Hi All,
I wanted to let you know that we are going to be have a pipe show in the BriarWorks factory starting this year! This will become a very unique and fun annual event. We have many details to work out, but for now we are trying to spread the word so everyone can save the date. Follow briarworks on social media or keep watching muletownpipeshow.com for details that will come soon.
Thanks,
Pete Prevost
Up for Sale is my pre-Cadogan GBD Prestige Colossus 262A Lumberman in good and clean condition.I got this pipe last November from smokingpipes.com and now due to my latest very pricey pipe acquisition time has come to say goodbye to this impressive beauty.No teeth marks on the stem, the chamber is clean and free of build-ups, airway and drilling are ok as well, Perspex mouthpiece fits securely in the mortise.Nomenclature is still clearly readable.This got a Large chamber size and its long enough to offer cool dry smokes. Ships directly from Finland-Scandinavia-EU via untrackable Priority International mail, shipping times do vary and can be anything from a 1.5 week up to a full month for Northern American destinations.Europe takes less,approx,2 weeks.Box,original bill of sale and sock are included.
Price:$ 95 + $ 16 to cover mailing rates.Thank You for Your Interest.
I was recently looking to order some tobacco tins and noticed the selection was dwindling. Assuming the company is still in business (Sillem's), I got to wondering if companies tend to produce all their goods during a certain time of year (seeing as how the product is like dictated by growing seasons) and simply ship everything out at once, or do they warehouse it and parse it out throughout the year?
Ultimately I wanted to know if there was a timetable to when online stores will be flush with product again.
For how much I smoke, I definitely do not need any more pipes, but I know this group understands the desire of PAD.
In an attempt to keep the collection as “limited” the best I can, I’m interested in hearing what the Quintessential pipe is for the following pipe makers: Peterson, Savinelli, Dr. Grabow; Comoy’s; Missouri Meerschaum; Stanwell. The thinking is if I only have one pipe from those makers, which would be a good choice?
I know this is very subjective, but it could be good to hear this groups opinion. Thanks.
I am trying to identify this pipe. My mother liked to collect stuff. Going thru her estate I ran across this pipe and the only marking I found is on the foot ".999 Fine" which I'm assuming is referring to the gold or silver overlay. On the shank, the overlay is slightly raised and bumpy which leads me to believe it's the pipe's markings. I can't make out what it says. The pipe itself appear to ever been used. I know there's a lot of knowledge in this forum. All help is appreciated. Thank you, the Newbie. P.S. How do I get a picture included with this post? "IMG" is asking for a URL. I have a jpg only.
But I gave it a shot.
It was a pre drilled kit from Mr. Brog
I've enjoyed Virginia leaf improving with age on a number of occasions. It really evolves and improves, even when it started out very good. As a rule of thumb, I've always thought that Virginia ages and burley keeps well. Here lately, going back to my stash of D&R Two Timer, I find it seems to have mellowed and sweetened, and lost some of its fresh over-toasted taste. It was a good nutty two-burley twice-toasted blend to begin with, but now it seems to be better. I'm not proclaiming anything new based on this one experience, but as much as I love burley, single leaf, burley blends, and burley in blends with other tobaccos, I'd never noticed this beneficial aging effect with burley before. Maybe it's just my good imagination. Or maybe it's my long experience with burley rewarding my loyalty.
I found a piece of coffee tree (a fruit tree for coffee drinks, not Kentucky Coffeetree). I intend to making pipe by this wooden.
Do you know: anyone ever made a wooden coffee pipe, is this wood toxic? Anybody know about this information, please let me know. Thank you very much..jpg)
I have a twenty one and a half inch kiseru that I call my Papa-San pipe and just bought another that’s twenty nine and a half inches. I also have some of the Japanese tobacco that is appropriate for them.
The thing I like about them is that they have larger bowls than the diminutive ones that you see on the smaller kiseru. A good sized pinch of takara bune gives me a nice relaxing half hour smoke.
Here's the only one I have. It's a replica Plains Indian style deer antler peace pipe
and although it's smokable I wouldn't think of it but use it as a decoration in my mancave.
Many cultures around the world have smoked and come up with their own individual styles of
pipe. Maybe some of you guys have something you could show us.
I'm not smoking these pipes too regularly, so it's time to move them on. All prices include shipping to the lower 48 states. Paypal friends and family. PM me if interested.
Elliott Nachwalter hand made in Vermont, canted tulip, nice grain. Lucite cumberland stem. $77.00
Next, an oddball Vottis freehand with a line on the lower front of the bowl, may be pieced together, but the grain follows through. I don't know what's going on, but it's solid and doesn't seem to be smoked. $28.00
Last, a LePeltier double wall clay pipe made in the US. Has a vulcanite stem and a goose painted on the front. This is not a porcelain pipe. $27.00
I just received an 8-ounce tin of Quiet Nights from SP. The first impression is that it's nice and smokey with a nice taste of Latakia but not overpowering. I like it. When I opened the tin I intended to transfer it to a screw-top jar but see that the long slices of tobacco are laid out in a series of paper layers, each with tabs to provide access. Nothing wrong with that but I have not seen tobacco packaged like that before. Probably some of you more expert gentlemen can tell me why this is. It does discourage me from dumping it out and putting it into a glass jar. The tin is solid metal rather than foil-covered cardboard so I suppose it will cellar alright as is.
I was always overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of tobaccos to choose from. I found McClelland. Tried a few other things and just decided that I didn't need to bother looking any further.
And I go online to order more tobacco and find they are no more.... So I'm looking for suggestions. I'm honestly pretty ignorant about what's out there.
My go-to's were Navy Cavendish and Blackwood's flake. I also really liked their "fragrant matured Virginia's".
Does anyone have any ideas about tobaccos that are similar to those?
(I also loved their English tobaccos... But I don't feel I'm at a loss for finding other good English tobaccos.)
I also really love Lane BCA but they're still around. But that's just to give a picture of what I like.
We seem to have a number of GBD enthusiasts here. I'll start this thread dedicated to information about that brand.
I was surprised at the price of this Unique that was recently sold on Ebay (nearly $800!). It is very large, which I'm sure added to the value and barely looks smoked. "Unique" pipes were attributed and some say carved by Horey Jameson. They often have carved detail features and area always freehand pipes. I do not yet own a Unique grade pipe. Last month, at our Frederick Pipe club, Jason Bard, who owns "Bards Vintage Briar" had a bag full of Unique pipes he was going to restore and sell. Based on this pipe, he should do well!
You are a passenger on an old wooden tall-masted sailing ship which is destroyed in a terrible storm while at sea. The next morning, you awaken, face-down, battered and bruised on the shore of a sandy island beach.
You are going to be here for quite some time apparently - no phone, no lights, no motor-car; not a single luxury... EXCEPT,
Regaining your senses and orientation, you survey the shore-line, and you see a very large wax-sealed wooden chest - which has also survived the storm; and is now laying in the muddy sands of the gentle shore-break.
You drag the heavy chest up the beach and open it. The contents are dry and well-packed. Inside you find only pounds and pounds of ONE Tobacco Mixture (and plenty of old school strike-anywhere matches, filters, and pipe cleaners), and only ONE pipe.
What ONE pipe is inside the chest, and what is ONE the tobacco mixture you find inside the chest? - Sherm Natman
I'm actually surprised that nobody has yet brought these up, so although I'm not a rustication fan, I will.
I believe it can be said, that the rustication Peterson had been using lately was hated by most. It was quite ugly, even for rustication, in my opinion. I mean, to me, it was uglier than most of the ugly rustications out there. Rustication on pipes is just ugly in general! So why am I starting a thread on Peterson's new rustication then? Simple... nobody else has and I'm bored.
So here we go. Peterson unveiled their new rustication with the Peterson Aran line and they've had them at Smokingpipes for a few days now. Since Laudisi purchased Peterson, the ugly rustication has been discussed, and is something that Laudisi said they would resolve. And it appears now that indeed they have.
Here's a 106 (because I like 106) with the new rustication.
I gotta tell you... I'm actually pretty dang tempted to order one of these. Let me repeat... I really don't like rusticated pipes. But this pipe looks cool! Although, judging from the photo, there is something that concerns me. It appears to have the same bowl coating they used in the latest Saint Patrick's Day pipe which is proving quite unpopular. But whatever... some alcohol or sandpaper can fix that. However.........
Note to Laudisi: It seems people, including myself, are not happy with this new bowl coating that flakes off after the first smoke. Seriously... I love Petes, but the bowl coating is crap. Sorry.
Back to the rustication. I'm thinking I could get on board with a Peterson using this rustication. It at least looks nice in this finish. It suits the 106 quite well which would probably be my first choice. However, it also looks really nice and craggy on this XL90, another of my favorite Pete shapes.
There's plenty more right here.... https://www.smokingpipes.com/pipes/new/peterson/index.cfm?tag=Aran%20Rusticated&utm_source=PipesMagazine&utm_campaign=March2019AranRustic&utm_medium=banner&caid=5538
So, fellow Peterson fans, or fans of rustication. What are your opinions?
I got my first IM corona and I noticed it gets dirty very very easily. The pictures are after probably 20 relights. Is it how its supposed to be or my butane is crappy and I need to get a better one?
I know it doesn't look real great, don't have much for tools yet. This was made from a found piece of cherry in my neighbors woodpile using hand saws a dremel and a drill press. The bit I carved out of whitetail antler I found in the woods using the dremel and the furrel is made from a piece of found copper pipe I shined up with some steel wool. I know my pipe making game has a long way to go, but it did smoke very well. The biggest problem I had was wood splitting. It was much taller but I cut a split out. It started cracking again so I plugged it and sealed it. Will just keep it around on display because it's my first. Really from my perspective, wood selection was my biggest flaw, not that it was cherry, but that it cracked. It's also my first woodworking project so any tips and hints would be appreciated.
No matter how often I re-learn this lesson, whether spirits, tobacco, or firearms (all the noblest of vices), there's certain products I've made up my mind will be just awful. No particular evidence, but c'mon you just know it's going to stink. And on some dark night, needing a diversion, I break down to try said horrible product just to prove how completely right my omnipotent sense of taste/enjoyment is....and I find "Oh, sh*t this is really good".
Triple whammy discovery really. I started off grabbing an un-smoked Nording rusticated free-hand job that has sat since January. The tenon was slightly miss-shaped with the draft hole mildly miss-aligned....when you see problems like that on a high-tech, very precise instrument that someone dug out of the ground and carved with an industrial lathe you just know it's going to suck. Probably give you three kinds of cancer on the first charring light. Oh.....smokes like a champ right out the gate. No-relights over two large bowls. Well, these chocolate blends have to stink though, right?.....
G&H : Bob's Chocolate Flake : Recent drop - Long smoked both rope and Lakeland product from G&H, never touched the CF. Ordered a pound from one retailer while re-stocking recently, a few tins from another. Cracked open a tin and laid a few pinches out to dry for thirty minutes. Outstanding tin note; not aromatic sweet but a dark baking coca on top of a spicy, mature flake aroma. Once fired up there's just a great interplay between the base tobacco and the mild casing.....just like the aroma it's not artificially sweet but lays on the initial taste like a Mexican mole. Cigars and pipe tobacco are different palate ranges to me, but this strikes me similar to the sweet/earth/red pepper of young Nicaraguan cigars. Maintained that flavor all the way through....not complex but solid in the profile it brought.
Two Friends : Chocolate English : Circa late 2016 8 oz can - Very different tin note than the BCF, but still appealing. A lighter cocoa/malt on top of Virginia citrus. I know all the cool kids have at least a decade on even their Lane Q-1 these days, but in my humble experience 2-3 years is typically enough to start to get a dark-fruit mellowness on a Virginia blend. The label stated there's a helping of latakia (being labeled an English)….but on aroma/inspection it must have been a fairly small pinch. An extremely light English at best, to me more of a seasoned Virginia blend. Nice, light coco 'pop' on draw followed by a well-behaved Virginia backbone. Not sure if pipping fresh would have delivered more hay, but the bowl held a solid citrus/mild tang note that had dark fruit peeking through at times. Mid-bowl it turned fantastically creamy...akin to a well-behaved Connecticut. Not complex, lighter on palate than the BCF, but a very enjoyable Virginia-forward blend with a malt-dry cocoa undertone.
All in all, shocked how well the cocoa notes played over two different blend profiles. I'll be reaching for more of both on a regular basis....really enjoyed them. For pipers out there that may have avoided some of the non-aromatic 'chocolate' blends, give a bowl a try some cool, dark night....it's a unique flavoring that may play better with tobacco than you think.
