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[tuold]

Thanks ejames. An Eldorado and Sculptura are both on my acquisition wish list.
Is it easy to tell which blasting method was used by the way it looks? The pipe hasn't arrived yet, but here's the seller picture:

"Found in abandoned storage". Another sad pipe story! :crying: It will have a good home now.

 

[ejames]

Is it easy to tell which blasting method was used by the way it looks?

I can't really say, even though I have somewhere around 15-18 Commodores and Sculpturas. I've never really looked at them to see if there was any with a "different" blast.

 

[danielplainview]

Here is one of my Dr Grabow wall displays.

From top to bottom

1)Emperor

2)Starfire

3)Regal

4)Supreme

5)Westbrook Orange spade

6)Standard

7)Crown Duke Blue spade

8)Viscount

9)Lark Yellow spade

10)Crown Duke

11)Supreme Black spade

12)Starfire

 

[tuold]

My blasted Commodore came in a few days ago and I've had time to give it a cleaning. It's an adjustomatic with a scoop-shaped stinger in near new condition.

 

[danielplainview]

Nice bulldog. Blasted Grabows are hard to find. Commodore is another on my bucketlist.

 

[buroak]

One of my first Grabows, a Linkman's square shank panel brandy (I think).

 

[buroak]

Grabow always has made a great bulldog - nice pipe!

 

[tuold]

I also have an 82 and it is a good pipe. Gotta get me an 83 someday. I like the look of that one.

 

[clangillespie]

I don't think this is an actual Grabow, but made at the Grabow Sparta facility, a recent restoration of a Adventurer

 

[lifeon2]

Yep made by Grabow, I have 2 of those running around

 

[tuold]

Just added this old Viscount to my collection. I like the shape and feel of it. Smokes great.

 

[danielplainview]

Nice one tuold. Great grain.

 

[tuold]

I saw a Dr Grabow pipe listed on eBay as a "Color Viscount". I'm not really interested in the Color line (from the 70s as I recall) and started to move on. However I saw the aluminium stinger which seems to me would push the date of manufacture back at least another ten years. So I made a low bid and won. Other than a little yellowing from age, the pipe is in like new condition. I'll clean it up a bit this weekend.

 

[ejames]

A light buffing with white diamond will make that pipe a bright white again. The paint on the Grabow "Color" pipes is quite hard. I've lightly wet sanded them with 800-1000 grit and then buffed to make them shine like a new penny.
Dave,what's with that Westbrook 81 on your display card. It looks small and for some reason the shape doesn't look quite right. I've seen some that were smaller than normal. Could be the angle at which the pic was taken.

 

[danielplainview]

Nice score tuold. NOS are getting harder to find.
@ed, I thought the same thing. I bought it from Sean already refurbed. There isn't a shape #. It's stamped Westbrook left side. Ajustomatic imported briar with pat. # on right side.

 

[tuold]

It was an embarrassment of riches last week for Dr Grabow pipes. I'd been wanting one of those nifty wire carved, hatchet shaped Starfires for a long time and finally won one. I think I'm going to like this one.

 

[ejames]

Nice Starfire tuold! Since you seem to like the Grabow Continentals here's a chart--in case you don't have it--that shows all of the Continental shapes that were available.

 

[tuold]

Thanks ejames! I copied the chart. Now I can add all those pipes and their variations to my want list!

 

[danielplainview]

Great looking Starfire. Love the wire carves.

 

[ejames]

Thanks ejames! I copied the chart. Now I can add all those pipes and their variations to my want list!

You're welcome ! The 25 is the rarest of those shapes. Seems to be more Starfire Continentals out there than the other lines.