Dr. Plumb 233 Estate Before & After

Nice job, little sister will be proud.

Nice job. Hope it smokes well for you.

Nice pipe. I am really starting to get into the bulldog shapes.

Hi, I just came across this post as I was doing some research on Dr. Plumb pipes, as I recently picked up a nice example of one. The stinger really floored me as I have never seen one that went into the bowl like that, or was so complicated looking. I checked out your album, and I saw that mine has the same stinger, but is longer, and doesn't go into the bowl as far. In fact when I got it the stinger was mounted upside down from what yours is. Its easy to turn it around so that the little holes are on top, but is this the way they are suppose to go? I've smoked it once with the stinger, which I normally don't like, and it seemed to smoke ok, no gurgling, but it won't pass a pipe cleaner. Do you smoke yours with the stinger in, or did you remove it? I'll try it without the stinger next time as the stem fits fine without it, but there is a groove in the bowl bottom that the stinger fits in that bothers me a little. If you revisit this post, let me know how you've dealt with the stinger issue. Thanks. By the way the restore looks great!