One Meerschaum For One Year (11/7/2020)

[RainKing]

What a fun idea! Can’t wait to see the progress! Perhaps it will take on a divine image! Haha

 

[Ethan]

Congrats on the pipe!! Looks great, looking forward to pics when it gets some color started.

 

[weezell]

Get after it Buddy!...

 

[didimauw]

Get after it Buddy!...

I'm so excited for the nice weather, and the upcoming punishment the pipe will receive!

 

[danimalia]

Well, I ended up taking about a month off of pipe smoking, due to the severe cold here in Wisconsin. But it's finally warming up, and I'm back at it! 42 degrees today, and I'm enjoying bowl some briar fox on my porch, sunbathing with a cup of coffee. Man it's good to be back!

Bowl 41

I missed your original post, but look forward to following your journey. The Weez is awesome, a mensch and a patron of the sciences by getting you going here with this new project.

 

[jpmcwjr]

What does she weigh now?

 

[SlowerThanMost]

After being persuaded by my good friend Dave, @weezell I finally gave into the peer pressure.

Or rather, you gave into the meer pressure...

I will see myself out

 

[didimauw]

I'll try to get more pictures of the coloring, as it's really starting to go now. But I did weigh it again, and this is after 46 bowls.


So it's gained 2 grams since new.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Perfecto! It can hold a lot more grams of "stuff".

 

[canucklehead]

I'll try to get more pictures of the coloring, as it's really starting to go now. But I did weigh it again, and this is after 46 bowls.

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So it's gained 2 grams since new.

2 grams from 46 bowls is a lot more than I would have expected. I suppose the rate of increase would level off over time, as it is increasingly saturated with "stuff."?

 

[mso489]

didi' is doing this so we won't have to. Don't try this at home. Handsome pipe!

 

[jpmcwjr]

2 grams from 46 bowls is a lot more than I would have expected. I suppose the rate of increase would level off over time, as it is increasingly saturated with "stuff."?

Sure. At some point, it won't increase at all.

 

[didimauw]

I did notice there was a bit of cake forming on the inside after I weighed it. I'll clean it out really good and weigh it again. I don't want to be weighing actual tobacco bits, or "stuff" as it's being called now for some reason....lmao

 

[jpmcwjr]

Hah! "Stuff" includes tars, oils, H2O, whatever else can be deposited into the meerschaum.

The meer will absorb at least half its weight in stuff, which in that case excludes tobacco bits and cake...

 

[ophiuchus]

That looks great; looks like it’s coloring evenly (not that that’s too important).

 

[didimauw]

Man is it hard to get a decent picture of the coloring. What a weird spot to color the most...

 

[didimauw]

Bowl 58, and third of the day is Ryback. Enjoying the warm weather on the inlaws patio on the lake.

 

[BarrelProof]

Do you aren’t smoking the Tinsky until this project is done?

I recently purchased a “translucent” meer from Altinay. Looking forward to seeing how it colors up, and may use this approach - the data/photos, not smoking it exclusively for a year.

 

[cshubhra]

Fantastic!

To get a somewhat true color of a Meerschaum using a phone camera

1. Shoot in natural (sun) light
2. Use a white sheet of paper as background (True white)
3. Take the exposure reading from the white paper (Touch the white paper image in your phone, to make it the focal point

this should show the true color of the Meerschaum to a large extent

 

[didimauw]

Do you aren’t smoking the Tinsky until this project is done?

I recently purchased a “translucent” meer from Altinay. Looking forward to seeing how it colors up, and may use this approach - the data/photos, not smoking it exclusively for a year.

Correct, only one pipe per year. No cheating.