This Word I Do Not Think…

[AJL67]

In the immortal words or Inigo Montoya “This word i do not think it means what you think it means”.

Saw this online and dropped a $19 bid on it, figured it would be a good pipe to put all of the tips and tricks I’ve gathered here to go use, if it didn’t work out it’s not even $20.

It’s just the fact that they claim to have done and “alcohol treatment” on the bowl, last time i checked having a beer while listing stuff in an auction site isn’t technically an alcohol treatment.

 

[mso489]

That looks like a good Italian-made rusticated, slightly bent stack. For $20 I wouldn't dwell on the apparent alcohol treatment fib. Maybe they did wipe it out with alcohol; who knows? What's a treatment? As long as they didn't muck up the stem with the alcohol. You should get some long smokes out of that one.

 

[n_irwin]

Thanks for the Princess Bride quote!

 

[kcghost]

It would have been nice if you told us who the seller was.

 

[Chasing Embers]

An alcohol treatment, or multiple ones, can remove ghosts but isn't going to ream cake

 

[mso489]

Years ago on Forums, another member and I got to joking about what Granger calls on its tub "The Wellman's Process". We were surmising what it might be. Like maybe they left the tobacco barn door open a sixteenth of an inch; maybe that's the process.

 

[AJL67]

An alcohol treatment, or multiple ones, can remove ghosts but isn't going to ream cake

Sorry left out the “clean and ready to smoke” part as i missed it and couldn’t edit.

i suppose i consider the whole alcohol part of an overall cleaning and removing cake, etc.,

 

[Chasing Embers]

Sorry left out the “clean and ready to smoke” part as i missed it and couldn’t edit.

That could actually be the sellers intent. I don't ream estate cleanups back to bare wood. Is the draft hole, mortise, and airway in the stem clean? I've gotten estates from SPC that needed further cleaning and oxidation removal.

 

[Hillcrest]

That looks like a very nice pipe. Like you I would completely clean it with reaming and a salt treatment.

Do you know its measurements ? or more specifically the width and depth of the chamber. I am just curious.

Wishing all success in your restorations.