Puff Daddy
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Thank you for saying this first... I thought the same thing. That very rounded shank-stem transition does it.Danish_Pipe_Guy":u79byr90 said:There's something kinda pahellic about it. It's a little creepy :lol:
I mostly agree with you. There's something about the shank of this piece, and the treatment of the mouthpiece, that drives the lines towards stasis, making it look very much like a sausage - in fact, very much like a pølse, a long, thin Danish sausage. I prefer my pølser on bread, not on a pipe.LL":xyxgtihm said:As hard as Bear tries to sell the concept, I don't think a Canadian-shanked Danish Scoop works. I can see why Lars made it that way---the grain goes on forever---but the shape & balance suffered for the sake of the wood, imo.
I agree, it is the shape and as said above I would choose a shape that I fancy with a nice to mediocre grain over a shape that I don't like at all, even if the grain is the most perfect straight grain.Puff Daddy":c8lxz182 said:it may be the weirdness of the shape that explains why it even showed up there at all...... The folks on his short list passed? :suspect:
It was ca. $5500. I'm glad to know it found an appreciative home.Mikem":5o3epbe2 said:Don't know how much it went for but it's sold already.
Yeah, what he said. I remember a couple of years ago, talking on the phone with a man who was buying one of my pipes, $395 if I remember correctly. I told him what I tell all customers, that he should have a good look when it arrived, that it wasn't sold unless he was happy. "Look," he said, "You're not getting it back. I have a couple hundred pipes, and four hundred bucks is like a Snickers bar to me."LL":upu7168n said:The whole hesitation/money thing is a non-issue. There just happen to be a number of pipe smokers in the world who are truly wealthy. As in ART collector wealthy. The kind of people who can afford to restore fleets of half-million dollar cars, and own 20 million dollar yachts. The most expensive pipes in the world aren't even on their financial radar.
Not all who collect Nordhs, Ivarssons, etc. are truly loaded, of course, but it only takes two.
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