Re: My new Altinok Meer arrived!

Just beautiful Rick!! I love those detailed carved meers! You may have
inspired me to start saving my pennies!

Bob


On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 19:23:11 -0500, "RickPiatt" <engrtp0@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>Merry Christmas to me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>I ordered Bailey's Delight (
>http://altinokpipe.com/detail.asp?product_id=me801 ) on September 24th and
>it arrived yesterday afternoon - I just had time to open the package today.
>Oh man is this baby gorgeous. Sinan, you were right, it was well worth the
>wait. For those of you not familiar with Altinok Meers, you basically order
>them and they carve one up for ya while you patiently await delivery. It
>takes a lot of paitience (sorry Sinan, I'm bad with the patience thing) but
>what you get is so very, very, very worth the wait.
>
>If you're looking for a high quality carved meer, based on what I see when
>holding this baby, I'd recommend that you consider cruising by Sinan's web
>site and check out the products offered therein.
>
>I'll be breaking this pipe in over the Christmas / New Years week and will
>let you all know how it smokes at that time! Based on the craftsmanship, I
>can't imagine any good quality block meerschaum carved with so much
>attention to detail would smoke anything but excellently.
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