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Repairing a Botched Repair of a Botched Original Build
That bird's eye grain is amazing! I can see why the owner wanted a proper stem...- jhowell
- Post #5
- Forum: Pipe Repair and Maintenance
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The Pipe That Pulled Me Back In
You don't have to load it to the top...- jhowell
- Post #21
- Forum: Meerschaum Pipes
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1930's Comoy's 498 Extrordinaire
"virtually foolproof" - Have we met? <grin>- jhowell
- Post #10
- Forum: Pipe Repair and Maintenance
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Replacement Stems
Rich at Briarworks has always done good by me.- jhowell
- Post #2
- Forum: Pipe Repair and Maintenance
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How to Get a Foul Taste out of Meerschaum?
They used to throw clay pipes (which are much more fragile than meer) into the fire to clean them. Ghosts, foul tastes, or odors are caused by volatiles - heat helps to drive them out...- jhowell
- Post #21
- Forum: Meerschaum Pipes
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How to Get a Foul Taste out of Meerschaum?
Place it in a 250 degree oven for 24 - 48 hours...- jhowell
- Post #18
- Forum: Meerschaum Pipes
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Weber Meerschaum -Info Sought
In a case like that, I put CA on the internal threads, let it cure and run a tap through the threads to stabilize and re-enforce the threads in the meerschaum.- jhowell
- Post #7
- Forum: Meerschaum Pipes
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Which Oxiclean To Use?
What a great idea - stolen (and kicking myself in the butt for not thinking of it...)- jhowell
- Post #27
- Forum: Pipe Repair and Maintenance
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Stem Repair
Drop of water in / on the dent then flash steam with a preheated soldering iron. You can also use a hypodermic needle to make microscopic holes in a stubborn dent before steaming to get better penetration.- jhowell
- Post #19
- Forum: Pipe Repair and Maintenance
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Unusual Markings; Meerschaum, Real or Fake?
Sterling silver will not mark block meerschaum - it will leave a line on "reconstituted" meerschaum.- jhowell
- Post #23
- Forum: Meerschaum Pipes
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Cobb Repair
If you really want to not use synthetic products (they use glue at MM) - try some egg white... Or perhaps pine pitch (if you are into smoking christmas trees...) Or harvest some gutta percha from a rubber tree... Or shelac - after the alcohol evaporates all you are left with is Lac shit...- jhowell
- Post #6
- Forum: Pipe Repair and Maintenance
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Adjusting Stem Fit
Notebook paper hole reinforcers already have the hole - just apply and go...- jhowell
- Post #15
- Forum: Pipe Repair and Maintenance
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Adhesive for Meerschaum
Egg white - you can fill in small gaps with a mixture of meerschaum dust and egg white (the old recipe calls for eggwhite and chalk, but that was when chalk was mined and not synthetic)- jhowell
- Post #6
- Forum: Pipe Repair and Maintenance
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Pipe Cleaner Blocks Airway
Glad you got it out. Don't tell anyone, but I have been known to soak the threads inside the stummel with CA and then clean them up withthe proper tap - might just help your crack.- jhowell
- Post #23
- Forum: Pipe Repair and Maintenance
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Adjusting Stem Fit
Hole reinforcers for notebook paper - they come in paper and mylar giving you two different thicknesses of shim...- jhowell
- Post #9
- Forum: Pipe Repair and Maintenance
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Pipe Cleaner Blocks Airway
I soaked a meer stummel in 90% iso for a month - no damage...- jhowell
- Post #10
- Forum: Pipe Repair and Maintenance
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Butz-Choquin 1309 Regate Geante Conversion
Not so much a system as the demands of geometry. I have several meers drilled like this - one large drilling for the mortis and an angled drilling to get to the bowl. Nice conversion BTW!- jhowell
- Post #3
- Forum: Pipe Repair and Maintenance