Can you get a full 18 holes complete in under 8 hours? With all that pipe smoking, it must be hard.
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I'm a little too repressed Methodist about my golf - no smoking or drinking until after a round, but ask me to play and I'll bring a casserole!
In 1974, when the federal minimum wage was $1.60 (and as a summer worker at a Marina they legally paid me $1.25 an hour) there was no way under the sun a minimum wage worker could buy a genuine Savinelli smooth bent billiard with a sterling silver band for a day’s pay,
Tonight I’ll take my wife out to a little restaurant in Olean Missouri where I’ll spend $80 (with $20 tip) for a delicious full 14 ounce ribeye steak with fixings and salad bar dinner for two.
I couldn’t afford a couple of ribeye dinners in a restaurant forty five years ago, or that Savinelli either.
Has there been some kind of improvement in computerized CNC milling technology that allows a perfect, name brand, gorgeous pipe to be retailed for about $80 today?
Or are pipes made now like they were then?
I've been told by one of our sponsors that CNC milling is just way too expensive for any of the pipemakers that they carry. However, prices are dropping. I've kicked around the idea for my own work, but I know that spending the time to learn the CAD side of things would just eat into time I could spend actually making things. They make more sense than using a lathe if you are wanting to reproduce something like a pipe. But, as of right now, I don't think there are any CAD/CNC created pipes... but some of the German pipes look suspiciously high tech-ish to me, ha ha. But, the German designers seem to do that.
I haven’t played in several years, but now retired, I hope to have time.
When I enjoyed golf the most was at a course that didn’t survive the recession. I used a push three wheeler that made walking to course a breeze.
Price doesn't matter as long as you enjoy your pipe.
I don't consider my interest in U.S. factory pipes and other lower cost pipes the antithesis of higher end pipes. I have a few of those too. But it is true that Kaywoodie, Dr. Grabow, Rossi, Genod, Chacom, Stanwell, and other similar outfits make some amazingly fine smokers that cost remarkably little, and if you buy them as estates, they are low cost indeed. I think I have a Kaywoodie or two that smoke about as well as anything. You go high-end because those pipes are works of art, elegant craft, and bragging rights, all good. Just keep your equanimity when some pipe that costs little smokes as well, or a little better.
The reason I wonder if there’s been some kind of technological breakthrough, is that La Rocca Italian made pipes are fifty bucks, for these.
I own a couple of these, bent smooth pipes, and you can turn the stem all the way around and not notice much if any difference.
The sellers of these have, enough markup to keep selling them.
These aren’t the old varnished and stained factory smokers of years ago.
Italy is a high wage nation.
How Dey do Dat?.
I own a couple of these, bent smooth pipes, and you can turn the stem all the way around and not notice much if any difference.
The sellers of these have, enough markup to keep selling them.
These aren’t the old varnished and stained factory smokers of years ago.
Italy is a high wage nation.
How Dey do Dat?.
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To be perfectly honest if I could go back and start over I'd probably smoke nothing but Cobs and Rossi.
Especially the pipes available in the Lucca line, I keep hunting for pipes that are bigger than these and it's extremely difficult.
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Especially the pipes available in the Lucca line, I keep hunting for pipes that are bigger than these and it's extremely difficult.
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I'm the same way bud, I play about 60 to 70 rounds a year, no smoking or drinking during a round. Now afterwards I get a bit carried away with both.