This weekend I managed to get down to The Briary's annual event for a little while. Ian Walker of Northern Briars was there. Usually at these things there are moments when I would get to ask questions and talk to the pipemakers, but Ian was having such a hard time hearing... whether it was his ears or our accents...
But, anyways, it was an honor to be in the same room with the guy... I guess. I am just not much of the star-struck type.
I picked up a new Northern Briars pipe. I think he called it a bent brandy, but I think every pipemaker just wings it on these pipe style names.
I did get to hang with David (shaintiques) and Vorhees, and I understand that Vorhees placed in the slow smoke contest. But, I had to get out of there and sign papers on my daughters new car. So, I didn't get to stay for the whole event.
Then later that evening, after signing all of those papers in blood, I stepped out of the dealership to smoke my new pipe, and dag-nabbit if the thing didn't slip out of my hand and shatter like fucking glass in the curb. I have never seen a pipe go into so many pieces.
Que Será, Será, easy come, easy go... and all that. Hey, at least now I have a replacement stem for one of my other Northern Briars, ha ha.
But, anyways, it was an honor to be in the same room with the guy... I guess. I am just not much of the star-struck type.
I picked up a new Northern Briars pipe. I think he called it a bent brandy, but I think every pipemaker just wings it on these pipe style names.
I did get to hang with David (shaintiques) and Vorhees, and I understand that Vorhees placed in the slow smoke contest. But, I had to get out of there and sign papers on my daughters new car. So, I didn't get to stay for the whole event.
Then later that evening, after signing all of those papers in blood, I stepped out of the dealership to smoke my new pipe, and dag-nabbit if the thing didn't slip out of my hand and shatter like fucking glass in the curb. I have never seen a pipe go into so many pieces.
Que Será, Será, easy come, easy go... and all that. Hey, at least now I have a replacement stem for one of my other Northern Briars, ha ha.