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Those spacers looks round to me as well. I'm not a big fan of doing it that way, it interferes with the flow in my eyes, but I suppose it could be a bit of a shortcut. Thanks the info Charl! I've since spoken to Ray and seen some closeup photos and those spacers are indeed circular. I've just made ...

You sanded the nodes or the area around the joint with the briar? The nodes can be worked to pretty them up a little, I agree with that. I was referring to the area between the nodes where you attach the pieces together, the nodes and "eyes" don't really make the work any more or less diff...

Can you actually sand the bamboo and polish it to a finish? No, you really can't, that's the problem. Anything more than the lightest touch of 600 grit will change the color and texture of the bamboo surface and having the bamboo lighter in color next to the ebonite or briar junction is the biggest...

All I can usually find around here is 6mm OD with 4mm ID, which I just turn down to 5,5mm or 5mm as needed. Turning stainless tubing to a precise and consistent diameter makes me feel like I know what I'm doing on my metal lathe, so I enjoy it very much, even though it's basically a waste of time. Y...

Drill bamboo, countersink hole on both ends, insert/glue tube, chuck and face both ends, cut off surplus tube. Yup, I did that once, worked very well. The only drawback was that a 6mm diameter ss tubing actually adds quite a lot of weight to a small piece of bamboo. I'm talking about fairly short, ...

What is your process for fitting bamboo extensions? I've done several and they always come out just fine in terms of fit, but the process is a huge pain in the butt for me, I always end up re-inventing the wheel trying to get the mortises and faces all lined up... I guess I haven't made enough bambo...

I sand the spot for the logo after blasting, personally I don't care for that sticker-like clean outline.
You could try using electrical tape or even superglued electrical tape and light sanding after blasting, that should leave a pretty clean edge.

I use a polish brand of epoxy glue (Poxipol) for most stuff, JB Weld for anything that might get hot or has only a small area of adhesion (cannot recommend it enough, it's amazing!) and CA for temporary gluing or stuff that will get mechanically bonded or glued with epoxy later or. It's important to...

This pipe is absolutely spot on.

I think the OP's question was about using files and rasps, not hand sanding. When hand sanding you can clamp the pipe almost any way you want, (tapered dowels are my choice) because the pressure and friction against the stummel is quite low. With files and rasps if you just stick a dowel in the bowl...

Yea,what Charl said. Doing it without the pin wouldn't make sense.

I don't think any kind of clamping is relevant here, as we are talking about directly transfering the danish freehand drilling method into the vertical setup of a drill press. Yes, it should work just fine. Actually, I think it might even be a bit easier than on a lathe... Pushing the quill into the...

There's 2 aspects to consider: 1.The center of a drill bit will align towards the center when touching the workpiece because it takes the least force to dig in in that spot (if it's not on center it will try act as a lathe cutting tool and the forces become much greater than with drilling). However,...

Lamps and stuff made from several components is a very different story than cutting tools. Chinese cutting tools are perfectly good for briar and ebonite, it's not like you're gonna wear out an hss cutting edge on wood, and even when you eventually do (after making ten kilos of shavings), you just n...

The first one was much better. You should have thinned it down a little bit behind the rounded transition and it would work very well imo. You actually made this one into a Savinelli with the big thick stem

RDPowell wrote:Still aint cutting a new stem though, I'm fix'en this one even if it kills him.

That's phrase which is regretted almost as often as it's uttered... Good luck though, hope you can save it.

You get used to it.
I used get furious to the point of throwing the stummel across the shop and destroying it with a hammer. Now I just go "meh", throw it away and take the next block.

I've made a couple. It's extremely simple if you have a lathe and basic machining skills :) I can do it, but there is no way I can draw it, so I apologize for not giving you a schematic! It's way beyond me to explain theoretically, but basically just make a disc from phenolic (super resistant) or ac...

I've never used delrin in my life (ok, once), but shouldn't it straighten if you heat it evenly, like boil in water?

I have one. I've used it from the very beginning of my pipemaking. It does work quite well, though admittedly it is pretty slow. I see where you guys are coming from regarding the time it takes to blast a pipe. I now have a bigger blaster and have reduced the time it takes to get a nice blast consid...