Thanks fellas. The briar was an easy fix, I just uncaked and waxed it. The stem was where the work was. I'm not sure how long I worked on the stem. I took it to work over the course of a couple of days. I don't use a buffer wheel for stems other than a 30 second spin for the finished shine. I do all my stems by hand with sandpaper and needle files. I probably would have bleached it to remove the oxidation, but it has a brass fitting that can't be removed. Bleach will eat any metal on a stem.
This pipe is an odd duck. Like Pruss said, most Pebble Grains are sandblasted and stained. I did a google image search and all Pebble grains shown were stained and blasted. This pipe is going to my step father which in the past year has started smoking a pipe again. He smoked a pipe decades ago. I showed him a few pipes and let him sniff a few jars, now he is back. :
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This pipe is an odd duck. Like Pruss said, most Pebble Grains are sandblasted and stained. I did a google image search and all Pebble grains shown were stained and blasted. This pipe is going to my step father which in the past year has started smoking a pipe again. He smoked a pipe decades ago. I showed him a few pipes and let him sniff a few jars, now he is back. :
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