What? And grow up listening to adults? What's the fun in that.Kids really shouldn't be smoking pipes nor tobaccos though.
School me About Ideal Humidity Levels in Briar
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I have no dog in this fight but I do love my 3” GP100 with compact grips!
Back to topic- Briar is a wholly different material than Walnut, not to mention Mahoghany, Pine or Saw Grass.
Stasis is desired in good briar keeping, though reasonable variance will matter not a whit, as to temperature or humidity levels.
Stasis is desired in good briar keeping, though reasonable variance will matter not a whit, as to temperature or humidity levels.
I never worried about my briar... but meerschaum, that was always another story. When I lived in Missouri, the cold winters always worried me when I thought about going outside with a Meer that I had already been smoking inside.
Yet, never did one crack.
In California, the dry air is persistent year round in the desert. Yet, my pipes seem fine.
I am so tempted to say something here but it I have the feeling it would be an exercise in futility!
The Chinese sell a pipe made of wood and hard rubber for $9.99, all you want to buy. They may be communists in theory but they don’t operate at a loss.
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Practically speaking, the cheapest really good, genuine briar pipes today are about $30.
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You can buy unfinished briar pipes for less than $10, by the bushel or sack. Shipping is extra.
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What amazes me is that for just over $100 you can buy a stone, cold, excellent, flawless, bragging size name brand Danish freehand pipe.
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The dollar today is worth ten times less than when I was born in 1958.
But there’s no way under the sun a perfect Danish freehand sold for $10 in 1958, nor a perfect, flawless, Orient Bambino watch, either.
Orient automatic watches are a miracle on an order of magnitude greater than cheap new briar pipes.
My $100 Orient Bambino is more accurate, and it’s better, than my father’s 1958 Hamilton (which has a Swiss Made movement). Japan has some of the highest labor and regulatory costs on earth, and Orient makes the movement in Japan. How dey do dat?
Humans are smart critters.
Give us a profit motive and a large enough market and eventually we’ll make a $100 automatic mechanical wrist watch that keeps time like a marine chronometer for ten years abd then you throw it away and buy another one.
So, instead of showing me prices of briar ebauchons or rods of vulcanite, you show me cheap pipes from China. You're using the prices of ebay Chinese pipes which could be made out of anything as your proof that briar is cheap.The Chinese sell a pipe made of wood and hard rubber for $9.99, all you want to buy. They may be communists in theory but they don’t operate at a loss.
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Practically speaking, the cheapest really good, genuine briar pipes today are about $30.
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You can buy unfinished briar pipes for less than $10, by the bushel or sack. Shipping is extra.
Unfinished medium canadian briar pipe | eBay
Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Unfinished medium canadian briar pipe at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!www.ebay.com
What amazes me is that for just over $100 you can buy a stone, cold, excellent, flawless, bragging size name brand Danish freehand pipe.
Erik Nording Handmade Smoking Pipe Freehand Red Grain #1 Smoke Pipe | eBay
It stands out because of its excellent design and looks. The Erik Nording Pipe has a large fanbase. By the mid-1960s he began professionally carving hand-made pipes in Slangerup, Denmark. Along with a number of other carvers during the 1960s, Erik Nording worked in the new Freehand style that...www.ebay.com
The dollar today is worth ten times less than when I was born in 1958.
But there’s no way under the sun a perfect Danish freehand sold for $10 in 1958, nor a perfect, flawless, Orient Bambino watch, either.
Orient automatic watches are a miracle on an order of magnitude greater than cheap new briar pipes.
My $100 Orient Bambino is more accurate, and it’s better, than my father’s 1958 Hamilton (which has a Swiss Made movement). Japan has some of the highest labor and regulatory costs on earth, and Orient makes the movement in Japan. How dey do dat?
Humans are smart critters.
Give us a profit motive and a large enough market and eventually we’ll make a $100 automatic mechanical wrist watch that keeps time like a marine chronometer for ten years abd then you throw it away and buy another one.
This is like trying to prove to me that dogfood is cheap by showing me adds for free puppies. Most likely, you looked up briar prices, realized that I was correct, then you looked up the prices of vulcanite rod stock and realized I was correct again, so to impress Telescope's keen sense of opinion verses facts, you came up with this backwards thinking solutions, ha ha. You are very amusing.
Never had briar crack. I've had several burnouts but no cracks.
@Briar Lee: School Me on This Question. Whenever I read your posts why do I keep hearing the voice of Sheriff Andy Taylor and the theme tune from the Andy Griffith Show?
Opinions are cheap. Facts are cheaper. It wasn’t that long ago that we learned about “alternative facts”. To be clear, on a forum such at this, facts and entertainment compete for readership but it is clear that entertainment trumps why people come here. I have no idea what Peterson pays for their briar, but it is clearly less than it is for their pipes. And, a lot of their pipes aren’t that expensive. So, if lee wants to refer to it as being only a few dollars or you want to say it is much more, it really doesn’t matter so long as Peterson makes a profit and is able to absorb all the manufacturing and sales costs associated with selling the pipe. Who cares? The briar is cheaper than the pipe and there it is. What’s left? Entertainment for the masses.
I get you and Briar Lee confused sometimes. Your point gets muddled in a bunch of other stuff, and I have to dig for it.
I think I’ve made my point clear.
And, I enjoy your posts as well.
Men are so vain, that some men will pay eight million dollars for a stainless steel watch, that really doesn't have any more stainless steel and ceramic than the $100 Orient Bambino on my wrist.
When Lee Mace, a wealthy and famous local country music show owner, about thirty years ago made the unfortunate decision to ride in a two seat experimental airplane a younger friend of his had put together, and the plane crashed into a boat dock and both occupants drowned, in Lee Mace's pocket was a $30,000 minute repeating pocket watch.
Somebody had the presence of mind to call a locally famous watchmaker who saved Lee Mace's watch from being ruined, by taking it all apart before the water caused any damage. I used that watchmaker to service all my good watches with balance wheels until he retired last year. Now, I do not know where I can get a good watch cleaned, oiled and serviced. I'm sure there are plenty of watchmakers on the internet I can use.
The rich are very different than you and me. They can afford better toys.
If you google "minute repeater" it may be that Lee Mace paid too much for his watch. Here's one that seems like it would be a good one, for less than $8,000.
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My trouble would be if I ever settle a billion dollar personal injury case, and I'm so gorged with money that I'd not feel guilty buying a super high dollar brand new toy of any kind, whether it be a shotgun, pipe, watch, camera, pair of binoculars, and such other luxuries as those, is that the very top best of most luxury goods, are not much if any better than really nice examples of the same toy.
Not long ago I bought a brand new $100 Grade 1 Nording freehand. It is a thing of sheer beauty, and after i broke it in the pipe smokes very well. Nording could not have paid more than $25 for the briar and vulcanite used to make my pipe. He likely paid less than ten dollars. and has an efficient operation where he pays another few dollars in labor to make the pipes.
How much more, does Dunhill spend on materials to make this $1,200 pipe?
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That top of the line Dunhill is a beautiful pipe, and I think worth the price asked, the problem is, I won't pay that much for my toys.
In general, I am a poor forum writer. I try to limit my word usage (not easy) and I speak in a short hand that doesn't translate well over the internet - I leave out a lot of concepts. I forget that the conversation isn't in person and Much is lost in the translation. I am also a bit scattered in my thinking, such as replying about LOTR here - in order to agree with whatever point I wanted to agree and felt it overlapped with in terms of another conversation I was having.
Honestly, I do enjoy facts. I prefer them, but I really prefer to have them told with a good story (who doesn't). Lee tells stories and some of what he says is spot on - that is - for someone living in the Ozarks such as my father. I guess I am so use to hanging with Hillbillies that I've grown accustomed to the story telling and pay little to no mind to the facts of the story. It's a life hazard when one has a genuine hillbilly for a pappy.
I too enjoy a good story. Now, if I didn’t comment, nor anyone said anything adverse to what Briar Lee is posting, would it be as good of a thread? He wouldn’t have come back with more stories, nor swayed his rhetoric to different subjects.
Hell, it would just be a story with a bunch of people nodding at him, ammi right?
He’s a lawyer, or so he says, so he knows how this all works, and I’m sure he take me and others in stride.
But, if you prefer, I can just leave his posts be, and maybe someone else can take my place as advocate. I don’t want to upset anyone. I just enjoy the back and forth…. somewhat, ha ha.
I hope you get gorged with money.Men are so vain, that some men will pay eight million dollars for a stainless steel watch, that really doesn't have any more stainless steel and ceramic than the $100 Orient Bambino on my wrist.
When Lee Mace, a wealthy and famous local country music show owner, about thirty years ago made the unfortunate decision to ride in a two seat experimental airplane a younger friend of his had put together, and the plane crashed into a boat dock and both occupants drowned, in Lee Mace's pocket was a $30,000 minute repeating pocket watch.
Somebody had the presence of mind to call a locally famous watchmaker who saved Lee Mace's watch from being ruined, by taking it all apart before the water caused any damage. I used that watchmaker to service all my good watches with balance wheels until he retired last year. Now, I do not know where I can get a good watch cleaned, oiled and serviced. I'm sure there are plenty of watchmakers on the internet I can use.
The rich are very different than you and me. They can afford better toys.
If you google "minute repeater" it may be that Lee Mace paid too much for his watch. Here's one that seems like it would be a good one, for less than $8,000.
Antique 14K Gold Rocail Full Hunter Minute Repeater Chronograph Pocket Watch For Sale at 1stDibs | rocail watch, antique gold repeater pocket watch, minute gold
For Sale on 1stDibs - A 14ct gold Rocail full hunter Minute Repeater chronograph pocket watch, white enamelled dial, Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds dial, timer sweep hand,
My trouble would be if I ever settle a billion dollar personal injury case, and I'm so gorged with money that I'd not feel guilty buying a super high dollar brand new toy of any kind, whether it be a shotgun, pipe, watch, camera, pair of binoculars, and such other luxuries as those, is that the very top best of most luxury goods, are not much if any better than really nice examples of the same toy.
Not long ago I bought a brand new $100 Grade 1 Nording freehand. It is a thing of sheer beauty, and after i broke it in the pipe smokes very well. Nording could not have paid more than $25 for the briar and vulcanite used to make my pipe. He likely paid less than ten dollars. and has an efficient operation where he pays another few dollars in labor to make the pipes.
How much more, does Dunhill spend on materials to make this $1,200 pipe?
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That top of the line Dunhill is a beautiful pipe, and I think worth the price asked, the problem is, I won't pay that much for my toys.
What fight? Haha?!
I went with 4” so I could also hunt with it. I did pick up a stubby eventually, but good revolvers are hard to beat. The GP100 rocks out some serious loads too - it’s a TANK!
Rinsing my pipes is one thing, but washing my guns won't fly. I'm with you.
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