This is unsmoked old stock I think. It’s billed as such. I just got this in the mail. Can anyone tell me what this is that’s stuck to the bowl? I guess people might say to sand it off? Can I smoke it, whatever it is?What’s Stuck Inside the Bowl of this Pipe?
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This is unsmoked old stock I think. It’s billed as such. I just got this in the mail. Can anyone tell me what this is that’s stuck to the bowl? I guess people might say to sand it off? Can I smoke it, whatever it is?
I bought this on Etsy. It’s a Michel Deluxe from an auction and it’s supposed to be either GBD or Charatan but who knows. It says “Made In London England. It was held up since the shop closed and supposedly these pipes were in the shop back in the 70s and 80s.
I wonder if it’s fireplace mortar or something like pipe mud that someone patched because they feared a burnout in that area. Is it hard and stone-like?
I messaged the seller. Maybe I’m wrong but I’m wondering if this is possibly a repair I should have been told about? I’m just curious.
Smoke it, all the way down, really slow.
That’s a bowl coating applied to sell that pipe.
The purpose is to mask the taste of briar the first few bowls give during break in.
Looks like dried honey to me.
OK. It feels/looks papery (almost like a patch) but maybe it's a coating. I am afraid if I sanded it, it would damage the pipe.
Looks like an old paper price tag or otherwise distinguishing tag that was placed inside the bowl a long time ago and was never removed. Light sanding should work or just smoke over it until a cake forms. I could be wrong…
Usually those bowl coats are coal black but that one looks like dried honey.
See how a little has flaked off?
That’s a high quality London Made sandblasted pipe, that’s aged for about a half a century.
Smoke it. You’ll like it!
But it still needs broken in, don’t expect a miracle from a bowl coating.
I believe that the pipe is not unsmoked. An attempt was made to sand it down to the wood but it seems that the rest of the cake remained,
To me that looks like a line where the lettering panel was masked off and later polished.
Smoke it!
And is that a crack at the shank/bowl junction. It does look prettied up with a high buff.
This is just sandblasting. The picture makes it look more like a crack but if you look at the pipe overall, you see those lines all over the sandblasted areas. It looks like a crack next to the smoothed area where the stamp is but if you are holding the pipe, you can see how the pipe is sandblasted.
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It may have been smoked but this doesn't seem like cake at all. I agree it may have been smoked (although it doesn't quite seem so). But, this material isn't cake. It could be coating or I guess a price tag that got melded in by sitting in a hot closet.
then try to remove it with a flat screwdriver.