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<blockquote data-quote="Vito" data-source="post: 171836" data-attributes="member: 13"><p>Brothah Kyle:</p><p></p><p>You've unearthed one of my favorite pastimes when I need a chuckle—namely, Googling for pipe stuff and clicking on the "Translate this page" link for the foreign sites. There's no end to the entertainment value. The Italian sites have always been my favorite, but the Chinglish page you posted beats them hands down.</p><p></p><p>BTW, for those brethren who are relatively new to pipe smoking, the reamer is a rip-off of the classic old British Buttner reamer—a device that works well as long as the rivets stay riveted...but they don't. They're made of brass, and they're too soft to hold up under the torquing forces that result from many years of use. I guess it's cool that the Chinese job on eBay is stainless steel, but the cutters and body were never the problem. The rivets are the weak point. </p><p></p><p>Nevertheless, it's a clever, time-tested design, and I've always had a British Buttner reamer around ever since I bought my first one...about 46 years ago.</p><p></p><p> :joker:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vito, post: 171836, member: 13"] Brothah Kyle: You've unearthed one of my favorite pastimes when I need a chuckle—namely, Googling for pipe stuff and clicking on the "Translate this page" link for the foreign sites. There's no end to the entertainment value. The Italian sites have always been my favorite, but the Chinglish page you posted beats them hands down. BTW, for those brethren who are relatively new to pipe smoking, the reamer is a rip-off of the classic old British Buttner reamer—a device that works well as long as the rivets stay riveted...but they don't. They're made of brass, and they're too soft to hold up under the torquing forces that result from many years of use. I guess it's cool that the Chinese job on eBay is stainless steel, but the cutters and body were never the problem. The rivets are the weak point. Nevertheless, it's a clever, time-tested design, and I've always had a British Buttner reamer around ever since I bought my first one...about 46 years ago. :joker: [/QUOTE]
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