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Thanks for looking! I appreciate your time.
Kiel
Thanks for the reply! I did do around four coats of thinly cut shellac and would let it sit for a day after each coat. I also didn't do anything like wiping the pipe down after usage and it was handled quite a bit. I guess I wanted to see how it would hold up in a rougher, more neglectful sort of environment.RDPowell wrote:From my experience and that's from smoking pipes with just a waxed finish is the heat from the bowl and your hands tends to wear the wax finish or dulls it with two to three smokes. If ya have a high acid content like me even faster. I wipe mine done after each smoke and try not to handle them in a way that would cause this to happen quicker. In other words this is perfectly normal. If you want a shine to last maybe a shellac finsih and then wax would be my guess.
Are we talking about Linseed oil and such?The Smoking Yeti wrote:Finishes will eat your soul!
If you want to try some durable finish techniques, experiment with various hardening oils. They take quite a while to dry, and you need several coats, but they can be far more durable than even shellac.
Playing with finishes is kind of fun (at the beginning). I am hoping to find something that works for me with materials that are easily available for me here. On this pipe I did do some frenchy polishy kind of variation over the course of 5 days to a week.The Smoking Yeti wrote:Finishes will eat your soul!
If you want to try some durable finish techniques, experiment with various hardening oils. They take quite a while to dry, and you need several coats, but they can be far more durable than even shellac.