I'm guessing some of those elaborate ones are so heavy and cumbersome it would be a challenge to smoke them 500 to 1,000 times so they would color. They sure are pretty to look at though.
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Yeah it would seem kind of futile to be concerned about coloring one of those...for me at least. But for a long time I was smoking only the lighter classic shapes and always clenching...but that first Yanik I purchased, the Celtic Knot, has caused me to rediscover the experience of a sitter.
When I bought it I thought I would probably smoke it very seldom and primarily just wanted it for the carving...but I've found myself really enjoying smoking it on most evenings as the last smoke...the tactile element adds a dimension to the overall experience and smoking a large sitter sort of forces you to relax more.
That's part of what elevated my no name lattice up to being my favorite pipe.
I'm sure the Kenan skull and the mountain lion pipe add quite a tactile element as well.
The Yanik nude has all of those flowers and the basket weave, but the little no name's stem seems almost hand cut.
For me, that's another thing about just sitting and holding a pipe though...the stem being just right doesn't matter as much because I'm not clenching it.
I'm thinking some information got lost about the lattice. The Hollow carving of the holes, the very well made stem, a lot of work went into it just to be a no name.
Ive had good luck with meerschaummarket and couldnt resist. Part of the autograph series whatever that means. It is signed on the shank but blowing it up on my phone blurred it. No mention that I saw in description as to the carver which l found odd.Oh, really show that off!
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Good price on something that detailed.
I saw a Baccus for sale he did also. Thanks. I couldnt make out the name on my phone
It got here today. Fit and drilling spot on.
Nice! We don't see many lions on here for some reason. I propose you join me and @DanWil84 , and only smoke that pipe for an entire year! We need more test subjects!
No way l could do that. I like variety to much. Thank you though and good luck coloring.
fine....
At least get lots of before pictures from allll angles. So then when your want to compare years down the road you'll see it better. LolSo about a month ago, I had talked to Mustafa at Astas Meerschaum pipes about commissioning a tamper. It was going to be a replica of my old man tampers my friend made me. Well I waited weeks for him to find the right size stone.
So then I decided to back out of that, and buy a billiard meer, and a cigarette holder instead. I was just waiting for the funds to come in. Then today I thought, if I have to quit smoking after my surgery for a month or two, then I might as well not start smoking cigarettes again.
It's been my plan for years to only smoke a pipe.
So today I just asked him if I could get the billiard instead, and he mentions he found the right size "stone" for my tamper.
So after many mind changes, my old man meerschaum tamper, along with a straight billiard, are one step closer to being on their way! Still gotta wait for him to carve it, but it's set in stone finally!
Both pics have been shown multiple times, but once more won't hurt.
The meer I'm getting.
And my original tamper that went missing, that my meerschaum one is being modeled after.
So then I decided to back out of that, and buy a billiard meer, and a cigarette holder instead. I was just waiting for the funds to come in. Then today I thought, if I have to quit smoking after my surgery for a month or two, then I might as well not start smoking cigarettes again.
It's been my plan for years to only smoke a pipe.
So today I just asked him if I could get the billiard instead, and he mentions he found the right size "stone" for my tamper.
So after many mind changes, my old man meerschaum tamper, along with a straight billiard, are one step closer to being on their way! Still gotta wait for him to carve it, but it's set in stone finally!
Both pics have been shown multiple times, but once more won't hurt.
The meer I'm getting.
And my original tamper that went missing, that my meerschaum one is being modeled after.
