AimlessWanderer
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I've just completed the ordeal of smoking the first bowl in a hardwood MM pipe. A "maple" Country Gentleman. Thankfully, the second half tasted better than the sawdust and varnish of the first half. It didn't burn too well as the tobacco got lower though.
As you can see, I managed to get the chamber carbonised almost right down to the airway. Sadly there are two issues with the way the shank enters the pipe, which adversely affects the burn.
Firstly, it doesn't protrude even nearly enough into the chamber of the bowl. Secondly, it's slightly rotated. In this picture, the right hand side is lower, which was airing the burn on that side of the bowl, but not the other.
To fix these, I need to get the shank out, sand it down to a slightly smaller diameter, so that it reaches in further, then glue it with the shank correctly rotated.
But how do I get the damn thing out?
On my Ozark Cherrywood, it came loose in its own, in time, and I had to gle that back in anyway. I don't want to wait with this one though. I want to fix it from the start. Should I steam this? Warm it in an oven? Freeze it? I really have no idea how to safely separate part A from part B, so that I can do the necessary corrections.
Any of you more experienced pipers got a safe way of doing this in your knowledge banks?
As you can see, I managed to get the chamber carbonised almost right down to the airway. Sadly there are two issues with the way the shank enters the pipe, which adversely affects the burn.
Firstly, it doesn't protrude even nearly enough into the chamber of the bowl. Secondly, it's slightly rotated. In this picture, the right hand side is lower, which was airing the burn on that side of the bowl, but not the other.
To fix these, I need to get the shank out, sand it down to a slightly smaller diameter, so that it reaches in further, then glue it with the shank correctly rotated.
But how do I get the damn thing out?
On my Ozark Cherrywood, it came loose in its own, in time, and I had to gle that back in anyway. I don't want to wait with this one though. I want to fix it from the start. Should I steam this? Warm it in an oven? Freeze it? I really have no idea how to safely separate part A from part B, so that I can do the necessary corrections.
Any of you more experienced pipers got a safe way of doing this in your knowledge banks?