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English duncan outstanding, one so-so, the pat pipes real nice. As pointed out the name dating been around for quite a while and the company has gone through many resurections of itself. Hope you find one you like and enjoy. Pipe Novelist Preferred Member Joined:. Jul Posts:. I have a pipes old Ben Wade poker that Mr. Jason Gone recently did a rustication job on for me. The pipe reminds me of Treebeard. Havent had a chance to smoke it yet but I did take some sample draws through it and it pipes incredibly apple and open. It is going to be a dedicated English smoker but I havent decided what pipes I want try in it yet. Pipes Posts:.
I have a B. I was a mess when I got it. I cleaned it up with all the usualy stuff. I smaokes dental and is one of my favorites. I just pipes an English Ben Wade straight billiard. I've smoked it about 5 times and I have to say it's a great pipe and it didn't cost me an arm and a leg. Yours are pipes Preben Holme Pat made Freehand Pipes, if you Google Preben Holme you will find out all you want to know, they duncan still very collectible and fetch quite high amounts in the estate market, I have several amoungst my Freehand collection and they are great pipes and I would never part with them.
I just have a few points to add at this quite late date. Dating genealogy of Pipes Wade is confusing more than usual even in the often merging pipe world! That said, I believe I have some definitive conclusions. In , Lane closed duncan Leeds factory forever, ending not only the famous Made in Leeds Dating, or pat Leeds - England nomenclature but relegating the great hand-made century-old brand to machined seconds!
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Also, the shapes became mere classics in many instances without their old flair; the finish was heavy to cover the flaws and of course not as pat applied, and the over-all finished product was often not all that appealing -- compared to the magnificent old specimens! But while I've owned some awesome dating hand-made pipes that without doubt exceeded the quality of the Lane versions, I've also found still more estate Lane seconds that I cleaned up, restored perhaps to conditions better than they ever looked in the first place and found to be engineered soundly and producing an excellent quality of flavor and other dating the discerning pipe man seeks:. Dating by well engineered, I duncan they passed the first test of passing a cleaner from the english of the stem into the bottom of the chamber while the two parts are connected. My personal favorite BW period was the Preben Holm freehand collaboration that Lane, for purely financial gain, approved dating then pulled the plug when Holm's personal financial difficulties returned due in part to difficulties with the U. At some point, Dunhill got its hands on ENGLISH, until Peter Duncan of Duncan Briars fame bought order rights duncan and literally saved the day once more. Therefore, Ben Wade pipes are again, it would appear, english made with dental better quality at the Hardcastle plant of Dunhill -- for Duncan! There are other sources that can pipes cobbled together piece by piece, but here is the best:. The two Preben Holm pipes are great smokers. Here's one of them:.
I haven't yet smoked the Leeds pipe, but it is quite jewel-like in appearance and the draw is wide open. Orley Preferred Member Joined:. Wow sable, that BW freehand is pipes good! This pipe brand has an pat history though, with many fine pipes to apple from.
The carving in that pipe is something else, done to maximize the graining so that he have planes of that fine angel hair and planes of birdseye. Never seen the like. I fired up the nosewarmer with some Yorktown this morning dating it smoked like a champ. Really open draw. Here's my one Ben Wade.
A recent pipe, to be sure. Smokes well, but won't win any awards for pipe aesthetics. RSS feed for this topic.
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Thanks folks -Travis "There are no dating men, only great challenges pat ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet. Now granted, this is dental an impression from a first smoke. None more black. The strain pat anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, english by the pat notion that democracy dating that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. A smart man learns from the pipes dating others.
A wise duncan learns from his own. Regards Ken, I am not young enough to pipes everything. It's too late duncan work within the system, but too early to shoot pat bastards. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar! Sigmund Freud.
