Is this a real Kaywoodie?
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Looks like someone stuck a Kaywoodie stem into a Savinelli 504 basket pipe.
Thank you! I mean the stem is a screw in, and seems to line up at least. The hole/crack makes me uneasy... maybe they didn't stamp their marking on it because its defective?
Hmm, something about it doesn't look right but I'm not exactly sure what. Will report back if it occurs to me.
Thank you, will do tomorrow. Have you ever seen a stem not follow the lines of the shank on a kaywoodie before by any chance?
That is part of what doesn't look right. It seems like that stem doesn't belong on that stummel.
Impulse buy, the seller listed as "used" and has a no return policy. Oh well, maybe it will end up as a decent smoker. If not, no big deal.
On eBay? Unless he listed the crack, the seller can take his "no return" and shove it where the sun don't shine. Doesn't matter what the seller says, and if he disputes it, contact eBay and they will claw back the payment.
seriously otherwise they could send you something totally not what you ordered at all and say no returns. Yeah you thought it was a Dunhill but it's a cob too bad...
I keep an early 1970s Kaywoodie Magnum as proof that briar matters and there’s such a thing as a terrible smoking briar pipe.
It’s beautiful. It’s almost unsmokable. Wet, hot, bitter, and just flat out bad.
I had three bargain basement Peterson Killarney pipes I bought for $60 about 1985 and they started out as bad, but thirty some years of baking in the summer and freezing in the winter in my father’s milk barn cured them out and now they smoke a lot, lot better.
The vast majority of a briar root is waste and the carefully selected parts must be properly cured to rid the briar of nasty tasting resins, and then if ideally should be further aged, the more the better.
Varnish of any kind on a pipe is bad. It’s tolerable to use it on well cured and well aged briar but it’s never ideal.
That’s a geniune Kaywoodie “tounge burner” from about fifty years ago.
It’s beautiful. It’s almost unsmokable. Wet, hot, bitter, and just flat out bad.
I had three bargain basement Peterson Killarney pipes I bought for $60 about 1985 and they started out as bad, but thirty some years of baking in the summer and freezing in the winter in my father’s milk barn cured them out and now they smoke a lot, lot better.
The vast majority of a briar root is waste and the carefully selected parts must be properly cured to rid the briar of nasty tasting resins, and then if ideally should be further aged, the more the better.
Varnish of any kind on a pipe is bad. It’s tolerable to use it on well cured and well aged briar but it’s never ideal.
That’s a geniune Kaywoodie “tounge burner” from about fifty years ago.
You'd loose that case in court, counselor. That's a myth. You won't find in any case law to back that one up. I have many pipes with varnish. NONE of them are bad. In Japan, they use real shellac. Yet the pipes smoke like a dream.
It’s bad.
If it was good Kaywoodie and Marxman and Lee would have varnished their pipes.
The varnish on the truly abominable 70s Kaywoodies like the one shown were dipped or sprayed with an excellent bowling ball type finish polyurethane.
It just can’t be removed by strippers,
When they sealed up young, cheap briar, it stays that way forever.
I think you are really referring to jus bad briar in general.It’s bad.
If it was good Kaywoodie and Marxman and Lee would have varnished their pipes.
The varnish on the truly abominable 70s Kaywoodies like the one shown were dipped or sprayed with an excellent bowling ball type finish polyurethane.
It just can’t be removed by strippers,
When they sealed up young, cheap briar, it stays that way forever.