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What constitutes a high grade pipe?
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<blockquote data-quote="Wet Dottle" data-source="post: 73308" data-attributes="member: 192"><p>I don’t want to cause trouble, but I never liked the term, which sounds a bit derogatory. It amounts to assigning a rank to pipes and to pipemakers based on some not-too-objective qualifiers. It sounds like something a collector would come up with, not a pipemaker. I don’t know of other hobbies where the concept exists. But I’m not really qualified to judge. That's why I asked.</p><p></p><p>As a point of comparison, think about collecting pocket knifes or wine (I do both; well, perhaps not wine, I end up drinking everything I buy, but I have knives that are there just to be looked at and will never cut anything). There are more expensive and less expensive ones, depending on quality of finish, artistic value, amount of effort required to produce the item, cost of base components, rarity, etc. but there is no concept similar to “high grade” in the sense of rank. I was in a large knife show recently and, after speaking with many knife makers, I think I would be greeted with blank stares if I asked for a high grade knife (or perhaps be escorted out and asked not to return).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wet Dottle, post: 73308, member: 192"] I don’t want to cause trouble, but I never liked the term, which sounds a bit derogatory. It amounts to assigning a rank to pipes and to pipemakers based on some not-too-objective qualifiers. It sounds like something a collector would come up with, not a pipemaker. I don’t know of other hobbies where the concept exists. But I’m not really qualified to judge. That's why I asked. As a point of comparison, think about collecting pocket knifes or wine (I do both; well, perhaps not wine, I end up drinking everything I buy, but I have knives that are there just to be looked at and will never cut anything). There are more expensive and less expensive ones, depending on quality of finish, artistic value, amount of effort required to produce the item, cost of base components, rarity, etc. but there is no concept similar to “high grade” in the sense of rank. I was in a large knife show recently and, after speaking with many knife makers, I think I would be greeted with blank stares if I asked for a high grade knife (or perhaps be escorted out and asked not to return). [/QUOTE]
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