Minor PAD attack
Posted on: Thu, 06/05/2008 - 19:31
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Minor PAD attack
My attacks are a little different than what most of you give in to;
Mammoth Tusk, no clue but I will figure out something to do with it.
Red and Blue Cumberland, after waiting for over a year for a supplier to get thier manufacturing process down I gave up and got a couple of sticks in the US to hold me over while I look into another supplier
4 dozen prefab vulcanite stems. Usually a waste of money, but I am still trying to find some decent ones, hand cuts are a lot of work and some decent prefabs would really be nice to be able to use.
and of course, more and more briar. Ahh, I feel better already.
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Do you really want to put that in your mouth? I know, it'll be part of a stem adornment or maybe a tamper ... but just the thought ... fossilized elephant ancestor ... not near my mouth he thinks!
Colored Cumberland ... cool lookin' stuff. Always wondered how they extruded that stuff - now I can see its from 8 heads merging to a single round ... so thats how they do it. I love cumberland stems (only have experience with the brown ones though).
Rick Piatt
I need more PAD attacks like that. My current supply of briar is dwindling, and since demand seems to be up, quite to my surprise, I need to get some more wood.
Chris, where do you purchase your briar from, if you don't mind me asking.
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Over the past couple of years I have purchased from several suppliers in the US, Canada and Europe. The best briar that I have worked with, well there are two - The blocks Todd Johnson hand picked from Mimmo and the 3 leaf blocks I get at http://www.parkspipe.... Mimmo has recently added selling briar blocks online 10/20/30 block bags which I think are a good deal.
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I think the briar from both is top notch. Once a tenant is secured I am going for a buttload.
For a novice pipe maker, like yourself and myself, I would recommend some cheap blocks or seconds. However novice or not, having what only 3 or 4 pipes finished, that would not be my recommendation to you. You should get yourself some decent briar. Not so much as you are wasting time on crap blocks - they are great to learn on as there is so much to learn - but I think your work deserves better material. The quality of the briar has so much to do with the aestethicsof the pipe. Especially the finish, you can do the same finish to a lessor piece of wood and it will not compare with the premium briar. Also, you can't learn about orientation of grain/birdseye on a block that really does not have it to begin with. You shaping first has a big advantage to taking advantage of that, more so than a tooler.
So I guess I am saying step up to the plate and go for it.
Fume in pace, ckr
is very popular with knife makers. You might want to use it for shank extensions. I picked up a couple of elephant teeth next to the Zambezi (a poached jumbo) & have been wondering what to do with them too. Maybe use them for scales on a folding knife.
BTW, by poached, I don't mean as in poached egg. I mean as in illegally hunted.
good as tusk and the real difference is a tusk can be 6 feet long. Regardless if its size if you find one laying around I would be happy to PM you my address. As for the teeth, I am sure they would make some really beautiful scales.
Was the entire carcass beside the river? It is too bad what the poaching has done.
Fume in pace, ckr