Recent content by acme

There isn't really much that I can say that I haven't said in the earlier posts. When it comes to chambers, bigger is better. Here are a couple of Captain Warren types that I made recently. The second one is sold already. They are both fairly large. The first one is about two ounces. I...

You know, the risk of losing flavor has always been one of the questions raised. I may not be the person to ask because of the problem I was having. For me, I have been smoking for a little over thirty-five years, but I learned something from these pipes in the last two. I smoked mostly...

For those wondering where the double chambered pipes might go, too late, they already went. I have been making these for a little over two years. I picked function over form. You can see some of the consequences. I took a guess at the measurements of the aeroBilliad's internal chamber: If 3/4...

How about calling it the Second Chamber. Just saying. anthony

@Karl Weiss I like scepticism. Unfortunately, I don't have a right to pass names to you. I have sold thirty or forty of them this year, so they are out there. There have been some discussions on other forums; http://pipesmagazine.com/forums/ and http://www.smokersforums.co.uk/index.php? are...

Who benefits? it is an important question. Here is my personal answer. The cooler the smoke the better the flavor. Sucking tobacco juice into your mouth is nasty. Gurgling is embarrassing. Tongues, bit or burnt, diminish smoking pleasure. A second chamber pipe is essentially just a regular...

The image of the pipe was posted as I was writing a reply, and I have to respond. It is a giggler. I call the shape of the "parturient" pipe, the pregnant guppy. That is the shape of pipe I made for the magazine article. anthony

I have a lot of things to say about this and that in the thread. There are three particular qualities which make the pipe work, in my opinion. First off, the size of the chamber is of paramount importance. There is a qualitative change that occurs when the air chamber reaches a certain volume...

eJames, one of the checkmark pipes is soild - happend just before I went to Chicago. I just re-did my website this evening. It isn't something I like to do, what my old job used to be, but I usually get around to it before the dust covers up the bits and bytes in the pictures. anthony

They are large, but weigh the same as a regular pipe because the shank is hollow. I generally try to keep the wall thickness of the air chamber under 1/8th of an inch. I do make the bowls pretty thick, but that is the style that I like I own more than twenty calabash, and they were my main...

I think all of Sasquatch's points are valid, but he leaves one out in my opinion. A smoker who smokes hot enough to kill a tobacco's flavor will not be helped to good taste with a pipe designed to cool the smoke. In fact, cooling the tobacco my prevent them from learning better smoking habits...

I think the "B&D" - Black and Decker. Did it come with any drill bits? anthony

Hey Monbla, I have a cat, and he has broken three pipes. The tenon on two calabash and the shank on a cavalere that I made. If I am not paying sufficient attention to him, I am guessing this is the trigger, he will climb onto my computer table, which always has pipes on it, and begins pushing...

That's a good idea about the spray bottle. I just soaked mine in water, and did have problems with it drying out before I had finished with a given length of it. I never did figure out if the glyserine was only because it was slick or because it was supposed to keep the material wet longer...

Yeah, lathes are a lot of fun. There are a lot of things that you can do with them, but some limits also. They tend to only make things round. I made a DVD of the process of making one of those second chamber pipes. Just the turning part. Probably a quarter of it is about chasing threads...