Sidebar

Search results

Log in

Forgot your password?

SmokingPipes.com Updates

Watch for Updates Twice a Week

PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor

Site Sponsors

Al Pascia
Blue Room Briars
Cigar World
Danish Pipe Shop
LePipe.it
MBSD Pipes
Missouri Meerschaum
Pipes2Smoke.com
PipeStud.com
SmokingPipes.com
Tabaccheria Corti
TinBids.com

PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor

PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor

PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor

PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor

Search the forum
  1. Zeno Marx

    Beeswax Polishing

    I have not, but it has been on my radar for a while. I'll grab some when I run out of Halcyon II.
  2. Zeno Marx

    Beeswax Polishing

    Don't you find straight beeswax to be a little tacky/gummy when met with heat and/or humidity, like moisture on your fingertips from holding onto a tamper or whatever? I even notice it a little when I use Halcyon II Wax, which finishes harder and is formulated to not be so. I get that you're...
  3. Zeno Marx

    Pipe Smoker vs "Guy who Smokes a Pipe"

    I never talk about pipe smoking with anyone. If you know me long enough, you'll pick up on it somehow, but it isn't something I like to talk about with people. Same with my diet. Same with my greatest hobby: music. I'll come to groups like this to talk about it for various reasons, but I...
  4. Zeno Marx

    ***What Are You Smoking, February 2023?***

    35° and sunny. Charatan handmade, slight bent billiard with new Sutliff 507C with a dribble of Stokkebye 41 cube cut. Still experimenting with this combination. A decent smoke. 7.5/10
  5. Zeno Marx

    How Often Do You Rub Out Flakes.

    every time. I could fold and stuff a thinner flake like LNF, but I still like to break it up. Maybe if I was smoking in some windy conditions, but when it gets too windy, I I don't smoke. It might as well be raining if it is windy.
  6. Zeno Marx

    Inflation.

    Makes sense though, doesn't it? If I had a nickel every time I heard an old timer talk about the lack of resilience (insert your term of choice here) in younger folk. Well, of course they're not! That's the whole point, isn't it? Who in their right mind would think your average US kid of...
  7. Zeno Marx

    Inflation.

    Visa/Mastercard/American Express/etc charge the restaurant around 3% + a standard surcharge per transaction, like PayPal, to use the card. Plus, they pay the bank and/or credit card for the in-house technology to accept credit card payments. I'm not arguing on their behalf, but all they're...
  8. Zeno Marx

    Inflation.

    There is almost zero talk about this. A few things I'd like to see on the news. First, this is global. Most countries, China included, have worse inflation than the USA. I don't know who or what they're doing in WashDC, but comparatively, they're doing a pretty good job. Second, while...
  9. Zeno Marx

    ***What Are You Smoking, February 2023?***

    20° and sunny. British prince with 5 year old Night Train. Good smoke. 7.5/10
  10. Zeno Marx

    Pipes You Don't Smoke?

    In my heyday, I had around 75 pipes or so. When I stopped smoking for a while, I sold all but three of them. I have around 20 or so now. I've learned that when I get more than 15 or so, I stop smoking them all. I'm not sure what the exact number is. I keep going back to the same handful or...
  11. Zeno Marx

    ***What Are You Smoking, February 2023?***

    22°, sunny, and clear. Stanwell with 5 year old LNF. First smoke of the week. A decent smoke. 7.5/10
  12. Zeno Marx

    School me on Hand Cut Stems

    There's a French company that has a British name that stamps their stems as "hand cut", and the stamping is always a bit cockeyed. I'm not sure how I feel about going through that trouble, then sloppily stamping it as such...but I'm bringing it up now, so I must feel some type a way about it.
  13. Zeno Marx

    Best "Bulk" Navy Flake/Straight VA Flake

    On the bright side, dried out a little means you got more tobacco and didn't essentially buy water. As for how that looks, I smoke it like that, even if not a little more rubbed out, and I would guess the same for the great majority of people who smoke it. Really not trying to argue with you...
  14. Zeno Marx

    Best "Bulk" Navy Flake/Straight VA Flake

    When I first worked at a grocery store as a teenager, I was told to man the cheese counter. Didn't receive any training or guidelines. Someone ordered a bunch of cheese, and I sliced the block right down to the heel and metal staple at the very end. If you don't know, the ends of a lot of...
  15. Zeno Marx

    Best "Bulk" Navy Flake/Straight VA Flake

    It's the nature of the orders. The only way they could avoid constant handling and breaking up of flakes, etc is for the factories to package it in 1-16oz packages. Wait...I have to think of statistics and permutations. It would be several different weights of package to be able to fill 1 thru...
  16. Zeno Marx

    Best "Bulk" Navy Flake/Straight VA Flake

    This. At shops, they were dealing with 5 and 10LB giant bags in a box. They were potentially handled a hundred times before the bag was finished. At these big online shops, they're dealing in either barrels or giant boxes that dwarf 10LBers. Again, potentially handled hundreds of times...
  17. Zeno Marx

    Presbyterian Ordained vs 507-C

    My MO is making 1-2 large orders per year, and I never make small orders. I forgot it on my last order.
  18. Zeno Marx

    Pipe Myths

    A little more thought about this honey cake... I called it foamy, or seemingly foamy. If you've ever made caramel, or watched it being made, sugar long bubbles in a heated liquid state. Because it is so thick (viscosity) when it bubbles, it holds those bubbles longer, resembling a foam. All...
  19. Zeno Marx

    Pipe Myths

    I used to use straight honey on a fingertip. I found it to create a weak and spotty cake. The cake was neither dense nor with integrity. A good cake is hard and uniform, and honey produces a cake of neither of those qualities. For a lack of a better way to describe it, a honey cake is...
  20. Zeno Marx

    Presbyterian Ordained vs 507-C

    Thanks. I've never had 400 and have been itching to ask about it compared to 507C. When I'm qualified, I planned to get a trade going for some, but I was still on the fence. Not anymore.
Top Bottom