| Archive for Dr. Grabow Pipes "America's One and Only" |
| ozark southpaw |
Pipe Rests for saleBeen puttering around in the shop making pipe rests. Got to many,and not enough shelf space. Got some pictures on flickr. Price is $15.00 + shipping. Pics here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fastredx/sets/ . If you see something that strikes your fancy PM me here or email fastredx@yahoo.com .
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| steverino |
Dang it OS, you've made too many and I can't decide which one I want. | ||||
| ozark southpaw |
If your'e having trouble picking one I'll make you a package deal Stevo!! | ||||
| steverino |
Hey, this is a good excuse for you to come to Sparta next week - bring the pipe rests and we can all pick one out. If you sell three or four it'll cover the trip, won't it? | ||||
| Terry292 |
What Steve said! Ed, I literally don't have a square inch of space for another rest, but if you can make racks to hang on the wall, we might could be able to talk?!
Terry |
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| ozark southpaw |
Steve ,there is nothing I would like better than going to Sparta next week!! Unfortunately it ain't in the cards! I would love to meet all you guys in person and spend a week or three at the factory!!. I thinking next spring. My daughters husband has just enlisted in the Army after 4 years as a jarhead. There is a good possibility they will end up in N. Carolina. Just the excuse I need!! |
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| ozark southpaw |
Terry, I have a stack of Cherry lumber in my garage.I'm talking boards 8-9' long,4-12" wide and 1" or better thick.My sisters husband operated a sawmill and had it squirreled away. When he passed she gave it to me. Problem is I don't have the tools to work it. Need a planer and router to start. I could build a racks 8' long! |
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| ted |
OS......IF..If..if you get to northwest NC in the Spring, the house and my services will be available. Probably could get you a tour, and with your talent, a job. I'd a hired you in a minute.
Haven't heard the term "jarhead" since my Army days. Glad someone remembers. They were tough, but we were "slow and steady". Perhaps an introduction to a "hand saw", and a "hand planer" are in order. Thats what I use, 'cause that's what my daddy used. Remember, The house is yours, whether we are here or not. I'll make arrangements. All you'll have to do is make the beds.....ted |
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| ozark southpaw |
Ted,thanks for that generous offer!! If I ever get the chance I WILL take you up on it!!
As for the jarhead-I spent six years in Uncle Sams Canoe Club and even though the Marines are technically(or used to be anyway) part of the Navy we always considered them "Jarheads". Ya hear the one about a Marines table cloth? |
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| ted |
NO..ted | ||||
| ozark southpaw |
Well, it ain't very nice so I shouldn't tell it here! Has to do with a part of a sailors dress blue uniform. | ||||
| steverino |
Boy OS, I'd sure love to relieve you of that old lumber that's in your way. I'd near about drive to Missouri to do it, too.
It is just crazy that I live in a town that used to be one of the furniture-making capitals of the world and I cannot buy one stick of hardwood lumber anywhere nearby. Except for Lowe's of course, but only if I want oak or poplar and want to pay top dollar x 4 for it. |
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| ozark southpaw |
Steve,you are right the price of lumber,even pine 2bys has gone crazy-like everything else. If you do a lot of wood working you might do what my cousin used to do and buy it from the sawmill. He would drive from No. Indiana to NE arkansas . It was rough sawed and semi dried. | ||||
| ozark southpaw |
I have posted some more photos on Flickr of my latest "creations".
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fastredx/sets/ 
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| LokoMac8 |
I am partial to the 36-pipe Decatur racks because that is what I started with and I wanted some continuity to what I was doing. They are readily available, if not cheap. Out of the ten I have, I think I only truly got a bargain on two of them. Most were priced fair and a couple I got robbed on, but no gun was used. 8' long! Now your talking, OS! --RJ-- |
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| drbridges |
10 36-pipe Decatur racks ... let's see that comes to ...
Do you need some more pipe racks, Mac? |
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| LokoMac8 |
Actually, right now with just my Dr. Grabows displayed (and rotated and smoked), I have a few places left. However, as my PAD is always flaring up, I do anticipate a future need. Now I'm running out of wall space! Which reminds me of several things I didn't get done today and one was getting an up-to-date photo of my Grabows in the racks that I promised for TED after I moved to my "new" study. Maybe tomorrow I can do that and take a photo of my new arrivals from Sparta for the group. --RJ-- |
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| BWThomas |
Holy crap!.... 10 racks, each holding 36 pipes! I want to see a pic. No...I want to go to Texas! | ||||
| drbridges |
When the dictionaries include a definition for PAD, they will illustrate it with a portrait of Mac. | ||||
| BWThomas |
Well, that would be only fitting. As it is, when you Google "Dr.Grabow" on Google Images, the 2nd image to come up is his! |
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| ted |
Steve, took a few minutes to find this and finally got around to asking a sawmill friend what he had in lumber. Larry Delp ran a logging operation and sawmill near my house for about 40 years. He closed the doors early this year because of his furniture customers not manufacturing in the USA. He has some random length, 4", 6", and 8" hemlock boards. Hemlock looks a lot like Pine, but not as pretty. He also has 6', 8', and 12' hard and soft Maple that has been kiln dried. He said it was beautiful. Boards are 4" to 8". 1 1/8" thick I think he said. I play golf with Larry twice a week, so if you are interested, I'll ask more questions.......ted |
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| LokoMac8 |
Well, I was going to do this anyway, but only send the photo personally to Tom. Somewhere on this Forum, there is an earlier shot of some of my pipes while I was building my new office/study. Well, long story short, I think it was all a part of a deviously well thought out plan by my wife, as now I have a different office/study in an existing room, with half of my "new" office/sturdy becoming a smoking room and work shop area. What happened to the other half of my "new" office, you might ask? Well, it just so happens that became a walk-in closet for my wife, complete with wainscotting and a tin ceiling. A little fancy if you ask me. Had I KNOWN this was to be the plan, I would have done things a bit differently! Anyway, I am having time tending to all the matters I am trying to tend to, so here is just a very hasty couple of shots -- one of the pipe racks and one of the messy top part of my desk, where several concurrent projects lay askew in various stages of unfinishedness . . . --RJ-- 
THE RACKS ARE REAL, THE PIPES ARE REAL, THE LICENSE PLATES ARE REAL, THE RAILROAD LANTERN IS REAL, BUT MARILYN MONROE ISN'T. I DON'T THINK SHE WAS EVER QUITE THAT SKINNY IN REAL LIFE. 
THE DISPLAY ON THE LEFT IS TWO-SIDED AND SPINS ON A WIRE FRAME HOLDER. I CAN'T TELL YOU THAT ALL THE PIPES ARE STILL UNSMOKED, BUT THEY WERE. BESIDES THE PRE-SMOKING MACHINE, I SMOKED EACH ONE OF THEM ONE TIME MYSELF. JUST COULDN'T HELP MYSELF!!! |
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| ted |
GREAT SCOTT!!!!!! I mean great shot.
Now what do you have in the barn? I really like the paneling also. You'll know that. Knotty pine?......ted |
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| BWThomas |
Surely there's a law about having that many pipes in one spot. You should start boxin' em up and shippin' em out before you get arrested..... I'll hold some for you.
very impressive RJ BW |
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| ozark southpaw |
Won't work Barry! It has been tried before!! At one time there was discussion of a commando raid ,but satelite photos showed that security could not be breached !! 
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| BWThomas |
Well...I guess I'll just have to pay a visit...in the winter time. It does get cold there, don't it
...now where did I put that coat, the one with the big and many pockets? |
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| drbridges |
There are more empty spaces in that photos than I expected to see. Happy to see you still have room for a few more acquisitions.
Teri must be a saint to put up with all that. |
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| steverino |
Awesome. And I don't use that word. | ||||
| BWThomas |
Amen |
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| steverino |
Wow ted, that was really good of you to inquire. I do use hard maple from time to time but I am really needing some cherry right now. I started a desk in cherry for my daughter before we moved to Lexington and I need to finish it. She doesn't think I ever will, but maybe by the time she gets married - which I hope is a while yet. |
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| BWThomas |
[quote="steverinoI am really needing some cherry right now. .[/quote]
What do you need Steve? rough sawn or planed to thickness, what thickness? width? length? quantity?...I may be able to help you out. |
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| LokoMac8 |
Well, a bunch of junk pipes in the barn -- maybe not junk, but they aren't Dr. Grabows, so I consider them junk. They are everywhere -- results of multi-pipe deals that inlcuded the ONE Grabow I was after. One of these days I'll do something with them. Too much trouble to sell on eBay, so who knows, might have to gift some to OS. I'd trade several of them for OS's nekked lady Grabow and throw in a large just recently opened tin of vintage COUNTRY DOCTOR tobacco, which is a good substitute for Mixture No. 79 in a pinch. I DO know that, and I love wood, too, TED, but I am ashamed to say that I don't know one wood from another. It is very thick paneling that was already installed in the house -- and was one of only two rooms in the house that escaped vandalism. Long story about that, but the house was abandoned and sat vacant for a couple of years before we got it. I first made the room into a large bedroom for one of my daughters, and she had wanted TO PAINT THE WALLS. I'd have none of that! Anyway, I had thought in might be cedar at first, but it probably is just notty pine. --RJ-- |
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| LokoMac8 |
The security is primitive, but effective. Cat gets underfoot and squeals when you step on it, which in turn wakes up the Boston Terrior and it has an excrutiatingly painful yelp/bark that wakes me up (as well as everyone within two miles). I have a nice assortment of guns in another collection, at the ready loaded for bear -- or pipe thieves. System has worked fairly well so far . . . --RJ-- |
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| LokoMac8 |
Yeah, gets COLD a couple of days out of the year -- just never know which two days it will be. I am pretty sure you won't need a coat, though. If you insist of wearing a coat, it'll be checked at the door -- especially when you leave . . . --RJ-- |
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| LokoMac8 |
Donations to fill in those blank spots are cheerfully accepted! Actually, those empty spaces will fill in fairly quickly, even though my acquisitions have slowed down considerably.
Are you kidding?! SHE'S the one that bought me my first pipe! There's one thing you should never do -- but an alcoholic a drink or, in my case, buy a pipe addict a pipe! All kidding aside, she has been quite tolerant of my inexplicable passion for Dr. Grabows, though, as I acquire new pipes and related articles for what I affectionately refer to as my "Dr. Grabow Pipe Museum". --RJ-- |
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| ted |
I read somewhere that Texas has 4 seasons....almost summer, summer, summer is almost over, and Christmas.....ted |
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| BWThomas |
Not really a whole lot different from NC....at least the part I stayed in for 10 years. BW |
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| BWThomas |
Dang, looks like I hijacked this one early on. let me get it back on track....Ed! I need to get a couple pipe rests from you. Have you got your current available offerings posted somewhere? | ||||
| ozark southpaw |
Got 'em here Barry http://www.flickr.com/photos/fastredx/sets/ . | ||||
| LokoMac8 |
Man! That is some mighty pretty work there, Ed!!! And those were beautiful pipe specimans resting on those racks as well! --RJ-- |
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| ozark southpaw |
Thanks Mac !! | ||||