Briar Spirit
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This is the pipe has a bit of a shady history, I actually threw it in the bin but Lea got it out again without telling me, she gave it back to me yesterday, she forgot she had retrieved it from the bin, she's a marvellous woman. Anyway, as I am not so angry with the situation with this pipe I decided to give it a go and try to turn it into something like the pipe Lea's Dad gave me.
I don't have any pictures of it that I can find before I got started on it in the first place, but it looked like this:
The bowl was cracked when I took off the original coating, this was when I first got this pipe, I topped it then rusticated it and tried to make something of it back then instead of making a nuisance of myself by sending it back to the site I purchased it from but felt so depressed by the whole affair I couldn't see through the darkness to find it in me to keep going with it, should have sent the damn thing back turns out, but I wont get into that discussion.
So yesterday I reworked the stem using files and wet & Dry paper to make it a bit like a table leg stem, I didn't want it to be the same as the other and I think it's suitably different, works for me anyway. I wanted the bowl rim to be a little more elaborate than the other one so I filed out a much deeper and more pronounced groove around the rim trim, then of course rounded off the bowl top.
I only had one colour dye and god alone only knows what colour it was, there was quite literally just enough left to get this pipe done, I figured it was all but gone but there was with blessings just enough.
This is how the pipe looks now:
I don't have any pictures of it that I can find before I got started on it in the first place, but it looked like this:
The bowl was cracked when I took off the original coating, this was when I first got this pipe, I topped it then rusticated it and tried to make something of it back then instead of making a nuisance of myself by sending it back to the site I purchased it from but felt so depressed by the whole affair I couldn't see through the darkness to find it in me to keep going with it, should have sent the damn thing back turns out, but I wont get into that discussion.
So yesterday I reworked the stem using files and wet & Dry paper to make it a bit like a table leg stem, I didn't want it to be the same as the other and I think it's suitably different, works for me anyway. I wanted the bowl rim to be a little more elaborate than the other one so I filed out a much deeper and more pronounced groove around the rim trim, then of course rounded off the bowl top.
I only had one colour dye and god alone only knows what colour it was, there was quite literally just enough left to get this pipe done, I figured it was all but gone but there was with blessings just enough.
This is how the pipe looks now:
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