staining the chamber

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staining the chamber

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i've been looking at my pipes and noticing that some are stained on the inside of the chamber and some are left without stain. does it matter whether you stain or not stain the chamber? or is it purely to the pipe makers choice?
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As far as I know nobody deliberately stains the chamber. If stain does smear/bleed into the chamber, you have to remove it with sanding otherwise it looks very amateurish. Some folks use a rubber cork to plug the chamber while staining.

An alternative is to carbon coat the entire inside of the bowl. You'll have to ask someone to repost the formula for that. Contains weird stuff like eye of newt or some such.
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Frank wrote:As far as I know nobody deliberately stains the chamber. If stain does smear/bleed into the chamber, you have to remove it with sanding otherwise it looks very amateurish. Some folks use a rubber cork to plug the chamber while staining.

An alternative is to carbon coat the entire inside of the bowl. You'll have to ask someone to repost the formula for that. Contains weird stuff like eye of newt or some such.
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Some of the factory pipe makers dip stain their pipes, and it makes the first smokes in them taste pretty awful.

Don't stain the inside of the bowl.

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RadDavis wrote:Some of the factory pipe makers dip stain their pipes, and it makes the first smokes in them taste pretty awful.

Don't stain the inside of the bowl.

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Peterson's are most notorious for this. I just smoke the stain taste out of the pipe. Other's with sand it or leech it out with salt and alcohol before smoking. I'm not that motivated. As far as my pipes go, I sand it out if I get any in the chamber. You should too. It's a sign of poor quality and laziness, IMO. If I wanted that I wouldn't buy an artisan pipe. I'd buy a factory pipe.
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Post by Bear »

thanks for the thoughts, that pretty much clears that up.
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