I bought my first Sasieni Four Dot, which is something I've been wanting to have for a while now. I bought it from a reputable source. It was unsmoked and I paid a fair bit for it, although not an huge amount. When I did my first inspection I noticed that the drilling is very off-center. Now I'm wondering if this is a big aberration for Sasieni or if it was a more regular thing like I have heard being the case with Peterson. It is a full bent pipe. Should I be worried about the drilling? Would you have returned it? If it was a cheap pipe I probably wouldn't mind but I feel a little iffy about it for the price.
Off-center drilling in Sasieni Four Dot from late family era
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Probably manufactured on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday.
i have a couple pipes you’d think for rep sake would be perfect but are slightly off center, never notice when I’m smoking and i don’t think the pipe does either.
i have a couple pipes you’d think for rep sake would be perfect but are slightly off center, never notice when I’m smoking and i don’t think the pipe does either.
I have a Grabow that is drilled about 1/8th inch off to the side. But you wouldn't even know it by how it smoked. No issues at all.
It doesn't look like it is very off center, more like a bit off center.
It will probably smoke fine
It will probably smoke fine
No you are right in the bowl it isn't very off-center. In the mortise it looked very off center though to my untrained eye.
the off center drilling seems like a more current fixation. Especially on a bent pipe. Like has been said it won't effect how it smokes. Why would anyone ruin a pipe that is pretty much perfect cause a hole that no one looks at is slightly less aesthetically pleasing.
I wasn't concerned about the aesthetics of the inside of the pipe, it was about the functionality. In the years I've been smoking pipes I had never had one with a noticable off-center drilling. That is why I made the thread, to get input, and to hear other peoples experiences.
I didn't assume you were. I was just trying to make the point that it won't effect the way it smokes and the only practical issue incidentally is it might make it harder to get a pipe cleaner through without taking off the stem. otherwise it will smoke and function the same.
Sorry, I misunderstood. Yes I'm feeling better about it after reading the answers here. You can't get a pipecleaner through this but I wouldn't have assumed that to be the case because it is a very pronounced bend. In my experience so far with the pipes I have had probably less than half would pass the pipe cleaner test with a bend like this. So that doesn't bother me.