Comments | foxglovehp: Inexpensive Petersons?

foxglovehp

Inexpensive Petersons?

Feb 04, 2008 21:43

I recently ordered two new pipes. I ordered a Peterson Shamrock (the briar pictured below) and a Paronelli Desert Storm Pipe (similar to the colorful one pictured below). I just received them and am currently in the process of breaking in both pipes.

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exvapi February 5 2008, 15:05:34 UTC

If "B" grade is the same wood functionally, but just has a lower grade of figure (to use a wood working term), then, from a pipe function perspective, there should be no difference. But, I don't know about how figure affects pipe function so, clueless.

I'm a cigar smoker myself. Tell folks when they look at me like I'm shooting drugs "What am I going to do, get cancer? Already got it."

foxglovehp February 5 2008, 21:54:14 UTC

From the Tinder Box site: A briar pipe begins as a Burl (or growth) on the root system of the White Heath Tree, a squat, hearty, shrub-like plant which grows primarily in the dry, arid, rocky wastelands around the Mediterranean Sea. Of all woods, the Briar Burl is unique for making pipes; its tough, porous and nearly impervious to heat. Burls for fine quality pipes can often be 50 to 100 years old when harvested for pipe making ( ... )