caskwith wrote:beautiful wood! can i ask how you put the ring on the bowl? did you use a lathe?
I appreciate your thought caskwith,i generally do not make my pipes with a lathe,I prefer to make it as my great grandfather used to do it by free hands and some primary hand and drilling tools.
The rings on this bulldog are made by a diamond plate of a certain dimension fixed to a drill while the pipe is fixed in a vice(chuck) that moves free on a perfectly even plane horizontal to the diamond,the depth is determined by a special round aluminum profile that keeps it in distance while drilled,there is of course more to it.I had to develop some of my own tools for this very precise procedure .