Talbert Pipes- New pipes!

[Trever Talbert]

Hello to everyone!  I'm writing with news of many new pipes on the site, 
finally.  For quick reference, there are...

Three new Talbert Briars:
http://www.talbertpipes.pair.com/briarcatalog.shtml

Two new Talbert Mortas:
http://www.talbertpipes.pair.com/mortacatalog.shtml
(I think that Classic #88 is already sold, however)

and four new Ligne Bretagnes:
http://www.talbertpipes.pair.com/bretagnecatalog.shtml

I came back from Rheinbach with a variety of ideas spinning in my head. 
  I picked up a lot of interesting new staining and finishing techniques 
from the Great Danes (or rather Swedes and Germans) which I'm eager to 
start working into my smooth pipes.  In fact, these new smooth Talberts 
and the lone smooth Ligne Bretagne were all finished this way, 
delivering excellent shine and very nice stain contrast.  On top of 
this, I'm working on a variety of new sandblast finishes and tomorrow's 
blog entry will be all about all of this experimenting.  It's been a lot 
of fun and I'm trying to consolidate my usual "tweak as I go" finishing 
methods into some definitive step-by-steps.  In the process, I'm working 
on building some new ways to stain sandblasts, and I'll have some pics 
up tomorrow.  However, all this experimenting (I have multiple junk 
stummels and discard blocks all sliced into sections, all finished 
differently, with reams of detailed notes for comparison) has cut pretty 
heavily into the actual pipe production of August.  I should be back to 
normal in September, though - hopefully with some better quality work, 
to boot.

Another thing I came back from Rheinbach with was the inspiration to do 
some more medium-sized, lighter weight, more elegant pipes than my usual 
huge craggy monsters.  This does not in any way mean that I'll be 
abandoning huge craggy monster pipes, but I do think I'd like to do some 
more smooths and see what sort of new shapes I can whip up that are 
competitive with the European high grades in beauty and finish while 
still being distinctively "Talbert".  We'll see how it goes.

Thanks for your time!
-- 
Happy Smoking,
Trever Talbert
http://www.talbertpipes.com

See my pipe blog here:
http://www.talbertpipes.com/ppod.html