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Buying Multiples of the Same Pipe
I appreciate people who do this. I'm not so driven to do it myself because I'm such a fickle pipe buyer and minimalist. I think I want to do this, but then I get distracted and go down another road. Get obsessed, but by the time I'm looking to buy the third iteration of the maker/shape, I'm...- Zeno Marx
- Post #50
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Olive Oil: Which Has The Best Flavour?
If I understand the reporting accurately, nothing really guarantees olive oil purity. There's so much organized crime involved at various levels that nobody can be sure, unless you're maybe buying at the farm's kiosk. Speaking of Spain, Italy, Greece, etc. Isn't the same thing is happening in...- Zeno Marx
- Post #43
- Forum: Food & Drink
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Olive Oil: Which Has The Best Flavour?
I hear you. I too try to use as little fat as possible. These fad diets that say it is OK to eat as much of certain fats as you want sound entirely like, "I know this is what you want to hear, so I'll tell you what you want to hear." God forbid the answer might be show a little restraint and...- Zeno Marx
- Post #38
- Forum: Food & Drink
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Olive Oil: Which Has The Best Flavour?
I haven't found this to be true. For instance, I picked up some EVOO from Sam's Club a couple years ago, and I noticed residue in my skillets. It took me a while to figure out it was the EVOO and not too much heat or the foods etc. When I switched to another brand, it no longer happened...- Zeno Marx
- Post #35
- Forum: Food & Drink
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Perfume on Pipe!
+1 soap and running water and then rewax. might as well tube brush the airways and scotchbrite pad the bowl chambers. if you have to rewax, go all the way and bring it back newish.- Zeno Marx
- Post #29
- Forum: Pipe Repair and Maintenance
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How Many Bowls do You Smoke a Day?
2 or so a week. even when I managed a tobacco shop, 1 per day, and on rare occasion, 2-3 in a day. My body doesn't do well with more than that. Never has. I have some kind of internal timer too, because if I smoke a bowl, I won't even think about it again for 24 hours.- Zeno Marx
- Post #77
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Pipe Stands. Stem Up Or Stem Down?
When I was a kid, the jewelry store had a shelf or three of knickknacks. Mostly ugly big glass crystal things for the kids to buy for their moms, as it was the only store in town for any feminine gifting. I digress. But it had some oddball things too. One of them was a Doomsday Device. It...- Zeno Marx
- Post #36
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Show Your Best Unknown Maker Pipes
I don't recognize the shape, but that stamp looks like something out of the Charatan factory. Does the tenon look similar to this? If yes, it would also lead me to believe it came from Charatan.- Zeno Marx
- Post #16
- Forum: Pipes: Show Us Your (fill in the blank) Pipes
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Frankensteined Charatan?
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Frankensteined Charatan?
I've seen quite a few Charatans, and at times, I've collected them myself. I've never seen one like this. If my suspicions are accurate, this took some time (sloppy stem fitting, though). The shank might be Charatan, but that prince-like bowl does not really resemble their version of a... -
Show Your Best Unknown Maker Pipes
if we could see the stamp, I bet someone could figure out which maker was behind it.- Zeno Marx
- Post #9
- Forum: Pipes: Show Us Your (fill in the blank) Pipes
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The Breath Method as Described by Muttonchop Piper
Just not true. There are countless pipers who launched their hobby careers with pipes and tobacco out of the local pharmacy aisle, grocery store section, or farm supply rack...all on their own. You too would have figured it all out on your own...or you wouldn't have. Smoking a substance didn't...- Zeno Marx
- Post #148
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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The Breath Method as Described by Muttonchop Piper
I hear what you're saying, but I also know that prior to this era, people weren't being taught how to smoke, yet the act launched many people who became life-long pipe smokers who obviously built their knowledge and enjoyed the pastime in spite of that lack of hand holding, ie the handholding...- Zeno Marx
- Post #144
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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The Breath Method as Described by Muttonchop Piper
I watch some stereo-centered reddits, and the questions are puzzling. "I have three sets of speakers. X, Y, and Z. Which one sounds the best? Which one would you keep? I want to sell two of them." Uh...mmm...which one do you like the best? It seems like they even want you to hold their hand...- Zeno Marx
- Post #142
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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The Breath Method as Described by Muttonchop Piper
I don't think youtube mentorship is where people take issue. It's that young smokers want/need someone to hold their hand through even the most mundane, self-explanatory tasks. "what's the best way to light a match?" "do you guys walk at the same time as smoking a pipe?" "When you open a tin, do...- Zeno Marx
- Post #140
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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The Breath Method as Described by Muttonchop Piper
I'm a music nut. There's a particular record label that employs a particular rock star to "remix" and/or "remaster" old classics so they can advertise this rock star touched this new version. This guy is a rock star, not a studio or engineering craftsman. It's a totally different set of...- Zeno Marx
- Post #134
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Real Perique?
I suspect it is like sourdough and yeast cultures in NYC. Bagel nuts say no other bagel tastes like a true NYC bagel. Could be in the water. Probably literally in the air. Whatever bioorganisms are in St.James are unique to there. After all, it's a fermenting process. Eating, expelling, changing.- Zeno Marx
- Post #56
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Real Perique?
Perique is a burley, so ya gots two burleys.- Zeno Marx
- Post #49
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Charatan Executive Extra large.
I don't think a freehand like that of any grade would have had a shape number. Just a grade and then additional stamping like your Extra Large.- Zeno Marx
- Post #11
- Forum: British Pipes
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Charatan Double Comfort?
If you get them done, please post pictures. I'd love to see that. For me, it would be antithetical to spend $40+ on replacement stems, which is why I mentioned the $20 figure of days past, because Charatan always represented value to me on the British market and on the estate market. Good...