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JimInks

Sultan of Smoke
Aug 31, 2012
64,440
645,099
Relaxing after a wonderful salad, chicken legs and snow peas dinner with strawberries for dessert. I'm smoking New Watch City Beta Test #3 in an undated, unbranded straight lattice meerschaum military mount with a silver cap and tapered yellow acrylic stem. Watching a wild ball game, and getting ready to clean a few pipes in-between writing beta notes on this blend.
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tfdickson

Lifer
May 15, 2014
2,350
47,235
East End of Long Island
1995 PCCA Millennium in my 1978 birth year ODA.

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Ben.R.C

Lifer
Nov 20, 2022
4,462
97,762
55
North Carolina
Just beautiful work!
Can't say that that they are affordable, for me.

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To comment more on affordability, when I started this hobby, not that long ago, 300$ for a pipe was not affordable. How quickly my mindset has shifted!
This is how I think about it now: If I can afford 5 100$ pipes I can also afford 1 500$ pipe.
I’ve taken advantage of layaway options at smoking pipes and Danish Pipe shop. Most online vendors have layaway available if you ask. Danish pipe shop gives you a year to pay it off after 20% down. This is how I rationalize expensive pipes! 😂 Also, I really like the whole idea of supporting single artisans who are passionate about their craft. I want to make sure this art form continues, this is one small way of giving back to to the hobby.
 

woodsroad

Lifer
Oct 10, 2013
12,691
20,365
SE PA USA
To comment more on affordability, when I started this hobby, not that long ago, 300$ for a pipe was not affordable. How quickly my mindset has shifted!
This is how I think about it now: If I can afford 5 100$ pipes I can also afford 1 500$ pipe.
I’ve taken advantage of layaway options at smoking pipes and Danish Pipe shop. Most online vendors have layaway available if you ask. Danish pipe shop gives you a year to pay it off after 20% down. This is how I rationalize expensive pipes! 😂 Also, I really like the whole idea of supporting single artisans who are passionate about their craft. I want to make sure this art form continues, this is one small way of giving back to to the hobby.
I rationalize in a similar fashion about all sorts of things, like spending $20k on a compact track loader, leaving little room for expensive pipes. So, yeah, I understand your perspective.

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JimInks

Sultan of Smoke
Aug 31, 2012
64,440
645,099
Off to work with a bowl of year 2018 Sutliff Dunhill Elizabethan Match in a 1982 smooth straight Dunhill Root Briar 31051 dublin with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink. Going to listen to the rest of this screwy ball game.
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