Hello Bob, I think you should ask plenty of questions here. A lot of help is available and such questions and answers help to keep this list a good place!
Francis On 30 Jan 2010, at 17:05, Bob Salter wrote: > I have been an amateur pipemaker for most of my adult life(quite a long > time now). My problem has always, without exception, been lack of good > information. Pipemakers are, a LITTLE understandably, a secretive > bunch. I started out with the cocks and bryan book and the wilbert > garvin book. Anyone I asked advice from was suddenly too busy to be > able to chat. I have given up and gone back to this hobby a great many > times. Only now, a great number of years later, can I comfortably go > out and make the wooden parts I need well. Keymaking is still a lost > art to me although Im working on that. The arrival of a nice old myford > lathe in my workshop I can turn the metal parts I need as well as the > wood. There will be no giving this up now whether anyone is prepared > to help me now or not. > > I dont mean this to be about the nsp in particular, its about > pipemakers in general. They wish to protect their income I suppose. > Some sort of information should be recorded for posterity and to > encourage more amateurs to have a go. Mike Nelsons site is very good > but is sadly incomplete. Its a fun and rewarding hobby which will stay > with me for the rest of my life > > > > Bob > > -- > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
