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New Ropp Mid-Century Drilling Questions and Concerns
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<blockquote data-quote="Swede" data-source="post: 597885" data-attributes="member: 5139"><p>Good morning BoBs. I just received this pipe from Smoking Pipes. It is an new and still unsmoked M303 bent acorn shape. I havent yet gotten it to pass a tapered cleaner. Taking apart the stem, I see that the draft hole is drilled high relative to the tenon. It looks to possibly have a bit of ramp below the hole, so maybe this drilling was necessary because of the bent angle. The hole in the bowl in pretty much dead center and just a mm or 2 from the bottom. What do you think about whether this should be considered defective, etc. The box was labeled made in St. Claude France, so I'd think they know quite a bit about pipe making. The Mid-Century line is from old stock stummels found in warehouses in France. There are interesting articles about this on SP. Thanks Swede</p><p>[ATTACH=full]13285[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]13286[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]13287[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Swede, post: 597885, member: 5139"] Good morning BoBs. I just received this pipe from Smoking Pipes. It is an new and still unsmoked M303 bent acorn shape. I havent yet gotten it to pass a tapered cleaner. Taking apart the stem, I see that the draft hole is drilled high relative to the tenon. It looks to possibly have a bit of ramp below the hole, so maybe this drilling was necessary because of the bent angle. The hole in the bowl in pretty much dead center and just a mm or 2 from the bottom. What do you think about whether this should be considered defective, etc. The box was labeled made in St. Claude France, so I'd think they know quite a bit about pipe making. The Mid-Century line is from old stock stummels found in warehouses in France. There are interesting articles about this on SP. Thanks Swede [ATTACH type="full" alt="20231013_083401.jpg"]13285[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full" alt="20231013_082405.jpg"]13286[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full" alt="20231013_082257.jpg"]13287[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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