This 1970's era Peterson System Standard 301 was purchased by a regular DadsPipes reader on eBay. Knowing it would need some attention before it could be used, he had it sent directly to me by the seller for a little TLC. In due course the pipe arrived and I snapped this series of pics. As… Continue reading A Quick Refresh for a Peterson System Standard 301
I found this pipe on eBay a while ago, had a quick look at it when it arrived, then added it to my refurb box and forgot about it until recently. You may understand my initial lack of enthusiasm after looking at these pics of the pipe as found. As you can see, the pipe… Continue reading A New Stem and New Life for an English Army-Mount Billiard
I found this Peterson Kildare 01 at a local antique shop a while back and decided it was high time to spiff it up a bit. First a little research. Mark Irwin's exhaustive work on Peterson pipes, The Peterson Pipe Book, provides this information in the section entitled Collector's Guide: Kildare 1965 – First issue of… Continue reading Freshening a Republic Era Peterson Kildare 01
The Norseman series of "Scandinavian-inspired" freehand shapes was introduced to the Brigham lineup in the 1960s during the Danish Freehand craze and continued production until roughly 1980. The rusticated Norseman pipes were available in six shapes, stamped as 9W2 through 9W7. The first two shapes, 9W2 and 9W3, were the same Egg shape in two… Continue reading Reviving a Brigham Norseman Egg
I spotted today's estate pipe on eBay a few weeks ago. I've worked on several John's pipes over the last year or two and have been impressed with their overall quality, so I threw in a bid, which turned out to be sufficient to add the pipe to my refurb box. Looking at the auction… Continue reading Reviving Another Comoy’s Made John’s Pipe Shop 433 Dublin
This week's post sees another pipe shape added to my collection of Brigham pipes and deals with a fairly common estate pipe problem, a seized stem. I found this pipe in a lot of estates on eBay, and was keen to start working on it as soon as it arrived. It's a handsome straight Apple… Continue reading Freeing a Stuck Stem While Restoring This 1960’s Era Brigham 3100 Oversized Apple
This Peterson pipe has been sitting in my refurb box for a while now. Every now and then I'd pull it out, have a look at it, and for one reason or another, I'd put it back in the box and work on a different pipe. Today I thought it was time this pipe got… Continue reading Refurbishing an Underwhelming Peterson System Standard 309
A DadsPipes reader and fellow Ontario piper dropped off a handful of eBay pipe purchases for me to go through before he added them to his rack and rotation. As many eBay pipe hunters have found, an estate briar listed as "cleaned and ready to smoke" may or may not actually be clean and ready… Continue reading A New Stem for a Savinelli Capri Root Briar 614
Every now and again I come across a pipe about which I can find no information. This Earl's Court Prince is one such mystery. All of my searching has turned up exactly zilch, zip, zero - rather frustrating, especially as it is a well-made pipe with some years on it. This series of pcitures show… Continue reading Stem Repairs and a Good Cleaning for a Handsome Earl’s Court Silver Mount Prince
A few weeks ago I wrote about restoring a Pre-Republic Peterson Shamrock Canadian; I acquired this Shape 120 Dublin at the same time. This Shamrock was in about the same shape as its brother had been before I worked on it - dirty, with a heavily oxidized P-lip stem and a thick crust of lava… Continue reading Rehabilitating Another Pre-Republic Peterson Shamrock
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