Today s work consists of a new finish.Untill I think of a better name I guess it will be called a black and tan cabernet. Many thanx to Trevor Talbert for cracking the mysterey of how to get a good consistent black understain which had been deviling me for years.
I started out making a freehand special order for a pipe shop. Block looked pretty average to me. I made my first cut and realized I was into smething very special. I went back and drew a more interesting shape. I made a rough top dublin with a hawkbill type shank for my friend Bob a few weeks ao and decided this block would work well for that shape. I sweated out the shaping and decided to try a finish I had been thinking about the nite before.( this pipe is for sale on the web catalog)
Yesterday I used the black understain with bascially the old light red finish over top for the 5 pipe set. Today I wanted to experiment with putting the Pristine stain over top of the black. The results were very good. I m having a little trouble getting the contrast in colors to show with my digital camera but I ll work on it. Having good results with the finish I immediatley finished a special order fo Doc Elder with the same. Doc and I had gone back and forth a few times until I finally got what he wanted. I guess it could be called a tomato. Anyway here are the pipes:
UB 245- 3 star straight grain
Doc's Tomato
| 1/14 | 1/21 | 1/27 | 2/2 | 2/7 | 2/14 | 2/28 | 3/1 | 3/2 | 3/5 |
| 3/6 | 3/7 | 3/8 | 3/16 | 3/21 | 3/28 | 3/29 | 3/30 | 4/4 | 4/8 |
| 4/9 | 4/10 | 4/11 | 4/12 | 4/13 | 4/13 | 4/14 | 4/17 | 4/20 | 4/22 |
| 4/23 | 4/24 | 4/25 | 4/29 | 5/15 | 5/17 | 5/26 | 5/29 | 6/2 | 6/7 |
| 6/8 | 6/14 | 6/15 | 6/26 | 6/28 | 6/30 | 7/2 | 7/5 | 7/16 | 7/17 |
| 7/18 | 7/22 | 7/26 | 7/27 | 7/31 | 8/1 | 8/2 | 8/3 | 8/7 | 8/8 |
| 8/10 | 8/11 | 8/14 | 8/16 | 8/16 | 8/17 | 8/20 | 8/22 | 8/24 | 8/28 |
| 8/31 | 9/3 | 9/4 | 9/6 | 9/10 | 9/16 | 9/18 | 9/19 | 9/20 | 10/11 |
| 10/12 | 10/16 | 10/19 | 10/20 | 10/22 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 |
| 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 |