Meerschaum Sure Colors Weirdly

[condorlover1]

@simong : Wow they have everything on the internet these days. I didn't know it was intended for a lot of the stations but I seem to remember a couple where those tiles had survived the 1960's urge to improve things!

 

[simong]

@simong : Wow they have everything on the internet these days. I didn't know it was intended for a lot of the stations but I seem to remember a couple where those tiles had survived the 1960's urge to improve things!

Everything except an answer to oxblooding on pipes! Lol
I'll keep looking, hopefully something will crop up.

 

[aspiring_sage]

This post mentions a book “tobaccoland” p 416. A google search makes it appear in the public domain. It has fairly comprehensive directions in two pages for dying a meer.

I have not tested them yet.

 

[woodrow]

I believe that coffee can be used for dye. One can also paint it, or let some sit in the bottom of the bowl (that’s if you like that colour of brown). coffee is used as a colorant on bone beads as well.
Im not aware of anything inert that can be used for colouring.
Interesting thread.

 

[peteguy]

Great stuff everyone. I believe you two have sent the entire internet on a Meerschaum trend. Posters here seem to have gotten the bug. I like smoking Meer pipes better than any other medium but I like the look of Blasted Briar the best. Go figure. Maybe someone will carve a Meer and color it to look like a blasted briar pipe.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Maybe someone will carve a Meer and color it to look like a blasted briar pipe.

They've been making them look like briar for years, someone likely has.

 

[brian64]

They've been making them look like briar for years, someone likely has.

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Those red IMP's are nice...I've lingered over that one on Meerschaum Market...just don't really care for the stem colors.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Those red IMP's are nice...I've lingered over that one on Meerschaum Market...just don't really care for the stem colors.

Contact Burak there, he can get another stem for it.

 

[brian64]

Contact Burak there, he can get another stem for it.

I was afraid you might say that...the stem gave me a good reason not to buy it. I've been getting more adept at talking myself out of pipe purchases.

 

[condorlover1]

That is nice I wonder if he does it as a cutty?

 

[peteguy]

Doesnt look like Briar to me. Super cool though. I guess it is similar to briar. There is one on ebay, maybe somehwere else, where they actually sandblasted the meer. It looks like a cow turd to me.

 

[brian64]

Doesnt look like Briar to me.

I assume you're referring to the pics @Chasing Embers posted above. I agree the red one doesn't at all look like briar, but the brown one kinda does. It at least gives an idea of what is possible...I don't think I've ever seen one quite like that before.

 

[MattRVA]

This post mentions a book “tobaccoland” p 416. A google search makes it appear in the public domain. It has fairly comprehensive directions in two pages for dying a meer.

I have not tested them yet.

This is a cool read, thanks.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I assume you're referring to the pics @Chasing Embers posted above. I agree the red one doesn't at all look like briar, but the brown one kinda does. It at least gives an idea of what is possible...I don't think I've ever seen one quite like that before.

The red one reminded me of those grainless Christmas pipes from Peterson last year.

 

[peteguy]

Listed as Sandblasted Meerschaum.....

 

[brian64]

The red one reminded me of those grainless Christmas pipes from Peterson last year.

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Yeah, that's weird looking briar...like an oxblood meer.

 

[brian64]

Listed as Sandblasted Meerschaum.....

I agree...kinda cow-turdish...not exactly appealing.

 

[drayve85]

I remember seeing a pair of unsmoked meers that had been Oxblooded on the bay years ago. A definate resemblance to the 'iron oxide' colour you mentioned. I'd love to know how they did it but perhaps we'll never know for sure as the practice has like you say dissapeared from living memory.
Funny you noticed the similarity with the 'shit brown' tiles on the Tube. After googling oxblood turns out that's what the architect wanted for the Tube stations. Although he described the colour not as Oxblood or Shit brown but 'Sang de Boeuf'.Probably charged tuppence a tile extra for that as it sounds a bit posher. Lol
From Wikipedia,
From 1903, the English architect Leslie Green used an industrial, solid, sang de boeuf glaze on the glazed architectural terra-cotta tiles for the exteriors of the stations of a large part of the London Underground system, which was then divided between a number of commercial companies. His employer, the Underground Electric Railways Company of London was building the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway, the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway and the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway, which are now respectively sections of the Piccadilly line, Bakerloo line and Northern line. The Leeds Fireclay Companymade the tiles.[11]

“Sang de Boeuf” means oxblood. Or “blood of beef”, but it just has a certain je na sai quoi!lol

Edit: fat fingers.

 

[jonasclark]

Xmacro, I really like the odd way your claw is coloring~! It helps that I'm extraordinarily picky about claw meerschaums, the details have to be exactly the way I like them, and yours is great.

Ashdigger, I think I'm in love with your BBB meer. The colors, the stem, everying is just perfect. And it must be unusually so, because I don't like straight billiards. But I'd eagerly smoke that one! Gorgeous in every way.