Mortise of meerschaum
Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2015 4:28 am
I didn't know how to title this post, open for suggestions.
I am fixing a friend's really old meerschaum. He broke the amber stem, so I made a knew acrylic one. The screw-in-area of the tenon is pretty much smooth so that saved me the trouble of search for a screw tenon made for some turn of the century french pipe. I will explain what I did, and hopefully somebody can tell me if there might be a problem.
The tenon is 5mmm~ so I took a 5mm drill bit and smoothed out the inside walls. I then tried to turn down a piece of amber acrylic to a 5mm tenon size and failed(it got to hot), then tried turning down a piece of delrin (and failed), then I turned down a piece of ebonite and glued it into the acrylic as a tenon (this one worked). The shank of the pipe has a decorated silver ring over the meerschaum. I am thinking that this will protect any snappage. I was thinking about trying to stablize the mortise with some super glue, but decided not to until I hear back from somebody on this.
Making the stem to size wasn't a problem, but because of lack of experience, I am a little nervous about the the tenon slowly wearing away the meerschaum inside the mortise.
Appreciate any help/advice I can get on this before I give the pipe back to him.
Kiel
I am fixing a friend's really old meerschaum. He broke the amber stem, so I made a knew acrylic one. The screw-in-area of the tenon is pretty much smooth so that saved me the trouble of search for a screw tenon made for some turn of the century french pipe. I will explain what I did, and hopefully somebody can tell me if there might be a problem.
The tenon is 5mmm~ so I took a 5mm drill bit and smoothed out the inside walls. I then tried to turn down a piece of amber acrylic to a 5mm tenon size and failed(it got to hot), then tried turning down a piece of delrin (and failed), then I turned down a piece of ebonite and glued it into the acrylic as a tenon (this one worked). The shank of the pipe has a decorated silver ring over the meerschaum. I am thinking that this will protect any snappage. I was thinking about trying to stablize the mortise with some super glue, but decided not to until I hear back from somebody on this.
Making the stem to size wasn't a problem, but because of lack of experience, I am a little nervous about the the tenon slowly wearing away the meerschaum inside the mortise.
Appreciate any help/advice I can get on this before I give the pipe back to him.
Kiel