New Meershaum Pipe

I clean my meers each Sunday with the rest of the pipes I've smoked the previous week. No cake needed nor wanted in my meerschaums so, they get a quick scrape in the bowl, down to meer. The stem/bit gets reamed until the cleaners come out clean. That's it. My newest meer is thirty-five plus years old and coloring nicely.

The routine is: After they are smoked they sit in an ashtray until the next night or Sunday. I irregularly rotate between eight meers, each pipes getting three or five smokes each night for one night or a couple of nights. There is no rhyme nor reason to selection each evening. One of the reasons I love meers is a pipe can go all day and next or, more and still proved a great smoke.

I've never had the original wax disappear, even after fifty years of hard use so, never had a reason to add wax. Mine are old pipes and perhaps manufacture methods differ now. I did go through the "wax aids in coloring" phase many years ago. Anecdotal evidence said I was simply adding wax and the color of the wax. But, that is anecdotal.

In winter, if house=bound, a meer might get eight or ten bowls smoked in a day if it's the first selected pipe in the morning. Meers for me are normally an in-the-house choice. Briars are smoked inside and out. Cobs are mostly during hard labor outside or fishing.

Posted 2 days ago #

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