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- Fri Dec 30, 2011 7:47 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: My First Pipe: In Process
- Replies: 120
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Re: My First Pipe: In Process
Kurt, as far as "smearing" the sides of the slot goes, do you have photos or video anywhere of this quick process? I've been through your stem making photo essay but don't remember seeing this illustrated. I don't have anything made up currently, but if you give me a couple days I can get...
- Fri Dec 30, 2011 7:47 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: My First Pipe: In Process
- Replies: 120
- Views: 10081
Re: My First Pipe: In Process
Kurt, as far as "smearing" the sides of the slot goes, do you have photos or video anywhere of this quick process? I've been through your stem making photo essay but don't remember seeing this illustrated. I don't have anything made up currently, but if you give me a couple days I can get...
- Fri Dec 30, 2011 7:47 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: My First Pipe: In Process
- Replies: 120
- Views: 10081
Re: My First Pipe: In Process
Roger all that. Also, the slot tends to be a sudden change from the airway to a square or semi-circle slot shape (when viewed from the top). You need to smooth that transition with the 1mm drill bit, using it to sort of "smear" the sides of the slot. You could probably do this with micro ...
- Fri Dec 30, 2011 7:46 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: My First Pipe: In Process
- Replies: 120
- Views: 10081
Re: My First Pipe: In Process
2. What is molding flash and garbage slot? I assume garbage slot is simply a crappy slot, but hey, you never know. See how there is a rough ridge on the outside of the stem that is where the rubber oozed into the seam in the mold? Thats molding flash. (You'll want to sand that off eventually.) Kurt...
- Fri Dec 30, 2011 7:45 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: My First Pipe: In Process
- Replies: 120
- Views: 10081
Re: My First Pipe: In Process
Opening up an airway, tools I've used successfully, both against foreign matter blockage, excessive buildup and that excess flash in crappy molded stems: * Trusty micro/precision files. * Wound bass guitar string(s). Flexible, just enough "roughness" to clean out most irritations. "A...
- Fri Dec 30, 2011 7:45 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: My First Pipe: In Process
- Replies: 120
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Re: My First Pipe: In Process
kurthuhn wrote:I call it the 12 gauge airway.tyler wrote:Open it all the way through to 5/32"? Not even a taper?
No, sorry. I use a tapered drill bit on those suckers. Otherwise there wouldn't be anything left of the button end of the stem.
- Fri Dec 30, 2011 7:44 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: My First Pipe: In Process
- Replies: 120
- Views: 10081
Re: My First Pipe: In Process
2. What is molding flash and garbage slot? I assume garbage slot is simply a crappy slot, but hey, you never know. See how there is a rough ridge on the outside of the stem that is where the rubber oozed into the seam in the mold? Thats molding flash. (You'll want to sand that off eventually.) Kurt...
- Fri Dec 30, 2011 7:39 pm
- Forum: Gallery
- Topic: New One 12/30/11
- Replies: 7
- Views: 806
Re: New One 12/30/11
Wow. That does look very nice. Great job!
- Fri Dec 30, 2011 3:26 pm
- Forum: Gallery
- Topic: The 4th pipe I made, Rusticated Blowfish.(or bent apple/egg)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2062
Re: The 4th pipe I made, Rusticated Blowfish....
The lines of that pipe in profile are gorgeous! Now, I'm a newb here, so please tell me to shut my trap if I'm out of line, but it does appear to me that the horizontal curve of the shank seems a little pinched towards the bowl instead of being a continuous parabolic curve. That's the biggest thing ...
- Fri Dec 30, 2011 2:32 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Black Palm...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 549
Re: Black Palm...
A yup.Edward wrote:Thats some awful purty kindling you got there.
- Fri Dec 30, 2011 2:14 pm
- Forum: Tools and Tooling
- Topic: new years toy
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1272
Re: new years toy
It took me a minute to figure out how that works, but I think I've got it and if I'm right... that's AWESOME!
Just to confirm, you can chuck up a bit in each of those... chucks... then rotate and lock into place depending on which you need to use. Is that right?
Just to confirm, you can chuck up a bit in each of those... chucks... then rotate and lock into place depending on which you need to use. Is that right?
- Thu Dec 29, 2011 7:34 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: My First Pipe: In Process
- Replies: 120
- Views: 10081
Re: My First Pipe: In Process
One thing to keep in mind is that premold stems have all kinds of horribleness in the airways. There's molding flash, as well as a garbage slot. Add to that the propensity to crack when you're trying to redrill the airway.... Anyway, what I typically do is open up the airway with either a 9/64"...
- Thu Dec 29, 2011 7:34 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: My First Pipe: In Process
- Replies: 120
- Views: 10081
Re: My First Pipe: In Process
One thing to keep in mind is that premold stems have all kinds of horribleness in the airways. There's molding flash, as well as a garbage slot. Add to that the propensity to crack when you're trying to redrill the airway.... Anyway, what I typically do is open up the airway with either a 9/64"...
- Thu Dec 29, 2011 7:33 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: My First Pipe: In Process
- Replies: 120
- Views: 10081
Re: My First Pipe: In Process
One thing to keep in mind is that premold stems have all kinds of horribleness in the airways. There's molding flash, as well as a garbage slot. Add to that the propensity to crack when you're trying to redrill the airway.... Anyway, what I typically do is open up the airway with either a 9/64"...
- Thu Dec 29, 2011 7:04 pm
- Forum: Stummels
- Topic: factory turned stummels
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3777
Re: factory turned stummels
I've noticed that a few pipe makers offer an affordable grade pipe that come from factory turned stummels. This idea interests me a great deal but I have no idea where one acquires these factory turned stummels. Are these factory seconds, a factory that closed down that sold inventory? I'm sure the...
- Thu Dec 29, 2011 6:59 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: My First Pipe: In Process
- Replies: 120
- Views: 10081
Re: My First Pipe: In Process
Glad to help. I was where you are about the years back (dang! Where'd to time go?). I know how overwhelming (but fun) it is to figure all of this out. I enjoy helping out where I can, and where I can in the pipe world is usually with pipe making. This is fun to me. My fear is I'll become annoying. ...
- Thu Dec 29, 2011 6:11 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: My First Pipe: In Process
- Replies: 120
- Views: 10081
Re: My First Pipe: In Process
Initially, I was trying to expand the hole by removing material with a gimlet, but the first stem I tried that on cracked. I'm not sure if I was doing something wrong, but aside from slowing down I'm not sure what to change. Would a power tool cause the same issue? Well, it could be that you just t...
- Thu Dec 29, 2011 6:10 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: My First Pipe: In Process
- Replies: 120
- Views: 10081
Re: My First Pipe: In Process
Initially, I was trying to expand the hole by removing material with a gimlet, but the first stem I tried that on cracked. I'm not sure if I was doing something wrong, but aside from slowing down I'm not sure what to change. Would a power tool cause the same issue? Well, it could be that you just t...
- Thu Dec 29, 2011 6:09 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: My First Pipe: In Process
- Replies: 120
- Views: 10081
Re: My First Pipe: In Process
Glad to help. I was where you are about the years back (dang! Where'd to time go?). I know how overwhelming (but fun) it is to figure all of this out. I enjoy helping out where I can, and where I can in the pipe world is usually with pipe making. This is fun to me. My fear is I'll become annoying. ...
- Thu Dec 29, 2011 6:08 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: My First Pipe: In Process
- Replies: 120
- Views: 10081
Re: My First Pipe: In Process
I completely agree with both of you guys. 5 mm is way too thin a mortise. I'm just going to sand it open past 5 mm unless I can find a 6 or 7 mm gimlet in the mean time. I personally like the idea of not measuring everything to the nth degree. It makes sense that there may be some things that need ...