I bought this Vauen exclusively for the shape and the colour, i wanted a black pipe in Lovat style. I didn't like the dot (looked like a copy of white dot of Dunhill) and i wanted to add yellow colour because the combination of black-yellow are the colours of the Byzantine flag (i am Byzantine-Greek from my father's side).






After some work turned out to look like this:



You can see the procedure step-by-step with photos here: https://pipe-smoke.blogspot.com/2010/02/8.html
The code is M8-12
or in a slide-shop video with music here:

https://youtu.be/8Wg7qgh60eo?si=hSTpKpStBbjhbtHa

Ladies and Gentlemen thank you for watching, keep on coffee drinking and pipe smoking!