Re: Buffers

On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 07:50:32 -0500, AL typed:

Just curious, do any of you have a buffing rig?

Home made or a manufactured setup? Been checking out the rig that
Norwood Pipe Repair has but have held off getting one.

I get a new pipe and the wood is beautiful. After a couple months the
wood is dark, dull, and ya can't even see the grain anymore. I'm sure
the buffer would keep a pipe shiney but does keeping a pipe buffed up
reduce the darkening?

Do you remove the carnuba then reapply every so often? Do you buff up
pipes weekly, monthly, once a year?

As you might tell, I don't know anything in this area.

Opinions and recomendations appreciated ... Thanks

The Baldor is certainly the best buffing motor out there, but
expensive; for under $100 you can get the Foredom BL-1, which is also
an industrial buffing motor, but has continuously variable speed.

If you're interested in learning more, I wrote a buffing/polishing
FAQ a number of years ago for ASP, and it's on the web site at:

http://www.aspipes.org/faq/faq/ASP_Buffing_Polishing_FAQ.pdf

--
Cordially,
Serge D.

"Americans are the people who describe their use of alcohol and
tobacco as vices"

G. K. Chesterton

12/31/2008 1:46:45 PM
.

Relevant Pages

  • Buffers
    ... do any of you have a buffing rig? ... Norwood Pipe Repair has but have held off getting one. ... I get a new pipe and the wood is beautiful. ...
    (alt.smokers.pipes)
  • Re: How to tell if plaster walls are insulated
    ... for opinions here than the local contractors. ... up the pipe to see that it terminated), ... and at the top of the basement wall we can see where wood ... framing rests on the top of the cinderblock, so I'm assuming it's a wood ...
    (alt.home.repair)
  • Re: I feel like a proud papa!
    ... I have always wanted to do pipe carving. ... His interest in wood transfered quickly over to briar. ... I learned a few things about briar, one that it is softer to work than I ...
    (alt.smokers.pipes)
  • Re: How does the burls age affect the quality of the briar?
    ... he uses briar that is only 1 - 5 years old, ... reached this age. ... the wood needs to cure until dimensionally ... simply because it has been fashioned into a pipe. ...
    (alt.smokers.pipes)
  • Re: What/who are factory pipes? What/who are pipe artisans?
    ... Who makes a factory pipe and how do you define a factory pipe ... An artisan may look into his bin of wood, pick something that he thinks will meet a requirement or perhaps that interests him, look it over, sand a surface or two smooth so the grain can be inspected, wipe it down with alcohol to accentuate the grain, and then make a tentative decision on what to do with that piece of wood to get the most valuable pipe possible out of it. ... The question is whether the machines drive the process or their use is driven by the process deliberately chosen. ...
    (alt.smokers.pipes)