Burnout?!?

[anotherbob]

Only had that happen with 1 pipe.
The “burning wood“ smell as distinct from “burning tobacco” was the alert

Yeah it kind of jumps out at you.

^^^^^ This is good advice
I fixed my pipe with a couple layers of cigar ash and water mud.
And left to dry for a couple of weeks
Absolutely no problems since

 

[edger]

52 years of pipe smoking hundreds of modestly priced pipes. Never a burnout.

 

[runscott]

52 years of pipe smoking hundreds of modestly priced pipes. Never a burnout.

Me either (but only around 35 years). But I know smokers who constantly get burnout - not sure how they do it, but it has to do with hard constant puffing...I think. When I received a badly burnt-out pipe (see pic below), I contacted the Pete expert , and he said "no problem" and gave me detailed instructions on the repair. This was sort of a white whale, so I really did not want to give up on it.

(There is a story behind this pipe, but basically, it was an honest seller mistake and he totally took care of me).

 

[jpmcwjr]

Me either (but only around 35 years). But I know smokers who constantly get burnout - not sure how they do it, but it has to do with hard constant puffing...I think. When I received a badly burnt-out pipe (see pic below), I contacted the Pete expert , and he said "no problem" and gave me detailed instructions on the repair. This was sort of a white whale, so I really did not want to give up on it.

(There is a story behind this pipe, but basically, it was an honest seller mistake and he totally took care of me).

That's a beauty, can see why you stuck with it. Was it possibly a problem with the cake? Was the outside of the bowl compromised? Anyway, glad to see the end result.

 

[runscott]

That's a beauty, can see why you stuck with it. Was it possibly a problem with the cake? Was the outside of the bowl compromised? Anyway, glad to see the end result.

No, the outside of the stummel was pristine - just dirty and a bumpy finish (the pic shows the stummel after restoration). The chamber had a thick coating applied by a pipe store.

When scraping off the coating, the poorly-cured pipe mud fell out of the back in chunks. I whimpered.

 

[didimauw]

Yeah it kind of jumps out at you.

Yeah, I have the worst sense of smell known to man I think, and even I can tell when it's a little ....too hott.

 

[kcghost]

It looks like a crack in the cake. You looking at either trusting that it is or doing as @RustiePyles CPG suggested.

 

[anotherbob]

Yeah, I have the worst sense of smell known to man I think, and even I can tell when it's a little ....too hott.

it's very much not going to leave any questions.

 

[Uguccione]

It looks like a crack in the cake

Idem.

 

[Briar Lee]

Twenty some smokes in, my C Marxman Jumbo is not any uglier than my other Bob Marx pipes, it’s a dynamite good smoker, and the bowl has a perfect black carbon film, and it’s smoking as cool as any pipe that size can smoke.

Yet all I’d have to do to burn it out tomorrow is load it up and light it and stick it out the window of my car on the highway, or direct an air hose in the chamber, or toss it in a fire.

Proper curing helps a briar pipe resist burnout. So does proper break in, and a thin film of carbon. But technique is a huge factor, how much it’s hard to say.