Peterson Jekyll and Hyde

[kaiser83]

Anyone seen these Peterson Jekyll and Hyde pipes or handled one in person?

 

[History Prof 1861]

I have not handled one but they look cool may have to keep an eye out

 

[Brewdude]

Love the shape. Not so keen on the rusticated version. Too perfect and uniorm.

Is that an acrylic finish on the smooth? And won't that have a tendency to blister?

Ya, I'm a negative Nancy sometimes, but I enjoy Pete's too much to have them ruined by whatever the corporate vision is. Including and especially their awful bowl coating!

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Cheers?

RR

 

[Idlefellow]

The current Peterson rustication patterns leave a lot to be desired.  I used to love their rusticated pipes; now it looks like they turned it over to some guy with a Dremel.

But as an aside, I may have had the original Jekyll & Hyde pipe in an old Soren I have...

 

 

[Deleted member 4028]

@Idlefellow: I read somewhere Peterson now (well, for a few years for sure) uses a computer software for rustication. I don't know if it's a Urban Legend, though.

 

[Idlefellow]

Davy, if so they need to re-program it !

 

[Zeno Marx]

Not so keen on the rusticated version. Too perfect and uniorm.

You're too kind. That's straight-up ugly. Did they do that to the rim of the smooth as well?

Is that an acrylic finish on the smooth? And won't that have a tendency to blister?

It sure won't encourage the wood to breathe. I wouldn't think it would cause destruction though. Tinderbox used to do something like that to some of their pipes, and other than it coming off in chips, nothing else happened.

 

[kaiser83]

I'm going to have to get my hands on one to look at.

 

[Deleted member 4028]

I think they were released 3 or 4 years ago. They might be kind of hard to get nowadays, so good luck on your chase.