An Unnamed French Pipe in the Workshop

[MilesDavis]

This one just needed some TLC, a good cleaning and a polish. I really like this one.

 

[mso489]

It looks most like a Chacom to me, but that's a guess. Except for the two-tone finish.

 

[didimauw]

Nice work! Are these pipes you work on for your own collection?

 

[MilesDavis]

Nice work! Are these pipes you work on for your own collection?

Yes. I fell into this crazy hobby a couple years and now I have over 200 pipes. I pick them up here and there and I'm not particularly interested in whether they're valuable or not, although some are. I really like finding an old pipe that has its history written all over it, looking like a charcoal briquette, that I can restore to a semblance of its original beauty.

 

[anotherbob]

I think that pipe should be called Dave.

 

[verporchting]

Anything but Sue!

 

[MilesDavis]

I think I found its fraternal twin! I have yet to work on this one:

 

[MilesDavis]

Here they are all cleaned up and reunited.

 

[MilesDavis]

Another picture of the new(er) French two-tone: