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Only because, like the current events stuff I used to glaze peoples' eyes over with, it seems relevant in light of the deforming effect of the prevailing orthodoxies -- the gags that everybody seems to be going along with because everybody else seems to be going along with them.

If the wind always blows in the same direction the trees grow crooked.

And there's your "generational gap" in a nutshell.

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Yak":spffn0cm said:
If the wind always blows in the same direction the trees grow crooked.
This concept has been one I've added to my mantra, and use as a metaphor in my speech often. I dig. I dig.
 
Mike Gluckler (Briar Blues)":k9s1nayy said:
Chamber coatings. This topic stirs quite a bit of emotion in some and not an iota in others. I'll try and keep this short. New carvers - if you offer pipes with no chamber coating, or an un coated chamber with the option of coating on the customers request, you will sell more pipes. I suggest you all visit the pipesmagazine.com website and read Greg Pease's 2 articles on the subject and also read the follow up comments. View the two video's done by US carver Todd Johnson. Todd does a test in which he puts a candle flame to both a coated and raw piece of briar. His example is to show how the chamber coating saves the possibility of a burn out. However ..... with an open 1400 - 1500 degree flame the raw briar took around 3 full minutes before it caught fire. Think about that ... 3 minutes. Your tobacco burns at less than half that heat and I know of no one that holds an open flame to their tobacco for 3 minutes, let alone 15 seconds. So if it takes 3 minutes, why apply a coating? If there is a flaw within a pipes walls, I doubt a coating will prevent a burn out.
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Some people see the sky as blue, the others, cyan. The beat goes on. :lol:

Fortunately, no one has yet asked, "Why the hell did you sand out that bowl coating?"

My only personal response would be: "Because I don't like them, and I don't need them."

Plus, the sky is clearly azure. :mrgreen:

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Kyle Weiss":hnms0dly said:
Some people see the sky as blue, the others, cyan. The beat goes on. :lol:

Fortunately, no one has yet asked, "Why the hell did you sand out that bowl coating?"

My only personal response would be: "Because I don't like them, and I don't need them."

Plus, the sky is clearly azure. :mrgreen:

8)
Fraid not, I just looked outside; the sky is black with little white spots. ;)
 
It's a good thing you posted that at 1AM and not 1PM; I'd have guessed you were staring at the sun a wee bit too much. :lol:
 
Yak":uku62bl0 said:
There's a lot of good stuff in there. 8)

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I put that article to the attention of the Tinder Box manager to make his minions that work there read it...it'll make my "job" easier with a couple of the guys there so I don't have to keep getting side questions when they're engaging a new pipester. :lol: Nice kids that work there, really, but I nerd out on this stuff a bit more than they do. As part-time workers, college kids with girlfriends, homework and beer to keep them occupied, infosources like that article are very necessary.
 
Kyle Weiss":lto255xn said:
Nice kids that work there, really, but I nerd out on this stuff a bit more than they do.
Reminds me of a friend of mine that knew more about new products than any part time Guitar Center employee, and could talk circles around them, until they would just give up and let themselves be "schooled" by him. Great way to get discounts too, as he knew the mark up on every item, and would then make them an "offer" they couldn't refuse...
 
Harlock999":yei4b67s said:
Reminds me of a friend of mine that knew more about new products than any part time Guitar Center employee, and could talk circles around them, until they would just give up and let themselves be "schooled" by him. Great way to get discounts too, as he knew the mark up on every item, and would then make them an "offer" they couldn't refuse...
That's me with synthesizers in the Pro Audio department at our local GC. :oops: Though, admittedly I lack in the expensive software department. I get calls from a few of them when something "old and weird" ends up in the store. That's how I get my discounts, usually on the item in question. :lol!:
 
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