Last week I've managed to to gather few days without obligations and spend this free time in my little workshop.
I've made this two pipes, hope you'll like it
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![Image](http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh96/Dotter_zg/slike_08.jpg)
Thank you all for watching
Dom
The ring is either a semi-soft plastic or nylon or something similar. This makes it more resistant to sanding and filing than the briar and vulcanite on either side, thus making it "stand proud". Inserts and extensions need to be similar in hardness to the other pipe materials to get a cleaner "line". Hardwoods, acrylic, bone, horn, etc. seem to work well.Domba wrote:About the "lumpy" surfaces... I've wanted to use decorative tenon rings, and for some reason I used this piece of red plastic (on pipe No.7), and no mather what I do, this ring always stayed wider than the stem... almost like the sanding didn't had effect on him like on the briar and vulcanite... You can see on the pictures what I'm talking about.