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  1. shermnatman

    Revisting: Pipe Lovers Magazine: Monthly Home Blending Winning Recipes, April 2023

    Okay Gang, here we are with a new month upon us, and with that brings us a newly revisited award-winning Home Blend courtesy of Pipe Lovers Magazine. This month’s winning entry which we will revisit was published in their 2nd big issue - Vol 1. Number 2. - for APRIL 1946; and, was submitted by...
  2. shermnatman

    Cool Statistics on SmokingPipes

    I never noticed this before; but, there is a butting on marked STATS on your SP account page. If you click it, it will show you all sorts of cool graphs and charts about what you've ordered from them in the past. Look at the Pipe by Country pie-chart on the right - Perfect and equal...
  3. shermnatman

    Who's Really Behind That Blend...?

    Did you ever wonder exactly WHO this Captain Black might be...? Us guys who grew-up in the 60/70s glued to the TV set share the same nagging suspicion... which could explain A LOT! Hmmmmm.... - Sherm Natman
  4. shermnatman

    Have You Ever Wondered....

    Have you ever ordered a bunch of small 1oz samples of different tabaks, and they all look fairly distinct from one another... Except for this one sample, which is the 'cousin' of something else you ordered, except it's supposed to be at the other end of the color range... Let's just say for...
  5. shermnatman

    Monthly Home Blending Winning Recipes from the '40's

    Title edited; not sure what the March 2023 was for. I thought mentioning the 40's could draw more interest. Original title: "Re-Visting, Pipe Lovers Magazine: Monthly Home Blending Winning Recipes, March 2023" Since there are plenty of issues of the old and beloved Pipe Lovers Magazine...
  6. shermnatman

    Bright, Yellow, Lemon Virginias - Differences?

    After years of being a "Burley Man" - Yes, I think that looks funny in-print too :LOL: - I am now getting into the contributions and merits of "VIRGINIAS" into my blending experiments. Because Burley was always my Base Tobacco of choice, I never paid much attention to Virginia specs beyond...
  7. shermnatman

    Upping the Nicotine Level of a Mixture with N-Rustica Wild Leaf, Anyone?

    Getting a little burnt-out on constantly relying soley 5 Brothers or CIgar Leaf to up the Nicotine-level of whatever I am smoking; and, the expected effects this has on an otherwise enjoyable, but N-impotent mixture. I've been reading that the wild leaf Nicotine Rustica has roughly 10x the...
  8. shermnatman

    MARXMAN Pipes, anyone?

    For anyone like me who loves reading through the old Pipe Lovers Magazines which are online, in every issue there is a large amount of ads for Marxman brand pipes; however, in our beloved "What Are You Smoking?" thread, I cannot recall if I have ever seen anyone post about these specific pipes...
  9. shermnatman

    Haha! Smoke Rings... Finally!

    Way, way, way back when I was a cigarette smoker, I loved making smoke rings. I could shoot a string of rings up to 5 or 7 from a single drag. I could even shoot a small fast ring through a large slow ring. Oh, how I loved to make smoke rings! It had always frustrated me - in a...
  10. shermnatman

    Your Favorite TV Show To Watch While Smoke a Pipe; and, Why?

    My old "grab my pipe, hit the recliner, and put on an episode or three of ________" , used to be The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes from 1954, due to all the pipe-smoking; and also, Dark Shadows from the 1966 B&W-era, due to the overall sedate and meditative creepiness which seemed to match the...
  11. shermnatman

    How Much do You Keep on Hand?

    Not counting collectables, one-offs, samples, things you have just to have, etc. - just your Smoke For Daily Bread Tabak - How many months/years of a back supply of your Daily Bread are you in possession of? Currently, between my Daily Bread stash of: Prince Albert tubs, Edward G Robinson tubs...
  12. shermnatman

    Chasing Vanishing Pipe Tobaccos

    So back around Thanksgiving, when the rumors began, that my main 'daily bread smoke', Prince Albert, might be getting the ax - we are still waiting for some sort of confirm/deny from Middleton on that one - I began stock-piling 14oz tubs wherever they could still be found; this, in planning for...
  13. shermnatman

    Have You Ever Had One Of Those Pipe Smoking Days Where...

    Have You Ever Had One Of Those Pipe Smoking Days Where... you just can't catch the flavor from your tobacco? I used to attribute this to sinuses; and often on those days, after a hot, steamy shower - and clearing my sinuses - the effect would be alleviated. However, today isn't that day, as...
  14. shermnatman

    Does Anyone Have A Copy Of This Booklet On Blending Your Own Pipe Tobacco From John Middleton; Pub 1937 ?

    Hoping one of you Brothers-of-the-Briar has a copy of this 12 page booklet by John Middleton Co., 1937; in your collection of pipe-smoking related ephemera. Let me know if you do, wont you please? Thanks - Sherm Natman
  15. shermnatman

    Super Value Pipe Cleaner Price Jumps-Up 11% Overnight

    The forever price of Super Value Pipe Cleaners - .99 cents for a pack of 50 - suddenly jumped up, a whopping 11%, to $1.09 for 2021 Anyone else catch this sudden 11% price increase? - Sherm Natman
  16. shermnatman

    How I Removed A Horribly Jammed 9mm Filter Plastic Cap From Deep Inside A Pipe Stem

    Okay, so here's the story... For Christmas this year, a dear friend gifted me a wonderful little Rattray's The Good Deal #206 pipe. This is a fantastic, and fantastically small, excellent smoking little bent stem pipe; with a slightly larger than golf ball sized apple-shaped bowl - think about...
  17. shermnatman

    You Inherited The Local Smoke Shop; But Now, You Must Rename It

    Through a trick-of-the-tale, because you were one of his most favorite customers, the old man who ran your local beloved pipe tobacco smoke shop has passed onto that great ashtray in the sky; and having no family he could tolerate for more than the required Thanksgiving holiday dinner, has left...
  18. shermnatman

    Anyone Know What's Happening With Our Friend, Funkhouse?

    Just watching Cannon, on MeTV; and I realize our good and formerly very active posting forum brother, @Richmond B. Funkenhouser, suddenly stop posting after New Years Eve. Hoping he is okay, Anyone? - Sherm Natman
  19. shermnatman

    Brigham Role-Call

    I've noticed that I appear to be the main Brigham user/fan on the forum these days; this conclusion is reached solely by virtue of what I read on the @jiminks "What Are You Smoking" thread. I have a hard time believing that more of you fine-forum-fellows don't have Brighams in your collection...
  20. shermnatman

    Today Is A Banner Tobacco Day

    The UPS-Man just delivered my first 12oz tub of Edward G Robinson's Pipe Blend - which I had fallen in love with thanks to the generosity of our fellow Brother of the Briar, Grangerous; aka: Old Leather Tongue - and devoured my first gifted-by-him tin last week. HOWEVER, the big news is this...