Chronicling An AliExpress Pipe For Science 2.0: The Re-Chronicling

[woodsroad]

I lived in East Stroudsburg for a year while working for Hoffmann-La Roche in Belvidere, NJ but I can assure you, none of the ones that I knew ever came back.

Oh, she went back. Back to black.

I canoed through Belvidere many times. Watch out for the big rock in the middle of the river just north of town.
You can probably still hear my cabin-mate screaming as the Grumman canoe wrapped around the rock, and him. Idiot. Canoes aren't meant to go sideways down rapids!

 

[mikethompson]

Looks like all that suffered was a little filling as noted by Furcoat. The Rugged Woodpecker seems a fitting name. You may have stumbled across a new method of pipe refreshening. Was there any citrus in the dishwashing soap pray tell?

"I have a pipe severely ghosted and caked, what should I do?"

"Have you tried the  dishwasher method?"

 

[bent1]

"I have a pipe severely ghosted and caked, what should I do?"

"Have you tried the  dishwasher method?"

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[AJL67]

Now it's off to eBay as an extremely rare pipe, "cleaned and ready to smoke".

 

[AroEnglish]

Now it's off to eBay as an extremely rare pipe, "cleaned and ready to smoke".

You can actually list it as unsmoked.

 

[bent1]

You can actually list it as unsmoked.

It may be ‘ghosted’ with perfume. Would it be a Lakeland pipe?

 

[mikethompson]

You can actually list it as unsmoked.

I'm sure there is some pipe smoking term for a pipe that hasn't been smoked, but has been both boiled and frozen.

 

[AJL67]

I'm sure there is some pipe smoking term for a pipe that hasn't been smoked, but has been both boiled and frozen.

Almost test smoked but just the test not the smoked part.

 

[mikethompson]

The next test: Staining.

A good quality pipe can be stained in any number of colours. Can this - arguably the most durable pipe ever- also take a stain?

Much in the same fashion of Peterson, I have prepared a bowl with Easter egg dye to stain the stummel. I will let it sit for 30minutes and see what it looks like. My guess? It will be as green as the emerald isle itself.

 

[JJ_JJ_JJ_JJ]

The next test: Staining.

A good quality pipe can be stained in any number of colours. Can this - arguably the most durable pipe ever- also take a stain?

Much in the same fashion of Peterson, I have prepared a bowl with Easter egg dye to stain the stummel. I will let it sit for 30minutes and see what it looks like. My guess? It will be as green as the emerald isle itself.

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You are aware after all this you smoke at least one bowl from this masterpiece of modern engineering .
I humbly suggest something worthy of its largess and go with some Captain Grape

 

[mikethompson]

Here are the results: no change at all.

 

[bent1]

Here are the results: no change at all.

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Amazing. A sub species of Morta?

 

[mikethompson]

I don't know what its made out of, but they should be making drill bits out of it

 

[FLDRD]

I'm sure there is some pipe smoking term for a pipe that hasn't been smoked, but has been both boiled and frozen.

Froiled!

 

[mikethompson]

Haven't forgotten about this one - the next test involves a lawnmower. Maybe in the next week or so

 

[bent1]

Haven't forgotten about this one - the next test involves a lawnmower. Maybe in the next week or so

I fear it will be the end of a mower blade.

 

[mikethompson]

Coming this weekend: the lawn mower test

 

[AroEnglish]

Coming this weekend: the lawn mower test

Tis the season!

 

[bent1]

Coming this weekend: the lawn mower test

Checking on the test

 

[Living Luggage]

This is why I only buy the good stuff. One day, after the upcoming solar micro-nova and subsequent ice age, they'll dig my body out of a coal seam and the pipe in my hand will still be fresh as a daisy. That's why I pay the big bucks.