Cleaning Up a Wire Rusticated Savinelli Extra 2005

 

(Dads Pipes) This is another of the pipes I picked up over the summer, a good-looking silver-mounted Savinelli Extra 2005 Apple. 

The pipe came to me in decent estate condition. It was dirty, of course, with a fair bit of dust, grease and wax jammed into the wire-rusticated finish. The chamber carried a light cake, and there were scraps of carbon “lava” creeping up over the rounded rim. The shank band was tarnished to the point of illegibility, but overall the pipe promised to clean up nicely. Continued