These are very nice first pipes, overall.
Depending on the pipe I'm working on, 50-75 percent of my work isn't done in my shop. It's done while I'm sitting around watching a movie with my family.
I will say that I am blessed that my wife's father was a carpenter, so she's perfectly cool with that. But even if you aren't lucky enough to be able to do fine tuning in your living room, you could surely do it somewhere other than in your buddy's shop.
Heck, if you have to, go and get yourself a little fishing tackle box, put the unfinished pipe and all your files and sandpaper and whatnot inside, and go sit on a park bench on a nice day.
At the shop, do your drilling, mating bowl and stem, rough shaping, etc.; take the pipe home and do your fine tuning, filework, sanding down to 1000 grit, staining, etc.; wrap it up for transport; take it back to your buddy's shop the next week; do your buffing; and you're done with that pipe in your first hour.
Then, with the rest of your time at the shop, start on your next pipe, but have your design and plan all worked out during the week away from the shop so you don't waste valuable shop time, get that pipe drilled and rough-shaped with the stem and bowl mated, take it home or wherever for fine tuning, filework, sanding, staining, yada, yada, yada.
One other thing is that pipes don't have to be "done" until you say that they're "done". For instance, a mismatch between stem and shank can almost always be fixed with some judicious filework and/or sanding. And it only takes, maybe, an hour to do it, once you've developed that particular set of skills.
Just stick with it, the work on a particular pipe until you are satisfied, and pipemaking in general.
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