So I'm sitting in my dads's makeshift workshop, looking at this pipe I've had for awhile, which smoked okay, but seemed to gurgle a lot, so wasn't smoked often. It dawns on me to throw the sucker in a vice, and try to open the airway with a hand drill (cue foreboding music). This decision led to a positive result, and I started eyeing other pipes I could fix. My eye lands on a Grabow I've had for a bit, that I smoke on Wednesdays, and I proceed to open the airway in the stem. I started at the tenon end, but soon found out that my drill bit wasn't long enough to make it all the way through.... So what does my dumb ass do without even thinking...? That's right, I flipped that stem around and started drilling through the button end!!! CRRAAACK! Split that button right in half. Totally demolished the stem on my Wednesday pipe.
Look before you leap Gentlemen, that's all I have to say. That, and it looks like I'll be looking for a new pipe today!
Look before you leap Gentlemen, that's all I have to say. That, and it looks like I'll be looking for a new pipe today!