Egg white + chalk powder could fix the dent but I’m sure as hell not repairing it. Wanted a pipe to pass on as legacy to my descendants, not something that starts falling apart after one smoke.
I absolutely understand, I hope they do as well. The thought alone, after all this process of manufacture and way of travel it starts chipping away in your hands after its first gentle use. Hopefully you'll get satisfaction in the end but I can imagine the "oy blyat" that filled your house after discovering this.
it’s just money. Not my largest loss. And given all that’s happening around probably a minor inconvenience not worth mentioning.
Thank you immensely! Your explanation makes a lot of sense. I was very puzzled about what has happened.
It's a natural material, possibly a pit. It's minor and won't negatively affect anything. Using pipe cleaners in the chamber, especially bristle ones, will score up the surface pretty badly. I'd just use damp paper towels to wipe it out when cleaning.
That's true, with the current situation that your country has to face it doesn't seem quite right to bitch about a chipped pipe. But still, there's a lot of effort behind you getting it and having your good hopes crushed is worse than having no hope at all in the first place.
Now I understand everything even better.
Pipes are all about change. The surface of meerschaum will show even some of the mildest of handling marks and will reflect the frequency of smoking.
Well, surface changes is why i decided to try meerschaum.
That's the nice thing about pipes, many things can be fixed.Well, surface changes is why i decided to try meerschaum.
But from my briar smoking years I feel kind of suspicious regarding holes inside of the bowl
Like a hole from the pipe cleaner on the opposite side of the drilling - for me it’s like the pinnacle of sin.
I’m all thumbs up for fixing a decade old pipe. (This picture is good! Did you do the repairs?)
Sure did.
Do you happen to know if he does commissions?
To my knowledge, all of the meerschaum artisans do, even IMP and Altinay. A forum member commissioned this one from Kenan Kökbudak a couple of years ago.
Personally, I wouldn’t worry about that, as long as it doesn’t keep opening up more to cause a sizeable cavity. I agree with @chasingembers, it’s not going to affect smokeability at all. I can understand your OCD about tho, but if Spc does take it back, is it a pipe that you’ll miss if you can’t get one that’s a lot like it? It’s like guitars. There are guys that cannot stand a little factory blemish here or there at all, then return the guitar, and the replacement guitar isn’t half as good as the “blemished” one, and they wish they would’ve just lived with the blemish and kept the first guitar.lol
