If I think about it, the white spot itself is brilliant. Easy to build, durable, recognizable, easy to repair and does not fade with polishing the stem. Brilliant
what I wonder is if it really wysiwyg. pipes on the website look interesting. The ones you see around the Internet are a little different. Most of them will reach the quality of a Rossi, with luck and the prices at least on their site are not cheap. The ones that sell for less than $30 are not...
My wife complained about me smoking. I told her she was starting to sound like my ex-wife. She said she didn't know I had been married before. I wasn't, I responded.
I like Tolkien and have read him more than once. But I think the percentage influenced by me smoking a pipe is close to zero. I am a big fan of everything Midcentury, architecture, furniture, fashion, etc. I think that's my main influence.
French pipe makers never focused on a portion of the market because their specialty was the standardization and mechanization of pipe manufacturing in large quantities. Therefore each brand has sublime pipes and pipes that are embarrassing. You have to learn what characteristics a good pipe has...