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I made a boo boo on the lathe and snapped the shank. I hate to see a chunk of briar go to waste, even if its full of pits and flaws.
I decided to try a bamboo extension. I'm happy with how everything fits together, even if it's misperportioned.
Please criticise.

The skills required to gracefully recover from flaws and mistakes come after you’ve learned how to not make the mistakes in the first place. Until then, the repair/recovery jobs look like band-aids. This is no exception. Sure, it will smoke fine. Technically, the repair job is fine, there’s a tight joint there. But there’s a disjunction between the bamboo and the otherwise round and inorganic-looking shank and stem and the bamboo.

As repair/recovery work goes, I’ve seen worse, but it’s not great. My advice is to put the Stummel aside when you screw up or find a flaw that forces a change from the original design, and come back to it in a few years when you’re skilled enough to rework it. Unless you’re just doing it for fun pipes to smoke yourself, in which case, enjoy!


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