Piping Mishaps: Tales of Destruction
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Sparrowhawk was that such a bad smoker you had to put it down? Dang!
Haven't broken anything yet *knock on wood* but the day is still young
Haven't broken anything yet *knock on wood* but the day is still young
"I have 3 I haven't seen in years."
Clearly then you don't have them :rofl:
I've never actually broken a pipe but I have broken a stem by tugging out a jammed pipe cleaner with my Leatherman as was reported on the forum a while ago. It is all boxed up and ready to go to Georged for his magic treatment.
Regards,
Jay.
Clearly then you don't have them :rofl:
I've never actually broken a pipe but I have broken a stem by tugging out a jammed pipe cleaner with my Leatherman as was reported on the forum a while ago. It is all boxed up and ready to go to Georged for his magic treatment.
Regards,
Jay.
I sent that particular pipe to Peterson's, partially hoping they'd replace it, but really to figure out how such a tectonic event could have happened spontaneously. Probably just a grain of sand that expanded They never did send a replacement, however.
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Been there and more than twice, clumsy that I'm,I have dropped on the floor few ones,causing >broken stems or as it was recently with my $ 90 Peterson Shannon 407 prince (reference to Mso 489 post )knocked off the rack and result was a thin hair crack on the shank(again due to -did superclue job on this and the result was something satisfactory although frankly it deserves to be properly banded,but again if doubt if its worthwhile spending another $ on this medium price piece,
My condolences mayfair, I feel your pain. I was having a happy few hours of amateur restoration with a cane meerschaum pipe. Delicately sanding and pollishing someone elses repair for hours and it was looking pretty good till I screwed the shaft in too far. agggghh sorry If I offend anyone but I can only liken it to slamming my wee wee in a car door !!!! so upset
That's really a bummer. What can we learn?
That meer has a pocket in the wall!
The color is coming from the outside, not from 'breathing through the walls'. hmmn.
That meer has a pocket in the wall!
The color is coming from the outside, not from 'breathing through the walls'. hmmn.
Everyone doesn't have a drawer full of broken stems and bowls?
Ha ha, I just have maybe three briars and a shattered meer from thermal shock. I don't think the meer was from a block. I've stepped on one, my wife stepped on another, and one was a tractor fatality. I did have a Mark Tinsky bulldog that just fell apart after the first smoke on my way home with it from The Briary. It was an epic post, with Mark Tinsky being a dick. He wanted to give me a discount on another pipe instead of fixing the one that broke. He accused me of doing something to cause the break. It had just fell apart on its own. I told him that I was willing to pay for the repair, even thought it was the result of his poor engineering (as per Skip's assessment). He ended up doing the repair, but he ground his name off of the pipe. I never spoke directly to Mark, so it was via Skip, so I cannot know what was really communicated, but I don't/won't own any more Tinskys. FWIW, the repaired Tinsky is one of my favorites to smoke, even if the nomenclature was scrubbed, ha ha.
Ha ha, I just have maybe three briars and a shattered meer from thermal shock. I don't think the meer was from a block. I've stepped on one, my wife stepped on another, and one was a tractor fatality. I did have a Mark Tinsky bulldog that just fell apart after the first smoke on my way home with it from The Briary. It was an epic post, with Mark Tinsky being a dick. He wanted to give me a discount on another pipe instead of fixing the one that broke. He accused me of doing something to cause the break. It had just fell apart on its own. I told him that I was willing to pay for the repair, even thought it was the result of his poor engineering (as per Skip's assessment). He ended up doing the repair, but he ground his name off of the pipe. I never spoke directly to Mark, so it was via Skip, so I cannot know what was really communicated, but I don't/won't own any more Tinskys. FWIW, the repaired Tinsky is one of my favorites to smoke, even if the nomenclature was scrubbed, ha ha.
Thanks newbroom, I didnt even notice that, probably cause my bottom lip was quivering and eyes were full of tears lol Cheers Mate 
Ahhh I almost forgot my Dr Grabow Duke. I was in the jeep, puffing away on some Prince Albert, When I noticed my hand was getting wet. I smoked it so hot, a huge crack appeared in the shank, and was making tobacco juice all over. I filled it with pipe cake, and smoked it for a couple months until I finally retired it.
I cracked the shank on my Vauen Nobile churchwarden when I put a plastic 9mm spacer in to replace the filters. I put the stem back in and it must've been just a smidge wider than the filters. Such a bummer, because it was one of my nicer pipes.
I've also snapped the tenons on two different pipes because of dropping them... thankfully those were easy fixes for Chuck at my local pipe club.
I've also snapped the tenons on two different pipes because of dropping them... thankfully those were easy fixes for Chuck at my local pipe club.
Just the other day I knocked a pipe against the palm of my hand and the shank broke. It was my first commissioned pipe. Don’t believe it had anything to do with workmanship so not mentioning any names.
I started smoking a pipe in college in the 60's. I spent way too much time in the lounge playing pool. The first time I leaned against the pool table to make a shot and heard a "snap" I attributed it to bad luck. The second time I said WTF. By the fourth one I finally realized that I was just too stupid to go to college.
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