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New Member; Don Pablo Tobacco
My name is Bear Graves. Started smoking a pipe when I was 16-year-old and have been pretty much been a puffer since I used to be a ((very)) minoritypartner in smokingpipes.com, writing up to 2 million words a year in pipe prescriptions, newsletters, and then broadcasting my silliness on a...- beargraves
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- Forum: New Member Introductions
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What's in Your Pouch?
Lately, more often than not, it's been McClelland's #27. Just a fine, warm weather smoke, to my taste.- beargraves
- Post #7
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Luca di Piazza: Americans have bureaucracy, Italians have "bureaucrazy"
In late September of last year, I had the fun of interviewing Luca di Piazza of Neatpipes. The piece ran long enough that, though already segmented into two parts, some had to be cut. Sadly, at least to me, some of what was cut made for the most interesting reading. One example would be Luca's...- beargraves
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- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Ok, who has the popcorn?
@rsuninv "The trailer is very well done. My overriding question is this............if I donate is it going into a failed project or viable project? " That's always the proverbial $64,000 question. The only thing that is a lead-pipe cinch is the ultimate death-knell of the project, should that...- beargraves
- Post #5
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Ok, who has the popcorn?
Though I try (I really do!) to keep current with most of the ongoing projects associated with this thing we all love, there are times when I find myself feeling thicker than a big print version of "War and Peace". Such a time occurred about four months ago, when a bunch of my pipe buddies were...- beargraves
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Halloween Blends: Hey, it's a start
I started to say I wanted a witch flavored one, but then the image of my mother-in-law popped into my head... (shudder)- beargraves
- Post #3
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Halloween Blends: Hey, it's a start
Though I don't believe it has hit retailers yet, C&D just announced what may well be the first ever tinned Halloween blend on their FaceBook page, something called "Mixture Monster": http://cornellanddiehl.com/the-latest-details.cfm?id=26 Might not be my particular cup of tea, but glad to see a...- beargraves
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The Return of Dunhill's The Aperitif & Durbar
Starting a while back, Dunhill seems to have borrowed both the title and tagline of Peter Allen's hit song "Everything Old is New Again", and the hits appear to just keep comin' with the reintroduction two treasured, classic tinned tobaccos from yesteryear: The Aperitif and Durbar. Yep...- beargraves
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- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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***What Are You Smoking *** (August 2014)
McClelland's #27 from the mid-90s, in an old meer that I have been coloring since the mid-90s.- beargraves
- Post #1,152
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Tom Eltang: Moving up from Golden Contrast
Instinct would tell me that while Tom's stain might well have been the inspiration, for the life of me I can't picture Tom doing the staining himself. This is just a swag on my part, will do some nosing around. Best- beargraves
- Post #5
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Tom Eltang: Moving up from Golden Contrast
Greetings, For eons, one of the many hallmarks of a Tom Eltang pipe has been his famous, never-close-to-being-imitated Golden Contrast stain. That is about to change: http://www.smokingpipes.com/smokingpipesblog/single.cfm/post/eltang-turns-new-stain Hope that this is of some interest, R. Bear...- beargraves
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Christmas Cheer throughout the years.
My thanks to all, especially to Warren, for providing the exact text for 1999 offering. Will revise resource anon.- beargraves
- Post #11
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Christmas Cheer throughout the years.
Having searched the web in order to find a history of McClelland's Christmas Cheer, hoping to answer questions such as "what year did the series begin?", "what tobaccos and vintages appeared in the (say) 1996 and 2001 offerings?", I came up empty handed. Nature abhors a vacuum, and, having found...- beargraves
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C&D - Time For Some Focus?
Tennsmoker, thanks for sharing your memories about the Tarlers and C&D, as well as your take on many of the blends. FWIW, here is a tribute to Craig and Patty, with a fair amount of detailed insight for those who didn't know the couple/company to the extent you did/do...- beargraves
- Post #60
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Yet another Smokingpipes.com innovation: Estate Cigars
http://smokingpipes.com/Estate-Cigars/- beargraves
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