Coloring Progress Over Time/No of Bowls in one Meerschaum Pipe

[NC TX ID pipeman]

I'm an obsessive-compulsive ?

Instead of enjoying the moment and smoke, I'd be stressing over whether the shank was colouring more than the bowl, whether it was surface wax or inspissated tars, should I be wearing a pair of white gloves or if I should dissect the pipe a la @Chasing Embers to check on the process ?

Information overload ! Information overload ! ?

???????

 

[AJL67]

My poor brain is reeling from this vigorous debate.

It has reinforced my decision to stick wit pre-coloured meers - either a well-patina-ed one from a century of smoking or an ox-blood or pre-coloured Tanganyikan ones. ?

I’m just going to use cra-yons on mine, i figure color the bowl while it’s hot and and I’ll have a whole rainbow of colors! Edit: Seems I’ve found a magic word.

 

[jhowell]

 

[condorlover1]

OK I am going to have breakfast whilst I think about this whole topic. In the final analysis Duane is right and it is demonstrated by most if not all of my ancient pipes. However I am not going to cut one in half to prove Duane is correct. I have a cunning plan .......

 

[AJL67]

OK I am going to have breakfast whilst I think about this whole topic. In the final analysis Duane is right and it is demonstrated by most if not all of my ancient pipes. However I am not going to cut one in half to prove Duane is correct. I have a cunning plan .......

It was interesting for about 4 minutes and then i was over it, when it happens it happens and there will be bands and boat parades, hardly worth bickering and re-clarifying it things already clarified to try and prove a point that in the end is opinion. They being said I’m going to enjoy a nice pipe which may or may not be meerschaum while watching this one little asshole adolescent squirrel try to keep the other squirrels away from the big bowl of peanuts.

and no i won’t be cutting him in half

 

[Chasing Embers]

I’m just going to use cra-yons on mine, i figure color the bowl while it’s hot and and I’ll have a whole rainbow of colors! Edit: Seems I’ve found a magic word.

 

[condorlover1]

@Chasing Embers : Those are horrible! I almost tossed my breakfast.

 

[Chasing Embers]

@Chasing Embers : Those are horrible! I almost tossed my breakfast.

Especially the bottom one, it's a Peterson.

 

[condorlover1]

Air Rifle target?

 

[didimauw]

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Ok I want to know more about this pipe. Who what where when why. And of course more pictures.

 

[timt]

OK I am going to have breakfast whilst I think about this whole topic. In the final analysis Duane is right and it is demonstrated by most if not all of my ancient pipes. However I am not going to cut one in half to prove Duane is correct. I have a cunning plan .......

Please don't cut open one of your ancient pipes to try to prove a point. Not sure what the proof would entail anyway. How an ancient meer looks now doesn't prove how a new, virgin meer begins to color. I'm not connecting the dots on that claim.

 

[OverMountain]

Awesome idea. Why do they color in the shank first? Is it a measure of the smoke cooling enough to be absorbed as it travels away from the ember?

 

[NC TX ID pipeman]

I just enjoy my morning coffee and thinking how interesting this forum is...In some threads people are trying to save a guy's 8$ corn cob which finally broke down after a decade of smoking and in other threads people are cutting theirs 300$ meers in half to check the coloring ...How colorful life can be....

 

[OverMountain]

Exactly.



More number of smokes than time. I put 500 smokes through my test subject before even a hint of real color started.

Ahh HAH!
- Me

 

[didimauw]

I just enjoy my morning coffee and thinking how interesting this forum is...In some threads people are trying to save a guy's 8$ corn cob which finally broke down after a decade of smoking and in other threads people are cutting theirs 300$ meers in half to check the coloring ...How colorful life can be....

Confusing ain't it???

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Seems a bit obvious the heel and shank experience the deep coloring first due to that being the area where moisture would gather. It also seems obvious the deep coloring isn't the result of heat or the bowl would color first and darkest. I would speculate the cake in the bowl inhibits the moisture leeching through the walls.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I just enjoy my morning coffee and thinking how interesting this forum is...In some threads people are trying to save a guy's 8$ corn cob which finally broke down after a decade of smoking and in other threads people are cutting theirs 300$ meers in half to check the coloring ...How colorful life can be....

For some, meers are their cobs. MM fell out of favor with me some time back and I replaced all of my cobs with meerschaum. Even commissioned an IMP to replace my reverse calabash.

 

[simong]

What an utterly bizarre thread! Lol
After reading through 7 pages of nothingness I reckon you're all nuts. Get a grip chaps, FFS!!?

 

[NC TX ID pipeman]

For some, meers are their cobs. MM fell out of favor with me some time back and I replaced all of my cobs with meerschaum. Even commissioned an IMP to replace my reverse calabash.

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CHambers,how did you checked out the internal coloring on that MM reverse calabash cob?looks like a bowl colored nicely from the outside

 

[condorlover1]

Right. I have just examined thirty of my pipe rotation meerschaums and after 100+ years Duane is right. I can post pictures to illustrate but if any smart ar*e suggests a pipe lobotomy I will be far from amused!