A pipe that will open doors for you…
Ben Medansky has created an understated and stylish ceramic pipe that upon first look, appears to be a common door hinge. It us harkens back to the days of “The Great Hinge Robberies of ’77”. It was a dark time for doors in the Southern California area. An unknown door hinge thief terrorized neighborhoods and left homeowners with a very awkward way of getting inside and outside of their homes. Some people had resorted to locking their doors, or keeping their doors locked behind another locked door with more locks… but nothing worked. They all had hinges, and those hinges were being taken at a frenzied pace.
Thankfully, an enterprising detective who went by the name of Chesterfield, and who kept a Sherlock Holmes pipe packed with premium weed at all times, recognized a pattern. Each hinge was replaced with a chewed up piece of Big Red gum. There was only one man sick enough to chew Big Red gum on a regular basis. Big Ed McGruff. Big Ed was a numbers guy who moved up the rackets and started taking door hinges first as a goof. Then he began to see real worth in those hinges. He would smoke a few bowls out of them to calm his nerves and then he would melt a few and reshape them into busts of Stalin. He would sell them to local communists and use the profits to find a lifestyle of excess. With his capture door hinge prices began to stabilize and the people of Los Angeles were able to leave their doors unlocked again e first door that is, the one that leads to the second door.) The Soleri Flume pipe brings forth memories of those rough and tumble days. Memories that hinge on a quality smoke session.
