Unfortunately, last summer while I was at my outside smoking station, it fell to the ground un noticed, and I shifted my heavy teak chair right on top of it, crushing the mortise area of the shank.
It has been sitting on my desk in its forlorn condition since then.
I finally was able to repair it satisfactorily using a modified version of the J Alan Military Mortise kit.
1) Blurry photo of the pipe Feb 2017
![Image](https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/2277/Cx26Qc.jpg)
2) Post Crush Injury
![Image](https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/8981/dwInml.jpg)
3) Because of the nature of the damage, I did not think that I could get epoxy (my preferred adhesive) into all of the cracks, so I elected to use a thin CA glue which would spread into the fine cracks by capillary action. I taped around the shank with electrical tape mainly to cushion the briar and clamped it with a C clamp after gluing.
![Image](https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img922/5239/NLt476.jpg)
4) This glue job had to be reinforced, but the shank has a reverse taper and cannot be fitted with an external band. It would have been possible to fit a shank adornment with a lot of finagling getting the stummel lined up for turning, but I elected to use a method inspired from the J Alan Military Mortise kit. A pilot of Delrin is in the mortise. The pilot was turned to the ID of the 1/2” piece of toothed brass tubing. The toothed brass tubing was turned by hand to produce the recess for the brass reinforcing ring.
![Image](https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/9551/mhtkBK.jpg)
5) Cutting the reinforcing ring on the lathe. Because of the taper and narrow mortise wall, this has to be short-about the same as the thickness of the tube wall.
![Image](https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/3689/wKxkKO.jpg)
6) Ring and recess.
![Image](https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/5735/xCAGzM.jpg)
7) The pipe was cleaned of excess glue, given a light sand blast, re stained and waxed. The end of the shank was sanded and re finished.
![Image](https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/8743/vONTDD.jpg)
![Image](https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/22/PBD6th.jpg)
Except for the screwed up stamping, The pipe looks very close to its pre crush condition.
R/
DocAitch