95% Alcohol

The Chemist assures me that the other 5% is water.
I will give it a try should be alright.
Its a small bottle $4 nice.
Should clean pipes well.

Hobo Lathe Chuck

Well it works i will make 2 more
4 will hold it better.
The briar is hard.
At least it a start.
The nuts are welded to a bolt that passes through the face plate .
And can be positioned in 8 places.
All i did was drill the face plate screw holes
out to 12mm
On my hand powered drill press.

Briar Block

Now i just have to work out some Hobo way to hold it to the face plate.
I have worked it out and will post about it when i have made it.

Thanks go to Hobo Hoot for the briar blocks.
Hope i can do some good with them.

Well you have to start somewhere.

Just a quick test works well. 

Wood Lathe

Nice paint over spray.

Now i need some tools.

The Carnauba Duel

All right HD, you asked for it Mr Polish...which of these pipes shall I battle you with tomorrow?

1. Stanwell de Luxe (straight grain) shape 86, made in Denmark...

2. Butz-Choquin Supermate Major shape 1155, made in St Claude France...

Reflective Ronson

Carnauba waxed my Ronson metal pipe.

The Sultan

Smoked 14 bowls so far its getting black in the bowl.

This weeks new tobacco

MacBaren 7 Seas 2010
Nice tobacco good taste good nicotine and 100grams

Stanwell de Luxe No. 86

I tried a new bit polishing idea with this one. Instead of doing the entire bit and losing some of the Stanwell stamping I only polished up to the shoulder of the saddle. I quite like the contrast, might do more this way.

A lovely pipe that I will post more photo's of once I have polished the stummel and used carnauba on it :)

The Sultan playing Stair Dismount

Grinder conversion

After Hoot and i talked about surface speed i decided it get an adapter for my bench grinder $20.
I all ways though that it was too fast 2850 1/3hp.
But the wheels i have now are small so a low surface speed .
Works a treat easier to transfer the wax more friction and light pressure to polish the wax .
I polished a test pipe and it worked great.
And it's almost silent i can polish at all hours of the night yea.
But hang on tight and never loose concentration for a second 1/3hp will shoot it across the shed.

Left wheel has my old wax on it second from the right has carnauba wax 

Finally made the wax melt.

Sultan with a feather

Well, here are a few quick snaps of my meer. Not much colour yet, then again I've only put maybe 10 bowls through it...I shall have to get back into it one day...on the list :) You can see the pink coming through in the places that have been more deeply carved. enjoy! Oh, it's white in real life, I just forgot to change the colour balance and couldn't be bothered going back and retaking the photo's...or colour balancing in Photoshop...meh.

The Sultan Turkish Meerschaum

I looked out the back door at the letter box and sitting on top was probably the most anticipated parcel  ever.
I limped  down the stairs like an arthritic  51 year old on Christmas morning.

HAHAHA

I so love a case.
I was quite surprised by the size its huge.
Built like a guitar case.

Fits the case very nicely.

He's a good looking fella.
I like the hole between  his head and the sash on his turban   

What a profile.

If i trimmed my beard and had a turban.
At least we have the same color beard.

Nicely tapered bowl.
The last time it will be this white ever.

Great detail and its a sitter.

My first Lucite bit.

The first bowl gently packed and not to full.
Smoked  wonderfully.
Very cool. 

After 7 bowls.

I am going to smoke this pipe a lot.

I want to see some colour.

I have only handled it with cotton gloves.

Not sure if i can keep it up or not.

It would feel so good in the hand. 

Some say just have clean hands.

Now to become educated about waxing meerschaum pipes. 

Last but not least my thanks go to Hobo Hoot for this incredible gift.

It will be become a true friend.        

Coming soon the Sultan

This weeks new Tobacco

Eileen's Dream Irish cream & white chocolate truffles.
All i'm going to say is it was cheap and better then Borekum Ruff

Sounds better than it is.

Either way it's a weeks worth of nicotine. 

Carnauba wax first Pipe

Fired up the Hobo buff today running my drill at full speed and pressing hard i managed to transfer a little wax on to the wheel.
The wax is so hard the HH block is like a piece of plastic wow.

You can see the edge of the wax is rounded.
The wheel on top has the wax on it.  

I used the Barling as a test.
You really have to be careful now as producing enough friction to transfer the wax to pipe has its risks.
So full speed on the drill.
Press the pipe hard and hang on.
And keep the pipe moving
In the end i had a thin coating over the pipe hard to see it but you could feel it.

This is with out a doubt the next level of polishing. 

Dr Plumb is a bit out classed 

Then at slow speed i polished  the pipe.

In the flesh it looks like glass.