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  1. wcannoy

    Are You OK, Walt?

    Wasn't me... I'm still here and in one piece!
  2. wcannoy

    Cumberland Care

    P.S. Although, as the OP noted, the stem material on this pipe was correctly listed as acrylic, I have noticed a trend among new-ish pipemakers to incorrectly label any acrylic stem with multi-colored striations running though it "Cumberland", likely out of pure ignorance. If stem material is a...
  3. wcannoy

    Cumberland Care

    If I recall correctly, Dunhill first used "brindle" stems on their "Cumberland" stamped pipes. Nowadays, just as we have come to call all facial tissue "Kleenex", we tend to call all brindle stems "Cumberland". The original Cumberland stems were black and dark red, and this was the common...
  4. wcannoy

    Chicago Pipe Show 2016 Sound Off!

    I'll be arriving Friday, a little later than my usual arrival date... Be sure to find me, I'll have a table full of t-shirts! :D
  5. wcannoy

    Natural, Almost non Carved Meer Pipes

    Looks neat... I've seen a few of these types of meer pipes floating around, but have no first hand experience with them... except that I have a meer stone like it in my stash. I was writing this one up as a loss, but maybe I'll try to make a freehand shape from it after all...
  6. wcannoy

    What Do Pipe Smokers Do For A Living?

    I make pipes for a living... I smoke at work. :puffy:
  7. wcannoy

    Does Anything Really Smoke Better Than A Cob?

    Frozenchruchwarden, somewhere along the line, this conversation turned into a debate on other aspects of the pipe smoking experience as a whole, including aesthetics, quality and precision of craftsmanship, comfort, price, etc... This was partially my fault, and I apologize for muddying the...
  8. wcannoy

    Briar Pipe price vs quality

    I get what you are saying... I really do. You are saying that if I sell you a particular pipe, there is no way to know if that particular pipe will perform properly until it is trialed by fire. It's a crap shoot... I get it. My problem is with the language, and more-so with what the language...
  9. wcannoy

    Briar Pipe price vs quality

    So, perhaps "absolute" is the best way to get the point across... However, as the presence of a formal "guarantee" reduces the risk on the buyer's side to zero, then "absolute" becomes a moot point.
  10. wcannoy

    Briar Pipe price vs quality

    guar·an·tee /ɡerənˈtē/ noun 1. a formal promise or assurance (typically in writing) that certain conditions will be fulfilled, especially that a product will be repaired or replaced if not of a specified quality and durability. Ryan has already said that his pipes are guaranteed to be great...
  11. wcannoy

    Does Anything Really Smoke Better Than A Cob?

    Could you imagine a flip flop lover in a shoe enthusiast forum? That's pretty much what's going on here. There's nothing wrong with cobs, but they're nothing special either. Everybody has one. I have five or six that I smoke in the shop. They don't smoke as well as my briars, and they're about...
  12. wcannoy

    Anyone have one of Walt's Cardinal House pipes?

    Easily a $500+ pipe. I'm shocked that it is still up for grabs! To offer a suedeblast in this price range is just out of the question since the suedeblast is so ridiculously time consuming. But I do have a long-term goal of producing traditional blasts in the Cardinal House line. The equipment...
  13. wcannoy

    Pipes And Diminishing Returns

    For business or special occasions, I have a white dress shirt that I wear with black or charcoal slacks, and a beige dress shirt that I wear with brown slacks. No amount of other shirts would ever diminish my need for these shirts. I have Polo brand pull-overs for a casual night out. Now, if...
  14. wcannoy

    Add a rhyme, ruin a tobacco

    McCranie's Dread Ribbon McClelland's Christmas Rear Lane 1-Poo Dunhill Nightcrap Dunhill Lye Mixture 965 GH & Co. Kendal Mold Carter Gall C&D Briar Socks Dan Tobacco's Ill Bailey's Balkan, and Flu Note Peterson's Nutty Butt, and Feet Killarney MacBaren Mixture: Rottish Blend
  15. wcannoy

    Anyone have one of Walt's Cardinal House pipes?

    Bigpond said If you read the guarantee carefully, the big difference is that no other pipemaker allows you to return a pipe for a full refund after it has been smoked simply because you didn't like how it smoked. To my knowledge, this is a first. I am confident in my work, and will back it up...
  16. wcannoy

    Why Numbers On A Watch Face?

    46 glorious millimeters of no numbers, and I can read it just fine. :D
  17. wcannoy

    So how many here are in the tobacco pipe industry?

    I am a full time tobacco pipe maker by trade. I don't feel the need to crawl out from anywhere. :wink:
  18. wcannoy

    Pipe Tobacco Ban Soon!

    Well, almost... Even the banner is fake. The font is wrong, and it's not the "New York Times", it's "The New York Times" In related news, I know for a fact that at least one Deputy Executive Editor for The New York Times is a pipe smoker!
  19. wcannoy

    Pipes made of cadaver bone

    ...Just kidding. It's antler, not cadaver bone.
  20. wcannoy

    Suggestions for First "Good" Pipe?

    Hmmm... There should be a guarantee. There should be...