Yup! It's just very, very oxidizedIs that a vulcanite stem?
Yup! It's just very, very oxidized
I should have pulled the trigger while they were on sale.My Etudiant J04 arrived about two weeks ago and I love it. Small, short, light, but the chamber is plenty large for my smoking.
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Heck yeah! Hope you love it as much as I do.@ThermionicScott, I dropped by SPcom to see if they still had any J04’s-they had two after the sale.
Now they have one.
They dangled a”bronze vip” discount in from of me so I struck.
I doubt the pile of old Chacom stummels will last forever.
I've been really tempted by these 29C pipes on SP. Nice pick!A little 29C.
It's a nice smoking pipe - but I find that all the Ropps are.I've been really tempted by these 29C pipes on SP. Nice pick!
This is absolutely wonderful!Most of you have seen the various Cherrywood Eugène-Léon Ropp pipes with natural horn stems that I smoke in the WAYS threads; they’re all stamped “Bussang,” which means they were very likely made at Ropp’s original workshop there between 1870–1893. Below is a Ropp you would not have seen in any WAYS thread—it is also from the Bussang workshop, but one of Ropp’s Wheelbarrow designs, where the stummel is designed to look like a mound of dirt being carted in a wheelbarrow. This unsmoked example has an amber stem and is about 8.5" in length (one of my smaller Ropps).
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A question for the horn guys: how do the buttons hold up in the long run for clenchers?