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Why is Buying Pipes (on a Budget) So Difficult?
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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 274108"><p>FWIW : collectors like GLP, NAR (& several others) have posted astute analyses of the contemporary pipe market as it relates to new(er) carvers. </p><p></p><p>The usual saga is a guy sees established makers getting $X for new pipes and figures he'll make some and clean up by charging $0.5X for his. He takes them to shows and they twist in the wind. </p><p></p><p>For one thing, a number of other guys he's in competition with there had the same idea. For another, his stuff looks great to him but probably has a ways to go, both technically and aesthetically, to appeal to the market segment he's aiming at. For a third, pipes of that sort are, in no small part, sold on the maker's reputation, and he doesn't have one (yet). </p><p></p><p>There's a pretty high attrition rate in that line of work, and it's not because people can't (or don't) produce recognisably high-quality work. It's because they can't get what they need to for what they make, week in and week out. In light of which, keeping pipe-making a basement project until what the maker's doing (hopefully) starts making a name for itself in the world at large is a wise approach.</p><p></p><p>There's no "fairness" aspect to it. Money talks. </p><p></p><p>And it has the last word.</p><p></p><p>:face:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 274108"] FWIW : collectors like GLP, NAR (& several others) have posted astute analyses of the contemporary pipe market as it relates to new(er) carvers. The usual saga is a guy sees established makers getting $X for new pipes and figures he'll make some and clean up by charging $0.5X for his. He takes them to shows and they twist in the wind. For one thing, a number of other guys he's in competition with there had the same idea. For another, his stuff looks great to him but probably has a ways to go, both technically and aesthetically, to appeal to the market segment he's aiming at. For a third, pipes of that sort are, in no small part, sold on the maker's reputation, and he doesn't have one (yet). There's a pretty high attrition rate in that line of work, and it's not because people can't (or don't) produce recognisably high-quality work. It's because they can't get what they need to for what they make, week in and week out. In light of which, keeping pipe-making a basement project until what the maker's doing (hopefully) starts making a name for itself in the world at large is a wise approach. There's no "fairness" aspect to it. Money talks. And it has the last word. :face: [/QUOTE]
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