Another Pipe Resurrection - Brigham Sportsman

**jdto** · 03-09-2012, 03:42 AM

This one is officially my first restoration.

This pipe was my "noob pipe" from Ebay. I bought it without really looking closely enough at the photos. The pipe was a bit...rough, shall we say. Full of nastiness in the bowl, shank and stem, hole in the stem, collapsed bit from being chewed so hard. As I don't have a reamer, I reamed it with my finger and 80 grit sandpaper, then gave it several salt treatments in both bowl and shank.

I decided to lose the rustication because, even after several cleaning attempts, there was still some nasty dirt in the grain. I sanded it for a long time, all the way up to 2500 grit, then I gave it several coats of Tung oil, with a final polish with micromesh up to 12k, then a soft cloth buff.

The bit was sort of a pain, but I managed to reconstruct it with JB Weld. It doesn't look great, but when I put shrink wrap on it, you won't see the grey. I gave the stem a bleach 50/50 treatment, then sanded it from 220 all the way up to 12k micromesh, then hit it with some of the Walker polish.

I know I lost a bit of material off the bowl, so the walls are likely a bit thin, but I suppose I won't know how that impacts things until I smoke it, which should be soon!

Here are the before shots:

**jdto** · 03-09-2012, 03:45 AM

And here it is now (I tried to reproduce the originals to give some frame of comparison):

**jdto** · 03-09-2012, 03:51 AM

The stem/bit:

Made in Canada!

And the glamour shot:

Here with a couple of new friends:

**LaneAtomic** · 03-09-2012, 03:57 AM

Wow! Makes me want to go out and get a pipe again. Great job on it!

**ladavis89** · 03-09-2012, 04:16 AM

Holy crap! You did an amazing job! I would have never believed that was the same pipe!

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**Maxi** · 03-09-2012, 04:18 AM

Holy ***t Jack! That came out freakin' awesome! I think you found a calling......

Seriously, it looks spectacular. Now get'at'er with some Collingwood.

**BenjamanBarker** · 03-09-2012, 04:32 AM

Wow man that looks great!! You guys are really pushing me to smoke a pipe with all these great pipe pictures and fixes!! Now off to read more on what to have to start!!!

**jdto** · 03-09-2012, 04:41 AM

Thanks guys. This was fun, especially because it was impossible to make it worse. The hard part is going to be waiting for the tung oil to cure. If I keep doing these, I.might have to get a buffing wheel set for my drill.

**Catrentshaving** · 03-09-2012, 06:51 AM

Looks brand new! Nice work there.

**1OldGI** · 03-11-2012, 03:42 PM

Great save. My own PAD has made a reappearance after several years of remission. I see myself doing a few pipe restorations in the not too distant future.

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