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Once again I stuck both feet in my mouth and Sask, pretty much as usual, nailed it. Once again I offer my sincere and humble apologies to all on the forum, especially Sask who has been so much help to me. I'm sorry for acting like a spoiled little baby. Sask told me five years ago that if I was goin...

Thank you for the comments. Before I leave. I would like to say a few things. I am sorry if something in my OP offended the rest of you. There was no intent or thought of bragging or boasting in what I said. And if that is perhaps what you thought then I used the wrong words to say what I wished to ...

I was fortunate to find 4 blocks of Meerschaum at a reasonable price. I've never worked with Meerschaum before but this was a lot of fun and I learned a lot of facts and lessons about working with Meerschaum along the way. First, a little bit of history about these particular blocks that I was fortu...

Thank you!
I'll let you know how I make out.

Block is dry. My wood lathe's lowest speed is 450 RPM

From the limited amount of information I have been able to glean; around 150 - 250 RPM is best.

Any thoughts or suggestions?
Thanks all

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Block is dry. My wood lathe's lowest speed is 450 RPM

From the limited amount of information I have been able to glean; around 150 - 250 RPM is best.

Any thoughts or suggestions?
Thanks all

Thank you!

Are they used to reinforce a shank to take a stem? I'm thinking that to make a cutty one would need something like this or else a military mount.

I say these on Vermont Freehand. My Peterson XL 315 Oom Pah and my IMP meer both have these types of bands on them.
Are they reinforcing bands?
Thank you all.
Chris

https://vermontfreehand.com/caps/

seamonster, Here is the re-take remaking the pipe as per your suggestions. Well, I took the advice of the folks on the PMF and totally redid this Dublin. I cut off the Plateaux, cut the size down considerably and tried with my Dremel tool to make it look something like a blast. I also re-bent the st...

Thanks seamonster. I will correct that.

Thanks Wayne, will print and post on my shop wall.

I forgot to mention that my billiard dimensions are incorrect as shown in the picture below. I was chasing the shank to try and achieve a seamless join and by the time it got to this point, I had taken off too much material for the billiards dimensions to be correct.

Here is my latest billiard attempt. Sask said in another post, that there are over 400 variables to take into account when making a billiard. Oh boy... Here it is for your evaluation please. https://i.imgur.com/KTrlKuS.jpg https://i.imgur.com/ohnDyUp.jpg https://i.imgur.com/bl4qozt.jpg https://i.img...

Wayne, thank you so much for your comment. It's very kink of you to post a selfie to illustrate your point!
lol
Just teasing!

I am in no way qualified to make any comment here other than, WOW! I'm really impressed with your progress. Being in a similar situation myself, but no where near as progressed as yourself, I take off my hat to you!
Keep going man! Well done indeed.

Thanks guys for all your straight up comments and corrections. Sask, I will try to redress this and turn it into (hopefully) A Prince. Again very much appreciate the advise and comments. I think I'm going to stick to trying to perfect/improve my billiards. Still a long way to go there! So far I've a...

Thanks seamonster! I will do exactly as you suggest and rework this pipe.
I'm going to print the changes you made and use it to try and sort this out!
I'll post once I'm done the changes.
Thank you again.