Nice work, Brad! They look great. Are the green ones bigger or is that just the camera angle?
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Thanks!
They are a bit bigger, and the camera angle. They are .02" bigger. I started to see some stuff show in the middle one that I didnât want to cut out, so I left it. Chock it up to artistic liberty? I did say artistic not autisticâŚhad to double check. LOL
One of the moments I prefer manual over CNC. A CNC machine cuts the same way, every time. There are occasions when this isnât desirable. Say hello to that occasion. 
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CNC absolutely has itâs place. I consider this more of an artistic endeavor. So play away and call it on the fly. I noticed one of the blue ones was shorter. . .but again, there is the charm of a hand-made item. Thatâs what makes it worth more than a fastech drip tip to me anyway. Thanks.
I have an electric heater in my garage that will just keep it tolerable. BUT, for $100 I went to Loweâs and bought a propane tube furnace that is really nice. Probably a good idea to have a CO detector in the garage if you go that route. I just ask my wife to turn it off and open the doors if she finds me unconscious.
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That is one thing I can appreciate. I grew up in a wood shop. And I made a lot of things on my dadâs Shopsmith lathe. When ya see something cool pop up in the middle of a cut you get scared to make another cut for fear of losing that detail. That is one thing a CNC just canât do.
I worked at a custom wood shop. We made fine furniture and moulding for big contractors building houses in the fancier subdivisions. Crown moulding measuring 12" wide. It was amazing work, and the owner, Roger, was an artist. I later went to work for a snotty owner of a large CNC wood shop. He made a comment one day about Rogerâs work and that it wasnât as good as the work his CNCâs did. I almost got fired when I told him he was full of shit.
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I almost fired up the Reddy Heater. It just wasnât âthatâ cold. But still cold enough to get to me after several hours. Silk long johns, long sleeve T, heavy insulated hoody, knit watch cap, heavy sox and insulated work boots. (light layers) It took awhile for the cold to set in on me, but it did. Nothing a HOT shower couldnât get rid of though.
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Without doubt CNC has itâs place. There is also good reason that hand crafted goods carry the price they do. Not everybody wants âcookie cutterâ production goods. Thankfully, there are still artisans out there with the skills required to âhand craftâ goods.
I have had a DIY mindset for many years. I started playing electric bass at age 13. By age 24 I had hand crafted from scratch an electric bass. Later, I crafted another. The first one was definitely a âfirst effortâ. It has itâs flaws and pretty much sits in a closet and goes unplayed. The second, where as it has itâs flaws, they are more cosmetic in nature and to the layman, not noticed. I know they are there, but probably I am the only person that would notice them. I have turned down $3500.00 for the second one. It is a great sounding, beautiful playing instrument. I have also crafted furniture and other objects. Itâs nice to have a garage full of tooling that allows me now to do pretty much what I want when it comes to crafting âstuffâ when I set my mind to it.
My problem is I can be lazy and I stay pretty busy doing other stuff, and many times prefer to be lazy. I tend to work smart, not hard. Some jackass a long time ago stated that âNecessity is the mother of all invention.â Bullshit! LAZINESS is the mother of all invention! LOL
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LOL. II think we must be related somehow. Because I am the same way.
I will order one of the tips when you get some of the other materials in. I am not going to request a material. So I am waiting to see pics and be taken by one of them. I like the blue and bronze. But I canât wait to see some other colors. Keep at it man. I know it gets to be mundane and monotonous. But you are doing some amazing work.
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Coming from such an artisan as yourself, those words mean a great deal to me. Thank you!
More are coming. Iâm still having fun with this and I still have a lot of my own tanks to make tips for. I wonât make just one. Itâs easier to make several at a time. So no worries there. As weather and time permit, more will be posted. I have several orders to fill yet. THANKS TO YOU PEEPS! You know who you are!. And I am more than OK with @daath (Lars) continuing to benefit from my labors in this. I have been a webmaster in my past and I know first hand it is a very thankless job and much time goes into maintaining a site of this magnitude. He earned every last penny donated a long time ago.
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Yeah, my late brother was one of the founding members of RuneHQ (Runescape game fan site). He owned two of the 5 seats of the site. It cost $10,000 per month to keep the site operating when it got big.
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Brad stop! Youâre turning the forum into a voyeur text site now? Iâm so hot I need a shower now too. Silk drawers you say? Mmmm.
Haha, love to do that stuff when folks talk about what they wear. Iâm mental, I know.
I also have a decked out 1981 ShopSmith with a lot of other tools. Iâm not much of a woodworker though. Im Better turning wrenches on cars. Iâm only up to 600 crank hp NA on pump gasâŚfrom 347CID. So nothing too too crazy.
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What always got me⌠If you went for the 700 hp mark on that 347, it would cost you double what getting to 600 did.
Cubic $$$$
Donât be hating on the silk long johns. They WORK. LOL
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I went to my vape shop tonight and showed the boys there your drip tips for the Aromamizer. I think you will have 2 more orders coming soon for some black tips. Hi Joe and Wafi
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WHOOT!! Awesome! Thanks! 
I was thinking of ordering some solid black acrylic anyway.
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Just needs nitrous and a crank. I could have stayed mostly stock and put on a blower, but i went the expensive route. Normally Aspirated. Anyway, the heads, intake, oil pump, etcâŚweâre CNCd and hand finished by the then head of engineering of Airflow Research, Tony Mamo. His heads make a lot of power, he is crazy nice. Car scares the crap outta me. Spins the tires shifting into 3rd at 90mph with three dudes in the seats. Not bad for NA stock displacement motor. (Sorry 4 threadjack!)
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LOL no worries. This topic was branched from a hijack. bwahaha
I have driven a few cars that scared the crap out of me. It was a BLAST! LOL
Mostly I get my speed fix on 2 wheels. I donât own a real fast bike. Been riding all my life and the older I get the more I realize that it is more fun to ride a slow bike fast, than it is to ride a fast bike slow. 
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I cannot make 4 wheels corner, but I can make a front tire spray rubber boogers off the edge while I pull my foot out from in between the bike and the road. I had Penske shocks. No, I never drove it slow, and I continue to pay for that.
Car is only driven to get ice cream. Itâs a thing up here.
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Thatâs so pretty! Iâd LOVE to have one of your green ones. Can you make one to fit my TFV4 ?
Happy to pay. Just pm me when you are ready and what you need for it, along with your paypal
address. PLEASE.
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Thank you!
@Alisa Iâm pretty sure it wonât be a problem. I donât own one soâŚ
@LordVapor do you have a TFV4? Or anybody with a caliper that can measure it? Is it a standard 510? I could use a thickness of the hinged top cap.
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I will get that info for you in the morning Brad. My friends are looking at exotic blanks to see if they like anything.
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Super! No hurries no worries. I donât know when or if Iâll have time during the week to get to any. It may be the weekend. Iâm still waiting for the black Delrin and some other colors to come in too. I ordered some plain black (opaque) and a couple of others tonight.
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