Chicago Show “Hands On” Pipe Making Seminar

[admin]

Here's a quickie on the pipe making seminar from the Chicago Pipe Show.
You may have seen some of the pictures already, but scroll to the bottom to see some cool "Before & After" shots of the finished pipes.
I was quite impressed with the results.
http://pipesmagazine.com/blog/put-that-in-your-pipe/chicago-show-hands-on-pipe-making-seminar/

 

[fhb2532]

Where's your pipe Kevin?

 

[pstlpkr]

Truly impressive results.

 

[unclearthur]

Great looking pipes !

 

[jayh]

Very impressive. Those pipes turned out great. Makes me want to get tools and some briar. The pride in ownership of a quality pipe you made yourself has to exceed any other.

 

[unclearthur]

The prebored briar blocks available make it lots easier to make a pipe Jay. Check out Pimo. They are Good folks.

 

[jayh]

Awesome! Thanks, unclearthur

 

[admin]

fhb2532 said: Where's your pipe Kevin?

The only work I like to do with my hands is on a computer keyboard. LOL.
Plus, there was no way I could take those 2 full days and still cover other aspects of the show and business I needed to conduct, like selling 515 estate pipes that was an 8.5 hour process.

 

[jonesing]

Kevin: You're mention of selling the estate pipes made me think of this.
I read on Marty Pulver's website that this year at the pipe show there were 2 buyers from China with literally duffel bags full of money who went through and bought a ton of pipes, leaving few for the traditional/American buyers.
Did you see this?

 

[python]

Jonesing, I did not personally see this, but it was the talk of the show. Everyone was talking about it and how they were buying up everything.

 

[jayh]

reminds me of the lyric to a song..."we got a mess of cash in duffel bags, and every penny's hot! Well, hallelujah!!!"
was this a good thing or a bad thing that these guys came in and threw down handfuls of money at the show?

 

[admin]

Same as Bob said, I did not see it, but heard about it.

 

[igloo]

I was not aware he smoked a pipe , but one of his estates would surely make for conversation .

 

[admin]

Bob has 2 of his Dunhill Estates and I have four of his Dunhills and one Savinelli Bing's Favorite. SmokingPipes.com has 515 of them.