Recent tinkering - sheet iron pipes

[ameling]

Here's a pic of the latest batch of sheet iron pipes I was tinkering on. They turned out pretty good.

And it is helping me figure out how to teach other people how to make them. I'm signed up to teach such a session at the annual Fall converence of the NAVC (North American Voyageur Council) this coming November just north of Madison Wiscons.

I know how to make them myself. Now I just need to figure out how to show and tell other people how to do it themeslves!

Oh, woe is I! What have I committed myself to do? It must have been Karl, Otter, and a bunch of ... bad rum ... that talked me into it!

I better go practice some more ....

Mikey - that grumpy ol' German blacksmith out in the Hinterlands

 

[Roy]

:thumbsup: always enjoy seeing your work.. :hatsoff:

 

[pichou]

Karl, Otter, and a bunch of ... bad rum ...

Sounds like a winning combo... :haha:

Of course I have not met KK. Otter I met. Bad rum? I don't want to talk about it. :barf:

 

[PitchyPine]

Very nice Mike, question, are the kink where bent purposely there for a reason?
Have ya ever tried filling the pipe with sand then bending if the kink isn`t wanted.

 

[ameling]

Very nice Mike, question, are the kink where bent purposely there for a reason?
Have ya ever tried filling the pipe with sand then bending if the kink isn`t wanted.

That "kink" in the bend of the pipes does serve a purpose. It helps narrow down the pipe bowl at the bottom - to help keep the tobacco in the pipe bowl instead of traveling up the stem. So you do need to narrow that opening at the bottom of the pipe bowl, and that bend/kink serves that purpose.

I have thought about ways to keep the "cylinder" from colapsing as I bend it - like sand or a bundle of copper wires, or even a green tree branch. But it just isn't needed. If you bend it carefully, you don't ... pinch ... things off too much. The pipe still needs to ... draw.

Just one of those little "details" I learned along the way.

Mikey

 

[PitchyPine]

Yepper figured so about the kink , nice work as always. :thumbsup:

 

[jetcanoe]

Hey fellas, how do them things smoke?
My clay pipe gets pretty hot, but smokes great. On the other hand, it's awful fragile for trekkin, so I wondered about the steel pipes. They look like you could give someone a good whack to the head with them too :wink:

 

[chipper]

Mine works good. I just slow down and smoke it slowly. Too much puffing makes for a how smoke.

regards

 

[mazo kid]

......And it is helping me figure out how to teach other people how to make them. I'm signed up to teach such a session at the annual Fall conference of the NAVC (North American Voyageur Council) this coming November just north of Madison Wiscons.

Mikey, hope to see you there. I just sent in my reservation so hope I make the cut. Emery

 

[tundrawolf]

i saw a fellow smoking a brass pipe just like those at a grateful dead show once,but i dont think he was puffin on tobaco :grin: