[paper thorn]

that's pretty much all i do gr8ful
sometimes maybe a little dish soap. but just a soak in hot tap water for half an hour loosens it up pretty good.

[gr8fulguitr]

Ah Ha cool beans! I totally over kill it and soak for a couple of days. Mostly cause I forget what i a doing.
It is reassuring to see someone else doing it this way. Thank you.
Great work !

[paper thorn]

That's the green pipe from a previous post. pretty rock, but while trying to pop out the core from the bottom of the stem hole as I drilled it, I snapped the stem in pieces.
I broke about three i think. wiped out about 10 hours of work.



A few of the pipes I'm working on. Most of these are in the polishing stage now, though my long stem bit wore out so probably 5 of them do not have the stems drilled all the way.



Drilling the stem on this nice breccia. if you enlarge the one on the right you'll see the little core sticking up in the bottom of the stem hole.

[~star~crash~]

Hey Good Morning !

nice work progressing in here ... peace 2 u today

[AgentPothead]

This is a great thread thank you for posting and all these pictures!

[gr8fulguitr]

sweet stone!
Thank you for showing the work!

I have almost no tools any more, I moved to an inner city apartment 20 years ago and I let almost all my toys go. So i really appreciate seeing your work, THaNKs

[paper thorn]

Sorry I'm not making regular updates, but life is busy.



That's a chipped stem hole. i let the pipe lean a bit while drilling and the pressure on the side of the stem hole chipped it. sucks because this one is already a tad short.



Some tools and a stem being drilled


my little work area


watching Haelos. The singer is so hot. i love this group.

[paper thorn]

These are some handles I'm making for some poker/scrapers.
See the pile of cores from drilling stems.



Every core chunk represents stopping drilling, snapping the core, dumping it out, refilling the hole with water and drilling another 1/6", maybe 1/8"



Drill press return spring broke, spindle just hangs there.
The pipe in the pic, was some interesting material.

[paper thorn]

I think this is petrified wood. I think it is a slab of bark from a 130 million year old tree. I want to cut it. i cut the end, it's dark green.



dang it, i have to go through some more pics, and upload later.

[Borderliner]

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