Lorenzo - Rebirth Of A Pipe - Image Heavy

[durham270]

This Lorenzo Savona which is titled "Studio", Italy 816, arrived in yesterdays mail. You can see the poor condition this girl is in and appears she was never taken very good care of over the years. I just cannot get over the condition some will leave their pipes in. It's easy to see this one was rarely cleaned as the bowl clearly indicates. It's great there are no chips, cracks, etc. on this fine pipe, just dirt, and lots of it.
This Lorenzo 'Savona' pipe is a good 6 inches in length with a deep 2 1/2" bowl. Here are the before and after images. At the moment I'm just using my Dremel tool and elbow grease in restoring.

 

[captainsousie]

Nice resto. I take it you didn't re-stain?

 

[irwinmetro]

Nicely done! That looks like it took some elbow grease to clean up. Most excellent.

 

[bigboi]

She's ALIVE!!!

 

[papipeguy]

Please tell me how you got that rim so clean. I have a bunch that could stand that type of treatment.

 

[pruss]

Nice rebirth there Durham!
She's ready to go for a few more years for sure.
Well done.
-- Pat

 

[lockdown199]

Wow, once I get my outdoor work done for the summer I have a few I bought at some local estate sales that I'm going to practice my novice restoring skills on.

 

[gwtwdbss]

Superb job durham. I hope it's rebirth provides you with plenty of pleasant smokes.

 

[kashmir]

Very nice restoration! You really took care of that rim. Congrats.

 

[patiobum]

Fine looking pipe !!! Good job

 

[ssjones]

Excellent work!

 

[petes03]

That's a nice looking pipe, and a mighty fine restore job!

 

[micdabutcher]

That's a fantastic restore. You seem to have a real flair for these rebirths mate. I hope she looks after you just as well as you did her .