Finally Cleaned up my Shop Finds.

[FishNChips]

I posted last week of this Comoy Everyman, Barlings and Captain Browne I found at my local shop for cheap. I finally got some time to clean them up. I would not call it a full restore, just a good cleaning and fixing issues.

I gave them all a good reeming and got the lava off the rim. A little scorching on the rims but I didn’t want to top them. I dont mind a little wear on things.

i cleaned them with Murpheys Oil soap. The Capt Browne had a flaking finish so got some 600-2000 grit sand paper to get it off and polish it up.

The stems were badly oxidized so went in some oxi-clean and my ultrasonic cleaner. I buffed them out with 1000,1500 and 2000 grit sandpaper.

i buffed them all out on my buffing wheel and some white polishing compoundand then waxed them all up.

I am pleased how well they cleaned up.


Before


After

 

[Red Leader]

Great job! Major improvement. Enjoy them!

 

[OzPiper]

Well done. ?

 

[Eye-level]

Cool...I guess the question now is what are you smoking in them? :D

 

[Ted Vig]

Nice work!

 

[FishNChips]

Cool...I guess the question now is what are you smoking in them? :D

Dunhill Mixture 965 and Plumb Pudding have been my choices as of late. I just found out that my Grandpa smoked Sutcliffe mixture 79 so I may have to give that a try soon.

 

[mikethompson]

Tremendous improvement over the old! Very nice work.

 

[Ag®o]

Nice work!

 

[scloyd]

They cleaned up nice. Well done.

 

[reloader]

They look fantastic!

 

[ashdigger]

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[captpat]

Lookin' good.

 

[Infantry23]

Very nice clean-up!

 

[mso489]

And nicely photographed. The ornate silver lighter is a nice touch.

 

[jpmcwjr]

And nicely photographed. The ornate silver lighter is a nice touch.

Composition is very nice, but the white background has caused the images to be underexposed a bit.

 

[dPero]

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[kcghost]

Oh, please say you didn't run the buffing wheel over the stampings on the pipe.

 

[anotherbob]

yeah definitely not a full restoration. I like that better though. I prefer the somewhat used look in a pipe over the sparkly brand new this thing belongs in a display case.

 

[FishNChips]

Oh, please say you didn't run the buffing wheel over the stampings on the pipe.

Yeap, buffed the L out of them, lol. No, the stampings were faded enough as is. Took a light touch and avoided the stamping.

Thanks for the compliments everyone! I love bringing life back to older things.