Great job on the stem. I've always liked the Bing pipes for their lithe designs, but never bought one. For a long stemmed Sav, I have their Prince of Wales, but for some reason after two years, I've never smoked it. Never happened before. Maybe this will prompt me to get it going. I'm the "out of the sock and into my mouth" school with new pipes. I think this one arrived with two other pipe show pipes, one of them bought directly from the late great Bob Hayes, so it threw the Sav in the shade. I have many Savinelli's, at least a dozen.