This is my last pipe before leaving for PNG. I had mostly finished the stummel some time ago and sort of forgot about it. Saw it yesterday. Unfortunately, I just didn't have time to make a hand cut stem for it so this is a preform stem that I am tweaked for the pipe. It's hard to tell from the photo, but it has a red/black cumberland shank ring.
"No reserves, no retreats, no regrets."
"When you're dumb, you've got to be tough." - my dad
"At present we're on the wrong side of the door. But all the pages of the New Testament are rustling with the rumor that it will not always be so." ~ C.S. Lewis
I offered to pay for him to keep it. Since it was already made for a bush pilot buddy of his, he refused any payment. I meant I hope the bush pilot enjoys the gift.
No donation made. JMG is a terrible money guy. You don't want him running the school fundraiser.