I am wealthy in my friends—William Shakespeare If you have one pipe, you’re a pipe smoker. If you have two pies, you’re a collector—Bill Unger Fred Brown This is the tale of two pipes. One is a venerable Custom-Bilt given to me years ago by a dear friend who is now gone. The other is …

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Fred Brown Once you become hooked on smoking a pipe as a pastime, you come to realize there is something else going on here. The pipe itself is an art form. Its beauty has lured many a person to its siren song. Think of the many brilliant men (and women) who have smoked the pipe, …

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Fred Brown Well, the big news in Pipelandia is that Laudisi Enterprises, parent company of SmokingPipes.com, has acquired Kapp & Peterson, Ltd., notably the Peterson pipe factory in Sallynoggin, Dublin, Ireland, and the Peterson of Dublin shop on Nassau Street. The above news is straight from the horse’s mouth (nothing intended here, folks) F. Sykes …

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A. MIller Month 1: I’m completely off tobacco. I just up and walked away. I’m kind of impressed with how little physical dependence I had on my pipe. Being a nearly-every-day smoker and usually more than one bowl per day, I’m impressed by this. I’ve read that, due to not-inhaling, there is a significant enough …

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A. Miller If you’ve ever gone antiquing, it’s likely you’ve rolled in to a location (usually outside of most towns) where there is more than one antique shop. While technically competitors, the nature of these shops being near one another makes it so that you can visit one place, and have opportunity to visit more …

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Fred Brown I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgment in all human affairs – Albert Einstein, 1950 I’m late with this column this month for a variety of reasons: I wrecked my car, but managed not to injure or kill anyone. I wasn’t smoking my pipe at the time, …

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Fred Brown Rising from the calamity of World War II in Europe, a small woodworking shop in Przemysl, Poland, by the San River, began looking around for new ways to sustain itself in a town known for its pipes and its pipe artists. Already producing wood carvings and plastic creations, the owners were eager to …

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Fred Brown This is not a "tobaccoreviews.com", a Pipestud, or a Jiminks type of tobacco review. I’m not in that league. But I just wanted to jot down a few thoughts about the recent re-release of "Stonehenge Flake" by G.L. Pease and the late John Gawith of GH&Co. Pease and Gawith (and what a combination …

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Fred Brown Ok, boys and girls, gather around. The Pipe Pundit is going to delve into a few thorny intricacies of the care and feeding of a pipe. This is pure Pundit pipe philosophy, just so you know. As we all are aware, our beloved briars require, nay, must have vast quantities of opulent tobacco …

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Fred Brown Well, go on with you, now. The FDA is taking a breather from its ransacking of the tobacco industry, especially pipe tobacco, so the story goes in a recent Washington Post epistle. Yeah, sure. I’ll believe it when I see the cold, hard, results. Don’t fall for all the smoke and mirrors and …

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