:lol:puros_bran":x5411tu1 said:Thats the problem, left nuts are a dime a dozen these days.. Now a good right nut...Simple Man":x5411tu1 said:Very cool! I'd give my left nut to have one my grand-dad's pipes.
:lol:puros_bran":x5411tu1 said:Thats the problem, left nuts are a dime a dozen these days.. Now a good right nut...Simple Man":x5411tu1 said:Very cool! I'd give my left nut to have one my grand-dad's pipes.
The strata of subtle funny-layers exceeds factory standards. Nicely done. :lol:puros_bran":976h7npi said:Thats the problem, left nuts are a dime a dozen these days.. Now a good right nut...Simple Man":976h7npi said:Very cool! I'd give my left nut to have one my grand-dad's pipes.
Mr. Doody":p2yhishd said:Originally I was planning to clean up the Peterson with the silver band and p-lip. However, I can't get the stem to separate. I'm PETRIFIED of breaking it, so I'm not sure how best to approach this. Any suggestions would be wildly welcome!!!!!!
Xoxo,
Doody
Yes, it works nicely :cheers:Brewdude":6qp1yf5r said:Mr. Doody":6qp1yf5r said:Originally I was planning to clean up the Peterson with the silver band and p-lip. However, I can't get the stem to separate. I'm PETRIFIED of breaking it, so I'm not sure how best to approach this. Any suggestions would be wildly welcome!!!!!!
Xoxo,
Doody
Doody
Put the pipe in the freezer for about 15 min or so. Take it out and gently twist off the stem. You'll find it will come off without much effort, but go slow. This has worked for me in the past.
RR
Very plausible theory Mr. Burley. Very plausible indeed.Richard Burley":yy97wa9d said:Here's a story that will warm your heart:
My paternal grandfather was almost unknown to me, since he died when I was quite young and we lived far from him anyhow. I didn't know he smoked a pipe until I discovered about 20 in a drawer of my father, a non-smoker, who verified their origin and wished to keep them. They were wrapped flat in a large paper bag of some sort beneath underwear and stayed there for almost five decades.
When my father passed into bliss eternal, I instantly grabbed the package of pipes and commenced to smoking them. They were mostly standard drugstore cardboard placard pipes, Yello-Boles, Kaywoodies, etc. Even so, there were several interesting specimens, such as several bent rhodesians, a Lee 4-Star bent, a Custombilt, and the usual "Imported Briar" no-names.
Anyhow, long story short, the pipes smoked like crap. I did everything I could think of to mellow them out. They each and every one of them smoked with a strange bitterness that just would not leave. Here's my theory. These pipes had been stored for nearly 50 years in a chest-of-drawers that also housed various toiletries (usually unwanted Christmas presents) among them many bottles of aftershave, another thing my father never used. I think the pipes absorbed whatever essence they could from these. It wasn't like they smelled like aftershave. I think that had evaporated years ago, though the bottles were still there. But the pipes did smell like the drawer, if that makes sense.
So what did I do with these pipes of my grandfather? I eBayed the sonsofbitches a few years ago.
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