Cajunguy restores my Grandfathers pipes

[hobie1dog]

After seeing the picture by Uberam3ica of the pipe Cajunguy restored for him, I decided he was the right person to send my cherished pipes I inherited to. My older brother had them in his basement for the last 50 years and I found out about them by casually telling him I'd been trying to track them down the last year. The before pics are not very good, but I'll show them anyway.

 

[hobie1dog]

Now for the restored pipes photos:

I was very pleased with his work, and he got the pipes on Friday and sent them back out on Monday. I was hesitant to even think about smoking them after he did his internal reaming, and treatment on them, but he assured me that they would be fine, and that the finish and stems would not be damaged for a long time. It's going to be neat to smoke a bowl out of them for the first time in 50 years and knowing that he used them daily back in the 1950's when they were likely purchased. Tom also identified that the bulldog was a Savinelli. As you can expect, I highly recommended his work to any of you thinking about getting your pipes restored.
Thanks Tom,
Marty

 

[uberam3rica]

Gorgeous. He does Great work. I'm sending another pipe out to him

 

[igloo]

Very cool ! :worship:

 

[jchaplick]

Wow, thats incredible!

 

[cajunguy]

It was my pleasure, Marty. Given their history, it was an honor working on those pipes for you. I'm glad you're happy with how they turned out. It still astounds me what kind of grain that Grabow Riviera was hiding beneath fifty years!

 

[hobie1dog]

It still astounds me what kind of grain that Grabow Riviera was hiding beneath fifty years!

Yeah, you have to go back and look a second time at how big of a transformation that was.

 

[ejames]

Glad you found those pipes and put them back into use! Nice work Cajunguy!

 

[nsfisher]

Good job mate, and nice pipes

 

[jaysin]

Nice He really did a good job.

 

[bubblehead33]

you're an artist cajunguy!

 

[brian64]

Wow, beautiful work...very impressive. Wonderful to see those old smokers restored like that. :clap:

 

[adam12]

Wow man look at the grain on that Grabow! They are all amazing looking

 

[bentmike]

Nice job cajunguy! I enjoy these before and after photos. Amazing work -thanks guys.

 

[jameral]

Great work cajunguy! Those pipes look real nice. Enjoy them in good health hobie1dog.

 

[ace57]

Super job on the pipes.

 

[jvandy77]

Just curious, but does anyone know how a general restoration process may work? Just a lot of waxing and buffing, maybe filling?

 

[jvandy77]

Just curious, but does anyone know how a general restoration process may work? Just a lot of waxing and buffing, maybe filling?

 

[batdemon]

That's some great work, cajunguy :worship:

hobie, you have some wonderful treasures there :clap:

 

[shawn]

Awesome.