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Why Only Simple & Absurd "Counterfeit" Pipes Exist --- An Explanation
A pipe misrepresented by an unscrupulous or ignorant seller is not the same as a fake pipe. Again, show us a fake pipe. (This is the kind of communal myth-making I try to fight against). -
Why Only Simple & Absurd "Counterfeit" Pipes Exist --- An Explanation
The poorly faked Dunhill I posted in another thread is about the only one I have ever seen. I saw a "fake" Paronelli on facebook but it was a 3 dollar painted Chinese gimmick pipe with Paronelli painted in. The Nigerian scammer of pipes. George is bang on here, pipes aren't worth faking, not... -
Banding
Vermont Freehand and RawKrafted both have pipe repair bands in stock I believe.- sasquatch
- Post #2
- Forum: Pipe Repair and Maintenance
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HOTW- Bad Tin? Sucks? Personal Taste?
We opened a tin of Hal with 10 or so years on it...it was super flat and boring. We thought maybe a mislabel but couldn't think of any Rattray so boring. I recently got some bulk and it's great, sweet, spicy and full.- sasquatch
- Post #24
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Is old Algerian Briar Superior?
I try to buy only Holstein Briar but it's hard to get these days. -
Is old Algerian Briar Superior?
Here's a couple briar blocks. I mean... it's briar. On the left, typical modern Algerian, a small root, fine grain. Not much room for a big pipe in there. If I splooch a little wax onto 3 blocks, we see very different results - Algerian, Greek, and Spanish here. The Algerian is... -
Is old Algerian Briar Superior?
The pipe "space race" was fun and silly, a really great example of marketing being a dominant and undying (unkillable) force in retail. This is real briar, not the fake briar. "Bruyere Garantie" Oh yeah? Well THIS is not just briar but ALGERIAN briar. Oh YEAH? Well our pipe has an... -
Is old Algerian Briar Superior?
Let me get this straight; you think Lee was using stealing stave-grade white oak for his pipes? -
Info About Dunhill's "Not For Sale" Pipes
Now I'm being shown ANOTHER pipe also not made by Dunhill, also with a white dot, as evidence that a different pipe not made by Dunhill is a Dunhill? Even clear-thinking Occam would have been lost by that one. Let's back up to my picture of two pipes near identical in size, shape and... -
Is old Algerian Briar Superior?
It's the least important part of the equation as far as I can tell. If a maker cuts a piece of briar and it smells like a gangrenous foot, I think most of us would stop and throw it out. Usually briar smells a little bready, sometimes a little spice. I currently have briar in my shop from 2... -
Info About Dunhill's "Not For Sale" Pipes
We are simply attempting to "blend in" as it were, and sound more like a commoner with the addition of certain colorful colloquialisms. -
Info About Dunhill's "Not For Sale" Pipes
Yeah I mean, what did Chuang-tzu know about Taosim??? -
Info About Dunhill's "Not For Sale" Pipes
This is the opposite case - a car made entirely from Hyundai parts but with a fake sticker on the back saying "Lamborghini". It... might... it just might... be a Lamborghini. -
Info About Dunhill's "Not For Sale" Pipes
One must "break the mind of logic" to transcend. Master Tung-kuo asked Chuang Tzu, "This thing called the Way-where does it exist?" Chuang Tzu said, "There's no place it doesn't exist." "Come," said Master Tung-kuo, "you must be more specific!" "It is in the ant." "As low a thing as that?"... -
Info About Dunhill's "Not For Sale" Pipes
Again, Germany, home of Vauen, who have successfully defended their right to use a white spot on pipes made in Germany, would be a much more likely source for this German-found pipe, in German Germany. I'm curious what means you'll use to determine if a white dot is a forged white dot or... -
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Info About Dunhill's "Not For Sale" Pipes
I have profanity where my personality should be, it's a congenital defect. -
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Info About Dunhill's "Not For Sale" Pipes
Occam's razor cuts both ways, which is one reason it's not an especially useful tool in philosophy. If simplicity is our guide for theory selection, then the simplest theory, which is that someone drilled a white dot into an unstamped pipe, should be preferred. The truth is, we don't have... -
Info About Dunhill's "Not For Sale" Pipes
You have one. He's told you. You haven't listened.