Kaywoodie Stems, Stingers and Hand Mades

voorhees · Mar 15, 2017

Received a lot of 5 pipes. All Kaywoodies. But I have some unanswered questions. There are two hand mades, one is the large author and the other is a bent bulldog super grain. Neither have a stinger and are push stems, logos on large author so white circle with black clover, the other is white clover only.

Then I have an unsmoked Super Grain 11 billiard with a small 4 hole stinger. The ball is also not quite like I've seen, not quite round almost squashed.

The 4th of the group is a Matched Grain 14 bent billiard Push stem no stinger, and top mounted logo and lastly a Prime Grain 07 billiard with a white circled(on side)black clover stem with three hole stinger.
My question is when did they use push stems without a stinger?
Sorry I don't have pictures as my hosting site is giving me troubles and will try to post asap.

ashdigger · Mar 15, 2017

Vorhees, all Handmades were push stem without a stinger and predominantly were made in the 50's.

papipeguy · Mar 15, 2017

Kaywoodie still makes hand made pipes and they are priced accordingly. Here's my only Kaywoodie. Very nice pipes.

voorhees · Mar 16, 2017

Here are the pipes.

with stems removed.

ashdigger · Mar 16, 2017

Good looking set. The small 4-hole and the 3-hole stingers are from the late 40's through early 60's. Those Handmades are really nice and definitely from the 50's. Nice score.

ssjones · Mar 16, 2017

Ash knows his KW's, nice score on that group!

voorhees · Mar 17, 2017

Al, actually the great picker is Shaintiques....he grabbed them with me in mind randomly at the New York show.

ssjones · Mar 17, 2017

Ah, ha, I thought that I recognized one or two, we browsed the same table.

voorhees · Mar 23, 2017

Here is the group all cleaned up. I may go back over the stem on the large hand made.

mso489 · Mar 23, 2017

Wow, it's a Kaywoodie festival. Let me say that no one should avoid Kaywoodie stingers. Mostly I don't buy stinger pipes or remove them (labeled and saved). They don't improve the smoking at all for me. However, I do own a Kaywoodie Drinkless, and the stinger is no problem. I just remember to wipe it down when I pipe cleaner the stem. As many know, the Drinkless has a screw-in stem that is part of the stinger, so you can't remove it, but as noted, the pipe is worth it and it's no problem.

kane · Mar 23, 2017

This is probably a really stupid question, but are the KW "Hand Made" pipe truly hand made? Not factory assembly line production, or what ever the alternative would be for how KW's are made?

Very nice pipes you got there, voorhees.

voorhees · Mar 23, 2017

kane, After some research I really cannot tell you what exactly "Hand Made" applies to. I would like a KW expert to tell.

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