Talbert Pipes- New pipes! And a new rustication technique as well

[Trever Talbert]

Hello all! It's been a while, I know, but I write with all sorts of news.
Bizzy, bizzy months... My wife is recovering excellently from her hip
replacement and colon surgery and is now back in the workshop with me
fulltime, for the first time in nearly three years! We're having a great
time together though, and she's out there now drilling about a dozen tenons
as I write this. Those of you who follow our Instagram page already know
this, but part of this month was spent in developing a new rustication
technique for our pipes. I spent about a week experimenting with twenty or
thirty different cutters and blades and saws, working to develop a
rustication look that was fundamentally different from the usual coral-like
carvings, and what I got was something I've dubbed "crosshatch" because the
idea came to me from my years of doing pen & ink illustration. I've been
working on a number of pipes with this finish and have now posted several
at once to our Ligne Bretagne catalog. You can see these, plus two new
smooths that I posted without making any announcement of, all here:

http://www.talbertpipes.com/bretagne.shtml

In other news, the Great Talbert Fundraising Estate Sale is now over and
all the donated pipes have gone to happy homes.  Thank you very much to
everyone who helped out through these very difficult times!  The one single
pipe remaining is the first pipe I ever sold, which IS technically for sale
still but I'm in no rush to move it as it's got loads of sentimental value
and would make a wonderful table ornament for pipe shows.  If you want to
have a look, however, it's top of the page here:

http://www.talbertpipes.com/talbert.shtml

That's all for the moment but look for more updates in the near future.  As
always, thanks very much for your interest in our work!
Happy Smoking,
Trever Talbert
www.talbertpipes.com
https://www.instagram.com/talbertpipes/
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