Briar Spirit
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I had a very pleasant surprise, my better half's Dad visited us to bring our youngest daughters belated Birthday presents over, much to my surprise and pleasure he also brought with him 4 pipes for my own belated Birthday present.
He was very curious to see what I did when I restored old pipes, not having one I could work on to show him I opted to transform one of the pipes he had brought for me. Before you all fall off your seats in horror, although I love all 4 pipes they are just Parker pipes from the pipe shop, no high profile pipes being altered.
Lea's Dad wanted to see the process and I didn't think to take a before photo, so I have taken the image from Alan's shop which shows how the pipe looked before I started.
I topped the pipe as it was too deep for my liking, I removed the black finish and filed off some of the existing surface nobbliness, yeah I know, technical 'Dawgy' as usual. I reworked the stem to make it a little like a table leg type of stem, I rounded the bowl rim and filed in a groove around the rim trim, I also filed in a groove on the shank by the stem to enable a nice little effect with dyes to make it look like there was a cool wooden ring between the mortice and the stem. I did the usual heaps of filing to reshape the bowl and the usual painstaking sanding to smooth off the rough edges.
This is how the pipe looks now:
He was very curious to see what I did when I restored old pipes, not having one I could work on to show him I opted to transform one of the pipes he had brought for me. Before you all fall off your seats in horror, although I love all 4 pipes they are just Parker pipes from the pipe shop, no high profile pipes being altered.
Lea's Dad wanted to see the process and I didn't think to take a before photo, so I have taken the image from Alan's shop which shows how the pipe looked before I started.
I topped the pipe as it was too deep for my liking, I removed the black finish and filed off some of the existing surface nobbliness, yeah I know, technical 'Dawgy' as usual.
I reworked the stem to make it a little like a table leg type of stem, I rounded the bowl rim and filed in a groove around the rim trim, I also filed in a groove on the shank by the stem to enable a nice little effect with dyes to make it look like there was a cool wooden ring between the mortice and the stem. I did the usual heaps of filing to reshape the bowl and the usual painstaking sanding to smooth off the rough edges.This is how the pipe looks now:
