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<blockquote data-quote="ZuluCollector" data-source="post: 244310" data-attributes="member: 22"><p>While I'm not crazy about fills, it's difficult to impossible to know for sure that they are there or not there when buying the pipe. As someone wrote above, the Danes are very good at concealing them. Even Bo Nordh put fills in his pipes, although he purported that he didn't. </p><p></p><p>I'm a lot more concerned about a pipe with a lousy stem and poor smoking qualities than I am about fills. </p><p></p><p>The first good pipe I ever bought is a Sasieni 4 Dot Viscount Lascelles which I purchased 42 years ago. It has been one of my very favorite pipes since I bought it, even though it has mediocre grain at best (in those days I didn't know or care about grain). Still, it has a couple of tiny fills. As good as I thought that pipe was, as a favor to me Jack Howell restemmed the pipe for me. The difference was oh-my-Gawd better. The pipe has always been a tasty smoke, but now it is sublime.</p><p></p><p>This is one of the last pipes I would ever let go of. Do the fills fill me with ambivalence about that? Not at all. This is a pipe that has accompanied my pipe-smoking journey from the outset.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ZuluCollector, post: 244310, member: 22"] While I'm not crazy about fills, it's difficult to impossible to know for sure that they are there or not there when buying the pipe. As someone wrote above, the Danes are very good at concealing them. Even Bo Nordh put fills in his pipes, although he purported that he didn't. I'm a lot more concerned about a pipe with a lousy stem and poor smoking qualities than I am about fills. The first good pipe I ever bought is a Sasieni 4 Dot Viscount Lascelles which I purchased 42 years ago. It has been one of my very favorite pipes since I bought it, even though it has mediocre grain at best (in those days I didn't know or care about grain). Still, it has a couple of tiny fills. As good as I thought that pipe was, as a favor to me Jack Howell restemmed the pipe for me. The difference was oh-my-Gawd better. The pipe has always been a tasty smoke, but now it is sublime. This is one of the last pipes I would ever let go of. Do the fills fill me with ambivalence about that? Not at all. This is a pipe that has accompanied my pipe-smoking journey from the outset. [/QUOTE]
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