I thought this might be interesting. I made my first eBay auction purchase from overseas, Austria to be specific. I was stunned at how quickly a package makes its way from Austria to Alabama, about six days. Same amount of time it takes to ship from west coast to bama. CRAZY!! Anyways, the pipe was exactly as promised. It was a very good deal I never should've taken advantage of, but ah well. I'll be sending the pipe to Ric at Briarville. The guy's a magician with such things. And so here are photos of the pipe as is now. Once Ric returns it to me I'll post After photos. Till then, here's the "before" photos...