On one hand, I’d like to tell you how informative I find your videos, as I’m new to pipe rehab, but fascinated by the process. But as a long time wood worker and furniture maker, I need to scold you for sanding on that beautiful walnut table top.
Obviously super glue is not food safe. In your opinion, Is it ok to repair the lip part of the stem (which goes right inside the smoker's mouth for long hours) with toxic super glue?
10:28 it's like when your buddy comes up and wipes his hand over your dirty car telling you your car is dirty. Essentially he has just scratched your paint while he's being a jerk. Have you tried black buffing compound instead of sanding with 1500 & finer papers?
Very Nice, thanks for this added information on soft carnauba,so no wet sanding is obligatory,?And where do you get this mixing vulcanite dust at?I assume final polishing up is done by wheel puffer and hard carnauba,Thank You and greets,talk to you soon again,Paul
Hi Paul, that is a bunch of good questions.Wet sanding does two things, it keep the sanding paper clean of build up and removes grit from the sanding surface. The soft wax does the latter, and I am just not bothered enough with the former to put up with the mess of wet sanding so I hardly ever do it. I do not find the end results are any better with the wet sanding.The vulcanite dust comes from a solid vulcanite rod that I sand with a barrel sanding disk on my Dremel in a container. I have never seen vulcanite dust sold anywhere, so I just make my own.You are correct on the final polishing, I do it on the buffing wheel with hard carnauba, same as the stummel.
Rick 778 thanks for mentioning that. I showed the technique in one of my previous videos. I did in fact try it on this pipe but in this case it did not do much for me. For brevity I left it out.
Bare pipe that a beautiful pipe great job. You seem to be very knowledgeable regarding Stanwell Pipes I have a Stanwell that I would appreciate and respect your opinion on would you be interested in doing that for me.
Have you used any stems repaired with the superglue for any extended periods of time? Superglue was never designed to be a permanent bonding agent. It was, after all, first designed to close woulds on the battlefield. My concern would be that although it may look nice when finished, that eventually the glue would break down and the repairs could flake off. This ever happened? Cheers, and great video.
