"Back From the Brink" restoration project (video set)

[LatakiaLover]

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... fAOiKVv0CU

[Sasquatch]

Looked rough but the stummel was worth the effort for sure.

[caskwith]

George, can I suggest an alternative numbering/naming system for the videos. The multipart nature doesn't worry me but I find it hard to watch them in order as either there is no number or the number is at the end which doesn't show in the title I get on youtube.
Even something as simple as just putting a number at the beginning of each video so for example that this series is videos 78-90.
I very much enjoy your videos but have watched some out of order and got myself awfully confused lol.

[LatakiaLover]

10-4 on better numbering needed. Thanks for the feedback.

[caskwith]

Thanks!

[DocAitch]

George, thank you for the videos. As per usual, I learned a lot.
I have one specific question about the Johnston and Murphy Shoe Cream- what is the base/solvent?
The cheap drugstore polish to which you refer in the video has a pronounced petroleum odor and I would hesitate to use something of that nature on a pipe.
Thanks again.
DocAitch

[LatakiaLover]

I'm not sure what the carrier is. Not being a food item means ingredients don't have to be listed on the container.

I just gave it a good whiff, though, and there's actually very little smell of any kind. A faint earthiness is all, nothing weird or off-putting.

Then, being curious, I did the same with a container of Fiebing's. That stuff is practically violent. Massive alcohol blast with lots of ester-y lingering notes.

I've never noticed any smell coming off a J&M stained pipe when it's hot, either. In fact, I've been using it about eight years without problems or complaints of any kind.

[DocAitch]

Thanks George.
I plan tp search out some.
DocAitch

[LatakiaLover]

For whatever reason it isn't sold online. You have to go to one of their boutique-y retail stores. Why do it that way? No idea.

https://www.google.com/maps/search/john ... !4b1?hl=en

[seamonster]

Is this not the thing?
"Shoe Creams | Johnston & Murphy" https://www.johnstonmurphy.com/shoe-cre ... lsrc=aw.ds



Sent from my bloopty-bloop, using hooty-hoo.

[LatakiaLover]

Yes.

Looks like they started doing the online thing after all.

Enough people bitched about it, probably. lol

PS -- One of the reviews says it indeed smells bad. If so, they either changed the formula, or the different colors also smell different. All I've ever used is black.

[DocAitch]

Another question George.
I note that the angle between the lip and the blade of the bite area in this repair was done with a radius rather than 90 degrees because that was the way Dunhill did it in 1961.
I am curious about your general feelings about this area on artisan pipes.
I personally find it a bit more difficult to obtain a nice radius, and I have several tools modified in a similar manner to those which you used on this restoration.
I also feel that once such a radius is obtained, it is both easier to polish and to maintain, and I find it more attractive.
Do you have any general comments to make? You didn’t seem to care for technique on a previous artisan pipe that you repaired-possibly a Baldi?
DocAitch

[LatakiaLover]

I definitely prefer a radiused crease. Functionally better in every way with no shortcomings.

The engineering trade-off happens at fabrication time. Trickier than most people would guess to execute routinely & reliably. The gotcha lies in removing material "in two directions at once".

Baldi does a full-on curved shield sort of button that's extravagantly sculpted and overkill for normal-sized pipes. No need to go that far. Everyone I know who's messed with that sort of thing (Asteriou is a good example) abandoned it after a while.

[DocAitch]

Thank you , George.
I am 100% agreement (for what that’s worth )
DocAitch