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<blockquote data-quote="Zeno Marx" data-source="post: 460135" data-attributes="member: 1211"><p>I used to run into this a lot, but because of uniqueness or rarity, I would keep them. I overcame that albatross and sold all of them. I'm finding myself in that situation again, but from a different angle. I wanted an inexpensive, group 3 or so, saddle bulldog out of the Charatan factory for a yard work or rainy walk pipe. Yes, it is specific and entirely utilitarian, but it is what I wanted. I found just about a perfect example, but I look at it every night and never want to smoke it. It's a good smoker, too. There's simply no passion there.</p><p></p><p>I think back and remember a gorgeous, fantastically shaped full-bent egg Nachwalter, a stunning rhodesian Boswell that felt worldly in the hand, and a Jacono apple freehand thingy. All these pipes were disappointing smokers, but the makers hit their shapes spot-on and uniquely. I looked at and admired them. I constantly picked them up and moved to pack them. And then I would remember how they were worthless smokes every single time. Exercises in futility. "why did I even bother?" experiences. It's the worst. You're really in the mood for a smoke. This device is so special in a secondary way. And then they fail to perform on every other level. For me, <strong>the</strong> most frustrating thing to occur in pipes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zeno Marx, post: 460135, member: 1211"] I used to run into this a lot, but because of uniqueness or rarity, I would keep them. I overcame that albatross and sold all of them. I'm finding myself in that situation again, but from a different angle. I wanted an inexpensive, group 3 or so, saddle bulldog out of the Charatan factory for a yard work or rainy walk pipe. Yes, it is specific and entirely utilitarian, but it is what I wanted. I found just about a perfect example, but I look at it every night and never want to smoke it. It's a good smoker, too. There's simply no passion there. I think back and remember a gorgeous, fantastically shaped full-bent egg Nachwalter, a stunning rhodesian Boswell that felt worldly in the hand, and a Jacono apple freehand thingy. All these pipes were disappointing smokers, but the makers hit their shapes spot-on and uniquely. I looked at and admired them. I constantly picked them up and moved to pack them. And then I would remember how they were worthless smokes every single time. Exercises in futility. "why did I even bother?" experiences. It's the worst. You're really in the mood for a smoke. This device is so special in a secondary way. And then they fail to perform on every other level. For me, [b]the[/b] most frustrating thing to occur in pipes. [/QUOTE]
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