Pottering around

Pottered around in the shed today, got a few things up and running. Got the bench grinder hooked up and installed an arbor. Wow, the carnauba now goes on so easily it's crazy. All those pipe I thought I had shiny ..nope, they were still matte compared to the glass-like surface left by carnauba. Check out the Lorenzo Spitfire, Olroth's Import and pre-WWII GBD!

I also got the scroll saw up and running and trimmed some excess from the HD pipe. That little blade doesn't run right away, takes few seconds for it to swing around... almost scarred the bowl on the first cut! But after that all went well, all a learning curve. I've seen lots of people say that scroll saws are not powerful enough/ are too fragile for briar. Rubbish, hot knife through butter (and it's good briar as well).

I also did the initial shaping on a tobacco chamber drill bit. It goes from 20mm to 14mm over about 23mm. A pretty nice looking cone shape, although I'm still looking at what kind of edge to put on it. Regardless of how I go it will need a substantial pilot hole to allow for the large chisel point on the bit, such is life.