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Best Pipes Under 100 bucks?
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<blockquote data-quote="LL" data-source="post: 31781" data-attributes="member: 95"><p>Repairman's perspective:</p><p> </p><p>I'm going to go against the flow by saying that a well executed "machine made" pipe is preferable to a "hand made" one that's not a fairly high grade. I see a lot of mid-and-lower handmades that just don't cut it. Thick, chunky stems, poor drilling, weird chamber shapes, and so forth. </p><p> </p><p>In short, buy the PIPE, not its brand, and especially not according to the way it was made. There is NO net result difference between having a frazing machine rough out a block, or a pair of human hands do it with a spinning disk or rasp; while there definitely IS a difference between a machine drilled bowl, mortise, and airway vs. human hands unless the hands are truly expert. The machine made one is better.</p><p> </p><p>Bang for the buck? Mr. Daddy's Stanwell recommendation is hard to beat. Savinelli also makes some nice stuff for the $. If you look them over carefully (because their QA tends toward the erratic), Petes can be delightful.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LL, post: 31781, member: 95"] Repairman's perspective: I'm going to go against the flow by saying that a well executed "machine made" pipe is preferable to a "hand made" one that's not a fairly high grade. I see a lot of mid-and-lower handmades that just don't cut it. Thick, chunky stems, poor drilling, weird chamber shapes, and so forth. In short, buy the PIPE, not its brand, and especially not according to the way it was made. There is NO net result difference between having a frazing machine rough out a block, or a pair of human hands do it with a spinning disk or rasp; while there definitely IS a difference between a machine drilled bowl, mortise, and airway vs. human hands unless the hands are truly expert. The machine made one is better. Bang for the buck? Mr. Daddy's Stanwell recommendation is hard to beat. Savinelli also makes some nice stuff for the $. If you look them over carefully (because their QA tends toward the erratic), Petes can be delightful. [/QUOTE]
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