Bowl Coating Not Tasty

[saltedplug]

A new pipe apparently has a funky bowl coating as in the three smokes thus far the first two tasted strange and bad while the third yielded only partial flavor. It's a Huybrecht from nearly 100 years ago.
This is not to start a thread about bowel coating because that goes absolutely nowhere but to ask how I should proceed with the pipe. I'm thinking that I could probably get way with continuing to smoke the pipe, waiting on developing a cake to improve the flavor. But I have a nagging doubt that maybe I need to send it out to have the coating removed, that the coating will continue to alter the flavor even with cake over it.
Thank you for your help!

 

[aldecaker]

The only bowl coating I'm in favor of is cake. The rest of them just taste like a heated-up version of whatever crap they make it out of. I just sand it out of the bowls of new pipes.

 

[warren]

We've covered this ad infinitum. Most don't notice coatings. Those that do, forswear buying any more "coated" bowls. Others simply remove the coating where possible. Lots of threads about removing.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Just keep smoking it. Cake will develop and the coating—if indeed it's a coating on a very old pipe— will disappear.
Enjoy!

 

[cortezattic]

G.L. Pease on bowl coatings, Part 1

G.L. Pease on bowl coatings, Part 2

 

[oldmansmoking]

Peterson new pipes have a coating which has a bad taste. After 3 or 4 smokes the cake covers it and it smokes good.

Just keep smoking your pipe, stay with it.

 

[doctorbob]

Is this a refurbished pipe?
Doc

 

[saltedplug]

Sorry to ask that which was already discussed.
I'm reading:
damp paper towel

high proof whiskey on paper towel

sanding
Anything else?

 

[nevadablue]

Educate me please. A 100 year old pipe came with a coating?

 

[sablebrush52]

This is not to start a thread about bowel coating because that goes absolutely nowhere...

Thank goodness!! The whole idea of colonic irrigation gives me the shivers.

 

[johnbarleycorn]

Well I for one am glad you’re not starting a thread about bowel coating. That can be a sticky subject. 8O

 

[saltedplug]

I say the pipe is 100 y/o because Marty Pulvers says so. He probably says so because whoever he bought from said so. But the nomenclature does say "Huybrecht," and Pipedia says that maker was active ~1920.
Cortez referenced two articles on bowl coating by gap on this site. I wrote another on this site. And I'm sure there have been many other articles and a great deal of space devoted to same on all the forums. And in the end, this is a topic full of sound and fury signifying nothing because although people get very excited, and discuss and blame, mostly blame, it achieves f**king nothing!
As long as there are pipes someone will decide to coat them and others will despise the coating. It's part of the natural order.

 

[weezell]

Well I for one am glad you’re not starting a thread about bowel coating.

Sounds like a bunch of shit to me...(Sorry, had to)

 

[jpmcwjr]

Nah, you didn't!
I was hoping against hope the bowel jokes would be overlooked this time. But, crap, they weren't.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Sorry to ask that which was already discussed.
I'm reading:
damp paper towel

high proof whiskey on paper towel

sanding
Anything else?

Yes. Just smoke the damned thing.

 

[alexnorth]

My most recent Peterson has a coated bowl. Whilst cleaning the shank with whisky-soaked pipecleaners I accidentally scrubbed some of the coating off. It came off quite easily. I proceeded to smoke it with the coating still in the bowl though and the flavor was excellent.

 

[jensen]

The last time I had connection with Mr. Huybrecht was on the 7th January 1997

when he sold me two pipes, shape 49 dublin and shape 112 cavalier.

I do not remember if they were coated or not.

 

[mawnansmiff]

"Peterson new pipes have a coating which has a bad taste."
George, that bowl coating is likely stain...Peterson tend to dip their pipes.
Regards,
Jay.

 

[jensen]

I have here a Peterson Kapp Royal shape x 105 bought in June this year.

The pipe has no coating.
How can that be ?

 

[alexnc]

I had a new Rattray like that, heavily coated bowl, 5 smokes or so on it and I hadn't had one I enjoyed yet. I thought I was going to have to get rid of it. I took a toothbrush and sweetener and cleaned the chamber until I could see the wood, it came right out. Cleaned the draught hole until it didn't stain a cleaner, it was coated heavily all of the way to the mortise. The next smoke was a good one. It turned into one of my best smokers, so don't give up. I've had a few older pipes I had to take sandpaper to, I'm not sure what the difference was in coatings. Some can be a bit tougher, but most come out in minutes.