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Highlander

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a few of my pipes, and some Dunhill Elizabethan... Pipes.jpg
 
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Michael, I wasn't familiar with his work so I just took a few minutes to look thru his gallery. Now this is a Cutty! He says inspired by Tom Eltang. It certainly would feel good in the hand. I'm going to study his work a bit more & send him an inquiry.

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I prefer vulcanite also. I like the looks of a Cumberland stem on some pipes.

He has some nice looking Lumbermans & Lovats which are favorite shapes of mine also.

I sent him an inquiry but it bounced back the first time as a bad addy. I resent it so hopefully it went thru the second time.
 

Michael R.

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I hope it went through Jack . I like Cumberland Stems on some Pipes , too . A guy I know loves Mark Tinskey , has a collection , and there was a Pipe I had been thinking about since watching a vid and seeing that Pipe . Talked to me trying to get me to contact him about the Pipe I was wanting Custom . He (you may know) lives in Montana , and makes some nice Pipes , but his shanks seem a bit large for my taste , but he could probably do whatever . His thing , the star in a circle , may be why . But Mark Balkovec has a youtube channel , and seems like a really nice guy , and his Pipes are incredible . I'm a Lumberman , Canadian , Lovat fan , also . He had a Lumberman for Sale before Christmas , but decided to keep it himself . Nice Pipe ! I think his last video he's smoking it , and tells he had it For Sale , but he needed a New Pipe , liked it , kept it .

Good Luck on the inquiry .
 
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Good Luck on the inquiry.
Got a reply. Specs are good to what I like. Thinking about a Cumberland stem instead of the black acrylic as pictured. No vulcanite offered. He is currently caught up so leadtime is now 7-10 days.

Those look more expensive than hats!
Nothing quite like smoking a fine tobacco in an heirloom quality pipe. I only have a few pipes including a Dunhill that belonged to my grandfather, but I have all of my dad's pipes. Plus my own pipes since my college days.
 
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Benzadmiral

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I smoked pipes 1-2x a week for about 12 years, and still have many of them. Basically I quit because of the latest Nicotine-Nazi laws forbidding you to smoke anywhere but at home (and the N-Ns will probably start on that next). People in restaurants and coffee shops always told me how great my tobacco smelled -- but somehow now I'm Persona Non Smoka. Oh, well.

Anyway, I had a Peterson (though I could never afford the Mark Twain model they offered), a Savinelli sandblasted model (to me the Somerset Maugham type of pipe), a calabash, and others. My favorite was a thick-walled model with a flat base that I have out in the open on a bookshelf.
 
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Michael R.

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I remember when they started the no-smoking sections in restaurants , then they by law made everywhere no smoking zones . Was that the late 70s or the 80s ? Personally I think it was the jump in asthma in kids due to all the vaccines . They wanted to blame everything except what actually caused it . Nobody had asthma when I was a kid , and people smoked like freight trains everywhere . Now nobody thinks for themselves . Its so obvious . The Control Game .
 

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