Anyone interested in a tool thread?
No offence intended couldn’t resist hi jaking this tread
Well, it is a family forum … 
djm
Cool gundrill setup! 
Beautiful lathe!
Hmm,the Myford 7-10, seems awful popular among you pipemaking guru’s, I still like the Record Lathe or Boxford,
nice Machine “thou”. 
SNORRRRTTT
Ah, nothing like coffee being atomized all over the keyboard, display, desk, etc.
Beautiful!
And I see you got the deluxe set ! Lovely.
For the record, here’s the only reedmaking tool that has proved to be 100% effective in my shop:
Cheers Uillmann,
A tools thread could be very helpful to those trying to learn more about Pipe making.
Not in the long bed Myford class but here’s my lathe:
It’s only a couple of months old. First project is a set of C drones but this has to fit between job, family and music.
No gun drills, although they seem like a reasonable investment given the hours I’ve spend boring and reaming wood. This is the type of borer I’ve been using:
I’ve bought some small turning chisels which seem to get the tasks done but I’d be interested to see what types of chisels others are using.
David
Ben…Brilliant 
It really made my day thanks
Slán Go Foill
Uilliam
Uillmann, what sort of tools are you using when turning silver, such as on the set you have put up on the Pictures of your Pipes thread?
Thanks
David
Listening to the interview with Leo Rowsome’s daughter I was surprised to hear that he used very little tools. He only added a motor to his lathe towards the end of his pipe-making days. In addition, he made reeds using a straight razor.
Here´s a pic of my sefmade gouge. The gouge worked very well; hopefully the pic, too.
Silver is a real pain to machine. It needs to be work hardened a lot or it will just deform all over the mandrel. After rolling and spinning, the rings on the ends of the ferrules are turned by hand using a small flat (not diamond) parting tool.
Interesting, I’m not finding that to be true. It seems to act a lot like gilding metal, i.e. softer than standard brass but pleasant enough to machine. Perhaps I am using more relief on my cutters?
New reamer (one on the left)
Hello Texasbagpiper
Nice säckpipa coming out of the lathe! Looks The lower part of the canter looks a bit short to me, do you get get the low D in tune (looks like a E/A chanter)? On most chanters I’ve seen there is a tuning-hole on the backside for the D, do you use one of those?
From a Swedish bagpiper
Nice reamers, they looks like they can shift a lot of wood.
Do they have multiple tapers?
David
Yes, it is an E/A chanter and plays very nicely, its 220mm long I believe, I’ll check…
This one just has one taper, Its a border pipe reamer..
my tool
