kirk13
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Post by kirk13 on Nov 13, 2018 20:06:01 GMT -5
I know clay pipes have a long history...I've found bits of clay pipe when I was doing Thames riverside archeology...and I've read the background history of the corn cobs,but what's the history of the briars? They seem to have arrived fully formed!
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Post by slowroll on Nov 13, 2018 20:29:29 GMT -5
As far as I know, some Frenchman, after building pipes of sundry materials stumbled on briar boles from the heath tree in the mid 1800's, made a pipe or three, and said, viola! How, I don't know. Might be in Pipepedia. Have to look.
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Post by Ronv69 on Nov 13, 2018 21:08:30 GMT -5
Definitely the French I believe it was in St. Claude around 1825.
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Post by stilllernin on Nov 13, 2018 21:27:02 GMT -5
Comoy was supposedly one of the first few to make pipes out of briar, they had been using "box wood" previously.
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Post by slowroll on Nov 13, 2018 23:09:32 GMT -5
Definitely the French I believe it was in St. Claude around 1825. Yep, and they came up with fraizing machines later on, with a zillion different blade sets. Clever. Probably got that idea from the Blanchard lathe. |
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Post by trailboss on Nov 13, 2018 23:15:09 GMT -5
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Post by Legend Lover on Nov 14, 2018 8:24:42 GMT -5
Good question, John. I'm learning something new today.
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Post by greeneyes on Nov 18, 2018 0:22:23 GMT -5
my opinion: the best story is this one. it includes Napoleon and a compelling juxtaposition of maybes that "sounds about right" without being unromantic. www.eacarey.co.uk/2011/08/briar/ |
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