Nice list. My wife, without me giving her a clue, gave me a pipe making kit with vice, tools and everything! I can’t wait to see how hideous my first pipe looks!
@jfreedy That's awesome man!! Be sure to take pics along the way so we can see your plan and how it shapes up. Your gift can be fun for all of us to see 😁
I was on the nice list this year, my wife gave me this Vauen Paris bent acorn PR141 which isn't quite a church warden at 8 inches.
The pipe really smokes well and the block of briar it was cut from was oriented so that the straight grain is horizontal, so there is birdseye on both sides of the bowl with a band of horizontal straight grain on the front of the bowl and the top of the shank..
Now all I have to do is figure out what I did right and see if it works again next Christmas.
My wife and I don't exchange presents; we buy so much crap during the year there's no need to. Also, being an economist, it's always better to buy your own stuff (because you know what you want the most) or give cash. That said, we're also fried what with an unusual accumulation of people in our families croaking lately, so there is that. To be honest, it really doesn't even feel like Xmas this year...it's just freaking cold!
@vtgrad2003; It has been between zero to 15 degrees here, for what seems like forever. Today it got up to 33, so I put on my speedo and went out a waded in the snow drifts. Well.... until the police arrived. My Bride convinced them that I just get a little confused. If I'm lyin, I'm dyin.
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That's awesome man!! Be sure to take pics along the way so we can see your plan and how it shapes up. Your gift can be fun for all of us to see 😁
It has been between zero to 15 degrees here, for what seems like forever. Today it got up to 33, so I put on my speedo and went out a waded in the snow drifts. Well.... until the police arrived. My Bride convinced them that I just get a little confused. If I'm lyin, I'm dyin.