What I love most about this forum is I learn something new about pipes every day here.
I recently bought this Large Billiard from a French seller, and the wrapper arrived with my $7 pipe all stamped with six dollars worth of French postage markers. Don’t tell me there aren’t bargains left in this sin cussed world today when such a beautiful, big, nice briar pipe costs only $13. Ward Cleaver probably paid nearly that in his money for exactly this pipe.
I’ve spent over an hour, closer to two hours, and a bunch of pipe cleaners cleaning this Dad shaped Billiard up.It was heavily caked, and someday I’ll get a pipe cleaner soaked in Everclear to come out white through the shank but not yet, and I’ve used maybe forty pipe cleaners.
It loves English tobaccos, and while I think it is possible to smoke the goodie out of a briar pipe, this one is a cool, dry, zesty and delicious smoker using Sutliff Heavy English.
There are no fills on this pipe, nor one marking anywhere. It is as a generic example of a large billiard that was ever made.
Can a pipe maker give me two estimates of how long it took to make?
What if this pipe was made in a big pipe factory, say in France, but with full use of modern machines and methods.
And what if an expert carver set down at his bench and made a large smooth billiard with a hand cut vulcanite stem?
No fills or fancy finishes allowed.
Just a basic Ward Cleaver pipe.
I’m curious to know.
I recently bought this Large Billiard from a French seller, and the wrapper arrived with my $7 pipe all stamped with six dollars worth of French postage markers. Don’t tell me there aren’t bargains left in this sin cussed world today when such a beautiful, big, nice briar pipe costs only $13. Ward Cleaver probably paid nearly that in his money for exactly this pipe.
I’ve spent over an hour, closer to two hours, and a bunch of pipe cleaners cleaning this Dad shaped Billiard up.It was heavily caked, and someday I’ll get a pipe cleaner soaked in Everclear to come out white through the shank but not yet, and I’ve used maybe forty pipe cleaners.
It loves English tobaccos, and while I think it is possible to smoke the goodie out of a briar pipe, this one is a cool, dry, zesty and delicious smoker using Sutliff Heavy English.
There are no fills on this pipe, nor one marking anywhere. It is as a generic example of a large billiard that was ever made.
Can a pipe maker give me two estimates of how long it took to make?
What if this pipe was made in a big pipe factory, say in France, but with full use of modern machines and methods.
And what if an expert carver set down at his bench and made a large smooth billiard with a hand cut vulcanite stem?
No fills or fancy finishes allowed.
Just a basic Ward Cleaver pipe.
I’m curious to know.
