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    Lonely Wandering Bum Trroutman22's Avatar
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    Wow, Someone Knows Me Mister Moo's Avatar
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    Since it isn't dad's pipe or a priceless something-pipe, try the mud thing. If it doesn't work, pitch it.

    If the patch holds and the wood no longer darkens after a while, try a little sanding, alcohol (suggested above) to reduce the spot and restain and refinish. All told you're taking a few hours. The effort put forth is only for you. If it is some saleable name (if undamaged), it won't be worth much with a spot (or not) and a burnout repair. IIf the pipe was a cheapie to begin with the value of the pipe and the effort to repair it is whatever you think it's worth to you (aesthetically).

    I can't explain why I took acouple of hours (I had to have been worth at least $100/hr back when I could still think ) out of my life to scrape, scour, mud, sand (inside and out) and wax a $7.95 MM General. WTH? I just liked THAT pipe. Still do.
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    True Derelict NeverBend's Avatar  Cigar Bum Sponsor
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    An instructive tale.

    My first time in the Dunhill factory was April 1980 (the old factory before they merged with the Parker facility). Bernie Knighton handed me a pipe and asked how pieces it had. Two, I said. No, thirteen and Bernie proceeded to unscrew the pipe like it was a Rubik Cube and he laid out the pieces.

    Bernie explained that it was an overly loved and badly abused Dunhill Root LB, (large billiard - duh), with carbon cake boiling over the rim, visible rim cracks and a three burnouts showing on the bowl. The stem was chewed through and had a broken tenon (hard to chew through those old Dunhill stems!).

    Bernie drilled the burnout at the bottom of the pipe until he had clean wood on all sides, then screw threaded the hole. He cut and threaded a briar plug, screwed and glued it into place. The other repairs were variations but when he was finished he had it lightly sanded, touched it up with some hand carving and had it refinished and stamped as a Dunhill (not LB). Freakin' brilliant!

    The moral of the story is that you can get pretty carried away with repairing your pipes.

    Pete

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