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A Dunhill Briar Question
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<blockquote data-quote="Puff Daddy" data-source="post: 9099" data-attributes="member: 3"><p>Interesting. My above comments are based on what I've heard and read about pipemaking in general. I do have and have had Dunhill shells, cumberlands and roots ranging from the mid sixties, mid seventies and early 2000's. I never noticed any great difference in the quality of the briar itself, but I've never owned any of the coveted early Dunhills either. I certainly have no specific knowledge of Dunhills' briar selection but I do find the selecting of different briars for different finishes both odd and interesting. I can grok the idea of how different pieces of briar may be better for different styles of carving (shells vs smooths) but it seems that it would set the carver up for a very high rate of unuseable smooth stummells as I'd think that a huge number of briar blocks carved to be smooths would end up with some fatal flaw in the final stages. </p><p></p><p>Maybe those stummels became Parkers or some other second?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Puff Daddy, post: 9099, member: 3"] Interesting. My above comments are based on what I've heard and read about pipemaking in general. I do have and have had Dunhill shells, cumberlands and roots ranging from the mid sixties, mid seventies and early 2000's. I never noticed any great difference in the quality of the briar itself, but I've never owned any of the coveted early Dunhills either. I certainly have no specific knowledge of Dunhills' briar selection but I do find the selecting of different briars for different finishes both odd and interesting. I can grok the idea of how different pieces of briar may be better for different styles of carving (shells vs smooths) but it seems that it would set the carver up for a very high rate of unuseable smooth stummells as I'd think that a huge number of briar blocks carved to be smooths would end up with some fatal flaw in the final stages. Maybe those stummels became Parkers or some other second? [/QUOTE]
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