Unsmoked Pipe?

[runscott]

Does this look unsmoked? I could swear I'm looking at rim char at the bottom, and the inside of the bowl looks like light smoking, as opposed to a bowl coating. It's a Peterson - I thought I had seen enough new ones to know what their bowl coating looks like, but maybe I'm wrong.

 

[TheIronMonkey]

That looks like rim char on the bevel.

 

[warren]

Appears to be char. Gotta shot of the lower bowl?

 

[runscott]

This is before it became an 'unsmoked' pipe on ebay. I guess people are restoring pipes, then selling them to ebay dealers who unwittingly sell them as 'unsmoked'?

 

[briarcudgel]

I never liked the term “Unsmoked.“ New has to be new, but unsmoked gets into a grey area. You may want to message the seller. I think there is either char or a bowl coating after it had been cleaned. I know it is difficult to get a photo down to the bottom of the bowl with any clarity.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Looks smoked to me.

 

[TheIronMonkey]

This is before it became an 'unsmoked' pipe on ebay. I guess people are restoring pipes, then selling them to ebay dealers who unwittingly sell them as 'unsmoked'?

The Birdseye is great. Looks like a keeper, false advertising aside.

 

[scloyd]

"Unsmoked" by the ebay seller perhaps, but smoked by someone.

 

[mso489]

It's well cleaned up, lightly smoked I'd say. It's a handsome pipe.

 

[anotherbob]

Does this look unsmoked? I could swear I'm looking at rim char at the bottom, and the inside of the bowl looks like light smoking, as opposed to a bowl coating. It's a Peterson - I thought I had seen enough new ones to know what their bowl coating looks like, but maybe I'm wrong.

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the coating sounds like it's a work in progress and not evenly applied. It was much lighter in my system then in my churchwarden. In fact the churchwarden kind of sucked for the first ten smokes the system really just caked more evenly but smoked otherwise like a new pipe.

 

[TheIronMonkey]

I just took a look at the "unsmoked" version—he needs to stop with the wax and buffing wheel.

 

[kcghost]

Looks like the bowl has be lightly charred. And I've said this a zilliion times, one buy from guys who you can trust. When you buy from joe-fly-by-night you get what you deserve.

 

[Honkytonk Man]

Yes, I would agree with you, it's been smoked. Albeit very lightly and cleaned.

 

[jndyer]

Definitely looks smoked.

 

[runscott]

I just took a look at the "unsmoked" version—he needs to stop with the wax and buffing wheel.

It now has a chip out of the front, so there may have been some work done to get the front of the rim to look unsmoked. An unsmoked Peterson without at least one rim chip would be less believable.

I'm a Peterson collector, but can deal with reality.

 

[TheIronMonkey]

I was surprised to see the chip. I'd like to think he's scrupulous, but, now I wonder. I've bought pipes from him, but, I feel he goes way overboard with the polishing and buffing.

I love the grain on that pipe, but, wouldn't want it with the chunk missing. In the earlier state you showed, I'd buy that in a heartbeat.

 

[PipeIT]

ahhh FleaBay!

 

[ashdigger]

I pay a guy to wash my truck; therefore, I washed my truck.

Unsmoked maybe by that seller, but his doppelgänger got his pipe on.

 

[WVOldFart]

I consider "unsmoked" pipes on EBAY as used. I believe their definition of "unsmoked" is never smoked since repaired, refurbished and prettied up.

 

[mso489]

Unless it has some defect, I'd give them the benefit of the doubt. That's the way I feel when I get a new pipe listed as having a Vulcanite stem when I can see, right out of the package, that it is acrylic. The two I have received are small and light weight, so it makes no salient difference to me, except for the insult of being misinformed. I think some of these are written up by neophytes who really don't know the difference. If you got a fair price, I think the pipe will serve you well.