Wow! Thnx for this, news to me. Never thought of it. Now I'm wondering about smaller pokers I have with cf shanks, especially with the use of pipe cleaners.
The Pencil Shank Pipe Hazard (for purchasers)
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Great info George, thanks for sharing. Curious to see if you can pull it off to put a tube in it.
I love long straight pipes, but I think I'm way to clumsy for a pencil shank. I'm allready very carefull with this long-ish Lovat I have.
I love long straight pipes, but I think I'm way to clumsy for a pencil shank. I'm allready very carefull with this long-ish Lovat I have.
LOL. I worry about my 315. No way I could handle stressing over a pencil shank.
Thanks for sharing and starting this thread. I’ve always liked Canadians, and while they aren’t pencil shanks, I’ve been surprised to see a fair number of noticeably off-center airways, even from respected carvers. A mm left or right might not matter much, but too high or too low and you’ve got a failure point.
I'm with Canucklehead, I'm not smoking thru carbon fiber. Stainless steel, like George uses, no problem-o.
I've always thought that pencil shank pipes looked a bit fragile, they have no fascination for me. My taste in pipes tends to stout shapes.
As for Kevlar vs. Carbon Fiber -- I don't think there's a benefit to one over the other in this application. I'd not want to inhale fibers from either.
As for Kevlar vs. Carbon Fiber -- I don't think there's a benefit to one over the other in this application. I'd not want to inhale fibers from either.
I'm far too clumsy to purchase anything that delicate, regardless of reinforcement.
Wow.
Hard photos… and shit happened.
Lots of Beckers pipes and not only are very tinny…
For me, such kind of pipes are Home smoke only with extra care.
I have couple and smoke it carfully.
In general, stop to buy it and smoke only fat nosewarmers.
Hard photos… and shit happened.
Lots of Beckers pipes and not only are very tinny…
For me, such kind of pipes are Home smoke only with extra care.
I have couple and smoke it carfully.
In general, stop to buy it and smoke only fat nosewarmers.
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I think the hazard is mostly with the cutting, sanding and/or shaping of it, like georged said, I wouldn't want to work with it regularly.
Yeah, once that carbon fiber micro fuzzy stuff starts there's no stopping it!
Ok, it's off topic I know, just me being a wise ass.
Ok, it's off topic I know, just me being a wise ass.
I don't know for sure but I posted about it a few months ago. I used fire place patch to fill in an over reamed bowl and if I didn't smoke it for a while it started doing this. I sanded it down and let it be and now it looks like this. I haven't smoked it, I just let it set in a drawer and now it's really going to town. Started like this, and now... well as you can see above, it's gotten bigger.
Man, I thought is was some sort of surrealist concept art. Yuck! I would have to just toss that. Or, if you keep it, I would keep it far away from my other pipes. That is the stuff nightmares are made of.
I thought the steel tubing was part of the design with pencil stems, but I see I was wrong. It is a beautiful design, though it has always looked front-loaded to me, so I don't own one. Also, the better ones are decidedly pricey; they should certainly be reinforced.
Even standard width longer stems are fragile enough to be kept out of trouser pockets or anywhere they would tend to be leveraged bowl-to-bit and prone to being broken.
That's why short thick pipes are sometimes called pocket pipes and are inherently less fragile.
I'd glue that one back together, maybe with reinforcing tube and/or band added, and treat it like fine China.
Even standard width longer stems are fragile enough to be kept out of trouser pockets or anywhere they would tend to be leveraged bowl-to-bit and prone to being broken.
That's why short thick pipes are sometimes called pocket pipes and are inherently less fragile.
I'd glue that one back together, maybe with reinforcing tube and/or band added, and treat it like fine China.
I have a few pipes with CF tubes in place. I am not too worried about it. By it's nature anything with CF is dead straight so it is simple enough to hold the bowl up to a light every now and then and make sure the inside of the CF tube is clean and glossy with no loose fibers.
YEAH and yes.
what the heck I thought you had a sense of adventure. Guess not. Might kill you or might give you visions into the nature of the universe.
Mongo never surprise when small thing break. Make Mongo sad. Mongo even more sad when small thing pretty.