It was made by Christian Wolfsteiner as an homage to his friend, Roger Wallenstein. He named it the Mini Wartfish.
Ugly Pipes
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Although my comment about it being a Sea Rock was tongue in cheek regarding it looking like a Barnacle. I do like the pipe.
The other pipes in this thread are beautiful compared to this ornate nightmare.
I love me a good poop joke. Poop briar since 2/6 made me laugh!
ding ding ding ding that the one! You sir get a chicken dinner.
Loo
This is what she really looks like:
But she had a hot date, so she had her mother cinch up the corset:
She can hardly breathe, but day-um does she feel sexy.
This is what she really looks like:
But she had a hot date, so she had her mother cinch up the corset:
She can hardly breathe, but day-um does she feel sexy.
A corset, that was exactly what I was thinking when I saw it, ha ha.
I know these reverse calabashes were all the rage ten or so years ago, but seeing guys setting with these in the Briary always made me think of baby pacifiers.
And, this pipe reminds me of the discussion we were having on that thread that got closed, concerning noun genders.
This is likely the ugliest pipe I own
I have some other E.A. Carey large pipes, and one of them has the perhaps the best looking grain of any pipe I own.
The Carey system requires a moulded plastic (it’s a tough nylon) stem and moulded tenon. Carey likely had the machines that moulded those parts.
The Italian company that carved the stummel had to make the shank fit the mortise, and since it was a Carey it was inexpensive.
The top rim is natural plateaux.
I think the rest of the pipe (other than the place where it’s stamped) was lightly blasted after machine fraising.
Then a god awful slurry of almost black varnish was applied, I’ve been trying to scrub away for years using 4/0 steel wool.
The pipe is a dynamite smoker, among my top ten.
I have some other E.A. Carey large pipes, and one of them has the perhaps the best looking grain of any pipe I own.
The Carey system requires a moulded plastic (it’s a tough nylon) stem and moulded tenon. Carey likely had the machines that moulded those parts.
The Italian company that carved the stummel had to make the shank fit the mortise, and since it was a Carey it was inexpensive.
The top rim is natural plateaux.
I think the rest of the pipe (other than the place where it’s stamped) was lightly blasted after machine fraising.
Then a god awful slurry of almost black varnish was applied, I’ve been trying to scrub away for years using 4/0 steel wool.
The pipe is a dynamite smoker, among my top ten.
That pipe would be fine finished better. Mask it, pop it in the sandblast, and refinish. Of course, that requires having a way to sandblast, but that would strip that shellac right off.
As cheap as it had to be to sell as a Carey in their catalog, I’d suspect a lot of varnished over fills lurk under the cheap finish.
But when you look close and try to determine through the varnish, it was perfectly straight grained with extremely tight horizontal growth rings. This was cut from an extraordinary good plateaux of very old briar.
Maybe it was varnished just because Carey demanded an almost weatherproof pipe.
Have you tried acetone?
Used it on an old Ben Wade to take the clear coat off and it's never looked better.
More than likely. The beauty with sandblasting is that you just set the pressure low enough to just take off the shellac and stain, without removing more wood or fills. It also takes about two minutes.
That pipe relies of glue to hold that antler or horn on, and has several components glued inside. If you put that pipe in acetone, the glue will dissolve and you'll have ruined that pipe.
