Blog by Troy Wilburn
I got this pipe in a trade. I was pleasantly surprised when it showed up it was an 84L and not a regular 84. The stampings are crisp. The rim did have some dings so I had to lightly top it and restain it. There are still some very light dings on pipe but I let them go as the factory finish and color was excellent. So I just cleaned and buffed it other than rim. The stem still has some teeth marks I could not get out fully. The old bowl cake came out easy and the shank was not that dirty and I’m glad because these Canadian shanks are a pain to clean lol. It has zero fills too, which on that much briar was a nice surprise. All and all I’m very happy with it.
Here is the pipe when it arrived.
I took pics of it after I had finished restoring it with a couple of my favorite 45 EPs .
After: 
Troy, This looks like you are pulling a fast one here!! You bought the pipe new and in reverse of the normal post have shown us how you really build a pipe cake!! LOL!! You’ve really done a GREAT job on this one!! Congratulations!!
LOL thank you very much
Sweet looking grain on that one! It kind of reminds me of the Heritage pipes I’ve worked on, or even the one you did earlier.
Wow! Very well done.
I recently purchased an estate pipe in similar shape and was considering restoring it myself. As this will be my first pipe restoration, are there any resources you’d recommend I review that provide a step by step?
Justin
Thanks Justin
Steve recently put on a how to i done about a year ago on the blog
https://rebornpipes.com/2015/08/02/restoring-a-westbrook-36-a-long-details-explanation-for-new-refurbishers/
Also when i started, i watched a lot of You Tube videos about restoring/refurbishing pipes . There is a lot of good info on there.
If you have any questions just email me or post back on this thread .
Great work on that restoration. The quality of the grain was surprising in that pipe. Very nice looking, indeed.
Thank you Al .