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Re: This Pipe Life Website & Forum Closure
I have made many good friends here at TPL. Although I can relunctantly understand the reasoning behind the closer, I'm saddened at the loss of friends made while here.
For those of you who have come to know me over the years, I will leave my phone # for you to text me if/when you've found a new forum home.
It will be interesting to see where we all wind up...
618-514-5188
If you text me, please leave both your TPL and your real name. That way I'll know for sure who you are...
I hope my posts these past years were as interesting to you as all of yours was to me...
For those of you who have come to know me over the years, I will leave my phone # for you to text me if/when you've found a new forum home.
It will be interesting to see where we all wind up...
618-514-5188
If you text me, please leave both your TPL and your real name. That way I'll know for sure who you are...
I hope my posts these past years were as interesting to you as all of yours was to me...
KA9FFJ
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Re: EA Carey
As our forum prepares to close, I post this photo as a tribute to the memory of Mr. E. A. Carey, inventor of the Carey Magic Inch pipe:
motie2
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Re: What are you guys smoking right Now?
Meerschaum Monday…I almost forgot.
An IMP with some Planta Anno MMXV (2015) “Brazilian Mixture”, and a “spot of tea”….in a coffee mug🤔
An IMP with some Planta Anno MMXV (2015) “Brazilian Mixture”, and a “spot of tea”….in a coffee mug🤔
Re: What are you guys smoking right Now?
I’m preparing to load a few thin-cut coins of Gawith, Hoggarth & Co. “Happy Brown Bogie” in one of the first estate pipes that I made a replacement stem for. I like short pipes, very handy🙂. It’s a Yello-Bolle Imperial and according to a dating guide, made from 1936 to 1955. I have an original scoop style stinger in place. I have found it to be one of the few stinger designs that actually work, provided it is installed correctly…..with the scoop-up. When I refurbished the pipe, I also deeply chamfered the rim and added a brass ring in the stem for the Yello-Bole logo.
Re: Pipe refinishing
When using 2 or more stain colors, always do black, or the darkest stain first.
The alcohol wipe will leave a little bleeding onto the other nonstained area(s).
Once your wipe is finished, you will need to carefully and strategically sand those bled-in areas with 600 grit to reestablish those areas that were messed up by the wipe.
After that came the second staining: 30 drops tan/3 drops oxblood.
The alcohol wipe will leave a little bleeding onto the other nonstained area(s).
Once your wipe is finished, you will need to carefully and strategically sand those bled-in areas with 600 grit to reestablish those areas that were messed up by the wipe.
After that came the second staining: 30 drops tan/3 drops oxblood.
KA9FFJ
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Re: Pipe refinishing
Alcohol wiped the newly stained areas, then:
White diamond
Waxed
Buffed
Here's the final:
White diamond
Waxed
Buffed
Here's the final:
KA9FFJ
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