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  1. Briar Lee

    Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses.

    Information on the pilot system: The typical state-licensed pilot in the U.S. is the most highly trained mariner in the world. Pilots have either extensive deep-sea or tug experience before they enter pilot training programs or they go through a lengthy (four to seven years) apprenticeship...
  2. Briar Lee

    Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses.

    The worst loss is the loss of human life. If that bridge had been full of rush hour traffic it would have been orders of magnitude a greater human toll. But after the dead and wounded are all tended to there is a double problem. A major Highway bridge is closed and with it a major seaport...
  3. Briar Lee

    Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses.

    Let’s say we are designing a bridge in 1972. It’s over one of the busiest shipping channels in the USA. I’d sink wings protecting those supports from ships. Every bridge over every shipping channel on this earth has faced this hazard for over a century. There are two structures in the...
  4. Briar Lee

    So Sad

    In Missouri you must put a fence around a swimming pool. No worse toddler killer was ever created. But if a kid drowns in a farm pond there’s no liability. Every winter you read about kids on the ice on a farm pond and sometimes it kills two or even three, trying to rescue their friends. I...
  5. Briar Lee

    Show Off Your Lee Pipes Here!

    There just had to be a lot of skilled hand work on the first and second generation Lees, and the bend on this one is just perfect to clench. The bottom quarter of the bowl is not yet broken in. There’s that honey sweet Lee break in taste with the smell of burnt briar and the bottom gets hot...
  6. Briar Lee

    Watch Out or Watch on? Pt 2.

    Inside that Swiss pocket watch is almost certain to be a Unitas 6400 series movement. To this day, the 6498 ETA movement is still sold in affordable Swiss pocket watches...
  7. Briar Lee

    Show Off Your Lee Pipes Here!

    Why a sound condition Lee is always a bargain. This one had the stinger stuck in the shank. My trusty little drill caught it, and I reversed the drill and it popped right out. All the lava cleaned up with steel wool. The chamber restored to brown. I used my Zippo to heat the tenon and...
  8. Briar Lee

    Watch Out or Watch on? Pt 2.

    Really fine luxury watches are, affordable, relatively speaking. It will cost about 15 thousand to plant you six feet under, or more, and add maybe five grand more for your tombstone. Twenty grand won’t even buy a middle sized car today. And truly fine watches hold resale value. Provided...
  9. Briar Lee

    Watch Out or Watch on? Pt 2.

    Let’s talk about Asian (Some Asians work cheaper thanChinese)homage/tribute/replica watches. Let’s say you covert a certain Swiss watch in the five to twenty five thousand dollar class. It’s really not hard to build your own replica. What is a Rolex Submariner? It’s first and foremost a...
  10. Briar Lee

    Watch Out or Watch on? Pt 2.

    I have been exploring the watch hobby, and I’ve come to the conclusion we are living in a golden age for people who like to acquire cool watches. If you are ultra rich, never in history have there been many, many watches over a hundred thousand dollars, some a million dollars or more. And at...
  11. Briar Lee

    So Sad

    Christian preacher Guy Howard had one of the bestselling books of 1944, Walkin’ Preacher of the Ozarks. https://www.ebay.com/itm/225994826123?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=nYbWRFNtTNq&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=oTNLKnzSTyy&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY The central event of the...
  12. Briar Lee

    So Sad

    In Tennessee, as most of not all the other states, there is a “dram shop” liability act for the booze peddlers: Xxxxx Notwithstanding the provisions of § 57-10-101, no judge or jury may pronounce a judgment awarding damages to or on behalf of any party who has suffered personal injury or death...
  13. Briar Lee

    Studies on Pipe and Cigar smokers - Inconsistent!?

    For over sixty years the do gooders tried for all they were worth to indict and convict coffee,,,,for something. Early studies linked coffee with cancer, until they eliminated the cigarrete smokers. All they ever accomplished was to deprive the unborn babies of real coffee.:) Beginning in...
  14. Briar Lee

    Studies on Pipe and Cigar smokers - Inconsistent!?

    Two factors, I’ll speculate. The first is, many cigarette smokers take up a pipe and keep on inhaling. Bad.:) The second is more controversial. I smoke like a chimney. I smoke a pipe. I could smoke an entire can of Capstan a day for less than the price of one Cuban cigar. Cigar only...
  15. Briar Lee

    Double Edged Razor Blades

    Over the months I’ve tried out all the double and single edged razors, I’ve returned to Edge shave gel and Harry’s razor blades. Here’s why. If I didn’t shave daily I’d look like a bum under a bridge until (and if) I could grow a real beard and mustache. I’ve shaved daily for fifty years now...
  16. Briar Lee

    Cigars in Cancun

    I found a little place there, that rolled me a cigar they said was a clear Havana. It was delicious. They sold me twenty five with Mexican bands, invoice for customs, only $100!!! You guessed it. Not only were they counterfeit they were terrible and the bugs destroyed my other cigars in my...
  17. Briar Lee

    Watch Out or Watch on? Pt 2.

    One of the sales gimmicks watch manufacturers have done forever, is to have accuracy tolerances looser than actual in service results. The old railroad watches that were guaranteed to meet the railroad standards of plus or minus 30 seconds a week often actually were only off less than half...
  18. Briar Lee

    Does the Quality of a Pipe Increase with its Price?

    To make a pipe, any pipe, requires raw materials, and labor, and overhead, and markup (profit). https://www.ebay.com/itm/266484550270?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=LarVboicSRW&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=oTNLKnzSTyy&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY...
  19. Briar Lee

    The Four Hundred Marxman Pipe Owner's Thread

    An observation If 1937 pipes were an A prefix, this was the first 400 made in early 1942. About the same time as this song came out. I hope Bob Marx got delivery of his 1942 Packard He’d have to wait until 1946 for another one.
  20. Briar Lee

    Show Off Your Lee Pipes Here!

    Here comes a 5 pointed star (I think) Two Star bent carved Bull Moose, or Bullcap, or Bullsomething.:)
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