Perfect Meerschaum

[Said.ALTINAY]

I had no idea. Thanks for telling me. No way I'll be buying one of those then.

But it seems like Altinay's "spigot" is real?View attachment 148992

Hello @TheWhale13 , yes our spigots are genuine spigots.
Regards

 

[FurCoat]

Just don't look at it when you smoke it

Something else came to mind when I read this.

 

[Searock Fan]

Perfect for me, that is. No idea where your tastes lie. I'd have bought this pipe in a heartbeat if it were not for one thing. Whoever put the "embellishment" on the shank, seemingly as a demented afterthought, should have the sh*t slapped out of him. I do not understand the almost militant low IQ need to deface a wall with graffiti, nor do I understand this. I'd pay maybe 50 bucks for the pipe. Apparently I'm not alone: the pipe has been sitting on the site forever.

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Didn't need those rings, but still a nice pipe.

 

[Searock Fan]

The shank carving doesn't bother me much but the fact that it's a rhodesian will keep me from buying it.

Kind of off topic but... I remeber talking with a pipe smoking friend about if we would have to stop calling the shape Rhodesian and start calling it a Zimbabweian. This conversation took place on the afternoon Mugabe and his "freedom fighters" won the election. We were at the headquarters of the Rhodesian Light Infantry in Salisbury.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I remeber talking with a pipe smoking friend about if we would have to stop calling the shape Rhodesian and start calling it a Zimbabweian.

Negating history is never a good thing.

 

[Searock Fan]

Negating history is never a good thing.

What???

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

Can't help wondering why it is they do not produce more standard plain billiard models without any carvings

 

[Chasing Embers]

Can't help wondering why it is they do not produce more standard plain billiard models without any carvings

They do but there's less demand for them. Meerschaum collectors more often go for elaborate floral, lattice, and basket carvings that are typical of the material used. There's also the greatly increased price of those that are left plain.

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

They do but there's less demand for them. Meerschaum collectors more often go for elaborate floral, lattice, and basket carvings that are typical of the material used. There's also the greatly increased price of those that are left plain.

Thank You for clarification ,Sir

 

[JOHN72]

It is difficult to contemplate. I will try to see it upside down. As you rightly say, it is like the horrible graffiti on a wall in the streets of a beautiful city.

 

[burleybreath]

Seems like carving continuous lines in fragile material is just asking for breakage.

That was another consideration. It's on the shank, of all places. I had this guy's head drop off for no reason while smoking. Seriously, it just fell to the floor, as though he had been guillotined. The pipe had never been dropped. The pipe, as far as I can tell, was genuine block meerschaum. I suppose I had been smoking it a bit heavily, so maybe the shank had become saturated with moisture and therefore soft or something? A flaw in the material? Dunno. Anyhow, I don't like weakened shanks on either briar or meerschaum.

 

[burleybreath]

How do you know it hasn't been purchased due to the ugly stem?

Call it wild surmise or psychological projection, whatever you want. You just used the term "ugly," which I nor anyone else has to date. I therefore rest the case for the defense, and consider my conjecture validated.

But seriously, who the frig knows?

 

[brian64]

Because it has a standard tenon insert and not a spigot fitting. I've never known IMP to make a true spigot, they just make them with silver accents.

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I've long wondered why IMP doesn't just make a real spigot.

 

[brian64]

I suppose I had been smoking it a bit heavily, so maybe the shank had become saturated with moisture and therefore soft or something? A flaw in the material? Dunno.

That's a new one...don't think anyone's ever reported such a thing before. I wouldn't think moisture could cause it...I would guess it must have been a pre-existing flaw/crack.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I've long wondered why IMP doesn't just make a real spigot.

Never though to ask as I've never cared for them but Burak at Meerschaum Market may know.

 

[Chasing Embers]

A flaw in the material?

That would be my guess. As much as I smoke mine moisture has never been an issue.

 

[Kan]

At the beginning I didn't really pay much mind to it, but now you brought further attention to it, it is actually rather unsightly.
I smooth pipe would have such a better affect on the eye.

 

[Chasing Embers]

At the beginning I didn't really pay much mind to it, but now you brought further attention to it, it is actually rather unsightly.
I smooth pipe would have such a better affect on the eye.

I much prefer the rusticated and lattice ones to smooth.

 

[Hillcrest]

I much prefer the rusticated and lattice ones to smooth.

Perfect Meerschaum ? :

 

[DanWil84]

I much prefer the rusticated and lattice ones to smooth.

Same here, I would never buy a smooth meerschaum again.