Saturday, June 29, 2019

Overhauling an Austrian Meerschaum Straight Egg

 
(Dad's Pipes) … At first glance, the pipe looked to be in good shape, but a closer inspection revealed that the stem had been damaged at the button end at some point and the owner simply cut it off square, filed a couple of deeper lines to create an ersatz button and carried on smoking the pipe. The shank still sported its original threaded steel tenon, which the current owner wanted converted to a push-pull system. Continued

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