Dealing With Fills - Do or Don't Remove?

[pruss]

Thanks for the tips Cajunguy. I love the idea of contrast staining, and have seen it done to good effect in some of the blogs on restoration that are out there. I hadn't yet wrapped my head on how to go about it, so appreciate the primer greatly.
-- Pat

 

[trailspike48]

I stripped a GBD canidian and found 13 dark fills. After sanding to 1200 grit, I applied a mahogany leather dye and after dry, I waxed the pipe. It looks fine now.

 

[jonesee75]

Old Cajun hit the nail on the head. If you always focus on the negative you will never see the beauty. Sometimes you just have do deal with the "stink".

 

[guhrillastile]

It's all in the beholder. I'll be love struck with a particular piece that others just walk right past. And obviously vice versa. It's just my own ocd but on some pipes the tiniest fill makes me dislike it. Then others sometimes sitting right next to it, the fill doesn't bother me the slightest.

 

[rmbittner]

I stripped a GBD canidian and found 13 dark fills.

13!?
That's incredible. (And shameful.) I don't think I've ever seen a brand-name pipe with more than two fills. (And I used to work at a pipe shop; I know how to spot a fill.)
Bob