Rim Chip

[wgstraub]

Just picked up this nice Stefano billiard -- a brand I have had good luck with i n the past -- and got it all cleaned up ready to smoke. It has a very small chip just below the rim of the bowl. Don't think it will crack but does anyone have any idea how to fix it up? Thanks in advance.

sawmill grill hampstead

 

[Merton]

Don't think it probably needs to be fixed unless it is really bothering you. However, there is a cost/benefit analysis to be undertaken I think.

 

[sablebrush52]

Think of it as a beauty mark. Besides, you'll probably do more damage than good, trying to tweak a small flaw like that.
But if it really bothers you, send it to a top flight restorer, like George Dibos, who can subtly reshape the area and carefully re-stain so that the patch doesn't show up under different lighting conditions, something very few people can get right.

 

[cigrmaster]

Welcome to the world of pipe smoking. Chips, dings and other beauty marks will forever mark up your pipes. I have a 600.00 Bruce Weaver with a chip on the bowl and I don't even see it as I am so used to looking at it. If I look at the pipe long enough I will see it and then it will piss me off but that is what it takes for me to really see it.

 

[Kal]

Lol, I was wondering the same. I drop things often due to uncontrollable release. But I seen a Peterson pipe I would like to get. But was curious about small chips if happens.
Can you buy the exact stain a pipe company uses?

 

[sablebrush52]

Lol, I was wondering the same. I drop things often due to uncontrollable release. But I seen a Peterson pipe I would like to get. But was curious about small chips if happens.
Can you buy the exact stain a pipe company uses?

Nope, but if you have a good color eye you can mix up a match from available dyes. Patching is trickier than re-staining, since you have to match to original stain, and match it in a way that it looks correct from different lighting angles. One way I can spot a patch job is that the stain reveal the patch as you turn the pipe against the light.

 

[Kal]

Nope, but if you have a good color eye you can mix up a match from available dyes. Patching is trickier than re-staining, since you have to match to original stain, and match it in a way that it looks correct from different lighting angles. One way I can spot a patch job is that the stain reveal the patch as you turn the pipe against the light.

Ok. Thanks.
Maybe I'll just get one with a silver drop protection rim. ? they do look nice.

 

[kcghost]

Best to just ignore it as accept it. Probably 3-4 guys in the county who could do something about it. It just isn't worth it.

 

[bullet08]

From what I have seen, they will sand it to even that out, or fill it. Personally, a little bit of character is better than trying to hide it. Beside, it will bother you more if you fix it.

 

[telescopes]

I had a rather large one on a Charatan. Briarworks in Durango, CO sanded it out, matched the color, and now it is unnoticeable.

 

[3rdguy]

Some of my cobs have this. They still smoke fantastic however!

 

[wgstraub]

Thank you all. Just wondering. I believe I'll keep it as is. Think it'll be good.

 

[anotherbob]

got a good chip on my vauen, bet i am the only one that will see it. Dropped it just right on tile. point it's part of the story of the pipe.

 

[mso489]

I belatedly concur. A few little marks on a pipe give it character, personality, patina. A little charring on a brim, a little chatter at the bit, it makes a pipe looked lived with. A well done fill is an absolute prize, for example on these old Benton house pipes from Iwan Ries. You'll get to tolerate it, then to find it handsome.

 

[orlandofurioso]

Think of her as a beautiful woman with a little imperfection and feeling very comfortable with it.
It will make her even more attractive

 

[orlandofurioso]

Best leave it be.
It is to deep to slightly top the rim , or to feather it out with micromesh.
Patching requires restaining ( the entire stummel ) . I master it close to "invisible", but only practice it when
an estate pipe is in dire need of restoration.
It's only cosmetics and a matter of randomly ordered atomics.

 

[jguss]

It's only cosmetics and a matter of randomly ordered atomics.

That's a bit too blasé for my taste; I rate aesthetics much more highly. It's been a very long time since I was a eighteen, but I'm pretty damn sure that when I saw The Deep I did not view Jacqueline Bisset as "a matter of randomly ordered atomics".

Had I seen a chip somewhere in Ms. Bisset I would not have considered it a tactful nod to wabi-sabi, but a severe disappointment.

 

[sandollars]

I had a nice pipe I let my 92 (at the time) year old father use and as he lit it, he missed and burned the rim pretty profoundly. I was a little taken aback at the time although I did not show it but I know he won't be around forever and when he is gone, this one thing will remind me of him every time I use it.

It's now my most precious pipe.... Probably always will be....

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

No biggie, I wouldn't worry about it. Certainly won't affect the smoking quality.

 

[OzPiper]

Just picked up this nice Stefano billiard -- a brand I have had good luck with i n the past -- and got it all cleaned up ready to smoke. It has a very small chip just below the rim of the bowl. Don't think it will crack but does anyone have any idea how to fix it up? Thanks in advance.

sawmill grill hampstead

I was a pimply adolescent and I have deeper acne scars on my face than that
In all seriousness, let it be. In trying to fix it, you may end up making it more noticeable, as others have commented