Extreme makeover - Cherrywood edition

[nutcracker]

So I picked this pipe up in a lot on the 'Bay.
Nasty looking thing, the stem not salvageable, with a hole. Had been melted by previous attempts to buff.




So I decided to have a go at an acrylic stem. The little Unimat hasn't been used in years, but still worked OK. (need a 4-jaw chuck, and soon!)





Decided to bend the stem.



I think it needs a gold band or spacer to break the colour transition, but I like how it came out.