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Maybe it's my eyeballs but to me the ring looks to be perp to the tenon but it is at an angle on the end of the shank????Yak wrote:Peanut Gallery Commentary : Visualise the ring at a 90-degree angle to the axis of the tenon & I think you'd like the result better.
It is perpendicular to the tenon/mortise. The top of the shank has too much briar removed and creates the illusion that the shank face tips backwards.oklahoma red wrote:Maybe it's my eyeballs but to me the ring looks to be perp to the tenon but it is at an angle on the end of the shank????Yak wrote:Peanut Gallery Commentary : Visualise the ring at a 90-degree angle to the axis of the tenon & I think you'd like the result better.
To be particular, you've described the issue, not an illusion. Whether you drill "off" or shape "off", the issue remains that the shank face tips back.wdteipen wrote:It is perpendicular to the tenon/mortise. The top of the shank has too much briar removed and creates the illusion that the shank face tips backwards.oklahoma red wrote:Maybe it's my eyeballs but to me the ring looks to be perp to the tenon but it is at an angle on the end of the shank????Yak wrote:Peanut Gallery Commentary : Visualise the ring at a 90-degree angle to the axis of the tenon & I think you'd like the result better.
It depends on your frame of reference. It doesn't tip backwards in relation to the mortise but does tip backward in relation to the shank angle. If you drill first, you have to commit the shape of the shank to the angle of the mortise. If you shape first it's the other way around except that you have more wiggle room to fix things if your mortise is a little off. Is that what you're referring to? If not, you lost me.Tyler wrote:To be particular, you've described the issue, not an illusion. Whether you drill "off" or shape "off", the issue remains that the shank face tips back.wdteipen wrote:It is perpendicular to the tenon/mortise. The top of the shank has too much briar removed and creates the illusion that the shank face tips backwards.
I only point this out because often times in pipe making people only look at issues from one perspective, so solutions are not obvious to them.
I'm not sure my point is clear, but I fear making it so would take 10,000 words. Never the less, this is a big enough point, IMO, to warrant throwing the thought out.