@thebadgerpiper I left my Kaywoodie 10 bent in my Black Pontiac on a hot Summer day with the windows closed. When I got back I found the stem had straightened from "memory". After a swim in hot water for a minute or two I put the curve back in. The stem is Vulcanite. I've never seen a new curved pipe without a bent stem, I've seen straight stems on estate pipes but I always figure they were stored in high heat.
Just like the first two pipes, Curvy03 has finally arrived with affection and simplicity exactly two years on.
Despite being a challenge, we still really believed in our curious, chubby Curvy when we took it to InterTabac in Dortmund, September 2015. Compact, yet high-performing, it revolutionised classic pipe standards – how would smokers and the press react to it? The reception was so immediate and positive that we were amazed. Perhaps pipe connoisseurs and in general those who love beautiful things were looking precisely for something that would astonish them.
Initially, two models were designed in four different colours, but recently Curvy has extended its range of colours up to seventeen. Never have so many colours been seen on a high quality pipe, whether bright, glossy or matte. This new challenge also seems to have met with approval judging by the response from Al Pascia’s clients, who seem to have established a special relationship, almost as if the pipe were a friend or partner. Indeed, a friend who never ceases to amaze us with its cheeky aspect, at the same time keeping its promise as a smoking device to produce smooth, intense sensations that only the friends of Curvy are familiar with. This is also because beneath the most intense colour beats the noble heart of briar.
Now that 03 is ready we can set aside the various trials, alterations, second thoughts and all the time that it took to achieve the final result in our hands and yours. Speaking of standard models, this time we were initially inspired by the Rhodesian, namely by its squashed shape, sharp corners and thin groove cut into the bowl that separates the upper part and lower parts. But Al Pascia’s Curvy is only Curvy: what is left of the initial inspiration is a memory of its shape, proportions and single groove cut into the briar. Opting in favour of a half-bent stem came naturally while crafting the pipe, without thinking beforehand that the Curvy range did in fact lack a half-bent model.
Curvy 03 has kept all the features typical of 01 (full bent) and 02 (straight), starting with its unique squat shape and the fact that it looks like a pocket size Calabash crafted from high quality briar, not gourd. The introduction of the groove in the bowl allows the upper and lower parts to have two different colours: the incorrigible Curvy never ceases to astonish us!
Now we are presenting Al Pascià Curvy 03 at InterTabac 2017 (Messe Westfalenhallen Dortmund) Hall 4, Stand 4A08.
@motie2 Yeah, I doubt that's for tobacco. Certainly, a lot of hard work and craftsmanship went into it.
I scour places like craigslist and other online places for estate pipes. Whenever a glass pipe shows up, I keep on scrolling. My local gas station even sells glass pipes, "for tobacco use only." Yeah, "tobacco", sure...
I just spent over 2 hours on my back deck smoking not a new pipe, but new to me. Early this past summer my wife suggested we visit an antique shop in the next town over for the possibility of finding some more "Estate Pipes". I searched high and low, and as we are getting ready to leave I spy pipes on the front counter. I found 2 "pocket size" Kaywoodie pipes sitting so lonely, that I had to adopt them and give them the home they obviously needed.
I spent the required time that very first couple of days cleaning them up, running everclear through and then polishing the stems. One of the two is a meershaum lined bowl and I believe had never been smoked. No stain on the meershaum inside of the bowl, and not a tooth mark on the stem or bit. When done I sat them in one of my pipe racks, and although I had not forgotten them I just did not smoke them over the summer.
Until today. I had several yard chores to do, change the battery on my generator, and try to get my chainsaw running again. I was 1 for 2 with the disappointment in the chainsaw., oh well. I will take it to someone who knows what they are doing. So when I got done and had some time to sit and enjoy the weather, I went and brought that little meershaum lined baby out and filled it with my Sutliff Chocolate Mousse/ Dark Red mixture and lit him up. Wow, having never so much as smoked a meershaum before, this little guy really gave me a great time and I was totally satisfied the way he handled that aromatic tobacco mixture. Several hours later, after cooling down and running a cleaner through, I smoked a bowl of Sutliff Vanilla Custard and Carter Hall mixed together for another outstanding smoke.
So I am here to sing the praises of the meershaum lined little guy. I was and still am a brand new fan of the mineral. I am not telling you meershaum fans anything you don't know, but boy does that pipe smoke sweet, cool, and absolutely no bite. The only down side is the abbreviated smoke time. I have been missing out on this taste sensation for a lot of years. I am now a fan and as soon as I get a few extra bucks I am going to look into a regular sized meershaum or meershaum lined pipe.
@motie2 I'm intrigued by the hurricane pipe. I just tried smoking a cob on the Padre Island National Seashore with a bracing cross-wind, went through three bowls in the time it usually takes for one. I'm surprised the cob survived. Maybe if I had the hurricane model I could have gone boogie boarding with it.
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http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-UNIQUE-MEDICO-Pipe-VERY-STRANGE-design-shape/263200971578
SWMBO can always tell when I'm trying to run a scam.
Olive wood?
Al Pascià Curvy 03
Just like the first two pipes, Curvy 03 has finally arrived with affection and simplicity exactly two years on.
Despite being a challenge, we still really believed in our curious, chubby Curvy when we took it to InterTabac in Dortmund, September 2015. Compact, yet high-performing, it revolutionised classic pipe standards – how would smokers and the press react to it? The reception was so immediate and positive that we were amazed. Perhaps pipe connoisseurs and in general those who love beautiful things were looking precisely for something that would astonish them.
Initially, two models were designed in four different colours, but recently Curvy has extended its range of colours up to seventeen. Never have so many colours been seen on a high quality pipe, whether bright, glossy or matte. This new challenge also seems to have met with approval judging by the response from Al Pascia’s clients, who seem to have established a special relationship, almost as if the pipe were a friend or partner. Indeed, a friend who never ceases to amaze us with its cheeky aspect, at the same time keeping its promise as a smoking device to produce smooth, intense sensations that only the friends of Curvy are familiar with. This is also because beneath the most intense colour beats the noble heart of briar.
Now that 03 is ready we can set aside the various trials, alterations, second thoughts and all the time that it took to achieve the final result in our hands and yours. Speaking of standard models, this time we were initially inspired by the Rhodesian, namely by its squashed shape, sharp corners and thin groove cut into the bowl that separates the upper part and lower parts. But Al Pascia’s Curvy is only Curvy: what is left of the initial inspiration is a memory of its shape, proportions and single groove cut into the briar. Opting in favour of a half-bent stem came naturally while crafting the pipe, without thinking beforehand that the Curvy range did in fact lack a half-bent model.
Curvy 03 has kept all the features typical of 01 (full bent) and 02 (straight), starting with its unique squat shape and the fact that it looks like a pocket size Calabash crafted from high quality briar, not gourd. The introduction of the groove in the bowl allows the upper and lower parts to have two different colours: the incorrigible Curvy never ceases to astonish us!
Now we are presenting Al Pascià Curvy 03 at InterTabac 2017 (Messe Westfalenhallen Dortmund) Hall 4, Stand 4A08.
I have a hard enough time getting a pipe cleaner through some of my pipes, I can't imagine the trouble you'd have with that spiral stem.
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More unintelligible Chinese crap......
$6,500,00 pipe? Wait...... What?!?!?! Probably not for tobacco....... (Yeah, probably not.....)
I scour places like craigslist and other online places for estate pipes. Whenever a glass pipe shows up, I keep on scrolling. My local gas station even sells glass pipes, "for tobacco use only." Yeah, "tobacco", sure...
see https://pipedia.org/wiki/Ascortiand and https://www.pipesandcigars.com/shop/ascorti-brand/1701027/
BUY IT NOW FOR $38.50 http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/202067129065 I would buy it in a minute, but SWMBO would kill me....
I spent the required time that very first couple of days cleaning them up, running everclear through and then polishing the stems. One of the two is a meershaum lined bowl and I believe had never been smoked. No stain on the meershaum inside of the bowl, and not a tooth mark on the stem or bit. When done I sat them in one of my pipe racks, and although I had not forgotten them I just did not smoke them over the summer.
Until today. I had several yard chores to do, change the battery on my generator, and try to get my chainsaw running again. I was 1 for 2 with the disappointment in the chainsaw., oh well. I will take it to someone who knows what they are doing. So when I got done and had some time to sit and enjoy the weather, I went and brought that little meershaum lined baby out and filled it with my Sutliff Chocolate Mousse/ Dark Red mixture and lit him up. Wow, having never so much as smoked a meershaum before, this little guy really gave me a great time and I was totally satisfied the way he handled that aromatic tobacco mixture. Several hours later, after cooling down and running a cleaner through, I smoked a bowl of Sutliff Vanilla Custard and Carter Hall mixed together for another outstanding smoke.
So I am here to sing the praises of the meershaum lined little guy. I was and still am a brand new fan of the mineral. I am not telling you meershaum fans anything you don't know, but boy does that pipe smoke sweet, cool, and absolutely no bite. The only down side is the abbreviated smoke time. I have been missing out on this taste sensation for a lot of years. I am now a fan and as soon as I get a few extra bucks I am going to look into a regular sized meershaum or meershaum lined pipe.
Art Deco STREAMLINER Tobacco Pipe 1940s MACHINE AGE Porsche Design Style Fins
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