The Doodler: Difference between revisions

After his loss of the [[Custom-Bilt]] name in 1953, [[Tracy Mincer]]'s next production pipe was The Doodler.  The pipe was turned for Mincer by the [[National Briar Pipe Co.]] beginning in the early 1950's, and that company eventually purchased the pipe design in approximately 1960.  After that time Mincer's former partner Claude Stewart began making a line of pipes called the Holeysmoke which were largely identical to the Doodler pipes, and National Briar continued to produce the Doodler.  The pipe's design centers around a series of vertically drilled holes in a ring around the combustion chamber, meant to provide airflow and a cooler smoke.

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