In another recent thread, someone said that Peterson needed to get things squared away QA-wise with their "regular" lines of pipes before they had any business offering premium/special edition ones with a high price tag.
This pipe cost $255 landed at my door, and was purchased this past December, eleven months ago. It is current production, not new old stock.
It's definitely true that individual specimens vary, but that's true with any product made from natural materials with significant human involvement. Pipes are definitely more like guitars, for example, than iPhones. It simply goes with the territory.
But there's nothing unusual about this example. I have a couple dozen more that are just as nice. I chose this one because it's the most recently made Pete in my rack, in anticipation of someone claiming I was cheating (so to speak) by showing an old example when "things were better" at Peterson.
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This pipe cost $255 landed at my door, and was purchased this past December, eleven months ago. It is current production, not new old stock.
It's definitely true that individual specimens vary, but that's true with any product made from natural materials with significant human involvement. Pipes are definitely more like guitars, for example, than iPhones. It simply goes with the territory.
But there's nothing unusual about this example. I have a couple dozen more that are just as nice. I chose this one because it's the most recently made Pete in my rack, in anticipation of someone claiming I was cheating (so to speak) by showing an old example when "things were better" at Peterson.
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