Step 1
When a pipe has a heavy cake inside the bowl, I like to put it through a salt and alcohol treatment. This method does a great job at cleaning the pipe, softening the hardened cake making it easier to remove from the bowl. It also, freshens up the bowl and gets ride of any ghosting left from prior tobaccos smoked.
An average pipe usually lasts 40 minutes (the world record in slow smoking is more than three hours!). If your pipe gets blocked, let it peterson pipes cool down and take another one. • Always use a cold and clean pipe (a clean pipe is the best way to enjoy the aroma of your tobacco!).
They may be small in stature, but they are seriously big on flair. The Reybert pipes come in vibrant colors like green and burgundy. These little-but-mighty smokers are perfect for the stylish man on the go.
It is unfortunate that I did not take pictures of these issues and processes as I was too engrossed and concentrating on getting the filling right. I wrote Charles Lemon of Dad’s Pipes who is the go to guy for all things Brigham and asked him about the pipe. He said it was a shape he did not have and did peterson pipes not have on his shape chart. I thought about it overnight and sent it off to him on Monday morning. I look forward to his blog on this pipe as it is a really Danish looking Brigham. Renowned French brand, Chacom has been a faithfull companion for several generations of pipe smokers all over the world.
Soak the stem in an OxiClean bath for about an hour maybe two hours. It will depend on how oxidized the pipe stem is, a heavy oxidized stem, leave in the solution for longer. Suffice to say that the consistency should be such captain black tobacco that it should not be too runny but just sufficient to spread smoothly and evenly over the intended surface. First timers like me, do not worry too much, even I did not understand what should be the ideal consistency (LoL).
Still to this day Chacom are known for their traditional manufacturing techniques, with a very contempory look and feel them. After the financial crash in the late 1920s, Chacom went in to joint venture with a number of other pipe makers, forming La Bruyere one of the worlds biggest ever pipe companies. La Bruyere employed over 450 workers, producing 100,000’s of pipes annually for the world markets.