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Show Off Your Foursquare / Panel Billiard Pipes!
A very good question indeed. I've panelled round pipes, and I've started square and done the "rounding" at a later stage, and ... probably... probably that's a little bit easier. It's very weird though to take a block of briar, run it this way and that way, and another, and like this and NOW... -
Show Off Your Foursquare / Panel Billiard Pipes!
Yeah, and I can see if you made these with a sort of "eh that's good enough" approach, you could develop a method to make them reasonably fast (obviously certain pipe companies can do), but if you want to make them genuinely good, it's... a very expensive proposition. And maybe I'm just dumb... -
Show Off Your Foursquare / Panel Billiard Pipes!
Yeah.... these take about two days, any slip of any tool and you just get to start over. I doubt I'll ever do it again, it's.... just not fun at all. Every angled edge, every little pocket has to be sanded just so AND you can't adjust the shape in doing so. -
An Amazing Demonstration of How Advertising and Peer Pressure Works
"Clan" is proof that the marketing can only take it so far. Nice wrapper, nice smell, good looking cut, and GOD DAMMIT it tastes like burning Owens Corning "Pink" (not the white John Manville fibreglass, which has kind of a vanilla note).- sasquatch
- Post #8
- Forum: General Discussion
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B&M Find: Radice Oil Cured & Twin Bore (info?)
Oil curing literally and truly started as a way of hardening crappy briar, Dunhill is quite open about it if you read the patent. I've had oil cured pipes from Radice, Wiley, Dunhill, Ashton, etc, and they all had a unique character, a flavor pertaining to the oil used, the process. But...- sasquatch
- Post #15
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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B&M Find: Radice Oil Cured & Twin Bore (info?)
They are... fine? I still have one, I broke the stem at some point and made a regular stem for it, no vast difference. They were pretty heavy, most of 'em. Good tasting pipe, clean smoker.- sasquatch
- Post #7
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Questions about Non-Ebonite Stems
Yeah there's no emulsion of ebonite and acrylic that I know of, it's not like you can choose your percentage.- sasquatch
- Post #11
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Questions about Non-Ebonite Stems
I'm stealing "refined and unobtainable", that is some high class BS right there!- sasquatch
- Post #7
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Questions about Non-Ebonite Stems
Acrylic is cheaper than ebonite, and it never needs maintenance. "Pearlized" is kind of like metallic flake, just a little shimmer in the rod (as far as I have seen it used in regard to rod colors). There are grades of acrylic/lucite which are slightly softer, some are really brittle...- sasquatch
- Post #3
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Beat the Gurgling!! Here's how . . . . .
I mean.... wouldn't it just be easier to learn to smoke a pipe? No offense meant, truly, but when I read about tongue bite and heat and moisture and stuff, it's just.... that's "bad" pipe smoking. You'll have a much nicer time if you learn proper technique and get to where you are smoking a...- sasquatch
- Post #6
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Tell Me About Your Love of a Dog
Do yourself a favor, Milk, and get a book called "How to Speak Dog" by Stanley Coren. It's not a training book, there's a million of those, it's a book about how dogs see the world, how they react to us and to each other. It will give you a huge step up in terms of interacting with your dog...- sasquatch
- Post #24
- Forum: General Discussion
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Differences in Interior Stem Design
So, lot's of questions. Why don't we do "bigger is better" and make every pipe stem a McDonald's milkshake straw in diameter... answer is, you can make a lot of smoke and that's not the same thing as "smoking a pipe". Overheated tobacco tastes bad, burnt briar isn't good, if you have a huge...- sasquatch
- Post #30
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Differences in Interior Stem Design
Yeah but not frickin green!- sasquatch
- Post #18
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Differences in Interior Stem Design
Drill from the tenon end with a tapered bit, stop about 1" from the end. Drill in from the other end with maybe 1/16" and connect two holes. Then you widen the slot with tiny saws and files, smooth out the transitions. Takes some doing, which is why pipe companies, by and large, don't bother.- sasquatch
- Post #15
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Differences in Interior Stem Design
So I'd like to see a stem something ike this inside.- sasquatch
- Post #12
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Differences in Interior Stem Design
So, here's the theory on stem interiors. If we are making the perfect smoking machine, it should be designed with the idea of minimizing condensation (minimizing "gurgle"). How is this acheived? It's simple, you make the airway as smooth as possible, you avoid jagged transitions and plenum...- sasquatch
- Post #11
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Canadian Import Advice Help - Tax was 200%!
Nah, there's prov tax here too: https://open.alberta.ca/dataset/62ddc605-0e0e-41bb-a12d-4284ea906acb/resource/b6d453ed-d6e6-4ef1-8700-1b97c284c013/download/tbf-tobacco-tax-special-notice-vol-3-no-21.pdf- sasquatch
- Post #88
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Looking for Pipemakers Nearby
I'm naturally blurry.- sasquatch
- Post #11
- Forum: Pipe Repair and Maintenance