Just for fun, here's the first pipe I ever made, the infamous "Gonad" and a few of the last pipes I ever made (really itching to get my pipe making stuff set back up.) The latter was step or two up in skill, but it took some real balls to make the first one.
"When you're dumb, you've got to be tough." -My dad
"No reserves. No retreats. No regrets." -William Borden