Holy freaking hell this is fantastic.

You really need to start selling these. o.o

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If I can pull off another claw pipe like that in meer, I probably *will* sell it, if for nothing else as an experiment on roughly how much people would pay for one *laughs*

And I promise, I will get yer tengu pipe out *Have been recovering from ACen and getting stuff caught up around the house post-ACen, but it will be sent, I promise*

This one looks really lovely. Seriously kickin' detail in it.

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I think people would go apeshit over them. Especially at Renfaires and the like.

No hurry, just let me know so I can put cash aside

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Heh, no less than six people at ACen told me I *needed* to start selling on Ebay "as an experiment if nothing else" *LOL*

At any rate, you may want to go ahead and start saving up, because I'm hoping either this weekend or next weekend to get stuff together to ship it to you :3 (Mostly just have to get bubble wrap)

Got it. Just remind me how much we agreed on for my brain is like a sieve. LOL. And postage and insurance and the like. *hugs* *bounces*

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Nice work. Meerschaum is hard to carve into something nice.

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Oh wow, another pipemaker on here :3 *friends!*

Thanks--the real trick with meer is that, really, it *doesn't* carve like wood--the closest parallel is to working in semihardened clay, clay that one doesn't have the option to reshape if one messes up at that. Still, 's fun. :3 (If only I could get hold of it easier, though...pretty much all I can get hold of is the Utah meer which is harder.)

I've had some interest in messing about with briar, if only because it's a bit easier to get hold of :3 but briar *is* a very different beast indeed. Still, something to teach myself and mess about with at any rate. (And your briars are quite good, too. I have to admire anyone who can make briar turn out decently :3)

That's true. Do you have trouble with the meerschaum crumbling? Or do you get it wet to soften it up?

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