Nice! That's a great looking bit of smoking apparatushoutenziel wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2019 1:38 pm Hopefully I didn't bid against anyone here. I figured it was time for me to own a GBD, so I bought this International off of the bay. At first I was a little leery of the rusticated top, since i'd never seen a GBD like this. I started looking around and apparently the International line had some with factory rusticated rims. I sort of dig it because that means I can light with reckless abandon.
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Fr_Tom wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2019 1:47 pmI approve! This looks like a great pipe.houtenziel wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2019 1:38 pm Hopefully I didn't bid against anyone here. I figured it was time for me to own a GBD, so I bought this International off of the bay. At first I was a little leery of the rusticated top, since i'd never seen a GBD like this. I started looking around and apparently the International line had some with factory rusticated rims. I sort of dig it because that means I can light with reckless abandon.
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Thanks fellas. I now really need to enforce a no ebay policy for a few months, or my wife might be tempted to see how well the Castleford reamer works on a human.Mr Beardsley wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2019 2:01 pmNice! That's a great looking bit of smoking apparatushoutenziel wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2019 1:38 pm Hopefully I didn't bid against anyone here. I figured it was time for me to own a GBD, so I bought this International off of the bay. At first I was a little leery of the rusticated top, since i'd never seen a GBD like this. I started looking around and apparently the International line had some with factory rusticated rims. I sort of dig it because that means I can light with reckless abandon.
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houtenziel wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2019 2:05 pmFr_Tom wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2019 1:47 pmI approve! This looks like a great pipe.houtenziel wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2019 1:38 pm Hopefully I didn't bid against anyone here. I figured it was time for me to own a GBD, so I bought this International off of the bay. At first I was a little leery of the rusticated top, since i'd never seen a GBD like this. I started looking around and apparently the International line had some with factory rusticated rims. I sort of dig it because that means I can light with reckless abandon.
Thanks fellas. I now really need to enforce a no ebay policy for a few months, or my wife might be tempted to see how well the Castleford reamer works on a human.Mr Beardsley wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2019 2:01 pmNice! That's a great looking bit of smoking apparatushoutenziel wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2019 1:38 pm Hopefully I didn't bid against anyone here. I figured it was time for me to own a GBD, so I bought this International off of the bay. At first I was a little leery of the rusticated top, since i'd never seen a GBD like this. I started looking around and apparently the International line had some with factory rusticated rims. I sort of dig it because that means I can light with reckless abandon.
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My wife wouldn't waste time with the Castleford. She knows exactly how sharp the knives arehoutenziel wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2019 2:05 pmFr_Tom wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2019 1:47 pmI approve! This looks like a great pipe.houtenziel wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2019 1:38 pm Hopefully I didn't bid against anyone here. I figured it was time for me to own a GBD, so I bought this International off of the bay. At first I was a little leery of the rusticated top, since i'd never seen a GBD like this. I started looking around and apparently the International line had some with factory rusticated rims. I sort of dig it because that means I can light with reckless abandon.
Thanks fellas. I now really need to enforce a no ebay policy for a few months, or my wife might be tempted to see how well the Castleford reamer works on a human.Mr Beardsley wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2019 2:01 pmNice! That's a great looking bit of smoking apparatushoutenziel wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2019 1:38 pm Hopefully I didn't bid against anyone here. I figured it was time for me to own a GBD, so I bought this International off of the bay. At first I was a little leery of the rusticated top, since i'd never seen a GBD like this. I started looking around and apparently the International line had some with factory rusticated rims. I sort of dig it because that means I can light with reckless abandon.
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same here, i think it looks neathoutenziel wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2019 1:38 pm Hopefully I didn't bid against anyone here. I figured it was time for me to own a GBD, so I bought this International off of the bay. At first I was a little leery of the rusticated top, since i'd never seen a GBD like this. I started looking around and apparently the International line had some with factory rusticated rims. I sort of dig it because that means I can light with reckless abandon.
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l had one extremely similar-it had plateau on the rim. I didn’t keep it long enough to like it cause someone liked it a lot morehoutenziel wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2019 1:38 pm Hopefully I didn't bid against anyone here. I figured it was time for me to own a GBD, so I bought this International off of the bay. At first I was a little leery of the rusticated top, since i'd never seen a GBD like this. I started looking around and apparently the International line had some with factory rusticated rims. I sort of dig it because that means I can light with reckless abandon.
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I tried forgetting my password but it didn't work. I just reset it.houtenziel wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2019 2:05 pm Thanks fellas. I now really need to enforce a no ebay policy for a few months,
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At one point I went so far as to delete my account.. that lasted about a month. Probably my longest stretch.arturo7 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2019 9:02 pmI tried forgetting my password but it didn't work. I just reset it.houtenziel wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2019 2:05 pm Thanks fellas. I now really need to enforce a no ebay policy for a few months,
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