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Who Made my Irwin Ries?
Come to the Chicago Show and ask Chuck yourself. Iwan is always a big vendor at and sponsor of the exhibition.- chilllucky
- Post #7
- Forum: Pipe Talk
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Commissioned Set of Two Pipes Less Than 1k, Received!
The pipe set was commissioned to celebrate the house build. I only moved up after Thanksgiving. So, yeah, first 50°+ day since then. We're in Southern Wisconsin. There was new snow on the ground two day ago.- chilllucky
- Post #29
- Forum: Pipe Talk
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Commissioned Set of Two Pipes Less Than 1k, Received!
Not the best picture as we were staring into the sun, but we finally had a nice enough day to christen the set! They smoked effortlessly, thanks again, Jesse!- chilllucky
- Post #27
- Forum: Pipe Talk
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Farewell Sutliff Tobacco Company - Monday 3/4/25
You can pretty much always say "yes" to that question.- chilllucky
- Post #52
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Who Is H.G.P. of Barclay Rex Fame?
If be curious to ask @SBC and @TheIronMonkey how this account jives with whatever secret theory they were hinting at earlier.- chilllucky
- Post #24
- Forum: British Pipes
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GB Boards on Walls
If this is an example of what you're asking about, then Sablebrush52 is correct. Tudor style, half-timbered construction is based on medieval timber framing. Instead of covering the frame with clapboard siding, they filled in the voids with wattle and daub or cob or plaster or whatever. Without...- chilllucky
- Post #5
- Forum: General Discussion
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Tobacco Prices In Ireland & Good Places To Buy It
My spouse was just at Miss Morans on a vacation. She left you one tin of SG Bothy flake. The rest of their old stock is safely stored here in Wisconsin.- chilllucky
- Post #24
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Who Is H.G.P. of Barclay Rex Fame?
The way SBC is talking, I would guess it stands for Harry Gryffindor Potter, and that if one were to collect the pipes and arrange them into the correct pattern, it would open a portal to another dimension.- chilllucky
- Post #11
- Forum: British Pipes
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Pipe Travel Question
To say nothing of the hat.- chilllucky
- Post #14
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Pipe Travel Question
The UK will allow you to bring 250 grams of tobacco for personal use on your trip. You will have to look up the allowances for the other nations on your itinerary. London has an active social group, The Pipe Club of London, who meets monthly at a Pub with a large-ish outdoor smoking area in a...- chilllucky
- Post #11
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Help Me Design a Meer
Yes! That kind of thing is really neat. Like those dutch wedding spoons with the captured ball carving. "How'd they do that" kind of work.- chilllucky
- Post #25
- Forum: Pipe Talk
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Help Me Design a Meer
I think the coolest thing that can be done in meerschaum and not briar is real piercing work. It'll take a couple grams off the weight, too!- chilllucky
- Post #13
- Forum: Pipe Talk
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The Voice of Gawith Hoggarth
So it is like the airport stores? The retail customer has to be moving between countries. Curious.- chilllucky
- Post #12
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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The Voice of Gawith Hoggarth
When they say the buyer is "the duty free" zone of an Asian country, what does that mean? Surely they're not talking about the airport stores. Is that a back-door way to distribute outside the purchasing country?- chilllucky
- Post #9
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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