Walker Pipe Repair Closing

[mso489]

Sorry to hear a good pipe professional is ready to step away from his work bench. That is always a loss. We all need to take notes on the businesses that are still active provided in the above post. Sometimes a professional is the only way to go.

 

[Zamora]

Pipe repair seems to be the part of the industry that's struggling the most. Hopefully more people will get into, it could be a pretty good side hustle for some artisans and we probably have more artisans now than ever.

 

[georged]

Pipe repair seems to be the part of the industry that's struggling the most. Hopefully more people will get into, it could be a pretty good side hustle for some artisans and we probably have more artisans now than ever.

This conversation between pipe pros with appx 100 years combined experience will explain why the pipe repair bodycount is so high:

Pricing repair work - pipemakersforum.com - http://www.pipemakersforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12530

 

[sablebrush52]

This conversation between pipe pros with appx 100 years combined experience will explain why the pipe repair bodycount is so high:

Pricing repair work - pipemakersforum.com - http://www.pipemakersforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12530

Yep...

Short anwer is to treat your pipes well, or piss away a lot of money on buying replacement pipes if not on repaitrs.

 

[Zamora]

This conversation between pipe pros with appx 100 years combined experience will explain why the pipe repair bodycount is so high:

Pricing repair work - pipemakersforum.com - http://www.pipemakersforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12530

Interesting article, thanks. Specialized repairmen in general are a dying breed, even for stuff that isn't a niche hobby.

Yep...

Short anwer is to treat your pipes well, or piss away a lot of money on buying replacement pipes if not on repaitrs.

Words of wisdom.

 

[AroEnglish]

Pipe repair seems to be the part of the industry that's struggling the most. Hopefully more people will get into, it could be a pretty good side hustle for some artisans and we probably have more artisans now than ever.

I would love to get into it but would only want to do @georged level work and I don't have the time (at least right now) to get to that level.

 

[Zamora]

I would love to get into it but would only want to do @georged level work and I don't have the time (at least right now) to get to that level.

I'm sure that's a big reason it's declining, I'm sure there's plenty of people who'd love to do it but none of them want to be subpar at it.

 

[georged]

I'm sure that's a big reason it's declining, I'm sure there's plenty of people who'd love to do it but none of them want to be subpar at it.

The "invisible repair" / "indistinguishable from the original" thing never existed to any degree until true pipe collecting---as opposed to simply accumulating---emerged in the 1980's.

Before then, all repair, even by factory authorized shops, was of the functional "all is well if it smokes again" kind. (Indeed, I have a Dunhill DR H in my shop right now that was ham fistedly re-stemmed by an authorized shop, including stem/shank leveling that erased half the nomenclature. No, I'm not kidding.)

There are a hundred reasons why doing "invisible / looks original" work is stupid-hard to pull off, though, and another hundred reasons why it's virtually impossible to build a business around.

I'll be glad to talk to anyone who is determined to give it a go, however. PM for a phone #.

In the same vein, I filmed a bunch of projects and put them on YouTube where I tried to think of the camera as the eyes of an apprentice, explaining as I went.

https://www.youtube.com/@highgradepiperepairrestora3182

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

The "invisible repair" / "indistinguishable from the original" thing never existed to any degree until true pipe collecting---as opposed to simply accumulating---emerged in the 1980's.

Before then, all repair, even by factory authorized shops, was of the functional "all is well if it smokes again" kind. (Indeed, I have a Dunhill DR H in my shop right now that was ham fistedly re-stemmed by an authorized shop, including stem/shank leveling that erased half the nomenclature. No, I'm not kidding.)

There are a hundred reasons why doing "invisible / looks original" work is stupid-hard to pull off, though, and another hundred reasons why it's virtually impossible to build a business around.

I'll be glad to talk to anyone who is determined to give it a go, however. PM for a phone #.

In the same vein, I filmed a bunch of projects and put them on YouTube where I tried to think of the camera as the eyes of an apprentice, explaining as I went.

https://www.youtube.com/@highgradepiperepairrestora3182

Concerning the White Spot Dunhill, I can't stop asking myself why Dunhill doesn't want to take them pipes for in-house repair like Peterson and Castello do, nonetheless, even if they did It will not be guaranteed that the performed repair is up to the brand's name' been doing that road before,and that road was costly ,If my memory serves I read somewhere in the old days Dunhill Factories did accept their own pipes for repairs from general public'

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Sounds like a positive for Mr. Myers. Congratulations. I wish him well with the next phase of his life.

 

[Flopoz]

The "invisible repair" / "indistinguishable from the original" thing never existed to any degree until true pipe collecting---as opposed to simply accumulating---emerged in the 1980's.

Before then, all repair, even by factory authorized shops, was of the functional "all is well if it smokes again" kind. (Indeed, I have a Dunhill DR H in my shop right now that was ham fistedly re-stemmed by an authorized shop, including stem/shank leveling that erased half the nomenclature. No, I'm not kidding.)

There are a hundred reasons why doing "invisible / looks original" work is stupid-hard to pull off, though, and another hundred reasons why it's virtually impossible to build a business around.

I'll be glad to talk to anyone who is determined to give it a go, however. PM for a phone #.

In the same vein, I filmed a bunch of projects and put them on YouTube where I tried to think of the camera as the eyes of an apprentice, explaining as I went.
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