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conroygc

conroygc

Last year I bought some old estate pipes with the intention of restoring them. I didn't get very far. But recently I decided to have another go at in, invested in some tools and am pleased with the results I'm getting. I'd like to share some pictures with you gents.

This is a Moorgate Lovat(? I'm not great with the names of styles), which is a Comoy 2nd. It's dedicated to whichever aromatic I'm smoking at the moment, usually Sutliff Charlemagne.

After a cleaning and a botched dremel polish (note the burn marks)
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conroygc

conroygc

This pipe is marked Colossal. I can't find out much info on it but it's a really unique shape. It's too bad about the fills in the rim, but still makes a great English blend pipe for me.

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This pipe looked like it had never been cleaned when I bought it. Man I wish I would have gotten a before pic. It's amazing how well these old things can clean up.
 
conroygc

conroygc

This Savinelli Bing's Favorite was one I picked up in a trade. I'd always wanted one, I love the shape and the connection to the crooner.
Here's the before picture the trader sent me:
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And after
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conroygc

conroygc

This one's a very mistreated Dr Grabow Savoy. It has a large burn mark on near the top of the bowl. Wouldn't believe how much gunk came out of the stem. I sanded it all the way down and stained it with Ox Blood leather dye.

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conroygc

conroygc

I like this little guy. It's a Dr Grabow cigar holder and I've never seen anything like it. It has a screw in style stinger with a sharp point that pierces into the cigar and creates an airway. Finally I can clench a cigar!
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brother cavefish

brother cavefish

conroygc said:
Last year I bought some old estate pipes with the intention of restoring them. I didn't get very far. But recently I decided to have another go at in, invested in some tools and am pleased with the results I'm getting. I'd like to share some pictures with you gents.

This is a Moorgate Lovat(? I'm not great with the names of styles), which is a Comoy 2nd. It's dedicated to whichever aromatic I'm smoking at the moment, usually Sutliff Charlemagne.

After a cleaning and a botched dremel polish (note the burn marks)
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After
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this is a sweet one
 
conroygc

conroygc

I recently won a lot of ten pipes on eBay including three Peterson. I grabbed my favorite out of the batch to restore first, thisPeterson straight Pot. The hallmarks were unfortunately worn off, but the Made in Ireland stamp in a circle dates it to to the mid to late 40's (at least from my smidge of research). This is only the third or fourth pipe I've restored and it totally kicked my butt. Here's some before pics.
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I reamed out the cake and sanded the rim back down to bare briar. Cleaned the stummel with acetone on cotton pads until all the grime came off. Removed the tarnish on the silver band with flitz. Ran everclear soaked bristle cleaners through the stem until they came out clean. Used a nail buffer and some sandpaper to remove all the oxidation on the stem. Cleaned out the inside of the shank with about 80 soaked q-tips (I really need a shank brush!!). Then let it sit full of everclear and salt overnight.

And then the pipe starting kicking my ***! I used a furniture repair pen to restain the rim, and the color matched pretty well. So I took the whole pipe over to my buffer and started working on it with the tripoli on a sewn wheel. Polished the stem up really nice and did one little pass over the silver band....and my wheel turned black. Even though I had washed off the metal polish several times, it still messed up my wheel. I was dumb and did the same thing on my white compound wheel. Sheesh.
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and got the whole thing buffed up nicely. I gotta say, it looked pretty good!

But I wasn't satisfied. The stain was a little darker than I wanted, I wanted it a little more red, and there were still fine scratches on the silver and the stummel. So I cleaned and sanded the whole thing down again, and applied waaaay to much Ox Blood stain. Started staining again and basically ended up taking alllll the stain off again. I spent about two hours longer on this pipe than I should have. There's still some light scratches on it, a little mark in the stem, and two tiny little visible fills, but overall I'm pretty satisfied with it now.
Learned a lot of what not to do on this restore. But now I got me a fancy new pipe for $7! Waiting on some SG best brown flake to dry out to give it a test drive.

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Feedback is welcome!
 
Robster

Robster

Really nice work, i mean really nice. Wish I had tools at times like this (pipe envy) :) but living the simple life at the moment.
 
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