steverino
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Some new ones with cakeThought I would share these shots of three out of five pipes I just got in. This is a small triangle-shank Viscount, a triangle-shank Starfire and a Westbrook. The two others are a Savoy author 81 (I think - it looks slightly different) and a Regal pot, not sure if it's the 49 or 45. The Savoy and Regal are already in the cleaning process as they didn't have as bad a cake as these three. I'll show them all when I get them in reasonable shape.
Here are the pipes:
And here is the cake - my hands will be sore on these!
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ted
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Steve, To me that's a sign that somebody really, really, liked these pipes. Bet you will also. Enjoy..after the work.
The TR's are wonderful.....ted
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ozark southpaw
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Looks like they were well broken in!!
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LokoMac8
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Re: Some new ones with cake | steverino wrote: | | And here is the cake - my hands will be sore on these! |
THAT'S when I break out one of my two Kleen Reem tools! It sometimes takes a bit too much out for my tastes, but it makes fast and easy work of it. --RJ--
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Codger
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They have certainly been well-smoked. It bodes well that they are good smokers. Get them cleaned-up so you can enjoy them as well.
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TheDuke
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Great looking addition's Steve! The one on the right looks close to the worse I ever had. Could barely get a golf pencil down the center! Guess that's when a codger would just buy a new one!LOL!
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steverino
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In cleaning up these pipes, I have run into something I don't think I've seen before as regards the carbon cake built up in the bowl. From the looks of it, these pipes were "smoked up"; that is, whoever owned them smoked them, never cleaned them in any way, then discarded them when they couldn't smoke them any more. Here are some additional pictures to illustrate what I found:
First, here is the Starfire pipe before reaming. You probably can't tell from the picture, but if you could look directly at the bottom you'd see that the bowl doesn't look deep enough:
As I reamed the bowl, a hole appeared at the "bottom" of the bowl, about 3/8 inch in diameter. The appearance is that of a "chamber" that is actually under the cake:
The last picture shows the bowl after I finished reaming. You can see the end of a pipe cleaner in the "true" bottom of the bowl now:
So apparently what happened was that the carbon cake somehow built up over the draft hole and once the bottom of the cake closed up, the pipe could no longer be smoked.
I would be interesting in hearing from any of you that have seen something similar and how you think this happened. I don't have enough experience to visualize this process myself.
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Flycruiser
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Steve, I had a pipe in similar condition (Kaywoodie Thorn 7439) that had a cake so thick a pencil wouldn't fit in the bowl. There was actually tar/cake/funk coming out of the END of the stem! To give you an idea of it's nastiness when I finally got the stem loose the stinger unscrewed itself from the stem and was stuck in the gunk in the shank. Now that was a mess! Anywho, I say that to say this: after reaming the bowl I found the same thing that the "bottom" of the cake was only about 3/4 of the way down. When I broke through that false bottom of carbon I found what had to be at least 50 year old dottle. Looked to me as if the original owner never dumped the dottle out. Just dumped out the ash and loaded up again and again and again...
Good luck with those! Great looking pipes.
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ted
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I've never seen anything like this, but it sounds like Cruiser understands how it happened.
Were the other 2 the same way?
Did you get the son delivered to ASU?...ted
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steverino
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ted, the Westbrook looks like it's going to have a similar situation, I haven't reamed it all the way yet (blisters my hand and have to let it rest a while).
I got Joseph back to App Thursday and he was happy to get back. He is living in an "apartment" dorm this year and I told him I'd go back to school just to be able to live in it myself. It's really nice - has a kitchen and tv area on the entry level, then four bedrooms upstairs. Much roomier than what he had before. I think he'll enjoy it. I won't go through the whole story of how he got it (at the last minute), but we definitely feel "blessed" in this case.
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ted
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Steve, Glad he's back. Sounds like a great place to live... and go to college from.... ASU is wonderful. Play ECU early.....Look out ECU....
I went to Lees McRae (in Banner Elk) back in the late 60's and roomed with Pete Snow and Dwayne Myers in a room meant for 6. We had 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, and 2 rooms for "study", or cards, or "socials", or..or.....Seems like Joseph's condition.
Wish him the best......ted
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steverino
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Thanks ted, I will certainly tell him. I appreciate the kindness.
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LokoMac8
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| steverino wrote: | | ted, the Westbrook looks like it's going to have a similar situation, I haven't reamed it all the way yet (blisters my hand and have to let it rest a while). |
What I attributed this to in my mind, and what I call "aging man" or "old man" syndrome, is as a man gets near the end of his days, he is unable to care for his pipes like he maybe once did (just like some older folks homes), but he still smokes regularly the best he can make out. I have had quite a few pipes in this sort of condition and, believe it or not, they cleaned up spendidly! I have even gotten some pipes that were still packed with tobacco, and this lead to an experiment I shall not repeat again -- smoking what I called, for several reasons, "dead man's tobacco".
| steverino wrote: | | I got Joseph back to App Thursday and he was happy to get back. He is living in an "apartment" dorm this year and I told him I'd go back to school just to be able to live in it myself. |
Same situation here with my boy, Jake. Got him an appearment in Austin right off the UT campus. Very nice! Expensive, too, but he's got a roommate and it's his Junior year, so we won't have to do this much longer! --RJ--
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BWThomas
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| LokoMac8 wrote: | | and it's his Junior year, so we won't have to do this much longer! --RJ-- |
That's what I thought, then they both went on to get their masters, and one of them starts at GW in the fall on her doctorate....it never really seems to end.
BW
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LokoMac8
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| BWThomas wrote: | | That's what I thought, then they both went on to get their masters, and one of them starts at GW in the fall on her doctorate....it never really seems to end. |
Well, I have indicated that if they wanted anything over four or five years, we'd have to talk. As far as I am concerned, I have fulfilled my "obligation" to them -- which is quite generous since my parent's obligation to me and my brother ended at age 18 or when we graduated from High School, whichever came last. It was age 18 for me and age 21 for my brother. In between jobs once, I did move back in, but had to pay room and board -- didn't take me long to figure out I wasn't staying long! The ironic thing was that by the time I was twenty I bought my own three-bedroom home and my parents moved in with ME, where they remained until my Dad died and I finally got married at age 27.
Unfortunately, I wanted my kids to be much more self-sufficient and independent -- a plan never shared by my wife (as with most Mothers, I suppose). They ARE in for a rude awakening in the future, though, and I keep hinting and warning them that THAT day draws near . . . --RJ--
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