Re: eBay Pipe Cleaning
Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2019 9:10 am
eBay pickup #2: Butz-Choquin Camargue 1281 bent bulldog? I paid around $30 for this one with shipping, but I really really love the shape and fishtail bit. The acrylic bit on the tenon is beautiful too.
This one was heavily ghosted with Latakia, and since I'm not an English smoker yet - I gave it a nice long salt-alcohol treatment with lots of Everclear and cleaned up a charred rim.
Waiting on Murphy's Oil Soap, Feed N Wax and micromesh for real clean up. Still need to order Paragon wax to finish em off so what you see here is just a light soap and water cleaning. This pipe is in pretty good shape and this morning I had my first bowl of John Patton's Virginia Squire that was nice and smooth, a great smoker compared to what I currently have.
This one was heavily ghosted with Latakia, and since I'm not an English smoker yet - I gave it a nice long salt-alcohol treatment with lots of Everclear and cleaned up a charred rim.
Waiting on Murphy's Oil Soap, Feed N Wax and micromesh for real clean up. Still need to order Paragon wax to finish em off so what you see here is just a light soap and water cleaning. This pipe is in pretty good shape and this morning I had my first bowl of John Patton's Virginia Squire that was nice and smooth, a great smoker compared to what I currently have.