From: ??????????? (Mark Tinsky) Subject: success Hi Steve Happy to report completion of the two bowl pipe. he bowls are 1.5" high and have a depthe of 1 1/4 ". Overall length is about 7". ( with stem) Best of all the weight is under 2 oz and its quite comfortable to hold in the mouth. The pipe is virtually flawless and I can finish naturally if that s ok . Pipe will darken as you smoke it and will look better and better as its smoked. I chickened out on the real flat oval shank as I ws afraid to hit an airhole. Its slightly ovalled instead. Pipe sits flat also. Still have to make murder bite stem and polish. This may be the only pipe I ve ever made where I used files; tools I had airlirly dismissed as woodcarving tools and not used by pipemakers ! I needed them , however. I SHOULD BE ABLE TO MAIL TO YOU MON.If you ll provide a snail address. I mentioned it to Chet and he wants to see a pix. As i don t own a camera its up to you to satisfy him if you so choose. I was so glad about the pipeI undertook a chore(lesson) that I had been putting off. This is that story: Well this evening I did something completely different. spent hours tying knots. Yup knots. In fly fishing there are a couple of totaly nec. knots you need to be able to tie while standing in a rushing torrent , over your waist, wedging a 9' flexible fishing rod under your arm in the wind. You are tying knots using clear line maybe the width of human hair. For someone with good manual dexterity its not easy, fror someone as undextorous as I am its near fuckin impossible. Sometimes i spent more time attempting to tie than I do fishing . Most of the time I resort to just many regular knots, like in shoe tying, not really recommended. So yesterday I bought a little do - jiggy which was supposed to make knot tying easy; it even has a video, which i didn t purchase, but did come with a book.Time for a pipe! I have been graced with the ability to catch footballs, hit raquet balls and punch and kick people with a fair degree of success. However when it comes to threading needles, soldering wires , and manipulating small objects I m a total spazz.. I n order to make up for my natural defeciencies I practiced tying knots all day with my little do jiggy. To make a long tedious story short, after starting with string and tying then moving to regular fishing line and finally to fly line I was able to learn two knots in approx 4 hours.This is a major accomplishment for me. Sadly I was only able to do thi under bright light, no wind, and calmly seated at a table with both elbows conveniently anchored. Hardly the conditions I ll encounter on the river sumarize above. Practice makes perfect! We had some big T storms tonight. I kept the computer unplugged untl just now. Had a nice, but slow dinner out. Lot of fog and mist out tonite. Sunset where you could see it was pretty. Good nite MT Mark Tinsky HC-88 Box 223 30 Tall Oaks Pocono Lake, PA. 18347 web address: http://AmSmoke.com [ Thanks, Mark, and see below for the other end of the story on the 2-bowl! -S. ] ~\U ~\U ~\U ~\U ~\U ~\U ~\U ~\U ~\U ~\U ~\U ~\U ~\U ~\U ~\U ~\U ~\U
