Oh No! Crack on My Favorite.

[Erehwesle]

This is a simple A. Curtz briar I bought used off a fiend from here. It went on the AT with me, recently developed a crack on the stem end.

not sure what precipitated this. This pipe has been kicking about my pack for a year, it has been a bit humid.

any thoughts?

TBS

 

[bluegrassbrian]

If you really like the pipe, it can be repaired with a band.

 

[Erehwesle]

If you really like the pipe, it can be repaired with a band.

Please elaborate!

 

[didimauw]

@cosmicfolklore

He knows a guy that can do it!

 

[kcghost]

You better send it to some to be repaired. Banding is a very straightforward process but not for those who have never done it before.

 

[Erehwesle]

Diidimauw, and kcghost

hate to lose the pipe. It made it through the entire AT.

TBS

 

[Chasing Embers]

This is a simple A. Curtz briar I bought used off a fiend from here. It went on the AT with me, recently developed a crack on the stem end.

not sure what precipitated this. This pipe has been kicking about my pack for a year, it has been a bit humid.

any thoughts? View attachment 150683

TBS

Send it to Mike Myers. He can band the shank in no time.

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[cosmicfolklore]

@cosmicfolklore

He knows a guy that can do it!

I was kinda ‘fraid you were sending me a corn cob, ha ha!!

 

[sablebrush52]

Any competent pipe repair service can band that for you. Probably caused by humidity and the characteristics of that particular piece of briar causing pressure against the tenon. I like Arley's pipes. They smoke well and cost next to nothing. But he didn't use the best briar I've seen and he wasn't a master at joinery

 

[Erehwesle]

I was kinda ‘fraid you were sending me a corn cob, ha ha!!

You do banding? Yeah this is a A.Curtz briar

 

[Erehwesle]

It’s a great pipe. I have a bit of a sentimental attachment as it survived the AT, basically if you don’t know it a particular long and hard hike.

 

[didimauw]

I was kinda ‘fraid you were sending me a corn cob, ha ha!!

I've thought about it. Cause I know they are your favorites.

 

[didimauw]

It’s a great pipe. I have a bit of a sentimental attachment as it survived the AT, basically if you don’t know it a particular long and hard hike.

I was going to ask. Yes in that case never get rid of it! That's great!

 

[Erehwesle]

I've thought about it. Cause I know they are your favorites.

I do have a couple of those. Do I need to get problems up on them for drama? I could think about it

 

[Erehwesle]

Thanks for the help all

 

[sablebrush52]

it survived the AT, basically if you don’t know it a particular long and hard hike.

Which makes me wonder, did you carry it in your backpack? And if so, assembled? It's pretty easy for the pipe to get "bumped" causing the stem to lever against the shank. Most of the time the tenon snaps, but occasionally the shank cracks.

 

[Erehwesle]

Which makes me wonder, did you carry it in your backpack? And if so, assembled? It's pretty easy for the pipe to get "bumped" causing the stem to lever against the shank. Most of the time the tenon snaps, but occasionally the shank cracks.

Surprisingly it was when I got home it developed a problem and recent. We have gone through a wet spell in NC

on trail… mostly carried disassembled? I was surprised, honestly, to get this issue as the pipe really put up with a lot. Disassembled, assembled, just in a bag and through wrath, wreck and ruin.

 

[Chasing Embers]

It went on the AT with me

Did you get to see any herds of wild horses?

 

[Erehwesle]

Did you get to see any herds of wild horses?

Well, groups of annoying ponies. That was up Grayson Highlands

 

[mso489]

Just chiming in and echoing what's been said, but that is a repair that is easily and permanently fixable by a pro at moderate cost. When the bowl cracks, that is more often the beginning of the end for a pipe.