When a rose is a pipe

[fishnbanjo]

Though he marks his pipes Tarok his name is Christian Wolfsteiner from Germany who sadly passed away last year. The pipe is called the Wild rose with three knuckle bamboo shank and one of the most comfortable bits on any of my pipe stems, keeping it smokey with some PS Luxury Navy Flake.

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[mso489]

That's some artistry in carving. "A rose is a rose is a rose," as Gertrude Stein said. (I can't read more than a page or two of her work, but oddly enough, when you study the two, she taught Hemingway a lot about cadence in prose, and he had the narrative skill and language to hold a reader for hundreds of pages.) So ... that is a spectacular pipe.