A week ago or so I read the post by member Lightmyfire on a restoration/rustication he did on an old pipe. It looked so good and was so well done, that Lightmyfire, you lit my fire! I had an old Whitehall pipe that fairly decent briar, but was plagued with four ugly fills. (why use pink putty on a brown pipe?) It also had a couple of small dings on the bottom of the bowl. I had stated cleaning the pipe previously, but when I saw how bad the fills looked, I stopped working on it as I needed time to figure out how I wanted to deal with them. Then I read the post by Lightmyfire, and I thought, why not? It's not like I'm experimenting on a big buck pipe. So I got my old Dremel tool out and my shoe dyes to give it a try. It's a little time consuming, but with a little care and planning, it seemed to go ok. I didn't try anything too fancy, and I want to mention that the lower part of the nomenclature that says, "Briar Italy" was very poorly stamped to begin with. There was not much to preserve.
Anyway tell me what you think, or if there is something I should have done differently, or better. I'm hoping this is a learning experience, and might try it again.
Anyway tell me what you think, or if there is something I should have done differently, or better. I'm hoping this is a learning experience, and might try it again.
