Rim Rebuild and Resto for an Early Model BBB

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alexj52

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Sep 26, 2018
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Incredible! I'm sure you could post it on eBay as "lightly smoked"...

 

fluffie666

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Apr 4, 2014
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That is impressive. Very nice job. Just a guess but did you use waterglass with some sort of filling added for color to fix the rim? That stuff is not easy to work with. Whatever you used worked out great. Thank you for sharing this.

 
Mar 30, 2014
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Thanks everyone. I didn’t have high expectations for this one but I’m glad it turned out fairly decent.
@fluffy
I used fresh briar shavings to build the rim. It’s good to have pipe carver friends. Fresh briar shavings will take a stain and works pretty well for blending repairs. I stained each layer of the rim build trying create a faux grain pattern to match the surroundings. The bowl chamber had a pipe mud application followed by a carbon coating.

 

judcasper

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Incredible job! Thanks for sharing. And I'm with you on stubby nosewarmers. I've only been into pipes a few months and the stubby is by far and away my favourite type of pipe.
Sorry for the noobness, but what did you use to rebuild that rim?
ETA: Never mind. I see you already answered this.

 
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