Fixing production shaping errors
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2017 7:36 am
What I'm planning might be the first time anyone's ever done it. (To a reasonably valuable collectable pipe, anyway).
I like classic Dublins and have a number of them, so when I spotted a decent Dunhill 848 in good condition at the St. Louis show this past weekend I nabbed it. (They're semi-scarce)
Its only problem was somebody was asleep at the switch back in 1959 and cut the bowl slightly wonky. (The top line of a proper Dublin bowl should always be exactly perpendicular to its center axis, and this one wasn't. The front was too high.)
It sounds like a nitpick, but such things bug the shit out of me. For some reason whenever I look at a classic with a shaping error that's all I see. Because it was something I could set right, though, I bought it anyway.
I can hear the collecting world's purists howling already.
Anyway, that's it. A slightly strange situation that I thought this board might get a kick out of. Shoving a perfectly good rare-ish old Dunhill into a disk sander isn't something you see every day.
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The first pipe is another 848 with the correct bowl rim angle, and the second one is the soon-to-be patient:
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I like classic Dublins and have a number of them, so when I spotted a decent Dunhill 848 in good condition at the St. Louis show this past weekend I nabbed it. (They're semi-scarce)
Its only problem was somebody was asleep at the switch back in 1959 and cut the bowl slightly wonky. (The top line of a proper Dublin bowl should always be exactly perpendicular to its center axis, and this one wasn't. The front was too high.)
It sounds like a nitpick, but such things bug the shit out of me. For some reason whenever I look at a classic with a shaping error that's all I see. Because it was something I could set right, though, I bought it anyway.
I can hear the collecting world's purists howling already.
Anyway, that's it. A slightly strange situation that I thought this board might get a kick out of. Shoving a perfectly good rare-ish old Dunhill into a disk sander isn't something you see every day.
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The first pipe is another 848 with the correct bowl rim angle, and the second one is the soon-to-be patient:
.