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  1. cersono

    Peterson Smokes Bad No Matter What. How To Fix It?

    I'd gladly provide the pipe for an expert inspection but my Vallis Lacrimarum in Patribus Infidelium is unfortunately a place too far away from the civilized world. That's why no option of binning any pipes, despite some Brilliantly Smart suggestions above. Here in the bush, you fix and repair...
  2. cersono

    Peterson Smokes Bad No Matter What. How To Fix It?

    Salt & Alcohol treatment sounds like a good idea! I doubt there's any original coating left (I scraped the chamber down to the wood when I was preparing the pipe for the first smoke) but I recall Salt and Alco did wonders to my other (ghosted) pipes. It didn't just remove the ghosting, it made...
  3. cersono

    Peterson Smokes Bad No Matter What. How To Fix It?

    The pipe is clean and even disinfected thoroughly. That's what I do firsthand upon acquiring an estate. All my other Petersons smoke just fine. Which makes me to suspect there might be something about engineering of this particular pipe (although I find no obvious flaws, visually). I'm asking...
  4. cersono

    Peterson Smokes Bad No Matter What. How To Fix It?

    Sorry for a silly question but I feel like I have little options other than to turn to the collective wisdom of the forum. For some years already, I have an estate Peterson Limerick 80s Bent Bulldog (probably, from the 1970s) which just smokes bad. Nothing wrong with the pipe itself, no ghosts...
  5. cersono

    Which Wood in Kiko Meerschaum-Lined Pipes?

    Yep, sure. I should have posted it first thing. Here is the mysterious Meerschaum-Lined wood: Slight opalescence isn't rendered by the photo but it's there.
  6. cersono

    Which Wood in Kiko Meerschaum-Lined Pipes?

    Gentlemen, do you happen to know, which wood did Kiko Pipes use in their Tanzanian Meerschaum-Lined pipes, particularly the Kilimanjaro series, other than briar? Among my several Meer-lined Kikos, I have such a pipe (Kilimanjaro Shape 11 Dublin Rhino logo) and have no idea which wood it's made...
  7. cersono

    How to Apply Pipe Mud on a Drawhole Burnout?

    The tomorrow's acquisition is made of Common European Maple, not Rock Maple. I looked up the characterictics of that wood and it seems to be about the same hardness as Oak. So yes, I would be better to coat it beforehand. Besides the excellent smoking qualities of my Polish Oak Pipe, I'm much...
  8. cersono

    How to Apply Pipe Mud on a Drawhole Burnout?

    OK, so I did the same. Pushed a nail through the half-set coating, then shaped the opening neatly.
  9. cersono

    How to Apply Pipe Mud on a Drawhole Burnout?

    Tomorrow, I hope to add to my collection another firewood pipe: a Cherrywood-shaped one made of Maple-wood. I think I will coat it too, with Charcoal and Waterglass, prior to the first smoke.
  10. cersono

    How to Apply Pipe Mud on a Drawhole Burnout?

    Made the repair. Charcoal powder and Waterglass, full chamber coating, thin layer on walls (no more than a usual pre-carbon in factory-made pipes) and thick layer on the bottom. I slightly wetted the chamber before applying the mix, formed a new drawhole opening with a nail while the coating was...
  11. cersono

    How to Apply Pipe Mud on a Drawhole Burnout?

    Great idea. Do I understand correctly, you drill the new airway opening in the hardened waterglass coating?
  12. cersono

    How to Apply Pipe Mud on a Drawhole Burnout?

    Gentlemen, I have a question on repairing a burnout. Here's my cheap oak-wood Pipe made by B&B in Poland. I bought it just to have an oak-wood pipe in my collection and never thought I'd like it too much. Surprisingly, it turned out to be one of my best-smoking pipes, which makes a perfect job...
  13. cersono

    Any Advice? Killer Tongue Bite

    It would be a good idea to see an endocrinologist. It's what I have had for several years: all of a sudden killer tongue bite whatever blends or smoking techniques. Right after I started to take thyroxine hormone the bite had almost gone.
  14. cersono

    Best Budget Butane Lighter

    I would recommend with sure the JOBON Piezoelectric Butane Dual Flame Pipe Lighter. I bought one on eBay for $12 expecting it to be another cheap Chinese throw-away. No way. After 5 years of heavy use it's still perfectly working and still is in great shape, no problems or repairs. I think...
  15. cersono

    Pipe Re-Stained with Tobacco Juice!

    Thank you, anthonyrosenthal74 Green walnut hulls and coffee seem to be proper natural ingredients for making pipe stain (especially walnut, which gives a strong and long-lasting colour hard to wash off hands). Perhaps black tea, used generously, will do as well. I'm thinking of trying them all...
  16. cersono

    Pipe Re-Stained with Tobacco Juice!

    Nice natural finish, Cortez. This kind of natural briar finish is what I like the most. Maybe it's time to buy a buffing wheel to use carnauba on my pipes. The opaque lacquer finish on Fermoy was hiding 2 microscopic sandpits... and a beautiful birdseye grain. I don't get their point in their...
  17. cersono

    Pipe Re-Stained with Tobacco Juice!

    Look at this beautiful new Pete 80s. It's stained with nothing more than Tobacco itself! This Pete was born as a Fermoy. I bought it just because I needed a filtered nickel-banded 80s, while Aran (which was actually what I was searching for) was nowhere to find in the stores. So I purchased a...
  18. cersono

    Suggestions? Need a good hot tea.

    Let me add one more suggestion. There's a tea called Malawi Dark Fired Tea. It's not particularly famous and it isn't readily available everywhere, but there used to be some online outlets in UK selling it (I found them by accident when some online stores popped up in my search results when I...
  19. cersono

    Are there any Sweet Latakia-Heavy blends?

    Thank you all, great suggestions! Will try them all (as far as I could find them in the stores).
  20. cersono

    Are there any Sweet Latakia-Heavy blends?

    Gentlemen, may I ask for your suggestions on Sweet Latakia-Heavy blends I've always been more of a Dark Fire Cured / VaPer fan but after the recent sudden and strange change of my tastes the mighty Call of Latakia struck me in the head. I used to like Latakia before, but as I'm finding out now...
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