Scorched Mortise

[jiminy]

So I just got an Irish Seconds pipe in, and I can see why it was a seconds pipe haha! Besides a lot of fills and crooked drilling, the mortise is scorched! I tested the draw and you can definitely taste/smell the charred wood.

So I guess my question is this: is there anything that will lessen this taste?

 

[Chasing Embers]

Looks more like smoke staining like the inside of a reverse calabash.

 

[Puffaluffaguss]

Some q-tips or pipe cleaners dipped in some everclear or any high proof alchohol of your choice. I've used bacardi 151 rum and was just fine. And rub the problem area.

 

[anotherbob]

nothing wrong with the drilling on a pipe of that style.

 

[jiminy]

Looks more like smoke staining like the inside of a reverse calabash.

Pretty sure that it burning from a tool spinning. It smells and looks like when someone uses a dull bit to drill hard wood, and it heats up to the point of smoking. Not saying that happened here, but similar situations have happened to me, and this is reminiscent of that

 

[jiminy]

nothing wrong with the drilling on a pipe of that style.

You mean with the draft hole in the chamber being off center? That's not even the major concern for me. It was completely plugged (no air movement whatsoever) and seems to be drilled higher than my Peterson. I'm sure it'll be fine... At least I hope haha. It's just a work/camp pipe, which is why I went with the seconds

 

[jpmcwjr]

Are you sure the taste/smell isn't coming from the chamber?

In any event, a very hot water flush will sweeten both of them up.

 

[jiminy]

Are you sure the taste/smell isn't coming from the chamber?

In any event, a very hot water flush will sweeten both of them up.

Perhaps, although the smell triggers memories of burned wood, and the mortise looks like it a bit.

Anyways, tell me more about this hot water flush! Just as hot as tap water gets? How long do you flush the pipe for? Is that just for pipes for bowl coatings, or is that for bare bowls as well?

 

[seanv]

Perhaps, although the smell triggers memories of burned wood, and the mortise looks like it a bit.

Anyways, tell me more about this hot water flush! Just as hot as tap water gets? How long do you flush the pipe for? Is that just for pipes for bowl coatings, or is that for bare bowls as well?

You can find days worth of reading on this topic with this forum alone.
Flush for about 30 seconds with hot water to remove coatings or to clean smoked pipes. Leave the stem on. Try to avoid getting the finish wet as it may dull but some wax will take care of that easy enough.

 

[seanv]

You can find days worth of reading on this topic with this forum alone.
Flush for about 30 seconds with hot water to remove coatings or to clean smoked pipes. Leave the stem on. Try to avoid getting the finish wet as it may dull but some wax will take care of that easy enough.

I forgot to mention that you will need to dry the pipe with paper towels and pipe cleaners post flushing

 

[jpmcwjr]

Pretty much it. I get the tap water as hot as it will go, and run it 15-30 seconds down the chamber and out the bit.

Frankly, I don''t often wipe the chamber with a paper towel nor dry the airway, though I recommend doing so. I find it not necessary when you have a lot of pipes that can easily dry in a day or overnight, or for many days.

 

[anotherbob]

You mean with the draft hole in the chamber being off center? That's not even the major concern for me. It was completely plugged (no air movement whatsoever) and seems to be drilled higher than my Peterson. I'm sure it'll be fine... At least I hope haha. It's just a work/camp pipe, which is why I went with the seconds

didn't really notice it is drilled pretty high up. Well as long as you know that the draft hole is the bottom of the smokable area of the chamber. I assume the pluggedness has been cured. Certainly is a good thing to have a work camp pipe, personally I think falcons work perfectly for that role.

 

[Donb1972]

You mean with the draft hole in the chamber being off center? That's not even the major concern for me. It was completely plugged (no air movement whatsoever) and seems to be drilled higher than my Peterson. I'm sure it'll be fine... At least I hope haha. It's just a work/camp pipe, which is why I went with the seconds

I wanted to try out an unfinished, raw, briar(because they take on colour with use), so I picked up a Molina(on the low end of the price scale). The draw was terrible, and after less than a bowl of tobacco, it stopped completely ~ couldn't even get a pipe cleaner through. Turns out, there was a hunk of wood stuck inside that they did not fully remove when it was drilled!

 

[TheIronMonkey]

I wanted to try out an unfinished, raw, briar(because they take on colour with use), so I picked up a Molina(on the low end of the price scale). The draw was terrible, and after less than a bowl of tobacco, it stopped completely ~ couldn't even get a pipe cleaner through. Turns out, there was a hunk of wood stuck inside that they did not fully remove when it was drilled!

How is the draw now?

 

[Donb1972]

How is the draw now?

I had to jam an allen wrench(I was too scared of screwing something up to use a drill ?) through, but once I got all the wood out, it was fine.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I had to jam an allen wrench(I was too scared of screwing something up to use a drill ?) through, but once I got all the wood out, it was fine.

A T handle and a drill bit makes that easy.