Awesome, thanks for the tips and replies everybody! I have gotten about 7 estates from eBay and a box of stems I have been working on shaping (very slowly), I do amateur gunsmithing as a hobby, so it has been a nice change of pace working on wood and vulcanite/acrylic. Any tips on buffing stems? I just made/fixed my first pipe from a broken stummel that I used a 30-06 case to extend the stem on the bowl side.