Re-Fitting the Silver Band at Home

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Now,some of You may remember when I was sharing photos of poorly performed banding job on my Dunhill , it was fitted hastily and was not in accordance to the shank form, this took me a full 3 hours of intensive labor to get the band fitted more properly and to achieve more or less eye-pleasing overall form, yes it took some nerves and still today I can't stop wondering why they did not wanna do this at the shop as they should have, but leaving me to redo the job
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mso489

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I'm no silversmith, but it looks like a fine job to me. Les Wood might well approve. He's the Ferndown pipe maker who was a silver and metal smith at Dunhill for years before going on his own. I can see that would be some serious work to get the flat side of the band to adhere to the shank.
 
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@mso489 , Thank You, Sir,I will keep this in mind for future reference, but to be honest, this very pipe ain't no worth to sending it anywhere no more cuz I already did overpay for it when I was buying it at one of the danish vendors, yet in order to be on the safe side I would not recommend doing this at home unless one has proper tools handy &patience, but now band fitting is snug and I'm pretty satisfied (not completely)with the results
 
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Looks much better. I’d be more upset about whatever they did to the shank right before the silver band.
 
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