I managed to find this rather manky Sasieni Trafalgar pipe on Ebay for next to nothing - its a sandblasted billiard with a replacement stem. Covered in lava, encrusted with dirt and slime, rim beat to hell, nomenclature filled with burgey and taint, replacement stem - in short, all the horror of an estate pipe.... My hope was that bowl was in good shape and perhaps refurbushing the stummel, addressing the poorly fitting replacement stem or even making a new replacement stem, I could press it into service as a smoker and thus enjoy a Sasieni "on the cheap"..
I was well into the clean up and at the stage of applying small rotary tools to extend bowl sandblasting back up onto the repaired rim when my wee Jack (4 year male whippet) decided to gank this project off my bench and apply some "Whippet Rustication".
*sigh* 8O Sooooooo, scope change! From a loving refurbishment of Sasieni billiard sandblasted Trafalgar to a hot-rod Sasieni-based sandblasted pot!
To this date, he's never shown any interest or bother to concern himself with my pipes. All have been now lifted off surfaces reachable and put away in secure storage. But I ask - who can be mad at face like this?
I was well into the clean up and at the stage of applying small rotary tools to extend bowl sandblasting back up onto the repaired rim when my wee Jack (4 year male whippet) decided to gank this project off my bench and apply some "Whippet Rustication".
*sigh* 8O Sooooooo, scope change! From a loving refurbishment of Sasieni billiard sandblasted Trafalgar to a hot-rod Sasieni-based sandblasted pot!
To this date, he's never shown any interest or bother to concern himself with my pipes. All have been now lifted off surfaces reachable and put away in secure storage. But I ask - who can be mad at face like this?