Thread: Pipe of the Day

Originally Posted by GrimClippers

Things are finally starting to slow down after switching full time jobs. For a while I was happy to get in two bowls a week. Thankfully I had some time yesterday to get to the range to test out a build I just finished. Even had enough time to get some time with the carry and enjoy a nice bowl of EMP in a Missouri Meerschaum.
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Yeehaaaa Kablammo !!!! Sweet looking blaster !

Originally Posted by rhensley

I look at all the pipes on display in this tread and sometime think about taking up the hobby again. I have seen many beautiful old pipes in the antique store around here.

As master Yoda would say ....there is no try ,only do........do eeeet,do eeett now!

Originally Posted by lz6

Cleaned, repinned and honed a straight razor for my neighbor today.

Then enjoyed Haddo's Delight in my estate Velani Collection Privee. 2nd time with Haddo's and I enjoy it, slightly sweet and level smoking and mild in strength. Pre-light draw flavors remind me of my wife's dried cranberry scones while they are baking.

It was a good day.


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Damn....and now I want some scones !!!

Pipes of my day are ......This batch of 6 is with a staining technique very hard to accomplish , by a famous danish master - it is called golden contrast
I almost overheat the motor of my buffing weels ha ha ah a

and those 3 are too ha ha Enjoy brothers

Originally Posted by RusenBG

Pipes of my day are ......This batch of 6 is with a staining technique very hard to accomplish , by a famous danish master - it is called golden contrast
I almost overheat the motor of my buffing weels ha ha ah a

Would that be Tom Eltang ? I had some of his pipes years ago, including a 'lady's leg.' Should never have sold them.

Yes i try the Eltang glden contrast, without the harmfull chemicals Aniline and Coper chloride I use 2 diferent kind of dues and everything in the 6 or 7 stage dueing must be very precize and very even
After the staining , a long and very precize ,fine sanding and buffing like a berserker ,to hit a sweet spot in the coloring and contrast A long buffing and looking to make everything even .
Once you oversand of overbuff the effect at just only 1 place everything goes to hell - you loose it on this pipe forever
You cannot go back and do it again .
So it is a real chalenge and as you see, the ordinary dues , doesnt have the penetration and saturation of the chemicals and 3 of the pipes are overpassed the so called sweet spot
This means that in only 3 or them the effect is very close to the original hahaha
The rest are weaker in collor and saturation .
Even for man that work this it is hard to achieve , as they say in the Pipemagazine the Golden contrast is a 20 % dueing or staining , and 80 Tom work
They are very right

Originally Posted by Nightblade

Yeehaaaa Kablammo !!!!

Taking my NRA Range Safety Officer training next week. Im gonna ask them if i can use this exact phrase instead of 'Commence fire'..

Originally Posted by MW76

Taking my NRA Range Safety Officer training next week. Im gonna ask them if i can use this exact phrase instead of 'Commence fire'..

When you read the NRA's RSO manual you will find that under alternative commands.

I thought it sounded familiar

Originally Posted by MW76

Taking my NRA Range Safety Officer training next week. Im gonna ask them if i can use this exact phrase instead of 'Commence fire'..

I would so take a course at your range lol !

The first Castello 75 lovat I ever bought. A pipe shop in Edgewater NJ back in the late '80s or early '90s. The guy called it a 'lumberman' and I had never seen anything like it. A pipe with a 4" shank from bowl to stem. I kept going back every week half hoping someone else bought it so I didn't have to spend the $ and finally, fearing that someone else would buy it, I went for it. Never regretted it.