Following grading, the various stages of manufacture are carried out by master pipe craftsmen. We can recommend Chacom pipes to those pipe smokers who appreciate modern tradition and pay attention to the smoking quality of a pipe. The fact that the pipes are also traded in an affordable price range makes the choice for a Chacom particularly easy. An engineer by trade, he also has a great talent for graphic design and a wealth of international experience, gained in Ireland. Chacom now only employs 25 people in production, which is still relatively high compared to other manufacturers. Antoine looks at the job cuts in the pipe industry in Saint-Claude with nostalgia, but also with an analytical eye.
CHAPUIS-COMOY&Cie is a creator, manufacturer and distributor of fine pipes, located in Saint-Claude, France. Guarantee of peterson pipes traditional methods, CHACOM remainsthe biggest French brand to date knowing how to ally Tradition, Creation & Innovation. You may be smoking too fast or you use a poor-quality tobacco.
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.
These pipes are made using the traditional machinery and techniques, but as you would expect from Chacom are given a combination of modern finishes and more classic stains. These pipes have not been made again and will never be repeated. After the bath I use Vim and a dry clean rag to wipe clean.
Step 1When a pipe has a heavy cake inside the bowl, I like to put it through a salt and alcohol treatment. This method does a great job at cleaning the pipe, softening the hardened cake making it easier to remove from the bowl. It also, freshens up the bowl and gets ride of any ghosting left from prior tobaccos smoked. In the blog itself he breaks his process down into two parts – cleaning the stem and cleaning the bowl.
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.