First Pipe From Pipestud.

Oooh-la-la. You sent me to the website, which is all too inspiring. Gotta stay away from there.

Oooh-la-la.

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Ditto. :clap:

Nice Walther. I used to own three of his pipes and liked them all. The guy's a true gentleman and great pipe maker. Congrats! I keep hearing such glowing remarks about the man known as pipestud. I hope to do business with him sometime soon.

Great looking pipe, beautiful grain. I will have to keep an eye on Bill's work.

Sweet pipe. Looks like a great burner. Enjoy and congrats!!

Nice, Bill makes some beautiful stuff! I met him in Chicago.

Thanks for the buy and congrats on the pipe, onestrangeone. Glad you like that pipe and I was sad seeing it leave my shop. (-;
Walther made pipes for himself for a couple of decades and when he retired from his day job a couple of years ago, he got up the courage to take a dozen or so to the Chicago Show in 2014 to see if anyone might be interested. He sold out within hours. He then started attending other pipe shows. He lives just "up the street" from me in Fort Worth, Texas, but I didn't meet him until the 2015 Kansas City Show. I stopped by his table, not knowing who he was, and did a double take when I saw his pipes. And the prices were super low considering the quality. So, on the spot I commissioned him to make me a tanblast Billiard with Cumberland stem. When I got it, the piece was a knockout and smoked like a dream. I've since purchased two more.
At last year's Las Vegas Pipe Show, Marty Pulvers fell over backwards when he saw the pipes on Walther's table and immediately bought two of them for himself! If Marty likes the guy's pipes, then you know they have got to be good.
Finally, Walther has just opened his own website and here is the link - http://www.walthersmokingpipes.com/

I am one of Pipestud's followers on ebay. Great place to find estates and many are not over-bid. Got a Peter Jeppesen Neerup from him two weeks ago and have a bid on a pipe that ends tomorrow. I would say that he is as reputable a seller as they come!

Bill makes good stuff!