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  1. puffinbilly

    Show Off Your Savinelli Pipe Here!

    I'm not a collector, however I found this for 5 Euros when I was mooching about in a junk shop last week. I gave it a polish and it came up dinky-do. 'Tis marked below the bowl Savinelli Punto oro then a crest and 812. Bill Now the hard bit insert an image
  2. puffinbilly

    Shotgun Advice

    The British army use/used the Remington 870 (designated the L74A1) for close observation units as a personal protection weapon. The user could choose between a folding stock or standard. I believe that the changing of stocks was the only time they ever went into the armourer's workshop. It has a...
  3. puffinbilly

    What is Your Pipe Setup?

    Hi Gents, We pipe smokers tend to have a fair bit of loose equipment dedicated to our hobby; current pipe, a tin or perhaps two of the tobacco of the day, tamper, perhaps filters, matches or lighter also I have a thin wooden tube with a couple of pipe cleaners. And that’s just what is spread...
  4. puffinbilly

    New Pipe - Chacom - Tight Stem

    Hi smokertruck, I treat my pipes rather badly so perhaps one of the aficionados can give you some better advice, but from my experience if you keep it and use it often you will probably be tightening it again after six months. I suppose it does depend on just how tight it is, you do run the...
  5. puffinbilly

    Samel Gawith Blends

    You know, you’re probably right in everything you say. but..... I just wonder why the flake is made this way, I am sure that with their centuries of experience, they don't produce a moist flake for no good reason other than to boost the sales of tobacco driers.
  6. puffinbilly

    Samel Gawith Blends

    Hi Rothnh, I must admit that the Full VF is the probably the one where I have to agree with you that the first flakes from a new tin are a "pig" to get going. I have just never considered taking a drier to my tobacco or laying the flakes out to dry. I have always accepted that that's how FVF...
  7. puffinbilly

    Samel Gawith Blends

    Good evening gents, You seem to be going to incredible lengths to dry out Samuel G’s tobacco. I don’t seem to have the problem. I love the Navy Flake and the Brown No.4 twist, the 1792 and Full Virginia flakes are also classic smokes. Sure they are moist compared to other flakes however, I can...
  8. puffinbilly

    Great Quotes

    A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke. Rudyard Kipling
  9. puffinbilly

    Highs and Lows

    Hey Gents, don’t normally post on threads like this, this is the professor’s marriage we are talking about. I’ve been married for 40 years, have a son and three grandkids. Smoking your pipe or not fits into the category “small shit” something which you get moaned at for; such as you always come...
  10. puffinbilly

    What Are You Smoking? August 2013

    Just discovered Dunhill Navy Rolls. V. mild Virginia Perique but a great evening pipe to the very bottom of the bowl. In my best pipe a Vauen Rosewood
  11. puffinbilly

    Quiz: Anyone Know What It Is?

    Bang on, Looks like it's chagovatoloco's turn to root about in the cellar in search of a new contrivance. Bill By the way Soldiers (darn Redcoats at that) used it to slip behind the brass buttons on their best dress tunic so that the cloth didn’t get dirty when they polished the button. I...
  12. puffinbilly

    Quiz: Anyone Know What It Is?

    Cool, here's the swanky GTI version What's it for?
  13. puffinbilly

    Quiz: Anyone Know What It Is?

    Here's one: Well here would be one to ponder over if I had the brains to insert an image into a post. Bill
  14. puffinbilly

    Quiz: Anyone Know What It Is?

    'Tis an adjusting tool for a screw head that sits in a blind hole, maybe weapon sights. The bulged wooden body is to provide more grip for the chap doing the turning. The tip is spring loaded so that it will drop into the slot on the screw head without having to line it up on insertion. I claim...
  15. puffinbilly

    What Languages do You Speak?

    I make my daily bread translating German into English and can spell banana in morse. Bill
  16. puffinbilly

    Quiz: Anyone Know What It Is?

    Cool game, Good evening gents, It looks like it's spring loaded pull on the ring and the tounge or blade at the other end retracts The wood and brass makes me think it's from the yachting or shooting or even piping world. It's only pocket size though could be a tool is it a reamer or a...
  17. puffinbilly

    If You're Not Located in the United States, Please...

    Dortmund Germany, I’m a Brit expat living and working in Germany. The German Government cracked down on smoking indoors in cafes, restaurants and bars only about two years ago. There is obviously no smoking on public transport or at work. However there is no problem enjoying a pipe or two in a...
  18. puffinbilly

    Culture Shock

    Gents, Great thread, thanks once again for all your posts. I respect any pipe smoker’s philosophy, even if I can’t quite see the reasoning behind it, individualism is always worthy of respect and after all, we all enjoy the same hobby. I guess captainsousie got it right in his post: From the...
  19. puffinbilly

    Culture Shock

    Thanks for the posts gents, I do understand that; you buy what you like, what you can afford, it’s yours, it gives you pleasure and you look after it. Sure I do that with my possessions. All of the pipe smokers I have known have their favourite pipe, of course I do too, in fact I have had a few...
  20. puffinbilly

    Culture Shock

    Hey Guys, I’m on company time so I’ll try to be brief. I posted in a thread yesterday regarding is the best rag to use to polish one’s pipe?? I am immensely impressed by the way the members treat their hobby here but it does raise a fundamental question that has been at the back of my mind for a...
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