For anyone unfamiliar with the name, Jack Lemmon is a major A-List film actor from the second half of the 20th century. Two Academy Awards, big box office movies, a household name for decades.
Jack was also a pipe smoker.
Jack liked Dunhills.
There's a collector out there who specializes in Famous People Pipes, and displays them next to a photo of the star smoking the pipe being displayed. (How cool is that?)
Jack was also a stem-chewer who had diamond-tipped tungsten carbide teeth and 400 horsepower jaw muscles.
Enter the pipe seen here. An extremely rare Diplomat shape. Group 5, with the widest oval shank in proportion to the bowl I've ever seen.
Pictures explain the rest.
Two particulars since someone is bound to mention them: 1) Yes, the new stem's tenon is slightly longer than the original (for shank safety-against-breakage-if-dropped reasons... the original was cut too short); and 2) Yes, the new brindle material is black & red(ish) while the original is black & brown(ish). Why? Because 28mm brindle rod has become extremely scarce in the USA, and it was either this color or nothing.
Since the "invisible repair" test is "Would the new stem pass QA at the factory?" it still qualifies, though.
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Jack was also a pipe smoker.
Jack liked Dunhills.
There's a collector out there who specializes in Famous People Pipes, and displays them next to a photo of the star smoking the pipe being displayed. (How cool is that?)
Jack was also a stem-chewer who had diamond-tipped tungsten carbide teeth and 400 horsepower jaw muscles.
Enter the pipe seen here. An extremely rare Diplomat shape. Group 5, with the widest oval shank in proportion to the bowl I've ever seen.
Pictures explain the rest.
Two particulars since someone is bound to mention them: 1) Yes, the new stem's tenon is slightly longer than the original (for shank safety-against-breakage-if-dropped reasons... the original was cut too short); and 2) Yes, the new brindle material is black & red(ish) while the original is black & brown(ish). Why? Because 28mm brindle rod has become extremely scarce in the USA, and it was either this color or nothing.
Since the "invisible repair" test is "Would the new stem pass QA at the factory?" it still qualifies, though.