This gives off the impression of showing the smoke as it flows from the bowl into your mouth. The bowls all have shades of gray to them, with smooth or sandblasted finishes both available for your preference. You can choose from the six Chacom Jurrasic tobacco pipes we offer you, with each of them providing a unique and beautiful looking pipe that will stand out amongst your collection. Chacom are one of the most historically important pipe makers still in business today. As early as 1825 the Comoy family was producing smoking pipes from Boxwood, long before the discovery of Briar wood. Henry Chacom is born in 1850, just 6 years before the discovery of briar and St Claude becoming the home and centre of the briar pipe world.
I also had the internals of the captain black tobacco stem thoroughly cleaned using pipe cleaners, cue tips and alcohol. Chacom really went to work creating memorable and exciting smoking pipes for the Jurrasic line. The stems on each pipe are white with darker, whispy coloring throughout.
Vim has a corrosive component that acts like a sand paper to buff the pipe stem back to a clean black colour again. Hopefully the style of writing of this blog is helpful to you in some way. In it I wanted to show both what I am looking for and how I move forward in addressing what I see when work on a pipe. It is probably the most straightforward detailed description of my work process that I have done. As always I encourage your questions and comments as you read the blog. Remember we are not pipe owners; we are pipe men and women who hold our captain black tobacco pipes in trust until they pass on into the trust of those who follow us.
In this restoration project the stem repair posed the biggest challenge. Now armed with this acquired knowledge, I embarked on my quest to gain knowledge through personal experience. The Jura Mountains are notable for tobacco pipe history thanks to the town of Saint-Claude, which historians have noted is the birthplace of the briar pipe. The storied lineage that has come through the pipe world can all trace back to this area, so it is only fitting that the Jura region and the Mountains in there get the tribute it certainly deserves. Chacom has a very long history that goes back to the beginning of the nineteenth century, the time when no more bryar pipes were made.
Most notably was Pierre Morel who had initially worked on the Chacom Gran Cru, Naja and Fluer de Bruyere handmade ranges and eventually became the companies head pipe maker. Still to this day Chacom are known for their traditional manufacturing techniques, with a very contempory look and feel them. After the “Great War” the St Claude factory is renamed is “CHAPUIS COMOY & Cie”.
The name Chacom is a derivative of the company name Chapuis, Comoy & Cie. Indeed, the current English Comoy and French Chacom a large family business originated in the region of Saint Claude. After the Second World War, Chacom further developed and expanded exports to several countries around the world.
I shall be working on the stems of both these pipes simultaneously while the stummel will be worked on separately. The write up on both, though separate, is being uploaded at the same time so as to maintain continuity. The Chacom brand originated in Saint-Claude, France, in 1928. The name was taken from the family names ‘Comoy’ and ‘Chapuis’, representing the men who had created the brand and were in fact creating pipes even before the discovery of briarwood. Antoine GRENARD, managing director, is the 6th generation in charge of this family-owned company.