Briar Spirit
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My dear friend Paul from Larrysson Pipes sent me a message a while back saying he was getting a little package together for me and that he would be sending it off to me 'soon'. Now, Paul said he would get a stummel and stem part finished for me to finish off some time back and I thought it was going to be that, oh how little I knew.
Paul knows that I have been enamoured of his Tree Trunk Pipes for a good long while now but of course they are cost prohibitive for me to even consider making purchase of one. Of course a business man cannot ever afford to simply give such an expensive pipe away, friend or not it is simply not something either party in a friendship ever considers. Yet, I am reminded of the time when Paul came up to our home from Cornwall and we discussed his pipes and Paul did half heartedly suggest he could make one for me as a gift. Well of course I half heartedly agreed that would be marvellous and we have mentioned it a couple of times since but not in any really serious sense, I mean, it's not like we're talking about a basket pipe here!
Words cannot express how ecstatic I am right now, Paul's package arrived this morning and amongst some other pipes which I shall tell you about in other topics, there was this magnificent Flared Rim Sitter.....
I have been holding it and marvelling at how fantastic this pipe is on and off (more on than off in truth) since discovering it in Paul's package. I am sore tempted to fill the bowl with some of that wonderful Scottish Cake that Ally sent me to see how she handles. Yet a part of me doesn't want to damage this absolutely fabulous work of art by smoking it, this is not the sort of pipe I would ever be able to replace if it got damaged, but it was made for smoking, oh the agony of it all.
Thank you so very much Paul, you have made me a VERY happy man indeed, so wonderfully kind of you my dear friend.
Paul knows that I have been enamoured of his Tree Trunk Pipes for a good long while now but of course they are cost prohibitive for me to even consider making purchase of one. Of course a business man cannot ever afford to simply give such an expensive pipe away, friend or not it is simply not something either party in a friendship ever considers. Yet, I am reminded of the time when Paul came up to our home from Cornwall and we discussed his pipes and Paul did half heartedly suggest he could make one for me as a gift. Well of course I half heartedly agreed that would be marvellous and we have mentioned it a couple of times since but not in any really serious sense, I mean, it's not like we're talking about a basket pipe here!
Words cannot express how ecstatic I am right now, Paul's package arrived this morning and amongst some other pipes which I shall tell you about in other topics, there was this magnificent Flared Rim Sitter.....
I have been holding it and marvelling at how fantastic this pipe is on and off (more on than off in truth) since discovering it in Paul's package. I am sore tempted to fill the bowl with some of that wonderful Scottish Cake that Ally sent me to see how she handles. Yet a part of me doesn't want to damage this absolutely fabulous work of art by smoking it, this is not the sort of pipe I would ever be able to replace if it got damaged, but it was made for smoking, oh the agony of it all.
Thank you so very much Paul, you have made me a VERY happy man indeed, so wonderfully kind of you my dear friend.
