Category Archives: Out of the Ashes

Great Expectations

G. L. Pease Some pipes don’t treat us well. They seduce us with their beauty, their charm, only to tease us cruelly, never delivering what they appear to promise. They […]

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Lights, Smokes & Leaves

The Care & Feeding of the Pipeman – by G. L. Pease Indulge me. Take a moment to close your eyes and reflect on your earliest experience as a budding […]

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Covering My Ash

G. L. Pease I’ve been saving the ash from my smokes for a couple weeks, partially in response to some vocal claims made by a few that smoking to the […]

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Bowl Coatings – The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly – Part II

G. L. Pease Last month (see Part I), we asked the the question, “why coat the bowl?” and looked at some of the common reasons coatings might be used. Response […]

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Bowl Coatings – The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly – Part I

G. L. Pease One of the most contentious of the long-running debates in the pipe community is the issue of bowl coatings. Why something so seemingly innocuous can drive discussions […]

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Blinded by Science

G. L. Pease Pipe smoking is at once the simple affair of filling a bowl with some chosen leaf, getting it smouldering just right, and spending an hour or so […]

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Mélange a Trois

G. L. Pease I’m a collector. It’s not just pipes that stimulate this peculiar but fortunately not uncommon affliction. There are a lot of things I find difficult to resist. […]

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Learning to Fly

G. L. Pease I’ve been smoking a pipe for about 30 years, now, and I’m starting to get the idea that I just don’t know how to do it. Seriously. […]

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Have Your Cake…

G. L. Pease I love the first bowl in a new pipe. The courtship. The anticipation. The excitement. I fill the bowl carefully, taking time to appreciate the workmanship, the […]

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Kansas City Made Me Sick

G. L. Pease Not really. Actually, it was some joker in the airport who decided to sneeze and cough all over everyone in sight that made me sick. But, it […]

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