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  1. MarcosEZLN

    Broken Pipe Dan Merriman

    Thanks for posting this, Dave. I don't know how I missed it before I posted mine (sorry admins for the duplicate), but I appreciate it.
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    RIP Dan Merriman, @Oldgeezersmoker

    Sorry for your loss, Mike. I was just getting to know Dan, really, but I thought he was great. He'd reach out randomly to see how my girlfriend and I were liking our new house or share some interesting anecdote about Gawith Hoggarth blends I enjoyed. I'd bought a lot of those from him over the...
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    RIP Dan Merriman, @Oldgeezersmoker

    He wasn't as active here as a couple other forums, but I wanted to get the word out for anyone who might not see the news elsewhere. I'm very sorry to report that Dan Merriman, @oldgeezersmoker, passed away last month. Dan had an extraordinary wealth of knowledge about pipes, tobacco and tobacco...
  4. MarcosEZLN

    Question for Ashdigger

    I mean, in the insured's defense, that vehicle did last its entire life without an oil change.
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    Question to Our Mustachioed Members

    Yep, I think it's sold as a hair spiking gel. The stuff dries up so hard I almost put my girlfriend's eye out a few times coming in for a smooch. One thing I'll say for glue, when I used it and my mustache fell apart it was easy to restyle. The rare times the Got2B Glued fell apart it could not...
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    Question to Our Mustachioed Members

    It's been years since I had this handlebar mustache but at this length the only thing which held it together was Got2B Glued. I applied a thick glob and styled it while I blowdried, at a certain point it turns into this completely rigid shell. Sucker felt like acrylic, practically. When it was...
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    The Vegetarian Brigade's Latest Secret Weapon? [Wink].

    You despise them? In what way are they negatively affecting you? Many vegans/vegetarians grew up eating meat products and there can be some comfort/practicality in being able to reproduce recipes with which they're familiar. Do you not actually see an ethical difference between eating plants...
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    Howdy from Seattle!

    Welcome from a former Seattleite, transplanted to the Bellingham area.
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    Hello from Washington State

    Welcome from just up the road in Nooksack, WA, although I'm about to move to Birch Bay. Bellingham is a tough town for much of the year if you're exclusively an outdoor smoker, but these few months of the year are hard to beat anywhere else.
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    Windy Smoking

    You might try a meerschaum as there's no risk of burnout on a windy day, although the already recommended windcap would certainly help. If you combine the two you could probably smoke while skydiving without any problem.
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    Is this Pit a Big Deal?

    That looks like a tiny, superficial pit in a very thick part of the bowl. I can't imagine any way it would get worse over time. If anything, it'll probably darken up with handling/smoking and be significantly less visible after a while. Even a pipe with no visible pits on the exterior could have...
  12. MarcosEZLN

    My First Meerschaum

    See the post by @MikeDub above showing true vs. false spigots. Generally the benefit of a true spigot is you can take the stem out of the pipe when it's still hot without compromising the mortise/tenon, but in practice I rarely have need to do so. Still, if you were dead set on a true spigot and...
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    My First Meerschaum

    I don't remember if AKB makes false spigots but I know they make at least some true spigots; if that particular stem mount is important to you you might want to double check before you buy. The description doesn't explicitly mention a spigot anywhere as far as I can see.
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    Looking for Merchant Table Pipe

    As I understand it the Merchant Service table pipe was born as a POTY side project on another forum, where the owner/operator is somewhat active. There's a group of people who have been waiting on round two of those pipes to be made (for close to a year, now), and the owner posted an update in...
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    Show Us Your American Made Pipes

    I just added another one from Rich at Smith House Pipes, though I got this one secondhand (smoked one time, is all). At 20g, this is now my lightest briar.