What Are You Smoking April 2019

[Mr Beardsley]

Finally done running all over town and it's break time. Smoking the last of my sample of Stanwell St. Andrew's mixture from the 70's (looked back through my messages to find the picture of the tin). It's in my favorite rhodey and I'm catching up on my water intake

[Bamarick]

PA with a double pinch of SP Vanilla in the Crown.

[Houtenziel]

Houtencake in the same Grand Duke.

So about 6 months or so ago, I bought a couple Dr. G's and after 4-5 smokes the finishes suddenly blistered and bubbled. Just now the Grand Duke I was smoking did the same thing.. totally cool bowl, then all the sudden bubbles in the finish. I think this is happening because the briar has moisture in it and the heat from smoking is driving it out. Because the bowls are finished in impermeable lacquer, the steam pockets that would normally pass from a waxed pipe gets trapped and blisters. It bubbled so badly that the side of the pipe's finish pretty much just delaminated and peeled right off in one big chunk..



So I guess I get to bust out the acetone and see if I can't salvage this one without breaking my elbow sanding.

[Thelonious monkfish]

Houtencake in the same Grand Duke.

So about 6 months or so ago, I bought a couple Dr. G's and after 4-5 smokes the finishes suddenly blistered and bubbled. Just now the Grand Duke I was smoking did the same thing.. totally cool bowl, then all the sudden bubbles in the finish. I think this is happening because the briar has moisture in it and the heat from smoking is driving it out. Because the bowls are finished in impermeable lacquer, the steam pockets that would normally pass from a waxed pipe gets trapped and blisters. It bubbled so badly that the side of the pipe's finish pretty much just delaminated and peeled right off in one big chunk..



So I guess I get to bust out the acetone and see if I can't salvage this one without breaking my elbow sanding.

Does it only come off with Acetone? They should be shellac and removable with alcohol, usually the old, older, ones had that lacquer/varnish that no solvent I know of will break down, at least without dissolving the bowl as well.

[rekamepip]

steaks ribs and shrimp is a smokin

ODF in an unmentionable pipe

[Fr_Tom]

Last bowl of Double Down in the Rob Roy for the day - heading home...

[Thelonious monkfish]

steaks ribs and shrimp is a smokin

ODF in an unmentionable pipe

We don't talk about those!

[Islayphile]

FVF, Invicta Rhodesian, diet Dew

[Houtenziel]

Houtencake in the same Grand Duke.

So about 6 months or so ago, I bought a couple Dr. G's and after 4-5 smokes the finishes suddenly blistered and bubbled. Just now the Grand Duke I was smoking did the same thing.. totally cool bowl, then all the sudden bubbles in the finish. I think this is happening because the briar has moisture in it and the heat from smoking is driving it out. Because the bowls are finished in impermeable lacquer, the steam pockets that would normally pass from a waxed pipe gets trapped and blisters. It bubbled so badly that the side of the pipe's finish pretty much just delaminated and peeled right off in one big chunk..



So I guess I get to bust out the acetone and see if I can't salvage this one without breaking my elbow sanding.

Does it only come off with Acetone? They should be shellac and removable with alcohol, usually the old, older, ones had that lacquer/varnish that no solvent I know of will break down, at least without dissolving the bowl as well.

It wasn't coming off with alcohol at all. I even doused em down pretty good, still no dice. Acetone did cut right through it like butter. Didn't even lift the finish(stain) either, which was cool. Decided since I was doing one, I might as well do both, so I just threw them on the buffer wheels and laid on some carnauba.

[Fr_Tom]

OJK in a '67 Dunhill ODA 841