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  1. sasquatch

    Is It Danish Or Italian?

    Are you an assassin, Willard? I'm a soldier, sir. You are neither. You are an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks to collect a bill.
  2. sasquatch

    Is It Danish Or Italian?

    So the new stanwells say "Stanwell" because they are Stanwells, and they say "Made in Italy" because ... they are made in Italy.
  3. sasquatch

    Is It Danish Or Italian?

    But what is the problem? The pipes are made in Italy, for a company that is based in Denmark. Honda is a Japanese company but they make some cars in Canada. They are still Hondas.
  4. sasquatch

    Is It Danish Or Italian?

    They'd be made in... Italy. Folgers doesn't have to actually be a Colombian company to sell Colombian coffee.
  5. sasquatch

    Deer Tongue? That was easy!

    My god the old Half n Half from the 70s was crawling with the stuff. Nicotine and deer tongue to blow your head off!
  6. sasquatch

    School me on Smooth Sandblasted Rustication

    That's been sandblasted and stained, then the high spots knocked off with either sandpaper or simply a buffing wheel, leaving a contrast color and texture behind.
  7. sasquatch

    Where Did the High End Kaywoodies Go?

    I never understood briar. I know briar very much, I have studied it better than anybody. I know it is very expensive. They are made in China and Germany mostly, very few made here, almost none, but they are manufactured, tremendous — if you are into this — tremendous fumes and gases are spewing...
  8. sasquatch

    Where Did the High End Kaywoodies Go?

    What the hell are you talking about?
  9. sasquatch

    Where Did the High End Kaywoodies Go?

    "Capitalism has decided that extremely high end briar pipes in America are artisan made today." Umm.... no, a reasonable understanding of pipe making decides that. There was never an "extremely high end" briar pipe made in a factory. Even today's very best factory-based offereings (say...
  10. sasquatch

    Where Did the High End Kaywoodies Go?

    Meanwhile, anonymous French factory pipe from the same era.
  11. sasquatch

    Where Did the High End Kaywoodies Go?

    As time wore on, and fewer people smoked pipes through the 70s, brands like kaywoodie (and weber and lee and mastercraft ... all of em) diminished in popularity and as they were never really seen as high-grade brands, I think it was tough for the average pipe smoker to dish out 2 or 3 times the...
  12. sasquatch

    How do Pipe Makers Obtain Outrageously Good Finshes?

    Bob Flexner's book "Understanding Wood Finishing" is your best basic resource for ... understanding wood finishing. It's a wonderful walkthrough and explains how different resins work, what you can acheive with each product and how to pick products that will work well for your application...
  13. sasquatch

    Oom Paul Commission Recommendations

    Hell Scottie drills crooked and she's a mean drunk but she's in KC I think. https://ladybriar.com/
  14. sasquatch

    Oom Paul Commission Recommendations

    Most guys have a contact form or an email, lots of guys use facebook and even more instagram. Pipe makers are not cannibals or anything, most of them are super friendly and naturally eager to hear from prospective customers. What we don't like is guys who need 200 emails about details and...
  15. sasquatch

    A Closer Look at Briar Grain

    That's because we use better briar now.
  16. sasquatch

    A Closer Look at Briar Grain

    Well, I've never driven a Ferrari, but I can't see how it could be that much nicer than a Honda, right? I mean, Hondas are niiiice.
  17. sasquatch

    A Closer Look at Briar Grain

    Literally all briar darkes with smoking, like that. This is fun, keep going!
  18. sasquatch

    A Closer Look at Briar Grain

    It's easy to find "articles" that claim only the heart of the burl is the best smoking wood. And easy to find articles that claim only the extremis, the plateau, is worth using. There are people who claim denser wood smokes better and people who only buy particularly light briar (because it...
  19. sasquatch

    School me on Aged Briar

    Nice.
  20. sasquatch

    School me on Aged Briar

    Watch a top sommelier nose and taste a wine, and when he says "I think this is from California, it's a cabernet, I think in fact it's a north coast cabernet... and I think it's from Broken Oak and I'd guess the 2016." At the top level, they don't disagree and seldom get things wrong other...
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