A customer gave a pipe as a tip the other day (happens fairly often in the repair biz), which was notable for a weird reason: The bowl was truly graceful---well cut, fill-free, and good grain---while the stem was this hideous, droopy thing. NOT a replacement, either. That's the way the BBB people wanted their 698 to look, apparently. :rofl:
Anyway, I literally couldn't fall asleep last night with such an absurdity lying on my workbench smirking in the irritating way that they do, so I finally gave in, got out of bed, and set about putting things right. (To my eye, anyway. I'm sure Mr. Blumfeld would disagree.)
I plan on affixing the leetle embossed diamond emblem-thingie eventually, but was tired so stopped working when the absurdity-reversal part was complete and went back to bed. (After that's done, knowing some future BBB collector will be confounded by the atypical 698 he just picked up for cheap also gives me a perverted sort of satisfaction. :lol: )
Anyway, I literally couldn't fall asleep last night with such an absurdity lying on my workbench smirking in the irritating way that they do, so I finally gave in, got out of bed, and set about putting things right. (To my eye, anyway. I'm sure Mr. Blumfeld would disagree.)
I plan on affixing the leetle embossed diamond emblem-thingie eventually, but was tired so stopped working when the absurdity-reversal part was complete and went back to bed. (After that's done, knowing some future BBB collector will be confounded by the atypical 698 he just picked up for cheap also gives me a perverted sort of satisfaction. :lol: )
