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Perry White | '''Note:''' Sad to report that Bob Swanson, of Perry White Pipes joined the fellowship of broken pipes (July of 2020) after struggling through a debilitating disease. | ||
'''The story of Perry White pipes in Bob's own words:''' | |||
[[Image:Bob_Swanson.jpg|thumb|left|250|Bob Swanson of Perry White Pipes]]I made my first pipes around Christmas of 1975. I started smoking a pipe regularly in 1967. Even then, smoking what I think I remember they called a "Falcon" pipe, a metal base into which you screwed briar bowls, I was a "collector. I could not wait for the corner drug store to get in a new batch of those bowls so I could pick out a new style I did not have. I think I actually had them all in those days. I would give a new bowl to the brother of a barber friend of mine and he would "break it in" for me by burning the inside with a jewelers torch he owned. Man he really torched some of those bowls. Then one day I discovered... real pipes. I had not noticed them before because they were in the "expensive" section of the drugstore. I reached out and bought my first Weber. Yup, I "collected" those too, one every week, purchased after pay day. Tradition. | [[Image:Bob_Swanson.jpg|thumb|left|250|Bob Swanson of Perry White Pipes]]I made my first pipes around Christmas of 1975. I started smoking a pipe regularly in 1967. Even then, smoking what I think I remember they called a "Falcon" pipe, a metal base into which you screwed briar bowls, I was a "collector. I could not wait for the corner drug store to get in a new batch of those bowls so I could pick out a new style I did not have. I think I actually had them all in those days. I would give a new bowl to the brother of a barber friend of mine and he would "break it in" for me by burning the inside with a jewelers torch he owned. Man he really torched some of those bowls. Then one day I discovered... real pipes. I had not noticed them before because they were in the "expensive" section of the drugstore. I reached out and bought my first Weber. Yup, I "collected" those too, one every week, purchased after pay day. Tradition. | ||
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What about the "WHITE RING" found on every Perry White pipe? Well, it is exactly that, the "White Ring"... the ring is cut from faux Ivory and is a part of the hand fashioned bit of every Perry White pipe made, your identification it is a Perry White pipe. | What about the "WHITE RING" found on every Perry White pipe? Well, it is exactly that, the "White Ring"... the ring is cut from faux Ivory and is a part of the hand fashioned bit of every Perry White pipe made, your identification it is a Perry White pipe. | ||
Website: [http://perrywhitepipes.com/ Perry White Pipes] | |||
[[Category: Pipe makers by nationality]] | [[Category: Pipe makers by nationality]] | ||
[[Category: United States]] | [[Category: United States]] | ||