Close Ups - Page 11

07-24-2006, 12:00 AM

New pipe

Kitsune · 07-24-2006, 11:56 AM

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Originally Posted by rkzenrage

New pipe

Really nice contrasting textures. Are these pipes ever put to use or are they just for display?

glatt · 07-24-2006, 08:32 PM

part of a motor from a cannibalized VCR:

Flint · 07-25-2006, 03:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by glatt

part of a motor from a cannibalized VCR:

I had a tape stuck in an old VCR and I had to take the VCR apart to get it out. I was enjoying myself, so I kept going, dis-assembling the VCR as far as I could, back down into original component pieces, which I have kept in a cardboard box in my closet and have no idea why. I plan, vaguely, to build a robot or something someday.

glatt · 07-25-2006, 03:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Flint

I had a tape stuck in an old VCR and I had to take the VCR apart to get it out. I was enjoying myself, so I kept going, dis-assembling the VCR as far as I could, back down into original component pieces, which I have kept in a cardboard box in my closet and have no idea why. I plan, vaguely, to build a robot or something someday.

VCRs are great for that. I picked this one up off the curb in front of my neighbor's house last night. It was a TV/VCR combo that was dead. I quickly checked the fuses, but they were fine. Didn't feel like trying to figure out what was wrong with it, because it's a piece of junk. Maybe the power switch. Anyway, I got two good motors, and this one motor that had to come apart to remove. I also got a nice red LED. A cheap speaker. Some RCA connectors. Etc. Don't know what I'm going to do with them. Maybe make a robot. I've got a cabinet in the basement with a bunch of motors from stuff I've taken apart over the years. I might see if I can somehow isolate the power supply from this thing. That would be cool.

07-25-2006, 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Kitsune

Really nice contrasting textures. Are these pipes ever put to use or are they just for display?

I smoke a couple of times a week. Pipes, cigars, tobacco and their history are a hobby for me more than smoking is.

I have a pretty decent English tobacco collection, around forty pipes and not too many cigars in an igloodor.

superbaton · 07-25-2006, 10:50 PM

not so close

skysidhe · 07-27-2006, 12:54 PM

jinx · 07-27-2006, 02:49 PM

Kitsune I love the quills, and that fly is very fly Bruce.

MsSparkie · 07-27-2006, 10:46 PM

Go ask Alice...

07-28-2006, 11:13 AM

A good friend of mine is a master pipe maker... this is a rare all straight-grain pipe. Great to see and hold something I will never be able to afford, a true thing of beauty.

2... 3... 4

xoxoxoBruce · 07-28-2006, 05:54 PM

Any idea what causes straight grain briar to develop? Uh....it is briar, isn't it?

07-29-2006, 12:14 AM

A very rare pocket in the sand. Briar is the root ball of the tree in a sandy region, it is hard to find a piece that has straight grain all the way around in a piece large enough to make a pipe with no sand pits or variations and a craftsman skilled enough to see it in the block, as well as able to bring it out in the pipe (then to sand it/stain it... bla, bla, bla, properly)... too many things to discuss here.

Ibby · 07-29-2006, 10:21 AM

xoxoxoBruce · 07-29-2006, 06:52 PM

Radiohead.

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07-27-2006, 02:49 PM	#9
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07-28-2006, 11:13 AM	#11
rkzenrage Guest Posts: n/a	A good friend of mine is a master pipe maker... this is a rare all straight-grain pipe. Great to see and hold something I will never be able to afford, a true thing of beauty. 2... 3... 4

07-29-2006, 12:14 AM	#13
rkzenrage Guest Posts: n/a	A very rare pocket in the sand. Briar is the root ball of the tree in a sandy region, it is hard to find a piece that has straight grain all the way around in a piece large enough to make a pipe with no sand pits or variations and a craftsman skilled enough to see it in the block, as well as able to bring it out in the pipe (then to sand it/stain it... bla, bla, bla, properly)... too many things to discuss here.

07-29-2006, 10:21 AM	#14
Ibby erika Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: "the high up north" Posts: 6,127	__________________ not really back, you didn't see me, i was never here shhhhhh

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xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Radiohead. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump. Last edited by xoxoxoBruce; 04-07-2007 at 05:51 PM.

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