A Guide to Evaluating Tobacco Pipe Design

 

 

(Tobacco Days) For myself, there is nothing more pleasant than seeing the art within a pipe.
I love it that we know what a great pipe looks like the instant we see it. Because we have developed multiple (often unspoken) visual ques to evaluate a pipe, we are able to look at the whole piece, categorize it & make a relative judgment call on it. We define it as either a successful design or not. We have learned to do this but how is this process occurring inside our minds? Continued