High-End Beauty

[i.keenum]

Just means my opinion is better than than everyone else's. :cheers:

 

[the rev]

you can take the same chamber size of a billiard or a bulldog and throw it into a modern pipe, and it will smoke exactly the same. Elitism pure and simple.

rev

 

[Puff Daddy]

Or nostalgia.

Why should pipe smoking be any different than food, sex, music. It's not just the notes, the moves, the engineering, it's all these things plus the subjective. We have our own personal human dimension to bring to the thing. Maybe part of it is the subconscious "Id", maybe some of it is preconcieved expectations, maybe even a little anthropomorphizing. If it were as simple as "A little hole attached to a big hole for the purpose of burning weeds and sucking the smoke out" it wouldn't be any fun.

 

[Anonymous]

you can take the same chamber size of a billiard or a bulldog and throw it into a modern pipe, and it will smoke exactly the same.

Not.

It will have "exactly the same" chamber dimensions.

Pipes and tobacco are both female. No two "identical" pipes by the same maker smoke and taste "exactly the same." You can't even mix "exactly the same" batch of tobacco twice. You can be as careful as possible but they'll differ.

Then throw in that your modern job will likely have a different length/pitch/&c. airway & stem.

Nothing in nature is duplicable. On paper, yes. In practice, no.

:cat: :face: :study:

 

[the rev]

then neither is the classic shape

your argument destroyed itself

rev

 

[i.keenum]

What about the military complex and how macarthur smoked a cob. And if pipes are feminine, tampers must be masculine. irat:

 

[the rev]

I've got your tamper right here

 

[i.keenum]

HA!

 

[Puff Daddy]

I've got your tamper right here

Ah, but is it for a group 3 featherweight or or an ODA pot

 

[the rev]

 

[Puff Daddy]

:lol!:

 

[monbla256]

WOW!! Ya don't see many of those grp .010 sized Dunnie bents these days ! Priceless! Makes a pound of 'bac last a lifetime :twisted: :twisted:

 

[the rev]

I am sure that one smokes brilliantly because it is a classic shape

rev

 

[i.keenum]

No way that classic shape would burn out.

 

[Anonymous]

then neither is the classic shape

your argument destroyed itself

A classic form doesn't depend on precise duplication.

You're the one who brought "exactly the same" into this.

:cat: :face: :study:

 

[the rev]

then neither is the classic shape

your argument destroyed itself

A classic form doesn't depend on precise duplication.

You're the one who brought "exactly the same" into this.

:cat: :face: :study:

so let me get this straight...

no pipe is exactly the same, so the modern pipes won't smoke the same because no pipe is the same. But the traditional shapes are not all the same but they will smoke the same because they are the same?

yeah, that sounds right

why don't you just admit it, you like certain kinds of pipes, and don't like others. It is ok, there doesn't have to be an objective, logical and perfect reason, because like pipes no human is exactly the same

rev

 

[MisterE]

you can take the same chamber size of a billiard or a bulldog and throw it into a modern pipe, and it will smoke exactly the same. Elitism pure and simple.

rev

Nope.

I think the point is that no two pipes will smoke the same no matter what you do.

Anyone who has tried a few identical musical instruments back-to-back will tell you they all play differently. In fact, for centuries they've tried to replicate certain Italian violins down to the minutest detail. Unfortunately, all they can get is close even if the dimensions are identical.

I have smoked identical pipes by the same maker and they were vastly different. They came off the same bench by the same maker's hand around the same time, but one had nothing to do with the other.

If you put the exact same proportions of a classic design in a more modern shape, you'll have a time tested working design within a new body. Not an identical smoker.

My $.02.

Carry on...

 

[Kyle Weiss]

Nope.

I think the point is that no two pipes will smoke the same no matter what you do.

Anyone who has tried a few identical musical instruments back-to-back will tell you they all play differently. In fact, for centuries they've tried to replicate certain Italian violins down to the minutest detail. Unfortunately, all they can get is close even if the dimensions are identical.

I have smoked identical pipes by the same maker and they were vastly different. They came off the same bench by the same maker's hand around the same time, but one had nothing to do with the other.

If you put the exact same proportions of a classic design in a more modern shape, you'll have a time tested working design within a new body. Not an identical smoker.

My $.02.

Carry on...

Well, I have two identical synthesizers that sound the same. Except the spring on the upper C tends to get out of whack a little on one of them...

...I guess your argument holds water. :lol:

8)

 

[dkj42]

:cyclops: I can't get even the same pipe with the same tobacco to smoke the same two times in a row.

 

[the rev]

you can take the same chamber size of a billiard or a bulldog and throw it into a modern pipe, and it will smoke exactly the same. Elitism pure and simple.

rev

Nope.

I think the point is that no two pipes will smoke the same no matter what you do.

Anyone who has tried a few identical musical instruments back-to-back will tell you they all play differently. In fact, for centuries they've tried to replicate certain Italian violins down to the minutest detail. Unfortunately, all they can get is close even if the dimensions are identical.

I have smoked identical pipes by the same maker and they were vastly different. They came off the same bench by the same maker's hand around the same time, but one had nothing to do with the other.

If you put the exact same proportions of a classic design in a more modern shape, you'll have a time tested working design within a new body. Not an identical smoker.

My $.02.

Carry on...

but yak said they would smoke the same if they had a traditional shape.

Look, when it comes to pipes and their smoking qualities... I think I will trust rad Davis. Not sure why its so hard for people to just admit they have a subjective preference for a certain thing, having nothing to do with "smokability"

rev