Beginner here, how do I retreat this??

[Chrisbreathes]

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Hello fellow pipe makers!

I bought this beautiful pair pipe a few years ago and stripped the beautiful reddish hue off with coconut oil stupidly! How do I get the color back? I heard beet juice or red wine, but I want to really get it back to how it was before.

If I did use beet juice or red wine, what’s the procedure?
If I used you’re recommended product, what’s the procedure?

Attached are the before and after pictures.

Thanks so much!
Chris

[Christoffer]

Trial and error is probably the best way to go. Get some scrap pieces and go nuts with everything you can think of that might get the reaults you want. Different types of wood takes colourings different. What kind of wood is it made of?
/christoffer

[DocAitch]

Welcome.
We generally use alcohol soluble leather dyes for briar, although aniline dyes and ferrous acetate (for black) are also used.
I can’t tell what your original color was from your photos, but I would think that one of the Feibing’s leather dyes will give ou a satisfactory color.
I you search the forum (using the Search Function, you will probably find other methods for coloring, but one of the requirements that we have is reproducibility, since we are interested in coloring additional pipes.
Although pear wood is used, its not a common material on the forum.
DocAitch