OK it’s about time for something a bit daft on here so how about this. A simple competition where one has to match the car to the pipemaker - please anyone join in, in any way you see fit.
Btw these are similar vehicles so no clues in the picture . . .
To kick us off we have Bill Haneman, Sam Lawrence and Peter Hunter. Whooo could driiiive in a vehicle like thaaaaat???
Top - Sam
Middle - Peter
Bottom - Bill
What did I win, a full set? 
Its a trick question of course, all pipemakers are driven around in chauffeused limo’s
RORY
To condense: all pipemakers are driven.
“all pipemakers are driven”…
mad by customers.
Marcus - damn you are right! That must be some inside knowledge or something. You win a set of old Pakistani drones with the stock tenon snapped off the tenor. No stock, a balloon and pointy stick will be included.
Oh and let’s not forget two others, James Kenna and Maurice Coyne
Weren’t James Kenna’s more like this?
James Kenna - top pipemaker and unicyclist.
There was no end to his talents.
Mukade
Here’s Boisvert’s wheels…
Hi Sam, great prize
Only minor inside knowledge needed - the rest was just logic reasoning:
The first photo – The weed (oh sorry, reed) mobile, the vehicle of someone who has tricked his wife and kids to believe that family vacation is when you spend a month on the road collecting cane and visit folk festivals.
Second photo – Slick looking pipes deserves a good ride, and that fact that only Peter has been making pipes long enough to afford buying a sports car made it easy.
Third photo – The cultural transportation unit, the obvious choice and status symbol of any history professor. If you once visited Mr Haneman’s web page you’ll realize that this man will refuse to drive anything made later than 1968, the two hundred year mark of the start for the “Kenna period”.
Cheers!
/MarcusR
Wow Bill I can’t believe you’ve found Kenna’s lathe!! Have you tried making a set on it yet?
Peter has been making pipes long enough to afford buying a sports car
This reminds me of the old gag about the pipemaker who won the lottery:
“What will you do now you’ve won?”
“I plan to continue making pipes until it’s all gone”
Great reasoning though, 'cept that I never took that lumbering old dog to Spain, those mountain roads would have been the death of it - also what is a “folk festival”???
That Kenna lathe thing reminds me of this years Xmas pressie, an Irish flax wheel that I’ve brought back into spinning order, couldn’t have done it without the lathe, perhaps another thread would be what do makers make when not pipes.
That reminds me that I saw a lovely spinning wheel in a shop window in Settle made by D. Stevenson from Richmond - same one I presume?
Here’s the cane collecting picture
Here’s Egan’s mode of transport after he tried to ream out a customer’s liver
RORY
And even then it wouldn’t give a strong harsh D. Bloody livers eh!!
someone who has tricked his wife and kids to believe that family vacation is when you spend a month on the road collecting cane and visit folk festivals.
I know of another maker who uses this ploy
John
I thought you were a John Deere man David.
Doc