Meerschaum lined pipe....Help me please

[jchaplick]

I just purchased a Meerschaum lined pipe, it is a older Dr Grabow, and it tastes gross, and smells gross, i cant even explain it, i am about to put some PA through it, but i just dont know. I bought it old, but unsmoked, is there anything i can do?

 

[nsfisher]

i always do a salt or cotton alchol treatment on an estate pipe b 4 i use it

 

[jchaplick]

It wasnt ever smoked, i bought it from old stock at a store,and its meerlined, i though slcohol and meer didnt mix

 

[nsfisher]

reckon ud better check with someone else then, i have only 1 meer lined so im green on the subject. but smoked or not, if it sat round any length of time it prob drew damp and musty etc

 

[igloo]

Give it a good salt and rum cleaning . Let it dry out for about two days and try again . Why rum beacause I like Meyars dark rum and do not want to waste good scotch .

 

[jchaplick]

Its soaking in gin and salt,i like the way a decent fruity gin makes straight VA's tastes, ill give it a shot in a couple days, it was so disgusting i couldnt even sit near it, if it doesnt work, im just gonna toss it, i cant stand the smell

 

[nsfisher]

dont toss it man, ill buy it from u cheap, ill git er cleaned up for sure hope it turns out well for u tho good luck with it

 

[jchaplick]

Haha, me too, its a neat lookin pipe, but i really cant see it working out well, it reaks, and has a spread of stench for a good 4 feet

 

[igloo]

Toss it in the oven after that on a towel with the stem removed and bake it at low tempetures to remove all the stench . Only use the oven for just plain old nasty pipes .

 

[jchaplick]

also not a bad idea, the strange thing is, it was just clean and perfect, but tastes bad

 

[igloo]

Stop smoking mixture 79 and all your troubles will fly away faster than a calgon bath . :crazy:

 

[jchaplick]

Stop smoking mixture 79

cant even say i know what that is

 

[igloo]

Best we can figure Eron Spelling was the only one who liked it and now he is gone .

 

[jchaplick]

thats not the anise flavored one is it?

 

[igloo]

More like Glade and Bounce with burley .

 

[jchaplick]

yup, thats the one i was thinking about haha

 

[lordnoble]

You guys crack me up! :lol:
-Jason

 

[igloo]

So did you try the oven trick today ? http://glpease.com/Articles/Spot.html

 

[jchaplick]

Didnt end up doing it, i think it was the glue that held the meer lining into the briar, after a night in the salt and alcohol the liner came out of the briar, and the outside of the lining (inside of the briar) smelled even worse, i couldnt take it, and i couldnt get the insert back into the pipe(without breaking it) so i chucked it, worst 10 dollars ever spent

 

[romeowood]

Sounds like that pipe just jumped the cliff.