Savinelli Is Messing Up Badly
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Honestly! Ive stained many apipe with a bent pipe cleaner dipped in stain and never touch the inner bowl or mortise but about 25% of the time with dark stain and briar that isn't too old the stain will bleed through especially if your stain isn't diluted enough.
So what was the end result ??? Did it get cleaned and smoked or cleaned and posted for sale or messed up with acetone and thrown out or sent back to SPC ? Just curious ...
There are three pipes in question.
Pipe 1 was inspected and returned.
Pipe 2 has been smoked and treated with alcohol a few times. I continue to smoke it. I think I am banishing the stain taste. It seems much better now. I never used acetone on it because my forum searches suggest that alcohol is actually better at removing stain than acetone.
Pipe 3 was inspected and is sitting in the box. I will return it soon simply because it is the same model as pipe 2 and I do not need/want two identical models right now.
If you think that Dunhill came from the factory that way then you are cordially invited to be the guest of honor at my next poker game.
As for the Castello, I saw the same pics and you forgot to include the flashlight shot that shows the drilling is true. Even with the bent pipe cleaner, it’s what a millimeter off? And the owner of that pipe reports that it smokes wonderfully.
For the OP, any stain in the bowl or mortise will taste horrible and take forever to burn away. This is why so many pipe smokers find well constructed artisan pipes to be an epiphany.
I'm not a fan of the bowl coatings that some manufacturers use. I had a Peterson St. Patrick's Day pipe that had a bowl coating, and the first handful of bowls were terrible tasting. I did a salt treatment on it and smoked a handful of Sir Walter Raleigh and it got a lot better.
I currently own 5 Savinelli's with the most recent one purchased in 2020. I've owned several others that I no longer own, but of all my Savinelli's I've never owned one with a bowl coating or staining inside the mortis. All of my Savinelli's are/were great smoking pipes.
It's possible the stain soaked through, or it's a new practice. Which one it is, I can't say. Even though you bought a "premium" pipe it's still a "factory" pipe so there is always the potential for pipes to get past quality control. Especially considering the amount of pipes they make each day.
Like other's have mentioned; I would use the salt treatment on the pipe, and after 24 hours of soaking, give it another 24 hours or better to dry out. Then just smoke about 5-10 bowls through it and you should be off and going.
Good luck with whatever you decide to do.
I currently own 5 Savinelli's with the most recent one purchased in 2020. I've owned several others that I no longer own, but of all my Savinelli's I've never owned one with a bowl coating or staining inside the mortis. All of my Savinelli's are/were great smoking pipes.
It's possible the stain soaked through, or it's a new practice. Which one it is, I can't say. Even though you bought a "premium" pipe it's still a "factory" pipe so there is always the potential for pipes to get past quality control. Especially considering the amount of pipes they make each day.
Like other's have mentioned; I would use the salt treatment on the pipe, and after 24 hours of soaking, give it another 24 hours or better to dry out. Then just smoke about 5-10 bowls through it and you should be off and going.
Good luck with whatever you decide to do.
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