9th pipe. Ball.

Posted on November 2, 2012January 7, 2013 Posted in Pipe Maker, Pipe Smoker, Pipes1 Comment

I finished my 9th pipe.

I wanted to practice rounded forms and bent shapes. Acrilic ring.

BTW, I decided to smoke the first one of my pipes. The poker i did few time ago. I’m not sure that the wood added to the shank will be resistant enough so I decided to keep it for my particular use.

Joan smokes today: Cantó + Peter Stokkebye Luxury Bull’s Eye.

New pipe. Work in progress.

Posted on November 1, 2012January 7, 2013 Posted in Pipe Maker, Work in progressLeave a comment

Working in a new pipe.

Joan is smoking now: Martín Micalet + Esoterica Penzance.

Lovat. Eight pipe.

Posted on October 28, 2012January 7, 2013 Posted in Pipe Maker, PipesLeave a comment

My eight pipe finished. Lovat shape.

Italian briar and ebonite. Deer horn ring.

Pipe for the catalan pipe maker Robert Marcos. Markuz Pipes.

Hope he likes it when I’ll give it to him. Big responsability.

Joan is smoking now: Chacom Sport + Dunhill Early Morning.

Lovat. Work in progress.

Posted on October 25, 2012January 7, 2013 Posted in Pipe Maker, Work in progressLeave a comment

Working on a new pipe. A rounded shank canadian style, also known as Lovat for most of people. Still a lot of work to do on it.

Joan is smoking right now: Soler + Capstan Gold.

Nose warmer

Posted on October 24, 2012January 7, 2013 Posted in Pipe Maker, Pipes1 Comment

My seventh pipe and the second that I drill. New little girl. Italian briar, italian ebonite and a ring of deer horn. Horn smells really bad when you cut or work on it.

This nose warmer is made for me. I plan to use it for first time the day that we’ll arrive from the hospital after the birth of our son. It will be soon 🙂

Hope you’ll like it!

Joan is smoking right now: Maltese pipe without brand + Dunhill My mixture 965.

Dublin. My first pipe from zero.

Posted on October 23, 2012January 6, 2013 Posted in Pipe MakerLeave a comment

I bought some briar wood from Romeo Briar and some preformed ebonite stems also from Italy.

With this and with the new vertical drill, I did my first pipe from 0. I expected a total disaster with the drilling, but that has been the easy part. It is my sixth pipe and the first real one 🙂

I wanted to practice to attach a wood ring to the shank in this one.

This pipe is now property of the great illustrator Simon Oxley, also known as Simonox, great friend of mine.

Joan is smoking right now: Martín Micalet + Dunhill Standard Mixture.

Tool improvements

Posted on October 21, 2012January 6, 2013 Posted in Pipe MakerLeave a comment

I upgraded my small workshop with a saw. A cheap one being honest. Hope it will work.

Joan is smoking right now: Tom Spanu + Samuel Gawith Full Virginia Flake.

My first pipes.

Posted on October 13, 2012January 6, 2013 Posted in Pipe MakerTagged pipe making1 Comment

I’m Joan Cantó and I’m not a third generation pipe maker.

I’m just a professional photographer from Catalonia who smokes pipes. Just before the birth of my son, i decided to put a bit of order on my job and I bought a new studio. The restoration of the place took more time than I expected and it gave me one month of forced retirement.

I was bored at home (since I have my son I never have been bored again) and decided to make a pipe for myself. I readed some studd from internet and bought two predrilled kits from J. Soler, here in Catalonia. I bought also a drill and some sandpaper and, voilà. I had my two pipes done in few time. They are very bad ones, but I keep them at home as they were the beggining.

After that, I entered to a pipe smokers forum (Rincón de la Pipa) and tried to learn more from there and share the exercises to know their opinion. It helped to me a lot.

Then I bought 4 more kits also from Soler and then I decided to do the next step and do my pipes from 0.

My small workshop: