Well by charred I didn't mean like burn to a crisp but was completely blackened. I used alcohol to and a cloth diaper and a hell of a lot of elbow grease to rub it off then hand buffed it back out with savinelli briar polish.
I have been out of the loop for a little while but I am back. Grabbed up a cheap pipe at the PX and some Captain Black as that was all they had. Was out smoking it and another soldier came up and asked about pipes. He went out and bought a cheapie as well and just loves it. He smokes far more than I ever do that's for sure. A lot of people look at us funny for smoking a pipe. I don't get it. It smells better than a cigarette and pipe smokers don't litter butts all over but everyone seems to think that is ok. Got a lot of the younger guys started on cigars lately. They of course go crazy for the Cubans but when money is low, they grab up anything. Good to see the pipe thread still active even though it's a cigar forum. Keep on smokin!
No, the pipe is a Grabow and was about the only thing they had here. It works so I am pretty happy. Can't wait to get back to the states to my real pipe collection. I have some nice briar. Il Ceppo, Savinelli, Stanwell and Nordings.
Cool, there a ton of ppl that love those Dr. Grabows. I have a Jobey gifted to me by a friend who is going to get paid back here soon and I just picked up a Nording not too long ago.
The B&M has a numbered Freehand I'm in love with. Has a mixed lucite and vulcanite stem and is huge. But at $350 its been a little hard to justify in the current economic climate.
I feel ya. I paid $400 for a big, gold-banded, anniversary-edition Dunhill about 15 years ago, but that's the only one I've dropped that kind of cash on. My other Dunhill is an estate pipe, from 1964. Some of the more modern shapes from some of the Danish and Italian makers are upwards of $2k, these days. They're gorgeous, but cripes, I just can't bring myself to pay that, even in good economic times.
I have a pipe that is a sitter. The bottom is flat and it is a really nice pipe with some great briar. Being thicker, it smokes very cool. I do like the Nording freehands. I used to be able to justify why I needed to spend so much on pipes but just can't now. They are nice but just way overpriced. I still like my old Savinelli 2nd that was something like $12.95. I probably smoke it more than all the others combined.
Sometime I will post some pictures of my pipes. I don't have any good pipes here in Korea, they are all in storage and the pictures are on the computer that is also in storage. They are beautiful pipes. The briar is just amazing and the grain so straight it's just amazing. I don't care much for rusticated pipes as I feel it covers up the grain or hides defects. I do believe they rusticate them because the briar is inferior. I just can't see doing that to quality briar. I head back to the states fairly soon but won't get my things out of storage until I am out of the army which should be by summer. Post some pictures of your pipes if you can. I always like to admire the craftsmanship in them.
I'll agree about rusticated pipes, but only if we're using the word as it's properly used. That is, rusticated pipes and sandblasts are not the same thing.
I'll agree about rusticated pipes, but only if we're using the word as it's properly used. That is, rusticated pipes and sandblasts are not the same thing.
Please enlighten. As I've seen them used interchangeably. Nording tends to call them sandblasted if its only done in one or two places on a pipe and rusticated if its the whole pipe.
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