How Did They Do This?

[joeahearn]

There's an ebay auction going on with some very inventively stained Yello-Bole pipes.
Can someone tell me how Yello-Bole managed to stain these pipes? I understand how you can get a two-tone stain on a smooth pipe. I don't understand how you do this on rusticated pipes. Any ideas? Thanks.
http://i1359.photobucket.com/albums/q786/joeahearn/yello-bole.jpg

 

[zanthal]

Your pics or link didn't work.

 

[kasbah]

I think that's what you were after. As for the finish, no clue.. I'm leave that one for the experts.
aaaaand, the eBay auction link

 

[joeahearn]

Sorry--new to this forum. I think the photos show up now. At least there is a link from photobucket showing...

 

[joeahearn]

Many thanks, Mark.

 

[hfearly]

Rusticated, black stain, sand off outer, yellow overstain.

 

[kasbah]

My pleasure, Joe. Welcome to PM! I hope someone is able to tell you what kind of finish that is.

Yellow stain, then rusticated/sandblasted.

On the inside of the bowl? Gross.

 

[lordnoble]

On the inside of the bowl? Gross.

They weren't called Yello-bole for nothing... LOL!
-Jason

 

[guitarguy86]

Those pipes look weird, but I wouldn't mind owning one.

 

[joeahearn]

Hi hfearly,
I guess what I don't understand is how you put on the second coat of stain, the yellow, without getting yellow stain on the black that's deep in the rustication.
Kasbah and lordnoble: I've bought estate Yello-boles that had been smoked to death, heavy cake. If you ream a little too far, you find that Yello-bole yellow stuff still there. I guess they REALLY didn't want anyone to see those tobacco chamber walls.
Best,

Joe

 

[zanthal]

I'd have found myself asking the same question looking at those pics. Those are unusual.

 

[hfearly]

Woops sorry, I misunderstood the question didn't realize it was about the insides.

 

[sasquatch]

Yellow + black = black. The answer given is right on - rusticated, stained dark, polished hard, restained with yellow.

 

[hfearly]

Sasquatch is a pipe maker par excellence, by the way ;-)

 

[vaboatbuilder]

I have one it is becoming one of my favorites. Any thing i put through it smokes like a dream.

 

[joeahearn]

Thanks, Sasquatch. So the second stain, the yellow, re-liquifies the base stain, the black? Then mixes with it and the result is black? I havent done much two-tone staining and what was throwing me was thinking of the stains as like latex paint. Put on the black, then paint over it and it's yellow. I didn't realize the stains would mix. Thanks for the clarification.

 

[hawke]

Old thread but...

Actually I believe what was done was the pipe was rusticated and painted yellow, then black over that but rubbed off while still wet so that the high points were yellow again but black left in the rusticated valleys. I have some experience with this style of painting.