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Utimate Cure for PAD???
There is no cure for PAD. Treatment is temporary and only partially effective. However, 43,000 for a pipe is... probably a little outside market expectation. -
Message to Canadians for Monday, September 20
In Alberta, evvating be irie, Mon.- sasquatch
- Post #6
- Forum: General Discussion
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Blue vs. Yellow?
I had times with the Yellow that I found unbelievably good, mild, sweet and fragrant, just a wonderful smoke, and times where it was more acrid and kind of boring. The blue always presents the same to me, a little fuller than the yellow, less fruity. I'd have a tough time picking between...- sasquatch
- Post #11
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Floating Black Particles
Yeah it's off matches as far as I've ever been able to tell. Never seen it with a Bic.- sasquatch
- Post #6
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Briar Shortage?
Yeah there's all kinds of reasons, obviously the stuff that grows right beside the road is easiest to harvest, and gets picked over yearly, so you have to go further, there are more restrictions on harvesting, fewer men to do it, more restrictions on exporting, yadda yadda yadda. The world...- sasquatch
- Post #19
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Briar Shortage?
I get asked for boxwood all the time. I say I have none, then I go out and pat my boxwood very gently and tell it how good it is.- sasquatch
- Post #10
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Briar Shortage?
- sasquatch
- Post #9
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Briar Shortage?
I can't speak to quantity, I have no idea where Chacom, say, gets their briar, if they operate a mill for themselves or buy on contract from someone else. I don't know how Dr Grabow gets briar, or who from. The shortages that I see as an artisan, buying 50 pieces at a time or whatever...- sasquatch
- Post #8
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Help with Odd Dunhill Markings
R is just the shape, that's and "R" type pot as Paulfg noted. Nice looking pipe. -
A Rumination on the Superiority of Good Briar
This is like that video where Julius Vesz suggests he's the "last pipe builder". Just totally clueless about the whole rest of the industry outside his shop door. Grabow makes some 250,000 pipes a year, it's quite a bit. Now, we are assured each block is graded, 200 working days a year...- sasquatch
- Post #191
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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A Rumination on the Superiority of Good Briar
I feel like H.A.L. in 2001, slowly getting dumber as someone pulls wires out of my brain... Daisy, Daisy..... Give me your answer do....- sasquatch
- Post #185
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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A Rumination on the Superiority of Good Briar
Keep waiting, it builds character.- sasquatch
- Post #180
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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A Rumination on the Superiority of Good Briar
Why smoke a Lee when you can have a Willard though, that's what I want to know.- sasquatch
- Post #177
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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A Rumination on the Superiority of Good Briar
I mean... whatever dude. Fills galore in most Lees. Not sure what you're sellin, but I ain't buyin.- sasquatch
- Post #174
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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A Rumination on the Superiority of Good Briar
Cognitive conditions notwithstanding, it was put to me thus by one cutter: Naturally we harvest burls at least 30 years old simply because before this, they are too small. Between 30 and 50 years is perfect. In talking to these guys about growth conditions, harvest conditions, ideas like...- sasquatch
- Post #164
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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A Rumination on the Superiority of Good Briar
Exactly right. The takeaway should be the opposite: most companies accepted absolutely awful briar for 100 years running. Most old pipes have wild or poor grain, most have fills. It wasn't a thing. I just got a set of two pipes, cased (so I mean, not junk pipes) from 100 years ago...- sasquatch
- Post #140
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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A Rumination on the Superiority of Good Briar
Ebauchon aren't simply small roots, they are just a cut of briar that doesn't have bark. If a briar block is cut so that it has the outside skin on it, it's a plateau. Everything else is Ebauchon, and they come in two basic from, "M" and "R" (Marsellaises and Relevées) depending on the...- sasquatch
- Post #117
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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A Rumination on the Superiority of Good Briar
Briar's briar, it has no idea if it's straight grained or not. My best smokers are rusticated Castellos, I have no idea what the grain was like. Straight grain is pretty, but for 100 years of pipe making basically no one cared about it except as a fluke that came out of the frasing machine...- sasquatch
- Post #69
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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A Rumination on the Superiority of Good Briar
I've used these pictures before, elsewhere, to the same effect. Pick the "good" briar. Here's a pre-trans Barling: And here's a pipe made a couple years ago. So, which is it? Which is the "quality" briar?- sasquatch
- Post #66
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion