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Show Your Ken Barnes Pipes
Hello Embers. To answer your question, no, I have never made a sandblasted pipe. When I first worked at Charatans in 1968 I watched the craftsmen hand-turning plateau and saw the smooth, clean straight grains that were in the finishing shop and I thought to myself that is what I want to do...- kenbarnes
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Ken Barnes Returns To Finding The Grain - Pix Heavy
I agree timt, I want to make classic orthodox English shapes with the fullest grain. Classic Billiards, Apple, Lovats and so on.I regularly study my copy of the Charatan 1951 catalogue to inspire me before cutting. There are times when the briar dictates other shapes which I need to cut in...- kenbarnes
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Who is the Charatan Historian on the Forum?
Are you referring to the Russian article? I used an online translator to read some of it but grew weary of plugging in a few paragraphs at a time. I wish someone would translate it into English. The translator translates it into gibberish.- kenbarnes
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Who is the Charatan Historian on the Forum?
Hi Seldom, this 149x looks like it may have been from the early 1960s and it has received a replacement mouthpiece after 1965 and the customer was asked whether he would like a DC mouthpiece fitted (Charatan's newly designed saddle mouthpiece at the time) The repair, frazing the mouthpiece to...- kenbarnes
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Who is the Charatan Historian on the Forum?
This Russian article on Charatan is the most comprehensive I know of. http://brbpipe.ru/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/T-shop_1-2011-12_56-69_3.pdf- kenbarnes
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Who is the Charatan Historian on the Forum?
I do not think that I have seen a Charatan without 'Charatan's make' stamped on it. If they did do away with this, it was most likely after 1980. I am not sure about this.- kenbarnes
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Who is the Charatan Historian on the Forum?
Hello pappymac. I don't seem to have received a PM from you, but I know that the 4651X (The Banker shape) was first catalogued with the X for a saddle mouthpiece - I think this was in 1969-1970. I think that later on it became a 4651DC (in the 1975 catalogue). The Small Chubby Pot shape 149 was...- kenbarnes
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Sharing My Excitement!
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Sharing My Excitement!
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Nice Canted Billiard Stack - Made by Charatan?
I think I have seen one or two others on ebay a while back and they also looked like they were made by a Charatan craftsman- kenbarnes
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Nice Canted Billiard Stack - Made by Charatan?
Is it stamped Selected Collection or Special Collection? This piece does look very Charatan-like.- kenbarnes
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My Old Charatan - Looking for opinions
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My Old Charatan - Looking for opinions
Beautiful, I knew it was a Supreme. I think that when this pipe was made this was the highest Charatan grade available. The blocks of briar for the 102 (larger size billiard) in the 1950s used to be selected by Reuben Charatan and he would take the straight grain top grade blocks and turn...- kenbarnes
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My Old Charatan - Looking for opinions
Gorgeous Charatan Billiard. I would love to see a pic of the front side and the stamp marks.- kenbarnes
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Charatan's Make Pipe Arrived Today! (Pic Heavy)
This is a great example of a 73 Salisbury shape and probably dates from 1966 (before the prefix size number was added to the shape numbers around 1967?). I like the fact that the cp is still sharp and this can be re-whitened rubbing a crayola white crayon on the logo and wiping off the surplus.- kenbarnes
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Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes
I love this cased Barling Bulldog (made for John Brumfit, Holborn, London). Yes, the tenon sleeve remains in the countersink. I think this happened quite often as people were used to unscrewing the bone thread anti-clockwise whilst this newer approach required the smoker to detach the push-in...- kenbarnes
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Charatan's Make Sandblast
I love these craggy blasts. In the 1950s early 60s, Reubin Charatan used to tell Jonny Mahoney, before he packed the bowls up to be sent to the glass works to be sand-blasted "don't forget to write a note saying 'heavy on the bowls and light on the shanks' and put it in the box"- kenbarnes
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James Upshall Pipes - A Discussion
Upshall started making 'carved' pipes ie not smooth in 1987. Our US agents had such a demand for these that we started doing them. I think it was Ser Jacopo that showed us the tools they used. Barry told me that the sandblasted pipes were done by Bill Taylor (Ashton). Apparently Bill offered to...- kenbarnes
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Charatan Underboar (1920's to WWII)
Super mega-rare. I love the craggy finish and the fairly naive way that the shank has been formed. My father told me that he had never seen one, he did show me a photo/print of one in 1974. Barry Jones, who worked at Charatans from 1959 - 1977 had not seen one either. I would have thought that...- kenbarnes
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Briar Quality in Dunhill
Hi psperrytops. I started James Upshall in 1978 with craftsman Barry Jones (from Charatan). They first became available in the U.S. in 1979. Regrettably the factory closed down some years ago. Today, I spent the day with Barry Jones at the factory, looking for more stuff I can save before it...- kenbarnes
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