I have had to find those holes and the nerves on more than 1 occasion in living patients. First time I saw it was on a cadaver.
March Meerschaum Madness - Let the Madness Begin!
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I have find those nerves during surgery (my job is ENT surgeon).
This evening I'm enjoying my Huseyin Cor - Hawkbill meer with some Black House. 
I know that, but it was originally manufactured by Sutliff and now STG. Was just wondering if the blend changed when it changed hands. When Sutliff had it, their Balkan Sobranie Match 759 was the same blend. Wondering if it's different now.
Hearth and Home - Black House
Haha... my bad. LOL
I don't know when it switched hands, so I can't say. What I'm currently smoking is from 2018. I just know it was distributed by 'Pipes and Cigars.' I'm going to guess it's the Sutliff version, but again not positive.
Today I'm enjoying my CAO Sherlock Holmes meer with some 1Q.
Now that is a fancy pipe!
I have been casually searching for a mermaid meer with some disappointment in the quality of carving. The faces can look downright scary rather than pleasant, and the body especially the breasts can be so strange or overly endowed to look obscene. The woman on this pipe is pretty good.
I am sure that with time I will find the perfect pipe at a reasonable price, so I am not worried.
I've been looking for a nude pipe as well, but you are correct. All the carvings are definitely lacking in quality. Either the face, head/hair, hands, body or just everything doesn't look right or was not carved well. Here is one that I found a short while back that looks pretty good.
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It was carved by Cevher it's the best one I've seen as of late.
I got distracted and thought this thread was about basketball. So I was going to comment that all of the North Carolina teams are out of the running this year, so I never watched any of it. But oops. We're on Meerschaums here. Carry on.
Second bowl of Pegasus of the day out of the AGovem billiard. Loving this pipe.
An understandable mistake. We would’ve all played along had you made a comment about the basketball.
So, since we talked cake, and I'm a new Meer man (Mere man?, mereman!?), I wanted to ask: do I need to be worried too much about ghosting? I've only put two blends through it (CRF and Luxury Navy Flake), and those smokes have been like no other (and no, it's not in my head!), so, I'm a little weary of adding anything else in. I'll just sit and sip on this pipe for hours without the bowl even being lit.
No latakia blends, but, I am wondering about burley particularly HH Burley flake. I'd like to avoid having a virginia/burley-darkfired/latakie dedicated meer, but, perhaps that's what needs to happen?
No latakia blends, but, I am wondering about burley particularly HH Burley flake. I'd like to avoid having a virginia/burley-darkfired/latakie dedicated meer, but, perhaps that's what needs to happen?
March madness is the name of the ncaa basketball tournament that takes place every March. The name of this thread is actually a play on the name of that tournament.
Smoking any type of burley blend in it shouldn't be an issue at all.
To my palate, there’s not enough dark fired in HH burley flake to worry about ghosting. Old dark fired or bold Kentucky and you’d have a problem. You should be good with that one but I would avoid Latakia blends in that pipe, as you said. Just my two cents of course.
Thanks, good to know. Never followed sports and had never heard of it.