@motie2 - @Corey562 pipes are so beautiful they are preventing amateur pipe carvers from posting in this thread because they can't compare to his work.
“If little else, the brain is an educational toy. The problem with possessing such an engaging toy is that other people want to play with it, too. Sometime they'd rather play with yours than theirs. Or they object if you play with yours in a different manner from the way they play with theirs. The result is, a few games out of a toy department of possibilities are universally and endlessly repeated. If you don't play some people's game, they say that you have "lost your marbles," not recognizing that, while Chinese checkers is indeed a fine pastime, a person may also play dominoes, chess, strip poker, tiddlywinks, drop-the-soap or Russian roulette with his brain.” ― Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Let me translate. @corey562 carved pipes are every bit as beautiful and artistic as some well established artisan pipe carvers. I would hesitate to put my rudimentary work as a pipe carver on display anywhere near his. It would be like parking an AMC Gremlin next to a Lamborghini.
The very idea of being able to execise the act of creation, day by day, and moreover seeing the wonderful results go on to "live" useful and contributing-to-the welfare-of-probably-a-man lives. It is as if they were your children....
Well, it makes a man's eyes moist, for sure. Very impressive. Continually impressive work.
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@motie2 - @Corey562 pipes are so beautiful they are preventing amateur pipe carvers from posting in this thread because they can't compare to his work.
― Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
"Gallery" area doesn't seem to connect
Well, it makes a man's eyes moist, for sure. Very impressive. Continually impressive work.
<Silly freakin' me.>