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Yesterday I was working on a stem, the third for this particular pipe. It's a short stem with a ring, so I'm shaping it on my lathe with a tool rest and gouges. All was going well when all of a sudden I got too close to the chuck and the jaws caught and turned my gouge into a hurdling spear of death.

It hit me smack in the center of my belly handle end first and bounced to the floor... Had it been the sharp end, I'm certain it would have done some real damage.

It served as a good reminder. Oh, the stem got screwed up too. My re-sharpen of the tool must of sucked, and it chunked it up beyond repare. I started #4 today. I swear, when I was just learning, I never made 4 stems for a pipe. But back then, I probably should have on some

Holy crap, be careful Brian!

And let us know when that fourth stem is done.

PMF's reaction upon reading Growley's post:

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LatakiaLover wrote:PMF's reaction upon reading Growley's post:

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Ha, that's perfect. It's one of those things that I didn't think much about...until I thought about it.

UberHuberMan wrote:Holy crap, be careful Brian!

And let us know when that fourth stem is done.

Ha, we'll see about posting it. I'm pretty sick of this stem and this pipe. I might just finish it and make it a shop pipe.

"Here, hold my beer; Hey Y'all! Watch this shit!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PzPfzLeDa0

Rad

RadDavis wrote:"Here, hold my beer; Hey Y'all! Watch this shit!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PzPfzLeDa0

Rad

I used to be that smart !

This vids good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB86FZnjKTw

LatakiaLover wrote:PMF's reaction upon reading Growley's post:

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That's fantastic.

Alden wrote:

RadDavis wrote:"Here, hold my beer; Hey Y'all! Watch this shit!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PzPfzLeDa0

Rad

I used to be that smart !

This vids good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB86FZnjKTw

And it's real! MY favorite is: "I'm going to cut into this drum with an acetylene torch, even though I don't know what's in it."

Rad

RadDavis wrote:

Alden wrote:

RadDavis wrote:"Here, hold my beer; Hey Y'all! Watch this shit!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PzPfzLeDa0

Rad

I used to be that smart !

This vids good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB86FZnjKTw

And it's real! MY favorite is: "I'm going to cut into this drum with an acetylene torch, even though I don't know what's in it."


Rad

Right. Everybody knows you have to duct tape the torch to a real long piece of angle iron and stand way back and look the other direction when you do that....

Alden wrote:
Right. Everybody knows you have to duct tape the torch to a real long piece of angle iron and stand way back and look the other direction when you do that....

Rad

RadDavis wrote:

Alden wrote:
Right. Everybody knows you have to duct tape the torch to a real long piece of angle iron and stand way back and look the other direction when you do that....

Rad

My Favorite is the tank that falls over and knocks the valve off then goes shooting through the warehouse right into the foremans face. You know the asshole had it coming....

And to get the thread back on topic, I did the exact same thing as you Growley. Except I had my face right in front of what I was turning and the butt of the tool cracked me in the face so hard I thought it broke my nose... I don't think it did, but the center of my face was numb for an hour.

Holy crap, Brian! Be more careful, or at least get it on video next time so we can laugh with you!

I KNEW there was a major plus-side to the etch-sketch method!

Yeah be careful. A stem profile is hardly worth the Darwin Award.

Time invest in a Leather apron perhaps, or a BPV made of uhmwpe, i got Trappaned by a 3mm drill bit once, workshop was so cold i did not feel it till the blood was dripping off the end of my nose.