Whether you are 27 or 67 a feller can’t have too many good pipes.
The best and cheapest and most rewarding way to build a pipe hoard is to watch eBay for unsmoked or barely smoked old estate pipes.
Royalton was like a Cadillac to Dr Grabow’s Chevrolet during the Adjustomatic era.
This one only cost me $15 plus $7 shipping and taxes.
For $22 I have a medium sized straight grain Dublin.
That dead and cracked varnish will peel off in less than a minute. The stems align with hand pressure on Adjustomatics. It’s likely only presmoked from that era.
Perfectly good green money is a terrible thing to waste on brand new pipes when old ones are not only cheaper but often better.
A straight grain was always the most desirable and most expensive grained pipe and always will be.
HLT, makers of Royalton and who patented the Adjustomatic, actually bought Dr Grabow.
The best and cheapest and most rewarding way to build a pipe hoard is to watch eBay for unsmoked or barely smoked old estate pipes.
Royalton was like a Cadillac to Dr Grabow’s Chevrolet during the Adjustomatic era.
This one only cost me $15 plus $7 shipping and taxes.
For $22 I have a medium sized straight grain Dublin.
That dead and cracked varnish will peel off in less than a minute. The stems align with hand pressure on Adjustomatics. It’s likely only presmoked from that era.
Perfectly good green money is a terrible thing to waste on brand new pipes when old ones are not only cheaper but often better.
A straight grain was always the most desirable and most expensive grained pipe and always will be.
HLT, makers of Royalton and who patented the Adjustomatic, actually bought Dr Grabow.
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