Hello Everyone,
I wanted to share one of my recent pipe's restoration. I hope that this post will not be too heavy, please tell me in case of :D
This is the kind of activity I really like to do during my spare time, after a long journey working in an office for example. Sorry for my average English, I live in Belgium and it isn't my native language. :D
So that was an old Colly's pipe, 'Hungarian' or 'Oom Paul' shaped, I don't really distinguish the difference?
This pipe was in a terrible condition, with sooo many claws on it :/
As you can see, its first owner wasn't someone fastidious:
I needed a radical cure so I decided at first to ream out the damaged areas:
Now I know the result, I should have done some fillings with resin here, but it was one of my first restoration..
For the next step, I prepared an alcohol based taint with red pigments and a natural binder (don't ask me, I'll keep it secret :wink ) which I applied only on the rusticated area.
Then I protect the holes & I apply the same solution but with light brown pigments on the remaining part of the stummel:
Afterwards, I am applying a black taint on the whole stummel
Once it is well dried (which is fast with alcohol), I begin to gently sand it, with a progressive growing grain (starting from 240 to 1200) and there you understand why I tainted first in red and in black afterwards, so that the black taint stays in the hollows of the rusticated area and red is emerging for the rest.
Regarding the stem, I will spare you the photos and the steps of a long sanding process, from grain 180 to 8000, then buffing with a bench grinder to get a shining black finish. During the process, I couldn't avoid to make disappear the 'C' logo of this Colly's but it still prettier like this isn'it?
Edit: Moved to Pipe Repair and Maintenance. L.
I wanted to share one of my recent pipe's restoration. I hope that this post will not be too heavy, please tell me in case of :D
This is the kind of activity I really like to do during my spare time, after a long journey working in an office for example. Sorry for my average English, I live in Belgium and it isn't my native language. :D
So that was an old Colly's pipe, 'Hungarian' or 'Oom Paul' shaped, I don't really distinguish the difference?
This pipe was in a terrible condition, with sooo many claws on it :/
As you can see, its first owner wasn't someone fastidious:
I needed a radical cure so I decided at first to ream out the damaged areas:
Now I know the result, I should have done some fillings with resin here, but it was one of my first restoration..
For the next step, I prepared an alcohol based taint with red pigments and a natural binder (don't ask me, I'll keep it secret :wink ) which I applied only on the rusticated area.
Then I protect the holes & I apply the same solution but with light brown pigments on the remaining part of the stummel:
Afterwards, I am applying a black taint on the whole stummel
Once it is well dried (which is fast with alcohol), I begin to gently sand it, with a progressive growing grain (starting from 240 to 1200) and there you understand why I tainted first in red and in black afterwards, so that the black taint stays in the hollows of the rusticated area and red is emerging for the rest.
Regarding the stem, I will spare you the photos and the steps of a long sanding process, from grain 180 to 8000, then buffing with a bench grinder to get a shining black finish. During the process, I couldn't avoid to make disappear the 'C' logo of this Colly's but it still prettier like this isn'it?
Edit: Moved to Pipe Repair and Maintenance. L.
