What's the longest you've ever deliberated buying a particular pipe? I think it was three years I looked at a Johs blast bent Dublin, black with a stained briar band and a nifty angle to the brim. For some reason it stayed at the Iwan Ries site for that long, at $68 as I recall, and I finally bought it, maybe on their annual sale. It's a great light weight full-sized medium bowl with a vulcanite stem, everything I'd hoped. I never expected it to stick around that long, but figured I'd better pull the trigger on that one. What's your most delayed purchase on a particular pipe? In very few cases I've bought a pipe the same day, and with a few, at pipe shops, the same hour. Usually this works out all right, but once or twice, it was an impulse buy and didn't work out as well as one I'd deliberated, at least a little.
