MacBaren Acadian Perique in the same no name Italian billiard That I rescued from EBay.This Pipe had a 90% build up of cake in the chamber.I pared that down,completed the tenon repair that had been started by a previous owner,sanded off the lacquer layer down to the grain.Restained it light brown,sanded a little more up to a 2000 grit.cleaned up the stem in the same manner,then polished every thing on the wheel with carnuba wax,and various compounds for the stem.Now it looks great.Yes,I opened up the smoke channels in the shank and tenon as well.In my opinion,opening up these channels makes a huge difference in the smoking qualities of a pipe.I am now going to “smoke the hell out of it” in order to test my JB Weld tenon repair.