Hello all
Greetings from Edmonton. I've been lurking on the site for sometime and thought I'd drop a toe in. New to the activity - father smoked a pipe intermittently when I was growing up. Picked up my first pipe (from the base of a small bush beside a path on the grounds of a hospital where my wife was a patient), took it home, took it apart, hit the webs on how to restore it, cleaned it up and smoked my first bowl of Mcclelland's Frog Morton Goes to Town (yes, I know thats a terrible place to start as it was the last can in the shop and their now out of business.)
The pipe turned out to be a Corydon rusticated small billiard - made by a Dutch pipe maker in the '80s. No idea how long it had laid there. Picked a few more pipes up at a local junktique shop, researched them, cleaned them up, smoked a few bowls out of them. Started old friends smoking pipes by giving them pipes I had cleaned up/rejunvenated. Tools and techniques continue to accumulate and projects have gone from cleaning/disinfecting to rebuilding bowl rims, repairing broken shanks, fitting bands, fitting new stems. Keep learning and having fun. Fine hobby - tiny fine woodworking projects that fit into the palm of my hand!
Ebay is dangerous place to find oneself alone, at night, with a glass of whisky and a credit card.....brrrr. Wee packages seem to arrive daily. Wife hasn't put her size 7 down - think she likes knowing where I am.
Latest restoration/refurb completed is a Savinelli Antique Shell, Model 702. No cake in the bowl. A wee bit of dirt cleaned off the stummel. Arrived in a lot and other than a few tooth dents and a lightly oxidized stem, it's near to new condition. Winning!
Greetings from Edmonton. I've been lurking on the site for sometime and thought I'd drop a toe in. New to the activity - father smoked a pipe intermittently when I was growing up. Picked up my first pipe (from the base of a small bush beside a path on the grounds of a hospital where my wife was a patient), took it home, took it apart, hit the webs on how to restore it, cleaned it up and smoked my first bowl of Mcclelland's Frog Morton Goes to Town (yes, I know thats a terrible place to start as it was the last can in the shop and their now out of business.)
The pipe turned out to be a Corydon rusticated small billiard - made by a Dutch pipe maker in the '80s. No idea how long it had laid there. Picked a few more pipes up at a local junktique shop, researched them, cleaned them up, smoked a few bowls out of them. Started old friends smoking pipes by giving them pipes I had cleaned up/rejunvenated. Tools and techniques continue to accumulate and projects have gone from cleaning/disinfecting to rebuilding bowl rims, repairing broken shanks, fitting bands, fitting new stems. Keep learning and having fun. Fine hobby - tiny fine woodworking projects that fit into the palm of my hand!
Ebay is dangerous place to find oneself alone, at night, with a glass of whisky and a credit card.....brrrr. Wee packages seem to arrive daily. Wife hasn't put her size 7 down - think she likes knowing where I am.
Latest restoration/refurb completed is a Savinelli Antique Shell, Model 702. No cake in the bowl. A wee bit of dirt cleaned off the stummel. Arrived in a lot and other than a few tooth dents and a lightly oxidized stem, it's near to new condition. Winning!
