Thread: Pipe of the Day

Hi all,

just to tell you that going through this thread has made me to get a pipe and start smoking again, after 6 years.

Two weeks ago I got this set:



from my girlfriend, along with Mac Baren Original Choice. I did not turn into avid smoker to smoke just to smoke, I rather enjoy occasional smoke with good company.

Now, I am avid collector and go every Saturday to our local flee market. There I found this beauty:



And I believe that it is ready now for salt treatment. Now, I noticed that stem has some funky smell to it (on the outside) so I was thinking of immersing it into dish washing detergent solution and after that to sand it (P1000 - P2000 wet dry) and polish it by hand, as it has some teeth marks at the lip. Does that stem look like oxidized vulcanite or does it look like something else?

Any info is greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Rob

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Originally Posted by MickR

I've been to all those places Tomi, and even for a country lad like myself, I found New York interesting. Yellowstone is like stepping back into time, and you sort of expect a dinosaur to come out at you. A strong smell of sulpher and boiling mud. Alaska is amazingly pure and wild and Niagara needs to be seen from Canada to really get the full glory...Or from down below and looking at it from the water. Route 66 is just a back road and not well kept, sadly.


Mick

N.Y or L.A would be interesting maybe, but i've never been so fascinated about crowded places with lot of folks around. I feel sort of lost. Back roads have much more to show about life. You should see some back roads & places in Poland, Lithuania or Spain. It was like coming to a whole new world.

Back years ago, as a kid i read a book 'Last places' by Lawrence Millman. It was like seeing the light Ever since i've been interested in places with not much tourists around.

absolutely agree, Tomi!

Originally Posted by Robert1988

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Hey there Rob....Welcome to SRP and the pipe thread. If you have a tobacco shop near you,check with them and see if they sell mouth piece restoration kits which are better than using dish detergent.....here is an example of what I mean..Pipe Polishes, Wipes & Cleaner Hope this gets you off to a start anyway...that will be a nice Dublin pipe once you get'er up an running...cheers Nightblade

Thanks for the answer.

I have a specialized Tobacco/Pipe/Cigar shop nearby and I will check with them.

Cheers,

Rob

Just some PA in my fireside and a cold snowy day off. Hope all my Midwest brothers are faring well after winters one last hurrah.

Originally Posted by spacemonkeyjon

Just some PA in my fireside and a cold snowy day off. Hope all my Midwest brothers are faring well after winters one last hurrah.

Same crap here... Just enough snow to screw things up...

Pipe: Dirty Bear

Tobacco: BC

Beautiful a warm spring day here. Got some CF from Lorenzo pipe while taking doggies out at the neighborhood.



Guess i wasn't the only one enjoying warm weather.

Originally Posted by chay2K

I'm enjoying a few fingers of Knob Creek tonight, myself. Would you be so kind as to describe the Kickin' Chicken?

It's a mix of Burley, Kentucky, Cavendish, Perique and Virginia tobaccos that packs quite a nic punch. The flavour is nice, somewhat strong and full with not a lot of sweetness. I don't mind it, but it's not my favourite (at least, not enough to order a pound of it). It's a plug/cake type, so I usually slice off a flake and crumble it up.