Saving a Smooth Pipe: Removing Flaws on the Fly

Every pipemaker would love to produce nothing but perfectly grained, flawless pipes each and every time. But that’s just not in the hand we are dealt, as workers in briar. Flaws are an inevitability when working with this finicky and beautiful material. But what we do when we encounter them is what separates beginners from the very best.

In this video I address how I handled a particular flaw that I encountered. To solve the problem, I used a false mortise—something that I rarely use in my work for reasons I explain in the video.

Now, for the handful of you who actually read these descriptions, I’ll attempt to preempt some inevitable comments about how I ought to have shown enlarging the hole, making, and glueing in the false mortise. YOU ARE CORRECT! I should have! But guess what? It didn’t occur to me to record the video until the pieces were glued up, so perhaps I’ll explain it in a future video.

I hope that you find this helpful and informative. As always, please let me know what else you’d like me to handle in future videos. I’ll consider all ideas.

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Видео Saving a Smooth Pipe: Removing Flaws on the Fly канала J. Alan Pipes