How Do You Paint a Missouri Meerschaum Pipe?

[seitz55]

I would like to paint my Missouri Meerschaum and I have no idea on how to do that. Any ideas on how I should prep the pipe and what paint I should use will be a big help.
Edited by jvnshr: Title capitalization.

 

[mso489]

...Only with great reluctance; I prize the natural or natural looking cob.

 

[Chasing Embers]

An unfinished MM, or finished?

 

[jvnshr]

I remember a video of Dagner modifying and painting MM corn cobs. Search for it on Youtube.

 

[paddypiper]

Not saying you shouldn't do what you want, but why would you want to?

 

[seitz55]

I believe it is an unfinished Missouri meerschaum corn cob pipe. I posted a picture, what do you think. Paddypiper, I would like to have one of my favorite LOTRs quote put on my pipe. "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." I see painted corn cob pipes being posted once in a while on Facebook.

 

[seitz55]

 

[Chasing Embers]

Okay, that looks like a finished one. I would lightly go over it with fine sandpaper to give the paint something to grip to, and then dry brush with acrylic paint. When dry, buff to a shine with a paper towel.

 

[warren]

"How do I paint a Missouri Meerschaum pipe?"
Well now, I think I'd do it on velvet. I suspect most corn cob smokers would like to put the painting next to their "velvet Elvis" or "Dawgs Playing Poker" art. I'd use soft "north light" and I think execute it using oils.
That's how I'd paint a Missouri Meerschaum pipe! :mrgreen:

 

[jpmcwjr]

Chalk would be good. If oils, perhaps as part of a still life— on canvas or wood.

 

[seitz55]

Thanks for the help guys.

 

[didimauw]

I paint mine with the tobacco oils! Haha

 

[pipesmokingtom]

Like one of your French girls.

 

[jvnshr]

"How do I paint a Missouri Meerschaum pipe?"

Bob Ross could have answered it.

 

[jonasclark]

Hirschl & Bendheim produced, I believe in the early 1970s, a line of "Color Cobs," which had the bowl and shank entirely painted, presumably to go with Dr. Grabow and The Pipe which had fashion-oriented models. I've seen Color Cobs in bright red, blue, green, etc., in some pastels like pink, and in early-70s colors like olive green. I've no idea how, exactly, they were painted, but they were (and they were cobs, not wood pipes).

 

[blueeyedogre]

Believe it or not....... A plain sharpie works great on cobs. Colour it, let it sit for a few hours and voila!! No aftersmell, no rub off, and looks great. I've done a few danes and a couple of legends this way.

 

[piffyr]

Hirschl & Bendheim produced, I believe in the early 1970s, a line of "Color Cobs," which had the bowl and shank entirely painted"

Missouri Meerschaum did the same thing in the 60s/70s.

 

[piffyr]

Personally, I like good, ol' stain...

 

[wizhunter]

The staining on that cob looks epic Piffyr
Wiz

 

[jonasclark]

Piffyr, I LOVE that glossy red one!