I've had 3 new Peterson's in the last year and only one that needed the coating removed. Kind of odd but the other 2 smoked great from the start.
Peterson’s Chamber Coating - What A Mess!
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I wiped my Rua out with a wet paper towel, and the coating came off easy easy. Just wiped out to bare wood. But, where the paper towel touched the outside of the bowl, the stain came off and stained my fingers. So, be careful of that.
I gave mine a good coat of carnauba wax and buffed it to seal it in real good.
I’ve smoked it 8 times now, and still have an off taste, but it’s getting better.
I’m just trying to keep positive about it.
I gave mine a good coat of carnauba wax and buffed it to seal it in real good.
I’ve smoked it 8 times now, and still have an off taste, but it’s getting better.
I’m just trying to keep positive about it.
I never had any issues w/Pete’s coating… same w/Savinelli and others. I’m OK with or without. Nonetheless, I hope that you can remedy to your satisfaction.
This wasnt like any bowl coating Id seen before. I could tell by looking at it that it was wet looking right out of the box. Transparent, like a vaseline look. When I touched it, it came off on my finger, so I knew I wasn’t going to load it up like that.
This coating was real wet/shiny looking.
Well I have returned from Ace Hardware, only 10 minutes down and back.
In case you guys are thinking, why’s this fool desperate to go to Ace in the middle of the night, it’s only 3 in the afternoon here... LOL ?
Sand Time!
Well I have returned from Ace Hardware, only 10 minutes down and back.
In case you guys are thinking, why’s this fool desperate to go to Ace in the middle of the night, it’s only 3 in the afternoon here... LOL ?
Sand Time!
Hey, try just a moist paper towel first. Maybe you’ll get lucky like I did. Start with less aggressive to more aggressive.This coating was real wet/shiny looking.
Well I have returned from Ace Hardware, only 10 minutes down and back.
In case you guys are thinking, why’s this fool desperate to go to Ace in the middle of the night, it’s only 3 in the afternoon here... LOL ?
Sand Time!
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I’d advise not getting the stain wet though.
I smoked it and let it set for over a day as I mentioned, it turned to like hardened glue...
I’m sanding away... LOL
40 minutes of sanding later, it’s like 99%, and good enough now, no big blotch anywhere, just wee very tiny gray specs, with very slight looks of gray here and there.
Holy Crap what a chore this turned out to be, never to be repeated again.
Holy Crap what a chore this turned out to be, never to be repeated again.
All the more reason why you buy in person and if you can’t, you call the business before buying a pipe. eBay is a roll of the dice and if I can’t get a live pipe smoker on the phone to discuss a pipe, I won’t buy it. Cupojoes and Tobaccopipes are good people and they often can pull several “identical” pipes and talk about the best one. Too many bad purchases, head shy now. Glad you got it cleaned out!
I wouldn’t call this a buying online problem, since most people are aware of these coatings, myself included, I just decided to leave it in, big mistake. LOL
Buying online is great, there are so many choices, and all the companies out there that are good will talk, or email with you, to make sure things are good, and if there’s a defect, shipping gets taken care of.
I’ve never bought a pipe from EBay, only once at Etsy, and the rest at SPC, Cup O’ Joes, LePipeit, Tabaccheriacorti, and Pipeonline.
You only have to worry about paying shipping back, if it’s a pipe that some changes their mind on.
Buying online is great, there are so many choices, and all the companies out there that are good will talk, or email with you, to make sure things are good, and if there’s a defect, shipping gets taken care of.
I’ve never bought a pipe from EBay, only once at Etsy, and the rest at SPC, Cup O’ Joes, LePipeit, Tabaccheriacorti, and Pipeonline.
You only have to worry about paying shipping back, if it’s a pipe that some changes their mind on.
I just smoke that coating off. I don't notice much flavor from it. The coating will leave rather flaky cake after few smoke. You can ream it out at that point. Or just keep on smoking. They go away. At least to my experience.
Exactly why I recommend a hot water flush with any pipe new to you, be it an estate or very fresh out of the box.
The problem I realized, is don’t let a new Peterson sit over night, with half a bowl, smoke it the next day, and then try and wipe the chamber 24 hours later, it’s like cement... LOL
It’s all good, nice and sanded out, ready to start the adventure over.
That was my experience, with a 2020 POY PSB, I didnt taste anything at all, it perhaps muted the flavor a tad, but cake started almost immediately. I'm a bowl coating guy and liked what Peterson did last year. I wonder if they changed something in the past year.
Echo all the experience with that crappy coating, sanded it off myself.
The one 2021 Christmas pipe that I ended up keeping had bowl coating that was thick and shiny. There was a bit of material left on the sides of the bowl after the first smoke. Scraped it smooth with my pipe tool blade and kept on smoking.
Wrap a bit of sandpaper around a pilot pen (or any wide pen), or a piece of shaped doweling if you have any and wrap a rubber band around the top to hold the sandpaper in place. Then sand with it to remove the offending material. This will give you some control as you work.
Funny nobody complains about the bowl coatings in another vendors pipes... That stuff can leave a rubbery concoction at the bottom of the pipe. I just scrape it and keep smoking.
The bowl coatings I sometimes apply are 100% organic and never gave me any grief.
While Peterson's coatings used to be ( if memory serves me correctly ) organic, being a mixture of Gum arabic , water and activated charcoal powder they now possibly altered their recipe and apperently not for the better . Or is it a matter of "dipping" the bowl instead of applying a micron thin layer ?
While Peterson's coatings used to be ( if memory serves me correctly ) organic, being a mixture of Gum arabic , water and activated charcoal powder they now possibly altered their recipe and apperently not for the better . Or is it a matter of "dipping" the bowl instead of applying a micron thin layer ?
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