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.  

Eh, you Spanish bastards!

He's all like...no, you give me many beads for baccy, Spanish DOGS! Hey HD, is this the same as the picture on the side of your Savinelli humidor?

Chuck's leg

Chuck how are your injuries healing.

A gift from the pipe god

Thanks Hobo Hoot.
Now the challenge begins.
Wood turning the art of turning perfectly good wood into wood shavings.