Someone from the forum saw this thread a few weeks ago...
http://pipesmagazine.com/forums/topic/blending-the-old-and-new
...and decided he wanted to take a shot at it with his own pipe. It originally had a fishtail, not a P-lip, but he thought the wider, flatter, shorter approach would make it still more comfortable. The longish cylindrical shank was proportionately almost right for a lovat (another quarter inch would have been a bullseye), so that's what I went with. (Why not stick with the classics when you can, right?) The only catch was what looks like a band is actually a cap, so the base of the stem had to be cut to match its rounded-over shoulder to avoid a large gap at the shank stem junction.
The original still fits just fine, btw. Nothing about the pipe had to be modified, so now it's a Liverpool / lovat "convertible". 8)
http://pipesmagazine.com/forums/topic/blending-the-old-and-new
...and decided he wanted to take a shot at it with his own pipe. It originally had a fishtail, not a P-lip, but he thought the wider, flatter, shorter approach would make it still more comfortable. The longish cylindrical shank was proportionately almost right for a lovat (another quarter inch would have been a bullseye), so that's what I went with. (Why not stick with the classics when you can, right?) The only catch was what looks like a band is actually a cap, so the base of the stem had to be cut to match its rounded-over shoulder to avoid a large gap at the shank stem junction.
The original still fits just fine, btw. Nothing about the pipe had to be modified, so now it's a Liverpool / lovat "convertible". 8)
