The pipe wagon

This is my workshop a 1930'ties circus wagon that I purchased the summer of 2002 and worked on for a few months that summer there is still much to do,but I am a young and quite competent man the outside looks like shit …but its the inside that counts…

Hope to get time this summer to do a little outside magic, rebuild the roof and ,give the outer walls a little paint and get the smaller room renovated will see what father time brings living in Scandinavia summer often tend to get hectic as there is so much you want to achieve...

I really love being here and find that this place gives me lots of inspiration a bit like being on a boat in some ways. It's a little narrow but really easy to clean and I can move it!


This is an overview of the middle part which is lowered so that there is 3,5 meters to the ceiling, here I spend a lot of time rough cutting and detailing my pipes.


This is the polishing station and with this chucked motor I bring my pipes to a stunning shine..this is also where I keep my stems ,sandpaper and files


Here is a pic of my little bandsander, a dremel which has served me well, with it I do a lot of the rough shape sanding bouth on briar and stems...


My newest and most expensive machine, the heart of all operation a good sized bench metal lathe with a threading feed and a pressure clock for measuring micrometers. As I have just gotten this beauty, I only use it for making stems but a later on when we have gotten to know each other a bit more I will use it for the hole drilling of the pipes as well…


This is also a recent inquiry, a low price bandsaw to do the raw cutting of the blocks this used to be done with hand saw and a lot of sweat but now it takes less time and I can cut the blocks closer to the the final form than I could by hand.


The detailing station with the dremel I carve out a lot of the finished form,situated by these large windows I get an inspiring view...

Here's a picture of my current briar stock most of it from corsica also carry some from Greece all dried for at least 3 years…on the top shelf you can also glimpse some of my stem raw material ebonite and acrylic rods...

This hompage will be updated a lot in the future with detailed pictures and text series of how I make my pipes.



TO BE CONTINUED