You're lecturing two extremely knowledgeable members about cake build up as well as laying out a coatings seminar, based largely on your misunderstandings, and being insulting to boot. Wow.
Well jpmcwjr, that is
YOUR problem. As with another person who has jumped in my face for no good reason, I wasn't even talking to you, I was only saying I think I understand the reasons for doing what the person was talking about, not "lecturing" anyone on anything, and I've been playing with cake build up myself for over 40 years, so what am I, a rank amateur? There was no "coatings seminar," and if there are any misunderstandings, it might only be from some people's use of informal colloquial language here whereas I am more used to talking with science professionals, or my misreading of something from being rushed for time. And as for your being insulted, I really don't care how or why.
You take honest, earnest interest in a topic as "lecturing."
You take sincere effort to contribute something worthwhile to the group other than the usual glib chit-chat as becoming a "seminar."
And you take my effort to dissect and analyze the topic in a meaningful way as being "insulting."
You do have a problem.
You don't question or critique anything I say, my conclusions, as being wrong or misunderstood and offer any counter-facts, you attack ME. When people go after the messenger rather than the message, it is usually because they have run out of real, valid arguments of anything worthwhile. What are you afraid of, that I might actually know something and steal the limelight from you and a few of your buddies with 4000 posts? I will be the first to admit that there are people here that know far, FAR more than me about brands and histories and things without a doubt, and are way more into collecting, and I've learned a lot of good things here. Pipes are a minor thing in my life and I devote only a small fraction of my free time to them, but I still love them.
But most everything about a pipe as to how it works and why is a physical process and can be understood by applied physics. Do people like you care at all the chilling effect your attitude might have on others here? How do you think newbies to this hobby will look upon asking questions or making comments when they read crap like what you wrote? You seem to think someone cannot have knowledge of pipes without having spent years here paying their dues.
I was going to talk about a microscopic examination of silica to justify my reasons why I think it should not be used to fix bowls or smoked no matter how well it might work as a patch cement, but you already think you know it all. I was going to discuss the changes that briar undergoes chemically and structurally, treated or untreated, as it is repeatedly charred, and how the cake contributes to that, but why bother? I might "lecture" or "insult" someone. And not because I think I know more than anyone else, but in order to get a gathering of knowledge-base on the subject so that others maybe newer to the hobby than us understand why "breaking-in" a pipe works and improves the function of the wood. Maybe it has been discussed before and lord knows you don't want a "new" guy writing about it again because you will automatically read into it that I am just "lecturing" you and think I know it all!
Geesh.
It isn't a "lecture" jpmcwjr just to go into detail on a subject. Believe it or not, some people come here wanting to read and learn. That is why some few write articles, not all of them just meant to be entertaining. It just so happens that I have a background in physics and technical writing so I tend to get technical and go into a lot of detail--- for accuracy's sake, not because I am intending to "lecture" anyone, but I shant waste very much of it here.
Shame. Here is the tobacco and pipe industry on the precipice of undergoing wholesale dramatic changes for the worse and people like you are actually discouraging folks from participating, contributing and helping.
