For all practical purposes this pipe is an Italian LB, which is why I bought it. :mrgreen:
I wanted to test drive it side-by-side with by LBs to settle once in for all who made better pipes, the Italians or the Brits.
I expect to have an answer to that question after smoking several hundred more pounds of tobacco through them. Until then, I'm afraid I'll just have to keep slaving away, smoking my favorite blend while reading a good book in my comfiest chair.
Poor me.
I also got it for the perfectly cut, quarter carat vvvvs blue-white diamond that Mr. Castello puts in the stems of his US-market-bound pipes. (He thinks he's smuggling them out successfully to finance the secret estate he's building on the central California coast---the taxes in Italy are a bitch---but I caught onto his little game long ago.)
48.7 grams, 6.0" long
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I wanted to test drive it side-by-side with by LBs to settle once in for all who made better pipes, the Italians or the Brits.
I expect to have an answer to that question after smoking several hundred more pounds of tobacco through them. Until then, I'm afraid I'll just have to keep slaving away, smoking my favorite blend while reading a good book in my comfiest chair.
Poor me.
I also got it for the perfectly cut, quarter carat vvvvs blue-white diamond that Mr. Castello puts in the stems of his US-market-bound pipes. (He thinks he's smuggling them out successfully to finance the secret estate he's building on the central California coast---the taxes in Italy are a bitch---but I caught onto his little game long ago.)
48.7 grams, 6.0" long
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