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== Stummels == ...pipe. The following articles attempt to chronicle methods for working with stummels that are in use by some respected pipe makers.

...e can play a huge role in pipe making. If large enough, it can be used for stummels as well as stems. Many pipe makers have both a metal lathe, and a wood lath ...d after the J.T. Cooke style chuck that several tool makers are making for stummels (this home brewed version works just as well, but sure is not as pretty!).

...extra steps before becoming a finished pipe. I let the drilled and shaped stummels sit in natural sunlight for a period of several weeks before finishing them ...chamber and also of enhancing the wood's burn resistance. After this, the stummels are dried naturally and treated with yet another process to aid the removal

Assuming we still have workable stummels, which is the case here, I can now start in with the sanding disk. This is Now, we have the roughed in stummels. The next step is to lay out lines and mark them for freehand drilling:

...ummels. But they did not finish the pipes for the other companies: to sell stummels of grade A to Dunhill was more profitable than to make them pipes!</q></blo

...e high-grade stummels to be made into high-priced pipes, sending low-grade stummels to their French factories” (Raymond Joslyn Hoyle and John R. Stillinger,

...raft came from making replacement stems, repairing shanks, and refinishing stummels. Following in his brother’s footsteps, Kharitonov also experimented with Kharitonov typically makes his stummels from Calabrian briar and his stems from SEM ebonite. To accent his pipes, h

...conscious and careful decision is made when pairing the colors worn by his stummels, stems, and other decorative elements, such as horn or bamboo. This sensiti

...tory, what a story that was! These were pre and turn of the century bowls (stummels) that he came upon and which were forgotten about from that time. ''courtes

...ometimes experiment with drilling and re-drilling the draught holes of his stummels, combining them with his variously measured stems, in order to discover the The materials Keresaspa makes his pipes from are briar for the stummels and German ebonite for the stem. Sometimes he will use vintage Bakelite or

...tunity to harm themselves or each other. He provided them with pre-drilled stummels (via [[Henrik Jorgensen]], [[Poul Ilsted]], and [[Tao]], then all at the [[

...de in Italy over the previous years, Morgan was able to source century-old stummels, destined to be filled, stained, and sold elsewhere, which he transported t

...of his pipes are made by hand, using shop-made tooling and machines. All stummels are made of the best Grecian briar available, and smooth pipes are finished

...er in South Africa. From the very beginning GBD obtained only best quality stummels and/or pre-drilled pipes.

...Sacrificing a bandsaw blade to the dirt on the root, I was able to get two stummels and two small bowls out of it. I gave him one pipe, which he told me recent

...nt with various materials over the years. These included materials for his stummels – such as tree heather (briar), olivewood, lemonwood, and bog oak (morta)

...the thing. Though it does indeed work, I rarely use my Dremel for shaping stummels. I now go straight from the sanding disc (chucked up in my lathe) to small

RexPoggenpohl-Stummels.jpg|Shaped Stummels

...ing has, historically, restricted its palettes to blonde, brown, and black stummels and black and red-black stems, Xin's pipes can be found dressed in shades o

...for every taste. The Ligne Bretagne, made out of an old stock of preturned stummels, appeals to collectors of classic shapes, and to those that want to acquire