Something I Learned Recently: The Cherrywood

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olkofri

Lifer
Sep 9, 2017
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The Arm of Orion
That Ropp is certainly nothing to write home about, but the cherrywood shape is far from ugly when carved right –i.e. when it does convey the impression of a natural trunk and branch.
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As long as a natural(istic) shape is maintained, even a smooth finish cherrywood is striking:
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Frankly, I've seen far uglier Ivarssons than those three pipes above.

 

cigrmaster

Lifer
May 26, 2012
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I have one Cherrywood in my collection and it is a great smoker. It was made buy a guy named Scott Thile who makes a nice pipe. I like the shape and would buy another if it had the right specs.

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beefeater33

Lifer
Apr 14, 2014
4,266
6,836
Central Ohio
I'm a big fan of the cherrywood shape. The poker?...... not so much.

A well done Cherrywood is indeed a thing of beauty, The Dunhill 475 is far and away my favorite. I own 3 of them, and they smoke great.....

I REALLY like this one, posted by GeorgeD a while back.......... Perfection in my eye!!.......... :puffy:

http://pipesmagazine.com/forums/topic/rare-maybe-unique-dunhill-475

 

davek

Part of the Furniture Now
Mar 20, 2014
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmUm8_vC8H0
“You have erred, perhaps,” he observed, taking up a glowing cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a disputatious rather than a meditative mood—”you have erred perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is really the only notable feature about the thing.”
“No, it is not selfishness or conceit,” said he, answering, as was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. “If I claim full justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing—a thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of lectures into a series of tales.”
“The end may have been so,” I answered, “but the methods I hold to have been novel and of interest.”
“Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial. I cannot blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my zero-point, I fancy. Read it!”

 

ashdigger

Lifer
Jul 30, 2016
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Vegas Baby!!!
Dunhill Cherrywood Shell
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irishearl

Lifer
Aug 2, 2016
2,292
4,136
Kansas
My second favorite Peterson shape is a cherrywood, their shape stemming from the Hopkins in the Sherlock Holmes line, particularly when in the rustic finish. It then puts one in mind of a tree trunk and looks very organic. Have the Kinsale version.

 
Aug 14, 2012
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I had a large cherrywood pipe in the 50s. It was made of 2 pieces; one for the bowl, another for the shank. There was a regular mouthpiece. The advantage of the pipe was the size, the low price and the fact that you could put it on it's bottom without it falling over. The smoke, though I stuck to it for months, was below average. Much lower than a briar sherry shaped pipe. The briar cherries are much smaller; regular briar size. They can smoke beautifully if broken in right. I have 3 Dunhill cherries in briar. Since I was forced to quit for survival reasons, they are available for reassignment.

 
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