My experience is very different, my clothes, hands and surroundings smell and no matter what I do, I cant get the smell out of my beard and mustache. Not that I'm complaining
I like MM cobs, I'm on my third now, the other two fell out of my truck at times I guess. Quality was good except for my new one. Its almost unsmokable, it has holes all over it and so smoke and heat/embers come out making it tricky to hold
Congrats, it sounds like you have smoking laws like California. Sometime Id like to find local pipe smokers, but I'm not very cordial nor the best at making friends
Im trying Walker Briar Works stem restore kit, it seems to work good, like Kyle said sandpaper and buff works good, Ive used bleach with excellent results too but I think most frown upon using that method
The sad thing is you could spend all day posting pictures like that, theres so many hackjob auto repairs/modifications out there. I like the beer bottle opener door handle though. I had a friend who had a car with rusted out floor pans, he made a hinged trap door so he could dump his empty beer...