Mortis is longer than the tenon?
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<p>Thanks everyone! There's some really good suggestions here. I clean the pipe really well after each time, but it's the gurgling while I'm smoking it that really bugs me! It's too bad, it's really a beautiful pipe otherwise. I think the simplest solution is to just have a new stem made. Thank you to everyone for your advice! And the laughs...
<p>And didimauw, trust me, I'm not trying to make anything complicated. I just have a beautiful pipe and I'd like it to smoke well!
The condensation is most likely caused by the chamber created in the mortise. However, the gurgle, I'd be willing to put money on it, is coming from a droplet of the condensation that has slid down the draft of the shank and is setting at the opening of the chamber and causing the noise.
Several solutions...
Use a pipe cleaner to clear the draft every now and then.
Put thumb over the chamber and fling the stem outward with a flick of the wrist to sling the water out.
Slightly blow on the stem, to push the water into the chamber.
Dig out inside the chamber to just slightly lower the bottom of the chamber below the draft, so that the droplet of water has somewhere to go and doesn't just set there and make gurgle sounds.
Personally, I'd just throw the damned thing in a drawer. You can find bucket pipes with less problems.
Several solutions...
Use a pipe cleaner to clear the draft every now and then.
Put thumb over the chamber and fling the stem outward with a flick of the wrist to sling the water out.
Slightly blow on the stem, to push the water into the chamber.
Dig out inside the chamber to just slightly lower the bottom of the chamber below the draft, so that the droplet of water has somewhere to go and doesn't just set there and make gurgle sounds.
Personally, I'd just throw the damned thing in a drawer. You can find bucket pipes with less problems.
If it smokes OK leave it alone. Don't talk yourself into thinking your pipe smokes bad because of the gap. The vast majority of the time it makes no difference.
If you are certain that it does, though, either make a Delrin spacer to fill the gap (cheap and easy), or have a longer tenon made for the stem. (Doing this "invisibly well" is quite difficult, however)
If you are certain that it does, though, either make a Delrin spacer to fill the gap (cheap and easy), or have a longer tenon made for the stem. (Doing this "invisibly well" is quite difficult, however)
It's not the gap that's the primo cause of your gurgle. In addition to above:
Smoke in pace!
Emphasis added. Whoops! Quoting myself.....
Smoke in pace!
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