Bruno Nuttens Thirds

[Briar Lee]

Sometimes I read about all them there expensive high dollar boutique carver pipes the other boys buy and brag about and flash all around, and I dang near get all busted up about it.

My wife and me was over to Arrow Rock yesterday picking up a food order from Catalpa restaurant and the place was so high toned it had a gold plated water closet.



It’s one of them there exclusive reservation only places (unlike the other two eating places in Arrow Rock) and my wife is friends with the owner so they conspired to serve us to go although they were booked up because of the Lyceum Theatre having a play later on that evening.



Now while I was in there on the way out I spied some tables where a feller could sit with his lovely lady and smoke his self a pipe as the folks strolled by on the boardwalk.




Noaways would I want to shame my wife by smoking a Dr Grabow Adjustomatic nor an Edward’s in such surroundings and my Marxmans and Lees and Bertrams also seem too pedestrian for Arrow Rock Missouri.

Our meals at Catalpas were $85 each plus the tip, which really is a bargain given the resume of the chef and the traveler’s guide ratings of the place.

But some pipe seller feller on the Ebay internet must have sensed my sorrow at me not having an exclusive pipe to smoke at Arrow Rock and I got an offer for two Bruno Nuttens thirds for only $65 plus tax and postage that brought it all up to $75.



I must confess I’d not heard of Bruno Nuttens.

But any artisan so proud of his firsts he also makes thirds I think must cater to the learned and published professor crowd, you know?

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Only the two pipes pictured are for sale. Stingers not included, because stingers suck and these are meant be well seasoned smoking tools. I threw them away… sorry brulor collectors.
For those not familiar, Brulor pipes are made from mass amounts of highly seasoned, unfinished 1950s french briar stummels purchased by artisan carver Bruno Nuttens. They are effectively bruno’s factory thirds, not quite featuring good enough grain or shaping for his heritage series.
Both pipes here are lightly smoked (maybe 3-4 bowls each) and the pear was tastefully and lightly bent by me with light application of a heat gun. Both pipes are lightweight with wide open drafts and comfortable vulcanite stems! If I dont sell these pipes for what I’m asking, I will be keeping them and practicing my rustication and refinishing techniques on them!
Pipe Dimensions:
Rhodesian
Length: 6.16 in
Weight: 28g
Chamber Depth: 1.20 in
Chamber Width: 0.76 in
Bent Pear
Length: 5.35 in
Weight: 32g
Chamber Depth: 1.44 in
Chamber Width: 0.69 in

 

[burleybreath]

Is the blonde spoken for? Ya know, I don't recall ever seeing a gold-plated loo except in one place: a Rolls-Royce showroom. Borderline tacky, for my tastes, but whatever turns ya on, I sez.

But that's beside the point. Brulors be good. I've got one. Did not know about the Nuttens connection.

 

[AirOne]

These used to be really cheap, 20 euros But this is not a third line per se, more like it's early work as he started by restoring pipes. After being modified by the seller,these are fourth at least

 

[dogparkpiper]

Great pipes. I have some too

 

[Auxsender]

I bought one but returned it because it was loaded with fills.
No disrespect to Bruno at all but I much prefer fill-free Ropps for the same price or maybe a few dollars more.

 

[AirOne]

I bought one but returned it because it was loaded with fills.
No disrespect to Bruno at all but I much prefer fill-free Ropps for the same price or maybe a few dollars more.

That's why for me this is not a third line. Bruno handpicks his stummels for his own lines, and I do not see him choose stummels with or needing fills

 

[Briar Lee]

Is the blonde spoken for? Ya know, I don't recall ever seeing a gold-plated loo except in one place: a Rolls-Royce showroom. Borderline tacky, for my tastes, but whatever turns ya on, I sez.

But that's beside the point. Brulors be good. I've got one. Did not know about the Nuttens connection.

As I sat there smoking the blonde told the grandma sitting there knitting she was a lawyer on the board of the Lyceum and grandma was the duly elected County Treasurer, and to my right sat a gaggle of retired schoolteachers, talking about selling their homes.

There were so many Mercedes and Subarus and Genesis and Lexuses parked everywhere it was like a foreign car barge came up Godsey’s Diggings and offloaded a bunch of Veblen Editions.

Godsey's Diggings Historical Marker

Moving goods between the Main Street business district of Arrow Rock and the riverfront warehouses required wagons to negotiate the long, steep grade of First Street. (A historical marker located in Arrow Rock in Saline County, Missouri.)

www.hmdb.org

I was really glad to hear my sweetie yell at me to get into our Chevrolet.

Old men are kind of scarce there at Arrow Rock, preparing for the Lyceum crowds.

We drove on the Columbia where there’s a genuine full service and huge selection book store at Barnes and Noble beside a Taco John’s.


I’m out here on my deck again this morning practicing for the next Cahow Reunion.

Back when we were younger my yummy used to sit around with me at Barnes and Noble and we’d read samples of all the good books then buy a few.



And at all the Cahow Reunions she’d sing along with my Mama and my beautiful cousins, who still love her, although my Mama had more trouble, you know?

I’ll Break Out Again Tonight

Tammy Dutcher version

 

[TheIronMonkey]

There’s a lot of misinformation in this thread. I hate the idea of someone perpetuating it because they read it here.

Brulor was one of many pipe brands that were made in Saint-Claude, France. They were made at the Ropp, Jeantet, and Charles Hecht factories in Saint-Claude. The brand was established before World War II, by a Paris wholesaler named Brulois. They are not Bruno Nuttens thirds.

In the Fall of 2021, I bought a bunch of NOS (new old stock) pipes from the Belgian pipemaker, Bruno Nuttens, who lives in France; he is the source of virtually all of the NOS Brulor pipes from the late 1950s that we see for sale today. I corresponded with him at the time and occasionally since. In 2016, Bruno purchased the stock that came from a retailer near Paris, who was selling these pipes in a tobacco shop over seventy years ago; the grandson of this retailer had to sell the house of his grandfather and he found a lot of pipes in boxes (I think we’re talking thousands) stored in the house. These pipes were made in Saint-Claude in the ’50s.

 

[Briar Lee]

That's why for me this is not a third line. Bruno handpicks his stummels for his own lines, and I do not see him choose stummels with or needing fills

But I like the concept of this being a mass purchase of well seasoned 1950’s French briar.

They don’t have ghost of an association with French Algeria stamped on them, but then again neither did a Marxman, nor a Betram.

Now you take for example my Lorenzo Artena, some claim Lorenzo used orange stain to simulate Algerian briar, before his daughter died and then he died, of a broken heart.



Now for me, the main thing is these Bruno pipes were both selected and made and blessed for sale by Bruno Nuttens (which I understand is still carving pipes today).

At the age of ninety Willie Nelson released his version of I’ll Break Out Again Tonight.

Any old man who grew up imitating Lefty and who can chord a guitar can perform it.

Like Redd Volkeart

But if you don’t like Lefty, I guess you’re just outside the club, you know?

 

[Briar Lee]

Precious beyond pearls!!!

When I sit under the shelters at the Pomme De Terre Dam Site Park under the shadow of the Pomme De Terre Dam beside the relief overflow near Carson’s Corners on the Pomme De Terre River, I can truthfully repeat this gem of righteousness —-
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. In 2016, Bruno purchased the stock that came from a retailer near Paris, who was selling these pipes in a tobacco shop over seventy years ago; the grandson of this retailer had to sell the house of his grandfather and he found a lot of pipes in boxes (I think we’re talking thousands) stored in the house. These pipes were made in Saint-Claude in the ’50s.
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Maybe about the same time the Patron Saint of Twang invented the genre.

I Love You a Thousand Ways

Lefty

1958 version

Drunk and Live in a Famous Movie

The hand of Bruno Nuttens resurrected my pipes from a seventy year slumber, in the ancient basement of a tiny French chalet in Paris, or maybe it was the attic?

I’ll Break Out Again Tonight

John Gravois version

Lefty never performed I’ll Break Out Again Tonight to the best of the knowledge of twangers.

But he might have, if somebody could only find it, you know?

Some of my Lorenzo’s are tributes but maybe this one was made under Lorenzo.



Not that it matters much, the fact is my Lorenzo Artena Standard 748 is enough to recount the true legend of how Lorenzo died of a broken heart after his daughter died.

This old man could use a toupe or cowboy hat or something to cut down the glare of the lights but he surely can sing I’ll Break Out Again Tonight like Lefty.

John Mercer and band version live

 

[AirOne]

There’s a lot of misinformation in this thread. I hate the idea of someone perpetuating it because they read it here.

Brulor was one of many pipe brands that were made in Saint-Claude, France. They were made at the Ropp, Jeantet, and Charles Hecht factories in Saint-Claude. The brand was established before World War II, by a Paris wholesaler named Brulois. They are not Bruno Nuttens thirds.

In the Fall of 2021, I bought a bunch of NOS (new old stock) pipes from the Belgian pipemaker, Bruno Nuttens, who lives in France; he is the source of virtually all of the NOS Brulor pipes from the late 1950s that we see for sale today. I corresponded with him at the time and occasionally since. In 2016, Bruno purchased the stock that came from a retailer near Paris, who was selling these pipes in a tobacco shop over seventy years ago; the grandson of this retailer had to sell the house of his grandfather and he found a lot of pipes in boxes (I think we’re talking thousands) stored in the house. These pipes were made in Saint-Claude in the ’50s.

True. The "misinformation" comes from the fact that brulor pipes have been sold in the last decade by various merchants as "brulor by B Nuttens". Even if his name does not appear on the pipe, unlike any other of his pipes, including the ropp pipe series he does each year to support the ASPI (association of former ropp factory workers)

 

[Briar Lee]

True. The "misinformation" comes from the fact that brulor pipes have been sold in the last decade by various merchants as "brulor by B Nuttens". Even if his name does not appear on the pipe, unlike any other of his pipes, including the ropp pipe series he does each year to support the ASPI (association of former ropp factory workers)

The long hard winter of 73/4 my buddy Johnny and the long haired hippy son of Jack Baker named Wayne Baker, who let us borrow his pack of prize coon hounds, along with my hound Dixie, chased a lot of $50 coons but we never sold any, for fifty dollars.



That winter Merle Haggard released two immortal songs on his album.

If We Make it Through December

The Young Voice of Lefty

Merle Haggard and the Strangers

And on that album was the definitive version of—-

I’ll Break Out Again Tonight

(The Lefty Frizzell song by Merle Haggard that Lefty never sang that twangers know of)

Tomorrow my wife wants to go to St Louis and maybe I’ll visit Jon’s Pipe Shop in Clayton and The HIll Cigar Company on The Hill where they have lots of Pegasus in stock.


Today it’s off to Sedalia, where a food truck she likes is there and the last day of a traveling exhibit at State Fair Community College.

Nevertheless, She Persisted | Daum Museum of Contemporary Art

Women artists face challenges that can inhibit their creative work: raising children, beginning new careers, moving to a foreign country, facing a life-threatening illness, caring for aging parents, changing careers ...

www.daummuseum.org

This old man George Dearborne and his band do it Texas Swing style.

I’ll Break Out Again Tonight

 

[Sig]

A few months ago I bought one of the Brulor pipes from Smoking Pipes.
I haven't smoked it yet.
It has a very, very, very small chamber, and the horn stem is round as a straw, and hard as glass....which I found I dont care for.
I fell for the story of Nuttens buying all these 70 year old NOS pipes.
Oh well, it was only like $45 delivered so didn't break the bank.
It will probably end up in one of the "pass it forward" threads someday.

 

[AirOne]

And by the way, B Nuttens has a workshop, and certainly not a factory

 

[telescopes]

I think it's fair to state that truth isn't as important to a story as is what the story teller would like the truth to be.

 

[Briar Lee]

I think it's fair to state that truth isn't as important to a story as is what the story teller would like the truth to be.

The next time you get to Sedalia again the best kept secret in the Ozarks is the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art on the campus of State Fair Community College.

Join & Give | Daum Museum of Contemporary Art - https://www.daummuseum.org/give/

Not a very long putt on a big Indian.

This was the last day of She Persisted, a women’s art exhibit.



It’s a fine gallery but the security guard is a fat old man watching football on the job!



Back when I was 180 pounds of muscle and could win my sweetie a big teddy bear at the State Fair on either the Machine Guns or Ring the Bell I was Student Patrol Officer 91 of the University of Missouri at Kansas City Police Force assigned to Truman Campus in Independence Missouri across from the Harry S Truman Presidential Library and they paid a dollar more than minimum wage, and I was alert to everything in the building.

When Bess and Margret visited Harry’s Grave they dispatched me, as an honor guard.

I noticed a family with a crippled grandmother and I had to let them in myself.



My wife saw me from our Suburban and cheered me on in a text message!

And she said she needed to eat something so I tamped The Virginia Cream out of my Big Boy Marxman Straight Grain Author and we searched for a place that could meet her dietary requirements.



She liked the flamboyant lady best.



I was more partial to the girl with the coffee can on watch.



One thing I did get done is go to Staples and buy a proper set of brand new JBL headphones.



Darrel McCall had a version of I’ll Break Out Again Tonight in 1972 and while not as famous as Merle’s, it’s good to keep in practice, you know?

 

[Briar Lee]

Bruno Nuttens saved thousands of fifties French briar pipes from a house in Paris.

And every last one of them is a righteous reminder of his workshop.

When my head was hung low after my divorce a woman saved me, and she loves books, museums and she can’t smoke anymore so I get away from her when I do smoke lest it tempt her.



When we were dating she’d ask her youngest baby boy to fetch my 1992 Fender SX1500 from the trunk of my 1994 Lincoln Mark VIII for me to teach them old songs.

It’s not a real American made Fender, merely a $1500 grade import from South Korea.

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If you can sing a note, you can sing lead on I’ll Break Out Again Tonight.

And the whole family can sing right along with you.

Country Gentleman

Bluegrass Version

The next geniune Bruno Nuttens I see, might be going in one of my guitar cases.

The plan tomorrow is Quick Trip sausage biscuit breakfast on their patio in Columbia in the morning early, then to Wayne Davis at Jon’s Pipe Shop in Columbia and on to Clayton to another Jon’s Pipe Shop then to The Science Museum’s Pompeii Exhibit then to The Hill Cigar Company and back home via Costco at St Charles, if I can’t find a twanger bar in St Louis.

There’s a brand new generation singing old twanger songs today.

AJ Lee and Blue Summit and friends.

 

[irishearl]

As I sat there smoking the blonde told the grandma sitting there knitting she was a lawyer on the board of the Lyceum and grandma was the duly elected County Treasurer, and to my right sat a gaggle of retired schoolteachers, talking about selling their homes.

There were so many Mercedes and Subarus and Genesis and Lexuses parked everywhere it was like a foreign car barge came up Godsey’s Diggings and offloaded a bunch of Veblen Editions.

Godsey's Diggings Historical Marker

Moving goods between the Main Street business district of Arrow Rock and the riverfront warehouses required wagons to negotiate the long, steep grade of First Street. (A historical marker located in Arrow Rock in Saline County, Missouri.)

www.hmdb.org

I was really glad to hear my sweetie yell at me to get into our Chevrolet.

Old men are kind of scarce there at Arrow Rock, preparing for the Lyceum crowds.

We drove on the Columbia where there’s a genuine full service and huge selection book store at Barnes and Noble beside a Taco John’s.

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I’m out here on my deck again this morning practicing for the next Cahow Reunion.

Back when we were younger my yummy used to sit around with me at Barnes and Noble and we’d read samples of all the good books then buy a few.

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And at all the Cahow Reunions she’d sing along with my Mama and my beautiful cousins, who still love her, although my Mama had more trouble, you know?

I’ll Break Out Again Tonight

Tammy Dutcher version

You just combined 2 of my favorite things: Taco John's and Barnes and Noble.

 

[Briar Lee]

You just combined 2 of my favorite things: Taco John's and Barnes and Noble.

She’s awake and wants to head off to St Louis.

If you like Taco John’s for dinner or supper, you’ll love Quick Trip for breakfast. Super clean rest rooms and hot breakfast serve yourself and a well paid young security guard with a gun in every one and patio chairs and a table for those of us that still smoke outside.

My new JBL headphones are fully charged and the cats are fed and the Suburban is calling.

What I love about “Break Out Tonight” is the bass player can just slay it, too.

Del McCoury Band

This day calls for a 1816-1951 Jeantet Deluxe Oil Hardened #42B12



The tune must be some old Scottish lay, centuries old, that stirs the blood of the sons of Galloway.

Blind Pig and the Acorn version

 

[brunonut]

That's why for me this is not a third line. Bruno handpicks his stummels for his own lines, and I do not see him choose stummels with or needing fills

Hello, you're right. Brulor's are not a third line. I just find the old stock of Brulor in the house of the owner of the brand. The Brulor brand ended end of 1940'. The grandson of the owner was selling the house of his grandfather, and needed to empty the house, but there were still thousands of pipes of his grandfather's brand. And I bought them all.
So these pipes are just old pipes, NOS, not made by me (I was not born at that time) :D
And the Brulor pipes were made in the Ropp factory.