Briar Spirit
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I was amazingly gifted this wonderful Mahogany Calabash a while back by a very dear friend but from the first time I smoked it I found it had a dreadful draw on it and the tobacco chamber in the Meer' top was so shallow and narrow it could hold very little tobacco.
I have thought on it many times but just never had the gumption to try fixing it, today I took the plunge, I couldn't easily send it off to be opened up and leaving it as it was I couldn't smoke it, so what would I lose by trying was my thinking.
First thing was to widen and deepen the Meer' bowl so I set to it after wetting the chamber with a reamer, one of these actually:
Next I needed to lower the draught hole in the Mahogany chamber as the insert blocked the draught hole, after that I straightened the stem then drilled it out, the stem had been drilled from both ends and there was a ledge in its midsection, then I needed to open up the screw in tenon.
It all went exceedingly well, annoyingly I don't have a camera just now so I cannot take photo's to show you guys, this is the pipe I worked on:
Okay so it's not one of those posh Gourd pipes but I can assure you it now smokes superbly, I have just finished a delightful bowl of C&D Bayou Morning in it and WOW, what a super pipe and it was a whole new taste experience for me with this tobacco too, aces all around right here.
I'll post pictures of the work I did when I have a camera.
I have thought on it many times but just never had the gumption to try fixing it, today I took the plunge, I couldn't easily send it off to be opened up and leaving it as it was I couldn't smoke it, so what would I lose by trying was my thinking.
First thing was to widen and deepen the Meer' bowl so I set to it after wetting the chamber with a reamer, one of these actually:
Next I needed to lower the draught hole in the Mahogany chamber as the insert blocked the draught hole, after that I straightened the stem then drilled it out, the stem had been drilled from both ends and there was a ledge in its midsection, then I needed to open up the screw in tenon.
It all went exceedingly well, annoyingly I don't have a camera just now so I cannot take photo's to show you guys, this is the pipe I worked on:
Okay so it's not one of those posh Gourd pipes but I can assure you it now smokes superbly, I have just finished a delightful bowl of C&D Bayou Morning in it and WOW, what a super pipe and it was a whole new taste experience for me with this tobacco too, aces all around right here.
I'll post pictures of the work I did when I have a camera.