Notice how atrocious the Peterson stem came out:


So from here, I take a Mr. Clean magic eraser and start scrubbing! It took about 30 minutes to get all the white oxidation off of all the pipe stems. I'm going to let them rest for the night now, and I'll hit them with some finish sanding tomorrow to make them super shiny black like they were meant to be.

Here the stems are after a bit of Magic Eraser scrubbing:


Next I work on the pipe bowls. I ream the bowl out with an old pocket knife and clean up the tar build up around the bowl rim. The easiest way to clean up that black tar mess on the rim? I use spit and a terry cloth. Yep. I spit on the cloth and buff. And it works great.

Peterson before ream and rim being cleaned with saliva:


Peterson after ream and spit bath: