Bright swirled lucite stems

kashmir · Mar 25, 2013

I'm thinking of replacing some of my vulcanite stems with Lucite acrylic ones. But I'm looking for brightly colored swirled Lucite stems. The kind JT Cooke uses on this pipes. Like bright orange with black swirls. Or black with grey swirls. Or malachite green swirled stems. Basically a dayglow version of the traditional Cumberland stem. Does anyone know a pipe repairman using this type of rod stock?

aaronbrill · Mar 25, 2013

Walker Briar Works offers replacement stems for cobs in lots of different colors of swirled Lucite, so I'm sure they could make you any stems you wanted. I can highly recommend their work also.

gray4lines · Mar 25, 2013

I have a "forever stem" from Walker Briar, and irt is great. Mine is a nice tortoise color (browns, blacks, and reds) but he has some groovy colors too. I like some of the brightly colored acrylic stems as well. I think many Ardor pipes have really neat stems.

kashmir · Mar 25, 2013

Thanks Aaron. Just checked out his site. And he's got colored swirls. I think a black shell pipe would look cool with a green malachite stem. I figure if you can't afford a new pipe, restemming old ones is the next best thing! LOL. I also see he can recreate the three part C Comoy stem inlay too. Thanks for the link.

mso489 · Mar 26, 2013

kashmir, This is an interesting way to add new life to a well-used pipe or an ebay or antique store

find. 'Seems like it could be really terrific or just kind of jivey-looking (which might be good in a

different way). Just thinking it over, I can see it really working on many freehands, or some staid

old billiards or even adding a little spark to a Canadian. Some of the other more traditional shapes, I

can see it working less often. The bulldog just doesn't seem like a colored swirls pipe, nor

a diplomat nor an author, but of course I'm just generalizing. Depends on the pipe, and no doubt

on its owner. It would be interesting if you decided to post a photo of an example or examples when

you have them. A bulldog might take a deep maroon, and maybe a diplomat a dark green. Hmmm.

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