Re: Looking for suggestions
Posted: Fri May 24, 2013 6:31 pm
I will second the motion for saddle bit shaping. mine have all come out totally horrible. I cant get a smooth transition or an even saddle on both sides.
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I know how banding works and I know that covering the whole process in its possible variations is not possible in that kind of video presentation. I was thinking mostly about heat expanding and fitting, the more "silversmithish" part of the job. Using silver for pipemaking when you're using it just as any other material for bands, is really no topic at all- turn, fit, sand, as usualLatakiaLover wrote:
Banding---banding well, anyway---is definitely a tricky business. Plenty of video-worthy material, there.
But intentionally banding a pipe for decorative purposes at the time it's made has virtually nothing in common technique-wise with repairing/stabilizing a cracked shank. Demonstrating the former would mean I'd have to design and make a pipe just for the video, plus require the camera guy to hang around for unacceptably long periods between steps; while latter would be of interest only to other repairmen. All seven of them.Or is it five? http://talbertpipes.blogspot.com/2012/0 ... 6504225223
If you are attracted to banded pipes yourself for cosmetic purposes, keilworth, it's worth noting that so-called factory bands are flush in both directions, a stand-alone repair band has a ridge in both directions, and a repair band that was added at the same time as a new stem has a ridge only on the shank side. The latter two indicate damage, while the first does not. You don't want your new pipes looking like they were broken and repaired.
Before someone asks, yes, it's possible (with considerable difficulty) to flush mount a repair band, but covering that subject would reduce the video's potential audience to one or two.