Dunhill Sandblasts (Ring Grain)
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Question remains ; what is the year suffix nr. ?
Which makes it a 1994 pipe , to the best of my knowledge one year before the transition to the "Dunhill White Spot" pipes. Pipe grading is often rather arbitrary .
Agree 1994, but wasn't the "Dunhill White Spot" introduced in 2012?
1994 would make it a year before Dunhill in oval.
Agree, not quite sure .
Needs to be ferreted out
Dunhill: shell dating guide
www.pipephil.eu
Take a look at this link, I think it was posted earlier in this thread. But I was referring to this. Bit of a mine-field this pipe dating, etc.
Yep, 2012.Agree, not quite sure .
Needs to be ferreted out
Yes, def. 2011/2012 .
I love the quality of threads like this one.
I love the quality of threads like this one.
Not in the Dunhill line so much, but blasts range from the deeply grooved to the entirely subtle. They are really like different finishes. The grooves are highly textured whereas the light blasts are more a visual effect, like weave in a fabric. I have the grooves on a Ser Jacopo and the light blast on a Tsuge. I like them both, for different reasons.
Thanks for posting this runscott.
Interesting to see how the grain is accentuated after blasting, compared to smooth.
The straighter the grain, the better the rings.
Yes, thinking about that, it seems strange that you see so many old blasted Dunhills with great ring-grain, but very few smooth straight grains. Almost makes me think they chose to blast all the straight grain stummels. Exactly opposite the philosophy of most factory pipe-makers.
Perhaps to avoid showing accidental dings. Folks didn't tend so much to the care of pipes long ago, though I would prefer a blasted straight grain to a smooth.
A sandblast/ring grain discussion isn’t complete unless J.T. Cooke is represented:
Also, this swan neck from BST is stacked floor to ceiling with uniformed ring grain. Hard to beat a good, deep blasting IMO:
Also, this swan neck from BST is stacked floor to ceiling with uniformed ring grain. Hard to beat a good, deep blasting IMO:
This is a '47 Shell. It's been buffed a "bit" and the nomenclature is faint. The rings remain however..
About a decade ago I bought a new Dunhill Shell 4203 saddle billiard from SPC and only when it arrived and I looked at the stampings did I learn it had been graded Ring Grain. It seems the designation had slipped through SPC's inventory logging unnoticed. It was like getting a Chance card in Monopoly--bank error in your favor!
Ring grain?
Did someone say ring grain?
Did someone say ring grain?