Gbd Advice

[aquadoc]

I have been offered these for a what I think is a great price but I know only what I have read here about GBDs. Both need some restoration work and have some rim char.

Yay or nay?

 

[fishnbanjo]

They are good lookers, any chance of photos of the rim char? I use a rough rag and strong black coffee which removes nearly any rim char I've ever encountered. If you like the looks and the pricing is good I'd say yea, GBD's are good smokers.

banjo

 

[aquadoc]

Banjo, Here is the only photo of the char. I decided to purchase them. The total for both was less than I was thinking of spending on a cheap Stanwell.

 

[fishnbanjo]

Those will clean up using my method, the one on the right rather quickly the left one a bit more elbow grease.

banjo

 

[aquadoc]

Will give your method a try. The grain on both is fairly amazing. They should be here by Monday. The top is a 9609 with a gold colored emblem and the bottom is a 508 with a bronze emblem. Not sure that means anything.

 

[coldsmoke]

That's a nice bent poker.

 

[ssjones]

I believe those are Cadogan era GBD's. What is the COM? Please show a picture of each.

 

[aquadoc]

Al, I do not have them in hand, yet. Saturday or Monday. The 508 has Garland on it but that is all I can read. It has London England above the 508 on the opposite side. The 9609 is not clear. I have asked the seller but I do not know if I will get an answer because the pipes have been packed up. EDIT: the 9609 has London England too. I sharpened the images... Both are in one line above the number.

 

[aquadoc]

 

[ssjones]

That's a pre-Cadogan stamp on that one. Garlands usually have those bands.

 

[pagan]

Nice score, I do like that 508, Banjo gives good advice on the clean up
....oh and don't forget photos when done :mrgreen:

 

[aquadoc]

The other stamp looks the same but the photo is so grainy that I will wait until I can take my own photos to upload. Pretty excited because these only cost me $20 each. They need some cleaning and minor restoration but I am up to that task. I have wanted a GBD but kept missing on them.

 

[ssjones]

Ah, now I remember. The Garlands were a series from the 90's, some had brass rondells, some had stamped stem logos.

 

[ssjones]

Try some 2000 grade wet paper on those scorched areas, then buff on some carnuba, which will then restore the color

 

[aquadoc]

I just Googled Garlands. Apparently they were made at 2 different times and there are Garlands and Garland IIs. I cannot find date ranges for any of them but the one discussion said they thought that IIs were in the late 80s and early 90s.

 

[ssjones]

That sounds right.

 

[aquadoc]

There is a discussion on Brothers of Briar where the owner of a number of Garland (first run) GBDs says he purchased in the 60's through the early 70s. So I suppose that would be the time period for mine. He also said the metal Rondelles are not found on the post-merger Garlands.

 

[aquadoc]

In any case, for the money, they look sharp and hopefully will smoke as good as they look.

 

[aquadoc]

I found a little bit more info. GBD quit using perspex in the mid 70s and the original Garland series was first made in the early 50s and up until the early 70s. The sitting poker may not be a Garland. All I know is it is pre-merger. The Rondelles are brass... Not bronze as I mistakenly said in an earlier post.

 

[mawnansmiff]

Aquadoc, I think you will find them to be made of aluminium with a brass coating. At least all of those that I have come across are as such.
Nice pipes BTW, particularly the poker.
Regards,
Jay.