To restore or not to restore… that is the question.

[Wesley pipes]

The kaywoodie didn’t go as planned, some more paint chipped off during the cleaning and polishing. Also the paint was a bit thin in some spots. The end result shows a little more wood than I wanted but I guess it has a nice worn look. I don’t want to remove any more paint as I think it will expose a lot of flaws in the briar, Im not into trying to paint this pipe, it is what it is. The other pipe looks a lot better with the buffing and cleaning, has some nice looking grain to the wood. I think both pipes are acceptable, and I’m going to leave them as is.

 

[Wesley pipes]

These two are going to be pretty straightforward. Clean up the top on the yellow bowl a bit more and try to improve it anyway I can. For the Filto, I’ll be polishing the aluminum stem a bit, try not to rub more of the monogram off, clean the vulcanite and removing any tooth chatter I can find. I found a couple black rubber bands for a “good enough fix” I’ll leave it up to the new owner to put proper gaskets on it if they want to find some.

 

[Alanon]

The kaywoodie didn’t go as planned, some more paint chipped off during the cleaning and polishing. Also the paint was a bit thin in some spots. The end result shows a little more wood than I wanted but I guess it has a nice worn look. I don’t want to remove any more paint as I think it will expose a lot of flaws in the briar, Im not into trying to paint this pipe, it is what it is. The other pipe looks a lot better with the buffing and cleaning, has some nice looking grain to the wood. I think both pipes are acceptable, and I’m going to leave them as is.View attachment 441784View attachment 441785View attachment 441786View attachment 441787View attachment 441788View attachment 441789

Man, I’d be so tempted to just remove all that paint and see the woodgrain on that Kaywoodie!

Great work as always!

 

[Wesley pipes]

Man, I’d be so tempted to just remove all that paint and see the woodgrain on that Kaywoodie!

Great work as always!

I would but I can already see some small fill spots on the bare wood and I’m afraid it will look worse if I strip off all the paint.

 

[Wesley pipes]

both the yellow bowl “tweed” and the Filto pipe, look a little better. After polishing that aluminum stem I noticed a few more dings and scrapes, looks like it used to say Made In The USA under the Filto stamp, if you look really close you can kinda see it. The meerschaum lining on that ”tweed” pipe is quite thin, so I didn’t get too aggressive while cleaning it.