Thanks Kurt, I appreciate helpful advice, but it seems to me that what I've been seeing here is not exactly that, more like there is some kind of rightness agenda being peddled, and I'm not talking about some sloppy, hack it out with a Dremel method. The boring bar on the compound slide of a metal lathe method, is very precise, and while it may not be the fastest or easiest method, it may work very well. I can't say for sure. I also see a custom tapered chamber in a tobacco pipe as being a little more significant than wooden knobs on a stereo. But hey, do it any way you like, right?KurtHuhn wrote:Consider this though, Mike. The folks here are trying to save you time, trouble, and aggravation. ...
...There was another guy that frequented the forum up until a few years ago that insisted on hand shaping each tobacco chamber using a flex-shaft tool and grinding burr. Really, not to dissimilar from your method of custom shaping with a boring bar. His name was...
You might want to read-up on some basic machining...a boring bar is a device which is commonly used on a metal lathe in machining to refine and perfect a drilled hole.