SEND THE REV TO PIPE SCHOOL

SEND REV TO PIPE SCHOOL!!! I am going to Nashville to study with Grant Batson with your help http://igg.me/at/revspipes/x/3019926

As some of you know my wife and I live simply, and spend much of our time and money on our community.  We are involved with local charities and have done some of our own work with homeless folk in our park.  But that means I need a bit of help to do my "schooling"  Grant Batson, an incredible pipe maker from Nashville, who's work really resonates with me on a creative level has agreed to take me on as a student for a few days, in which I will learn how to make pipes more perfectly, more efficiently and more creatively.  I am very excited to take advantage of this one on one instruction, and you can help.  Please follow the link and help as you are able.

john

The Poker

recently made three pipes for a dear friend in Australia, this is the first of them.  The poker shape is an old classic, I tried to make it a bit more modern with a cumberland stem and my own personality. 

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The Cavalier Blowfish

I was part of a trade where a number of pipe makers chose a pipe shape and each made their interpretation of that shape.  Then we drew random numbers and sent our pipes to whomever was chosen, and received a pipe from whomever was chosen.

This was my entry into the trade.  The shape is the cavalier shape, and the style I chose was a blowfish style, using imported Mediterranean briar, German ebonite, and a zebra wood footplug.

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My Latest, the Tiger Fish

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squashed tomato

this is my latest pipe

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so here are three of my new ones

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Inspiring Pipe Makers part 4 (Grant Batson)

This guy has been making pipes for just a little bit longer than I have.  But he does have the luxury of one of the best mentors in the world, and a base of skills that would leave any wood worker envious.

Grant started his love affair with wood by making custom guitars.  I have seen and heard one of his guitars and... oh my, amazing.  A little over a year ago, maybe more I am not exactly sure he left his guitar business, and began to make pipes, and from his first pipe he has been making a ruckus.  This man is in every sense of the word a prodigy.  But what makes Grant so cool, is his helpfulness, and humility, and his joy for life.  Grant seems to be incredibly at home in his skin, and thankful to make use of his talent in ways that give joy and inspiration to others.

I think that his future in the pipe making world is incredibly bright, and my biggest hope is I can buy one of his pipes before they get too expensive for me to own.  Take a look for yourself:

check out his site at

http://www.gbatsonpipes.com/

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