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  1. newbroom

    ***What Are You Smoking, December 2025?***

    Finishing off a bowl of LNF torn and mixed with a dollop of 5 Bros. in a pipe I consider to be a 'sweet' briar. My beat up old (like a lot of my favorites) Westbrook rusticated straight apple which I got along with a pipe rack as a throw in. Its bottom is about the thickness of a walnut shell as...
  2. newbroom

    ***What Are You Smoking, December 2025?***

    Sutliff Holiday Mix in my Butz Chacom Regate smooth finished, saddle stemmed, loaded with fine bird's eye grain, shape #141. We're supposed to be near 80 degrees today. I'm headed to the 'home' for dinner at noon with my Mom who turned 97 today! I'm 77.
  3. newbroom

    ***What Are You Smoking, December 2025?***

    HU Dark Star in my Chris Besse smooth stacked billiard with pearlized acrylic tapered stem.
  4. newbroom

    Time To Give Up The Hobby

    It's the thought that counts. I'm thinking of you Chris. It ain't over till the heavy-set woman sings. :sher: Elbows out!
  5. newbroom

    ***What Are You Smoking, December 2025?***

    I've got some more HU blends. Smoking Dark Sea in my seldom used MM Pride second obtained back when MM seconds came in a bag of 10. I have a vulcanite stem from another pipe inserted.
  6. newbroom

    Post a Photo-NO COMMENTS-just cool pictures

  7. newbroom

    ***What Are You Smoking, November 2025?***

    HU Khoisaan in my St James London Pipe, a meer lined Canadian.
  8. newbroom

    ***What Are You Smoking, November 2025?***

    HU Dark Sea, in my Kaywoodie 99b Prime grain. This pipe has a weirdly asymmetrical diamond shank and tapered diamond stem.
  9. newbroom

    Unsmokable

    After reading the first comment, my suggestion would have been to hand turn a bit through the stem. I would have used a larger drill bit. I have cleared airways in the past by clamping the bit into the jaws of a small pair of vise grips. Then, typically, turn the object to be cleared. I got an...
  10. newbroom

    ***What Are You Smoking, November 2025?***

    HU White Horses in my Kaywoodie prime grain smooth 99b
  11. newbroom

    Savinelli, Kiko and Kaywoodie

    I have gone so far as to use a retort system on some of my estate pipes. I think hot water is just as effective. Micro mesh on my stems to a high polish at least once. Maybe some minor dent raising with a tea candle or other heat source prior to refinishing a stem.
  12. newbroom

    I Remember When..........

    "Hey, Rosita, come quick! Down at the cantina" Speedy Gonzales I remember back to around 1952 and onward. I lived in NH then. I remember our phone # and no dial. We had switchboard operators, private and party lines. My Gramps smoked Days 'o Work hand rubbed out and put into a cob or something...
  13. newbroom

    Why Is HU Directors Cut More Expensive Than Other HU Tobacco Blends?

    I've got some Makhuwa and White Horses. I'll definitely get more Horses and looking forward to trying more HU blends. I've got a feeling that they're all going to be worth having to smoke.
  14. newbroom

    ***What Are You Smoking, November 2025?***

    My no name apple meer and Sutliff Mark Twain
  15. newbroom

    ***What Are You Smoking, November 2025?***

    Sutliff Match ERR in an Ambassador bent bulldog. This pipe's stem has a vulcanite tenon that is screwed into the stem. Sometimes I pull it and everything comes out, but sometimes, I unscrew it and it reveals a threaded metal sleeve. The pipes stummel is really nice. The crown is a full 360 of...
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