Pipe du nord, what a shame!

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simong

Lifer
Oct 13, 2015
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Having got to know about this well established pipemaker through this forum, & after perusing their site went ahead & bought a delightful pipe from them. An absolute gem of a pipe it was as well, a pencil shanked lightweight canted Dublin or cutty. So well did it smoke that it soon became a favourite, guess what? 2 months in & the bowls burning like guy Fawkes! Considering myself as a slow puffer & I only smoked flakes in the pipe, I would of expected longer than 2 months life out of her. Oh well, after 20 odd years of pipesmoking this is the first bowl that's gone on me maybe I was just unlucky, but as the saying goes 'once burned twice shy' . So it will be a firm adieu from me to la pipe du nord. Cheap 'briar' at dear prices, no excuses.

 

mayfair70

Lifer
Sep 14, 2015
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Sorry to hear that. Have you contacted them about it? Maybe you could send it in for a post mortem and get a replacement? I'm sure they will stand behind their work...maybe FAR behind, but behind. :)

 
Jan 4, 2015
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Massachusetts
Give them a chance to make good on the pipe. The worst they can say is no but you could be pleasantly surprised as well. No pipe should burn out in a lifetime let alone a couple of months. Clearly a problem in the briar.

 

newbroom

Lifer
Jul 11, 2014
6,386
10,201
North Central Florida
As a relative newcomer to pipe smoking, I've only had one bowl fail, and burn through. It was an unsmoked nekked cob from MM and it was totally my fault for not having broken it in before I chuffed it too heartily.

Lesson learned.

AND: I have discovered that of my current rotation of cobs, it's the unfinished ones I enjoy best.

The Missouri Pride and the Morgan are my favorites.

 

pruss

Lifer
Feb 6, 2013
3,558
372
Mytown
I'm in the camp that says give the maker a chance to make good.
Any briar, cheap or expensive, can have a fatal flaw which remains unseen even after finishing work.
-- Pat

 

ejames

Lifer
Oct 6, 2009
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Did you see any flaw in the chamber when you got the pipe? If not,then the pipe maker didn't either!! Pipe makers do not have X-ray vision you know !! As Pat said there's probably many pipes out there with UNSEEN flaws in the briar. Some of those flaws will never cause a problem,some will. No reputable pipe maker will knowingly sell a pipe he knows will fail !!

 

simong

Lifer
Oct 13, 2015
2,747
16,597
UK
Cheers gents, your quite right of course & I shall be sending the pipe back. In hindsight it was quite bad form on my part to come on here complaining before contacting them.

I must stop posting when I'm 3 sheets to the wind, so to speak. I have no doubt that the boys in Paris after some Gallic gesturing & shrugging of shoulders, shall send me another pipe.

 

zack24

Lifer
May 11, 2013
1,726
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Visiting their shop was one of the highlights of the trip Greta and I took to Paris 2 years ago....You don't see many fifth generation pipemakers!

 
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