hey knucks, you did an amazing job there on the olive pipe, it's a thing of beauty! wow, i'd like to see what the pipe snobs on the other forum are putting out if they are giving you a hard time, i'm guessing they just dont like seeing the new guy doing so good so fast.
Thanks smokes. Well the shank on my apple was too long for a "proper apple". Then I pulled out the picture I was copying and overlaid it with my pipe and it was within a couple mm. Then my billiard had bevel on the top outside which "proper" billiards don't have. so I had to pull out the picture I was copying of a pipe made by Tom Eltang. It had the bevel. Of course Tom could care less what a proper billiard looks like since his pipes sell for thousands each. That's a tough crowd over there, but I better not say too much cause I leave FTT and WLT links all over the freaking place.
Anway, you need to start getting old Osage bulldog in shape. How'd you like the story? I got tired of the same old pipe presentation. Anyway, Maks is half crazy so I knew he'd appreciate it. The only thing that bothers me is, after all the talk of Slovenia, I think I still may have mailed the damn thing to Slovakia after all.