My reaction to most of their offerings. At least they could put more of an attempt at putting a button on a stem.
Peterson 2022 POY (14B)
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Copy that - did not get through checkout fast enough on my first choice, got confirmed purchase on my second choice (Dark Smooth), got Double Sold email this morning. Very disappointing.
Not to mention most of their Fishtails feel like a tongue depressor.
I love the PLips though.
If they had a natural, unfinished system pipe with an acrylic p-lip... Man, they'd have all my money haha.
Yeah that's sad. I have an Irish Seconds pipe that is better than that, but not by much. It is actually the only pipe I've had fall out of my mouth.
Never thought of it like that, but that's a pretty accurate description. Love their p-lips too, although I actually think that Savinelli makes the more comfortable acrylic version (at least what the tongue rests)
I've not had one from them, but did like the shape on a Grabow Omega.
And that's the trouble with a shopping cart (at least the way it's been implemented here) approach in this scenario.
Putting the item in the shopping cart doesn't reserve it. Once you get to checkout, the database is queried to see if the item is still available. During heavy load there will some latency.
There are different approaches to remedy this situation. Personally I would opt to make these sales instantaneously from the page were the item is as opposed to putting it in a shopping cart.
There are advantages and disadvantages to approaches used. Perhaps looking at the business model and determining how to handle sales on high demand objects in short periods of time and implementing those in software needs to be addressed.
Having this type of thing happen does nothing more than piss customers off and drive them away.
@Chasing Embers i bought two smooth Christmas ones. I’m still trying to to polish them up to give them a shine.
I gave up trying to smoke it and ran a string through it to hang on the Christmas tree
Can’t stand those stems that look like they aren’t fully inserted. Personal opinion.
That's my button preference, except for Petersons, where anything but P-lip is blasphemy.
Dang, those pipes are even smaller than I realized. Just took another look at their dimensions and the ones I'm seeing list a chamber depth of under 1.3 inches. 1 of the pipes I recently sent to SP for sale is "Twain-ish-" an 11s and sent that off because I got tired of how shallow its bowl was. So, I definitely wouldn't have been happy with this pipe, though for years I lusted after a Twain and was unable to get 1. Just as well I never did apparently.
The few I looked at on the website had .77” x 1.26” or somewhere in that neighborhood.. 11s is around .75” x 1.5”.Dang, those pipes are even smaller than I realized. Just took another look at their dimensions and the ones I'm seeing list a chamber depth of under 1.3 inches. 1 of the pipes I recently sent to SP for sale is "Twain-ish-" an 11s and sent that off because I got tired of how shallow its bowl was. So, I definitely wouldn't have been happy with this pipe, though for years I lusted after a Twain and was unable to get 1. Just as well I never did apparently.
So yeah, the Mark Twain is a little less than an 11s.
I like my 11s. If want sit longer I get out the ol’ 9s @ .83” x 1.61”…
Sent my 9s off to SP too because it wasn't deep enough for me.
They're about the size of their 221/314 pipes which I'm a fan of. More than enough for a 45-60 min smoke depending on tobacco.Dang, those pipes are even smaller than I realized. Just took another look at their dimensions and the ones I'm seeing list a chamber depth of under 1.3 inches. 1 of the pipes I recently sent to SP for sale is "Twain-ish-" an 11s and sent that off because I got tired of how shallow its bowl was. So, I definitely wouldn't have been happy with this pipe, though for years I lusted after a Twain and was unable to get 1. Just as well I never did apparently.
These are
the measurements of the 14b RUA I bought.
It arrived this morning!
(Shipping being one of the many reasons I do business with Smoking Pipes)
(Shipping being one of the many reasons I do business with Smoking Pipes)
Awesome, looks like a good score there. What are you thinking about breaking them in with?
My Rua PotY should be here today also so looking forward to checking it out in hand.