Briar Pipe Making! Work in Progress

[Daniel Fairly Knives]

I'm making a Briar wood pipe, check it out!

This my first one, wish me luck! I will do a satin finish... maybe with some contrasting sandblasted texture.

Blank in! I'm using a mortised blank to save me the lathe work as I don't have a lathe.







Nice figure to the wood...





Most of the profile is roughed in! The Briar grinds really nicely.






I need to grind a whole lot more but decided to think about my design more... I think it will go well from here!






Swept...





I'll have more progress pics later! This is an after hours hobby but I bet like lapidary work it will cross over a bit with the knifemaking. Thanks for checking out my work!

 

[IMWILSON]

I don't know Daniel.....I would probably have left it like the first pic. You'd have had a huge bowl and no worries about it falling over!!

 

[Lycosa]

wutchoo gonna smoke in that-there pipe?
I see a war club make'n in your future.

 

[Daniel Fairly Knives]

I don't know Daniel.....I would probably have left it like the first pic. You'd have had a huge bowl and no worries about it falling over!!

Exactly... Huge, right!

I considered making a "sitter" but I bet it would be too chunky. I've been studying some nice work and I can tell I better be careful towards the end!

wutchoo gonna smoke in that-there pipe?
I see a war club make'n in your future.

I smoke cigars on occasion (lol mostly collect them) but doubt this will get much use... will keep the first one and probably sell the rest!

This pipe grinding is like cross training... when I started the knives I was doing lapidary work and it helped me a ton.

I'm intrigued by grinding just about anything... will do some sculpture outdoors soon.

War club... I still need to find pics of the one I saw out in the desert here. I do have a CDIB card...

 

[Lycosa]

Very cool, Daniel!
I used to smoke Perogis. Did you ever smoke them?

 

[Daniel Fairly Knives]

Not too sure... are they like ravioli but with potato?

When I lived in the islands it was customary to give a customer a nice drink and cigar... now that's shopping!

 

[Lycosa]

That's good business. ^
Perogis are an 'ole style Italian cigar, like a Backwoods cigar.