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spanish briar and handmade acrylic stem, 9mm filter
can somebody tell me how is this shape named? and do you recognize it?








And second churchwarden, no filter

Hello Heri, check your PM, I need to send my PITH pipe to you. Thanks

Very good job...I like them both...
The churchwarden has a lot of work..
Is there any tips of how you drill a wooden stem for a churchwarden in the forum...Or if you can help with your tips..
Thank you ..The churchwarden is amazing..

I would call the first pipe a rhodesian.

Good stuff!

What type ofwooddidyou use for the stem? I have been saving ash branches for just that purpose.

jmoss wrote:Very good job...I like them both...
The churchwarden has a lot of work..
Is there any tips of how you drill a wooden stem for a churchwarden in the forum...Or if you can help with your tips..
Thank you ..The churchwarden is amazing..

I can make you photo essay, this week making these stems, if you wish so

and i used cherrywood for this stem, but friend of mine told me, for bending is beech wood more suitable.

I agree with Sas, I would call it a Rhodesian. Pretty decent work.

I like the Rhodesian. It reminds me of a pipe that I bought from Edward's shortly after I first started smoking. It was the same shape, but a tad taller.

Nice work Heri. I like the rhodesian. It looks unique and original without looking unusual. Good job.

I would love any photos about how you drill the wood for a churchwarden ..and any tips about the procces ...
thank you..

heri wrote:

jmoss wrote:Very good job...I like them both...
The churchwarden has a lot of work..
Is there any tips of how you drill a wooden stem for a churchwarden in the forum...Or if you can help with your tips..
Thank you ..The churchwarden is amazing..

I can make you photo essay, this week making these stems, if you wish so

and i used cherrywood for this stem, but friend of mine told me, for bending is beech wood more suitable.

If you can it would be very nice of you...

I second the request for the wooden churchwarden stem tutorial. I have seen a guy do something similar on YouTube, but his were kinda crude. The video is below. I thought that the idea of drilling around curves was neat. I assume that you are drilling and then bending, instead of bending then drilling, as this guy is.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/YgjheMgxZs ... 6HdmwrT9TQ

McKay wrote:I second the request for the wooden churchwarden stem tutorial. I have seen a guy do something similar on YouTube, but his were kinda crude. The video is below. I thought that the idea of drilling around curves was neat. I assume that you are drilling and then bending, instead of bending then drilling, as this guy is.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/YgjheMgxZs ... 6HdmwrT9TQ

Yes im first drilling then bending, I will make it on monday. It will be just photo essay tho, i do not have video camera.

jmoss wrote:

heri wrote:

jmoss wrote:Very good job...I like them both...
The churchwarden has a lot of work..
Is there any tips of how you drill a wooden stem for a churchwarden in the forum...Or if you can help with your tips..
Thank you ..The churchwarden is amazing..

I can make you photo essay, this week making these stems, if you wish so

and i used cherrywood for this stem, but friend of mine told me, for bending is beech wood more suitable.

If you can it would be very nice of you...

For this rodesian did you use the lathe ?It looks like you did not use the lathe..

yes, I used lathe, Im a bit ashamed now .

so I said I will make photo essay, here it is

I have kinda small lathe so first i need to get wood into right shape to fit in it, or else i wouldnt be able to make it round. its about 16 inch long in your language.



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Shorter bit i use for making guide hole, longer goes for range. I then chuck the wood all the way down in lathe shaft, so i can drill it with tailstock from both sides


at the end of shaft wood goes offcenter so i made this attachment to center it back, I had a few totally unusable drilling last time i did this stems.


when the wood is drilled, i pull out my steaming equipment , fire, hotplate, some grid and a tinfoil




I let it in the steam for about 1hour, (one hookah session) and get it into template


my granparents house and workshop


This is how i bend stems, there is alot of things to improve here i know, but its working o_O
And now I realized that I almost forget to speak english I had hard time writing this.

Nice stem bending tutorial. You do good work. I bet the fire felt nice with all that snow.

Thank you for the tutorial. I love your high-tech methods I may try this myself sometime soon.

Nice work on the pipes. The Rhodesian is classy and the churchwarden is very nice. Also thanks for the look at your Cherry stem making process, I wish more people did this.

Thanks for the look in to your workshop..Your photos are revealing and very useful.. Thank you very much..