@Duck The herbalist at the Redcoats and Revolutionaries event at Cromford Mill gave me a bit of clove to flavour my clay pipe of Yorktown...
Which Essential Oil for Mold Prevention?
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It's an interesting challenge. I don't know what sort of access you have to materials, but perhaps if you really want them displayed you could repurpose an aquarium fitted with a well-sealed lid, or you might fashion a display case from lucite or something similar, and put some desiccant in there and store them in it. Like an anti-humidor for pipes.
Maybe try a few bird feeders and some thick bushes just inside the forest ? Lyric Supreme (top of line seed) will attract songbirds and especially titmice, wrens, orioles, catbirds, Robins, cardinals, ---- all bug eaters. When they have young in the Spring there's very few bugs in my yard because they eat them all !! In fact this year they were flying to my neighbors yard as they ran out in this yard ! Seriously. I don't use feeders though as the squirrels can destroy them in a few hours. I just throw seed on the ground just past the edge of lawn in woods and they all go there. At night the deer, raccoons, skunks and possum eat whatever is left. Just a thought of fighting nature with nature. ?
He posted that he has some solar and some hydro but not even enough to run a dehumidifier. It sounds cool and like hell at the same time.
I know, but I thought he at least needs a refrigerator! And if he's on the internet he must have a computer of some sort. All I know is that I lived in a few South American countries and finding pipes and tobacco was complete hell.
Maybe the O.P. can get a pipe made from a different material ? Would those Morta or Bog-wood pipes ? One of the types of bog-wood is swamp cypress which some say is impervious to rot....they used to use it for making coffins (old growth cypress). They might be more impervious to mold growth. Or get aFalcon and keep the bowls locked up ... maybe in the fridge ? Ask the locals what they use/do ?!!!
I used to use pure virgin olive oil to keep my briar pipes hydrated, but since I’ve joined this forum I’ve switched to grapeseed oil.
Try grapeseed oil.
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Try grapeseed oil.
Vegetable oils will eventually turn rancid. Not a problem when pipes are used frequently enough, as it gets rubbed off and/or replaced.
Mineral oil is the better choice.
Mineral oil is the better choice.
But no oil or treatment to the outside of the bowl will inhibit mold in the chamber. Lots of ways to combat that already given.
It seems like trying morta, meerschaum, or clay are some ideas. Get pretty ones to display and lock up your briar with desiccant packs, maybe.