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Looks like you shouldn't let your horse smoke a sycamore pipe.

All woods contain some amount of sensitizer/allergen/poison. Will you die if you smoke a pipe made from sycamore? Probably not. Should you burn all kinds of sycamore and smell the fumes? Probably not.

With God as my witness, I am that fool!

Truth about the briar for sure, I have two pipes both stained same color, same day, same process, and they are totally different outcomes.

What's funny is, it looks like a really good Italian pipe, fused with a British pipe, and that means it's American.

Dammit, I don't have the skill OR the patience.

On a textured pipe, cordovan does this: https://i.imgur.com/7FClVKJ.jpg It's too dark for Chocolate, too brown for oxblood or red, the "dark brown" is less red, so I'm not sure, but Feibings has another handful of browns and there are other dye suppliers with other colors too (Angelus etc)...

You come back, maybe two hour!

That's one of the cheats a guy has available - changing the chamber angle.

Changing the chamber shape is also a possibility, either through drilling it at successive angles or hand-tooling. Tobacco is for the most part, pretty stupid stuff, and unaware of the exact shape of its container.

Sure, if someone wants to give you money for something, you do that thing. Happens here all the time too.

The only thing I kinda don't like here is the thickness of the shank compared to the bowl height - it's like a magnum pot because of it.

Sure, another way to word your bolded section might be to say that Jack has laid out conditions of sufficiency for an excellent pipe - build it like so and it will be excellent. What I'm saying is I can agree with those sufficiency conditions, but because they aren't "necessity" conditions...

Where are yo u Lizbet? Sounds like you are maybe pretty close to me in the middle of Canadian nowhere!

One of my absolute best smoking pipes is a Castello that I think they drilled the airway on twice, and missed it both times, and then they went and found it from the bowl. It's a fucking mess. And it smokes sublimely, top 3. And that really pisses my off because I believe in all this stuff, I believ...

Token criticism: the blade of the stem is a little "paddle" shaped, and that is in no way beneficial or harmonious with the rest of the shaping. A more definite line on the sides of the stem would improve the pipe.

A lovely pipe in all ways, and not a billiard at all.

Are you drilling the bowl first or the shank first?

That Ropp has a nice bowl shape. The shank is pretty fat, it would be called an LB in the Dunhill catalog. And yet I'll bet if I break it down in terms of proportion, it's really exact. Lemme try. https://i.imgur.com/3ZCHmzX.jpg I draw a line from the top of the bowl to the shank. I draw the same le...

You took 1/4" off, leaving the bowl... 1/4" short compared to ... not the Ropp, but compared to the whole rest of your pipe (which is longer than the ropp). If you are using that Ropp as a guide, the whole pipe has to be the guide. So yours it pottish now, bowl too short for the shank and ...

Why do you think the bowl was too high? And show us the Ropp too!

I think that's your best pipe by far.