How To Prevent Rim Charring?

[brooklynpiper]

I meant our buttholes

 

[Chasing Embers]

For those who do get a little restorations, are we bleaching?

I was unfortunately shown tie-dying recently.

 

[alexnc]

Bleaching? I was wondering, I’ve soaked stems of estates in an oxiclean solution and them scrubbed them inside when dealing with a nasty estate before. It might force a rework of purging the oxidation from the outside. But I had great results and no damage that I could tell. Does that sound crazy to anyone?

 

[JohnMosesBrowning]

Avoid Thai food. That stuff will char a rim every time.

My great-uncle Paul used to say, whenever he'd have Thai food he'd eat ice cream afterwards, and then the next day he'd say, "C'mon ice cream!!"

 

[JohnMosesBrowning]

With your talk of breezes, it sounds like you smoke outside.

Indeed. It's odd how the slightest breeze seems to always take the flame right toward me and darkens the on the stummel/six o'clock side of the bowl.

 

[JohnMosesBrowning]

Ok, so for sure I'm over packing/filling the bowl and for sure I'm stuffing the flame down too close still. I'll try the saliva trick along with these tips and see if I can't improve. Many thanks for all the advice!

 

[JohnMosesBrowning]

Any advice on how to remove black gunk from the rim to determine if it's just cosmetic or if I've actually charred them?

 

[JohnMosesBrowning]

I found this in another thread posted by Cosmic:

Coffee is a mild acid that removes the toughest baked on rim char.

I'll give it a try!

 

[Chasing Embers]

Saliva and a paper towel work better.

 

[logs]

It's blasphemy but I like the look of a pipe with heavily charred/burned rim. I'm not talking some minor darkening that can be cleaned away, but heavy "my pipe as been transformed into a relic" kind of burning. I think it's cool. I have an 90 year old uncle with several pipes in that condition. I love em.

 

[jpmcwjr]

I can understand that.
How bout some photos of those old beauties?

 

[logs]

I don't have pictures of my uncle's pipes. But Madox07 posted a pipe a while back that's coming along nicely. With a few more decades of hard smoking it should reach the relic stage:
https://i.postimg.cc/66zJq2f5/a8cb0ab7c78d331805300914a5771ee0-1119827-1000-1000.jpg

 

[jpmcwjr]

Once your photos are on a photo hosting site (such as Imgur.com; Postimage; Dropbox, etc. Photobucket), or on virtually any site, including this site's album such as eBay; Amazon Pinterest; Facebook; an online Pipe retailer; you-name-it, select the full sized image, then Control-click (Mac) or Right-click (Windows) on the image itself, then choose "copy image location" or similar words. Now paste that URL (the full web address, which should end in .jpg or .png) into the IMG box in the reply window of the thread you're posting to.
The site's album is also a good choice for displaying photos, and the same method works for obtaining the image's URL for copying into the IMG box.
There are other good illustrations and steps on how to post photos under "Latest Discussions" in different formats:

LINK to that thread

 

[sablebrush52]

A sure fire method is, simply, don't smoke the pipe. Just put it on a shelf, and occasionally prostrate yourself before it.

 

[pipestud]

I was taught this trick many years ago. Simply rub a very light coat of Vaseline around the rim. When done smoking, just wipe it off.

 

[ak2000]

Saliva or Vaseline on the rim, noted though that just doesn't sound right.

 

[JohnMosesBrowning]

While keeping with the "just doesn't sound right" - the biggest reason I bring it up is that I really like a nice looking rim (Savinelli Roma, or better yet Neil Monier @ GarageMadePipeTool as examples) and I hate to spend money on one until I get better smoking habits.

 

[redglow]

I like a well used pipe that looks like someone has really enjoyed it. It makes you wonder where that pipe has been. What stories it might be able to tell if only it could.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

This is one of Instagram pipejokes from last year. I hope it helps.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Where can I see a demo of that?