Estate K&P Peterson with P-Lips / Stem Cleaning w/ very simple tools

[pufferissimo]

Dear Fellas
Today was probably one of the most exciting day of my pipe-smoking experience journey. Spend this day to meet a local flea market seller. My heart skipped a beat when he showed me a bent pipe - of which I knew it was a p-lip Peterson!
It has a pretty deep rustication/sandblast and heavy oxidation, here is the picture when I got home :

Very hard to remove the stem, rearrange all my mum's groceries and smuggle this ol' pipe in the freezer for 15 minutes and then dismantle the stem :

Here is the p-lip, notice the heavy oxidation and greenish stem :

Yucky-murky backside of the stem : (I'm an idiot, I know earlier that oxidized stem tasted bitter but I didn't know that this Petey would be THAT bitter) :mrgreen:

Scrub-rub-a-dub with that sponge-thingy 1200 grit Norton, lubricated with Singer oil for smoother abrasion effect for about 15 minutes.

(Wasn't paying much attention of what I'm doing because I was watching TV...which also explains that I didnt take pics of the scrubbing process with loads of awful brownish stuff removed from the stem):

I was stunned! Geez, it works!!

The shiny stem, cleaned with very basic stuff!

It smokes like a dream! ::

@marmalade : pics resized, thx !

 

[marmal4de]

You probably copied the thumbnail address instead of the full resolution images address. Good score!

 

[pufferissimo]

Ah! that explains! will edit the pics ASAP!

 

[ejames]

Nice work Puffer!

 

[pufferissimo]

Thanks eJames!

 

[shawn]

Happy day for you.

 

[rcstan]

Very nice score! Congrats and happy :puffpipe:

 

[marmal4de]

Is it just me, or does that Pete look sandblasted? Maybe I'm hallucinating, but I see rings of grain in the side of it.

 

[bentmike]

Yes it looks like deep sandblasted grain to me too. That is a cool little System! What a great find.

 

[pufferissimo]

Newbie question : what is a sandblast grain ? :lol:

 

[spartan]

From SmokingPipes.com:
Sandblast

A finishing technique in which the softer wood in the grain is blasted away, leaving the harder rings standing out.

Rusticated

A finishing technique in which the outside surface is decoratively roughed up.

*Edit*
Here's a good read for SAND BLASTING from pipedia for a little more understanding.
Here's a good read for RUSTICATION from pipedia for a little more understanding.

 

[pufferissimo]

Aaaah...Nice!

thanks Spartan!

::

 

[lab1dobie]

Very nice indeed. Now I can clean mine up like that. Thanks!

 

[lifeon2]

Excellent work there Puff.

 

[bailey331]

I love bringing life back to a lost little gem like that. Both my Peterson came to me in the same way. After a little hard work they looked as good as new. Good job.

 

[pufferissimo]

@ Lab, lifeon2 : thanks fellas. Wish i had a carnauba wax to shine this beauty even more.
@ Bailey331 : I fell in love with Peterson's System.

This is my favorite pipe at the moment and I'm having very severe K&P Peterson Standard System PAD.
Need to have another one..quick.. :crazy: