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  1. mso489

    Hello from Southern Wisconsin

    Hey from central North Carolina. I grew up in suburban Chicago and my family vacationed for a number of years at College Camp on Lake Geneva in Southern Wisconsin. I have many good memories of that clear water with tiny round pebbles underfoot, and the walk up the steep bluff to Yerkes...
  2. mso489

    Hugh Hefner Playboy Pipe

    Hugh made a fortune on rebelling against his straight-laced upbringing. He monetized erotic repression. I think his daughter inherited the whole industry, and though not the corporation it once was, I'm sure she still turns a massive profit. One of the Chicago skyscrapers, once called the...
  3. mso489

    Do Tobacco Bugs Tunnel Through Mylar?

    I've never encountered a tobacco bug in tins, jars, pouches, tubs, or baggies, so I haven't worried about their penetrating mylar. But I'll watch this thread to see if others have "met" them.
  4. mso489

    Show Me Your Walt Disney World Pipes

    I've been to Disney World once during the 1970's gas crisis. My cousin drove me over from Ft. Myers in the family's Triumph roadster which was very good on gas. I didn't get a pipe, but I didn't wait in lines either. It was a cool way to see the place with the parking lot more than half...
  5. mso489

    Hello from Tidewater, VA!

    Hey from central North Carolina. Yes, indeed, as I like to say, for the cost of one premium cigar, you can purchase a tin of premium pipe tobacco that will give you twenty or more smokes in a medium size pipe. Also, I enjoy the extra control of being able to add a condiment to a blend, modify...
  6. mso489

    Giant Russian Sunflowers

    Smart! Instant bird feeder. My lot is a grove of oaks, so maybe not enough sun to sustain sunflowers, but might work in a few sunny patches.
  7. mso489

    Big Boy Cicada

    I'm no entomologist (insect expert), but I think size is species specific, and this great big bug looks similar in size to a big cicada season I experienced in the late 1950's or early 1960's in Illinois. It may not be the exact species, but the size is similar. They were everywhere, made a...
  8. mso489

    Granger by Lane

    I've been to a pipe shop that sold Granger by the ounce out of a tub. Some love it, and some don't, so that's a good way of offering a sample. It is no longer offered in a boxed foil pouch as it was for decades.
  9. mso489

    Hello All New Here

    Hey from central North Carolina. I've enjoyed driving across Indiana flatlands for its 360 degree horizons. I interviewed to attend grad school at Bloomington but ended down here in N.C. instead. Welcome aboard.
  10. mso489

    Other Than You- What is Your Town Famous For?

    Until the last decade or so, nationally people had to think hard to place what state Raleigh was in, although it is the state capital. So it was sort of a political town with local fandom for North Carolina State University, not to be confused with its arch sports rival University of North...
  11. mso489

    Show Us Your Cellar

    Oh, so neat and tidy! I'd need a video scanning across the top of my pipe cabinet, and over to my pipe stand with the lower compartment, and across my book case with all the tins and jars in front of the books, and into my closet with a box of other tins. And don't forget the floor with some...
  12. mso489

    Pipe Smoker who Plays Keys

    I couldn't do both things at once if I could play the keyboard, but since you can, I appreciate your good public image work for pipe smoking. That gives it a youthful boost and a kind of musical cool. One time I was crossing through an outdoor area where a band was setting up, and I...
  13. mso489

    Acrylic Amber P-Lip Hand Cut Stem.

    Nothin' like it. That is some beautiful work.
  14. mso489

    Olive Wood Cracks?

    It could be olive wood, or it could be chance. I had a handsome no-name "Made In England" straight smooth billiard carved of briar, and it cracked right where the shank met the bowl, on the top of the shank. It wasn't dropped or manhandled in any way. I didn't want to smoke it to death, and a...
  15. mso489

    Over-nine-inch Canadian unsmoked

    Chamber is almost 2 inches in depth and the diameter is .87, and it is lithe and elegant. And it's unsmoked. I'm not buying, but I may reach for my Iwan Ries house pipe Canadian.
  16. mso489

    Army Mount

    Army mounts are cool, the metal work and all. I can't imagine many pipe smokers dismantle them under fire, but it is a romantic notion, as long as no one is shooting at you. Otherwise, for portability, a lot of shorter pipes fill the bill, and some of them have substantial chambers despite...
  17. mso489

    Greetings from Virginia!

    Hey from central North Carolina, your neighbor to the south. I've spent some time in Virginia at meetings in Alexandria, one during a blizzard when all the participants arrived on he Metro, and had a good vacation trip to the Jefferson Hotel in Richmond, touring around some of the country...
  18. mso489

    What are Quality French Estates?

    The French pipe industry established briar as the standard pipe material and has had a highly competitive and quality oriented industry for a long time. Many of the traditional shapes we think of as English were introduced by the French. So most of the established French brand names have a...
  19. mso489

    Looking for Info & Pipes for Movie about Oppenheimer

    Einstein wasn't a fussy fellow in terms of grooming, so I doubt he had much vanity about what pipe to smoke. I haven't seen the movie yet, but in the trailers Einstein is depicted with his hair neatly groomed, whereas in the footage of the man himself that appeared in the recent NBC...
  20. mso489

    New Stem For My Edwards. Such Disappointment

    I'd elaborate a little on Edwards pipes. They were a significant pipe maker in the U.S. for many years and as mentioned did the house pipes for Iwan Ries for a number of years. Those were oil-cured Algerian briar. I don't know much about types of briar, but these have handsome grain and have...
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