Recent content by Stackle2

Wow, looks great kyle

Yeah, kind of like burning livestock...its bad. Lol, wish I was turning it. I'm doing it with handtools, just taking off a milimeter at a time & test fitting it. Actually got the antler cut down to a band, & have it epoxied in place now, going to give it 24 hours to set up before I start shaping...

Well, got a mortise carved out of the shank, & I machined the antler to match, I think this is going to work out quite nicely when finished:

Here are some pictures showing what I am trying to do:

Well, I got some more basic shaping done. I thinned down the walls so its not so husky, & I began refining the shape of the shank. This pipe kit came with rather thin shank walls in my opinion, so now I don't have very much faith in its strength. I want to do something to build up the thickness...

Yeah, I hear you kyle. At the point I am at right now, I am just going slowly with some 120 grit on a dremel grinding disk, just removing miniscule amounts of material at a time, that way I can judge the strength & integrity of the wood carefully as I go.

Right now them stem is diamond shaped, but I think I'm going to shape it into an inverted teardrop, haven't seen that done before, so should prove interesting.

Thanks for the kind words guys! I think that if I had a table-mount belt sander, I'd be able to remove a lot more material in a much more rapid manner while still keeping good control of the pipe. Probably would be a lot easier (& safer) than using the orbital sander like I was today. lol, I...

I made a little more progress before closing down the pipe shop for the night. I have already noticed several mistakes I made, although I believe that I'll be able to repair them enough for the pipe to be servicable. On a side note, while the draft hole was perfectly positioned in the...

Lol, yeah, its just about realtime. I had taken pictures of the first 3 steps before I decided to take a smoke break & get some lunch. Figured its a good time to post my progress & see what everyone thought. I'll keep the updates up every hour or two.

Here I've put the wood rasps to use, further roughing in the general shape, & smoothing out the rough edges left by the coping saw: In case any of you were curious as to what my goals were for pipe style, I really haven't chosen one, I am just going to try to see where the wood takes me. I...

Here I have roughed in the basic shape with the coping saw: I have never tried to carve a pipe before, & I welcome any suggestions or comments. I don't expect that this pipe will look very nice at all, seeing as I have no clue what I am doing. Kyle's recent adventures in pipe carving piqued...

I finished the work week fairly bummed out, I've been putting in about 14 hours a day, & this morning my Doc diagnosed me with degenerative disc disease. I really just wanted to crawl in bed with a bottle of whiskey & make the day go away. My wife saw how down I was, so when I got home from...

Well, so far I am doing fine with them. I've learned about the different grind sizes, I only ordered 6 different types of snuff, but there is enough variation among those six to get a general idea of how wide the selection available really is. Some of the snuff is just generally a beast in the...

I carry the Fairbarin Applegate combat folder, its a great knife, has never let me down.