
cool stuff SP, I'm tempted to make my own too.. but I'm looking at the weather outside n there's no chance in hell I'm walking out to the firewood stash for a log.. Maybe next time ;)
 
Well, I'm sick of studying for finals so I took the evening and engrossed myself in carving.

SUCCESS!!!

I finally got this thing goin'! It's still in a rough shape, but I'm not going to do much more work on it- I like that it's a bit rough. It's secured solely with the jute. The bowl was deepened to about an inch, maybe a bit over, by coal blowing.

When I was carving out the stem, luckily the grain was straight down so I could just match it up to make sure I was carving 'in the same place' for the opposing side to meet up.

I also got lucky when I had to split it, it went right down the middle. I was lucky in how I chose the grain.
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But I lit the dang thing up this evening and smoked me a bowl of a cavendish blend! Came out great!
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So yes, you can make a pipe out of just wood and cordage, and a good knife!

The only tool I used for this was the Brian Andrews Bushcrafter, and I can't speak highly enough about it. This took tons and tons of carving, and every grip style that I know of. It still shaves here at the finish, and I developed no hot spots. This is truly 'my knife'. :thumbup:
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So go give it a whirl!!! :D :cool:
 
Nice work!

I have an apple tree in the back yard, I should cut a piece off and try this. I'm sick of studying for finals too, but I only have a few more days to go...trying to hang in there.
 
SpookyPistolero said:
*Speaking of apple, I'm going to toss my ipod into the fireplace after sitting here trying to transfer my music to my new laptop. iHate Apple products.
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Hey Spooky,

Try senuti. It is a free download that will let you pull the music off your ipod onto your new computer. It isn't perfect, but it is the only way that I was able to do it. (Went from a PC to a Mac).
 
Idaho Jarhead said:
Hey Spooky,

Try senuti. It is a free download that will let you pull the music off your ipod onto your new computer. It isn't perfect, but it is the only way that I was able to do it. (Went from a PC to a Mac).
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Thanks for the rec, amigo. I'll check that out. :thumbup:
 
Thanks for the good words guys! Highly recommend the project. It's a really nice test of your blade too, you'll spend tons of time with it in lots of positions, so you'll learn the weaknesses (or strengths) in a hurry.

That first pic of the split pipe is a little deceiving, it was thinned down/carved on a lot after that. The stem got a lot thinner and the bowl was shaped. But I left it thick when doing to the splitting. The bowl was also burned deeper after the split.

I'm going to put a small piece of rubber around the end as a mouthpiece, to protect the wood from degrading.

Random tip: If you want to check out your stem hole to see if it's good enough along the way, don't blow through and then puff! Aspirated a teeny bit of wood that way (:foot: ). Instead, grab a pipe cleaner and see if you can pretty easily pass it from mouthpiece to bowl. Then you'll know if you're meeting your halves pretty well.
 
That is cool man :cool:

Sure that was cavendish? - your eyes look a little slanted their bro :p
 
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