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Luxury Estates or Excellent New Pipes?
There are a lot of new people in pipes. They lack the history and context of pipe values. And then there is China (and this is not an anti-China stance). It only takes a small number of times, or a short period, of exorbitant pricing to affect the market. If I was more of a jerk, I'd give ebay...- Zeno Marx
- Post #69
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Luxury Estates or Excellent New Pipes?
More and more people trying to turn it into secondary income, jacking up the market price more and more. They negatively affect the market because they don't run auctions and let the entire market set prices. They use Buy It Now and artificially mess with the market. It wouldn't matter if it...- Zeno Marx
- Post #63
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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The Value of Handling Tobacco?
To this day, the greatest medical advancement in history is handwashing and disinfecting before medical procedures. It's cool that you have that family history, but exception isn't any way to go at something. It isn't just made up that life expectancy was 40-50 years old for a very, very long...- Zeno Marx
- Post #76
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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The Value of Handling Tobacco?
I guess if we want to go back to life expectancy of 40-50 years old, we can continue with the idea that the human body, and our choices, are greater than the natural adversaries out there. We make this political, but it isn't. I see pasteurization is the new political football. How ridiculous...- Zeno Marx
- Post #75
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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The Value of Handling Tobacco?
Mark Twain had a great quote about the essence of this: "Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." I grew up in a very small farm town to barely high school educated parents. I was exposed to...- Zeno Marx
- Post #67
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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STG closes Mac Baren and Sutliff
If you think inflation is a problem here, you literally wouldn't want to live anywhere else on the planet (going by this lone metric).- Zeno Marx
- Post #508
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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STG closes Mac Baren and Sutliff
Yell it for the crowd in the back. The only guarantee is change, and even if the gallery says it is for the better, it might not be the case for you.- Zeno Marx
- Post #441
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Losing My Taste For Tobacco
if it is C-19 related, and if you have the means/incredible insurance, they do have procedures that help bring back taste. there's an outpatient surgery/shot in the neck area into a gland that is said to help those longhauler C-19 people who lost all their taste. maybe heard about this on 60...- Zeno Marx
- Post #27
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Losing My Taste For Tobacco
when I was growing up, a family friend developed an allergy to dust, or dust mites, and they lost their taste and smell. there was little they could do about it, because dust is difficult to remove entirely. I've wondered if I not only have allergies to pollen, but also now dust. or something...- Zeno Marx
- Post #23
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Losing My Taste For Tobacco
allergies? Between C-19 2 or 3 times, and allergies developing before the pandemic, I've lost a lot of taste. I've considered moving to another part of the country. have you tried pre-smoking preparation? as in, food or drink, to prepare your taste buds. Traditional compliments, like...- Zeno Marx
- Post #6
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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What Are You Listening To? - November, 2024
I like to take notes as I listen to music, and I listen to music a lot. Else Marie Pade & Jacob Kirkegaard - Svævninger 2013 - if you've ever been interested in minimalism, but have had little success getting into it, maybe try this album. This is tonal minimalism, while most often you'll run...- Zeno Marx
- Post #129
- Forum: General Discussion
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Plastic for Storing Tobacco?
Plastic seepage is real. I've lost heritage flours to plastic containers, before I knew better. Food, tobacco...ingestables...keep away from plastic. A couple months is one thing, but beyond that, no-no. Glass is the gold standard as far as I'm concerned.- Zeno Marx
- Post #8
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Refreshing Pipes Unauthorized Use of my Name on eBay
I know a lot of people have problems with the ebay platform, but the problem is the people. in this instance, hate the player, not the game. I don't like to begrudge people who are trying to make a buck, but there's a lot of saddening behavior happening with the pipe sellers on ebay these days...- Zeno Marx
- Post #34
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Dedicated Pipes
I've only dedicated pipes these days for heavy ghosters, ie a cob that I only smoke with Big N' Burley and Picayune. And I wouldn't have done it, but those tobaccos demanded it. I could smoke paper shavings out of that cob, and they would taste like those two tobaccos. When I first started...- Zeno Marx
- Post #28
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Less is More
I think labeling it as "work" is not really useful or accurate. It's more about a type of dissonance, or maybe an unnecessary noise related to too many options. It's not as if it is unusual. Children offered too many options often show signs of frustration, irritation, and being overwhelmed...- Zeno Marx
- Post #36
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Less is More
Minimalism is the anti contemporary. For some, it isn't about being contrary. I haven't been able to put a finger on it for myself. Brain chemistry? Socialization reaction? Ethics? Economic trauma or necessity? I know when I watched Jeff Goldblum have three of the same suits in The Fly...- Zeno Marx
- Post #33
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Didn't Worry About Packing and Guess What?
Yep. We had a customer who smoked 1LB of Lane HGL every 10 days or so, and he one-handedly packed his bowls out of his pouch in seconds while inevitably doing something else with the other hand. There was no technique. Repetition and feel. I can remember a particular instance when he was...- Zeno Marx
- Post #32
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Didn't Worry About Packing and Guess What?
One of the modern trends in tobacco...and really, every hobby now...is the overthinking and "please hold my hand" trepidation. There's no figuring out anything on your own. From how do you hold it to how do you look at it to how do you buy it to how do you x, y, and z it. For a hobby that is so...- Zeno Marx
- Post #20
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Removing Ghosts
I should have included in my first post about using a tube brush, Dawn, and warm running water...that in preparation for the wash, I cut the cake like normal, which isn't quite sanding, but it's nearly bare wood. and then use a Scotch scrub pad to wash the inside of the bowl while I'm tube...- Zeno Marx
- Post #45
- Forum: Pipe Repair and Maintenance
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Removing Ghosts
I believe most of a ghost is in the shank (upwards of 90%, if I was guessing). 3 rounds of tube brush, Dawn dishwashing soap, and warm running water will likely do the trick in a total of less than 10 minutes. At least 48 hours drying time. Don't fear the water. Briar is tough stuff. The only...- Zeno Marx
- Post #27
- Forum: Pipe Repair and Maintenance