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Red Fir Pipe
You're right, there is some kind of dark grey coating. As for the quality, it's holding up fine. I'm a pragmatic person, so I'm fine with it as long as it works.- clue
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- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Red Fir Pipe
UPDATE: So, I pulled the stem out of the pipe and made a good discovery! You know how raw briar has a kind of wavy or random pattern to the grain? Well check this out: You can see it better in real life, but you can see a bit here a waved pattern to the grain, where red fir has a more straight...- clue
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Red Fir Pipe
Just got finished smoking another bowl, and it isn't tasting any different than the tobacco I'm using. No strange piney taste, so maybe you're right, and it just refers to the finish. There's also black fir and green fir, which, as far as I can tell, aren't real varieties of fir. Maybe they're...- clue
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Red Fir Pipe
I recently got into pipe smoking and received a pipe as a gift. I eventually managed to find the website by using the engraving on the wood (Zobo 536): http://www.jobon.com.cn/en/products.asp?Big_Class=23&Small_Class=26 . It is placed under the Red Fir category, so I suppose that's what it's...- clue
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