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Hey, any of you guys ever file on the bottom of your stummel and find a pit and the more you file the bigger it gets and then you realize it's the draft hole?

I'm, uh... asking for a friend.

Never on the bottom of the stummel. But, I know a guy that knows a guy that has sanded into the airway on top of the shank a time or two or three.

wdteipen wrote:Never on the bottom of the stummel. But, I know a guy that knows a guy that has sanded into the airway on top of the shank a time or two or three.

I know a guy who's done that too. But, y'know, it's not me.

happens at least a couple times a month. i always final sand either into the bottom of the bowl or the top of the draught hole on bent shanks.

-evan

Bless your hearts.

Hope this helps.

Rad

More than once.
And also into the saddle of a stem when I was using Deleon tenons.

I once finish sanded a pipe, then I noticed a red glow on the inside of the bowl- apparently light was shining through it was so thin.

Um, not so far. Weird. Knock on wood, heh.

I have done other terrible things, just not that.

RadDavis wrote:Bless your hearts.

Hope this helps.

Rad

We'we just twying to make a widdwe pipe, Mr. Davis. When I gwow up, I won't sand thwough none of my aiwways. No siw!

I haven't done it in a while, but I have done it. Not sanding through your airway is a lot like sex, it's just a matter of knowing where the holes are.

I'm pretty sure it's something everyone has done.

Rad

RadDavis wrote:I'm pretty sure it's something everyone has done.

Rad

I guess it's less like sex than I thought.

RadDavis wrote:I'm pretty sure it's something everyone has done.

Rad

Except those of us with fewer than a dozen pipes to our name.

I just know my turn is coming!

you guys watching my shop? Cheap drills will go right through. Now the that I think about it , expensive drills do too. Now how did I draw that line. Just the pipe gods keeping us humble.