What is in your pipe?
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Mac Baren dark twist in a Stanwell
If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.
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@Stubble said:
KBV Van Gogh in a Posella.
That there is a work of art
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GH No. 7 Broken Flake in a Sara Eltang.
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Sutliff Va perique crumble kake in a Rossi while tinkering with a chunk of briar
If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.
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You know what you're doing over there
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My father in law told me he has a bunch of his fathers old pipes. Is there anything I should look/look out for?
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The ones with the thick cake build-up in the bowl were probably good smokers, favorite pipes, but those will need to be cleaned up.
Vulcanite (rubber) stems oxidize in the sun and turn gray / green. This can usually be restored.
The draught hole should be drilled at the bottom center of the pipe bowl. Not too low that all the condensed juices go into the stem and not too high that leaves unburnt tobacco below the draught hole.
Look for a comfortable button on the end of the stem. If it has a nice, wide slot that tapers in like a funnel to the drilled hole in the stem all the better as it'll have a better draw and reduce tongue bite.
You can run a pipe cleaner down the stem to see if the pipe will pass a cleaner without removing the stem from the shank. It's best to let a pipe cool before removing the stem from the shank for cleaning otherwise you can end up with an ill fitting tenon. It's nice to be able to run a pipe cleaner down the stem to absorb moisture during a smoke.
A tenon having a chamfer on the end acting as a funnel reduces turbulence which can cause moisture build-up and whistling. Not all tenons are chamfered, take it as a sign of good pipe engineering.
Don't be afraid of meerschaum pipes, they're stronger than they look, they smoke cool and are light weight and it's fun to see the color darken as you smoke them.
Straight pipes probably will give you less trouble than curved pipes.
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Depends. Are you looking for value or good smokers?
How old are they? If he smoked drug store pipes like Grabow or Kawoodie they sold millions of them, some are decent smokers, especially the latter. Chewed up stems are difficult to adequately restore. Charred bowl rims or nearly burned out bowls are a problem. About the mid-70s many pipemakers switched from vulcanite to lucite stems; vulcanite oxidizes to a dingy gray or orange and take some work to clean up whereas lucite remains shiny black. I think vulcanite is preferable if you chew on the stem, it has some give and makes clenching more comfortable.Value pipes are handmade or finished and usually have better, less flawed briar. Some old English-made pipes are known for being sweet smokers due to the old briar and engineering and classic shapes. Dunhill, Charatan, and even some of the less pricey Everyman are good pipes though, like everything else, the price has risen. I used to routinely buy Comoy Everyman pipes on ebay for around $20, now they are much more than that restored and in good shape.
Then there the collectibles and hand-mades, a quick tour through the pages of https://www.smokingpipes.com/pipes/estate/
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@silvermouse said:
Depends. Are you looking for value or good smokers?
How old are they? If he smoked drug store pipes like Grabow or Kawoodie they sold millions of them, some are decent smokers, especially the latter. Chewed up stems are difficult to adequately restore. Charred bowl rims or nearly burned out bowls are a problem. About the mid-70s many pipemakers switched from vulcanite to lucite stems; vulcanite oxidizes to a dingy gray or orange and take some work to clean up whereas lucite remains shiny black. I think vulcanite is preferable if you chew on the stem, it has some give and makes clenching more comfortable.Value pipes are handmade or finished and usually have better, less flawed briar. Some old English-made pipes are known for being sweet smokers due to the old briar and engineering and classic shapes. Dunhill, Charatan, and even some of the less pricey Everyman are good pipes though, like everything else, the price has risen. I used to routinely buy Comoy Everyman pipes on ebay for around $20, now they are much more than that restored and in good shape.
Then there the collectibles and hand-mades, a quick tour through the pages of https://www.smokingpipes.com/pipes/estate/
will help you identify some of them.Looking for good smoker. I will post some pictures when I get these.
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Cut some Dan Tobacco Salty Dogs plug up to try in my Michael Morgason Year of the Ox Cob and started smoking it yesterday, continuing today. The flavor is quite dark and rich with little sweetness, I think I’ll have to smoke this a few more times to see if it’s in my wheelhouse and maybe try rubbing it out next time instead of rolling the cut flakes and stuffing it into the pipe. These are dense plugs that burn slowly.
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Do you use a grinder or knife or scissors?
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Sharp knife.
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Warped - King’s Stride
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In a Racine & LaramieIf it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.
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Thank ya sir
If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.
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Edward G. Robinson Pipe Blend paired with Dalmore 12 year in my Christmas OMS Cherrywood Poker that the Wife bought for me, starting the break-in on this pipe. I watched Edward G. Robinson last night in The Red House.
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@Yakster said:
Trying SG Cabbie's Mixture in my estate Hilson calabash shaped pipe with an acrylic military mount, continuing on with the same pour of the Dalmore 12.
Really? The matte finish on that stem looks like it is a vulcanite stem
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Sutliff 1849 in a Stanwell
If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.
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Warped Sarto
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