Ruminations on Why Better Briar Smokes Better

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I meant 50-50 because, if a briar cutter’s, time of burl dig/removal, then the preparation/curing/process was different in any regards, then how this might effect the briar, so that it’s equally important, that a briar cutter, knows how to do the best, for everything, to ensure the carver receives good briar.

Make sense now?

This is why I see it 50/50, because maybe, not all briar cutters are equally as good, therefore a reason why we see pipes not smoking as good, not because the carver didn’t do a good job, but something, between the time it was dug out and prepared, didn’t make for good wood, on the briar cutters end.

Sure, and it's like asking whether the wheels or the gasoline are more important in a car... you need both.

I can make a nice pipe (or a poor one) from Mimmo's wood OR from Carlo's. It's Ford vs Chevy kind of stuff. You can't make a Ferrari with Ford parts. But then, most of us couldn't make a Ferrari with Ferrari parts either....