As a young law student I was a little worried how my parents would handle my new pipe smoking hobby when I came home for the summer. While not immediately please my little rebellion was accepted. One of the more common themes I heard was "so and so used to smoke a pipe." Most notable of those was my grandfather, and namesake, an 85 year old Physician who was famous for his love of briar. To my great luck my uncle, and godfather, told me he held on to all of my grandfather's old pipes. As grandpa is quite deep into the horros of Alzheimer's all of our memories of him are precious.
Today I went over to my uncle's house and we got out my grandpa's old pipes, tools, and beautiful pipe rack. As my uncle is an excellant fine woods craftsmen by profession our summer project will be refurbishing all of Grandpa's treasures.
Today I began by buffing up, oiling and reaming this beautiful Savinelli Extra 504 Rusticated Bull Dog.
More pictures will follow as the summer unfolds, there are around 20 pipes in varying degrees of disrepair but half the fun is working to fix the pipes and wonder how my grandfather got them in the first place. One thing is for sure, from the amount of cake in this first Sav alone Grandpa definitely liked tobacco.
Today I went over to my uncle's house and we got out my grandpa's old pipes, tools, and beautiful pipe rack. As my uncle is an excellant fine woods craftsmen by profession our summer project will be refurbishing all of Grandpa's treasures.
Today I began by buffing up, oiling and reaming this beautiful Savinelli Extra 504 Rusticated Bull Dog.
More pictures will follow as the summer unfolds, there are around 20 pipes in varying degrees of disrepair but half the fun is working to fix the pipes and wonder how my grandfather got them in the first place. One thing is for sure, from the amount of cake in this first Sav alone Grandpa definitely liked tobacco.
