If you smoke enough pipes for long enough, chances are that eventually you break one. After all, many pipes are not really that robust in construction, with features like pencil shanks, delicate carvings or questionably sized stem tenons. The pipe on the bench in today's post is one such unfortunate briar, but one that can… Continue reading Splicing a Broken Shank on a 1967 Dunhill 475 Poker
I recently refurbished a number of pipes sent in by a gentleman from Texas. These were mainly freehand pipes in need of new stems, but the pipe on the bench today needed quite a bit more TLC than a quick Ream & Clean. The handsome mixed finish Freehand Sitter pictured below arrived without a stem… Continue reading Repairing a Cracked Shank on a Danish Pride by Ben Wade Freehand
A broken pipe is always a tragedy to a pipe smoker, and all the more so when the pipe is out of production. Such was the case of this Patent Era Brigham 105, the smallest of the marque's classic Dublin shapes. A touch of misadventure on a backpacking trip had snapped the shank off just… Continue reading Repairing a Broken Shank and Crafting a New System Stem for a Patent Era Brigham 105 Dublin
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