{"id":2939,"date":"2019-02-04T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T18:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=2939"},"modified":"2019-01-28T14:12:08","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T22:12:08","slug":"what-the-heck-is-brylon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=2939","title":{"rendered":"What the Heck is Brylon??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"byline\"><span class=\"author vcard\">By: <a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/dadspipes.com\/author\/lemoncrmobile\/\">DADSPIPES<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"posted-on\">Posted on: SEPTEMBER 16, 2015<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Down near the bottom of my box of estate pipes to refurb was this Yello Bole Standard Brylon octagonal billiard. I had noticed the unique shape of the bowl when the auction lot arrived, but I figured I had better do some research before playing with this pipe too much.<\/p>\n<p>According to Pipedia, Brylon was invented in 1966 by the S.M. Frank &amp; Co Ltd as a cheap alternative to briar. Brylon consists of a resin material mixed with \u201cwood flour\u201d (aka sawdust). It\u2019s heavier than briar, and can reputedly heat up considerably if smoked too quickly, but is practically immune to scratches, dents and other damage common to briar pipes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dadspipes.com\/2015\/09\/16\/what-the-heck-is-brylon-a-yello-bole-standard-panel-billiard\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: DADSPIPES Posted on: SEPTEMBER 16, 2015 &nbsp; Down near the bottom of my box of estate pipes to refurb was this Yello Bole Standard Brylon octagonal billiard. I had noticed the unique shape of the bowl when the auction lot arrived, but I figured I had better do some research before playing with this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":2940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cigar-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2941,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions\/2941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}