Here’s an Italian Reject pipe from my biscuit tin of abused pipes. I has been cleaned, filled, sanded, a new tenon fitted to its stem and given a couple of coats of white shellac. It hasn’t had it’s final polish or any bowl coating added as yet. I will add some “Pipe Mortar” along the lines of that used and explained by CaneRodPiper in his video that you can find here:
How to make and use Pipe Mortar –
Historically, Sodium Silicate (AKA Waterglass) has been used to cover and fortify spider web cracks and similar pipe injuries, often mixed with activated carbon to give it some ability to stay where its put. Many people complain that they can taste the Sodium Silicate and there is some debate over potential health risks. Despite this, it is still used extensively in food preservation, as a method of clarifying wine and beer as well as other refractory and fireproofing duties.
Pipe mud, made from cigar ash and water is also sometimes used to protect and build up the bottom of a pipe bowl, perhaps where the draft hole has been drilled too high (or the tobacco chamber drilled too deep). However, pipe mud doesn’t do too well on the sides of the tobacco chamber, hence, CaneRodPiper’s Pipe Mortar seems to be a better solution. Plaster has been used in food production and in refractory mixes for a long time and so should be suitable and last well as a pipe bowl fortification/coating.
My intention is to coat a batch “abused” pipes all at once to save some mess etc and I will probably do a video of that in due course. I hope that you enjoy the video.
The music used in this video is as follows:
Heroic Reception by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
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