My First Refurb (Extremely Pic Heavy)

[frennchy11]

As many of you may know from my earlier post, I recently bought a Dr. Grabow Starfire from an antique store. This was my first attempt at a refurb. I would like to thank Pipenovelist for his article on stem cleaning! Really helped out a lot!

BEFORE:

After some soaking sanding and waxing...

Thanks for looking! I really dont think these pictures do it justice! This turned out to be an extremely nice looking pipe. Cant wait to smoke it!

 

[kabong30]

Wow, quite a difference! Nice job!

 

[dd951]

good job, nice looking pipe

 

[dervis]

Very nice job. I have a similar pipe I am going to smoke now. Yours looks nicer though

 

[lankfordjl]

Looks great!!

 

[ejames]

Nice work!! Enjoy!

 

[nabottle]

Very, Very, nice job!

 

[bigmike]

Excellent Job and it Looks Great!!!!!

 

[hobie1dog]

You have found a new hobby now, and the Estate pipe market will now go up again as you scarf up all the pipes out there :clap:

 

[jameral]

Looks great! Good job.

 

[ocpsdan]

Well done, Frennchy11!

 

[mountainman]

Frenchy that is a bang up job!!! Hope she smokes as good as she looks!!

 

[shawn]

That is a wonderful job!

 

[bentmike]

Awesome!

 

[frennchy11]

Thanks guys! Really happy with the results. Just smoked my first bowl out of it and it smokes awesome! Very cool smoke.

 

[photoman13]

great looking pipe. Restoration is pretty addicting. If you haven't done it yet you should give the bowl a salt and alcohol treatment to get all the tar and possible mold out.

 

[mluyckx]

Nice job indeed and glad to hear she's a good smoker to boot :clap:

You have found a new hobby now

Restoration is pretty addicting

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^^ +1 ^^

 

[rlunderhill]

Great restoration.

 

[grizzly86]

Nice job; it really looks great.