I've been repairing and restoring pipes for over a decade and over that time, I've seen thousands of pipes come across the bench. Expensive pipes, drug store pipes, collectible pipes and mundane pipes. I enjoy working on them all, but the projects that stand out the most for me are the passion projects, those undertaken… Continue reading A Special Project for a Pair of Much Loved Companions
Most of the time, pipes are sent to me because they need repairs of some kind - cracks, broken stems, or simply a good cleaning and polishing. Every now and then, however, I get a "passion project" pipe - one for which the client wants work done to customize the pipe to their particular preferences.… Continue reading Fulfilling a Client’s Passion Project – a Green Cumberland P-Lip Stem for a Peterson Meerschaum
