Guy":l98wt4jm said:I just saw the new line.... a nice pipe for the price.... but not what they use to be, first class freehands.
I know history but that was before my time with pipes. I just have exprence with the many Ben Wade freehands I bought new and still have from the late 70's.Frost":pl2be6po said:Guy":pl2be6po said:I just saw the new line.... a nice pipe for the price.... but not what they use to be, first class freehands.
Actually, the used to be nice classic English shapes before they became nice freehands, before becoming slightly less nice English shapes before becoming what they are now
Some of the newer ones look to be pretty well cut and finished from what little I have seen, although I haven't met one of the new generation pipes in person. The prices certainly aren't unreasonable assuming the engineering is well done.
:lol!: There's always a clown in the group.Guy":bfngapwg said:When I was first starting collecting pipes I thought the term “Freehand” suggested you needed a free hand to smoke it. I never tried from that time to hold one with my teeth.
:lol!: but trueRichard Burley":9lzwytcs said::lol!: There's always a clown in the group.Guy":9lzwytcs said:When I was first starting collecting pipes I thought the term “Freehand” suggested you needed a free hand to smoke it. I never tried from that time to hold one with my teeth.
NOPE. It's kinda like the GM plant here in my town, they made Buick, Oldsmabile, and Pontiac which were ALL DIFFERENT as we know Besides, Dunhill says they NEVER made seconds! A venerable firm like that would not say an untruth, would they? :roll:Boulder":vx6ex71h said:
Today's Ben Wades; (I find a good smoke for the money)
Peter Wilson who worked the miracle of Ben Wade's resurrection buying the rights of the brand in 1998 from Dunhill.
To keep things simple the pipes are made at the Walthamstow plant where - according to British White Pages -
Parker, Hardcastle Briar and Dunhill Pipes & Smokers Requisites share not only the same the address
(32 St. Andrews Rd, London E17 6BQ) but even the same telefon number (020 84984000).
So does that make it another Dunhill 2nd?
monbla256":ugukvrcs said:NOPE. It's kinda like the GM plant here in my town, they made Buick, Oldsmabile, and Pontiac which were ALL DIFFERENT as we know Besides, Dunhill says they NEVER made seconds! A venerable firm like that would not say an untruth, would they? :roll:Boulder":ugukvrcs said:
Today's Ben Wades; (I find a good smoke for the money)
Peter Wilson who worked the miracle of Ben Wade's resurrection buying the rights of the brand in 1998 from Dunhill.
To keep things simple the pipes are made at the Walthamstow plant where - according to British White Pages -
Parker, Hardcastle Briar and Dunhill Pipes & Smokers Requisites share not only the same the address
(32 St. Andrews Rd, London E17 6BQ) but even the same telefon number (020 84984000).
So does that make it another Dunhill 2nd?
As far as the current Ben Wade's, I recently looked at some and while they looked to be some well made pipes, my impression of them based on what they used to look like was they were NOT what the firm used to produce. A nice pipe for sure, but not on a par with the older pipes as I recall, but then I don't own one and the last time I held one in my hands was back in the 70's so my memory might be called to task
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