Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2021 13:46:51 GMT -5
This pipe was too cool to pass up, and it cleaned up fabulously. Here is a 'pre-clean up' ebay photo of it. The amber stem has the mouth-piece broken off, so that was going to have to be replaced. I dug out the remains of the bone tenon in the shank, and there was space for a rather wide bone screw - it was obvious the stem never went with this pipe.
So I found a jewel of a thick bent amber stem that I had been saving, and sure enough - the bone tenon in the amber stem screwed right into the shank! So I'm polishing the amber stem...dropped it...SNAP - right at the bend. There was that wolf head, snarling at me!
Since then, the wolf has been sitting in a box for a couple of months, waiting for a stem. Today I got a pile of bone tenons in the mail. ONE of them screwed right in to the stummel! And the other end screwed right into the end of a Peterson stem where the aluminum chimney had been. Not as great as the amber stem, but it would do nicely. So I got it attached and found that the stem turned about 1/3 turn too far to the right. The bone tenon didn't unscrew by hand, so I put a pair of pliers on it at the stem end and...SNAP.
This is why I call this pipe the Pipe from Hades. I've never broken any pipe part up until I received this pipe - I'm afraid to let the wolf anywhere near my other pipes. And even after a nice cleaning and polishing, he smells kind of like wet fur.
So I found a jewel of a thick bent amber stem that I had been saving, and sure enough - the bone tenon in the amber stem screwed right into the shank! So I'm polishing the amber stem...dropped it...SNAP - right at the bend. There was that wolf head, snarling at me!
Since then, the wolf has been sitting in a box for a couple of months, waiting for a stem. Today I got a pile of bone tenons in the mail. ONE of them screwed right in to the stummel! And the other end screwed right into the end of a Peterson stem where the aluminum chimney had been. Not as great as the amber stem, but it would do nicely. So I got it attached and found that the stem turned about 1/3 turn too far to the right. The bone tenon didn't unscrew by hand, so I put a pair of pliers on it at the stem end and...SNAP.
This is why I call this pipe the Pipe from Hades. I've never broken any pipe part up until I received this pipe - I'm afraid to let the wolf anywhere near my other pipes. And even after a nice cleaning and polishing, he smells kind of like wet fur.
