Show Off Your Meerschaum Pipes Here!
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Anyone know anything about Nurpipe meers? Bought this one from Dave Neeb quite inexpensively but only found a few Worthpoint auctions and nothing on the usual resource sites.
This pipe would not be anything special except for what was done to it after I bought it and what that caused....
I bought it in 1998 from Fine Olde Briars which was run by Steve Abrams and Rob Denholz here in NY, they were members of The Hudson Valley Pipe Club (HVPC) of which I was a member and eventually Dictator (we didn't have a president, that would have meant too much discussion, so me had a dictator).
The pipe is a CAO Calabash that had an interesting oak leaf carving on the rim...
The ferrule was nondescript, black vulcanite, which hardly did the bowl and amber stem justice, I started having thoughts about having a custom ferrule made for it.
At the time I was taking ceramics classes at the Westchester Arts Workshop in White Plains, NY. The ceramic studio was next to the jewelry studio and there was a class in there at the same time as mine, run by an interesting looking fellow, so one evening on a break I went in there to discuss commissioning him to make a ferrule for me.
It turned out he was a pipe smoker and was very interested in doing the work. We got to talking and I found out he had made a couple of his own pipes when he was younger back in Romania so I told him about the HVPC and our meetings which were close to his home in New Paltz, NY. I invited him to the next meeting and he actually showed up and brought some of the pipes he made. They were nice but nothing really special. He had a great time, the rest of the club liked him very much and he quickly became an esteemed member.
If you don't know by now his name was Rolando Negoita. Inspired by several members of the HVPC who were also pipemakers Rolando started making pipes again and quickly rose to the pinnacle of the craft. We were so lucky to have him, he was a delightful man, full of talent, always willing to share.
Here's what he ended up doing to my meerschaum, a silver ferule and tamper to match the oak leaf carving.
I bought it in 1998 from Fine Olde Briars which was run by Steve Abrams and Rob Denholz here in NY, they were members of The Hudson Valley Pipe Club (HVPC) of which I was a member and eventually Dictator (we didn't have a president, that would have meant too much discussion, so me had a dictator).
The pipe is a CAO Calabash that had an interesting oak leaf carving on the rim...
The ferrule was nondescript, black vulcanite, which hardly did the bowl and amber stem justice, I started having thoughts about having a custom ferrule made for it.
At the time I was taking ceramics classes at the Westchester Arts Workshop in White Plains, NY. The ceramic studio was next to the jewelry studio and there was a class in there at the same time as mine, run by an interesting looking fellow, so one evening on a break I went in there to discuss commissioning him to make a ferrule for me.
It turned out he was a pipe smoker and was very interested in doing the work. We got to talking and I found out he had made a couple of his own pipes when he was younger back in Romania so I told him about the HVPC and our meetings which were close to his home in New Paltz, NY. I invited him to the next meeting and he actually showed up and brought some of the pipes he made. They were nice but nothing really special. He had a great time, the rest of the club liked him very much and he quickly became an esteemed member.
If you don't know by now his name was Rolando Negoita. Inspired by several members of the HVPC who were also pipemakers Rolando started making pipes again and quickly rose to the pinnacle of the craft. We were so lucky to have him, he was a delightful man, full of talent, always willing to share.
Here's what he ended up doing to my meerschaum, a silver ferule and tamper to match the oak leaf carving.
So I’ve been wanting a new meer and went with this one. IMP Reverse Calabash and @91 Grams the biggest Reverse Calabash I could find. First smoke will be SG Navy Flake for March Meer Madness !
I need to stay the hell away from flea bay ...
New SMS meer on the way lol
New SMS meer on the way lol
Can't stand him it was his fault!!!!!!! Dr Who fans will get it.
Those meerschaum look great. Is that bent Dublin a filter pipe? It is sure colouring like one.
Two of my 9mm MBSD meerschaums are like that. They are super light and colour fast.
I have a S. Yanik pot from MBSD but it’s much denser and heavier meerschaum and the stem isn’t as comfortably well made as the others.
No filter on this one. It has colored fairly oddly. I have a 9mm filter meer and it isn't coloring anything like this one. I guess you never really know what you are going to get in that dept.
True. I have several filter meerschaums and I noticed they are colouring like that one. Man, that's a beauty of a Dublin though.