Welcome to The Pipes Magazine Radio Show Episode 635. Our featured interview on tonight’s show is with James Ravenwood. James is the boutique tobacco blender of Ravenwood Blends. His blending started out as a fun hobby, and he now has professionally packaged commercially available products with some great tin art. Part of his interest in pipe smoking goes back to fond memories of a retired Navy Veteran that lived on his street while he was growing up that would sit in his driveway smoking a pipe all day. Later, in 2011 he began smoking pipes and soon after started experimenting with mixing different tobaccos. His other hobby, that he has been doing for 30 years, is photography. He takes wonderful photos of outdoor spaces, and still life pictures of pipes and tobacco. You can see them on his Instagram @thebriarfellowship. At the top of the show we’ll have an Ask the Pipemaker segment with renowned pipe artisan Jeff Gracik.
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Jeff had some interesting and enlightening insights on the availability of briar.
James was an excellent example of a young craftsman learning his craft. I enjoyed his backstory, and of how he got started–essentially just jumping in. He seems rather knowledgeable of old and new tobaccos, and inventive as hell. Keep mixin’ Jim.
“The Pearls” performed by Warren Ertle was nicely done. It would have been the perfect coda for his episode (check out the sheet music on the keyboard ledge in the photo).
Thanks for another fun show.
Dino