Tales, like experience, are anecdotal. From my experiences, I find them unbelievably accurate. Eerily so. But what does it matter, to quote a famous rock band.
Glad I Quit Collecting the 904s
- Thread starter Chasing Embers
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True parable:
The Christians (they use no other description between themselves) of Southwest Missouri believe to the very existence of their immortal souls, as sure and certain as they are of being sentient, that they are In His Service.
Imagine having the certain knowledge you have some kind of God’s body camera on 24/7 that records your every act, thought, deed, and what you DON’T DO.
It might tend to improve your behavior.
My mother’s brother Jiggs (named Sy Thomas in his mother Ma Agee’s Ma and Pa series in The Index and Jethro Bodine in the Beverley Hillbillies inspired by it) lived in North Kansas City, across the Missouri River.
The entire clan used to congregate on Sunday afternoons at Ma Agee’s home in Hermatige Missouri, where we’d play and sing old songs, about life.
Once in the morning and again of evening my father was privileged to milk his cows. We took off a week a year to vacation in Colorado Springs, leaving Sunday after church and returning Staturday afternoon in time for the Humansville stock car races. This required a substitute milker.
But once when I was about eight, during the week my father had Edgar Proctor milk and we drove to Kansas City to visit Uncle Jiggs and Aunt Bobbie and my cousins for a few days.
Driving though downtown Kansas City was the first time I saw my father and mother afraid. They had me lock my doors in the back seat.
I was just astonished people lived like that.
I enjoyed my visit to Kansas City, but on the way home I asked:
Daddy, how do they keep all those people inside Kansas City?
Why don’t they escape?
He turned around and said, chasing that dollar bill, keeps them there.
Besides, they don’t believe places like Humansville exist.
You've got great taste. My collection is all over the map.
I would've built a good stable of Stanwell's 217 shape, but shortly after I bought my only one, they shut down the Danish factory and an already somewhat uncommonly available shape fell off of the face of the earth.
I would've built a good stable of Stanwell's 217 shape, but shortly after I bought my only one, they shut down the Danish factory and an already somewhat uncommonly available shape fell off of the face of the earth.
Gents: Don't post comments about people. And watch treading around religious matters. please!
I finding it interesting that we can collect certain makers, shapes, sizes and a plethora of minutia to keep us interested and then one day ir all goes away and we are onto to something new and different.
I have done it 3 or 4 times in over 20 years and had a blast each time I did it. There must be some type of psychological aspect to this but I have yet to figure it out. All I know is that I enjoy the exercise each time I do it.
I have done it 3 or 4 times in over 20 years and had a blast each time I did it. There must be some type of psychological aspect to this but I have yet to figure it out. All I know is that I enjoy the exercise each time I do it.
Ok…that’s badass. That’s 3 more pipes more than my Christmas tree will have.
My girls wanted me to add personal items as ornaments to represent me on the tree. Couldn't think of anything more suitable.
That’s cool. I told my wife and she wants me to do it too.My girls wanted me to add personal items as ornaments to represent me on the tree. Couldn't think of anything more suitable.
Maybe the shape of the 904 is changing because the cutters in the fraising machine is wearing down over the years?
I had thought it may have been the difference between the filtered and non filtered models but in the past the two were indistinguishable without removing the stems.
I had never thought about it til I watched Moreno on youtube, but the Bruno Nuttens Twiggy looks an awful lot like the 904!
There are a few that do. It's basically a fancy 1/8 bent dublin with a saddle stem. The GBD 9613 is nearly identical aside from being slightly larger.
Ok. Someone answer me this - is a 904 a Dublin? I would never have one since I only like one style but I am just curious since that shape was always called either a Dublin or a 'Mick Pipe' back in the U.K. were I came from in Essex. Answers on the back of a fag packet please?
That it is. The bowl gives the illusion of a forward cant, but the chamber is a vertical conical bore.
OK that makes total sense. You know Pollocks used to make a clay version of the Dublin without the vertical bore probably because of heat issues. I got a couple in a box of clays from him back in the late 1980s that completely threw me for a loop!
