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The unpredictability factor continues throughout the manufacturing process, according to Philpott. ‘There aren’t many production operations where you don’t actually know what you are going to get. We’ll start a bowl and mouthpiece at the beginning of the process, it will be graded according to its grain, and we'll know what colour finish we want to put on it to enhance its grain. But as it goes through the polishing process, the grain pattern can change. So you might set out to produce a pipe with a natural brown, bruyère finish, but you find by the end of the process that the grain has improved so you can put a different finish on it.</q></blockquote> | The unpredictability factor continues throughout the manufacturing process, according to Philpott. ‘There aren’t many production operations where you don’t actually know what you are going to get. We’ll start a bowl and mouthpiece at the beginning of the process, it will be graded according to its grain, and we'll know what colour finish we want to put on it to enhance its grain. But as it goes through the polishing process, the grain pattern can change. So you might set out to produce a pipe with a natural brown, bruyère finish, but you find by the end of the process that the grain has improved so you can put a different finish on it.</q></blockquote> | ||
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'''Note:''' All the stems were made by hand until 1976. They have since been machine made due to labor costs. | '''Note:''' All the stems were made by hand until 1976. They have since been machine made due to labor costs. | ||
== The current Dunhill factory "The White Spot Division" <ref>Photos were taken by Radek Juza in recent visit (April 2019). The factory is located in a district in northeastern London, Walthamstow. Courtesy Radek Juza. In the same complex, there is a sector apart, the manufacture of leather artifacts.</ref> == | == The current Dunhill factory "The White Spot Division" <ref>Photos were taken by Radek Juza in recent visit (April 2019). The factory is located in a district in northeastern London, Walthamstow. Courtesy Radek Juza. In the same complex, there is a sector apart, the manufacture of leather artifacts.</ref> == <!--T:12--> | ||
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[[Category: Dunhill]] | [[Category: Dunhill]] | ||