Thank You Sir!
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Thelonious monkfish
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Nice score and good work on it. Yes, paint is for walls, not wood. Painted wood is hiding something, on pipes that's usually lack of grain and or excessive flaws. I strip that and usually rusticate them out to match how bad the flaws are. If you want to fill them in try using Briar dust/shavings and superglue, you can stain the dust to match beforehand.
Thanks guys, it was a labor of love. I'm going to put a coating in the bowl and once it's cured I'm planning on lighting her up, hopefully sometime this week.Bruyere_Royale wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2019 8:14 pm Wow! You really turned that pipe into something special, it looks fantastic! Enjoy them smokes...
... and you can put that in your pipe and smoke it!!!
Thank you Sir! Yeah, I was prepared to to find flaws when I stripped the paint off but man!Thelonious monkfish wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2019 2:29 pm Nice score and good work on it. Yes, paint is for walls, not wood. Painted wood is hiding something, on pipes that's usually lack of grain and or excessive flaws. I strip that and usually rusticate them out to match how bad the flaws are. If you want to fill them in try using Briar dust/shavings and superglue, you can stain the dust to match beforehand.
I actually thought about rusticating since it probably would've been easier to just add more jaggedness and holes to what was already there but my original vision for this pipe was smooth and sleek and I got determined to make it so. ... and you can put that in your pipe and smoke it!!!