Doctoral Thesis On The History Of Clay Pipes

[Mike N]

For those interested in clay tobacco pipes, here is a link to a 2015 doctoral thesis on the subject of those made in Kent written by a researcher in England. It’s admittedly heavy reading, but the ads and shape photos at 261-271 are interesting.

https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/2040919/1/BoydenBri_June2015_2040919.pdf

 

[The Amish Tyrant]

Paging @The Clay King .

All hail the Clay King.

 

[The Clay King]

Paging @The Clay King .

All hail the Clay King.

@The Amish Tyrant Booked clay pipe making workshop at Ironbridge this year:

Clay Pipemaking Workshop

www.ironbridge.org.uk

 

[sablebrush52]

A 300 plus page dissertation on clay pipe making in Kent. My sympathies to the professors.

 

[telescopes]

A 300 plus page dissertation on clay pipe making in Kent. My sympathies to the professors.

When I completed my doctoral dissertation, my one goal was to keep it concise and to the point. Unfortunately, the structure of a dissertation is not conducive to this mode of thinking.

Except for chapter 5, much of it is just a rehash of information repeated over and over. Even the research and data collection chapters drone on and on and on.

As a tantric exercise in writing, it has worth to the author - but they are rarely anything anyone would want to read.

As an interesting aside, I asked my advisor if I could write it in historic verse. His response was there was nothing keeping me from it.

I sometimes with I had done so.

 

[sablebrush52]

When I completed my doctoral dissertation, my one goal was to keep it concise and to the point. Unfortunately, the structure of a dissertation is not conducive to this mode of thinking.

Except for chapter 5, much of it is just a rehash of information repeated over and over. Even the research and data collection chapters drone on and on and on.

As a tantric exercise in writing, it has worth to the author - but they are rarely anything anyone would want to read.

As an interesting aside, I asked my advisor if I could write it in historic verse. His response was there was nothing keeping me from it.

I sometimes with I had done so.

I wonder how this dissertation rated with the stair test. In case you're not familiar with this, dissertations are thrown from a box at the top of a flight of stairs. Grading is tied to the distance they fly, with the heaviest going the farthest. It saves the readers a lot of time and their sanity.

 

[quantumboy]

I once visited the museum at either Yorktown or Jamestown, can't remember. They had a display with some clay pipes, and some actual skulls of smokers who had lived there. Many of them literally had a spot in their teeth where one or two teeth had been worn almost completely away from clutching clay pipes. A very convenient feature for a smoker, but probably not that healthy! Makes sense, since a clay pipe gets too hot to hold. Either you clench or hold it by the stem.

 

[The Clay King]

Paging @The Clay King .

All hail the Clay King.

@The Amish Tyrant I think "Clay King" sounds like a pipe baccy!

 

[The Amish Tyrant]

@The Amish Tyrant I think "Clay King" sounds like a pipe baccy!

Agreed, it's a good name.

What would the blend be?

 

[The Clay King]

Agreed, it's a good name.

What would the blend be?

@The Amish Tyrant I think "Clay King" would be a Virginia / Cavendish pipe baccy; it should be slow burning and golden coloured. Any heads up on a real life equivalent (available in UK)?
I think this is the closest real life equivalent:

Samuel Gawith Black Forest Mixture Pipe Tobacco (50g Tin)

Samuel Gawith Black Forest Mixture Pipe Tobacco (50g Tin), available at Black Swan Shoppe

www.thebackyshop.co.uk