Um, Interesting Pipe

[HRPufnstuf]

Definitely not a fan but I can appreciate the work it would take to shape and and finish the pipe.

I, can not. I can only imagine it being "finished" at gunpoint.

 

[AppalachianPipe92]

Not my kinda thing, but there are some respectable intricacies going on here.

 

[trouttimes]

You guys are very pc. That is one of the most butt ugly abomination I have ever seen. Anyone with the skill to make that should not have and should have known better. As they say…eye of the beholder. This maker is blind.

 

[Bbailey324]

There are lots of 'interesting' pieces on the website if anyone needs additional rarities to ponder.

 

[TheIronMonkey]

This pipe seems quite different to many of Grant Batson’s pipes. It would appear it was carved four years into his pipemaking career after leaving making guitars. I would be curious what the back story on this wacky Reverse Calabash is.

 

[Chasing Embers]

This pipe seems quite different to many of Grant Batson’s pipes. It would appear it was carved four years into his pipemaking career after leaving making guitars. I would be curious what the back story on this wacky Reverse Calabash is.

That's one big chunk of ivory.

 

[Cloozoe]

This pipe seems quite different to many of Grant Batson’s pipes. It would appear it was carved four years into his pipemaking career after leaving making guitars...

His final guitar,which no doubt precipitated his move to pipe making*


*Not really (I've learned such disclaimers are desirable on this board as an aid to the humor impaired)

 

[HRPufnstuf]

Scott and Abe: yeah, those are certainly fugly, but they're (relatively) cheap, they're deliberately made as novelty items, and they lack that certain je ne sais quoi that elevates the one I posted to the very summit of fugliness; the apotheosis of hideous; a true anti-achievement...awful pipe entelechy.

Yeah, "fugly" about covers it. In some ways like a train wreck, you know it's wrong but you can't help looking at it.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Someone found it appealing.

 

[sablebrush52]

Lots of pipes are not my cup of joe but I don't disdain them or those to whom they appeal.

But notwithstanding à chacun son goût, I found myself wondering about the appeal of this one:

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Not a cheap pipe, either; I can almost hear the SP description: "Whimsical yet elegant, the flowing lines of the robust base segué seemlessly into the elegant trumpet-like bowl whose forward cant provides the entire composition with an irresistible forward propulsion..."

'Splain it to me, Lucy

This is a very, very rare pipe, pseudonymously carved by Butt Ugly.

 

[TN Jed]

Grant makes some beautiful great smoking NonSmurfy pipes too. This is one of my favorite pipes.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I actually thought about going after it just for the oddity until I found out who made it.

 

[TN Jed]

Apparently there's a history here I'm not aware of.

 

[alan73]

I liked it and bid on it , it would fit in well with my “misfit” pipe collection. . Stem work was amazing , could of joined my best stem work pipe collection too

 

[LeafErikson]

 

[Cloozoe]

I liked it and bid on it ...

Well, sorry you didn't get it and collecting is collecting. Curious: you wouldn't actually put tobacco in it, light up and hang it from your jaw while riding fence on the south forty, would you?

 

[Chasing Embers]

Stem work was amazing , could of joined my best stem work pipe collection too

It was a tad wanting.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Curious: you wouldn't actually put tobacco in it, light up and hang it from your jaw while riding fence on the south forty, would you?

Couldn't imagine why not.

 

[PipeIT]

I do not want to smoke that pipe, I will not smoke it in the night, I will not smoke it the rain, for that pipe I have great disdain.

I would not smoke it in my house, I would not smoke it with a grouse.

I cannot smoke it with any joy, I shall not use it as a toy.

I will not put it my hand, I will not smoke it with the band.

I do not like that pipe I say, and I will not like it any day.

Was that one of your Dr. Seuss renditions?

 

[alan73]

It was a tad wanting.

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The top looked better , the backside is ehh agreed