The Making of an Acrylic Calabash
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ต.ค. 2016
- Just some of what goes into making one of the Acrylic Calabash pipes. Lot of time and multiple changes between machinery. Vid is long even at 4x speed. Didn't include the texturing of the metal work, shaping the lower portion of the Cup or it's finishing, the 40 minutes to bend one of these into shape.
Thanks for watching
Incredible
Shut the front door,
your work is so Finley tuned, it’s insane.
Outstanding work Phil 👍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
I never would have thought of acrilic for the body of a pipe ..looked good phil
I don't smoke but if i had this pipe i would probably start 😂😂👍👍 great work
Wow, what a process, very cool and some nice equipment, that chuck!
Absolutely amazing! The craftsmanship that went into making this beautiful pipe! 👏👏👏👏👏 👍👍👍👍👍 😀😀😀😀😀
Thank you very much!
@@PhillipRivara You're welcome! You made a terrific video, Philip! 😀
That's crazy Phil! That's a loooooot of work for one pipe. Beautiful work though. 👍🏻👍🏻
Rất là hay cảm ơn kênh nhé
cảm ơn
thank you for sharing this was awesome to watch ✌
Thank you. :)
Very cool, I want one so bad. One day!
Thank you for watching. :)
wowwww Phillip that was Awesome to see excellent Job thanks for sharing buddy ☺☺☺☺👍👍👍👍 best regards Peter
Thank you , Sir. :)
man looked like it turned out great . to bad you dint show the finish work and maybe a two part series . or you could have used high speed time lapse for some of the lathe work . ether wya would have loved to see the finish work .
Do you mind my asking where you source your acrylic from? Are those 1.5x1.5x6" standard duck call or handle acrylic blanks? Are they real cast acrylic or are they a polyester resin? Looking to maybe do some experimenting myself and wondering if I should cast some resin/alumilite blanks (I make pens and have started casting blanks) or if I should source some real cast acrylic (or buy some call blank material). Thanks!
They are from a buddy that sells on ebay, and another source. One is (in this video)
stores.ebay.com/acryliccalls?_rdc=1
The other is also large diameter cast acrylics from E-plastics
I don't use Poly or extruded because it doesn't bend well or breaks
Thanks for sharing the info. What is the starting diameter of the blanks you start with before turning?
For the acrylic from e-plastics- any (almost) size you want to order, from acryliccalls- I n=believe they are just under 1 1/2" (1.4 something if I recall)
I seen this conversation, obviously both of you are doing creative art/functional design pieces, I'm wondering how much would this Calabash and similar sized and quality smoking pipes sell for? As I've been watching people hand make different pipes over the past week and I think it's really amazing what you can do with a wood lathe and Kyle I've also been watching people make custom turned pens I'm also wondering what price range you resell them for? Where I live these handcrafted pieces you cannot find by walking into a store, so this stuff has peaked my interest
What a pipe retails for will depend on the quality of the work you produce and how long you've been doing it to some extent and whether your potential customers perceive the same values you have deemed it worth. So many people a making pipes and pens right now it is impossible to say what value to place on any given product. All you can do is give it a go, learn as much as you can and continue to improve.
unfortunatly you left out the only bit that i wanted to see, the bending, what method did you use?
Heat and.... unfortunately I learned a long time ago not to give away everything or someone will copy it. Wish things were simpler.
@@PhillipRivara thanks, i found out a way anyway, a silicon insert should help, i tried it with sand, didn`t work,
is this the first time you've ever used a wood lathe?
Not at all
One day I'll buy one of those, I'll have to do a whole bunch of ass kissing here at home first though.
Lol, made me chuckle. :) Thanks
you smoke out of acrylic!!??
You smoke out of a Briar or Meerschaum cup- smoke passing through the acrylic is same as in a traditional tobacco pipe with Vulcanite or acrylic stem
@@PhillipRivara i must of missed the cup build portion of the video then
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