My advice - Don't do it! I screwed up an unstained Tinsky doing the same thing.
What Is So Great About Castellos
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I have Dunhills, Castello, Charatans as well as artisan pipes. I like my Castello as well as any. I really don't care why they smoke so well they just do. I don't want to know how the clock is made. I just want to know the time. Are they worth the money? To me they are. That's all I'll say about that.
Don’t. They color beautifully as you smoke them ver the years.
If I could find another Carlo Scotti with a purple stem i would get it for the look at group.
Early in my pipe collecting career I owned a number of Castello's. I loved the way they smoked and looked with the number 49 Calabash(49) being my favorite. It had incredible grain and it smoked like a dream. That was my Italian phase of collecting along with older Camineto's that were made by Ascorti/Radice and were great smokers. I also had a great smoking Don Carlos, Mastro de Paja, Savinelli Autographs, a Ser Jacobo and a few Viprati's that for the money had incredible grain.
My next phase of collecting were my Danish collecting. I had 6 Formers, 4 Rainer Barbi's, a few Matzhold's a handful of hand made Winslows that were E-B's hand made's and they smoked fine. I then went with some English pipes like a couple of Dunhill's, some Dunhill's, Upshall's, Charatans, Pre Transition Barlings, Willmers and something else.
I eventually ended up collecting American made artisan made pipes and that is where I remain. When it comes to smoking characteristics, looks, qualities of the blasts and a bunch of other characteristics I love giving our guys(American made) almost all of my business.
I love the shaping, the dimensions , the way they practically smoke themselves, their English looks from certain artisans like Rad Davis(22), Brian Ruthenberg(10), Jack Howell,(10) Bruce Weaver(3), Trever Talbert(3) 2 Ryan Aldens and others. I still own 1 Dunhill, a 1966 LB Billiard which for my tastes is the fines looking Billiard ever made. I recently put up 40 pipes for sale and I am not sure where I will be going. I will probably stay with our American guys as I enjoy how most of them smoke and look. I would like to go Danish for a few but I worry about their inside shank dimensions. Many can be too tight and I don't like those. I would own some Castello's but their stems suck, I hate acrylic as they are just too hard on my teeth. Their stems are just something I cannot get into. Also their shaping is nothing that I love. I would buy them for their smoking characteristics only.
The one good thing about all of this is that there are no shortages of pipes to buy. I recently just bought 10 ( I think, could be 11) Jack Howell pipes that are American made and are top of the line smokers. I might go with a Larrysson or 2 as the one I have is a great smoker. I am just amazed at how many people are still making high end artisan made pipes in this economy. The prices on these pipes should be coming way down as the economy takes a big dump. I have my eye on another Scottie Piersell as my first one is a great flake smoker. I am not a fan of her pencil thin shank pipes, but her regular sized pipes smoke like a dream. It will be fun to see which way I will go as the government money is play money for me.
My next phase of collecting were my Danish collecting. I had 6 Formers, 4 Rainer Barbi's, a few Matzhold's a handful of hand made Winslows that were E-B's hand made's and they smoked fine. I then went with some English pipes like a couple of Dunhill's, some Dunhill's, Upshall's, Charatans, Pre Transition Barlings, Willmers and something else.
I eventually ended up collecting American made artisan made pipes and that is where I remain. When it comes to smoking characteristics, looks, qualities of the blasts and a bunch of other characteristics I love giving our guys(American made) almost all of my business.
I love the shaping, the dimensions , the way they practically smoke themselves, their English looks from certain artisans like Rad Davis(22), Brian Ruthenberg(10), Jack Howell,(10) Bruce Weaver(3), Trever Talbert(3) 2 Ryan Aldens and others. I still own 1 Dunhill, a 1966 LB Billiard which for my tastes is the fines looking Billiard ever made. I recently put up 40 pipes for sale and I am not sure where I will be going. I will probably stay with our American guys as I enjoy how most of them smoke and look. I would like to go Danish for a few but I worry about their inside shank dimensions. Many can be too tight and I don't like those. I would own some Castello's but their stems suck, I hate acrylic as they are just too hard on my teeth. Their stems are just something I cannot get into. Also their shaping is nothing that I love. I would buy them for their smoking characteristics only.
The one good thing about all of this is that there are no shortages of pipes to buy. I recently just bought 10 ( I think, could be 11) Jack Howell pipes that are American made and are top of the line smokers. I might go with a Larrysson or 2 as the one I have is a great smoker. I am just amazed at how many people are still making high end artisan made pipes in this economy. The prices on these pipes should be coming way down as the economy takes a big dump. I have my eye on another Scottie Piersell as my first one is a great flake smoker. I am not a fan of her pencil thin shank pipes, but her regular sized pipes smoke like a dream. It will be fun to see which way I will go as the government money is play money for me.
Other than those acrylic stems, that's my biggest problem.
He said soil ‘may’ be a difference, but without research it’s hard to know.
Of course everything will have an effect, types of soil, weather, drying/curing and how it was done, length of time, etc... All these things will make a difference, the problem is, where’s the proof, and which of these things makes for better or worse. ?
In regards to beauty as they say, it’s in the eye of the beholder, smoking is in the tongue of the beholder! LOL And because of this, even though we certainly have names we equate to quality, the tongue is the ultimate judge, where those names don’t always taste special or great to some, now matter how great the process is.
So did I. Now without any teeth, I've found pipes up to 9 ounces easily clenched.
Hello, I posted about my new Castello yesterday. In fact I have other castellos which I will share here as I smoke them. So I'll give my opinion. I do think they do look better than many pipes out there, it's not to say there aren't other beautiful pipes (and I have some of those too, you can see my recent posts of my Nanna Ivarsson pipe or y 1928 Dunhills) but let me tell you, there's something quite special about Castellos. The "Paesina Stein" Castello which I shared in a post yesterday brings a little story with it and it says: The pictures, similar to landscapes, are originate from the variable depths of colouring, resulting from the impregnation and transformation, by wet way, of the iron compounds included in the limestone. The characteristic brush patterns are caused by infiltrations of manganese oxide. Age: about 50 million years. Origin: M. Apennine, Italy.
To me, that is a really rare and special pipe. It smokes wonderfully too...
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they turn out consistently good smokers and your likelihood of being disappointed with one is low. Their briar is sweet to neutral and they drill the airway generously. They have their own house style that is often copied.
there is nothing important that separates a good smoking $50 Kaywoodie from a $1000 Grechukin. As with all things the law of diminishing returns kicks in and your benefit decreases in proportion to the increasing dollars spent.
I appreciate both a well made factory pipe and an artisan pipe. Really the only thing that matters is that you know what you like aesthetically, you have some affinity for x school of pipe design, and the pipe functions well as a tool for smoking. The rest is just what you can or can't afford.
there is nothing important that separates a good smoking $50 Kaywoodie from a $1000 Grechukin. As with all things the law of diminishing returns kicks in and your benefit decreases in proportion to the increasing dollars spent.
I appreciate both a well made factory pipe and an artisan pipe. Really the only thing that matters is that you know what you like aesthetically, you have some affinity for x school of pipe design, and the pipe functions well as a tool for smoking. The rest is just what you can or can't afford.
I've come to think that I might get me a Castello one day, but not without checking it out first. So it'll wait until I can get to a decent pipe shop. I'd want to check out the stem and button as I am rather particular with those, and they seem to be of varying quality.
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Almost everyone??? But, almost no one uses all caps for replies...
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