Well the good part about buying an estate pipe is that its already broken in and you don't have to worry about spending time smoothing everything out, I'm in the process of breaking in my new duca carlo at the moment. If I were you though, I would make still I still got some strong sweet alcohol like rum and sanitize it well when you get it. Also, buy one or two cheap rubber pipe bits to slide on the tip so its not so....weird, putting your mouth all over someone else's teeth marks. Great find!