Stem -polishing - loose - comfortable

piepenhoeker · Post by **piepenhoeker** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 8:06 am

Hi pals,
I have three links on my website.
Don´t know if you´ve been there already - here they are:
http://www.piepenhoeker.de/english/estempolish.htm
http://www.piepenhoeker.de/english/estemloose.htm
http://www.piepenhoeker.de/english/estemcomfort.htm

Some customers believe that it all it can be done easily and fast - wrong.
If you want to do a good job you need tools, material, and it takes time.
Do you agree and are the links helpful ?

alexanderfrese · Post by **alexanderfrese** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 10:55 am

Woohah,

been the only German active on this board for quite some time, and here they come within days… :thumb:

I came across those hints already, do find them useful, though I hardly start with rough files on mouthpieces. I do use those flexible fingernail buffing files from coarse to fine. With some experience, OK, but I even sanded some mouthpieces too deep with sanding paper…

And – sorry, but I don't get it, though I have seen it as a tip several times – I don't ever buff a mouthpiece with carnauba. Why should one do so? I have three different grades of buffing compound (abrasives, not coating in any way) from a german manufacturer (big blocks that will last a lifetime, not those small expensive pipe-shop crap). Two different grades would be sufficient, since the first lets them shine, and the second makes it shine like glass. The third and finest one does not add anything on top for the shine. I would not want to coat it, since I would only suck it off with my teeth and lips. And it is already shining.

On the bowl it's a completely different thing, though I am trying out other things at the moment…

ArtGuy · Post by **ArtGuy** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 2:40 pm

I have gotten to where I do not put carnauba on the stem either. It seems to show fingerprints too readily.