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We bought the briar from Italy and Spain, one is mush denser that the other I like the Spanish briar it is lighter and Dolly would make the Roots look like glass with only a natural vanish, all the pipes were finished with the same varnish, the bark finish on the bowl is put on by Dolly by hand, one slip and you have a problem | We bought the briar from Italy and Spain, one is mush denser that the other I like the Spanish briar it is lighter and Dolly would make the Roots look like glass with only a natural vanish, all the pipes were finished with the same varnish, the bark finish on the bowl is put on by Dolly by hand, one slip and you have a problem. That’s one job that needs to be seen to see how it’s done. | ||
In the work shop we have our own jobs I turn the bowls and fit the rod vulcanite and shape it to the pipe, if I had time I would pumice them or Dolly would do it she took over from there, I only got the pipe back when it was stained and finished, ready for me to put the silver on, each silver band is fitted to each pipe as an individual made to fit that pipe only. | In the work shop we have our own jobs I turn the bowls and fit the rod vulcanite and shape it to the pipe, if I had time I would pumice them or Dolly would do it she took over from there, I only got the pipe back when it was stained and finished, ready for me to put the silver on, each silver band is fitted to each pipe as an individual made to fit that pipe only. | ||