Yet Another!

[flanative]

My latest Ebay victory. I need to start doing "before and after" pics....this one was horrible. Totally black briar and the stem was actually yellow! Its a LHS Sterling.

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[dd951]

Beautiful pipe fla, lol I have lost the last 5 pipes I have bid on.

 

[flanative]

Ive begun to bid on the roughest looking pipe I can find ...fewer bidders and MOST of the time I end up with a very nice pipe.

 

[unclearthur]

You have learned my "secret" for getting decent pipes at a reasonable (Cheap ) price!

 

[fred]

That's turned out to be a swell looing Pipe!

 

[hobie1dog]

what products do you use to clean, and polish them up with?

 

[flanative]

I use a linen wheel on a bench grinder with an initial coat of marine grade hull polish, once its generally clean and somewhat glossy I wipe it down with whatever alcohol i happen to have on hand...usually rum.

This dulls it up again and pulls off any remaining dirt. After a few seconds drying time it gets a real good buff on the wheel with carnauba wax. So far, so good.

 

[ernest]

Very nice flanative.At one time I used pure carnauba wax to go over old furniture such as dressers for customers.The more you rubbed the finish,the more it gave the wood grain a 3-D appearance.Women would beg for the product and its name,but I couldn't let them know what it was for future income reasons.I bought it at almost any auto care shop,and it was a hard paste.Made a lot of money with it.

 

[hobie1dog]

Is this the bar of carnauba wax?..not out of a can?

 

[krgulick]

A diamond in the rough, it looks to me. I hope it smokes well for you.

 

[ernest]

hobie1dog said-"Is this the bar of carnauba wax?..not out of a can?"
It came in a plastic can about 3 to 4 inches high,and the same diameter,with a screw top lid.I often wondered why they didn't just make it into a bar because it was hard enough to hold its shape.The biggest buyers were those with fancy and expensive paint automotive paint jobs.

 

[unclearthur]

I have a couple of pounds of carnauba wax. I mix it with a bit of trups for furniture and turnings. For pipes I hold a block against a spinning buff until it gives of a kind of floral smell then polish to a glorious shine.

 

[python]

Nice pick up and it looks like it cleaned up very well!

 

[bubbadreier]

Am I the only one that can't get the picture in this thread to load?!?
I have tried it on my iPhone, my laptop, my desktop, and my work computer!!