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  1. sasquatch

    Looking for Pipemakers Nearby

    I think Evan Wiseman was in Manitoba, he's @wisemanpipes on instagram, but I could also be totally wrong.
  2. sasquatch

    Canadian Import Advice Help - Tax was 200%!

    Doesn't sound like an error was made. There's about a million taxes on both tobacco and alcohol. You have Federal Tobacco Tax, Provincial Tobacco Tax, GST, and on a large enough order, Duty. So don't import 3 pounds at a time...
  3. sasquatch

    Italian Pipes, Just My Style?

    I think the construction is a bigger factor. You could give me the best briar on earth and I could make a pipe that's a crappy smoker by misaligning certain things, leaving other things rough, whatever. And that, by and large, is what the mid-grade Italian pipe gets right - reasonably large...
  4. sasquatch

    Italian Pipes, Just My Style?

    Oof thanks for reminding me, time to re-order my whale dung compote.
  5. sasquatch

    Briar chew toys for dogs?!

    Dogs love briar, and it's tough as hell.
  6. sasquatch

    Any Castello Comparable pipes?

    Marco makes nice pipes, for sure, good call.
  7. sasquatch

    Any Castello Comparable pipes?

    Well you actually have to TRY looking is the thing before you say you can't find something. Admittedly, prices are up a hair since I last bought a Castello out of these guys, but here's one for 278 euros, shipping will be like 30. Pipe Castello - 'Sea Rock Briar' KK Shape 44 - Tabaccheria...
  8. sasquatch

    Any Castello Comparable pipes?

    Ser Jacopos are worth looking at, but in truth, if you buy Castellos straight out of Italy, they are about 20% cheaper than the American pricing, you can get them for 2 or 300 bucks.
  9. sasquatch

    CI and PayPal: WTF?

    Getting sent to collections can be serious, it can screw you up at the airport, all kinds of things, so my letter would have been a lot nastier than yours. What a bizarre way to do business. As this leaks out, lots of customers will drop.
  10. sasquatch

    New Pipe Maker—A Ton of Questions!

    Pipes are usually dyed with alcohol-based pigments. Maple might take regular wood stain but it's not known for it, really, it's pretty light colored and pretty densely grained. For real, look at pipemakersforum, there is an answer for everything there.
  11. sasquatch

    New Pipe Maker—A Ton of Questions!

    There's a spin-off group called "Pipe Makers" on Facebook, you'll get the same people and same advice there. Oak isn't super toxic (stay away from African hardwoods), things like walnut are worse on most of the indexes. But "getting cancer" really can't be your main fear if you are...
  12. sasquatch

    lol What Happened? 2/19/24

    I'm not an ash dumper, I use the ash pancake to control the burn, so I really got nothing here.
  13. sasquatch

    lol What Happened? 2/19/24

    So I mean, just to be clear, you turned the pipe upside down and stuff fell out?
  14. sasquatch

    Pipe Cleaner Not Passing Through Shank

    Sounds like you are missing the airway and cleaning the mortise only.
  15. sasquatch

    Sodium Silicate And Mortises

    The mortise? I've seen guys treat a mortise with cyanoacrylate, but sodium silicate/waterglass I've never heard of. It's used as a chamber-coating ingredient pretty frequently, so maybe someone has carried it further....
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