So I saw a dirty old 303 on ebay and decided what the hell I'll bid. Well I won the pipe and paid 58 bucks with shipping included. This was my first pipe "restore" I've done. After 2 hours of micro mesh and then beeswax with my dremel I got stem looking like new and after maybe 10 min with flitz metal polish and a qtip I got the nickel band shining bright! The bowl was in really good shape and just needed a little bit of sanding to get the carbon out. After all that work I finally got it in smoking order and I gatta say I am suprised this pipe smokes better than my IMP block meerschaum pipe. I will definitely be looking for a deluxe systems pipe on ebay. Here are some before and after pics.
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