I'm rather happy with this project, it was a CPF Paris for $28 on Ebay, here's the before and after. I went with not applying a new stain since the old one looked great after sanding and waxing. The pipe almost looked black before I got to it and the stem was a uniform gray/green (I originally thought it was bakelite or something). I still got a little sanding to make the stem absolutely smooth. This is my first restoration on one of my own pipes, did two before that came out absolutely perfect, but this one well the company went out of business in 1920, so who knows how old this sucker is.
Its stem was treated with utter disrespect along with the rest of the pipe and allowed to oxidize for mabey a hundred years or so, which left the stem with deep pitting before I even got to restoring it, the pitting was not noticible until I sanded it and it got to a point where sanding didn't help it, but there were all these sharp bands of oxidization going across, turns out they were filled in pits of pure oxidization. One rather cool feature is the top of the cap, that nob that comes out is actually a spring loaded tamper that has been built into the windcap, I have a picture in here of it comming out, it almost goes all the way down to the bottom of the bowl, very handy for when your driving. The windcap and band were plated and with the windcap the plating is gone on the areas that got the most use, which is why the rim looks silver/golden, probabley copper comming through.
I used photobucket for this, just hit "view all" to see each album, the first one are the before photos and the second are the after photos.
Its stem was treated with utter disrespect along with the rest of the pipe and allowed to oxidize for mabey a hundred years or so, which left the stem with deep pitting before I even got to restoring it, the pitting was not noticible until I sanded it and it got to a point where sanding didn't help it, but there were all these sharp bands of oxidization going across, turns out they were filled in pits of pure oxidization. One rather cool feature is the top of the cap, that nob that comes out is actually a spring loaded tamper that has been built into the windcap, I have a picture in here of it comming out, it almost goes all the way down to the bottom of the bowl, very handy for when your driving. The windcap and band were plated and with the windcap the plating is gone on the areas that got the most use, which is why the rim looks silver/golden, probabley copper comming through.
I used photobucket for this, just hit "view all" to see each album, the first one are the before photos and the second are the after photos.
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