Topic: "Claire" - The Exotic Waterfall Waterpipe. (Read 2887 times)

Thanks Protokol,

I hope she serves you well for many years to come 

I won this beautiful waterpipe in the raffle a few weeks ago, sorry for the late review WoodCollector, been on holiday.

Unfortunately the pipe was damaged in transit from the States to the UK - It looked as though it had been removed and handled roughly by customs, the packaging seemed good but had apparently been torn open at the top to remove the item.

I'm confident that this was no fault of WoodCollector, and he kindly offered for me to send the item back for repair. However as it was a fairly simple repair, I decided to do it myself. He gave some helpful advice on how to go about the repair, which went well. The pipe now looks great, and just needs a quick polish to finish the job.

The pipe itself is lovely to look at, the 2 types of wood and the different grains really compliment each other. The glass bowl is also very pretty and sets the whole thing off nicely. After much deliberation I did try smoking through it, with mixed results. It works OK as a pipe, however due to the wooden design there is a small amount of leakage through the lid (apparent when the bowl is tightly packed). If I decide to smoke through it again I will make the small addition of a rubber seal on the lid, to make it more airtight.

For now Claire is sitting on my mantlepiece, and looks awesome - I've already had a few people ask about it and remark on how nice it looks.

I would definitely be happy to deal with WoodCollector again, he is a talented craftsman showing real creativity with his work. He was also more than happy to help when I explained the problem with the delivery - great customer service, cheers WoodCollector!!

Click the link that says "Waterfall Waterpipe" it has a graphic representation. or there are a million videos on youtube.

How does this piece function?

Auction ends in 4 minutes

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4 Hours until the auction ends 

Surprisingly not, i have had commissions from this community for over a dozen of them in the past month, over $7,000 in water pipe sales in December alone. its not about a special niche, there are two kinds of smokers, crazy kids in their moms basement who just think its cool and rebellious that would smoke from a frogs ass if its all they had, and classy individuals who partake in the finer things in life, most of them you would never know smoke if you met them on the street. An independent study done last year showed that for every "crazy kid hiding in their mothers basement" there were 2 smokers with an average income above $50,000usd a year. Over the past year with new laws and regulations the majority in smokers is leaning towards career minded people and less towards the kid who spends half of his McDonalds paycheck on smoke. They are running a new study now and the results will be published in early Feb. 2015. I am sure that over 75% of the smokers will be the type you would not expect with higher salary's and stable careers. The fault in the auction at the moment is Christmas, the clients that buy this kind of art have probably just spent $3,000usd plus on Christmas gifts, vacations, and entertaining, leaving little budget for functional art at the current moment. I have had several messages requesting that i hold it until mid January for someone but as a man of my word i do the things i say, and i said i was auctioning this piece so if it sells it sells, if not i may hold it for one of the previous clients that want it, or who knows, maybe i will raffle it off selling 20x .1BTC tickets and someone will win this beauty for .1BTC and get a moderately expensive piece of functional art for next to nothing.

Problem is people who smoke probably aren't interested in fancy art wood pieces like this. Thats a special kind of niche this is going to appeal to and probably going to be a hard sell. Good luck nonetheless!

Just over 13 hours left to get a bid in if your interested guys.

It is, if it doesn't go during this auction i may auction it again later. Yes its all custom lathe work, if you check the link in my signature you will see Claire being made.

 
Thanks 8-Bit

yup my family is very into woodworking, i see in the quality of wood you use and very fine lathe work which is tricky

nice work

This is probably a rough time to auction given the holidays and everything people spending lots of money for Christmas and what not

but it looks very nice.


this is all custom lathe work?

I will accept the BTC equivalent of CannaCoin on this item also. All bids must still be placed in BTC but you can pay in CannaCoin if you would like.

2 days left to bid

Wow these are interesting.  I have to run, will be back soon to check this out, thanks for sharing with Cannacoin team

Materials: Purpleheart and Quilted Sapele
Starting bid: 1.5BTC (Plus shipping of $10.50 in the USA )
Bid Increments: .1BTC

Auction ends Monday 12/22/14 at 12 Noon Eastern Standard Time Payment will be due in full within 24hours of the auction ending

If a bid is placed within the last 5 Minutes of the auction, the auction time will extend by 5 minutes until the last bid is made and 5 minutes has passed with no bidding

Contact me if you live outside the USA to get a shipping quote.

Gone are the days of crazy kids poking holes in Gatorade bottles and filling them at their mothers kitchen sink. Claire is an elegant Waterfall Waterpipe for the sophisticated smoker with style and class. Claire is artistically hand crafted from beautiful Quilted Sapele and Purpleheart. Claire measures 16" tall and 4" round with a glass like finish and sports a colorful glass bowl for smooth smoking. Treat yourself and rise above the rest with this elegant conversation starting smoking device.