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I am in need of 26 mm or larger diameter light grey ebonite. Does anyone here have some they'd sell me? I have checked everywhere. My last option is ordering directly from SEM, but they will hit me with $57 shipping.

Thanks guys. The comments further solidify I'm headed on the right path. I haven't posted anything for critique in a while simply for the fact that My skills aren't yet good enough that I can't honestly critique myself. When I start thinking my work is wonderful, I will need another set of eyes. As ...

Probably pretty novice. But here it is.
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In it will be! Thanks!

Do you ship your pipes assembled or separated? I am concerned with climate and atmosphere differences. I've received pipes with stems out and they dont fit flush when I assemble them, but the maker swears it was flush when it left them.

Thoughts?

So let's say in theory you get a cease and desist letter. Do you get fined or does the fine come only if you don't cease and desist once notified. Cuz I hear all of you and it makes a ton of sense. I'm just not sure I can justify risking a 10k fine or whatever it may be because I want to make a pipe...

I hope for all our sakes you are correct. I'll have to wait some and see. My anxiety disorder is telling me to hold off selling to the US market. Sometimes you have to listen to your gut feeling, even if it turns out to be wrong. I made 39 pipes my first year so some would say I'm still a turd maker...

I must be just another turd maker then. But I'm not sure how the plate and flatware industry compares in relation to the tobacco industry as far as extent of regulation, so I can't speak to that. I just know what I've read about the new FDA tobacco deeming. People should be informed, as much as some...

I don't know that the 10k fee is correct as I have yet to see an actual statement of costs in the FDA deeming regulations, but it does state that components and parts (which pipes now fall into) are being deemed after July 31st, 2016. So technically, to legally make pipes and sell them in the USA, y...

That makes sense. Maybe I'll make a homemade vaccum jar to try this.

The only reason I'm even thinking about coloring it is to keep the theme of a set of 3 pipes.

Well if I don't have anyone else chiming in with their own experimentation results, I'll put mine up when I get around to pulling it out of the dye. If it looks saturated, I'll hit it with the heat gun and see if I can get the color to come back out easily. I am most worried about longevity of the c...

Has anyone had any luck coloring horn? I notice there are dyed horn plates available in red and green. Not sure how it's done, but I dropped a small piece of horn into my leather dye to see if it will saturate. Not sure it will hold the color even if it does saturate, but thought it was worth asking.

That is a good point. I'll keep that in mind as I get better and better at finish sanding. For now I will continue to stain to find all of the scratches until I cam confident in my ability to do it by "feel".

I tend to stain between grits so I can find all scratches, but maybe I'm doing it wrong.

Thanks premal, so I have a a Laguna cyclone dust collector, and a powermatic 1200 air cleaner, but it sounds like I need to exhaust my Laguna to the outdoors. I have about a 5" hole in my basement wall right next to the collector I would use, any suggestions on how to collect the output of the ...

Thanks! I ordered from enco and got free shipping thanks to a coupon code via Google!

Where do folks get their glass bead media? I'm looking for a 170 to 300 grit or so. A lot of sites just list as medium, fine, etc, and not in grit. Also, I'm finding that shipping for a 50 lb bag costs about as much as the bag itself.

I don't have dust collection at my lathe yet. How bad is ox horn dust? I want to turn down some for use as stem inlays but remember seeing a program where people were etching bone and they were all wearing masks. Something about the dust can make you really sick. Is the same true for horn? I have an...

Off to Steve I go! I'll have to settle for the colors he has in 25mm. I'll deal. Changes my plan a bit. Scottie, Thanks for the heads up on the thick juma. I have a rad davis that I commissioned made with a Juma stem and absolutely love it. So that is where my interest in the material comes from. Al...

If I cant get the 218v to work, I'll be looking into fuel power! Thanks for the suggestion Premal!