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Show me that workhorse pipe!
This might be a primitive prototype- Wesley pipes
- Post #43
- Forum: Pipes: Show Us Your (fill in the blank) Pipes
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Show me that workhorse pipe!
Notice how the top of the bowl has almost no damage at all?- Wesley pipes
- Post #41
- Forum: Pipes: Show Us Your (fill in the blank) Pipes
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Show me that workhorse pipe!
Did you do that? Now that’s a dead workhorse!- Wesley pipes
- Post #40
- Forum: Pipes: Show Us Your (fill in the blank) Pipes
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Replacing the stem on an exceptional Camelia… mid smoke!
Restoring pocketknives sounds like a much harder skill.- Wesley pipes
- Post #12
- Forum: Pipe Repair and Maintenance
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Replacing the stem on an exceptional Camelia… mid smoke!
Yeah. We are typing at the same time 😀.- Wesley pipes
- Post #10
- Forum: Pipe Repair and Maintenance
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Replacing the stem on an exceptional Camelia… mid smoke!
Just take it nice and slow. It’s fun to do while smoking your pipe, keeps the hands busy. maybe check out YouTube for inspiration.- Wesley pipes
- Post #9
- Forum: Pipe Repair and Maintenance
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Replacing the stem on an exceptional Camelia… mid smoke!
Also it should be noted. I’m not a professional. I only use hand tools and a common electric drill, so my work is not perfect or precise.- Wesley pipes
- Post #7
- Forum: Pipe Repair and Maintenance
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Replacing the stem on an exceptional Camelia… mid smoke!
If the stem is vulcanite, sanding it is very similar to sanding wood. I definitely get being nervous about trying to do a stem replacement. I have ruined a stem/pipe or two. The only advice I can give is practicing on pipes you don’t care that much about. I buy and sell pipes as a hobby, and...- Wesley pipes
- Post #5
- Forum: Pipe Repair and Maintenance
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Show me that workhorse pipe!
The last picture kinda reminds me of a lump of coal.- Wesley pipes
- Post #37
- Forum: Pipes: Show Us Your (fill in the blank) Pipes
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Lighters vs Matches
Something about seeing one of these kinda post from you, then looking at your cat avatar, just to the left corner, makes me smile so big it hurts. 🤣 Theres a couple times I said to myself… ” oh there’s that cat again, that one that has better pipes than you” little sh** like if muppets were real.- Wesley pipes
- Post #92
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Lighters vs Matches
If you look close you can still see a 6-7 Year old burn in my beard from a match head. almost center, that dark spot, before it thins the rest of the way down.- Wesley pipes
- Post #91
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Lighters vs Matches
Not to mention it’s pretty cool to see someone lite a pipe with a match! Adds to the mystique. When I was a kid I thought my grandfather was some kinda wizard or something, when he would lite his pipe with a match struck off the door frame, it looked like magic. Of course this was over 60 years...- Wesley pipes
- Post #90
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Lighters vs Matches
Can almost hear Tommy Chong saying “ hey don’t smoke that man!”- Wesley pipes
- Post #89
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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To restore or not to restore… that is the question.
Down to these three little piggies! Need to do a bit of sanding and shaping. I also have a bit of glue work, gonna try to make them a little more pretty 🤩 I’ll of course post pics of my progress.- Wesley pipes
- Post #106
- Forum: Pipes: Show Us Your (fill in the blank) Pipes
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Replacing the stem on an exceptional Camelia… mid smoke!
Now! Let’s tamp and finish that bowl 😜.- Wesley pipes
- Post #3
- Forum: Pipe Repair and Maintenance