Cracked Shank- Can it be Fixed?

[jwesthurl]

I picked this pipe up for $1 on the off chance that this crack is fixable. Any good ideas or techniques to make this work? I tried closing it up with a clamp just to see if it would work but it’s not happening. Shorten it into a nose-warmer perhaps??

 

[Ag®o]

Shorten it into a nose-warmer perhaps??

I don't recommend it.
I would rather do the usual repair that applies to this type of break;
I would smooth the rustication in the part of the diameter that includes the crack, fitting a ring/band with a resin veil.

 

[TheIronMonkey]

If it's not closing up enough to take a metal repair band and the lines of the pipe don't lend itself to a nosewarmer proportion, I wonder if you could fit/bond a contrasting section of wood (maybe reinforced with a metal tube) that would make an interesting bridge between where the crack ends and the stem plugs in, keeping the original length. You could get creative with the bridge piece. Pipes are often seen with bamboo parts there (varying in degrees of success). Inlays as thin accents could be interesting if done tastefully.

 

[OzPiper]

I'd send it off to Briarville.
Alternatively get in touch with Steve Laug of Rebornpipes. He has helped me with a couple of my old pipes.

 

[TheIronMonkey]

Judging from previous posts by @jwesthurl , I'm thinking this is something he'd like to do himself and be quite capable of handling.

 

[jwesthurl]

Judging from previous posts by @jwesthurl , I'm thinking this is something he'd like to do himself and be quite capable of handling.

Correct, lol. I’m actually thinking about experimenting with the bamboo idea, could be pretty cool!

 

[Mr_houston]

It looks like a quality sandblast. I look forward to seeing what you do with it.

 

[jwesthurl]

It looks like a quality sandblast. I look forward to seeing what you do with it.

It is a really nice pipe and looks like it wasn’t smoked very much before it cracked. It’s a Jansen’s New Orleans.

 

[verporchting]

Can’t wait to see the end result! Maybe you could do a photo documentary of the progress, that would be very interesting!

 

[Streeper541]

Plug the mortise. Put some wood filler in it. Sand it down. Stain it with a touch up marker... either that or use some duct tape. ?

Good score.

 

[didimauw]

I had a Grabow that I once smoked so fast that it had goo leaking out of a crack about that size in its shank. I filled it with cake that I scraped out of the bowl, and smoked it like that for years. But those pipes you could adjust the metal tenons easily.


I've also seen, (and by that I mean found and saved and still look at from time to time) a picture of I think an old Dunhill with a split shank like yours. He took wire and used it like a twisty tie on it. Looked neat.

 

[TheIronMonkey]

There are some techniques in the links below that might be applied with some creativity to provide some aesthetically pleasing results:

repairing a cracked shank – rebornpipes

Posts about repairing a cracked shank written by rebornpipes

rebornpipes.com

Shank Repair

Posts about Shank Repair written by Charles Lemon

dadspipes.com