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You can also do the salt treatment if the residual aroma is really overpowering. I've done it on a couple of estate pipes that had more of their old aroma than I was comfortable with. It comes with...

A friend who is a good hand at restoring stems to black uses tape on the shank of the pipe where it meets the vulcanite. He buffs the stem on the pipe. This way the stem doesn't end up a smaller...

Yeah I've done a lot of them like that. I've used the bleach treatment on badly oxidized stems too. That will leave a 'pebble grain' finish to the vulcanite. I've been told that it can be brought...

I take alcohol and soak a pipe cleaner in it and run it through, one after another until they come out clean. You've got a stem with aluminum plumbing so stay away from bleach. If you have some of...