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Very nice! Hope you'll enjoy it!

As always very interesting.

Cool Doc!

Oi Frank! That is a bad one!
All the best.

Good to see you again, Frank!
And looking forward to more posts from you.

And the weird thing is that I still learn something with every pipe I make. It's a never ending story!

Know what you mean!

Oh yes! Ten for you as well, Todd!
Same re the staining here. I don't think I'll ever get satisfied!

Waiting in anticipation!

What? Don't you guys have briar pixies doing the job for you?

That IS a badass machine!

Getting there!

Nice one!

Sharp, George!

And as an aside: please post pics as per the sticky to this forum (I think it was Premal?). It is quite difficult to look at a pipe on a pipe stand thingy, at an angle, and see exactly what is going on. Full on left, right, top etc.

True words, Trever. In the end, it's got to sell.

Chris isn't the tool guru for nothing, hey!

Re the ring--do you mean the outer radius should be smaller to bring it closer to the shank/stem radius? And regarding the bowl/shank transition, do you mean the transition radius should be less--a sharper gradient?

Yes, on both counts.