Show Off Your Used Estate Pipe Cleaners

[woodsroad]

Your grandpa appears to have favored the Miltown-infused variety of pipe cleaners, which were made with Cashmere and dipped in honey.

 

[cynyr]

Can you identify, appraise, and pay me a premium for this?

That's either a pre-war Dill, or a common Scottish Smoke-A-Wee.

 

[Sobrbiker]

Can you identify, appraise, and pay me a premium for this?

I haven’t snorted my drink out my nose laughing for a while, now I have to explain why this is so funny to my wife (which I don’t think is gonna happen).

 

[Sobrbiker]

I’d share mine, but it would spoil the fun for PMSS24.

 

[OzPiper]

A lot of posts on here urge members to post pictures of their pipes be they meerschaum, briar or anything between the two. I have just noticed that from previous posts there lurk on this forum members ever devoted to reducing their 'Carbon Foot Print' who wash and recycle their pipe cleaners. In essence they toss a bunch of used Dills in with the socks and Y fronts for that Sunday morning wash cycle. My question is simply this, not unreasonable to my mind, what becomes of these cherished and much sanitized pipe cleaners when the owner passes on? Does anyone here own or admit to owning 'used' Estate Pipe Cleaners? Are there collectors of such things?

You never know what floats someone's boat
There was a show called "Collectors" on the ABC some years back
Someone came on with JARS of his navel fluff

 

[jpmcwjr]

Does anyone know what kind of pipe cleaners my grandpa used? I remember them being white, covered in some sort of fuzz, and about 6 inches long. He always kept them
In the drawer of the small side table where he kept his pipe rack. They came in packages of some sort that were either blue, white, green, red, or black. And it was either paper or cardstock.

We need to know the year your grandfather left this earthly vale, and whether he was right handed or left. Also, was he allergic to sap or Algerian briar? Answer to these questions will narrow it down to one or two dozen suppliers.

 

[woodsroad]

You never know what floats someone's boat
There was a show called "Collectors" on the ABC some years back
Someone came on with JARS of his navel fluff

 

[RustiePyles CPG]

We need to know the year your grandfather left this earthly vale, and whether he was right handed or left. Also, was he allergic to sap or Algerian briar? Answer to these questions will narrow it down to one or two dozen suppliers.

I’m not sure what year he passed away, he and my grandmother both died before my father was born in a horrible time travel accident. So it was sometime between 1903-1943. I’m pretty sure he was ambidextrous and I’m unaware of his allergies but prolonged chroniton exposure would have meant that only Grecian briar would have worked for him.

 

[OzPiper]

I can recommend using the dishwasher
But only if the wife is NOT at home

 

[sardonicus87]

Personally, I don't even use pipe cleaners—I rest my pipes for 3 months for them to be dry, it's why I own 91.3125 pipes. When I do need to do deeper cleaning, I braid twine from bunny fur, and add my own beard hair trimmings for bristle scrubbing (I keep my facial hair to scruff on I think a half guard, and given my hair is very coarse, it's as stiff as regular bristle cleaners, but all natural).

 

[mortonbriar]

I dip em in rainbow dye and sell to the craft stores.

 

[Sigmund]

I never cared enough to clean pipe cleaners but I have noticed you get new life just from the ones left out in the rain.

Of course we are having a long drought so that isn’t happening.

 

[BCF]

 

[ophiuchus]

That stuff is pretty good. But, try this stuff…
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Not only great for leaching sap, but is wonderful condimentally on most anything. ️

Yep … you’ve got to Frank it up.

 

[didimauw]

Two pages in, and in still unsure about what a pipe "cleaner" is.

 

[kcghost]

This thread is very funny. I wonder if the pipe cleaners used on expensive pipes command a premium on the used market!!

 

[woodsroad]

Like my underwear, I just turn ‘em inside out.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Damn, I'd hope for less talk talk talk, and more pictures of estate pipecleaners. Is that too much to ask?

 

[Hillcrest]

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[jpmcwjr]

Well, that's all well and good, but I'd bet a thou that not even slightly used pipe cleaners get near the children! (think George Carlin)