+1 dulgunz. If money was no issue, then I'd want a woodshop just for making my own pipes. I'd much rather just make what suits my whim than to have someone else make one. In all honesty, I prefer the ones that I have made to any of my expensive artisan pipes. Probably not because I am better than them, but many a day, I have grabbed my own bulldog over a Becker. When you've made the pipe, it just smokes much better than anything else could, IMO