This weeks tobacco's

                                  MacBaren Vanilla Cream Pipe Tobacco 2011 vintage 100 grams.

Royal Jersey Original Latakia Mixture 2011 Vintage 50 grams

A full latakia hit wow

GERMAIN & SON commenced manufacturing tobacco in 1820.
And are still at the same site.

The smell is amazing

Pipe Spotting

Underbelly Squizzy 

Canadian Pipe restoration

The rim came up a treat.

Before with pipey

Errrr after

Nice grain

Alexander of Greece 

This pipe is huge you could use it to paddle a cedar-strip canoe across Canada.
Loaded it up with my special turning blend.
I take a little tobacco down to my machine shop each day and add it to the tin.
Smoked cool and smooth and  forever.
Won't need any more nicotine this morning.
I don't think this pipe has been smoked much not a lot of cake.
Reamed down to the timber easily.
Used  pure alcohol and pipe cleaners to clean inside.
Not a lot of gunk came out nice and clean.
I really like this pipe if the bowl was half size it would be perfect for me.
Last but not least.
I would like to thank the ever generous Hobo Hoot for gifting me this beautiful pipe.     

Pipe Spotting

Walking Through History Ep2 - The Birth Of Industry.
Spotted a Falcon at last.

A new Falcon Bowl

Action in the Lathe

The bowl has a nice taper.

Has anybody seen a calabash falcon Bowl before ?
I so need a bent falcon.
I would be happy to swap a bowl for one.

There are less inclusions in this block.

Crazy Pipe holder

The pipe stem sits rudely out of her butt.

The Falcon's

Check the P plate yea.

This weeks 2nd Tobacco

Ashton Winding Road vintage 2011 in a 50 gram

This weeks Tobacco no1

Macbaren Navy Flake 100 gram tin vintage 2012

MacBaren tobacco gets bad reviews sometimes.
But its all ways Beautifully presented.

Precision flakes.

Hobo Dave and his first pipe for the day...

ehheheheheheee...

But seriously, I think it's some sort of gourd he's got there, like the one used in making a calabash. Look at the colour! That sir, is a nice patina.

Pipe Spotting

Rodger Smith again

The Twilight Zone.
Light my pipe baby

Real or fake?

Basketwork hat and a bow-tie, what more could a man want? Is the meerschaum coloured through fake processes though? Or was it smoked to achieve this patina? Mouthpiece is made from amber and the pipe was made by Carl Hiess in Vienna, Wien, Austria.

Grrrrrrrrrr Worms ?????????????

Trying to turn a Calabash for my Falcon pipe.
Using the block that would give the biggest bowl.

The holes are filled with a sort of hard dust

This hole goes in at least 12mm

Bummer

Paris, 1860

Paris, 1860....what the HECK is this advertising? Anyone out there that can tell us what it says? Regardless, I think it's neat. Apparently part of the National Museum of France collection.

And the draw was drilled how?

Not sure how you'd drill the draw hole on this one, carefully I'd imagine. Makes drilling an oompaul look like child's play! Would be an interesting pipe to smoke though.

Note: 'NAZdar' is Czech/Slovak for 'hello'. A funny thing to carve into a pipe I guess, maybe a souvenir item? Date is apparently 1800-1900, part of a collection in an English museum.

Pipe spotting

American Pickers

The weird and wonderful

Some weird, some wonderful and some strange :) I like the carved visage in the middle, I've pulled that face one or twice myself!

Falcon bowl

My guy is way scarier than your's HH

Clay makes me hard

I don't know why, but clay pipes make me hard. There is something so pure about earth + baccy + fire, nothing else. That and I love how they taste...and the challenge of putting colour into them...anyways - below is a diagram of a clay pipe kiln. If I were a rich man...

The making of a Falcon bowl my way.

Parting off the leg of the block

Turning 1/2 of the bowl.

I machined the end to the same dimensions as the falcon bowl.
The 4 start thread is the problem.
The bowl is a tight fit with out the o ring.
But with the o ring in place it bites into the thread.
Tight and sealed perfectly.  

Loaded it up smoked perfect when it is run in it should be fine.

There a few inclusions in the wood.
I will smoke it and see if my design works over time.
And then i can make different shapes.