I thought this would be an appropriate place to post a shot of the Poker I just completed...made from a kit fabricated by Mark Tinsky. There's an obnoxiously long thread in the pipes section showing its step by step process from start to finish, from block to beauty, if you will. It's mostly of interest due to the 'foolishness of futzing' that describes my so called shop and it's lack of power tools...in favor of hand tools. I will only say here that making a design such as a Poker, with its required very regular straight-sided contours using only Japanese pull saws and Iwasaki hand files and the like, was challenging.
