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O kI tries the alcohol salt treatment a couple of weeks ago and so far so good. Thanks for the tip.

Hi,
At most the pipe is used 2 times a week and always 3 days in between.
Guess I'll have to try the alcohol/salt treatment. It's the only on of the herd that has had this problem.

I have a pipe I've been using for 6 months or so but lately it get bitter while I'm using it. I tried using sweetener. Thoroughly cleaning out the smoke hole in the bowel wit ha drill. I also swabbed out the whole thing with alcohol. Still doing the same thing, any ideas?

I ordered the fiebings from Tandys on Monday and got it last night. Already started staining. I like the way it goes on. Can't wait to get home an buff and apply the second color.

Thank all very much for the quick reply's I will order today.

Can you give me a recomentation for best places to buy stains? I have build 6 all natural pipes and want to start a series of stained ones.

Thanks,
Doug

At first I smoked only once a day from the pipe but after time I found if I let is cool and swabed with a pipe cleaner it out in between it was fine.
I have some very old piped around 1900 that I do let set for 3 days to dry in between.

Being a designer and model maker the rule of the "S" curve is always an attention getter in design. But lately this traditional way is being departed from. I like the pipe with the curve it had a certain atractive and funky form. (Not an insult in any way). Very nice pipe and most artistic...

Sigh. That's unbelievably good luck. Incredibly good luck. A real industrial machine. Please don't trash the ways with abrasives. Any time you use sanpaper, cover the ways with plastic. Dust collection helps, too, to keep the particles from floating any distance. Not to worry, I've worked with machi...

Well as luck would have my company is getting rid is some lathes an I scored a LaBlonde I think is spelled this way but I've never payed any attention. Anyway I scored one for 250. Its a little big 12 x 40 but I'll deal with that to have a really nice well maintained lathe. Plus all the tooling. The...

I got 10 blocks from him and so far they have been very nice. I'm on pipe 3 from this batch. In fact some of the blocks have the best grain I've ever seen.

A friend of mine gave me a brand new pipe today because his wife told him no way was he going to start smoking anything again after cancer. He told me he has had is for a couple of years and never used it. It's a Story 94 from the Northern Ohio area and he had passed away 2 years ago. It's a free ha...

It's to bad I didn't use my head when I was told freezing didn't work. Oh well its a learning process.
Thanks for the help.
Doug

I got a couple of lady's pipes from the 1970's and my wife has an occasional bowl with me. One was perfect but the other had the stem stuck. I tried freezing for 15 minutes. The stem snapped off when I tried to remove it. Can I take a piece of delron thread it and tap the stem and bottom it out tigh...

I'm leaning toward this http://grizzly.com/products/12-x-36-Metal-Lathe-w-Milling-Head/G0492 That way it won't take up so much room in my work shop. I have an old wood lathe that is 6 feet long and it is huge. I don't want to take up to much space but would like to have something versatile to do out...

I am starting to look for a metal lathe for home. What size lathe do most of you have? I think I would like to find an older bigger lathe but that depends on price.

Good sounds like I'm on the right track then. This old pipe is really cool too. It has a windmill scene on the front with 2 windmills. Great colors on it. I post a picture soon of it.

The threads are aluminum probably a 6MM. It is cast into the stem. I haven't seen an arrangement like this one before. I figured I would turn a new delron piece and thread it to fit the metric threads. Does that sound ok?
Doug

I got an old Porcelain pipe from Holland that has a threaded stem in it. The insert in the strummel is gone. Should I make a new threaded insert or use cork? If I do make a new insert what would be the best?

Thanks,
Doug

That is cool. One of the apealing things of pipe making for is that we travel in a Motor Home all summer to music festivals. I plan to work on pipes in an easy chair while the music isn't going on. With the MH though I can carry small tools to work with.