what other makers do
There seems to be a misunderstanding going around.
I've heard it said that I think other carvers are taking the easy ways out. Wrong!
I'm not in the pipe business just for the money. I'm not in the pipe business just to make friends and be a nice guy. I am in the pipe business for one reason and one reason only. When I am carving a pipe, there is something going on that I have never found anywhere else. It is something very special, and very hard to explain. The few people I could probably explain it to already understand it, and the rest will never get it. It's a spiritual thingy, a feeling of being at one with the world, that everything is as it should be. That's why I make pipes, period.
I make pipes the way I feel they should be made. Other carvers make pipes the way they think they should be made. The fact that they think they should be made one way, and I think they should be made another way, really means nothing. It adds a little variety to the market, a little spice to life.
A few people have expressed puzzlement at the way I price my pipes. Not everybody on the planet understands everything. I make pipes the way that I make pipes, and it takes the amount of time and the materials that it takes. I am not going to sell pipes for less than a price at which I think that I can make a profit, period. I'm not some rich guy operating a charity. If people think my prices are too high, they won't buy the pipes. If they don't buy the pipes, well I have a very very small rotation.
One thing that really gets my goat about pipes is when the humidity makes a stem fit tighter or looser. That really gets up my nose. I go to a lot of effort to try and make that not happen with my pipes. I also don't like it when a stem breaks, or gets all droopy if you leave it in the sun. I don't like pipes that don't draw well. Maybe there are dozens of other makers who are doing the same kind of hand-shaping of the bowl interior that I'm doing and I just don't know about it. But as far as I know, I'm the only guy in the business putting that level of detailed effort into the airway.
Whatever. I do things the way I think they should be done, I set prices where they need to be to make a profit, if pipes sell they sell and if they don't they don't. But I do NOT think other carvers are taking any easy ways out just because they're not doing the same things I'm doing, they're doing what they feel is right, for their own reasons, and I respect that. What they do is up to them, what I do is up to me, what pipe buyers do is up to them; that's what "free will" is all about.
I've heard it said that I think other carvers are taking the easy ways out. Wrong!
I'm not in the pipe business just for the money. I'm not in the pipe business just to make friends and be a nice guy. I am in the pipe business for one reason and one reason only. When I am carving a pipe, there is something going on that I have never found anywhere else. It is something very special, and very hard to explain. The few people I could probably explain it to already understand it, and the rest will never get it. It's a spiritual thingy, a feeling of being at one with the world, that everything is as it should be. That's why I make pipes, period.
I make pipes the way I feel they should be made. Other carvers make pipes the way they think they should be made. The fact that they think they should be made one way, and I think they should be made another way, really means nothing. It adds a little variety to the market, a little spice to life.
A few people have expressed puzzlement at the way I price my pipes. Not everybody on the planet understands everything. I make pipes the way that I make pipes, and it takes the amount of time and the materials that it takes. I am not going to sell pipes for less than a price at which I think that I can make a profit, period. I'm not some rich guy operating a charity. If people think my prices are too high, they won't buy the pipes. If they don't buy the pipes, well I have a very very small rotation.
One thing that really gets my goat about pipes is when the humidity makes a stem fit tighter or looser. That really gets up my nose. I go to a lot of effort to try and make that not happen with my pipes. I also don't like it when a stem breaks, or gets all droopy if you leave it in the sun. I don't like pipes that don't draw well. Maybe there are dozens of other makers who are doing the same kind of hand-shaping of the bowl interior that I'm doing and I just don't know about it. But as far as I know, I'm the only guy in the business putting that level of detailed effort into the airway.
Whatever. I do things the way I think they should be done, I set prices where they need to be to make a profit, if pipes sell they sell and if they don't they don't. But I do NOT think other carvers are taking any easy ways out just because they're not doing the same things I'm doing, they're doing what they feel is right, for their own reasons, and I respect that. What they do is up to them, what I do is up to me, what pipe buyers do is up to them; that's what "free will" is all about.
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