Our passion on display for the world to see!

bscofield · Post by **bscofield** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 10:52 am

Well... sort of. Did anyone notice that the new nickle (as in .05 coin) has a pipe on the back for the new design. I'm not up on the nickel designs so I don't know if there are several or not but the one I'm looking at right now has a pair of hands shaking (pilgrim and native american) and above that a criss-cross of an axe and a PIPE. It's looks like churchwarden version of a dublin or something similar...

achduliebe · Post by **achduliebe** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 11:00 am

Hey Ben,

I saw that too. I do beleive they have a couple of different designs out now for the new nickels.

When I first saw that I got all excited and showed my wife....and she just looked at me like I was crazy. Imagine that!

jesperff · Post by **jesperff** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 1:37 pm

You Americans are far behind (as usual one could add) -- the Danish 500 Kroner bank note (app $90) shows Niels Bohr smoking a large full bent pipe..

Cheers, Jesper

bscofield · Post by **bscofield** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 1:42 pm

The 500 kroner note is only worth $90 and we're behind?

ToddJohnson · Post by **ToddJohnson** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 3:35 pm

jesperff wrote:You Americans are far behind (as usual one could add) -- the Danish 500 Kroner bank note (app $90) shows Niels Bohr smoking a large full bent pipe..

Cheers, Jesper

Jesper,

Is there a giant mushroom cloud of smoke emenating from that full bent pipe? 8O BTW speaking of "behind," does Denmark need a new air compressor for sandblasting? That one at Stanwell is bound to be on its last leg. I'm sure we've got some extra ones we could send you . . .

Todd--waiting for Jesper to talk about pipes being "blasted out of shape"

jesperff · Post by **jesperff** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 7:17 pm

ToddJohnson wrote: Todd--waiting for Jesper to talk about pipes being "blasted out of shape"

I'm not opening this can of worms even if I was tempted with the thread about mediocre Danish blasting on alt.smokers.pipes recently. But I know what I have seen with my own eyes: amazing blasting on expensive American pipes that were a bit out of shape to put it friendly. Very friendly actually...

Cheers, Jesper

ToddJohnson · Post by **ToddJohnson** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 8:59 pm

jesperff wrote:
ToddJohnson wrote: Todd--waiting for Jesper to talk about pipes being "blasted out of shape"
I'm not opening this can of worms even if I was tempted with the thread about mediocre Danish blasting on alt.smokers.pipes recently. But I know what I have seen with my own eyes: amazing blasting on expensive American pipes that were a bit out of shape to put it friendly. Very friendly actually...

Cheers, Jesper

Hey Jesper,

I was actually not aware of any thread on ASP, but I'm sure it was a real doozie. Seriously, some of my favorite blasts come from Lars and Former. And I love Jess' new blasts that I suspect he's doing at Former's place. And yes, I suppose I can admit that I've seen a few pipes that were slightly misshapen from overblasting

BriarBrian · Post by **BriarBrian** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 12:05 pm

i think it is just a matter of preference. im sure that everyone has their own criteria that makes a blast *nice* to them. neither is right and neither way is wrong( deep carved or shallow evenly carved).
Im sure if you ask a cooke collector they would say that his is the nicest blast to them, but on the other hand if you ask a bang collector , they would say the same thing. so neither is wrong or right, jus wrong or rght to the individual.