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This is a cool little pipe from a really nice piece of what I think is quartzite, it looks layered, stripes overlayed with bent on straight layers.


it really needs to be polished a bit more, you can see little white specks. that goes away with more polishing.

[StRa]

here a nice docufilm about calumet..... I hope you enjoy it!

Calumet PIPE OF PEACE

boom!

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I made this one kind of fat, i did not want to try to make it into a spoon. who knows if a crack or vug or other instability could have caused a disaster, and it was such a nice piece of stone.

it looks better in person, all those white marks are tiny banded agate that filled in cracks with bands of white and blue. but they're tiny. the whole thing is brown common opal that looks like it broke up and was filled in with the same material. so an opal breccia in an opal matrix.

I'll post the rest of these individual pieces while I am repairing my drill press. the coils spring that raises the spindle/quill back up broke. 13 bucks for a new one. soon, i'd rig up a cable and spring or weights, if i can figure out how to do it with things i have on hand.

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i decided selfishly to keep this one. i call it ink stain.
my kid absconded with my red jasper, so i use this one, but it's this next one that i have come to love the most.


this is a little wedge, i call this style a wedge, i don't know if there's a term for it or not.

It's the same as my pedestal stone. A local gem and mineral club geologist told me it was Serpentine. well, the green is, nice crystallized serp. and limestone. it's highly indurated, meaning it was seriously smashed, but not into marble. it's one of my favorite rocks.


I dropped it from waist high on to concrete. arrgh! you can see a tiny spot on each side of the stem hole. soft material, so i sanded it out easily by hand with some 400 grit wet/dry sandpaper.

[bilko]

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drilling the small hole in the middle of the bowl


then pop out the core and keep going

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the last three pipes from the last batch, well two because I already loaded the ink stain pipe.

APOLOGIES to the folks I'm supposed to be sending a pipe to, I've just had a hard time getting going since Christmas, but I'm back in the groove, and have spent a lot of time out on the drill press.
I rigged it up, I'll show you later lmao.

by the way Starke, never clean that piece with vinegar. You'll etch off the polish.

I have thre pipes, all different types of stone, and I only use water. hot water out of the tap. Soak it a minute and wipe out the bowl with a paper towel, run the bore with a pipe cleaner. it'll be clean like a new pipe.

Am I repeating myself? i think i might have already posted that. oh well. bear with me when i do that. lol.


That little wood grain patterened one at the beginning of this post. here is the rest of the rock. I'm cutting the last pieces and will be shaping them soon.

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it's 4:20 in the morning. hang on while i hit this Cheese.


find a promising rock and cut it open to see what's in it. this one's kind of pink. I think I know someone who has a girlfriend that wants one. she'll like this pink stone.


This is where I get a little freaked out. I feel like i just ruined this piece. I freehand almost everything. even when i draw it out like you see here, i still end up just cutting out the whole thing instead of stopping after I cut out the design and draw on the side. oh no, not me. just saw away like i know what i'm doing. but then I'll make it work and it's going to be awesome.

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these last four posts are all new. check em out.

i'll be almost up to date soon. i've got a dozen pics of the latest batch all sorted, now i have to resize them, and i'll start putting them up in a day or two. I think this post gets me up to date with all the pics already in my album.


That green one in the bottom is a sweet rock, shaped like that because of the weird shape of the rock. The behemoth striped one is the first pipe I ever cut and shaped. here it still has no bowl or stem hole.

it's huge, but i modeled it after a glass pipe someone had brought over and we had been smoking out of. too big imo, maybe i'll cut it down to size. maybe



this marble should make a nice pipe.



slouching towards a Adena/Hopewell inspired form, not quite there.
next batch...

the two on the right show me shaping a ?mudstone/siltstone?
kinda big, we'll see...

[gr8fulguitr]

wicked cool.
i just got my wife a stone pipe. She was not sure at first. She thinks I crazy. but i luv stone pipes....and i dont combust anymore

I wish more people would make real stone pipes. Glass is cool until ol butterfingrz gets ahold of them and they break.


I soak mine in water overnight to clean, sound reasonable?
sometimes with dish soap? i give a good soak and then work it over witha pipe cleaner


excellent thread!
rock on with the Rocks