randelli:
I am certain that the original owner of this pipe would have been pleased at the results of your handiwork.
With regard to the stinger, you might dip just the metal part in a cup of boiling water (heated in a microwave oven) in order to soften the residual tar (if, indeed, that is the dark matter which appears in your image above). Using a firm toothbrush wetted with some Dawn dish-soap and baking soda you should then be able to scrub it clean.
Smoking old briars such as yours is the closest thing to time-travel that any one of us is likely to experience. May this pipe always take you back to pleasant days of yore.
I am certain that the original owner of this pipe would have been pleased at the results of your handiwork.
With regard to the stinger, you might dip just the metal part in a cup of boiling water (heated in a microwave oven) in order to soften the residual tar (if, indeed, that is the dark matter which appears in your image above). Using a firm toothbrush wetted with some Dawn dish-soap and baking soda you should then be able to scrub it clean.
Smoking old briars such as yours is the closest thing to time-travel that any one of us is likely to experience. May this pipe always take you back to pleasant days of yore.
