Rim cleaning

[riff raff]

Here's a GBD New Standard I finished. There is still plenty of patina on the bowl top, but I think it fit the rest of the pipe.

 

[Anonymous]

That's a nice job !

:face:

 

[Kyle Weiss]

Good job there, again, Al.

 

[Hobo Hoot]

Lovely pipe and a great job on the rim. From the photo it looks like you've gone back to bare wood in the chamber. I'm always in two minds about this. If I ream it back and it's still a bit stinky after a week on the window sill then I'll go to bare wood, but if it smells ok then I leave it. What is your criteria for removing all the old cake?

 

[riff raff]

Lovely pipe and a great job on the rim. From the photo it looks like you've gone back to bare wood in the chamber. I'm always in two minds about this. If I ream it back and it's still a bit stinky after a week on the window sill then I'll go to bare wood, but if it smells ok then I leave it. What is your criteria for removing all the old cake?

I typically remove the cake just to wood and find that works in eliminating most ghosts. At that time, I didn't have a retort. I have two now, but use them sparingly. That one was resold, as I already has that GBD shape on my rack.

A recent Astley's Rhodesian purchase had quite a ghost that the salt/alcohol wouldn't remove. I just did the retort on that yesteday, which is usually effective in eliminating ghosts.

 

[Hobo Hoot]

Fair call. The biggest problem we have here in Australia is finding suitable alcohol for the retort (well, aside from our plain-packaging laws and insane tobacco prices). I'm at the stage where I'm thinking of setting up a small still to produce my own alcohol as sourcing alcohol in any acceptable level of purity (sans toxic additives as well) is proving nigh-on impossible.

 

[riff raff]

Fair call. The biggest problem we have here in Australia is finding suitable alcohol for the retort (well, aside from our plain-packaging laws and insane tobacco prices). I'm at the stage where I'm thinking of setting up a small still to produce my own alcohol as sourcing alcohol in any acceptable level of purity (sans toxic additives as well) is proving nigh-on impossible.

Wow, I can't imagine having that problem. I picked up another GBD 9438 today, it will need a little rim work.

 

[Hobo Hoot]

I wonder if after all the old timers die out if there will still be enough people to abuse their pipes so that we may gain pleasure from restoring them....sad to think my grandkids may miss out on this wonderful past time.

 

[riff raff]

I wonder if after all the old timers die out if there will still be enough people to abuse their pipes so that we may gain pleasure from restoring them....sad to think my grandkids may miss out on this wonderful past time.

It's scary to think about that. How many Pre-Cadogan era GBD's are floating around out there? New ones get listed every day, but at what point will that supply dry up?