I cut my scepters down with a saws all. wrapped tape around the pipe before cutting. then took a small round file to ease the cutting burr left by the saw blade. cut mine down due to mangling the ends during off road evasive maneuvers (that is a fancy way of saying crashed my a**). I like the shorter look. and i couldn't see throwing away such a beautiful sounding set of pipes just because the ends were smashed flat.
