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Post by brokennock on Jun 3, 2019 14:07:26 GMT -7
Any good examples of pipe tampers that might have been used by the common man or frontiersman between 1750's and 1790's? Let's call the geographical area generalized to PA. and points north. Those clay pipe bowls on the all clay molded pipes are pretty small. The separate bowl with a reed stem gives a little more room. Thinking of making one of a shoot off my grandmother's apple tree.
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Post by Black Hand on Jun 3, 2019 15:22:22 GMT -7
Necessity is after all the mother of invention. I suspect there were many things improvised that were variations on a known theme...
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Post by Keith on Jun 3, 2019 18:48:45 GMT -7
Any good examples of pipe tampers that might have been used by the common man or frontiersman between 1750's and 1790's? Let's call the geographical area generalized to PA. and points north. Those clay pipe bowls on the all clay molded pipes are pretty small. The separate bowl with a reed stem gives a little more room. Thinking of making one of a shoot off my grandmother's apple tree. Something like these perhaps BN. Not a very good image of the one above, but it is a ball held in a claw. Circa 1780. Keith.
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Post by Black Hand on Jun 3, 2019 18:51:17 GMT -7
The one topped with the skull reminds me of Charles Darwin's cane....
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Post by Keith on Jun 3, 2019 19:03:52 GMT -7
The one topped with the skull reminds me of Charles Darwin's cane.... I think I rather fancy a cane like that. Keith.
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Post by Black Hand on Jun 3, 2019 19:07:44 GMT -7
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Post by brokennock on Jun 3, 2019 20:08:27 GMT -7
The one topped with the skull reminds me of Charles Darwin's cane.... I think I rather fancy a cane like that. Keith. Me too. Thanks for your response. I doubt I'll be carving anything that intricate. But, I'm glad to see precedence for using wood.
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Post by hawkeyes on Jun 5, 2019 12:06:33 GMT -7
Any good examples of pipe tampers that might have been used by the common man or frontiersman between 1750's and 1790's? Let's call the geographical area generalized to PA. and points north. Those clay pipe bowls on the all clay molded pipes are pretty small. The separate bowl with a reed stem gives a little more room. Thinking of making one of a shoot off my grandmother's apple tree. A coon baculum works wonders.
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Post by straekat on Jun 5, 2019 12:18:27 GMT -7
Only if the little guy isn't going to be using it anymore...
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Post by brokennock on Jun 5, 2019 17:40:09 GMT -7
Only if the little guy isn't going to be using it anymore... You have no sense of adventure. Lol
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Post by straekat on Jun 6, 2019 12:56:27 GMT -7
Nock,
Racoons can be sneaky. Watch out this doesn't happen....
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Post by brokennock on Jun 7, 2019 8:24:23 GMT -7
That dog doesn't seem to be resisting much. ? Who knew? Is that how we get "coon hounds"?
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Post by waarp8nt on Jun 7, 2019 21:43:26 GMT -7
Necessity is after all the mother of invention. I suspect there were many things improvised that were variations on a known theme... Just an observation on my part, but a resourceful old timer who lived nearby us often used a nail as a pipe tamper. I suppose if a simple old timer would come up with such an idea, that resourceful folks from the 17th and 18th centuries could have done the same. A square cut nail or horseshoe nail would make a modern equivalent of a potentially used original item. No documentation to support such idea, just an observation on my part.
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Post by brokennock on Jun 7, 2019 23:02:14 GMT -7
A nail would seem a good idea. I mostly use two "modern" cartridge cases slid together for my briar and meerschum pipes, a nickel .444 case with the case mouth slid inside a brass 45/70 case, gives me 2 different size nice flat ends. I have some pieces of the apple wood cut and peeled, I'm going to let them dry more before reducing to size and cutting any design, if any.
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Post by Keith on Jun 8, 2019 0:09:07 GMT -7
Carved hand holding the handle.
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