Changing of Bowl Colour

B18 · Oct 12, 2015

Hi everyone,

last year I bought an Peterson Premier 303 pipe and after a year of smoking it, i saw that the bowl changes colour(from a darker virgin-ish colour to an light mahogany). Is it alright for the wood? Because i read somewhere(forgot where) that the changing may apply to rot or something like that.

Can you inform me on the changes?

mcitinner1 · Oct 12, 2015

What color is a virgin?

mcitinner1 · Oct 12, 2015

I've never heard of a pipe bowl rotting. The briar blocks are thoroughly dried, and kept dry before the pipe bowls are formed. Even an abused pipe that never gets cleaned just builds up cake and doesn't rot. Most likely your color change is from heating and cooling unevenly, and it's not really an issue unless there would be an un-seeable bad spot in the wood. If the finish is varnish and it bubbled, it would obviously be an issue. I respectfully suggest you read the rules on posting in the stickys. It's the last line in, Latest Discussions.

B18 · Oct 12, 2015

Virgin is when they don't give the bowls a colour or just slightly give it a colour.

For exhibit www.smokingpipes.com/pipes/new/Jacono/moreinfo.cfm?product_id=184699

mcitinner1 · Oct 12, 2015

Okay, that's also called natural.

B18 · Oct 12, 2015

Ok, thank you. Learnt something new.

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