Coloring Progress Over Time/No of Bowls in one Meerschaum Pipe
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@Chasing Embers : That's not too ghastly. It's got a sort of Lingonberry look going for it.
@Chasing Embers : That almost looks like an Ox Blood colored meerschaum. That's really nice and do you know what the added bonus is? You don't have to get into discussion about coloring as it f*cking pre-colored! 
50-100 bowls into this altinay. Verrry slight coloring but nothing crazy. I mostly smoke sir Walter regular in the pipe. Some of the color on the outside might be from smoking with dirty hands while on breaks from doing yard work. I’m surprised at how little it has colored.
No... I doubt there is any wax left on it.
@Chasing Embers : OK I love the pirate and the color is perfect. I have never managed anything like that shade of color and most of mine go that sh*t brown color due to brown twist but that is stunning. I wonder what the stain is they are using. Again the bonus feature of that pipe is that it kills stone dead any conversations about prospective pipe color after smoking 3000 bowls of Clan or whatever. What does it weigh? I had a skull and claw one about 35 years ago I never smoked that was not particularly well executed I gave away which I think at the time I gave £25.00 for if memory serves me right. It was a heavy old thing and about 12 inch long.
Oddly enough, Meerschaum Market doesn't list weight but it is the lightest of my meerschaums despite it's size.
I didn’t interpret that from the pictures. I’ll have to take your word for it. Maybe what I think I’m seeing is just carbon drug along on the surface during the cutting.
If I get a faucet that distributes whiskey, I might use that one. I only brought it up because I was doing that for a while after reading something about “tobacco tea”.
i’m pretty sure the coloring on the shank of my meer is “real “coloring, it has only been smoked a dozen times but has gotten that treatment.
Far as I know, soot doesn’t dissolve too much better in whiskey than water.
I’m also starting to wonder if the shank colors first (and coloring bowls) because there isn’t a “cake” layer in the shank the same way there is in the bowl.
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My pipe I posted on page 8 in the post# 151 did have a cake all around and to the bottom about 2 quarters thick and it has been coloring anyway slowly coming up
This one- cake that thick?- Did you remove? Was this pre-colored when you got it?
I did removed the cake and keeping smoking it.yep it was that thick.Past owner said it was completely white at first..uncolored..it is only 22 years old pipeThis one- cake that thick?- Did you remove? Was this pre-colored when you got it?
impressive and beautiful pipe.
After 400 smokes over 5 months with a coloring bowl.
If you want to see the animated version over time: