Questions You Thought Were Too Dumb to Ask (Pipes Edition)

[Nachman]

Thank you sir for the run down. Some of this I knew or suspected, but this was a great explanation. I love your tool break down as that I can understand. Harbor freight tools you end up fighting with but yet might be able to get the job done with; I assume this would be basket pipes. Snap on are beautiful pieces but I'd say beyond diminishment of returns. I still must ask though how does all this come down to smoking tobacco? I get that some pipes have more attention to detail, cleaner pieces of briar, but when it comes to getting the job done (asthetics and "quality" aside), is a grabow or brog going to be any different than a $100 pipe?

One of the big differences in a more expensive pipe, IMHO, is the break in. Good pipes break in much faster than cheap pipes. This is one reason a cheap pipe may drive a new piper away from the hobby. Another difference is the engineering and design. A well designed pipe will smoke better. Another difference is the closer tolerances in manufacturing of the better pipes. No matter haw well designed, if the tolerances are loose, the pipe does not conform to the original design and may not perform as intended. Get a Savinelli or Nording and try it, and then you will know. If you try this and come to the conclusion I am wrong, you can write it up to the cost of education, but I don't think that will happen.

[NWSmoke]

One of the big differences in a more expensive pipe, IMHO, is the break in. Good pipes break in much faster than cheap pipes. This is one reason a cheap pipe may drive a new piper away from the hobby. Another difference is the engineering and design. A well designed pipe will smoke better. Another difference is the closer tolerances in manufacturing of the better pipes. No matter haw well designed, if the tolerances are loose, the pipe does not conform to the original design and may not perform as intended. Get a Savinelli or Nording and try it, and then you will know. If you try this and come to the conclusion I am wrong, you can write it up to the cost of education, but I don't think that will happen.

OK, now this makes sense. I appreciate you taking the time.