Todays work consists of special orders for three very good customers, Charlie Rodriguez, Mike Jacobs and Doc Elder of ASP. Prior to this pipe , Doc has purchased relatively conventional pipe shapes. He wanted something a little different this time and he decided on a small freehand that would be comfortable to read with.I picked a small block which looked to have an excellent straight grain. Was I fooled. Some how the grain doglegged to the right and left a bare spot on the left of the bowl and had intense graining in the front and middle.
We decided to blast the pipe and the results look a lot better:
While waiting to get Charlie's Bull Dog setter blasted he saw an early model of the Pease- Tinsky Poker hawk and asked if down the road I would make that for him. As sometimes blasts take so long to get done I decided that in the new batch of blasts I d leap frog forward all special order blasted pipes so the PH got included. Here are both pipes:
Tanblast,size 6
Tanblast,size 5
A few weeks ago Mike Jacobs sent up a Larsen for me to copy. He really likes the shape but for some unknown reason the pipe didn t smoke well. In fact so poorly he doesn t want it back ! The pipe has very dense birdseye and cross grain and rated a star for it.
Blast Size 4 1 star
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