I was happy to find this Nachwalter at a good price. The unexpected plus was a complete browsing history of the previous owner’s last 20 years of smoking!
A Fistful of Crud
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That's the adapter bringing it down to a smaller size that's all.
Cake so thick, no known reamer can defeat it. (You have to imagine this sentence narrated by David Attenborough)
Or maybe it's Stonehaven goo! So many possibilities!
drill press with a carbon steel spade bit
When I bought my Alfred Hitchcock pipes, back in the '90's, they were absolutely caked up with little more than a pencil's thickness of open space in the center. I doubt he ever spent a minute cleaning them. Hitchcock was a meticulous craftsman when it came to his movies, but he was an absolute slob when it came to caring for his pipes.
If that is the state of the chamber, I’d check out the shank and mortise
My experience with estates is that the bowl and stem can look pristine but the airways can be full of crud
My experience with estates is that the bowl and stem can look pristine but the airways can be full of crud
I wish I could be more like that sometimes, just smoke pipes and not fuss about them. Worry about other things in life as long as the pipes work.
But I'm like that shrimp in Finding Nemo who can't resist cleaning the tank all the time.
So you have pipes that were owned and smoked by Alfred Hitchcock? That is so cool
I thought you were posting about a tobacco blend Dan!
Ol' King Coal extra dark fired. Marketed as pre-smoked.
Yep. One of the side benefits of living in LA is that a lot of personal possessions of celebrities end up being circulated. The Hitchcock estate sold off a lot of Hitchcock's pipes to Gus' Smoke Shop and I happened to walk in as they were bringing in from rear, boxes of pipes for sorting. Being a regular customer, and having bought my William Conrad Charatans from them, I was welcomed to go through the boxes to see if there was anything I might like. There were two boxes filled with piles of Hitchcock's pipes, all Dunhills, all about group 3, all bents and mostly Dublins. All of them were incredibly filthy and the cake had hardened into something approaching concrete.
What a cool story. Im glad you were able to pick them up and hopefully get some use out of the pipes... after you cleaned them, ha.
I can just see them in the WAYS thread now: "This pipe was formerly