I am now in business as the officially sanctioned maker of the Falcob.
As such, I am doing all sorts of business-ing, like cultivating s Facebook presence, phoning in orders directly to Marilyn at MM and other daunting, holy-shit-this-is-for-real things.
I'm bootstrapping my way, selling one run and rolling that right into supplies and tooling for the next.
Scary shit.
Anyways, this being a momentous occasion, I wanted to share it with you degenerates.
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Nice! Congrats man
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Nice - I bought a Falcob bowl from Doug that would not stay on any of the stems I have. I think I managed to smoke it a couple of times without the bowl falling off. I hope you have the manufacturing tolerances figured out. It is a great idea that deserves to work.Wooda wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2019 9:49 pm I am now in business as the officially sanctioned maker of the Falcob.
As such, I am doing all sorts of business-ing, like cultivating s Facebook presence, phoning in orders directly to Marilyn at MM and other daunting, holy-shit-this-is-for-real things.
I'm bootstrapping my way, selling one run and rolling that right into supplies and tooling for the next.
Scary shit.
Anyways, this being a momentous occasion, I wanted to share it with you degenerates.
What is the ID on the bowls you are making?
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Figure out how to produce the Cob bowls without the O Ring and you have something . . .
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I had a Doug Erwin cob bowl for Falcon too and it fell off constantly. Of course they weren't screw on, just an O ring.
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I have been hand fitting every one to my falcon stem and I keep it very tight. I will have to post a video of me beating it up.Fr_Tom wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2019 5:20 amNice - I bought a Falcob bowl from Doug that would not stay on any of the stems I have. I think I managed to smoke it a couple of times without the bowl falling off. I hope you have the manufacturing tolerances figured out. It is a great idea that deserves to work.Wooda wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2019 9:49 pm I am now in business as the officially sanctioned maker of the Falcob.
As such, I am doing all sorts of business-ing, like cultivating s Facebook presence, phoning in orders directly to Marilyn at MM and other daunting, holy-shit-this-is-for-real things.
I'm bootstrapping my way, selling one run and rolling that right into supplies and tooling for the next.
Scary shit.
Anyways, this being a momentous occasion, I wanted to share it with you degenerates.
What is the ID on the bowls you are making?
I have the tooling to bore up to 1".
I could do 1 1/8" but that is just downright absurd
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Man, I wish I could find a pipe niche like that. Grats!
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Super cool. I bet you could probably get a threaded plastic base like they use on the WGM Meer bowls, or even if you are savvy, design one and have them 3D printed.
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I have a pipe dream of CNC machining the interrupted threads right on the briar, but that is a very long ways awayhoutenziel wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2019 9:13 am Super cool. I bet you could probably get a threaded plastic base like they use on the WGM Meer bowls, or even if you are savvy, design one and have them 3D printed.
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