Specs (in inches): The bowl is 1.7 by 1.725 tall, and its overall length is 6.1. Tobacco chamber is .75 (3/4) by 1.6.
I think the stem insert is Bocate. Came in a grab box of exotics. I had trouble getting the insert to match well with the dye I used for the stummel, which was Chocolate brown. I ended up dying the insert with a little of the Chocolate brown and some Red Mahogany to get it to tone in a little better. The color of the insert seemed especially critical due to its size, which was not in the original plan for this pipe (I had some issues while drilling that necessitated a much longer stem than I had planned). The insert might have benifited from some shelac as well, but so far I've just been using Carnuba. Here are a bunch more pics:
I picked this color of dye to help with a couple of flaws. I liked the grain--nothing extraordinary, but a nice mix of flame and birdseye. Anyway, I could not bare to rusticate this one as I liked the grain too much, and I'm not great at rustifaction yet. The flaws are obvious still, but not distracting. I had trouble with alignment on the draught hole on this one. It is well off center. I'm still sorting this out, but I think I've narrowed it down to a combination of layout, set up in the drill press vice, and very likely some drift due to using a long aircraft bit with the drill press. I REALY want the next pipe to have much better drilling. See my thread called Layout/Alignment problems in the stummel section for the gory details.
So, another great learning experience! As always, tear it up guys, I'm really wanting to learn!
