SaltwaterCowboy
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If any of you ever had any questions as to just how orange Fiebing's Orange Dye gets, here's your chance to find out.
Below is my Baraccini Poker; it came to me from Cup O' Joes three years ago and it was all shiny like somebody had sprayed it down with the dreaded polyurethane. Being new to pipes and never explored woodworking, I never gave it much thought until about last year when I brought it out on the flight deck one Friday night in the Arabian gulf.
It was an odd night... the breeze had a mysterious chill, very different from the 95*F heat and humidity of the Gulf than what I was used to. The skipper called the smoking lamp was lit on our flight deck so I brought it up along with some of my Boswell's.
It was unusually windy, my trusty ol' Poker had smoke billowing out of the bowl as if someone was roasting a hog over an open spit... and then I saw it, the finish had bubbled up from whatever was used to polish the pipe and I thought it was ruined for good. What I now think happened, was the briar was just trying to breathe a little, and the bubbles formed when the gases were too hot and had nowhere else to go.
Fast forward to today, I had the old varnish crap sanded off in my storage room, I polished it out with 2000 grit sandpaper, and applied some orange dye to it... probably a little too much, as the old saying goes - a little goes a long way... I learned this the hard way :suspect:
Below is my Baraccini Poker; it came to me from Cup O' Joes three years ago and it was all shiny like somebody had sprayed it down with the dreaded polyurethane. Being new to pipes and never explored woodworking, I never gave it much thought until about last year when I brought it out on the flight deck one Friday night in the Arabian gulf.
It was an odd night... the breeze had a mysterious chill, very different from the 95*F heat and humidity of the Gulf than what I was used to. The skipper called the smoking lamp was lit on our flight deck so I brought it up along with some of my Boswell's.
It was unusually windy, my trusty ol' Poker had smoke billowing out of the bowl as if someone was roasting a hog over an open spit... and then I saw it, the finish had bubbled up from whatever was used to polish the pipe and I thought it was ruined for good. What I now think happened, was the briar was just trying to breathe a little, and the bubbles formed when the gases were too hot and had nowhere else to go.
Fast forward to today, I had the old varnish crap sanded off in my storage room, I polished it out with 2000 grit sandpaper, and applied some orange dye to it... probably a little too much, as the old saying goes - a little goes a long way... I learned this the hard way :suspect:
