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PipeDreams
Number of posts: 136
Age: 32
Location: Hong Kong
Tobacco: VA, Perique, Oriental & Latakia
Registration date: 2011-06-10
| | Subject: Re: My simple pipe collection Thu Feb 02, 2012 5:27 pm | |
| Thanks ejames, I try! I am careful not to char the rims and I clean them thoroughly ASAP after use. That's really pretty much it! |
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PipeDreams
Number of posts: 136
Age: 32
Location: Hong Kong
Tobacco: VA, Perique, Oriental & Latakia
Registration date: 2011-06-10
| | Subject: Re: My simple pipe collection Thu Feb 02, 2012 10:35 pm | |
| Just used the little Maltese pipe: had me a bowl of Milan's Cavendish 205. Very pleasant smoke. I must be getting the hang of pipe smoking. It was a very cool, comfortable smoke! |
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Aleksis
Number of posts: 46
Location: South Carolina
Tobacco: Green River Vanilla mixed with cubed burley
Black Raspberry
Drury Lane
Bogart
Pipe: Currently: Spanu olive wood pipe
Registration date: 2012-02-04
| | Subject: Re: My simple pipe collection Sat Feb 04, 2012 11:06 pm | |
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PipeDreams
Number of posts: 136
Age: 32
Location: Hong Kong
Tobacco: VA, Perique, Oriental & Latakia
Registration date: 2011-06-10
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PipeDreams
Number of posts: 136
Age: 32
Location: Hong Kong
Tobacco: VA, Perique, Oriental & Latakia
Registration date: 2011-06-10
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George Kaplan
Number of posts: 2535
Age: 43
Location: Kalamazoo, MI
Tobacco: Leaning toward English flakes lately, and the occasional Danish style semi-aromatic. I'll try anything once, and usually finish the tin as a matter of principle.
Pipe: If it draws air, it'll smoke. If it's a Peterson bulldog or Savinelli billiard, all the better.
Registration date: 2012-01-06
| | Subject: Re: My simple pipe collection Fri Feb 24, 2012 12:37 am | |
| | PipeDreams wrote: | | I had to ream out the bowl with a Kleen-Reem because it was full of purple stain. The reamer did fast work on the briar when it was wet! Still some dye in there: going to keep trying to get it out. |
Those are some nice looking pipes. Go easy with that reamer, though! If it's just stain or varnish you're trying to remove, a salt-and-alcohol treatment would be much less damaging. |
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PipeDreams
Number of posts: 136
Age: 32
Location: Hong Kong
Tobacco: VA, Perique, Oriental & Latakia
Registration date: 2011-06-10
| | Subject: Re: My simple pipe collection Fri Feb 24, 2012 12:41 am | |
| | George Kaplan wrote: | | PipeDreams wrote: | | I had to ream out the bowl with a Kleen-Reem because it was full of purple stain. The reamer did fast work on the briar when it was wet! Still some dye in there: going to keep trying to get it out. |
Those are some nice looking pipes. Go easy with that reamer, though! If it's just stain or varnish you're trying to remove, a salt-and-alcohol treatment would be much less damaging. |
Thanks! I agree, but for health reasons, I wanted as much of the stain out of there as possible. I'm not too worried about reaming out a $25 pipe: it did turn out quite well and got rid of the stain in a jiffy! |
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George Kaplan
Number of posts: 2535
Age: 43
Location: Kalamazoo, MI
Tobacco: Leaning toward English flakes lately, and the occasional Danish style semi-aromatic. I'll try anything once, and usually finish the tin as a matter of principle.
Pipe: If it draws air, it'll smoke. If it's a Peterson bulldog or Savinelli billiard, all the better.
Registration date: 2012-01-06
| | Subject: Re: My simple pipe collection Fri Feb 24, 2012 12:48 am | |
| | PipeDreams wrote: | | Thanks! I agree, but for health reasons, I wanted as much of the stain out of there as possible. I'm not too worried about reaming out a $25 pipe: it did turn out quite well and got rid of the stain in a jiffy! |
Ah, yes. of course. I miss-read your post and thought you were reaming the Mario! For future reference, a salt bath DOES draw the stain out of the briar, but it takes a day or two, plus drying time afterwards. Enjoy the new pipes, sir.
-G |
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PipeDreams
Number of posts: 136
Age: 32
Location: Hong Kong
Tobacco: VA, Perique, Oriental & Latakia
Registration date: 2011-06-10
| | Subject: Re: My simple pipe collection Fri Feb 24, 2012 12:50 am | |
| | George Kaplan wrote: | | PipeDreams wrote: | | Thanks! I agree, but for health reasons, I wanted as much of the stain out of there as possible. I'm not too worried about reaming out a $25 pipe: it did turn out quite well and got rid of the stain in a jiffy! |
Ah, yes. of course. I miss-read your post and thought you were reaming the Mario! For future reference, a salt bath DOES draw the stain out of the briar, but it takes a day or two, plus drying time afterwards. Enjoy the new pipes, sir.
-G |
Thanks! I hear salt can actually be bad for the briar: I have soaked the inside with isopropyl, but I didn't want to leave it in there for too long in case I knocked it over! |
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George Kaplan
Number of posts: 2535
Age: 43
Location: Kalamazoo, MI
Tobacco: Leaning toward English flakes lately, and the occasional Danish style semi-aromatic. I'll try anything once, and usually finish the tin as a matter of principle.
Pipe: If it draws air, it'll smoke. If it's a Peterson bulldog or Savinelli billiard, all the better.
Registration date: 2012-01-06
| | Subject: Re: My simple pipe collection Fri Feb 24, 2012 7:28 am | |
| | PipeDreams wrote: | | Thanks! I hear salt can actually be bad for the briar: I have soaked the inside with isopropyl, but I didn't want to leave it in there for too long in case I knocked it over! |
Eeew! Isopropyl alcohol is perfumed and denatured to intentionally make it unpaletable and indigestible to humans. Not something I would put it a pipe. The trick is to use just a few drops of high-proof grain alcohol in a pipe bowl filled with kosher salt, and let the capillary action do the rest. Kosher salt has no added iodine and should be just fine for briar pipes. |
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PipeDreams
Number of posts: 136
Age: 32
Location: Hong Kong
Tobacco: VA, Perique, Oriental & Latakia
Registration date: 2011-06-10
| | Subject: Re: My simple pipe collection Fri Feb 24, 2012 9:07 am | |
| | George Kaplan wrote: | | PipeDreams wrote: | | Thanks! I hear salt can actually be bad for the briar: I have soaked the inside with isopropyl, but I didn't want to leave it in there for too long in case I knocked it over! |
Eeew! Isopropyl alcohol is perfumed and denatured to intentionally make it unpaletable and indigestible to humans. Not something I would put it a pipe. The trick is to use just a few drops of high-proof grain alcohol in a pipe bowl filled with kosher salt, and let the capillary action do the rest. Kosher salt has no added iodine and should be just fine for briar pipes. |
The iso we get here isn't perfumed at all, is not denatured, and ALL isopropyl alcohol is poison if consumed. However, when used topically, it evaporates completely with no odor.  I used to say the same thing, but I use it regularly to disinfect straight razors and the like: once it dries up, it's gone. The salt is actually unnecessary: you can use cotton wool instead, which is what I've been doing. The salt is much worse for the wood than the iso! |
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UberHuberMan
Number of posts: 2130
Age: 29
Location: Chicago, IL
Tobacco:
Registration date: 2011-03-06
| | Subject: Re: My simple pipe collection Fri Feb 24, 2012 9:21 am | |
| Just want to say that your Mario Grandi is the nicest one I've seen. Great catch! |
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PipeDreams
Number of posts: 136
Age: 32
Location: Hong Kong
Tobacco: VA, Perique, Oriental & Latakia
Registration date: 2011-06-10
| | Subject: Re: My simple pipe collection Fri Feb 24, 2012 9:32 am | |
| | UberHuberMan wrote: | | Just want to say that your Mario Grandi is the nicest one I've seen. Great catch! |
Thank you! This one called to me. I smoked it today and it's my new favorite without a doubt! I know I paid a little too much for it, but I absolutely love it! |
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George Kaplan
Number of posts: 2535
Age: 43
Location: Kalamazoo, MI
Tobacco: Leaning toward English flakes lately, and the occasional Danish style semi-aromatic. I'll try anything once, and usually finish the tin as a matter of principle.
Pipe: If it draws air, it'll smoke. If it's a Peterson bulldog or Savinelli billiard, all the better.
Registration date: 2012-01-06
| | Subject: Re: My simple pipe collection Fri Feb 24, 2012 10:02 am | |
| | PipeDreams wrote: | | George Kaplan wrote: | | PipeDreams wrote: | | Thanks! I hear salt can actually be bad for the briar: I have soaked the inside with isopropyl, but I didn't want to leave it in there for too long in case I knocked it over! |
Eeew! Isopropyl alcohol is perfumed and denatured to intentionally make it unpaletable and indigestible to humans. Not something I would put it a pipe. The trick is to use just a few drops of high-proof grain alcohol in a pipe bowl filled with kosher salt, and let the capillary action do the rest. Kosher salt has no added iodine and should be just fine for briar pipes. |
The iso we get here isn't perfumed at all, is not denatured, and ALL isopropyl alcohol is poison if consumed. However, when used topically, it evaporates completely with no odor. I used to say the same thing, but I use it regularly to disinfect straight razors and the like: once it dries up, it's gone. The salt is actually unnecessary: you can use cotton wool instead, which is what I've been doing. The salt is much worse for the wood than the iso! |
I stand corrected. Enjoy those pipes, sir! I do admire your collection.
-G |
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PipeDreams
Number of posts: 136
Age: 32
Location: Hong Kong
Tobacco: VA, Perique, Oriental & Latakia
Registration date: 2011-06-10
| | Subject: Re: My simple pipe collection Fri Feb 24, 2012 10:39 am | |
| | George Kaplan wrote: | | PipeDreams wrote: | | George Kaplan wrote: | | PipeDreams wrote: | | Thanks! I hear salt can actually be bad for the briar: I have soaked the inside with isopropyl, but I didn't want to leave it in there for too long in case I knocked it over! |
Eeew! Isopropyl alcohol is perfumed and denatured to intentionally make it unpaletable and indigestible to humans. Not something I would put it a pipe. The trick is to use just a few drops of high-proof grain alcohol in a pipe bowl filled with kosher salt, and let the capillary action do the rest. Kosher salt has no added iodine and should be just fine for briar pipes. |
The iso we get here isn't perfumed at all, is not denatured, and ALL isopropyl alcohol is poison if consumed. However, when used topically, it evaporates completely with no odor. I used to say the same thing, but I use it regularly to disinfect straight razors and the like: once it dries up, it's gone. The salt is actually unnecessary: you can use cotton wool instead, which is what I've been doing. The salt is much worse for the wood than the iso! |
I stand corrected. Enjoy those pipes, sir! I do admire your collection.
-G |
Thank you! I also stand corrected: I learned a lot more about isopropyl alcohol tonight than I probably need to know!
From Wikipedia:
Isopropyl alcohol in particular is popular for pharmaceutical applications,[5] presumably due to the low toxicity of any residues.
I also flush out all the excess with lots and lots of water. The residue from evaporation is supposed to be very minor; tobacco smoke's a lot worse for ya! |
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