Let’s Save this Dirty and Abused Weber Scoop Pipe

hey y'all and welcome to the Southland Piper I'm your host Tim hope you're doing well today well here lately I've been uh buying a few Weber pipes that I'm really attracted to and it's their squat um Rhodesian uh shape I'm just really uh liking that shape so today I've got this little um Weber it's marked the scoop it's got some a ram horn detail on each side but it's a little on the rougher side so let's turn around to the workbench and get started on it all right let's see what I got to work with uh raining is a little uneven let me back out for this next thing the stem is a little loose and maybe more than a little loose that's the loose so anyway I'll leave that leave that out it's not in uh let me go back in here it's not in bad shape by any means um a few little some toot chatter maybe it looks pretty good actually maybe a little Dent right there um but the um oxidation isn't bad or anything like that it is large enough I will be uh converting it to nine millimeter so let's look at this at the pipe here now this Rim detail and the top part of the bowl should look more like that so um it's a it's a little rough it's got apparently a hope well hopefully I can dig all that carbon uh out of it but it's and it may be just kind of smooth I think it looks kind of smooth in a lot of areas you see right here on the shank but um so it's uh it's definitely gonna say that hey I'm an estate fight it's that Ram's Horn detail that I talked about uh this other side you do have barely see Weber and the scoop so the nomenclature is pretty much gone so we'll um the bottom of the bowl at first appearance is little flat so we'll see what that's about it's it's not blocked it's but it's awfully dirty I get a yeah it's just awfully dirty so anyway let's get started I think I'm gonna approach this one a little different than I usually do um I think I'm going to take it in the house and scrub it down with Murphy's real well to begin with let me take it to the house and scrub it down and see if any of this stuff will turn loose scrub the pipe down about a dozen times and actually soak some paper towels in Murphy's and let the pipe sit in the Murphys for a couple hours I'll insert the picture here I generally don't scrub a pipe down first but when I was getting ready to start looking at the pipe this outer coating that was so black which I originally thought was just carbon buildup was very sticky and had a tar like um feel to it just very sticky I could actually grab the pipe and turn my hand upside down and stick stick to my hand so that's why I washed it first with the Murphys I'm going to try to sand a little bit around the rim and see if we can get that I don't have a lot of that little band to work with I may lose half of it I'm not gonna if I go down you know a millimeter on that and if the darkening's still there it's just going to stay there but that's what I'm gonna try and maybe even up the bowl a little bit but outside is looking a lot better so we'll get this framed out and cleaned out it's wet from me just rinsing it after I cleaned it with the Murphys the inside of course is still pretty gummy looking inside so I'm gonna get all that cleaned out no need for y'all to watch that but I'll get back once I'm I'm done with that well nothing quite like dreaming out of state pipes you never know what you're gonna get it's I mean it's not a disaster I can fix a lot of it but I'm going in I hope I could you can see this but I'll go in and you know scrape some of these spots right here's another one I've scraped a lot of it out so far so I'm continuing to work on those spots I've got a bigger one here chipping out getting rid of that but also have some of the very bottom and my reamers this one's actually you can see where it's actually got a concaved at the bottom so it's not gonna cut down into the very bottom I've got Char in the bottom the dictators they flatten out a little bit so they don't work as well either you know cutting into the bottom where the Char is so this is a bowl router bit s in a uh drill bit extension and because I don't I don't want to Chuck it up and my rotary tool or a drill or anything that's just too aggressive so I'll just take that and this gives me a good stop at the fingers and I'll sit there and I'll just turn it in there and try to you know get some of that out because I want to remove as much Char as I can and then I'm gonna have to put in some miracle mud and fix the bowl but anyway I'll keep working on it all right let's get on this repair of the pipe Bowl I've cleaned out not as much of the stuff I can get out of there to charge material there's my drill bit sticking through the draft hole you're going to have to raise the bottom of the bowl up a little bit and repair these sides this is the same process that I used in the corn Cobb pipe mod video I've got my um pipe mortar here and I'll mix it up with some water and get it in there and smooth it out as best I can and then uh we'll see how it looks I'll take a reamer and smooth it out a little bit more I got my mud ready to go or mortar um not too thick not too thin you want to be able to form it real well on the inside and I just uh can't see well enough and try to record this all at the same time so let me get it in there and then I'll come back okay I've got it in and I'll wait about 30 minutes and let it start to set up and then I will take a reamer and you know help shape it a little bit more let's look how it's coming along starting to set up let me see here I don't remember which reamer fit the nicest feedback a little bit here just want to go in nice and easy and put a little spin on it and well it might be too soft at the moment I think a little softer had some come off yeah I'm still a little too soft a little dry some more all right let's see if we can smooth this out a little bit finish it up that's what it's looking like I don't want to use a lot of force just want to just kind of lift this scoot around inside a little bit yeah that's my there's my figure eight that I want so I think we're just about there see it's still pretty soft I can just take it and run my finger on the inside but we will let it dry from there the pipe mortar is dry it's pretty nice we've got our figure eight at the bottom of the bowl so it's been raised up to a good level well before I work on this very loose stem I'm going to about go ahead and buff it it really doesn't have much oxidation on it so I'll use my Tripoli uh compound and then the white diamond and then we'll see if we can't tighten this thing up so that is loose now the stem definitely looks better now after being buffed uh and still I'll buff it one more time but let's work on this uh loose thin I am going to convert this one to a nine millimeter so it's critical that I do the expansion on the Tenon now and this is a a tendon expansion set they're just how much you can tell but they're tapered is how these work and you don't have to have these you can Nails ice picks all kinds of things so this one barely accepts my smallest one now I've already cleaned out the stem so um yeah food [Music] drill it out a little bit to you know start this out a little bit I think I'll do that now this is just the uh drill reamer that comes with that adjustable reamer and I'm just going to take it down through there and to me this is a minimum of what you'd like to have on a um Airway in the stem um I'd have to straighten the stem out to totally correct it but I'll um let me do this and then I will see how it smokes and hopefully it'll smoke okay I'm just I'm just giving myself a little bit more room okay I'm finished with that as far as the depth it's about right there so that's how far I'm in resizing it so that'll that'll work well let's see how it fits yeah see now I'm down in their Fair Mount which I'll have to actually be careful with this one because I don't need it to slide down in there so we'll open it up a little bit with this one and then do the next size up and I'll use heat gun you want to heat it up but not get it too soft because you can end up throwing that angle off of the Tenon let's see let me easily use the edge of the table but for this I'll use my little pedestal here let's see if y'all can swell part of the obviously if it's gone in some I said I'd rather use the edge of the table yeah put in some more that's probably where I'll stop it's probably where I'll stop with this one and hopefully it's um and large enough to take the next one because I got a feeling we're gonna need the next one so I'll have to let this cool though well I've actually had to go all the way up to a 5 30 second drill bit and I'm all the way up to my fourth uh Tenon expander and if it's it starts in pretty good you know I've I've never tried to expand one as much as I'm trying on this one I'm gonna I'm gonna have to get this pretty soft because if I don't get it really nice and soft uh it'll start to split uh but hopefully I won't get it too soft so that's where we're at we'll push that in just a little bit I'll go for one more good push and then um let it cool and see where we're at foreign [Music] I don't see any crap any evidence of cracks so that's that's good so let's let it cool and see how far I'm off okay now these uh Tenon expanders just by their nature of being tapered um you get most of your flaring at the very end of the Tenon um and this one being so loose to begin with I may come back in and these Parts back in here toward you know toward the base of the Tenon and actually apply a little bit of super glue very thin and take it so that Peg a space because right now I've got a you know you can hear it it's a decent fit uh it feels good I don't know if it's going to rock feels like it's going to rock a little bit so but you know right now I mean it's feels good once it's totally inserted you know like I said you don't start grabbing until the very end or the very first part of the Tenon but it definitely feels a lot better so I may smoke it for a while like that and see what happens and then I may come back and and make that adjustment yeah we're just gonna lightly go around the rim I may put it down on a piece of um sandpaper hang on okay this is uh 320. and I can't do this much but I'm gonna just take a quick little pull on that foreign [Applause] that's all I want to do with that and this is it does have a little rounded profile to it but um let me sand down a little bit and I'll be back well that's how things are looking so far I really don't want to sand a whole lot more and I'd have to stand quite a bit to get this bowl even all the way around it's got a little couple little gaps in it now there is another place that I'm kind of concerned about I'm not sure how it's going to look and I don't know if there's anything I can do about it we put the alcohol in here that spot just wants to be a lot darker than the rest of that top of that pipe then that just may be the variation that's that's there so I'm going to put I'm I'm not going to go real dark I'm going to start with a a regular tan it's that same tan that I put on uh that 1959 Dunhill in in my earlier video so that's what I'm gonna go with and uh see what it looks like so uh this bottom is going to end up a little on the darker side as well um and I think that's just ground in I've picked it a lot and such and worked on it but as you know when I started on this pipe it was just really really dirty and so I've I think it's just permeated the Briar pretty much in those areas but that's that's okay all right this is that feed brings tan might be a little low on that let's see what this dark spot looks like yeah it's going to be slightly darker darker but I don't think too bad I tried to find uh pipes that may have a something going on and not just a a run-of-the-mill you know wreath clean it up and restain it type deal I knew this one had a very loose stem but I sure didn't know about the damage that was inside the bowl all right um this is what we've got before I do any buffing um the bump in here a little bit I do have a small crack I don't think it's really going to be an issue uh usually those form uh when people you know don't keep the the pipe reamed which at some point they probably built up too much cake and then overrimed it so but it's it'll be fine all right let's uh do the waxing I don't believe I've ever showed a rusticated pipe during the buffing phase where we get this look to it and that's simply where the wax has gotten down oh sorry that's simply where the wax has gotten down into the little valleys of the grain and so what we have to do is use a little Heat well that looks better but we're still not anywhere near done so I got to go back to the wheel well here we are all finished I think the bite turned out really well you can see the nomenclature a little bit there uh nine millimeter conversion that wasn't any problem at all I'm really pleased the way this top of the the bowl cleaned up I kind of had my doubts a little bit the inside of the bowl looks really good now underneath where I had that like ground in dirt or whatever um it actually gives a little contrast I like it but I think it uh turned out really well uh and it also makes a nice addition to my Weber family um I think these pipes are just really nice smoking pipes and I really enjoy them and I'm gonna keep my eyes peeled for other variations on this type of pipe from Weber well thank you for sharing your time with me today and I hope you've enjoyed this video talk to you soon bye

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Length: 23min 50sec (1430 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 23 2023