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  1. mawp

    What to do with four pounds of pure Burley

    I am happy to back with some news, as I said before I got my hands over a sample of localy grow, harvest and cure Burley leaf cut in some kind of ribbon style. As mso489 warned it is rough and unidimensional sort of speak but because I am also a cigar aficionado the experience was in my confort...
  2. mawp

    Show-Off Your Stanwell Pipes Here!

    Yours is superb, congratulations and happy piping
  3. mawp

    New Look For An Old One

    Mike what can I say, once you was bit by the Bug you are always a VW man hahaha, I have been involveld with VW for a long now, and had have three bugs, a couple of Westfalias and a '58 KG, by now I just keep my faithful '65 Sedan de Luxe (in a solw restoration mode). In the back of the first pic...
  4. mawp

    New Look For An Old One

    didimauw thanks for the words, a couple of pic after the first clean, as I said when I got it she did not tell me anything and like the ugly duck tale I did not pay too much attention at first.
  5. mawp

    New Look For An Old One

    Fellow pipe smokers I have been working on some very bad shape pipes I got to practice restorations techniques, here is another sample, this pipe was filthy, with a lot of oxidation in the stem plus a lava rim, after cleaned it up, reamed the bowl, cleaned the rim and polisshed the stem, it...
  6. mawp

    What to do with four pounds of pure Burley

    Already donwloading it, thanks logs
  7. mawp

    What to do with four pounds of pure Burley

    Good night gents Before anything I most say that I have been in pipes long enough before the internet, just to find out thanks to internet that I have been doing almost everything in the wrong way but I want to resume the pipe life I left behind mostly because bite tongue problems. I must...
  8. mawp

    First restoration attempt

    @trouttimes I am glad to say that the pipe smoke great, the bowl is larger than it is look and the wide stem fit nicely in my mouth . I enjoyed our first encounter
  9. mawp

    First restoration attempt

    husky & trouttimes thanks for the complements but at this very moment I am ghostbosting it with the salt/alcohol method so not smoking yet but I will let you guys know when it happens, and it will happens soon
  10. mawp

    First restoration attempt

    Update of finishing until carnauba and buffing wheels arrives, I am satisfied with the results so far, my pipes are for my own pleasure that's why they do not need to be show detailed, at least to me. Have a nice day
  11. mawp

    First restoration attempt

    At first I thought it was too dark then I found the crack in the bowl so I said to my self "let's do it" went to my friend's shop so I can grab the sandblaster and took the dark finish away, then do the CA application to the crack and sand blasting again them some sanding before first dying to...
  12. mawp

    First restoration attempt

    Good morning and happy weekend I would like to share my first restoration attempt over a state Denmark made Salvatella (curious it is a Spanish company) I choose this pipe because it has a crack in the bowl and was heavily used giving me the opportunitie to apply some of the techniques I am...
  13. mawp

    Show Off Your Straight Pots Here!

    Stanwell 46 recently adquiere state pipe, not even cleaned yet
  14. mawp

    Good smokers

    @weezell I am in a country with limited option period although I have more than many others. I am In Venezuela and we are dealing with the worst crisis in our history so have access to imported goods is not an easy task not impossible either. I will try to procure some better tobacco as soon as...
  15. mawp

    Good smokers

    Thank you all for your responses, look to me if I follow you guys that a good smoker is part physical attributes and part feeling of the person who smoke it, although @nunnster denoted things to be aware of to qualify as a good smoker, as I said I own few pipes but at the time only one tobacco...