Sidebar

This Pipe Has A Really Really Long Shank...

Log in

Forgot your password?

SmokingPipes.com Updates

Watch for Updates Twice a Week

PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor

Site Sponsors

Al Pascia
Blue Room Briars
Cigar World
Danish Pipe Shop
LePipe.it
Missouri Meerschaum
Pipes2Smoke.com
PipeStud.com
Seattle Pipe Club Tobaccos
SmokingPipes.com
Tabaccheria Corti
TinBids.com

PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor

PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor

PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor

PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor

Status
Not open for further replies.
misterlowercase

misterlowercase

Lifer
May 31, 2012
4,295
34
...and it appears to be all one piece:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ANTIQUE-VICTORIAN-CHURCH-WARDENS-SMOKING-PIPE-/262249100336?&_trksid=p2056016.l4276
:!:
I'm not a big fan of long shanks,

but that's pretty damn impressive.
Maybe this post can have images of various long shank pipes,

either ones you own or have seen online...
...they are interesting to look at!

:puffy:

 

deathmetal

deathmetal

Lifer
Jul 21, 2015
7,714
32
That's a piece of excellent craftsmanship. Also looks like it would be fun to smoke in a Victorian church.

 
misterlowercase

misterlowercase

Lifer
May 31, 2012
4,295
34
That's a piece of excellent craftsmanship. Also looks like it would be fun to smoke in a Victorian church.
Click to expand...
I bet you were a normal happy boy until you became obsessed with black metal music! :wink:
Just kidding,

couldn't resist!

:P
But seriously...

:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuC5WYsDDZY
:
...I actually like the fact that a certain element of the Norwegian population stand up to defend their historical culture, sometimes there is no other way to adequately express centuries of sociological oppression by outside forces but to burn a church.
Whom destroys whom is the question:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianization_of_Scandinavia
And, this sort of mentality still prevails in many circles,

so I sympathize with the Black Metallers...

It seems certain that not only animals, but also human beings (even kings), were sacrificed to the gods, of whom Thor and Odin were the most important. These and other heathen rituals like drinking, believing in trolls, etc., were deeply rooted in the Norwegian people and it took many centuries to break some of these traditions."
https://www.cai.org/bible-studies/norway%E2%80%99s-christian-heritage
Click to expand...

 
deathmetal

deathmetal

Lifer
Jul 21, 2015
7,714
32
I bet you were a normal happy boy until you became obsessed with black metal music!
Click to expand...
More right than you know -- that and Sam Huntington, Alexis de Tocqueville, Plato and Fred "Mad Dog" Nietzsche.
The root of it all comes down to something Vikernes said in the film Until the Light Takes Us: that when he was younger, he would take his BB gun to a hill and shoot out the windows in the local McDonald's.
Is it Christianity they fight, or a lack of animism (the root of heathen/pagan belief, in my view)?

 
okiescout

okiescout

Lifer
Jan 27, 2013
1,530
6
Thanks for the link, Misterlowercase. What a pipe.
"My Don Carlos. Also a solid shank. Great smoker too."
Great looking pipe, Shaintiques. Must take a chunk of briar to make a smoker like that. How old is it?

 
shaintiques

shaintiques

Lifer
Jul 13, 2011
3,615
228
Georgia
This one is probably from the 70's. And yes had to take a chunk of briar. And what is also cool though the pic is dark, the pipe has nice straight grains the whole length of the shank on both sides. Not only was it a big block but a very nice block. Don Carlos made a few of these but most were rusticated.

 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Top Bottom