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