Volcanito revisited

When I had filed and sanded away a LOT of the briar head of the intended Volcanito, I realised that it had deranged totally from my first sketch and, disappointed, I decided to stop working on it.

I fitted it with a brass ring and a horn stem and gave it away to my daughter who had been nagging me for months about a pipe of her own. I even found her sneaking a few tokes on my unlit pipes ;)

So it´s back to the drawing desk with a new piece of briar. I'm not sure I will do a Volcanito though... the piece which is next in turn seems more fit for a Tankard type...

Far from finished. 

Therapy pipe

Rigged a vacuum under the multidrill in the kitchen and spent best part of the Sunday filing and sanding and drilling on the proto-Volcanito.

As I suspected the B-block held some impurities and sandpockets. This forced me to grind off a lot towards the top and spoiled the volcano profile as you can see in the pictures. Another reflection is how hard it is to make a 3D symmetry without a lathe.

The lack of a proper drill for the tobacco chamber forced an interesting solution including a drill and some grinding heads... I can't seem to reach all the way with the smoke channel at the moment because the titan drills i bought are a few millimeters too short. Have a workaround for that too.

The pipe sits at the moment but since i have ground off a lot af briar it will topple with a stem. Have to plane the bottom more towards the rear. Some nice bird's eye grain though, and i think I am getting a StraightGrainer!

Blurry and rough-cut. 

Couldn't sleep a wink ...

... last night. I had to get started on a pipe. I figured that the B block had least grain potential so I started on that, hoping to learn something from the process before I get started on the grainier A block. Go figure.

A chip of the B block 

Exhibit B could render a couple a nice pipes. 

Exhibit A shows nice grain potential! 

Briarx2, stemsx4, ringsx2, waxx1, yep, it's all there! 

Delivery!

Got my package from Hermann the Dane yesterday. Almost ran to the supermarket (where Swedish post offices reside these days)to collect it. I couldn't hold back a happy laughter when I saw it. Hermann had been extremely innovative and pragmatic!

The postoffice clerk-cum-shop assistant carried forth a BiB of white wine which had been opened up, probably enjoyed in the pipe shop, filled with my stuff and taped back again :D
I could feel the good vibes from Hermanns enjoyment of a good white wine as he tottered around the shop collecting my order;)

Carried it back home in its extremely convenient handle and shut myself in the library to check out the goodies(see above).