Pipes and Paraphernalia Patina Porn Thread.

[OneGoodBulldog]

That's right! A thread dedicated to the buildup of wear and tear and the ravages of time on pipes and pipe paraphernalia!

Please only post pictures of patina you yourself have caused or have come to own, whether by inheritance or savvy purchase or strange dumb luck or any combination thereof or of that unmentioned. Also, please explain your patina! How it came to be, or how you suspect it came to be, or make up a wild and improbable story.

And don't be afraid to add to your patina post if it so happens (and it will) that your patina'd pipe or pipe paraphernalia happens to age some more! This way we can look back on this thread watch the slow inexorable march of time degrade and yet, somehow enhance the items we use in our sagely craft, erm, uh... hobby.

Anyway, enough with the parlance and onto the patina!

 

[OneGoodBulldog]

I'll start us off. Pictured here is my Zippo lighter with pipe insert after a month or two of use and my first cob. The patina on the lighter is a combination of carbon scoring, fuel (most likely) and thumb scrapes from when I flick the flint. No notable nicks, dents or dings on the case yet...

The pipe is my first cob, with a healthy amount of rim char. I torched it with a lighter when I got it and have been smoking it at work for twelve hours a day everyday unless it rains. I have not been concerned about "proper" lighting procedures for some time now with this pipe. I am okay with this. Also, I ran over my other cob with a several ton machine yesterday and I'm still pretty upset. It had half a bowl of Wessex Brown in it...

 

[bullet08]

I'm dying to see nasty pipes that's not been properly cleaned after a good smoke. I'm also waiting to see same individual posting with seeking information why his/her pipe taste sour.

 

[OneGoodBulldog]

I'm dying to see nasty pipes that's not been properly cleaned after a good smoke. I'm also waiting to see same individual posting with seeking information why his/her pipe taste sour.

I'm dying for snark.

 

[burleybreath]

I like the theme, and share what appears to be a patina fetish with you. Unfortunately I can't offer any examples of my own, because I have too many pipes that get rotated, thus none ever get the handling and usage that would develop a proper patina. Plus over half my pipes are sandblasts, which never show use other than the high ridges on the bowl wearing down over time. The patina I like is always on a smooth pipe, probably one that is carried constantly, and eventually develops a dark sheen that actually looks and feels like oils exuding from the wood. I know it when I see it, and I don't see any on my racks that quite make the grade. Best I can come up with is a beater meerschaum that has just the typical shank coloration, but those are ubiquitous.

Here. Just to appease the lust is Mark Twain's ol' pipe. I often view it when I need a fix:

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

I follow the advice here and elsewhere that advises a well maintained pipe and equipment. I do the same with shaving tools, vehicles, guns, tools, and kitchen utensils.

 

[burleybreath]

I follow the advice here and elsewhere that advises a well maintained pipe and equipment. I do the same with shaving tools, vehicles, guns, tools, and kitchen utensils.

Nah. Patina--or at least the patina I'm talking about--is not the same as neglect. I don't think most of the members here are pipe smokers to the extent that any of their pipes would develop a patina, for reasons the same as my own, above. Compared to pipe smokers of yesteryear, we are dilettantes with too many pipes, tobaccos, and frou-frou concerns.

 

[pipesandscotch]

Nah. Patina--or at least the patina I'm talking about--is not the same as neglect. I don't think most of the members here are pipe smokers to the extent that any of their pipes would develop a patina, for reasons the same as my own, above. Compared to pipe smokers of yesteryear, we are dilettantes with too many pipes, tobaccos, and frou-frou concerns.

My grandfather, who was my pipe mentor (and loved his Sobranie), some 50 years ago, related a story to me of a neighbor that he had many years before, whose wife thought her husband's pipes were dirty and crusty, so she scrubbed them out with soap and water thinking she was doing him a good deed. Apparently his reaction when he came home from work, could be heard all over the neighborhood! LMAO!

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

Nah. Patina--or at least the patina I'm talking about--is not the same as neglect. I don't think most of the members here are pipe smokers to the extent that any of their pipes would develop a patina, for reasons the same as my own, above. Compared to pipe smokers of yesteryear, we are dilettantes with too many pipes, tobaccos, and frou-frou concerns.

The only patina my pipes will have is from skin oil.

I’ll clean the guts of the pipe so the tobacco tastes well. So, for me, there is a practical nature of clean.

I’m going to shine my pipes with wax. At least not until the Peterson comes tomorrow....lol!

 

[burleybreath]

The only patina my pipes will have is from skin oil.

Now you're talkin'. I think that's one of the major components of a proper patina.

 

[OneGoodBulldog]

I follow the advice here and elsewhere that advises a well maintained pipe and equipment. I do the same with shaving tools, vehicles, guns, tools, and kitchen utensils.

I could argue with you about the difference between neglect and use, but I was hoping that this thread would just be pics of pipe related stuff that people have owned for a long time and are showing their age in an aesthetically pleasing way. Silly expectation.

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

I could argue with you about the difference between neglect and use, but I was hoping that this thread would just be pics of pipe related stuff that people have owned for a long time and are showing their age in an aesthetically pleasing way. Silly expectation.

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[OneGoodBulldog]

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Oh fine then!

I keep my flintlock barrel "in the white" which means there is no protective coating of any kind on the metal of the barrel. The lock and frizzen are case hardened of course. I use brick dust and olive oil to clean it. I've never opened the case and found rust, only after a long hot day of shooting has rust developed. If I were some sort of savage I'd leave it, but I'm not, I'm a Historically Accurate Black Powder Rendezvous Enthusiast. So I clean that musket the way they did in the 1700s!

That's the difference between neglect and use! Now I'm so upset I'll have to smoke another bowl of Robert McConnel Scottish Cake. Damn you, Sweet!

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[Sweet Home Alabama]

Oh fine then!

I keep my flintlock barrel "in the white" which means there is no protective coating of any kind on the metal of the barrel. The lock and frizzen are case hardened of course. I use brick dust and olive oil to clean it. I've never opened the case and found rust, only after a long hot day of shooting has rust developed. If I were some sort of savage I'd leave it, but I'm not, I'm a Historically Accurate Black Powder Rendezvous Enthusiast. So I clean that musket the way they did in the 1700s!

That's the difference between neglect and use! Now I'm so upset I'll have to smoke another bowl of Robert McConnel Scottish Cake. Damn you, Sweet!

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So, that was an equivalent “I’m sorry “ face...

BTW. My favorite black powder shoot out.

 

[OneGoodBulldog]

So, that was an equivalent “I’m sorry “ face...

BTW. My favorite black powder shoot out.

And here I thought you were sad because I wouldn't argue with you! I was never good with emoticons but I try to use them more often as they seem to be required content these days.

 

[jpmcwjr]

I could argue with you about the difference between neglect and use, but I was hoping that this thread would just be pics of pipe related stuff that people have owned for a long time and are showing their age in an aesthetically pleasing way. Silly expectation.

Not really, but the two photos you posted don't seem to follow that. I have some no-finish pipes I bought eons ago which have a fabulous patina. Photos at 11.

 

[Toast]

My Provenzano sandblasted morta before:


& after about three months.


There was a lovely intermediate stage (pretty soon after I got it) where it followed the drilling:

 

[OneGoodBulldog]

Not really, but the two photos you posted don't seem to follow that. I have some no-finish pipes I bought eons ago which have a fabulous patina. Photos at 11.

I don't see how my photos are unrelated to the topic, but okay.

 

[kgs]

I could argue with you about the difference between neglect and use, but I was hoping that this thread would just be pics of pipe related stuff that people have owned for a long time and are showing their age in an aesthetically pleasing way. Silly expectation.

This picture shows my IMCO lighter. It was gifted to me by a friend. I have carried it on-and-off for over a decade. The nickle finish is wearing off in some areas and the steel underneath is oxidized. It has several dings and dents. Plenty of scratches. Some parts are even a bit misshapen. Some bits have a little rust. The insides have a good deal of rust. Rusting is the major weakness of these lighters.

The original wick is long gone, replaced with an inferior Zippo wick. The original wicks on IMCOs are more like a thin shoelace than a wick.

 

[klause]

Petersons B10 Summer-time, 2018. It was a natural sandblast finish, beautiful and light.



Its now dark brown. This is not just skin-oil colouring as it is an even colour all over. It really accentuates the birdseye in the blast.

Its the pipe i smoke more than any other. My other natural blasts are colouring in a similiar way.