Lord only knows what other influences LSD and miniskirts had on British culture.
The Obligatory Newbie Thread: Dunhill
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The tribute they did for him on Avatar was heartbreaking.
The caption of this forum section: There’s no such thing as a dumb question. This is the friendliest and most pleasant pipe forum in the world. Ask away!
So true except DO NOT ask about the quality or value of Dunhill (and probably p-lip Pete's for that matter). Where is the OP of this thread? They left a flaming bag of dog doo on the doorstep, rang the doorbell, and ran!
So true except DO NOT ask about the quality or value of Dunhill (and probably p-lip Pete's for that matter). Where is the OP of this thread? They left a flaming bag of dog doo on the doorstep, rang the doorbell, and ran!
After typing "hobbyist" his keyboard locked up!
They go to bed early in Wisconsin (so they may post early in the morning)!
I'm sure Dunhill is a fine brand. Just little too refined for my taste. Sort of like the difference between Englishman and.. American or Irish or Scottish or any others. Prefer the look of Peterson.
See what you do there......As refined as Kopi luwak.
Why, necessarily, would one's personal opinion be valid? Not only valid, but very valid? LOL. I was being somewhat facetious, since 99% of everything on this forum is subjective bullshit. Amusing, and often entertaining, which is why I'm here, but still b.s.
But I'll play, re your comment: You must be joking. The aforementioned pipe above is a perfect example of why the billiard is considered a dorkish, painfully plain-jane lump of wood by many aficionados of the burl. The 1601 (in the image I pulled up) is just a stupid friggin' right angle, a tube with a bowl carved on it. No graceful lines or balance at all. The stem is a mass-produced obscenity, esthetically speaking. You're pulling my chain, right?
Rather have a billiard done right, and for consistency, Dunhill generally comes through. Other marques sometimes cough one up, but it seems rare by comparison.
One's personal opinion creates one's reality. Such may not, indeed, probably not, be valid to another.
I do like the history of the brand, but also IMO they hit the "proper" proportions of classic shapes perfectly and every time. Others may as well, but none better. Lovats, billiards, various bulldog renditions, the Oom Paul (Hungarian), etc. Prove me wrong ;-)
The late great foggy mountain, a member here, sold Dunhills in Manhattan pipe shops as a teenager in the 1950's and remembered them when they were second fiddle to Kaywoodie, and both pipes, though expensive, were nothing like the White Spot prices of today (corrected for inflation and all that). However, foggy' still bought and enjoyed them, but only certain series. He was sourly critical of a number of their lines which he knew from a lifetime of experience. Later in life, he tended toward smooth prince shapes, if I recall.
I don't own a Dunhill or a White Spot, and never have.. I have a few other higher end pipes -- a Ferndown by Les Wood, a Ser Jacopo, a Nording Zebra Hunting pipe, among them. I also have a number of medium and lower priced pipes, carefully selected, that I feel give me excellent smokes.
I won't rain on Dunhill pipe smokers' parade. If they are worth it to you (and some estate pipes can be had at less exalted prices) I say, enjoy.
I don't own a Dunhill or a White Spot, and never have.. I have a few other higher end pipes -- a Ferndown by Les Wood, a Ser Jacopo, a Nording Zebra Hunting pipe, among them. I also have a number of medium and lower priced pipes, carefully selected, that I feel give me excellent smokes.
I won't rain on Dunhill pipe smokers' parade. If they are worth it to you (and some estate pipes can be had at less exalted prices) I say, enjoy.
Let's see what the author of Winnie The Pooh had to say about this 102 years ago....
"For whereas men of an older school, like myself, smoke for the pleasure of smoking, men of this school smoke for the pleasure of pipe-owning—of selecting which of their many white-spotted pipes they will fill with their specially-blended tobacco, of filling the one so chosen, of lighting it, of taking it from the mouth to gaze lovingly at the white spot and thus letting it go out, of lighting it again and letting it go out again, of polishing it up with their own special polisher and putting it to bed, and then the pleasure of beginning all over again with another white- spotted one. They are not so much pipe-smokers as pipe-keepers; and to have spoken as I did just now of their owning pipes was wrong, for it is they who are in bondage to the white spot."
The entire essay:
"For whereas men of an older school, like myself, smoke for the pleasure of smoking, men of this school smoke for the pleasure of pipe-owning—of selecting which of their many white-spotted pipes they will fill with their specially-blended tobacco, of filling the one so chosen, of lighting it, of taking it from the mouth to gaze lovingly at the white spot and thus letting it go out, of lighting it again and letting it go out again, of polishing it up with their own special polisher and putting it to bed, and then the pleasure of beginning all over again with another white- spotted one. They are not so much pipe-smokers as pipe-keepers; and to have spoken as I did just now of their owning pipes was wrong, for it is they who are in bondage to the white spot."
The entire essay:
"Smoking as a fine art" by A. A. Milne
essays.quotidiana.org
It turns out that everyone is a Bolshevik who only consumes the products for their usefulness. That's not true, not with pipes or toilet paper, or anything in between.
For quite a while I wanted a birth year Dunhill but as I was born in 1947 that's a tough year to get a hold of. And the prices were sky high for them. So I got over it. Value of a object is in the eye of the beholder not those that complain about the other guys possessions.
I know a guy who swears his thousand year old burls smoke like the tobacco was rolled on Virgin thighs.
