Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 3:59 am
I don't know why you guys are being so critical about my pipes. I have to say it hurts a little... it hurts. ![Crying or Very sad :cry:](./images/smilies/icon_cry.gif)
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Todd,ToddJohnson wrote: Rad,
I've got a permit for the truck, and I never run over more than the legal limit. I also never aim for breeding females and I only run over them in daylight. It's not like I'm going around at night spotlighting them with halogens from the truck-bed and then running them down. That puts me well within Tennessee's possum hunting statutes. I also never kill more than me and my kinfolk can eat. It's not like I'm just going after trophy-possums. What kind of person do you take me for anyway?
Todd
Here I am working with all new materials like a sucker.assembled & machined in my shop using 66% new parts
Someday I, too, hope to make a JOINTURE that is approx. 99% of perfect.The 2 joints are tight & flush and are approx. 99% of perfect!
O.k, one comment- He guarantees the attention getting, not the pipe.POST-NOTES... This pipe is HandCrafted by me personally & is less than factory perfect...yet is functional & draws exceptionally well. It is certainly a UNIQUE-ONE-OF-A-KIND-ORIGINAL as well as a guaranteed attention getter in your pipe collection.
Obviously the bowl is from a cheap basket pipe (notice the very visible fills).RadDavis wrote:Crazy Stick Man has made a pipe with a bamboo shank!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0091170266
He harvested the bamboo himself from the wilds of the Virginia woods. He harvested the pipe from New Old Stock.
I'd be interested in seeing how he rigged the internals in that hollow "one knuckle" bamboo stalk.![]()
It's unsmoked and signed.
Rad
The term "New Old Stock", or NOS, is an American English colloquialism denoting that an item may be old, but has never been used, was still in factory packaging, and may have been found in the back storage room of a dealer or retailer.tritrek wrote:Note the expression New Old Stock... it must be similar to Big Small Pipes or Red White Wine...
That's a bit of an over-generalization. A national manufacturer wouldn't be able to produce such a product, but one guy selling things on ebay could certainly get away with it. The problem is not wether there are "checks" in place, but what people are willing to, or want to, buy. I think you'll find the same level of quality from people everywhere that develop their product in a vacuum with no real guidance on craftsmanship and attention to detail, even in the EU.I don't know... I feel bad but not about me but about him. That's the "dark side" of America that there's no real check of products, whether they are rubbish or quality material. The bright side of the same thing are the custom made cars... you can't change the loook and construction of a car in EU that massively, no way
I know, I know... it just sounds stupid and after reading he uses 66% new parts it sounded explicitly sillyThe term "New Old Stock", or NOS, is an American English colloquialism denoting that an item may be old, but has never been used, was still in factory packaging, and may have been found in the back storage room of a dealer or retailer.
That's my styleThat's a bit of an over-generalization.
There most certainly are checks of product quality, but luckily most of that is done by the market (the people who spend their own money to buy products) and not a centralized government body.tritrek wrote:. . .That's the "dark side" of America that there's no real check of products, whether they are rubbish or quality material.