Sandblasted Briar

[GWBowman]

A couple of my latest projects, for your viewing pleasure:



A blue-green egg w/ slightly bent stem. Made it for a co-worker.



Other side.



Here's a bleached natural billiard. I'm keeping this one. It reminds me of the sand on a Lake Superior beach.



Other side thereof.

That blue green looks sharp. Did you mix the colors or put them on separately?

[Bruck]

That blue green looks sharp. Did you mix the colors or put them on separately?

Tnx. Mixed the colors beforehand. I use aniline wood dyes. The green looks pretty anemic by itself, but mixes nicely with the blue.

[TheHobbyist78]

This is a pretty fast league here. Bruck, you're doing some very nice work. I clearly have to refine my game to play on this team. Well, you all have certainly given me some great ideas in what I want to do with my coming billiard carve. Thanks.

[Bruck]

This is a pretty fast league here. Bruck, you're doing some very nice work. I clearly have to refine my game to play on this team. Well, you all have certainly given me some great ideas in what I want to do with my coming billiard carve. Thanks.

Tnx but to be honest, most of the work was already done for me. I start out w/ "blanks" as it were - check out the pix earlier in the thread.

I've got one of those kits consisting of a predrilled block of briar with a stem, but haven't yet worked up the motivation to start carving it.

[TheHobbyist78]

Tnx but to be honest, most of the work was already done for me. I start out w/ "blanks" as it were - check out the pix earlier in the thread.

I've got one of those kits consisting of a predrilled block of briar with a stem, but haven't yet worked up the motivation to start carving it.

I've got one of those pre-drilled kits from CI as well. Just trying to get my other projects done first before I get to carving. I've been looking into those pre-drilled kits from 'Pipe Guys'. This first one will be the litmus test, and then we will see where I want to go from there. It's got to turn out special in order for it to be 'bombworthy'.