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The
Best of Talbert Briar in 2005
I don't remember much about 2005, because I am writing this in January
of 2007. January of 2006 was so chaotic and busy that there was
no time for such frivolity as updating the past year's gallery, and
that mood carried out through the rest of the years until I just forgot
all about it. So, now I sit here trying to think... 2005,
hmm. It was the last year I made a Halloween pipe set, and the
pieces sold at auction for record prices for Talbert Briar.
Otherwise, I was occupied with several sudden requests for
variations of popular Danish shapes, like the Elephant's Foot and
Blowfish, and from my archives I appear to have made roughly a dozen of
each for various requests. But, that is what they were for -
requests - because I just wouldn't make an Elephant's Foot on my own.
Don't like the shape, personally, though I'm proud of the ones I
did and think they were decent examples of the genre. In this
year's "Best Of", I've got two of the Halloween pipes (Grendels Mother
taking the new record as the most complex and difficult pipe I've
completed), and some designs of my own, like the Alchemist and the
Seahorse.
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