Been getting a whole series of bad/sour smokes lately. The last couple days. Multiple pipes. Figure it is my palate that needs a rest. Smoked the hell out of latakia the last week or two, and everything just has a bad taste now.
So, figured now is as good a time as any to sweeten the pipes. Took the ones I smoke the most often, elaving about 6 in the rack, and did the salt and booze treatment. With the pics below you can really see what is what with these pipes...
Plugged the shank with gun cleaning cotton patches.
Filled the bowl with sea salt, and then dribbled in Everclear. Will likely top off the everclear here in a bit (it has been about an hour, less than two, when these pics were taken). Then let it them all sit for a day or two and then empty them, let them air dry for a day or two, and then maybe hit the rest of them.
this is my Dottore G Grande Duca. man, that is some nasty crap seeping out onto that cotton. It is my most heavily smoked pipe, at least by me.
Briarcraft. And I cleaned this one up before smoking it, and it hasn't been smoked that much by me. It is probably a good policy to salt and booze them when they come in used like that. Even if the seller says he had already done something similar.
Sir Hubert doesn't look too bad....But, he shit all over the workbench.
An Uncle Arthur Ward Cleaver on the left, and a Mitchell Thomas/Thomas Mitchell on the right. Uncle Arthur's pipe likely didn't need the treatment, as it is pretty new. But, it won't hurt it, either. The Thomas Mitchell is not too bad looking, either.
So, figured now is as good a time as any to sweeten the pipes. Took the ones I smoke the most often, elaving about 6 in the rack, and did the salt and booze treatment. With the pics below you can really see what is what with these pipes...
Plugged the shank with gun cleaning cotton patches.
Filled the bowl with sea salt, and then dribbled in Everclear. Will likely top off the everclear here in a bit (it has been about an hour, less than two, when these pics were taken). Then let it them all sit for a day or two and then empty them, let them air dry for a day or two, and then maybe hit the rest of them.
this is my Dottore G Grande Duca. man, that is some nasty crap seeping out onto that cotton. It is my most heavily smoked pipe, at least by me.
Briarcraft. And I cleaned this one up before smoking it, and it hasn't been smoked that much by me. It is probably a good policy to salt and booze them when they come in used like that. Even if the seller says he had already done something similar.
Sir Hubert doesn't look too bad....But, he shit all over the workbench.
An Uncle Arthur Ward Cleaver on the left, and a Mitchell Thomas/Thomas Mitchell on the right. Uncle Arthur's pipe likely didn't need the treatment, as it is pretty new. But, it won't hurt it, either. The Thomas Mitchell is not too bad looking, either.
