Dr. Grabow Estate Pipes

[Swampdragon69]

I have been building a good sized collection of the Doctor pipes. Nothing any newer that late 70s. I have recently bought two Doctor/titan pipes with the screw-in bowls. I have seen someone place a small circle of a pipe cleaner under the bowl to help with wetness. Does it work?

 

[Swampdragon69]

Update: I was wrong. The stems are Viking.

 

[mikethompson]

I have never heard of leaving a piece of pipe cleaner inside the pipe before, seems like a old codger trick that would work just fine.

 

[mikestanley]

Assuming they have that same little "well" at the bottom of the metal bowl like a falcon does ,it will.

Mike S.

 

[acidpox]

Logically it sounds like it should work. I've never owned any of the falcon/viking style pipes. Now that I think about it I wonder if anyone has tried using the nording keystones in those style pipes? Or if the nording keystones work in general.

 

[mso489]

The pipe cleaner ring is the standard low-cost substitute for the Falcon moisture ring. You make them by cutting small segments off a pipe cleaner and wrapping it around a pipe nail or something similar to give you a ring, and putting it in the moisture reservoir ("hydrodome") at the base of the bowl. When I ordered a Falcon from Iwan Ries, but no moisture rings, someone at the shop cut and bent me some pipe cleaners for the purpose, which I thought was very classy of them. That's standard with Falcons and similar pipes and has been done for fifty years or more.

 

[Swampdragon69]

Assuming they have that same little "well" at the bottom of the metal bowl like a falcon does ,it will.

Mike S.

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