Estate/Salt Treatment question

[kevinbehringer]

New to estate pipe restoration (admittedly, my first one) and had a quick question for the experts around here.
I did a salt treatment (actually two. one before reaming and one after), ran copious amounts of pipe cleaners with alcohol through the shank, and used a brush to run through there as well for quite a while.
Ran pipe cleaners with barkeepers friend, soap and water and a couple with pipe sweetener through the stem, but didn't want to use alcohol because it's a lucite and I've heard that's a bad idea.
After all that, I still have some odor from prior smoking. It's less than before reaming, etc, but I'm wondering if, in restoration, I should get to completely odorless, or should I be ok with there being some odor left and assume that once I start smoking it, the new tobaccos will overcome that remaining odor.
Thanks!

 

[slowroll]

One more thing to try. Stuff the bowl and shank with used damp coffee grounds and let it sit until the grounds are dry. After that, any residual should smoke out.

 

[sablebrush52]

After all that, I still have some odor from prior smoking. It's less than before reaming, etc, but I'm wondering if, in restoration, I should get to completely odorless, or should I be ok with there being some odor left and assume that once I start smoking it, the new tobaccos will overcome that remaining odor.

If you are determined to get to odorless you can send your pipe to Walker Pipe Repair for an ozone treatment, or try the activated charcoal treatment that Greg Pease writes about on his site: http://www.glpease.com/Articles/Spot.html
Generally speaking, if there's a little residual scent, smoking the pipe will gradually overwrite it in a few bowls.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Yes, at this point, just smoke it. There will always be a residual odor after a pipe had been smoked; the key is: is it your tobacco's odor or something you really don't like....

 

[matchstickman]

One thing I've found helps is to smoke a few bowls of a dry burley blend. Usually helps to bust nasty ghosts. Barring that, only other thing I can think of is to ream the inside of the bowl back to bare wood. Hope that helps!!