Thanks. I live where Manzanita is plentiful, and sure as hell it's not briar in my book. Good info, though!Actually, immediately after WW2, Kaywoodie experimented with Manzanita, or "mission briar" that grew in California. As a connoisseur of Imported Briar, I have no experience with it, of course. Desperate people even make pipes out of vegetable waste like corn cobs and gourds, even. Or rocks they dig up. Only briar that's imported and proudly stated so on the shank for me. Do your "Dunhill" pipes use imported briar? No! Some vague kind of root is all they imprint. Don't get me started on soggy, boggy morta, so old it's practically fossilized. Also not imported. Hmpf.
Ooh - and what is the Canadian one going to be? I have three Blatters here. I work five minutes from their store.Ireland
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May be Miscoi!Ooh - and what is the Canadian one going to be? I have three Blatters here. I work five minutes from their store.