How To Clean A Briar Pipe

Dont remove your bit from the shank unless doing a major cleaning.

How to clean a briar pipe. Once youve got a clean well-reamed bowl its time to wax. I use a 5050 mixture of water and bleach and soak the stem for 15 30 minutes. If a smoke begins to taste sour salty.

This will clean and dry out your pipe. Cleaning your pipe is important. I use the cotton swabs to clean out the end of the tenon and the area around the tenon and the face of the stem.

Attach a buffing wheel to your drill and adjust to the highest speed. Repeat this with the shank of the pipe the briar arm into which the pipe is inserted. Remove the stem from the pipe.

Briar is absorbent and thats a good thing. Unlike a briar pipe it is near impossible to remove this rim charring from a meerschaum so it pays to be extra careful in this department. How to freshen up a briar pipe - YouTube.

To start this cleaning carefully remove the stem of the pipe from the bowl and lay the two pieces on a paper towel. A couple are for regular maintenance and preventing oxidation but a couple claim to assist in actually removing oxidation once it has occurred. Rotate your pipes.

Disassemble any removable parts of the pipe typically the mouthpiece and any filters. Turn on the buffer and charge one of the buffs with the white. The surface of the pipe will become white and rough.