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<p>[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 364358, member: 55"]The bowl is most likely ebony; the stem is unlikely to be ebony, because there would be no way to carve it in a curved shape with an airway, and it could not be bent after carving. Stems are commonly made from a hard black material, technically a type of hard rubber, though it is not flexible. This can be bent to shape after being gently heated. Cheaper stems may be plastic.</p><p>A hard rubber stem can be distinguished from plastic (or wood) by burning the dust produced by filing or sanding; it will smell like burnt rubber, burnt plastic, or burnt wood.</p><p>I doubt you want to file anything off it however; though one might do some gentle filing or sanding if the stem were too tight in the socket.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 364358, member: 55"]The bowl is most likely ebony; the stem is unlikely to be ebony, because there would be no way to carve it in a curved shape with an airway, and it could not be bent after carving. Stems are commonly made from a hard black material, technically a type of hard rubber, though it is not flexible. This can be bent to shape after being gently heated. Cheaper stems may be plastic. A hard rubber stem can be distinguished from plastic (or wood) by burning the dust produced by filing or sanding; it will smell like burnt rubber, burnt plastic, or burnt wood. I doubt you want to file anything off it however; though one might do some gentle filing or sanding if the stem were too tight in the socket.[/QUOTE]
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