If a Hardxastle is made like this example, I'd use the drill all day long. It's still a straight airway. If it is a system pipe like Peterson it might be trickier, but doable.Alex wrote: ↑Thu Mar 04, 2021 2:59 pmI see. I would like to use the drill bit method . But I do smoke out of a full bent billiard . A Hardcastle Camden . The Bourbon in Queens New York is 90 proof the highest .I called the best liquor store around here. Of course the people, in Queens New York, are so crazy, they wouldn't dare sell anything higher or stronger. It's not like Texas ,or the south.Lostdog5152 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 04, 2021 10:54 am The drill bit is a great way to freshen up the shank. It will improve the draw on those pipes with a skinny draft hole at the same time and I do this to most of my pipes. Just be careful with any pipe with a bend in the shank, which should go without saying. The bit will follow the path it is started on and could cause problems at the bend.
would the drill bit method be inadvisable, due to the fact they're full bend's ?
Would you like a picture of the pipe?
Alex
Here's a pic of a Peterson system pipe cut away. Straight airway!