In some areas I'm very happy with this pipe, for example, the stain is even as far as I can tell, and the pipe is polished to a very shiny, mirrory finish. There are some areas that I'm not happy with however. One of these things is the lightening of the stain along the sharp lines (I asked about this in another thread yesterday), and another thing is the shank face which looks like crap.
I should also mention that this pipe has the same problem as my last one (rhodesian here in the gallery) in that the shank face is angled strangely compared to the direction the shank is going, and this is because this pipe was started at the same time as the rodesian, and somehow my thinking was flawed at the time! The result it a stem/shank transition that disrupts the flow of the pipe and it looks really off!
Please tell me what you think!
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/Albert