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  1. swilford

    Peterson Pipe of the Year 2023

    No, you can't, or at least can't do so well. There just isn't enough material in the right places to make a good fishtail button out of a p-lip stem. Also, hand cutting a button in vulcanite requires pretty tremendous levels of skill and experience, as well as the right tools, so even if you did...
  2. swilford

    Smoking Pipes Dwindling New And Estate pipes

    Little did we know! It was my wife's idea. We brought home a few hundred broken pipes and she bought metallic spray paint. But we did it in summer on our side porch at home and they took forever to dry; an exercise in precision craft it was not and while they look ok on the ceiling, they look...
  3. swilford

    Smoking Pipes Dwindling New And Estate pipes

    There was a video from ten years ago when we first put them up in our old building; I'm trying to track it down. Here's a photo someone took and posted online awhile back of where they are now: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/p/AF1QipPPLtn1WhWlHPHvMUfGiXrMT4gOZbmBzd8aoRWU=s1360-w1360-h1020...
  4. swilford

    Smoking Pipes Dwindling New And Estate pipes

    I think this is a little mangled in the retelling. Obviously I wasn't on the call between the poster and the CS agent, but when we reject pipes for condition (mostly damaged stems or deep charring) or value (Dr. Grabow in mediocre condition), people don't want them back about half the time. We...
  5. swilford

    Smoking Pipes Dwindling New And Estate pipes

    The rest of the thread doesn't make a lot of sense--there are just shy of 10,000 new pipes and about 700 estate pipes on the site as of now--but I did want to jump in on the estate department being terribly backed up this July. We'd like to see more estates on the site at any one time, but...
  6. swilford

    Tokutomi Volcano Churchwarden (extremely rare, maybe unique) Re-stem

    Tony Saintiague or I sold that pipe at the 2007 Chicago pipe show. We never had pictures of it for some reason. It's really cool to see it resurface. I'm sure it was insanely hard to make that stem; well done. Sykes
  7. swilford

    Difference of Peterson System Models.

    Pulling in a bunch of threads here: 1) Gold and copper mounts are not Systems. The Gold is solid 9K, so 0.375 purity (typically 9K gold is 37.5% gold; 42.5% silver; 20% copper). While some factories have used 18K gold, 9K is a good balance for Peterson, both because pure(r) gold, so not as...
  8. swilford

    Erin Go Bragh Question

    Peterson has absolutely nothing to do with the brand whatsoever.
  9. swilford

    Peterson St Patrick's Day 2023 Pipes at SP?

    Smokingpipes put up about 700 Saint Patrick's Day pipes yesterday, of which more than 100 were smooth and more than 50 were sandblasts. We didn't expect the smooth and sandblasts to sell out as quickly as they did (it took about ninety minutes to sell through both). It's also worth noting that...
  10. swilford

    Samuel Gawith Tin And 250g Box Laudisi Availability List, Including 7 Plugs

    First of all, sorry everyone. This is our new, better response to automated traffic at work. Based on what we're seeing now, you're probably good to try to get back in and complete orders. It was really bad there for awhile; looking manageable now and the server is sloughing off less traffic to...
  11. swilford

    Captcha on SP

    Could you email us directly (to the info@ account and they'll get you connected to the right folks here)? There's a long, possibly complicated story here, but basically if you're a human you shouldn't be seeing these. We know that these tools are ridiculously blunt, but we thought they weren't...
  12. swilford

    Is there any kind of guide to C&D?

    Man, I did too and ended up buying the factory.
  13. swilford

    Show off Your Sandblasts

    I hear you on the treasure hunt aspect; and there are tons of really amazing sandblasts that don't make the cut to be PSBs, so you'll find great blasts throughout the range. On 'caked on with finish,' can you give me a bit more to go on here? Do you mean the shinier black ones? Dark colors in...
  14. swilford

    Show off Your Sandblasts

    I think he was saying they're not PSBs, the new high grade blast. I'm pretty sure at least half of those are newer Petersons with the newer blasting, though (though maybe not the 999? Or is that the 2019 POTY? Either way, the 2019 POTY preceded the new blasting). One of them is a Christmas pipe...
  15. swilford

    Haunted Bookshop pricing?

    Just catching this now. When C&D raised prices a little bit in September, they also reviewed pricing structure for various products seriously for the first time in a couple of years. Bulk has always had at least three different pricing levels. For the first time, tins were split into two...
  16. swilford

    Price??

    Cosmic, I'm not exactly sure how it happened, but the first page you had the VIP discount showing and the product page you didn't, so I think between those two clicks something happened--with your browser or session timing out on the site end--that meant that you weren't being recognized as VIP...
  17. swilford

    Am I Doing the Math Right?!

    Yes, low single digits is right. And C&D is small by tobacco factory standards. And pipe tobacco factories are all tiny by big factory standards. Industrial scales are mind-boggling sometimes, particularly for fairly inexpensive consumables. I was reading about the Jiffy mix factory (my kid...
  18. swilford

    Very Interesting Happening at Smoking Pipes

    Yes, see above. Supply has been down a little over the past while, but the real immediate problem--that's harder to buffer--has been lots of people out during the most recent Covid wave (no one seriously ill, but we had lots of folks out for most of January). We were already a bit short-handed...
  19. swilford

    Very Interesting Happening at Smoking Pipes

    This ^ We've been short handed in restoration for the past few weeks and the update numbers have suffered. We've also not had quite as much supply in the past eighteen months or so, but that seems to be getting better. Sykes
  20. swilford

    We Want your Reviews...

    This is a good suggestion in other circumstances, but wouldn't really fix the problems: we know well enough what we need, we have sizable orders stacked up with Gawith. Laudisi brought in a whole lot more in 2021 than had come to the US previously, but we're (both Gawith and Laudisi) still very...
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