Restoration Complete on Dunhill Tanshell

[nsfisher]

I would like you guys to be 100% honest with me. This took me a total of about 11 hours from start to finish. I removed 95% of the Oxidation on the stem via "Old School" and finished it off with Walkerbriar Stem Restore Kit and then a coat of Carnuba Wax/Sealer. The bowl was reamed, and scrubbed as was the shank. The outside of the bowl was spit shined untill my mouth went dry. Then hand buffed for about an hour. The rim was spit polished over and over an over again. The little bit of rim char that remains is too stubborn to remove that way and I refuse to scrape it, so it shall remain. The bowl has had 2 coats of Cranuba Wax/sealer and hand buffed. Hope you all like it. Please forgive the black in the bowl as I had to smoke it before I made this post.
HERE IS THE BEFORE PICTURE

HERE ARE THE AFTER PICTURES

 

[keith929]

Man,nsfisher you have really outdone yourself on this resto. Truly a magnificent job. I am smoking a bowl to your honor sir.

 

[john218]

Great job; it came out beautiful. Think of all the years and bowls of tobacco it took to get that color.

 

[weezell]

Great job my friend!!Many good bowls to ya. :clap:

 

[mp31guitar]

WOW! Great job nsfisher. That's truly something to be proud of.

 

[nsfisher]

Wow! Thanks for the awsome replies guys. Much appreciated.

 

[ghost]

Great job! The stem came out real nice.

 

[gmwolford]

That looks great, Fish! I'd never guessed it was the same pipe.

 

[baronsamedi]

Yeah! That stem is fantastic. I had actually showed the before picture to my wife to explain what a pest stem oxidation can be. Now I'll have to show the impressive after picture!

 

[cajundad]

Great job on that beauty !

 

[philobeddoe]

Nice work, you have already spoken about how good it smokes. Now it looks as nice as it smokes, good job.

 

[igloo]

You do good work the pipe looks fantastic .

 

[photoman13]

Good job my friend. I am not surprised at your work though, you do a great job on estates.

 

[shaintiques]

Yeah looks great! Good job!

 

[ejames]

Nice work!!

 

[topd]

Great Job! I think you did the right thing by not scraping the rim... It looks

just great!

 

[damnyak]

Nice man!

 

[nightmarejones]

She's a looker now!Great job!

 

[papipeguy]

It looks great to me. I hope you have many hours of fine smoking with it. Well done.

 

[bentmike]

Well done fisher. Yeah good call on leaving the rim alone. You'll just darken it anyway.