Wallenstein: The Jackbone Pipe.
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Wallenstein: The Jackbone Pipe.
Goodmorning ladies and gents,
Roger surprised me, and I think not only me, with a completely new shape and a new idea. This pipe should solve the problems that people, having dental problems, have with bigger pipes. The weight. How long can you bear a Winslow EG between your teeth....
This pipe, it should be the first in a serie, will rest on your chinn. Well, take a look at it... and please give your comments....
Grafton Street.
groet
GJ
Roger surprised me, and I think not only me, with a completely new shape and a new idea. This pipe should solve the problems that people, having dental problems, have with bigger pipes. The weight. How long can you bear a Winslow EG between your teeth....
This pipe, it should be the first in a serie, will rest on your chinn. Well, take a look at it... and please give your comments....
Grafton Street.
groet
GJ
Re: Wallenstein: The Jackbone Pipe.
Anybody here have a picture of a Wally Frank chinrester? The pipe shown does employ a cantilever which would indeed reduce the feeling of weight in the teeth, but it looks like there is so much weight added out front compared to a regular pipe that it will still feel heavy and will take more effort to keep the bit from twisting in the teeth if the smoker turns his head. It looks unusual and may get some takers on that account, but from a physics standpoint I fail to see any advantage over a much lighter and just as cantilevered full bent to the dental sufferer. Saint-Exupery's comment comes to mind: "The designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
Jack
Jack
Re: Wallenstein: The Jackbone Pipe.
I'll take a full bent over a lever-arm with a club on the end any day. Thing looks like it would pull my teeth out, and they're fine.
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Re: Wallenstein: The Jackbone Pipe.
Actually I quite like the look of it. To my eye it's aesthetically nicer looking than that ugly ass, double L-bend Wally Frank. Admittedly, I would have to stick it in my gob and give it a try to see how well the Wallenstein works as a chinrester.
Regards,
Frank.
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Re: Wallenstein: The Jackbone Pipe.
Goodmorning, evening, lads and gents,
I've found a picture of that famous Wally Frank chinrester.
To my opinion the creation of Roger is an innovation. I have to agree with Frank... before you can give a real opinion you have to had it in your hands c.q between your teeth....
But when Roger tells me it works... I believe him. Four new models of this serie should be ready now... I'm waiting for the pictures to come...
And Roger, if you need a person with dentalproblems to test your innovation... you know where I live...
I've found a picture of that famous Wally Frank chinrester.
To my opinion the creation of Roger is an innovation. I have to agree with Frank... before you can give a real opinion you have to had it in your hands c.q between your teeth....
But when Roger tells me it works... I believe him. Four new models of this serie should be ready now... I'm waiting for the pictures to come...
And Roger, if you need a person with dentalproblems to test your innovation... you know where I live...
Re: Wallenstein: The Jackbone Pipe.
The Jackbone looks truly like a jack to me - you must have jaws like Henry Rollins to be able to hold this in your mouth Again, the craftmanship is perfect but this is not a pipe, in my understanding, but a piece of wood that can be filled with tobacco and smoked.
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Re: Wallenstein: The Jackbone Pipe.
OUch! A bit harsh, a piece of wood to some is a pipe to others.
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Re: Wallenstein: The Jackbone Pipe.
Perhaps I'm unique in this respect, but I really don't care for things resting against my chin. What I see in this design that I'm sure of is that it's basically a lever when it's *not* resting against the chin. I really like the shape of the pipe without the stem, but it appears someone took a nicely shaped pipe and plunked a $3 molded lovat bit into the end of it. It's an interesting concept, but I wonder if perhaps it's a solution for which there is no problem.
TJ
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Re: Wallenstein: The Jackbone Pipe.
Todd, there's obviously a problem, or those guys at Wally Frank, Kaywoodie, etc. would not have come up with the chin rester. We just don't know about it.ToddJohnson wrote: It's an interesting concept, but I wonder if perhaps it's a solution for which there is no problem.
TJ
I think Walle has come up with a wonderful solution.
And he is insane.
Rad
Re: Wallenstein: The Jackbone Pipe.
i would like to have one indeed...
makes me pretty quiet.
makes me pretty quiet.
Re: Wallenstein: The Jackbone Pipe.
Oh boys!
When I was young and easy under the apple bounds
I spoke like you do now.
Your speech is full of jeer, fleer,
scoff and sneer.
But crest my years
may far away it be.
My hair and teeth have been competing for a while
in falling out.
Old fart I am.
And battered by insanity.
Quite frankly: The "Jackbone" is the best solution I know for people with an unsound dental situation. I was born right after the war and brought up with American achievements Germans were not used to such as Coke, donuts and chocolate-bars - yet in absence of a decent dental care, as it is common practice in the States. But I still like holding my pipe with my teeth. It works with "Jackbone". Bet your life.
Cheerio!
Roger
When I was young and easy under the apple bounds
I spoke like you do now.
Your speech is full of jeer, fleer,
scoff and sneer.
But crest my years
may far away it be.
My hair and teeth have been competing for a while
in falling out.
Old fart I am.
And battered by insanity.
Quite frankly: The "Jackbone" is the best solution I know for people with an unsound dental situation. I was born right after the war and brought up with American achievements Germans were not used to such as Coke, donuts and chocolate-bars - yet in absence of a decent dental care, as it is common practice in the States. But I still like holding my pipe with my teeth. It works with "Jackbone". Bet your life.
Cheerio!
Roger
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Re: Wallenstein: The Jackbone Pipe.
Nice.Walle wrote:When I was young and easy under the apple bounds
I spoke like you do now.
Your speech is full of jeer, fleer,
scoff and sneer.
But crest my years
may far away it be.
My hair and teeth have been competing for a while
in falling out.
Old fart I am.
And battered by insanity.
Kevin
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Re: Wallenstein: The Jackbone Pipe.
I neither sneer nor do I jeerWalle wrote:Oh boys!
When I was young and easy under the apple bounds
I spoke like you do now.
Your speech is full of jeer, fleer,
scoff and sneer.
But crest my years
may far away it be.
My hair and teeth have been competing for a while
in falling out.
Old fart I am.
And battered by insanity.
Quite frankly: The "Jackbone" is the best solution I know for people with an unsound dental situation. I was born right after the war and brought up with American achievements Germans were not used to such as Coke, donuts and chocolate-bars - yet in absence of a decent dental care, as it is common practice in the States. But I still like holding my pipe with my teeth. It works with "Jackbone". Bet your life.
Cheerio!
Roger
the pipe that has been posted here.
But youth and age here might agree--
despite this talk of apple trees--
that even pipes upon your chin
should not employ a three-buck stem.
I'd offer up a grand oblation
unto your happy blue crustacean
were it worthy of ovation . . .
Yet "Jackbones" with their funny drilling
garner not a wooden shilling
if they give no better smoke
to the average flouridated bloke.
I'm sorry for those British teeth
which seem to cause you so much grief.
But maybe you should try instead
to strap a billiard to your head.
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Truth in advertising; your pipe and your poem have both made me smile
Goodnight my demented friend.
TJ
Re: Wallenstein: The Jackbone Pipe.
That was beautiful, Todd . At the same time, I'm still laughing my ass off.
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Re: Wallenstein: The Jackbone Pipe.
Todd,
That makes up for your long overdue blog post.
Roger does have one cool blue lobster logo.
That makes up for your long overdue blog post.
Roger does have one cool blue lobster logo.
Kevin
Re: Wallenstein: The Jackbone Pipe.
Todd,
thank God your pipes are so much better than your poems ....
As to the “three-buck-stem”: Never would sacrifice so much gold for such a tiny thing made out of humble rubber! I get them by the kilogramm which makes it so much cheaper.
I speculate it was Old Fart 2 (Brad) who shove you query this alleged Achilles´heel of mine. A most hopeless effort that is, I´m afraid - praising Giudici.
Cheerio!
Roger
thank God your pipes are so much better than your poems ....
As to the “three-buck-stem”: Never would sacrifice so much gold for such a tiny thing made out of humble rubber! I get them by the kilogramm which makes it so much cheaper.
I speculate it was Old Fart 2 (Brad) who shove you query this alleged Achilles´heel of mine. A most hopeless effort that is, I´m afraid - praising Giudici.
Cheerio!
Roger
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Re: Wallenstein: The Jackbone Pipe.
I thought it may be pretentious were I to employ iambic pentameter or write in elegiac verse, but I'm glad you like the pipes at least!Walle wrote:Todd,
thank God your pipes are so much better than your poems ....
I think you're crouching down behind that silly blue lobster of yours and selling yourself short. I've heard the whole "I'd rather make pipes than stems" thing before, but the stem and the "pipe" are one and the same. Or, as in this case, two separate and totally unrelated things. Even with the funky angles, that would be a beautifully designed pipe if the stem didn't look like it were thoughtlessly shoved in the pipe's a**.As to the “three-buck-stem”: Never would sacrifice so much gold for such a tiny thing made out of humble rubber! I get them by the kilogramm which makes it so much cheaper.
Giudici stems are great for simple classic pipes that don't require continuity of design between two elements. Unfortunately for you, you don't make pipes like that. And as far as Brad goes, yes, he's certainly an Old Fart, but I would never listen to him, he's a foreigner! Brad's (originally) from California, and if there's one thing I can't stand it's a Californian pipemaker! Okay, okay, maybe that isn't as bad as being a pipemaker from Alabama, or worse, Germany, but it's still pretty bad! Alright, is everyone offended? Have I left anyone out? No . . . ? Okay, good. I still like the pipe, Roger, even if you did try to screw it up with that cheap molded stem!I speculate it was Old Fart 2 (Brad) who shove you query this alleged Achilles´heel of mine. A most hopeless effort that is, I´m afraid - praising Giudici.
TJ
Re: Wallenstein: The Jackbone Pipe.
Todd,
I´m used to getting insulted by envious competitors all over the world who dwell outside the reach of my legal means. But California? We hear rumors over here saying that there are oodles of dangerously successful lawyers down there (who might be too expensive for Jeff, you could be lucky - he´s definitively not a baseball-pro). And: Has it really become political correct to make aspersions about particular American pipemakers who proudly carry good old German surnames? If so this would worry me a lot. (As far as Alabama I´d agree, though - no mercy for weird cowboys of British descent ...)
Back to Jackbone: If the 3$S (Threebuckstem) gets sunk into the shoulder completely - would this meet your artistic imaginations and conciliate you w/ Giudici?
I tinkered this one
Unfortunately the fockn cleaner-test is not quite satisfactory, so I had to keep the dummy
Cheerio!
Roger
I´m used to getting insulted by envious competitors all over the world who dwell outside the reach of my legal means. But California? We hear rumors over here saying that there are oodles of dangerously successful lawyers down there (who might be too expensive for Jeff, you could be lucky - he´s definitively not a baseball-pro). And: Has it really become political correct to make aspersions about particular American pipemakers who proudly carry good old German surnames? If so this would worry me a lot. (As far as Alabama I´d agree, though - no mercy for weird cowboys of British descent ...)
Back to Jackbone: If the 3$S (Threebuckstem) gets sunk into the shoulder completely - would this meet your artistic imaginations and conciliate you w/ Giudici?
I tinkered this one
Unfortunately the fockn cleaner-test is not quite satisfactory, so I had to keep the dummy
Cheerio!
Roger
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Re: Wallenstein: The Jackbone Pipe.
Nice tinkering job, Roger. Forget the fockn cleaner-test, it's not a necessity.
Regards,
Frank.
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Frank.
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Re: Wallenstein: The Jackbone Pipe.
Hi Frank!
Dare to buy it? Didn´t smoke it yet.
I´m kidding.
But you´re fockn right: I HATE that fockn cleaner-test.
It´s a fockn invention of those fockn collectors.
I´ll fockn smoke the fockn dummy tomorrow.
Cheerio!
Roger
Dare to buy it? Didn´t smoke it yet.
I´m kidding.
But you´re fockn right: I HATE that fockn cleaner-test.
It´s a fockn invention of those fockn collectors.
I´ll fockn smoke the fockn dummy tomorrow.
Cheerio!
Roger
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