New Petersons have a very high rate of flawed pipes that make it through, my biggest problem is with their metal band, they are almost always cut wrong so that they deeply gouge the vulcanite stem. I've also had ones come with chunks of the bowel missing (looked chewed off) and with the metal band not even there, (but glue where it was supposed to go). After returning 3/4's of the ones I recieve, I've decided that it would cost exactly the same to get a nicer pipe than to pay for all the shipping of returns. The only Peterson's I'm buying are the estates, I actually trust them more than the new ones.