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They are really popular. I don't make 'em too often but when I do they sell immediately.

Specific articles on that.... nothing comes to mind but I'll think about it. Lots of guys just do what other guys do because it works, and I think the general idea is that we are trying to build a smooth pathway for the smoke to travel, such that it is not encouraged to condense via turbulence...

On one hand, buying pipes on a budget isn't difficult at all. There are millions of pipes floating around out there, from 5 bucks to 100 bucks, all looking for homes. So the question is either: why are people unsatisfied with these pipes? or: what is it about more expensive pipes that...

Huh... I never figured on agreeing with a whole post of Yak's, but there it is. The reductionism of trying to understand a good vs bad pipe is possible to a degree, but there are factors that simply aren't measurable (my enjoyment of blend X in the pipe vs yours) so we can only go on...

Agreed.

Radice's shortcomings might be their bulk and their stem work, but the smoking properties are not to be questioned. They smoke fantastic, and that's all there is to it. Far better off buying Radice pipes than many other brands at that (and higher) price points for how they smoke.

I think the thinking has changed for a lot of the Danish carvers - I think the emphasis was grain and shape and if the thing had a stem it was a pipe. Newer/better ideas about airway design have improved the level of most handmades in the last... I dunno, ten years or something...

"Full Bent" - right at 90 degrees, is very, very rare.

I would argue that what makes a bulldog is the "smoke stack" shape, the 2 rings, and a diamond shank. Do these things with a full bent shank, and you'd have a full bent bulldog. It's REALLY hard to spin anything but a straight billard bowl when you do a full bent pipe on the lathe, because...

I think it sucks. :lol!:

I have a slightly skewed view of these pipes, being a pipe maker myself, so I'll tread carefully. Randy Wiley has been making pipes a long time so it's not like he's gonna go out and shoot himself if I say something disagreeable. This is in my experience, I will not speak outside that...

Maybe it's the shag-cut dough you smoke?

Bent. Straight pipes go "clack" when you shoulder check!

Oh and my Oom Paul is a lowly Jobey! LOL looked like a nice blast to me though.

591 seems to be the shape: http://www.finepipes.com/english/dunhill/dunhill-1961-root-hungarian-shape-591 for example. 5247 seems to be the street address of one of the London Dunhll shops. DUNHILL TOBACCO OF LONDON NEW COLONNADE . DEVEREUX AVE. VINCENT, 5247 EAST LONDON

Agreed, looks like a '69. I've got a 120 from that year. Nice piece! Just picked up an Oom Paul of that vintage too: Betcha can't guess the brand.

Ba dump bump! It takes a Polish guy to rub it on and a French guy to tell everyone how great it is.

Yeah they are actually mixed. The most traditional form of the French Polish method involves a pad with a few drops of linseed on it and a thin, high grade shellac. You can buy this mixture now, under the guise of french polish, various turner's polishes, etc. What a guy is doing on a pipe...

No other entrants, so the hufflepuff's pipe is the winner.

Completely depends on what the finish is made of. Most likely it's just a penetrating food grade oil (walnut is common).