White briar???

hooboy · Dec 2, 2015

I have a kaywoodie that is what they call a "white Briar" in billiard shape . My question is " Is there such a thing as WHITE briar color or is it a process to give this color to natural briar'?

I have to believe it is a process to color briar and If so why not Green briar, Yellow, purple, pink, etc, etc.

Does anyone have a clear understanding of this??

Inquiring minds or, a Mind is a terrible thing..... to waste.

hoo

iamn8 · Dec 2, 2015

I have a dream that perhaps one day, we shall judge briar, not by the color of the wood, but by the content of its character

calabashed · Dec 2, 2015

Those are finished in some kind of white paint or lacquer, not sure exactly what they use.
@Nate :clap: :rofl:

clickklick · Dec 3, 2015

I've heard milk paint was used to get white. There are a few carvers currently using a bleaching process to get really light wood blasts, but it isn't exactly snow white.
I'm guessing for the old white kaywoodies you could get the white off and you'd find normal colored briar underneath. Not that I'd want to do that.

michiganlover · Dec 3, 2015

It's most certainly white paint. Other companies, during this time period, made painted pipes in many different colors. For example the Dr Grabow Color Viscount, and Color Duke line.

ejames · Dec 3, 2015

It's paint. A quite tough and heat resistant paint. KW,Medico,Grabow and others made painted pipes.

agnosticpipe · Dec 3, 2015

+1 ejames, I cleaned off the white paint on a nasty looking White Coral Kaywoodie, and it was a bear! (I should have chosen a smooth finish) That paint, whatever it is, is pretty tough. My problem with the white painted pipes is, that if not in really nice condition, they look like a dirty toilet bowl to me. Apologies to all white paint pipe fans... :roll:

jpmcwjr · Dec 3, 2015

I recall a pipe shop that featured a sign warning, "Don't smoke paint!" close to their unfinished basket pipes. I thought it was Wilke in NYC, but Carol did not recall same.

hooboy · Dec 3, 2015

Thanks, that is what I thought.

hoo

okiescout · Dec 3, 2015

Nate, your a gas man :rofl:
Just the kind of material you want to set on fire and put in your mouth :mrgreen:

mso489 · Dec 4, 2015

White briar aside, briar does seem to come in a range of hues, if you look at an array of unfinished pipes, all the way from very light briar that looks almost like raw pine to some deeper shades that are more brown or reddish in hue. I'm sure the pros who buy briar by the lot can identify these with specific locales and maybe even altitudes. These guys are the briar shaman and don't often share information, I'd guess.

jonasclark · Dec 6, 2015

Yes, the "white briar" was just painted. I love the garish 70s colored pipes, including the "the Pipe" pyrolytic graphite ones. When I started collecting pipes as a kid, I bought from a drugstore a Dr. Grabow which I wish I still had: it was marked "squat bulldog," was basically a straight, diamond shank rhodesian/bulldog shape with a saddle bit, and was painted an ugly color somewhere between olive and forest green. I'd hazard a guess that the "White Briar" was attempting to visually imitate, cheaply, a meerschaum.

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