I still sell $125 pipes - because I can, and because people can afford them. I love making those pipes just as much as the higher priced ones with hand cut stems, carefully chosen grain, artistic interpretation, and paintstaking finishing. The excitement that people have at being able to afford a handmade or hand-finished pipe is priceless - the smile, their ebullience, everything.Sasquatch wrote:I make money at pipes because I don't try to make money at pipes. I try to make "favorite" pipes. God how I love to see pictures of my pipes when people have smoked them 500 times, and all beat up and over-reamed and chewed to shit. The pipe was a success! I don't want it sitting in some fucking cabinet! I want it sitting in the pickup truck and successfully burning 2 lbs of Grampa's toby day after day because no other pipe Grampa has works quite as well, or hangs quite like that.
It's tough to describe, but I think Sasquatch really nailed it.
Sasquatch, you are a poopyhead. The zombies will kill us all way before then.Sasquatch wrote:You are all capitalist pigs, and will be first against the wall when the revolution comes.