Bowl Burn Out

[dottiewarden]

Thanks for the tip Cortez, I wouldn't want that to happen to me while I'm busy laughing at that guy!

 

[andystewart]

He must be driving while smoking, surely? And turning himself inside out trying to create a vacuum in the bowl...
Andy

 

[condorlover1]

Woooa. I never seen that before. I think a clay pipe might be in this mans future or at a bare minimum one made from a fire brick!

 

[rangerearthpig]

He's easy to pick out at a pipe convention. He's the guy wearing the oven mitt to smoke his pipe. :roll:

 

[andystewart]

Looking at Russ's Ruminations, was the fella using a torch lighter and trying to light a relatively small amount of tobacco? Burn-out is in the right place for someone angling down with a torch flame. Or maybe me trying to retro-fit result to cause?
Andy

 

[papipeguy]

This guy told the B&M owner that he did not use a torch but I suspect that he must have. Based on my observations of the first pipe and seeing the char marks on the bowl line up with the burn hole that could be my only conclusion. Still, you have to be mighty determined (or distracted) to do this twice.

 

[flmason]

I hope the shop does not continue to replace pipes for this customer. Most shops do not like loosing a customer but in this case it would be well worth the business loss.

 

[bluesmk]

Don't know how I missed this thread...caught up with it just before I left for work this morning. I've asked myself the same questions you all have and still scratch my head.

Oh, and thank you Walt.

A good friend of mine and pipe maker you may have heard of, Brian Ruthenberg had a conversation about torch cigars lighters many years ago and we know the signs and both feel the same way about pipesmokers who use them...the burn out was caused by "operator error". I just got in and have been having some PC problems, give me a bit and I'll try to get a pic of the scorch mark on the bowl rim on this pipe I have it out on the bech as a memento.....this guy must have a cast iron tongue!

John, if I'm reading right he burned the second one out!!??? I coated theat bowl in thirds, each time starting at the bottom so the bottom third has 3 coats! The walls on the top of those bowls measured .388 of an inch, a little better than 3/8ths and I use a tapered conical bore on Dublins to maintain wall integrity so it aint me.

Dan

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[bluesmk]

Ok gents here you go:

for your edification.

Dan

Gabrieli Pipes ::