Some more pipe-refinishing pron for y'all...

Working on rehabilitating a sandblasted unfinished dublin. Here's one in its native form (it's not the same one as the pix below, but is representative):



Not sure why it's upside down. I don't recall taking the pic that way Here's the bowl after a few rounds of sanding, with 60, 150, and 600 grit:



I'm employing a 2-step dyeing process to bring out the grain, first a dark color, in this case black, to soak in to the briar, both the soft and hard grain thereof:



Then I give it a light sanding to expose the surface of the harder grain, as the dye will have soaked more deeply into the softer grain. Unforch, it also has the effect of emphasizing the imperfections - this is not exactly high quality briar I'm working with:



Next, I overdye it with a lighter, brighter color, which shows up on the harder grain and just gets buried with the black in the soft grain. In this case, the lighter color is red:



I'm currently waxing this with carnuba to seal it and give it a little shine. I'll post pix of the finished product later.