Monday, November 3, 2014

A Rose by Any Other Name…

 

(Talking Tobacco) ... I’ve actually heard voices raised over whether a certain pipe is an apple or a tomato. Shapes might seem to be pretty cut and dried, but what happens when a pipe has some of the characteristics of two shapes. I’m sure that you’ve looked at a pipe and couldn’t say for certain whether it’s a billiard or a pot. If a pipe has a bowl that tapers down from the top of the bowl, has a round shank and a slight bend, is it a: 1) eighth-bent Dublin, or 2) round-shank Zulu?
At what point is a blend no longer an Oriental blend, and when does it become a Balkan? The term Balkan is hard to define anyway. Continued

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