The Tom Bombadil

In the Spring of 1999, I bought my first sandblaster setup. Up until this point, I had never worked with a sandblaster although I had extensive experience in airbrushing, and it turned out to be not so different. I played around with the rig for a short while to get the hang of it, and after a bit of practice I produced this pipe, which was the first sandblasted pipe I put up for commercial sale (as opposed to the mangled bits of wreckage I had experimented on). It was a lot of fun to make, and the result was such a craggy-yet-cheerful pipe that I couldn't resist naming it after old Tom. This is Talbert Sandblasting, Version 1.0. To my knowledge, the pipe is in the collection of Fred Goldring.