Do you find burnt rim unpleasant to the eye?

[Chasing Embers]

Unless doing it to create a fumed look,, how do you burn the rim of a pipe? The back of a meerschaum's rim will darken from the heat and smoke passing over it, and briar will develop a layer of removable carbon on the rim, but how do you burn a pipe's rim?

 

[ThermionicScott]

Hmm, I understand the newbie's curiosity in trying all the things they've read about online, but the top of the rim didn't look that bad to me. Probably would have just cleaned off. It's the inner chamfer of the rim that looked the most discolored to me, and topping the rim didn't touch that.

 

[OzPiper]

Haha, if I got a scorch mark on my leather jacket I’d freak out. On the other hand, I have a corduroy jacket from 30+ years ago that still bears a couple of small mascara marks from tears of an old girlfriend - those don’t bother me a bit and never washed them off. Even better, thanks to my COVID diet plan from early ‘21 I can wear it again! My wife just rolls her eyes!

Ah yes, but does it bother your wife ?

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

Ah yes, but does it bother your wife ?

I quote, “Don’t even say it!”

 

[kcghost]

If there is enough burn it is most unsightly.

 

[_celeborn_]

Posting some progress here, i blackened the entire inner rim ending in a more homogeneous look, now I'm gonna work on the polish then I'm done!

 

[Zeno Marx]

with certain shapes, you can't avoid the staining from smoke and tars. if you like the shape, you live with it. I have a couple estates where the original owner didn't seem to mind scorching the wood, and I guess it didn't bother me enough to not bid on them. I've never personally scorched wood. I don't think of my pipes as art pieces anymore. Early on, I was meticulous and paranoid. Now, they're tools and building memories. I don't go out of my way to flaw them, but with time, the flaws become endearing.

 

[OverMountain]

Don’t sweat it. It’s off of the character of the pipe now.

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

My Beattie just Godzilla’d a bit of the inside rim of a new Peterson - I’ll just relight from the other side in a bit to match!

 

[leonardbill1]

On a briar or meerschaum, yes. On a clay or cob, no.

 

[Searock Fan]

If you give the inside rim of the bowl a small bevel at about 45 degrees, it will help prevent scorching.