Show Off Your Meerschaum Pipes Here!

[Sobrbiker]

I’ve tried one before, and it came out ok but the fit to the delrin got wonky. The stems seem more of a plastic (like MM cob stems), so I used water at boiling temp.
There’s a couple places you can get mini stems and delrin inserts from, but even ordering three sets they’re hit and miss on the fit-crazy.
I’ll go through the extras and see if I find one that fits well enough to have a backup.
Then there’s the fact that they won’t fit the case, which is surprising high quality for the cost of the pipe/case.

Not perfect, but good enough.
Being as cheap as a mid-level cob, I think they’re awesome little pipes.

 

[AroEnglish]

I threw it in the trash and had the company cancel my account. After this and the broken Yanik owl I received a few months ago, I'm finished buying pipes. Probably will reduce my collection to only the handful that I regularly smoke.

Weavers?

 

[Chasing Embers]

Weavers?

Those and a few meerschaums most likely.

 

[AroEnglish]

Those and a few meerschaums most likely.

Good. Sounds like you built a friendship with Bruce and I'd hate to see those pipes move from you (unless they went into my own collection).

 

[Jon C.P.G.]

Some pictures of a Star Meerschaum pipes large Billiard I had sent off to a Canadian repair and restorer who can hand cut p lip stems, Charles Lemon from dadspipes

First two pictures are from the site when I purchased it and now with some upgrades, a properly made tapered bore hand cut p lip stem of German ebonite with a nickel band for shank reinforcement.

very last picture is after Charles gave it a complimentary quick beeswax dip since its never had any maintenance since I got it over a year ago. Really balanced out the color

(This is a GIANT Billiard)

I also have two Peterson African meers with him getting some hand cut 8 swirl Green and black ebonite p lips made and I plan to have my new bent ball MBSD meer a black ebonite p lip stem made as well.

what can I say, I prefer the p lip

 

[AJL67]

Very nice, im proud of myself i haven't bought a new Meer (new to me) in 9 days!

 

[didimauw]

Wow, took nearly two weeks to arrive and their estate department really has gone downhill. This is the second meerschaum estate that I've received from them that wasn't cleaned and there's a chunk out of the stem that wasn't listed in the description.

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And oh yes did they get an email from me.

Bummer, return refund or repair?

 

[Chasing Embers]

Bummer, return refund or repair?

 

[AJL67]

Wow, took nearly two weeks to arrive and their estate department really has gone downhill. This is the second meerschaum estate that I've received from them that wasn't cleaned and there's a chunk out of the stem that wasn't listed in the description.

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And oh yes did they get an email from me.

It's quite sad when you end up trusting fleabay more than SP estates.

 

[Chasing Embers]

It's quite sad when you end up trusting fleabay more than SP estates.

I've had better luck with EBay but the broken owl from Yanik and this newest disappointment seems to be the PAD cure.

 

[didimauw]

Estate pipes? Like....ones someone already slobbered all over?

Gross

 

[AJL67]

Estate pipes? Like....ones someone already slobbered all over?

Gross

When i first joined a local group of cigar smokers in SD many moons ago, i had just started smoking cigars, knew little about them, never had a cuban, nothing, so we met at a local bar that you could smoke on the outside patio (the GM was a member of the group) anyway they always did Puff Puff Passes, they were smoking the crazy vintage and rare cubans so it was common place to pass them around for people to try and discuss. They all knew each other for upwards of 20 years and sometimes more and this was common place (there was a slobberer but they tended to skip him or remind him to "wipe your fucking mouth" or "stop drooling" lol) they met every week and it took me 2 months so about 12 herfs to consider PPPing with them LOL ... you get to know people and people are careful not to drool, lick their lips, if they are sick they don't PPP etc., Covid pretty much killed the PPP but it's making its comeback. Sadly im in FL now anyway and no one smokes sticks around me.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Estate pipes? Like....ones someone already slobbered all over?

Gross

Meerschaum carvers often blow through their pipes to test the airflow while they are making them.

 

[OzPiper]

Estate pipes? Like....ones someone already slobbered all over?

Gross

I take it you don’t ever eat out.
Or you bring along your own set of cutlery and glass/cup when you do

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Interestingly, my Altinok is reversing in color. I think the early, rapid coloring was wax that is how wearing off. The top photo below was two months ago, the second today.





My newest Altinay is coloring nicely, I suspect this is also the wax.


And the oldest of the three, an Altinay, keeps very gradually getting darker all over. This one has near 1,000 bowls through it. The photo doesn't do it justice, it has a much darker tint in person. The hero has turned near black.

 

[didimauw]

I take it you don’t ever eat out.
Or you bring along your own set of cutlery and glass/cup when you do

U mean you eat with USED silverware? Do u also smoke Carter Hall in a cob too? Wtf. Wierdo

 

[OzPiper]

Estate pipes? Like....ones someone already slobbered all over?

Someone has already done the hard yakka on this one for me

 

[didimauw]

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Someone has already done the hard yakka on this one for me

That's an amazing pipe

 

[OzPiper]

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Someone has already done the hard yakka on this one for me

I'll posit that the almost black bottom (of the bowl) and shank is due to the use of a button or drilled coin placed in the base allowing the accumulation of tar and other from decades of smoking.

@condorlover1 is probably the best person to comment on the coloration of antique meers

 

[Chasing Embers]

I'll posit that the almost black bottom (of the bowl) and shank is due to the use of a button or drilled coin placed in the base allowing the accumulation of tar and other from decades of smoking.

@condorlover1 is probably the best person to comment on the coloration of antique meers

Looks like the bottom of the bowl and shank are oxblood.