Yeah, I suppose you're getting tired of seeing these sad pipes, but this will probably be the last one, as the fourth one is beyond restoration.
Anyway here we go, this one was quite bad, borderline un-savable. It's a Shell from 1948 I believe, and like the others had the usual black tape on the stem/shank joint, slightly chewed up bit, and lots of oxidation. The bowl was a mess to put it mildly. Lots of cake, and two vertical cracks that were connected about 3/4" down with a horizontal crack. I figured that the cake was holding it all together, and I was almost right. It seems at one time someone glued the horizontal crack, as there was some gunk and residue in it. So with the whole piece out of the bowl, I cleaned everything really well, and proceeded to glue it all back together. Lots of glue, briar dust, and time later it looked like it might make it after all. I managed to hide the repairs as the sandblast makes this much easier. Got a good bowl coating going with some rum and ash and it hardened up quite nice. The dot on this one is really dark compared to the others. Maybe the stem or the dot was replaced at some point? Smoked a little GH Rum Flake in it to start the cake going. So far so good. :wink:
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Anyway here we go, this one was quite bad, borderline un-savable. It's a Shell from 1948 I believe, and like the others had the usual black tape on the stem/shank joint, slightly chewed up bit, and lots of oxidation. The bowl was a mess to put it mildly. Lots of cake, and two vertical cracks that were connected about 3/4" down with a horizontal crack. I figured that the cake was holding it all together, and I was almost right. It seems at one time someone glued the horizontal crack, as there was some gunk and residue in it. So with the whole piece out of the bowl, I cleaned everything really well, and proceeded to glue it all back together. Lots of glue, briar dust, and time later it looked like it might make it after all. I managed to hide the repairs as the sandblast makes this much easier. Got a good bowl coating going with some rum and ash and it hardened up quite nice. The dot on this one is really dark compared to the others. Maybe the stem or the dot was replaced at some point? Smoked a little GH Rum Flake in it to start the cake going. So far so good. :wink:
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