Good afternoon esteemed fellow pipe men. I recently bought a lovely little Dunhill from a well known online auction site for just over £20. To say I was chuffed would be an understatement.
It had plainly been left to fend for itself for a few years as the stem was oxidised and full of gunk, spiders web in the bowl, bowl needed reaming etc. Having carried out basic restoration on a number of estates I own, this wasn’t a problem and I spent a few quiet hours bringing this little beauty back from the dead. On closer inspection, someone, at some point had tried to fit an inner tube into the shank and had got the thing wedged in so this needed careful drilling out.
Work completed, I filled the bowl full of my favourite English mixture and the pipe smokes beautifully, right up until the point where the bowl gets too hot. I’ve used pipe mud to re line the bowl but alas to no avail. It’s still a hot smoker. I’ve been a pipe smoker for about 5 years now and thought I had got past the phase of puffing away until the bowl became like an industrial furnace.
Any advice you can give would be very much appreciated. This pipe plainly has years of pleasure still to give and I don’t want to consign it to a life as a pipe rack ornament just yet. Many thanks in advance. Adrian.
It had plainly been left to fend for itself for a few years as the stem was oxidised and full of gunk, spiders web in the bowl, bowl needed reaming etc. Having carried out basic restoration on a number of estates I own, this wasn’t a problem and I spent a few quiet hours bringing this little beauty back from the dead. On closer inspection, someone, at some point had tried to fit an inner tube into the shank and had got the thing wedged in so this needed careful drilling out.
Work completed, I filled the bowl full of my favourite English mixture and the pipe smokes beautifully, right up until the point where the bowl gets too hot. I’ve used pipe mud to re line the bowl but alas to no avail. It’s still a hot smoker. I’ve been a pipe smoker for about 5 years now and thought I had got past the phase of puffing away until the bowl became like an industrial furnace.
Any advice you can give would be very much appreciated. This pipe plainly has years of pleasure still to give and I don’t want to consign it to a life as a pipe rack ornament just yet. Many thanks in advance. Adrian.