I've got a Laguiole pipe knife but no chance of losing it, it's primary use is photo dressing.
Lost my Favorite Pipe Tool
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I have two interests in this thread: Pipe tools and cats.
Cats do love to spirit away small shiny objects. One of my rescue Maine Coon type cats out of a drainpipe took the key from our buffet, but he was so generous as to leave it in one of my shoes! So check your shoes. I'm told that this sort of gift giving by cats (and dogs and crows) is a gesture of high esteem.
I have a number of pipe tools from the Czechs, Brebbia, Dr. Grabow, Savinelli, and so on. It's just one of those ironic principles in life that though you may lose your expensive treasured pipe tools, your pipe nails will follow you home in a cab if they have to. You simply can't lose a $1.29 pipe nail, not possible.
Cats do love to spirit away small shiny objects. One of my rescue Maine Coon type cats out of a drainpipe took the key from our buffet, but he was so generous as to leave it in one of my shoes! So check your shoes. I'm told that this sort of gift giving by cats (and dogs and crows) is a gesture of high esteem.
I have a number of pipe tools from the Czechs, Brebbia, Dr. Grabow, Savinelli, and so on. It's just one of those ironic principles in life that though you may lose your expensive treasured pipe tools, your pipe nails will follow you home in a cab if they have to. You simply can't lose a $1.29 pipe nail, not possible.
Over the years I'm sure I've lost some good pipe tools, which is probably why I only carry a pipe nail anymore.
I even have favorite pipe nails!
Back in the 1980s A&C Peterson sold gold colored pipe nails. They were a few cents more expensive than the standard aluminum ones but they look much cooler. I have one of those I have carried so long I wore most of the gold coloring off of it. The thing I like about them other than the coloring is that the casting was clean and it was well finished, no sharp edges. I know I have lost a few gold pipe nails, so when I found some good quality aluminum pipe nails I bought a few so I don't have to use my gold ones.
I guess I'm just cheap, if I'm going to lose one I wanted to be a cheap one and I'm not particularly fond of.
I even have favorite pipe nails!
Back in the 1980s A&C Peterson sold gold colored pipe nails. They were a few cents more expensive than the standard aluminum ones but they look much cooler. I have one of those I have carried so long I wore most of the gold coloring off of it. The thing I like about them other than the coloring is that the casting was clean and it was well finished, no sharp edges. I know I have lost a few gold pipe nails, so when I found some good quality aluminum pipe nails I bought a few so I don't have to use my gold ones.
I guess I'm just cheap, if I'm going to lose one I wanted to be a cheap one and I'm not particularly fond of.
