Shire Pipes

[juddeern]

Brian64

+1 I'll be chuckling about that all day! Thanks for the laugh
Bragg

That's just as well rosewood makes for a lousy pipe! Brier is far far superior! Mine is very loosey goosey at the tenon it would seem it went the other extreme...

 

[andvary]

One thing you can be certain about: if there is a pipe brand in existence, there's a thread about it on http://pipesmagazine.com/forums

I'm actually tempted to buy this pipe, even if it ends up on the shelf. The wood grain on the photo is sooo funky. :lol:

By the way, the wood allergies chart at http://www.wood-database.com/wood-articles/wood-allergies-and-toxicity/ is interesting to say the least. All types of rosewood are 4-star-potent and irritant to the touch. "Rosewood" as in "most common material for guitar fretboards, that millions of people touch every day" (me included, and I'm allergic to many things). Strange...

 

[mawnansmiff]

Is that tape measure reading centimetres or inches?
Regards,
Jay.

 

[andvary]

centimetres or inches?

I'd say inches. Each segment on the tape measure is divided into eight parts. In metric everything is divisible by ten.