Not perfect but it looks a little better now.
Tobacquisition - August 2019
- Thread starter Mike H
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All cleaned up, after two and a bit hours rubbing with a magic eraser:
Not bad for two euros, it actually looks much nicer in the sun, the colour is lovely, it's got one fill that I can see and the rim of the bowl is a little bashed up. Managed to sand down the cake, it looked like whoever owned it previously only ever smoked half bowls, now it smokes great and there's no ghosting that I can taste.
Not bad for two euros, it actually looks much nicer in the sun, the colour is lovely, it's got one fill that I can see and the rim of the bowl is a little bashed up. Managed to sand down the cake, it looked like whoever owned it previously only ever smoked half bowls, now it smokes great and there's no ghosting that I can taste.
Nice work!
That FB Page is dangerous. I wish that guy in Viet Nam would stop posting pics of his coconut wood pipe.
Hmm, I don’t have an olive wood pipe in my collection
a bunch more tins of...
This being in the Tobacquisitions thread, I'm figuring #1 is on its way to Texas?
(If so, I'm totally claiming the enable points.)
I wish. Let me work on the wife a bit.
Claim your enable points forthwith
Your last acquisition pushed me over the edge- I needed olive wood. Who made yours? Somehow I missed it.
The guy's name is Simone Bozzi. "Il Picchio Nero" on Artisan Pipes.
Ahh, I will make sure not to look at his posts for a while.
Kilroy6644
Smoking a corn dog in aviators and a top hat
MM Franklin came today.
Couple of really cheap estate meerschaums I managed to grab, love the stem on the little one (also makes me think it's 70s or 80s) and the big one is a like a monster Van Cleef. No cake to speak of, "reamed" them with tissue and they came out relatively clean, no markings apart from the "36" on the biggie. Does anyone have any idea on date? I'm presuming not, as it's hard to ID unmarked meerschaums, I have seen similar CAO ones to the big one, I thought it was worth asking anyway. The stem's a little looser than I'd like on the big one, any way of sorting that (I haven't got a clue with meerschaums, I'm presuming the beeswax trick won't work, may have to go with heating the stem and trying to widen it).
It's an Oom Paul I suppose, or close enough.
That's lovely @Kilroy6644, I wanted one, I'm really getting in to bulldogs, but the postage killed it for me, unfortunately.
It's an Oom Paul I suppose, or close enough.
That's lovely @Kilroy6644, I wanted one, I'm really getting in to bulldogs, but the postage killed it for me, unfortunately.
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Also got this Chacom with the two above, been cleaning it, thought I was done then saw it in the sunshine
Bit of an unusual one for me, would the shape be a Zulu? It bought it had been repaired, because of this:
Can only make out "Chac Rel", Chac is Chacom obviously but not sure on the rel
I can't see any cracking that would need repairing, but maybe it's not gone all the way through, I think someone's just added a military mount though, the pipe looks like it's been used maybe 10 times maximum, probably less, so I don't think it's a repair, more of a mod, makes for an unusual pipe anyway.
Two part stem:
Anyway, back to scrubbing the stem haha
Bit of an unusual one for me, would the shape be a Zulu? It bought it had been repaired, because of this:
Can only make out "Chac Rel", Chac is Chacom obviously but not sure on the rel
I can't see any cracking that would need repairing, but maybe it's not gone all the way through, I think someone's just added a military mount though, the pipe looks like it's been used maybe 10 times maximum, probably less, so I don't think it's a repair, more of a mod, makes for an unusual pipe anyway.
Two part stem:
Anyway, back to scrubbing the stem haha
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Very nice!
My Pegasus olive wood horn. The cat just had to get in on the action.
Sweet! Both pipe and cat...
