Pipe Water Torture - Winter Vortex Edition

[trouttimes]

Ok you guys convinced me. I just spent several hours washing a batch of pipes. I must say, they do smell better and it doesn't seem to have harmed them at all.

 

[davet]

I'm kinda disappointed that there was so little change in the pipe :| I didn't have a dog in the water v.s no water discussion but I thought there would be something other than the finish .

 

[judcasper]

Well, since no one else is claiming it, I want one dollar for everyone who still posts that water is dangerous everytime someone mentions water rincing.

Allow me to climb up on the fence and put this out there; what about pipes made from different woods? Does the fact that one pipe, made from one species of wood, tell us that all pipes, regardless of material, will survive just as bravely?

 

[ashdigger]

Jud, I only own pipes made of briar. I owned a Morta, but since its bog oak, Im sure it will do just fine. I've owned one olive wood pipe, but it was a piece of garbage without the water torture.
So, any volunteers for other woods?

 

[haparnold]

Honestly. I don't think other woods are that pertinent.
It certainly wouldn't hurt to do other woods/other materials, but I'm willing to bet north of 90% of pipes in the world are briar, and I don't think our original group of agitators um, innovators were advocating for washing cobs or meerschaum.