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.
One is aware of the capital that is still dormant here, because these bowls are mostly made of old Algerian briar. This wood still has the reputation of the very best smoking quality. Unfortunately, this source is not inexhaustible, because briar suitable for pipe production no longer grows in Algeria. It was harvested intensively until the 1960s, when it finally disappeared. Seeing a dirty and damaged pipe come back to life makes me extremely happy.
Most notably was Pierre Morel who had initially worked on the Chacom Gran Cru, Naja and Fluer de Bruyere handmade ranges and eventually became the companies head pipe maker. Still to this day Chacom are known peterson pipes for their traditional manufacturing techniques, with a very contempory look and feel them. After the “Great War” the St Claude factory is renamed is “CHAPUIS COMOY & Cie”.
He continued to develop the brand and expanded into Japan, China and the former Eastern Block. Located in Saint-Claude, in the French Jura, Chacom is one of the oldest pipe factories still producing today. Strictly speaking, Chacom is only ONE brand produced by the Chapuis Comoy company. The Chacom brand, a combination of the two family’s initials, is the signature brand out of dozens produced by the nearly 200-year-old pipe-making family. After the financial crash in the late 1920s, Chacom went in to joint venture with a number of other pipe makers, forming La Bruyere one of the worlds biggest ever pipe companies.
La Bruyere employed over 450 workers, producing 100,000’s of pipes annually for the world markets. In 1945 at the end of the Second World War, Chacom got its independence again and began working on more modern designs with some of St Claude’s more skilled artisan carvers. Various name changes and wrangling with the owners didn’t stop Chacom from becoming on of the biggest names in France, Belguim, Japan, Germany, Scandinavia and America. Christie’s Custom Blended Pipe Tobaccos are all one hundred percent natural tobaccos. Chacom pipes from the storied Chapuis-Comoy & Cie pipe company in the Saint-Claud, France pipe area.
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 captain black tobacco sent it off to him on Monday morning. I look forward to his blog on this pipe as it is a really Danish looking Brigham.