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mattia76

mattia76

Starting to Get Obsessed
Dec 24, 2010
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Hello everyone. I managed to cross one off the bucket list at the Chicago Show last weekend when I stumbled across a gentlemen named Craig at the Swap Tent on Friday who had a few unsmoked Will Purdy Pipes. This one immediately called to me, and the price was right, so there you have it.

The smoking properties are FANTASTIC, which I had heard about Purdy pipes. VERY dry.

Question for everyone: on this forum I read someone’s comment that Will always drilled his stems and shanks at the same time for the best air-flow internals possible. This would account for some of the dry-smoking properties for sure. Can anyone here verify if this is actually true?

I have heard that Will has retired and keeps his distance from the pipe-smoking community now. Bummer. I wish I could meet him and thank him for making this pipe.
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orlandofurioso

orlandofurioso

Lifer
Dec 10, 2013
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mattia76 said:
Hello everyone. I managed to cross one off the bucket list at the Chicago Show last weekend when I stumbled across a gentlemen named Craig at the Swap Tent on Friday who had a few unsmoked Will Purdy Pipes. This one immediately called to me, and the price was right, so there you have it.

The smoking properties are FANTASTIC, which I had heard about Purdy pipes. VERY dry.

Question for everyone: on this forum I read someone’s comment that Will always drilled his stems and shanks at the same time for the best air-flow internals possible. This would account for some of the dry-smoking properties for sure. Can anyone here verify if this is actually true?

I have heard that Will has retired and keeps his distance from the pipe-smoking community now. Bummer. I wish I could meet him and thank him for making this pipe.
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It was me who wrote about the drilling.
What year was this beauty carved and what grade stamp is on the shank ?
 
mattia76

mattia76

Starting to Get Obsessed
Dec 24, 2010
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orlandofurioso said:
It was me who wrote about the drilling.
What year was this beauty carved and what grade stamp is on the shank ?
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Hello Orlando
Did you ask Will this yourself, about the drilling? I read his Pipes and Tobacco’s interview and one other one and could not find this info.
From where did you get this info?
 
orlandofurioso

orlandofurioso

Lifer
Dec 10, 2013
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Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Hello Mattia,
Not from mr. purdy himself. A forum member did, but I do not recall who.
I'm not a pipe maker and I get lost in translation here, but removing the stem shows an entirerely different
face of the shank and tenon than usual. Not really sure if this shows prove of "drilling in one shot"
but my notion tells me it does.
Maybe someone can chime in and explain in proper English ?
 
mso489

mso489

Lifer
Feb 21, 2013
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That's lovely shaping in design, and I have seldom seen a stain and stem color so elegantly matched (other than all-black pipes). That is a prize indeed. I hope you have many decades of smoking pleasure with that. It really is quite a looker.
 
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