This site includes an image of the underside of a removeable meerschaum bowl cap for a calabash:
Handcarved "BLOCK" Meerschaum Bowls can be used on Gourd calabash pipes and Mahogany Calabash pipes. We need a week to carve in accordance with your request. THEN WE WILL QUOTE THE PRICE FOR YOUR BOWL. THE PRICE IS DEPEND ON THE DIMENSIONS OF THE BOWL. To start we need the inner bowl diameter...
www.calabashpipesworld.com
I would be inclined to ignore all the dimples that are shown.
Bob
There sure are some beautiful pipes on that website, you guys sure find some good websites, I wonder what search engine you use. They have some very nice meerschaum pipes for only 155. Bucks, I imagine any usable meerschaum has like 400-500 percent waste, the piece I got for less than 30. had a crack that made a large percent unusable, I'm going to weigh the waste verses the finished piece.
I found a pipe on the site you referenced me to "DeluxeS" it actually showed the pipe disassembled it used a very thick cork piece of about a 1/4" and it was countersunk on the inside of the gourd so the transition was nearly even, those guys do some beautiful work, I have a lot of homemade briar pipes I should post on the homemade pipe thread instead of here. Mark Tinskey from American Smoking Pipe has treated me very good, providing me with the highest quality briar at the best price of all, he goes all the way to the originating country to buy the stuff. Mark Tinskey is one of the nicest ppl I have ever known, and has the best briar blocks.
I wanna thank you guys I'm out of my funk, maybe I just need some thicker skin, the gardening failures were always especially painfull to me. I almost feel as tho my plants are live and feel pain. I sort have Idk repo'd some potted plants from a fast food joint once becouse the workers didn't wanna water them and the plants were suffering, I told them I was taking the plants, and they were glad to see them go. I don't even know what kind of posies they were but they thrived in my little New England efficiency apartment with me and my girlfriend.
To be the one to cause the neglect felt especially stupid. I kept my led ligh turned down while at work and it was very Brite in the sun without hardening them off.
My 150 watt LED light will heat a room if it's turned up to 1050ma.and that's why I didn't wanna turn it up while at work. You could tan under it at 1050ma. it consumes only 145.894 watts, and can grow 6sq. feet of canopy to maturity. I think it's got the power to prevent too great a transition as far as light goes anyways. The LEDs are Horticulture Lighting Group, the driver is a Meanwell, and the fixture I made of small 1 inch aluminum angle and flat stock I bought from Tractor Supply.
Thanks for the help with references on the web for info, or parts or plants, whatever it is you are all very helpful if you can you do. Thanks
