Freehand Pipes

[puff_not_snuff]

One other consideration smoking a big Danish freehand besides giving the appearance of having more money than you actually have, is that every one I own is a dynamite good smoker.

Every briar pipe is a hunk of briar and a stem, and with a Danish freehand the makers cannot shortchange you.

They must use a plateaux of briar that must be old enough to be large, and they fashion this into a very large pipe that shows plateaux on the top and the shank end.

With briar pipes, all other things being equal, bigger is better. Bigger pipes hold more tobacco, there’s more briar to insulate the burning cherry, and there’s longer for the smoke to travel that cools the smoke stream.

But they are showy, flashy things, and the bigger they are the more pretentious they look.

I prefer the larger Ben Wade to the smaller Knute, but the bigger pipe is a little better smoker, I think.

Both of them look like you own a franchise restaurant and drive a Cadillac Eldorado convertible, but at least you get a sweet and cool smoking pipe to show off.

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Briar Lee, are you related to Bruce & Ben Lee?

 

[tobefrank]

People with little bulldogs are admitting something.

Haha, is it that obvious? ?

 

[Chasing Embers]

Dunhill went through a Danish freehand phase as well (thankfully only for a short period)

Their Collector (HT)(XL) pipes are still largely freehand designs.

 

[puff_not_snuff]

I wish I could re-title this thread Most Gauche Pipes On The Internet.

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

Some here have dispelled the myth that freehands are ugly. Whereas, some have proved the opposite..LOL!!

 

[hauntedmyst]

That's not how status symbols work. Would any of us even recognize any of the designers of "high end fashion"?

You are ridiculous, of course it is. When they see the Gucci freedhand pipe, they all get weak kneed and say to themselves "Wow, he has super high status! I wants me some of that beefy goodness, yup yup!" and then the shorties throw themselves at you hoping to stick like velcro and get elevated to your status. It gets so bad sometimes I have to peel them off like cockleburs on the porch before coming into the house. Some will hang around for hours hoping for an invite in and I have to let the dog out to chase them away. I'll tell you, I'll think twice about buying another status symbol pipe. Having a status symbol pipe is more trouble then its worth. It makes you want to go back to simpler times, back to when a pipe was just a pipe and you bought it just cause you liked it and not to impress other people.

 

[tzinc]

From what I read Freehand you start by designing a normal shape and then go off into another shape. Freeform is just a non standard shape. Freehands from what I have seen are a number of existing shapes see Nording. Freeform have no pre existing shapes. They are not necessarily big or expensive. The Nording ones are considered good smokers.