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Mister Moo · 08-04-2010, 08:04 PM

The big 'un, a classic calabash, is a gourd body and meerschaum bowl made by Pioneer. They maybe didn't make the most beautiful calabash pipes in the world but they smoke well; I have one and it's a pip of a puffer.

The fragile clay bowl is lightly pressure-fitted in the gourd, held in with a cork gasket glued into the top of the gourd interior. The bowl may be stuck in the gourd with pipe-crud or it may want to fall out if the clay is clean and the cork is all dried up. Handle with care. They can usually be twisted gently clockwise and slowly pulled out; if you try and it doesn't give easily, let it be.

Nice get.

08-04-2010, 08:04 PM	#8
Mister Moo I barely grok the obvious Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Dan Location: Lizard Lick, NC Posts: 1,417 Trading: (3)	Re: New(to me) Pipes, estate The big 'un, a classic calabash, is a gourd body and meerschaum bowl made by Pioneer. They maybe didn't make the most beautiful calabash pipes in the world but they smoke well; I have one and it's a pip of a puffer. The fragile clay bowl is lightly pressure-fitted in the gourd, held in with a cork gasket glued into the top of the gourd interior. The bowl may be stuck in the gourd with pipe-crud or it may want to fall out if the clay is clean and the cork is all dried up. Handle with care. They can usually be twisted gently clockwise and slowly pulled out; if you try and it doesn't give easily, let it be. Nice get. __________________ "I hope you had the time of your life."