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Objection, Your Honor

No lumps ? Taka a second look at the back edge of the Barling bowl. Proportion of shank diameter to bowl diamater ? Reminds me of a computer-generated image of a woman combining Dolly Parton's torso with Princess Di's legs.

Thank You, Mr. Bannard.

So then, were the governing values of "Swedish" pipe design then the continuation of earlier English ones? They sound pretty similar.

So Ford/Chevy.

(Plus tribalism).

Any time an example of a classic pipe shape (a billiard in particular) is presented here for virtual veneration, it will almost always be a Dunhill or a Barling. Fair enough. But back before the luftwafte took the original Ben Wade out of the picture, Reuben Charatan considered BW his only real comp...

A one year-old post @ Pipes Magazine. FWIW: I do see a cliff coming for artisan pipemakers. I've seen it in ceramics, lampwork glass work, silversmithing, and lapidary. The market catches fire with collectors of these things. The up and coming generation sees these extraordinary prices these artisan...

1) "We don't see things as they are. We see things as we are." --Anais Nin Having to always be the Alpha Male definitely included. 2) The internet pretty well replaced books because the relatively effortless gratification it offered played well to human laziness. Now "social media&quo...

Several seem pretty relevant. The top trends for 2015 are: The Grand Manipulation: The mechanisms of sound economics are being subverted to favor the wealthy and powerful. Bankism: Capitalism is on the brink as Bankism is fast becoming the dominant global economic system. Price Wars: Too much produc...

The very worst thing that happens is the estate market gets flooded with really nice pipes.. No complaints on my end. Well, Smokingpipes lists 614 of them this morning -- a number that seems to reflect a general increase in re-sellers stocks. What probably comes next is price wars as deflation exas...

http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/pipe-sm ... d=26081188

Notice the correlation of sales velocity with price point.

Todd Bannard.

Jesse Jones is pretty good too.

Peanut Gallery Commentary : Visualise the ring at a 90-degree angle to the axis of the tenon & I think you'd like the result better.

Pretty nice, Lady 8) Rings could be, to my taste, narrower -- wide ones look clunky. Especially on a dainty pipe. Also, IMO, the sweep up to the front of the pipe on the underside could be less abrupt. Rounded more like a (whatever shape in nature it pleases you to contemplate) (fruit ?) would leave...

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There is a lot about sound that people don't know or understand. Like the mourning dove that sits in a tree 100 yards from our porch and annoys me for hours with his intermidable oooOOOooo...ooo...ooo. The distance that sound carries & the intensity of it is out of all proportion. Even more so :...

First a quick refresher on the way "science" works (contrasted with the way the fraud that impersonates it does). Take your time and make sure you've really got it. It's not a difficult principle to grasp but, in today's world, it's almost a novel idea : that the data determine the conclus...

Noah Bendix-Balgley, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra's concertmaster, got a new violin this summer. It's new only to him, though. The violin was crafted by Carlo Bergonzi in 1732 in Cremona, Italy, where instrument making flourished for two centuries. Its previous owners include violinists Nigel K...

Jenson: An unfortunate thing happened. I had a big career, was travelling all over the place, and I met my husband in Denver -- I played the Beethoven Concerto there -- and we met, and obviously decided to get married, and I sent out invitations to this upcoming wedding, including sending one to the...

Lydia Mordkovitch has owned a 1746 Niccolo Gagliano since the 1970s. "It had been kept in a cupboard for about 30 years, and it took me two or three years to develop the sound. I like it, but over the years, I've borrowed a variety of Strads and a Guadagnini for recordings and very important co...

Hardly, Woofs. They did incomplete tests, evaluated under useless conditions, measured the wrong variables and came to hilariously wrong conclusions as a result. Fact : Play an Amati made around 1650 with its original, too-short neck mounted at too high an angle, undersized bass bar & low-densit...