Yakslon Pipe in Progress w/ lots of pics!

[Frost]

I have been coveting the pipes that Yuriy Aksenov (Yakslon) has been posting in the photo gallery forum of late and decided I had to have one, so I e-mailed him and asked if he could make me one.

Yuriy e-mailed me this morning to let me know he started working on the pipe and included some very cool photos of the process...I though you all might enjoy seeing them as well so with Yuriy's permission they are reproduced below. I can't tell you how excited I am to see the end result, the inspiration pipe is the slightly bent bulldogish thingy that Yuriy posted pictures of on March 5th in that thread. I will update with the final product pictures whenever they become available:

 

[ftrplt]

Impressive!!!! FTRPLT

 

[RonA3597]

That is way cool!! :cheers:

 

[Trout Bum]

Super cool pics of a pipe in progress; thanks for posting, Frost!

 

[Ol'Dawg]

Thanks for posting! That's an interesting and informative sequence of photos.

Jim

 

[cutshot]

Frost,
Very nice shape, I hope you become friends for life!

 

[Frost]

Yakslon's shape sorta reminded me of a combination of the Stanwell 191 and Mark Tinsky's catalog shape 13, both of which I am drawn to, so I expect this pipe to be right up my alley.

Yuriy's version seems a bit sleeker than the Stannie (which I have) and a bit less robust than Tinsky's, at least to my eyes and judging the Tinksy shape by pics alone .

Still love Tinsky's catalog 13 though and may have to get one in the future just to make it a trio.

 

[Dock]

That's very cool to see my man. Thanks for posting these. Yak makes a dynamite looking pipe. The only downside is getting it in the mail from Russia will take far longer than it took him to make it! :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Frost]

haha...yeah that is true. I am prepared to wait though, so it's ok.

 

[YakSlon]

That's very cool to see my man. Thanks for posting these. Yak makes a dynamite looking pipe. The only downside is getting it in the mail from Russia will take far longer than it took him to make it! :lol: :lol: :lol:

Move that amendment: I do not live in Russia. I live in Ukraine. Yes, many years Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union, but it is no longer on the world map... A premise of my pipe from Ukraine to Israel is one and a half or two weeks in Switzerland - 9 days. Tobacco from Rich from 4noggins comes to me for 5-9 days ... In short, this is not a problem ...

 

[Dock]

That's excellent Yak! Do you have a website where people can see your pipes?

 

[Frost]

http://www.radikal.ru/users/yakslon/pipes-obzor

That's his site...just pics really, but nice ones!

 

[YakSlon]

That's excellent Yak! Do you have a website where people can see your pipes?

Thank you! Not yet, unfortunately. Once hands do not reach. There is a photo album just in Russia website. http://www.radikal.ru/users/yakslon/pipes-obzor Russian language does not necessarily know, there and everything is clear, just a couple of pages with photos of my tubes. Growth is on a clique.

Adam replied before me ... Adam, thank you!

 

[Frost]

The pipe just showed up on the USPS website tracking today! It is currently somewhere between Bethpage, NY and Downingtown, PA.

Yuriy completed it on 3/28, mailed it on 3/31, so it traveled through the Ukraine and somwhere around 4-5k miles to NY in ~10 days. Pretty impressive! :cheers:

Now I have probably jinxed myself and it will take another week to go the 80-100 miles or so between here and NY. :lol!:

 

[puros_bran]

Yakslon you have to forgive us concerning calling Ukraine Russia. Most of us have spent our entire life thinking USSR and Russia are the same. All through school our geography classes pointed out one large mass called USSR or Russia, it is hard for us to remember to seperate after so many years. Ukraine IS very famous in this country but people do not realize it.. Kiev (WWII) and Sevastopol (Black Sea Fleet) come to mind very quickly. Sadly Stalins killing of almost 700,000 Ukranians in the 1930's does also..

Keep making those fantastic pipes and hopefully another thing about Ukraine will become famous.

 

[PegLegEd]

It's sad to say but that is all I know of the Ukraine is Yakslon pipes. thats enough for me though. Wish I had some Yakslon Pipes
Ed

 

[YakSlon]

The pipe just showed up on the USPS website tracking today! It is currently somewhere between Bethpage, NY and Downingtown, PA.

Yuriy completed it on 3/28, mailed it on 3/31, so it traveled through the Ukraine and somwhere around 4-5k miles to NY in ~10 days. Pretty impressive! :cheers:

Now I have probably jinxed myself and it will take another week to go the 80-100 miles or so between here and NY. :lol!:

I told you that the mail of Ukraine, is not a problem ...

 

[YakSlon]

Yakslon you have to forgive us concerning calling Ukraine Russia. Most of us have spent our entire life thinking USSR and Russia are the same. All through school our geography classes pointed out one large mass called USSR or Russia, it is hard for us to remember to seperate after so many years. Ukraine IS very famous in this country but people do not realize it.. Kiev (WWII) and Sevastopol (Black Sea Fleet) come to mind very quickly. Sadly Stalins killing of almost 700,000 Ukranians in the 1930's does also..

Keep making those fantastic pipes and hopefully another thing about Ukraine will become famous.

I understand everything. Thank you. For the world the Soviet Union has long been one huge terrible red spot on the map ... While this is all from my childhood, and childhood always - happy ... And I remember only good things ...

 

[YakSlon]

It's sad to say but that is all I know of the Ukraine is Yakslon pipes. thats enough for me though. Wish I had some Yakslon Pipes
Ed

Want to learn about Ukrainian pipemakers? Look at the work of Alexander Ponomarchuk, great pipes cuts. http://www.trubki.net.ua/smokingpipes.htm Or Constantine Shekita: http://shekita.io.ua/

These guys are already out on a good level, I'm just starting.

 

[Frost]

WOW!