Photos of your pipes

[fitzsmoke]

Before you all run out and buy buffing wheels and trying to outshine each other a word of advice:

Anthing you do to erase the nomenclature (stamped in i.d. words and numbers) or lose any logo it has will devalue your pipe. So if you are sanding, buffing, or rubbing your pipe stay away from the letters and logos with abrasives.

The best shine enhancer to use on a pipe is pure Carnuba wax. Using shoe polish of any kind is not recommended due to petroleum byproducts. Some pipers feel that nothing should be applied to a pipe as it will contaminate the smoke. However, if it is a $5-10 ebay or garage sale special, and has no real value, buff and spray to your hearts content.

[Neuromancer]

Well, you guys really did a good job of kicking me down another slope, reading all this stuff and seeing all these great pipes, so it seems, that besides CAD, I am now suffering from PAD...here's a few more of mine...the first two pipes were great ebay finds as they were new but NOS and both had badly oxidized stems which I dealt with using 50-50 bleach/water, pipe stem polish, and 4000-12000 grit sandpaper...the next two were nice ebay finds (good deals on them) and the last came from Pipesandcigars.com , a site that has great customer service as I will enumerate below:

The two ebay buys with restored stems...the first is an Italian Briar called a Savoy, don't know much about it, and the second is a Ben Wade Danish Freehand...





These were the two new ebay buys, got decent price on each...the first is a Bjarne Viking, and the second is a Butz-Choquin...





Can you tell I favor bents? Last but not least is a Nording dual stem with the churchwarden stem attached...got it from the afore-mentioned Pipesandcigars.com and here's why I recommend them...I bought two pipes from them last week off their website...a Nording dual stem (but not this one) and a Savinelli Rusticated churchwarden for my son...I placed the order and got an email from them the next day stating they didn't have stock on the two pipes I wanted and they would see what they could do for me if I wanted anything else...so I called them and talked to Scott (I think he's the owner)....to make a long story shorter than this has been, he offered me a Savinelli Smooth churchwarden for the same price as the rusticated one (a 25% savings) and also told me about this Nording he had that he'd let go for the price of the one I bought (a $5 savings)...since it sounded as nice and perhaps even better than the one I wanted I took it and I'm glad I did...and, the savings on the two pipes added up to enough to buy several tims of tobacco...like I said, great customer service...

[Neuromancer]

And as you can see, I got kicked down the TAD slope as well...

[Millow]

Tell me how those chocolate flakes are... been looking for a good chocolate aromatic.

[Neuromancer]

Originally Posted by Millow

Tell me how those chocolate flakes are... been looking for a good chocolate aromatic.

I like them both, but for me the Bob's Chocolate Flake takes first place...my GF says the room note smells like a chocolate cake being baked...tastewise it has a slight chocolate/floral taste, very pleasant, pretty cool and with very little noticeable bite...

[Hookem187]

mmm chocolate flake...man that sounds good. I'm gonna have to put that one on my list!

[Alpedhuez55]

I got my Jobey Estate pipe I picked up last week on Ebay. It was about $24 shipped. When I openned the box I was suprised by the size of it. It has a big deep bowl. And the briar and detail are just beautiful!!! The pictures to not do it justice.





The condition was fantastic. I sanitized and polished the stem. The bowl was in great shape. It was well cared for and really did not need much compared to the Charatan I got last week. The original box and paperwork are a nice touch too!!! It is almost to prety to smoke!!!

But I said almost!!! I cannot wait to try this baby out!!!

[IHT]

my new ser jacapo rusticated poker came in the mail today. already had a bowl of GLP Abingdon in it. smoked pretty well... this thing has barely been smoked (or so it seems). it's 7 1/2" looooong!!


some of the nomenclature. i wonder what these are worth retail? well more than what i paid, i'm sure.


more nomenclature.


a different angle of the pipe.

[Alpedhuez55]

THis is my latest Ebay Estate aquisition:



It is a Kriswill Golden Clipper. I had buyers remourse at first. It was only $10 but the shipping charge was a rip off of over $9. I did not feel as bad when I saw an identical one that had been restored go for over $45.

It came in with a fairly oxidized stem and a lot of crud on the briar, but the bowl seemed to be in good shape. It just took a lot of spit, polish, pipe cleaners and elbow grease to get it into shape. After that effort I was rewarded with a sweet little pipe. The picture is not the best but I can assure you that the grain is beautful on this one. THe only flaws are a couple of bitemarks on the stem. It passes a cleaner from stem to bowl without a problem.

The bowl is narrow but deep. I broke it in tonight with a bowl of Rattray's Hal O' the Wynd. Despite the thin walls, it smoked suprisingly cool. I think this may be my new pipe for Virginians!!!

[Scott M]

My new pipe has a first name... it's O-S-C-A-R


The Savinelli Oscar 625 K

before the work up





And one of the most oxidised stems I've seen...(mid 600grit)



and the (stem) end product



Sadly, the logo got dinged up in the oxyclean. It's still there, but I kinda sacrificed it a little...

Continues

[Scott M]

The end product;







A bit of Murphys oil soap, some sandpaper and elbow grease later.

Cheers!

[Millow]

Wow, great restoration.

[Dogwatch Dale]

I finally got around to shooting a few pics. The first is my humble pipe center down in my smoking room. The second is a close-up of my two best smoking pipes. I bought both of these brand new when I worked in a pipe shop back in my college days. They are now 30 years old and smoke really sweet!

The meer is more colored then the pictures make it appeared, but still has a ways to go. I didn't ever smoke it much back in the day and it only gets fired up once a week or so now since I pulled it from storage about 2 months ago. I smoke Virginia Flake blends in it almost exclusively.

The Karl Erik is my favorite. I use it only for english blends. It could use a quick polish on the bowl, but I smoke it every other day or so and never seem to get around to taking the wheel to it.

Most of the other pipes in the rack are eBay deals as of late; a Comoy, Kaywoodie, Savenelli and some other lesser known brands.

The table everything sits on was on old birch wood kitchen table that came from my wife's grandmother's estate. I shortened the legs to coffee table height and painted it. My wife added all the cigar bands from my early days collection. Funky!

[fitzsmoke]

Originally Posted by IHT

it still needs broken in.. i've smoked it maybe 8 times so far. it's a small pipe though, smaller than it looks in the photo. good for a quick smoke, and i use it for an aromatic i like... but, for some reason, i get a good amount of "juice" coming up the tenon to my mouth....

Most of the "juice" is your saliva going down the stem and then being sucked up along with burned tobacco residue. No problem...new pipers usually produce excess saliva. Try taking the pipe out of your mouth between puffs, don't worry about the pipe going out, just relight. Make an effort to have your mouth somewhat free of saliva before taking the next puff.

[akatora]

Originally Posted by Alpedhuez55

This was waiting for me when I got home. The pictures do not do it Justice!!! This s my first nice pipe. So I cannot wait to smoke it!!!

That´s a _very_ nice looking pipe you got there bro! I might just look into pipesmoking too....WHY GOD WHY??? Can I ask you how much and what model it was?

Thanks