Got this Dr Grabow Omega on eBay for $8 including shipping. Cleaned and rusticated then stained with ebony and cognac. Used a dremel for the rustication. Very happy with how it came out. Wanted to use a cheap pipe for a first try. Will smoke it tonite
“ If A is a success in life, then A=X+Y+Z. Work is X; Y is play; and Z is keeping your mouth shut.”
- Albert Einstein
I am very impressed. It's better than I could do, which isn't much of a compliment because just about anything you would do is better than I could do. I'm not very handy.
That Grabow really looks nice and the rusitification is better than most drug store rustifictations. It doesn't look like you saw a flaw in the briar so you ran a wide-bore Dremel tool over it, and, since you had already done it once, you did it a couple more times while wearing a blindfold. It looks natural and organic.
That, S.W., is hundred-dollar-rustification.
A tip of my fedora in your direction, sir. Well done. It looks like a $100 pipe. Smoke it in good health.
Whalehead King wrote: ↑Tue Jun 25, 2019 4:34 pm
You did that rustification?!? That's very nice.
I am very impressed. It's better than I could do, which isn't much of a compliment because just about anything you would do is better than I could do. I'm not very handy.
That Grabow really looks nice and the rusitification is better than most drug store rustifictations. It doesn't look like you saw a flaw in the briar so you ran a wide-bore Dremel tool over it, and, since you had already done it once, you did it a couple more times while wearing a blindfold. It looks natural and organic.
That, S.W., is hundred-dollar-rustification.
A tip of my fedora in your direction, sir. Well done. It looks like a $100 pipe. Smoke it in good health.
The rustification was easy. Just used a cone shaped bit and tapped it against the pipe. The dremel did all the work. Took about 20 minutes. Than I took a wire brush to nock down the burrs. Have another lot of pipes coming from eBay to play with
“ If A is a success in life, then A=X+Y+Z. Work is X; Y is play; and Z is keeping your mouth shut.”
- Albert Einstein
Got this Dr Grabow Omega on eBay for $8 including shipping. Cleaned and rusticated then stained with ebony and cognac. Used a dremel for the rustication. Very happy with how it came out. Wanted to use a cheap pipe for a first try. Will smoke it tonite
Impressive rustication . . . the pipe looks great.
-sp
My vote has not been bought . . . I paid for my Undergraduate and Graduate Degrees . . .
Nice! I like it, got any more pics? I've mostly taken to modified allen keys for tearing up wood, less noise/mess and harder to slip up and make quick mistakes. I need to come up with a good Estella/Sea Rock type of rustication, here's an orange peel style one, really shallow but lots of texture.
