@Neoshaone; Pound for pound, Sugar Ray Robinson was the all time best boxer. I'll go out on a limb and say for the price Dr. Grabow Pipes are the best.
I have picked up a few estates and even a couple new Grabow pipes and all are good smokers. They won't win any beauty contests but they aren't meant to.
I bought 3 old Falcons on eBay some time ago. They were all pretty rough. Looked like barn finds. I cleaned 2 of them up and they look nice and smoke great. This one I display in my den, as a before and after. Just a little bit of cake buildup. Picture isn't in focus, but you can get the idea.
@opipeman That Falcon must smoke well, someone really smoked the hell out of it. I had one of my refurbs that you could just get a #2 Ticonderoga Pencil in😳 The worst by far to clean that I have come across was a Big Ben “Calabash” shape thick with gooey Latakia tar. The stem would only seat about halfway. I think I could have re-caulked the USS Constitution with the amount of tar in that pipe.
@RockyMountainBriar; The outside of the pipes were caked with dirt. It some scrubbing. I just realized that I posted the picture under the Dr. Grabow discussion, instead of the falcon discussion. Sorry about that!
When this conversation was recently bumped back up I've made it a conscious effort to smoke my Dr Grabow pipes exclusively (these were my old work pipes that I seldom smoke since retiring) - and I gotta say, each smoke has been a pleasure. Maybe it's because they've been well broken in from years of smoking them day after day back when I was working ... but these cheap little buggers are really doing the trick no matter what blend I have in them. I actually enjoyed a bowl of Captain Black Cherry, which is my least favorite of the Captain Black blends.
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Pound for pound, Sugar Ray Robinson was the all time best boxer. I'll go out on a limb and say for the price Dr. Grabow Pipes are the best.
Picture isn't in focus, but you can get the idea.
😳😬🙂
That Falcon must smoke well, someone really smoked the hell out of it. I had one of my refurbs that you could just get a #2 Ticonderoga Pencil in😳
The worst by far to clean that I have come across was a Big Ben “Calabash” shape thick with gooey Latakia tar. The stem would only seat about halfway. I think I could have re-caulked the USS Constitution with the amount of tar in that pipe.
The outside of the pipes were caked with dirt. It some scrubbing. I just realized that I posted the picture under the Dr. Grabow discussion, instead of the falcon discussion. Sorry about that!