Station: FM
Sheets: 3
Last logged: 13/09/2026

Forms and fittings

The catalogue of shapes and hardware: spoons, hammers, chillums, bubblers, beakers, bowls, downstems, ash catchers and the ground joints that hold a piece together.

§ 1 Station log

Sheets 3

Station log, newest first
Ref.	Sheet	Logged	Length
FM-002	Spoon, Hammer, Chillum, Bat: What Each Form Asks	13/09/2026	1,356 words
FM-001	Measuring 10, 14 and 18 mm Ground Joints at the Counter	09/09/2026	1,493 words
FM-003	Bowl, Downstem, Ash Catcher: Wear Parts to Stock	06/09/2026	1,364 words

§ 2 Sheets of this station

A glass shop counter at midday, four forms of borosilicate pipe laid in a row on a dark mat, a spoon, a hammer, a chillum and a bat, with a softbox light from the left and a cardboard case pack open behind them. — View FM-002

Sheet: FM-002
Station: Forms and fittings
Logged: 13/09/2026

Spoon, Hammer, Chillum, Bat: What Each Form Asks

One form at a time: what a spoon, hammer, chillum and bat do for the hand, what each costs the shop to carry, and how many belong in a first order.

1,356 words · 6 min

A glass shop counter under a warm bench lamp, three hardwood dowel gauges marked 10, 14 and 18 millimetres on a string, a caliper open beside a borosilicate bowl and downstem seated as a pair, shallow depth of field. — View FM-001

Sheet: FM-001
Station: Forms and fittings
Logged: 09/09/2026

Measuring 10, 14 and 18 mm Ground Joints at the Counter

How 10, 14 and 18 millimetre ground joints differ, how to measure one on an assembled piece, and what to check when a bowl and downstem ship as a pair.

1,493 words · 6 min

A glass counter tray of 14 mm bowls and downstems under warm shop light, a shopkeeper's hand lifting one bowl by the joint, shallow depth of field. — View FM-003

Sheet: FM-003
Station: Forms and fittings
Logged: 06/09/2026

Bowl, Downstem, Ash Catcher: Wear Parts to Stock

Bowls, downstems and ash catchers wear out first on a glass pipe. Here is how many spares a counter keeps and how a shop sets its reorder point.

1,364 words · 6 min