Pipe Making In the Don Carlos Pipe Workshop©

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From this

to this

in 4 hours!

You can either take the tour by viewing and enlarging the thumbnails on this page
or you can sit back and watch the whole process through the:
Don Carlos Slide Show.

The Maestro at Work©

Bruto picking the briar	Cutting to see what's hidden	Has potential	Just HAS to be like this
That IS the shape	Cutting the shape out	Shape takes shape!	Boring the tobacco chamber
Here's the tobacco chamber	Boring the ferrule	Ready for the tenon	Boring the draught hole
A perfect hole	Choosing a mouthpiece	Fitting the mouthpiece	Finally the two wholes meet
Back to the saw	A cut for the logo	Inserting a logo piece	Sanding the logo down
Sandblasting starts	Getting closer to final shape	Hope it'll go away	Getting there with the shape
Rosaria applying a tint	Terrible color but necessary	Cleaning up the plateau top	Now, we're talking!
Sandblasting color away	Removing a part of ' plateau	Some muscle work!	Bending the mouthpiece
Color again	Almost there with the shape	Sanding color away, again!	Even grain shows now
Yet another layer!	Polishing time	Stamping starts!	Incision of pipe name
"Cum Corde - Dic. '99"!	Final color... finally!	Polishing time.	Bruto's final touches
Rosaria inspecting the pipe.	Here it is...	... after more than 4 hrs	And that's how it was!

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