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Post by Goldbrick on Mar 20, 2024 10:55:50 GMT -5
My Pal " Ben the Great " came by yesterday , and gave me another yard sale find, a small billiard that looks to be from the late sixties or so. The pipe has some shallow Custonbuilt{ish} carvings, under a dark walnut stain...the stem has a push-in tennon with a stinger, and is plugged to the point that airflow is zero. The pipe to stem fit is perfect, yet the stem is so lose that a coat of beeswax made no difference . I think the stem is correct for this pipe, and I hope the just smoking it may tighten it up a mite; it's likely been unsmoked for years and years...it's marked, Certified over imported briar.
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Post by urbino on Mar 20, 2024 15:00:05 GMT -5
Not familiar with those markings but nice get! Hope a smoke tightens it up. Fair chance it will. The briar has to be pretty dried out, I’d think.
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 20, 2024 16:08:02 GMT -5
My Pal " Ben the Great " came by yesterday , and gave me another yard sale find, a small billiard that looks to be from the late sixties or so. The pipe has some shallow Custonbuilt{ish} carvings, under a dark walnut stain...the stem has a push-in tennon with a stinger, and is plugged to the point that airflow is zero. The pipe to stem fit is perfect, yet the stem is so lose that a coat of beeswax made no difference . I think the stem is correct for this pipe, and I hope the just smoking it may tighten it up a mite; it's likely been unsmoked for years and years...it's marked, Certified over imported briar. I have a set of taper pins that I use on loose stems. Usually, just a quick dunk in boiling water will expand it enough, but if not, I press in a taper pin until it fits.
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