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Thanks for the pointers Yeti! Yeah, I definitely need to bring the wood down where the shank meets the bowl. Unfortunately the stem that this one came with doesn't really match the typical poker, and it wont be flush with the stem (it is more of a freehand style stem). I think I will make a new stem...

Hey everyone, longtime lurker here, finally decided to jump in and get my feet wet. Got a kit from Mark Tinskey and decided last night to start cutting and shaping. With this first pipe, I wanted to do everything by hand, no power tools. So far so good. Used a coping saw and rasp and some files to s...