@TheIronMonkey sent me this earlier this year along with one of his famous illustrated notes. Might not look like much to most, but to me it was a true act of kindness, as I had been looking for a replacement or analogue to my very first pipe, a shabby old Dr. Grabow with a crack down the shank so terrible that the stem would simply shake out of the darn thing, for several years.
While I don’t smoke it on the daily as I have certain hang-ups about smoking unfiltered pipes with my constant retrohaling and intermittent rough health issues, I do smoke it on special occasions when the time is right. Stuff it full of my ever-shrinking supply of Prince Albert’s Soft Vanilla, which I call “The Jeff Special”, as I also got the pouch of the leaf from Jeff when I first came into contact with him because of some ancient tins of PA.
He’s very, very, very good people, even more simply put and as genuine as I can be, he’s the best I’ve found on this forum, and one of the best I’ve found in the real world to boot. Thanks, Jeff.
. That’s a great pipe!
