Update....
The seller said he would return my purchase price, minus shipping. The pipes cost me (minus shipping) about $11 total. I figure $3 on my end for the box, tape, etc. and another $4 or so on shipping, for a net return on investment of around $4. Nah....
So, I left him bad feedback on both pipes.
I did take pics so you folks could see what was up.
Understand, these we advertised as estate kaywoodies.
The item descriptions is:
"You are bidding on a used Kay Woodie pipe, it's over all condition is good with minor wear to the mouth piece. I will combine shipping, if you have any question please Email, thanks Papermags "
As noted earlier, I was knowingly bidding on low priced estate Kaywoodie pipes. I had no expectations of perfection, unsmoked in-the-box, pipes. These would have been project pipes, or yard pipes at worst, at best I figured I would have a nice ready to smoke or two.
this is how it arrived, as it appeared on the auction. The pipe was not separated into stem and bowl at shipping.It is a kaywoodie bowl and stem, the cloverleaf is missing from the stem, but you can see where it once was. However, as you will note in the lower pic, they are not from the same pipe. I could not remove the stem by hand. No amount of twisting or pulling would get them separate, without a level of force that would break one or both.
Once I made the decision to keep the pipes, I sacrificed the stem in my bench vise, and it still was s bitch to separate them. And, i found a screw in stem with a push in bowl, the threads wrapped in butcher paper.
Above is the bulldog bowl (no name) with a kaywoodie stem. Again a push mortise, screw stem. Threads wrapped in butcher paper, at time of delivery, to shim up the fit. However, the butcher paper did literally no good, as they were easily seperated just by picking up the pipe. You probably could have actually smoked the first pipe, albeit a sorry smoke, just due to the tightness of fit. You couldn't even have held the bulldog by the bowl or stem without the other falling off.
