Thread: Pipe of the Day

Originally Posted by Trimmy72

Picked up five pipes today with the pipe stand and humidor. I would like to clean them, the ebonite is brown, one with a cracked stem, and another with some funky metal filter in it that's broken in the stem. The others look okay, and look to have had some small repairs, or maybe they were bought new this way. Another concern is the stank, is their something that neutralizes this? I smoke pipe once in awhile but I keep my pipes clean. These 5 have seen better days, is there a beater pipes section Also two are Celtic, Peterson maybe? The other is a Jubilee?, and Ken?

The question is how much money do you want to spend? Dave at Walker Briar has a cleaning system to remove "stank"... And I would trust him for the other repairs... Walker Briar Works - Repairing Fine Pipes Since 1968

Dave has cleaned, polished and made stems for me... Very reasonable IMO...

Use the salt and whiskey method for deoderising the pipes I reckon. Stick a pipe cleaner in the shanks to block it up, fill the bowl with fine table salt and using an eyedropper or syringe soak the salt in your favourite spirit. Let them sit aside for a few days in a warm dry shady spot inside the house. When the salt is dry, the work of picking it out begins. make sure you remove it all, because getting a grain of salt with your first puff is a bit off putting.
Also use a pipe cleaner dipped in the same brand of booze for swabbing out the stems. Any other Resto advice I can give ya now?!


Mick

Originally Posted by jdto

Now I'm headed out for some GH Bob's Chocolate Flake in the new BST Bulldog.

Like, like, like!!! Man, that GHBCF is in my top 5 - awesome stuff. Had some SGCF the other day, didn't hold a candle to it. Just finished the last of it, time to order a few oz. from Rich @ 4noggins...

Hobbits evening at home Cuppa tea,Jirsa rustic bent with whiskey Cavendish, Kabar er um,...Sting.....special cajun design... home n hearth....

Originally Posted by NoseWarmer

Buckeye... Going Boar hunting?

A friend of mine is a manager of 20,000 acres of pig infested land in Florida.He has the rights to kill all the
hogs he can and have others help.Hope to get down there this spring.We can hunt with dogs or stand hunt.
They killed 300 last year and said it did not put a dent in the population.Hope to tag a Gator also.

Originally Posted by Nightblade

Hobbits evening at home Cuppa tea,Jirsa rustic bent with whiskey Cavendish, Kabar er um,...Sting.....special cajun design... home n hearth....

What's the thing you got on top of your pipe there Steph? I like "Sting" too, by the way. I want to get that particular style of Ka-bar for my own collection one day.


Mick

Originally Posted by MickR

What's the thing you got on top of your pipe there Steph? I like "Sting" too, by the way. I want to get that particular style of Ka-bar for my own collection one day.


Mick

The cap is a removeable bowl cap I bought from the tobbaco shop for 2.00 . It's for when ya go outside,helps keep the ash from blowin around in yer face. Plus..it looks cool. The knife interestingly enough I bought around 2008. It came in a plain Kabar box.It was a limited design. Honestly can't even remember the name of the designer. I do remember that he was some Cajun Knife designer. If you look close the blade is slightly Ghurka'd .

I have two of those caps, but they're of a different style/design. Whatever works I reckon. I have to get one of those little mesh thingys that sit below the tobacco for one of my pipes though. It never seems to want to burn all the way down. I'll sort it one of these years.
The Ka-bar is marked KBDI Fighter Plain in one of my old knife catalogues, with a list price of AUS$95 complete with kydex sheath in 2008 .


Mick

I'll look it up. Thanks Mick. I hadn't been able to find out the designers name since. One of those OOps stupid moments y'know heh.

None, I don't think I'm going to keep them, but not sure yet, If I have house hold stuff that will get them in order I'd rather do it that way. I would say these pipes are not lookers, but probably beater pipes, unlike the Lookers I see on here. I only gave $25 for the pipe stand and humidor with the five pipes included, so I'm not worried about ruining them to much. But if I can get one or two shined up and looking pretty again, that's a good thing!