Tight stem can't come loose
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A few things. If the pipe is apart, thoroughly clean the mortise, use iso, paper towel Q-tips etc. Let that dry very well. See how the stem fits. A great trick is to rub the tenon against a bar of soap, something neutral like Ivory. If the fit is still too tight, take some 0000 steel wool to the tenon.
Bees wax is always good and that stuff is amazing. It can loosen and tighten a tenon.
However, if the stickiness continues to occur take a sheet of the finest grain sandpaper you have available and make one or two twists - no more - around the tenon, and then smoke another bowl. (What you take off cannot be replaced.)
It can take several days, Jessiac, so take it easy. This piping business is a slow moving process.
Fnord
However, if the stickiness continues to occur take a sheet of the finest grain sandpaper you have available and make one or two twists - no more - around the tenon, and then smoke another bowl. (What you take off cannot be replaced.)
It can take several days, Jessiac, so take it easy. This piping business is a slow moving process.
Fnord
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I've fixed a few tenons this way. I used extra fine sandpaper to start, then finish with micromesh.
The trick is to go slow and keep testing so you don't over do it. Done properly, you will no longer have to fight with it all the time.
I will say that I have one that I over sanded a bit but beeswax allows it to stay put. I no longer will put up with an overly tight stem - well worth the time and effort.
Unless you enjoy this sort of repair work, have someone (shaintiques comes to mind--is that illegal to mention?) gather all your troublesome pipes (almost all of my Petersons hold their stems with a death's grip) and send them out. It's a cheap repair.
Unbelievably, my recently received Peterson Christmas '14 billiard was too loose: the vendor told me this is common and that a few smokes and changes of temperatures would fix the problem. This work.
Unbelievably, my recently received Peterson Christmas '14 billiard was too loose: the vendor told me this is common and that a few smokes and changes of temperatures would fix the problem. This work.
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