Open up the Bowl Diameter

[georged]

I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express once, opening the bowl diameter sounds like trouble.
The stem should probably be addressed before anything else.

I ate an In-N-Out twice in the same day back in 2002, and absolutely agree that enlarging a pipe's chamber diameter is a very tricky thing to do well. Going about it wrong is a spectacularly efficient way to ruin a pipe, in fact.
Enlarging a stem's airway without squoinking it isn't as simple as it sounds in many cases either, though. Lots-O-gotchas await. But it should definitely be done before messing with the chamber size.

 

[atjurhs]

I've "reshaped" a stem with hot water before, so I guess I'll go down that road first...
I'll get back to you...

 

[jvnshr]

I ate an In-N-Out twice in the same day back in 2002, and absolutely agree that enlarging a pipe's chamber diameter is a very tricky thing to do well. Going about it wrong is a spectacularly efficient way to ruin a pipe, in fact.
Enlarging a stem's airway without squoinking it isn't as simple as it sounds in many cases either, though. Lots-O-gotchas await. But it should definitely be done before messing with the chamber size.

I ate an alive octopus once back in 2009 in Korea and I totally agree with George.

 

[ashdigger]

Here's an attempt to open the bowl. Mixed results??

 

[jvnshr]

Wow, you didn't open the bowl but another dimension I guess.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Have you not tried dry flake tobacco inserted vertically? That will give as open a draw as any man can stand.

 

[jvnshr]

Or maybe only smart people can see that bowl. Nice billiard shape

 

[atjurhs]

If I dunk the stem in hot water to straighten it out, then open up the stem's air-hole then dunk it in hot water again, wouldn't I have seriously reduced the strength of the stem and made it far more likely to break?

 

[aldecaker]

That has never become an issue for me, but I don't do this stuff as regularly as the pipe makers or repairmen on this forum. Any pipe stem I have heated and bent/re-bent has reacted thermoplastically enough to present no issues.
Me personally, the only stems I bend using hot water are MM plastic stems. All others, a heat gun is a better bet.

 

[mawnansmiff]

I'm no pipe architect nor have I ever stayed at a Holiday Inn, nor eaten an octopus (live or dead). However I am reading a biography of Charles Dickens (by Claire Tomalin) and reckon you should leave the bowl well alone and concentrate on the stem ::
Regards,
Jay.

 

[zack24]

If I dunk the stem in hot water to straighten it out, then open up the stem's air-hole then dunk it in hot water again, wouldn't I have seriously reduced the strength of the stem and made it far more likely to break?

Nope... It's not a problem....

 

[atjurhs]

well I sat it in near boiling water for several minutes and the stem would not bend, not sure what Stokkebye made this stem from? I've used the boiling water methods on other stems to reshape them, but not on this one.
Now she whistles where the stem meets the shank, hopefully that'll go away!
with this pipe, I'll just stick to smoking ribbon cut.
Thanks anyways,
Todd

 

[jpmcwjr]

How about a few photos of the subject??

 

[atjurhs]

Posting photos to this forum is a pita. All the other forums and social media I use it's as easy as drag and drop, and that's enough about that.

 

[jpmcwjr]

So you can't be bothered to illustrate your questions, but have no problem posing them?
Once your photos are on a photo hosting site (such as Imgur.com; Photobucket; Postimage; Dropbox, etc.), or on virtually any site, select the full image, then Control-click (Mac) or Right-click (Windows) on the image itself, then choose copy image location. Now paste that URL (the full web address, which should end in .jpg) into the IMG box in the reply window of the thread you're posting to.

 

[atjurhs]

jpmcwjr,
Posting a picture of a pipe reveals nothing more than the picture of a pipe
Here's a url of the pipe, showing a picture
http://www.cupojoes.com/erik-stokkebye-4th-generation-pipe-1897-dark-porter-pipe-sandblast/
There's no reason PipesMagazine.com can't make it drag n drop. We certainly have the technology, and we obviously have the sponsors for whatever additional costs it may incur. No reason why not.
No need to argue, and that's all I have to say about that.

 

[georged]

Ahhh... drag and drop and then... OH NO!!! copy and paste the resulting host address.
What an absolute, unmitigated, outrageous, overwhelmingly-impossible-to-deal-with onerous piece-of-bullshit extra step THAT is!
AHHHHHH!!!!!!
I'm so glad someone finally brought that insanely intolerable burden to light with straight talk, atjurhs. It's about goddam time. (Kevin, you hear that? We have a new champion here. NO MORE EXTRA CLICK! You listening? STOP ABUSING US!)

 

[zack24]

Yep...I TOLD you trying to open up the bowl diameter would end badly...and we're done...