wrapping the bowl

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sethruiner
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wrapping the bowl

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today i was wondering, has anybody wrapped their pipe in leather? also, why would they do that if they did? i feel like i've seen some or heard sombody talking about it but thought i'd ask the experts. just something on my mind today.
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SchmidtN
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Re: wrapping the bowl

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Because their briar is ugly, they don't want to rusticate and they don't have a sandblast cabinet. Never done it myself.
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Hudson
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Re: wrapping the bowl

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Quite an interesting little history to it:

http://pipedia.org/index.php?title=Longchamp
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Albert Einstein, famous pipe smoker
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