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The stem was very damaged with a bite through on the top side and much chewing around the edges of the stem. The bowl is very dirty with little room in the bowl – thick cake and lots of overflow on to the back side of the rim.I reamed the bowl with reamers. I cleaned the mortise, and the airway in the shank and stem with pipe cleaners and alcohol. You can see what the bowl looks like now in the next two photos.
Pipemaker Eric E. Christie has been hand making pipes for over three decades, learning his trade from one of America’s great pipemakers in the 1980’s, Richard C. Johnson. Mr. Johnson opened his own tobacco store, Johnson’s Pipe Shop, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania where he made his own line of handmade pipes, Johnson Pipes. The stems on both these pipes have large gaping hole near the button end, exposing the stem’s airway.
Chacom is a brand of Cuty-Fort Entreprises (Jeantet, Vuillard, Jean Lacroix, Ropp …). I wrote Charles Lemon of Dad’s Pipes who is the go to guy for all things Brigham and asked him about the pipe. He said it was a shape he did not have and did not have on his shape chart. I thought about it overnight and sent it chacom tobacco pipes off to him on Monday morning. I look forward to his blog on this pipe as it is a really Danish looking Brigham.
The brand name Chacom is a combination of the family names Chapuis and Comoy. The factory was founded in Avignon, France in 1825, when the Comoy family started producing pipes there. Henry Comoy moved the production to London and from 1879 onward he used his family name as a brand for his briar pipes. Chacom pipes are made through an extensive and important process, where natural drying, ageing, grading and master crafting take place to ensure a high end pipe is resulted. Next, I cleaned the surface of the stem with isopropyl alcohol to get rid of all the dirt, oils and tars from the surface.
Others are produced in respectable quantities but are considered so good that they’re snapped up as soon as they hit the market. While still other tobacco brands have been discontinued, in which case you might need some pipe world connections to secure a small quantity. The link between the parent company in France and Capuis-Comoy in Great Britain continued until 1970. Then Yves Grenard, a former employee, acquired the Saint-Claude factory.
The brand of the pipe was marked on the bowl – ‘Chacom coin osseu’. For a beginner, who most of the time is a dummy, reading all the posts in different forums to learn a general procedure how to do the work is extremely important. In rebornpipes I found a lot of information and suggestions on how to proceed. I prepared a fresh mixture of CA glue and activated charcoal and applied it to area to be filled.