March Meer Madness - 2015

[Cardinal]

Well....here it is...my first ever Meer purchase!

Beautiful, I love it.

[Cardinal]

Just smoked some MacBaren 7 Seas Gold in the SMS meerschaum. This is a great smoking pipe, and it's not really as white as it looks in this photograph.

[OnePyroTec]

@Mister Moo I have been keeping my promise of only smoking my meers this month, problem is I keep posting in the "what did you smoke today" part of the forum out of habit instead of here.

So, re-post yesterday's pipe. Smoked some Sherlock's Choice in my African Meer.

[Branzig]

Stem/shank - pipecleaner + alcohol. A little cake - fergettabowdit. Crud (not char) on the rim - that's a personal thing. If you want it gone and kept gone it'll be a smoke x smoke thing - same ole same ole; spit and a paper towel + a little gentle rubbing when the pipe is cold.

Was kinda what I was planning on doing!

Thanks Mr. Moo and your jolly band of enablers!!!!

[Mister Moo]

@Mister Moo I have been keeping my promise of only smoking my meers this month, problem is I keep posting in the "what did you smoke today" part of the forum out of habit instead of here.

So, re-post yesterday's pipe. Smoked some Sherlock's Choice in my African Meer.

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[Mister Moo]

Two bowls of Firedance in the Yanik Cauliflower.

[Bruck]

Breaking in a Tom Sawyer Missouri Meer with some homemade flake.

[NeverBend]

Well....here it is...my first ever Meer purchase!









It has some obvious rim char, a little bit of cake, and the stem/shank will def need to be cleaned...I've never worked on a Meer before so we will see how it goes.

All in all I am really happy with it. The price was right and seeing it in person is even better than it looked on Ebay.

Thanks a lot you enablers...

Hiya Brandon,

First,congratulations! The pipe looks better than it did in the listing and I left a few of the pictures in this post cuz it's so pretty. Enjoy it!!

As stated, I haven't smoked a meer in a long time but I've worked on a lot of them. Use care, because briar and meerschaum are very different raw materials. Meerschaum's absorbent (not like a sponge) and a less than pristine cloth can cause a (permanent) stain. Rub carefully because even moderately coarse cloth can round the surface.

Getting the tar stain off of the rim (entirely) will be difficult. No soaps, chemicals (absorption) or abrasives are the rule of the day.

When meers are manufactured they're polished with beeswax that would burn off soon after smoking commenced. Others on this thread may be able to offer more insight about polishing them but gently rubbing the surface (highlights in this case) with a sheet (material) will smooth the surface very slightly for polishing. Do not use the Handi-Wipes that I use on a meer (briar's fine).

CAO's first business was meerschaums and their pipes because the most respected brand of Turkish made meerschaums. It was long after that CAO began to have cigars and tobaccos made for them. Did the seller give you a date on this pipe? Looks like 1970s.

Regards,

Pete

[Branzig]

Hiya Brandon,

First,congratulations! The pipe looks better than it did in the listing and I left a few of the pictures in this post cuz it's so pretty. Enjoy it!!

As stated, I haven't smoked a meer in a long time but I've worked on a lot of them. Use care, because briar and meerschaum are very different raw materials. Meerschaum's absorbent (not like a sponge) and a less than pristine cloth can cause a (permanent) stain. Rub carefully because even moderately coarse cloth can round the surface.

Getting the tar stain off of the rim (entirely) will be difficult. No soaps, chemicals (absorption) or abrasives are the rule of the day.

When meers are manufactured they're polished with beeswax that would burn off soon after smoking commenced. Others on this thread may be able to offer more insight about polishing them but gently rubbing the surface (highlights in this case) with a sheet (material) will smooth the surface very slightly for polishing. Do not use the Handi-Wipes that I use on a meer (briar's fine).

CAO's first business was meerschaums and their pipes because the most respected brand of Turkish made meerschaums. It was long after that CAO began to have cigars and tobaccos made for them. Did the seller give you a date on this pipe? Looks like 1970s.

Regards,

Pete

Thanks for the kind words and the tips Pete!

The seller knew very little about the pipe unfortunately, so I do not know the age. I would agree with you on thinking it is around the 1970s however.

[JustTroItIn]

Davidoff Flake Medallions (thank you, Tobias!) while cleaning up my first GBD estate.