While at the Richmond Show this year, I went to a table that has a ton of old, beat up, neglected pipes and picked out a few so that I can do some more tutorial videos. All of the pipes that I picked up are older pipes. One them is a Yello-Bole pipe. I grabbed it because I like the shape of the pipe and I was pretty sure that it was quite old.
After I did some research on Yello-Bole pipes, here is a very brief description of what I found out:
The original Yello-Bole pipes are actually Kaywoodie seconds. Kaywoodie started making the Yello-bole line in 1932 as a way to use their briar that didn't meet up to the standards of having the Kaywoodie name on them. When they made the Yello-Bole pipes, they put all of the same stampings on them that they put on Kaywoodie pipes.
Based off of that information and since this pipe has a 4-digit number, I have found out that this pipe was made between 1932-1935. It is over 70 years old and is in very good condition.
Earlier this week I grabbed the Yello-Bole and started messing around with it not really intending on doing a complete clean up on it, but I ended up doing just that, lol. So, this one didn't make it to the video for its close up, but I did take some before and after photos of it and here they are:
Before Photos
After Photos
This restoration was done completely by hand with no machines used (other than myself because I am a machine, lol).
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I promise that I will use the other 4 pipes that I bought in videos :-), specifically "How to Ream Your Pipe" and maybe a restoration without machines videos.
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