Ok, now for the stem. I hate doing stem work.
So I attempted to smooth out what the previous owner did to the stem. A little sanding, a little filing..
And then paused for a while, till tonight I took it out to the garage so I could smoke while I worked, and continued on.
And then I realized I hated how tiny the button was... It just doesn't look right...
Then that's when things got weird.
If you are squeamish, stop reading now.
I remembered I had an old freehand style stem that I previously ruined on a grinder. It was to be used with one of my old corncobs and I just ended up demolishing the poor thing.
So I have excess vulcanite material....
So I went to town filing it down, to get me some powder.
Then made vulcanite superglue goo material, and applied it to the button.
Hey I warned you to stop reading....
But if you insist....
Then after about fifteen minutes and it was fully dry, I started filing some sort of shape to it.
Oh and if anyone was wondering what it looks like when my wife comes out to the garage, asking me what the hell I'm doing out here at midnight? This would be her point of view...
Anyways, where was I?...
Oh yeah the stupid stem.
So more filing, and sanding...
And more....
Oh I guess you can only add 10 pictures to a post....