Tuesday, February 22, 2011

The Hammer

The hammer took form when I decided to rotate the briar I was working with. Most of the briar blocks are rectangles with a corner cut off at a 45 degree angle. This results in most pipes are longer than they are tall (right now I am not including the stem in the dimensions). The hammer is the opposite, it is taller than it is long.

I did a four step stain using black, red, black and then rubbing down the excess with denatured alcohol to tone down the black.




2 comments:

  1. The shape of this still makes me think of the images and statues of Nefertiti.

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  2. It is singularly the most ergonomic of your pipes to date, the shape really is nearly identical to the negative space of a loosely closed fist (aka pipe-smoking action grip, the more useful brother of kung-fu grip)

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