The brand name Chacom is a combination of the family names Chapuis and Comoy. The factory was founded in Avignon, France in 1825, when the Comoy family started producing pipes there. Henry Comoy moved the production to London and from 1879 onward he used his family name as a brand for his briar pipes. Chacom pipes are made through an extensive and important process, where natural drying, ageing, grading and master crafting take place to ensure a high end pipe is resulted. Next, I cleaned the surface of the stem with isopropyl alcohol to get rid of all the dirt, oils and tars from the surface.
I almost passed it by had it not been for the vendor who was cleaning his case, he was kind enough to say ‘hi’ and ask what I was looking for. He just so happened to have a few pipes hiding in a glass case in the back of his store. The carving looked good but was also too amateurish to me to have come from Chacom who are known as innovators and fine craftsman of great pipes but I thought maybe there would be something. The brand Chacom Chacom, créateur et distributeur de pipes turned up (1934) after fusion of Chapuis-Comoy with La Bruyère.
The stem was very damaged with a bite through on the top side and much chewing around the edges of the stem. The bowl is very dirty with little room in the bowl – thick cake and lots of overflow on to the back side of the rim.I reamed the bowl with reamers. I cleaned the mortise, and the airway in the shank and stem with pipe cleaners and alcohol. You can see what the bowl looks like now in the next two photos.
Overall the bowl was in great condition with a small white mark on the bottom of the bowl (I think it was glue). The Jura Mountains are a mountain range that helps establish a large portion of the French and Swiss border. However, it is actually the mountain range that Chacom names these pipes after, fitting into the company’s history of paying homage to French regions, culture, or history. Paykoc Pipes provides a world-class selection of tobacco pipes and tobacco pipe accessories for the modern pipe connoisseur.
Following the death of Henri in 1924, the company (London & St Claude factories) is taken over by Paul & Adrian Comoy with help from Emile & Louis Chapius. By 1928 the London Chacom factory had begun completely making pipes in London and the supplies from St Claude were no longer required. Rather than closing the original factory the company was renamed Comoy (a combination of both names) in 1928. Shapes, ranges and grading remained the same between the two captain black tobacco factories and Chacom was only sold in France, Switzerland and Belguim. I came across this pipe at an antique mall in London, Ontario.
From the pictures below, it is amply evident that I did not achieve the exact consistency I desired, but no issues, it still worked!!! Since the beginning of my journey into the beautiful and challenging world of pipe refurnishing, I am being faced with problem relating to glue. Maybe the hot temperate climate prevalent here is causing issues or the quality of glue itself is an issue. However notwithstanding the issues of glue, I was able to prepare a mixture of CA superglue and activated charcoal and applied it to the surface.
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.
Surely, if you have been smoking a pipe for a while you have no doubt reached the point where you want to try something that’s off the beaten path. So in this guide, the team at Paykoc Pipes will set our sights far afield in order to track down some of the rarest pipe tobaccos that are commercially available, somewhere. Antoine has made it his mission to significantly revise the design of the pipes and increase the quality without neglecting the roots and core business. So Chacom is still in demand today as a supplier for pre-turned bowls, mouthpieces and the execution of complete production processes. Several tens of thousands of pre-turned bowls from old brands that have been taken over are still stored in the factory. Every now and then a series with these bowls comes on the market and enjoys great popularity.
McClellan Frog Morton Cellar is rare not only because it’s hard to find, but because of its unique characteristics. Founded in 1825, Chapuis Comoy is the oldest pipe manufacturer still in existence. Situated in the middle of the French Jura lies the pipe mecca Saint Claude, where the first pipes were made out of Erica Arborea root wood, better known as briar. Innovations in shape and finishes continued from the 1970’s to this day.
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 captain black tobacco 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.