Inherited Pipes/ Newbie Questions

[Geoface]

Hello Everyone. My Grandmother recently gave me a few of my late great-uncles pipes. I'm not sure if I should smoke out of them or not. One is a Peterson 314, one just says Italy on the side, and the other one says tobacco corner and the stem screws in. Do any of you know anything about them or what I should do with them as far as smoking goes?

 

[Mr. Scruffy]

Clean them up and smoke them!


http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showthread.php/196714-Pipe-Restorations-with-Pictures

 

[jiminyshiznit]

Yep.. smoke 'em!

 

[seanusa]

If I were you I would take the Peterson and clean that sucker up n smoke it. There are lost of resources here and other places to help you along the cleaning process. I just cleaned up one of my Dad's old pipes. The process I used was 0000 steel wool to clean the outside of the whole pipe (stem and bowl disassembled) I then used a little olive oil to help black the stem. I then cleaned all the parts with paper towels and pipe cleaners and a little Bacardi 151 but be careful it can remove the stain. After reaming the bowl I filled the pipe with rock salt and Bacardi and put a Bacardi soaked cleaner in the stem. Let this sit overnight. Repeat this process until the pipe with nothing in it almost tastes sweet. After you get it to taste sweet clean out the salt then I sealed and polished the whole pipe with carnauba wax. She is standing by ready to smoke.

 

[Geoface]

Clean them up and smoke them!


http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showthread.php/196714-Pipe-Restorations-with-Pictures

Great Link!!

 

[the_edski]

I agree with all said above. Clean them up nice and get to smokin'!

 

[Hirsute]

The Italian bulldog looks like it might be meerschaum lined. I'm not sure about doing the S/A treatment on a meer-lined pipe, but the others should be straight-forward to clean. Someone will likely chime in about that one.

On the Peterson, since it's a system pipe, you'll also need to make sure you get all of the salt out of the system well and clean it well. The one system pipe I have took many, many treatments to clean, so just know it may take a few treatments to get it sorted.

 

[brother cavefish]

Nothing better than a used/broken in pipe. Use them

 

[conroygc]

Great pipes, especially the Pete!

Let us know if you have any questions about cleaning them up.

 

[Geoface]

Thanks guys. I followed the links provided and cleaned them up nice. I had my first smoke out of the Peterson on Thursday, It was great. My grandmother is sending eight more of my great-uncle's pipes and his little humidor he used for pipe tobacco.

 

[the_edski]

Thanks guys. I followed the links provided and cleaned them up nice. I had my first smoke out of the Peterson on Thursday, It was great. My grandmother is sending eight more of my great-uncle's pipes and his little humidor he used for pipe tobacco.

Nice on all counts! Be sure to post some pictures when it comes in!