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Retailer Selection
Just for the record, not that I think anything negative was intended, Smokingpipes.com doesn't do this with C&D and GLP blends. We do have the Low Country line, which is exclusive to Smokingpipes.com, but that was true back when C&D was independent (pre-dating the two being the same company by a...- swilford
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- Forum: Pipe Tobacconists - B&M's and Internet Retailers
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How much will you pay for a fraized pipe?
I'm sorry if I over-assumed; it was your assertion that one of the two did not actually make the pipes, but only designed them, that I was responding to with my assertion that there was some sort of implied scandal (Your words: "In at least one of the two examples the pipes are were only... -
How much will you pay for a fraized pipe?
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How much will you pay for a fraized pipe?
This is silly. The initial assertion just isn't true. It also just misses the point. Tom's pipes aren't fraized. He does a fairbit, including on these, with templates on a lathe, with the detail work done on a sanding disk, but this is substantially equivalent to how any good pipe maker would... -
Do You Like smokingpipes.com New Website's Design?
Alright, we hear you. We're also working out some bugs. Stuff that worked in dev isn't working across all platforms and whatnot in the real world, so maybe you're also responding to some slight bugginess here and there as we sort through stuff (although, at this point, that list is getting...- swilford
- Post #28
- Forum: Pipe Tobacconists - B&M's and Internet Retailers
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Squadron Leader with Perique
2,000 tins in the world of super-premium small run tobaccos is pretty big. I appreciate that you guys think that we know what's going to happen before it happens with these things, but, seriously, we really don't. We committed to what seemed, at the time, to be a scary number of tins (keep in...- swilford
- Post #37
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Bulk Chenet's Cake Group Buy
Guys, Creating a run of Chenet's Cake to make a few pounds in a format we don't offer is kind of expensive, which is why Chris quoted the $50-60 price in vacuum bags. We also don't think that vacuum bags are as good as tins for aging this product, so we don't want to do a general release in...- swilford
- Post #26
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Captain Bob's Blend: I am dissapointed...
Alright, I'll do my best on this. A couple of quick things before I seriously launch into it. Our goal is to make C&D better. I think we've already done a lot towards that end. And, I write yet again, we're not doing away with the blend specific artwork. Not all of it is staying the same, but...- swilford
- Post #44
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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C&D Label Differences
Hey guys, It has nothing to do with saving money on the art: even if we did think like that (which we don't), it was already owned by C&D. And there's no production cost difference between artsy labels and simpler labels: full color printing is full color printing. We're just trying to organize...- swilford
- Post #16
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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C&D - Time For Some Focus?
Thanks for the nice comments, Aristokles. But: Really? Um, in that case we did something wrong because it's really intended as consumer focused (albeit without a sales component). What do you think we should be doing differently with it? Obviously we need to work on it in that case. When we...- swilford
- Post #64
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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C&D - Time For Some Focus?
I meant to address this earlier and forgot to. General answer: We don't do this. There are some C&D blends that are fairly similar to other C&D blends, but there aren't any that are identical. Specific answer: Um, Triple Plan and 5 O'Clock Shadow are pretty different. Color-wise there are...- swilford
- Post #54
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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C&D - Time For Some Focus?
Torque: Thanks for the reply. I didn't think C&D was getting that bad a roasting. I thought a lot of the criticisms were fair. Seriously, I thought you guys offered up constructive suggestions and useful commentary. And a lot of it was similar to stuff we were already thinking about. Also, I...- swilford
- Post #53
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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C&D - Time For Some Focus?
Hey everyone, Great thread! And it's hardly a heretical observation. If you suggested we get rid of Briar Fox, now that would be heresy (and would never happen). Seriously, we're working on these things, but it also takes time. Given the number of things mentioned, I thought I'd pick some and...- swilford
- Post #48
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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The new C&D cellar serious series
It's very smokable right now. C&D made it and put it away for a few weeks, so it already has a little age on it. In general, though, benchmarking against similar C&D blends, they'll change a lot in the first year and more slowly after that. The only real difference with these is that they were...- swilford
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- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Must See B&Ms in Various Locations
Peck, In Tokyo, there's Kagaya in Shinjuku and Kikisui in Ginza. Kagaya's a little hard to find (before GPS, it was almost impossible to find, now it's only slightly challenging) and it's tiny, but I prefer it; occasionally interesting estates. Occasionally, Kikisui has some really special...- swilford
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- Forum: Pipe Tobacconists - B&M's and Internet Retailers
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Thinking of starting up an online store
I thought it'd be fun to jump in on this, largely because coffee shop / tobacconist combo locally is something we considered awhile back and discarded because we decided we were in the wrong area for it and it would have been seriously ancillary to our core business. Frankly, I think creating a...- swilford
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Exclusive Breaking News: Cornell & Diehl to Merge with Laudisi
Oh, and yes, C&D still does factory tours. Just call them if you want to arrange it. Contact info for them is on www.cornellanddiehl.com Sykes- swilford
- Post #67
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Exclusive Breaking News: Cornell & Diehl to Merge with Laudisi
Guys, As an addendum to what Ted said: It's a merger because Chris and Patty, the owners of C&D before January 1st, are now shareholders in the larger, combined company. Yes, Laudisi was the surviving corporation in a legal sense, being the larger of the two, but the difference between a...- swilford
- Post #66
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Why Does SmokingPipes Take so Long in Transit?
Hi all, I figured I should weigh in at some point in here, but I'm not really sure what to say since this seems to be beyond our control, so I've refrained. We get it out the door really fast. 99% are within a few hours. I checked in on the guys in shipping yesterday and at 4:50pm when UPS made...- swilford
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- Forum: Pipe Tobacconists - B&M's and Internet Retailers
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Dislike of Online Shops
Here you go, 3500-ish pipes searchable by eleven metrics: http://www.smokingpipes.com/search/pipesearch.cfm- swilford
- Post #31
- Forum: Pipe Tobacconists - B&M's and Internet Retailers