Peterson Coatings?

[Jef]

I've been here since 2014 and it's mostly been no cake or minimal cake buildup talk.

Got here in 2019 and saw many inquiries on how to build cake for breaking in a pipe. True, there was a lot of talk about how thick as well.
Jef

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

Anyone else have any issues with the coatings inside of a new Peterson? Got a lovely silver spigot, sweet pipe, and noticed the inside was black, like...black. Not that kind of charred look of many pipes, the kind the are the prep so one doesn't need to break in the pipe so much. I've smoked three sessions with the Peterson and...not great sessions (but might have been my tobacco); what I did notice was that cleaning out the pipe was different and weird: everything stuck to the sides. I even had to go, gently, with my reamer. Seems amiss, like they tried some new sort of pre-breaking in material or process and, to my mind, it does not work. Would like to hear if anyone else has had this experience with Peterson.

Probably been covered but . . .

I got an Iora spigot model recently and it had the coating and I have had it in other Petersons.

It took less than 5 minutes to remove the coating with paper towel bits and hot water and (although some may disagree) then just a light going over with some 220 grit sandpaper to reveal more of the briar.

Nothing to it if you want to remove it.

 

[Aomalley27]

The coating is like their shellac. Some are just right; others have been applied with a HEAVY hand.

 

[ssjones]

I'm a big fan of Peterson's new coatings. If you don't like it, just remove it, fairly easy to do so.

 

[North of the Border Piper]

Yep, thanks for the sandpaper tip.