A Tale Of Two Howell's

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Midnight Blues

Midnight Blues

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I finally took a photo of my Jack Howell Volkimo's and thought I'd share, man I love these pipes!

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Man I love those, especially the one with the white bit. Congrats on those babies!
 
gandalfpc,

Hey, how do you prevent the rims from blackening? Every smooth I have is, in one stage or another, blackened.

I've taken to leaving the last 2-4 mms of the bowl not packed with tobacco; I know that's supposed to help.
 
Thanks for the kind words, both pipes smoke flawlessly. As far as keeping the rims clean, I'm just real careful and I clean the rim after each smoke.
 
If I may ask, how do you clean the rims after smoking? I do, too, in fact after I smoke a pipe I rub beeswax on the rim so that after smoking, hypothetically, when I apply saliva and ribbed cloth, rubbing it so that any deposits from that smoke are removed, it should not darken, but it does.
 
alfredo_buscatti":6rhjb8cl said:
If I may ask, how do you clean the rims after smoking? I do, too, in fact after I smoke a pipe I rub beeswax on the rim so that after smoking, hypothetically, when I apply saliva and ribbed cloth, rubbing it so that any deposits from that smoke are removed, it should not darken, but it does.
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Mike, When I fill my pipes I don't fill all the way to the top and after the smoke while the pipe is still warm I wipe off the top with a soft cotton cloth. No big secret here.
 
For some reason when I saw those two pipes, the song Ebony and Ivory came to mind? :lol:
 
Two amazing specimens for sure! Glad you are the proud own MB.
 
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