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How to buy a Good Estate Pipe
To be clear @Briar Lee I agree with this. Much of the history you provide is fascinating and well worth sharing, and you do it in a delightful way. I just wish you were a little more open to being receptive to information that may contradict some of your less researched speculations. This...- alaskanpiper
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- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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How to buy a Good Estate Pipe
Ok, so you are not going to stop the gag then? Copy that. Noobs be warned. This is all an ongoing inside joke, he is not being serious. There is no sap remaining in Algerian briar pipes, pipemakers do everything possible to make sure of it, including boiling, curing, and aging the briar, as...- alaskanpiper
- Post #52
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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How to buy a Good Estate Pipe
Yeah, this post wasn’t referring to that, although I did mention it so I can see how one could infer that. Yes, “top quality” is pretty subjective. Old algerian briars being filled with special sap that makes them color in 2 smokes and taste special, not so much. That’s more what this is...- alaskanpiper
- Post #48
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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How to buy a Good Estate Pipe
I realize you are sticking with this whole sap thing to get a rise out of people, which is fine, it’s a pretty hilarious notion, but there are people here with limited experience who may mistake the comical satire for well researched knowledge rather than farcical conjecture. I’d hate to see...- alaskanpiper
- Post #46
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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***What Are You Smoking, January 2024?***
Something or other in this interesting little Georg Jensen.- alaskanpiper
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- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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How to buy a Good Estate Pipe
Not really. Possibly if you’re referring to the methods of a specific seller, but generally speaking the method of sale indicates little more than the level of risk the seller is willing to take to offload the piece. I’ve seen high end stuff in beautiful shape go for a song, and absolute dog...- alaskanpiper
- Post #41
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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How to buy a Good Estate Pipe
Ah, ok, so you meant finding a high end pipe “for a steal” then, not in general. Got it. Yes, finding amazing deals is of course fewer and further between, but as you said, it can and does happen!- alaskanpiper
- Post #40
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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How to buy a Good Estate Pipe
I would add to also check the shipping cost, and where it ships from. Sometimes you want to buy a $30 pipe and the shipping is $45 😂. Not often, but it happens. And regarding number 4, inspecting the listing, MAKE SURE TO READ THE COMMENTS! On the mobile app its a small link and easy to miss...- alaskanpiper
- Post #34
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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How to buy a Good Estate Pipe
Yeah. Nothing “wrong” with them at all. For mass market factory pipes they may well have been “high end” at the time. Simply put, for me, older mass market factory pipes are simply not comparable in quality to an expertly crafted pipe made by a skilled artisan (especially in today’s world)...- alaskanpiper
- Post #31
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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How to buy a Good Estate Pipe
Maybe if you don’t know how to look, but many high end pipes are perpetually readily available on the estate market, up to and including on ebay. The key is knowing what you are looking FOR and/or knowing/finding out what you are looking AT. And also, as evidenced by this thread, what your...- alaskanpiper
- Post #28
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Pipes by Vilma Amorelli and/or other Female Carvers
Flavia Rodrigues Scottie Piersel Sabina Santos Manduela Nanna Ivarsson Silver Gray All excellent. I am an especially big fan of Flavia’s work, and as far as unique style, it’s hard to find style more unique and instantly recognizable than Sabina Santos and Scottie Piersel.- alaskanpiper
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- Forum: Italian Pipes
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How to buy a Good Estate Pipe
Only if you strip the finish and then slather it with beeswax.- alaskanpiper
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- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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***What Are You Smoking, January 2024?***
SPC Pioneer Square in a fancy ass cob. And yeah, it’s not even Tuesday. I’m a goddamn rebel like that.- alaskanpiper
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- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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***What Are You Smoking, January 2024?***
2019 GLP Navigator in a Genod.- alaskanpiper
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***What Are You Smoking, January 2024?***
Peter Heinrich’s Curly Block (aged 5 years or so) in a Ropp.- alaskanpiper
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Show us your Ugliest Pipes!
Sometimes things are ugly enough that they become appealing. Pretty sure that’s the only reason my wife ever went out with me in the first place.- alaskanpiper
- Post #201
- Forum: Pipes: Show Us Your (fill in the blank) Pipes
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Chicago 2024: Who's going?
Oh man, you guys will have an absolute blast. Last year was my first as well, it’s overwhelmingly fun! My wife will probably only let me get away with 1 show this year (hopefully PER year!) so this year I’m gonna shoot for Vegas.- alaskanpiper
- Post #7
- Forum: Pipe Events
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How Many Pipe Smokers are There?
Somewhere between damn few and not many.- alaskanpiper
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- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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***What Are You Smoking, January 2024?***
2019 GLP Jack Knife in a Jeantet mini lovat.- alaskanpiper
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- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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***What Are You Smoking, January 2024?***
TCS 100 Earthen Dreams in a little blasted egg by Ian Fisher.- alaskanpiper
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