Real Name | Harry Crane |
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Joined | 2006-12 |
Last Visited | 2018-01 |
Location | Unknown |
I was born in Lansing. I had no choice in the matter. Given my druthers I would have been born in East Lansing. You would think a College town would have a maternity ward, pregnancy being a cottage industry to education.
between then and now, a half century easy, I did the things huddled masses and wretched refuse do; just a'teeming and a'yearning all the live long day.
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I wrote this review when I was living in Oregon, and standing on a ridge above the Columbia Gorge smoking a pipe in the mist was damn near a spirtual experience.
Like any one who stays smoking a pipe, ok, like some of us, I got a bit carried away with the collecting part. I have more Dunhills than is necessary and I was taught a valueable lesson by purchasing my first Becker. I believed After around a hundred bucks, you were paying for beauty. Yeah, no. I have seven Beckers now, each one a masterpiece of balance, each one smokes better than any pipe I've owned (though I have a beat up ashton that magically turns VA/PERs into gold).
I just mean I have the collecting bug and I have culled from the collection pipes that were just pretty or taking up space. It's not a hobby anymore, not a competition, not a pleasent little habit; it's damn near a religious epiphany to pack fine tobacco into a work of art and be the vessel that takes fire and makes scented air of it.
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I have an eclectic collection ranging from family era Sasieni's and dunhills, to Castellos and Gepettos.Most have a sentimental meaning and value to me.
Marty Pulver once wrote to me "Never buy a pipe as an investment".
Venerator | Has rated at least half of their reviews with 4 stars. |
Veteran | Has posted reviews in at least 5 different years. |
47 reviews 109 helpful votes |
4 star: 27 Strongly Recommended 3 star: 15 Recommended 2 star: 4 Somewhat Recommended 1 star: 1 Not Recommended |
Preferences: Perique 3.7, Oriental/Turkish 3.7, Burley 3.7, Latakia 3.6, Virginia 3.6, Black Cavendish 3.5