Two More Upshall Pipes For The Rack.

[mawnansmiff]

Being so pleased with my first Upshall pipe purchase last week and having a little of my minor windfall still burning a hole in my pocket I have just bought two more. A Tilshead 'Oom Paul' and an A grade 'Dublin', or rather that is how the seller described them.
The Tilshead is supposed to be graded such due to some minor imperfections in the briar but for the life of me I cannot find fault with it. There is the tiniest of tiny sand pits on the rim but you really need to squint to see it. I think it was graded a Tilshead simply because the grain is non too exciting and nothing more though to me it looks just fine.
The 'A' grade is really superb. I have seen 'P' grade pipes with lesser grain than this one. There is straight grain all around the bowl and the bird's eye on the rim is the best I have seen ever. I just smoked a bowl of FVF in it and there was a faint sour taste that I never got from my Upshall I bought last week but I put this down to the bowl coating. I thought it was just carbonized but I now think they used some kind of coating.
Apologies for the lighting issues with the photography.

Regards,
Jay.

 

[wyfbane]

Damn, those are beautiful. The rim on that dublin is something else!

 

[mso489]

Great pipes. As I pontificated on another thread, I don't give a flip for grades on pipes, and simply regard them as a curiosity and with some suspicion. This pipe illustrates my point well. My attitude is, I'll be the judge of the grade of the pipe after I've carefully selected it and smoked it for a year. Don't bother me with price-hyping presumptions.

 

[papipeguy]

Congrats on those 2 beauties. Enjoy.

 

[ssjones]

you are on a roll!

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

Why I see seldom pipes of today with this like beautiful grain pattern, where all the flowers had gone'

 

[philobeddoe]

Nice pickups, the grain on the Dublin is especially sweet.

 

[mawnansmiff]

Thanks for the nice comments chaps.
I have found out why the Dublin tasted somewhat sour on first light up. Whilst cleaning out the bowl last night I discovered that underneath the carbonised coating the inner bowl had stain on it 8O
I thought it was only Peterson's pipes were dip stained but it appears that Upshalls were too. I shall now have to gently sand the inner bowl back to bare wood.
Oddly enough, the Oom Paul smoked fine the first time around with a bowl of McClelland's 2015 VaPer blend.
The same seller has a 'B' grade bent Rhodesian for sale that I really really like but sadly the price is way too high for my shallow pockets :crying:
Regards,
Jay.

 

[ssjones]

I finish my bowl clean up, with a small piece of 320 grit wrapped around the proper sized reamer bit, that does a nice job without damaging/altering the bowl.

 

[mawnansmiff]

Al, my method is to roll up some sandpaper into a cigar and twist and turn it in the bowl. If rolled correctly the 'cigar' automatically shapes itself to the correct diameter of the bowl. It even works with tapered bowls.
Just a different way of tackling the same problem.
Regards,
Jay.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Grain- birdseye- on rim of Dublin is superb, but I prefer the Hungarian* over all. Is it a sitter, too?
* Jay I am surprised that a scholar such as yourself would call a Hungarian by its ill-advised moniker named for that shit-head and racist Paul Kruger.

 

[mawnansmiff]

"Jay I am surprised that a scholar such as yourself would call a Hungarian by its ill-advised moniker named for that shit-head and racist Paul Kruger."
John, yet again I have to ask you to read the thread again :roll:
"A Tilshead 'Oom Paul' and an A grade 'Dublin', or rather that is how the seller described them."
Oom Paul or Hungarian, same thing in my book. Besides, by all accounts J. Edgar wasn't a very nice person in some folks eyes yet we still 'Hoover' our carpets :wink:
Racist: One who believes that races have distinctive cultural characteristics determined by hereditary factors and that this endows some races with an intrinsic superiority over others.
Ask yourself, which race of people win all the marathon races around the world?
Regards,
Jay.

 

[jpmcwjr]

No comparison, Hoover vs. Kruger, though they were both despicable in different ways.
J Edgar- FBI Director for too long, and yes, a real c*nt. Hoover Dam, named after Herbert Hoover a now. When you hoover (l/c) your carpet, you are referring to the Hoover Vacuum Company, now just "Hoover" a subsidiary of another company.

W.H. "Boss" Hoover, owner of a leather goods manufacturing shop, bought the patent from Spangler in 1908, retained him as a partner, and soon had six employees assembling six units a day in a corner of the leather goods shop.

I believe Uncle Paul Kruger was a racist whose actions were detrimental to a large group of people he considered inferior.