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  1. mso489

    Dr. Grabow Pre Smoked Pipes

    Apparently there has always been some anxiety about breaking in pipes, so a pre-smoked pipe had a lot of appeal. Samuel Clemens, Mark Twain by his writing name, joked that he hired a town bum to "pre-smoke" his pipes, since that man had nothing better to do. I think as pipe smokers become...
  2. mso489

    Lost my Favorite Pipe Tool

    I have two interests in this thread: Pipe tools and cats. Cats do love to spirit away small shiny objects. One of my rescue Maine Coon type cats out of a drainpipe took the key from our buffet, but he was so generous as to leave it in one of my shoes! So check your shoes. I'm told that this...
  3. mso489

    Wish I Used Barbless Hooks

    Ouch! I had a friend who lost an eye to a fishing hook, and I don't think it was his own. Fishing is mostly pretty serene, but that is a real danger.
  4. mso489

    Back in Black?

    I think it helps to smoke a Lat English only every few smokes or less, to avoid Lat burn-out. Burley if you can do it, or Virginias and Va/Per, and other genres.
  5. mso489

    Hello from Essex England

    Hey from central North Carolina U.S. I like Peterson 3-P and also their Irish Flake, and many other blends with burley (and many without). I also like my Nording pipes a lot. I am also fond of my Ferndown and Britannia pipes. The Britannia is a lot of pipe at a moderate price. Welcome aboard.
  6. mso489

    New Stem For My Edwards. Such Disappointment

    A stem replacement can be so satisfying, giving a pipe a new life and sometimes giving a major boost to appearance. I love my several Edwards pipes, Benton series stamped and sold as Iwan Ries house pipes. Fortunately, all have retained their original stems in good shape. I'd sure go for a...
  7. mso489

    Three B&Ms, One Day

    I think that's winning the pipe shop trifecta. Congratulations!
  8. mso489

    News of Smio Satou’s Passing

    Learning crafts through apprenticeship is deeply ingrained in Japanese culture, and this really shows in the pipe posted by peck. It is a sort of a coming together of skills, knowing the right piece of briar, discovering the grain, and shaping the pipe to show that off, as well as the carving...
  9. mso489

    Room Note of Pop's Tobacco

    My wife tolerates my entire changing rotation of blends with equanimity and I appreciate that. Lately, the blend that rated a praising comment from clear across the hall in the other room was Lane Limited HGL. She commented on it favorably at least one other time. So for aromatics, that has...
  10. mso489

    New York City

    I love New York City because I got there during good times over several decades. If you live there a lifetime, you can always discover a new area, a new neighborhood, activities or events you never saw before. However, I'm not starry eyed about it. It can be both dangerous and cruel. It...
  11. mso489

    Smoked once - Really?

    Unfortunately, lies have become the currency of commerce, alas. It probably isn't 100% cotton; you probably can't wear it to a wedding or to play tennis; it probably won't make any of your wrinkles go away, and so on. Interestingly, fortunes have been made in telling the truth. Whatever...
  12. mso489

    Dishonorable Mentions

    I'm blessed with a fairly wide taste for blends. I was able to smoke my way through a tin of Molte Dolce as a novelty, and though I haven't tried Rustica, I think I could use it as a bolster for over-mild blends if I didn't enjoy the occasional blast of it neat. One blend that didn't work out...
  13. mso489

    I'm Not Lazy

    When I have a lackadaisical moment, I try to work in a nap to re-energize myself and get moving again. You can't sleep too long or you won't sleep at night, but after a certain age, you can't beat it. A lot of us grew up with the idea that napping is lazy, but if you get moving again, you...
  14. mso489

    You People

    The Meerschaum caucus on Forums is insidious. Now you will be obsessed with its coloring and will feel like you are living in sin when you smoke your briars. Seriously, for clarity and definition of flavors, you can't beat a Meer. Get our your best most nuanced and complex blends. You...
  15. mso489

    Greetings from the North Georgia Mountains

    Hey from central North Carolina. North Georgia, that's waterfall country. I've had some pleasant days visiting the various ones. Pretty country. Welcome aboard.
  16. mso489

    Unflavored Burley

    I enjoyed a tin of Riverboat Gambler a few years back. It's in the grand C&D tradition of using burley in premium blends.
  17. mso489

    What is a too Large of a Bowl

    The largest acceptable size, as we see from this thread, depends entirely on the smoker. I do think that everyone should own a pipe with the biggest acceptable size bowl/chamber for them, for those long meditative sessions, or for those instances where you may smoke the pipe intermittently for...
  18. mso489

    R.I.P Actor Mark Margolis, 83

    An old man with a good face, as someone said. RIP
  19. mso489

    Anybody Remember the Old Guys Smoking Outside . . .?

    My version of that experience was riding the train downtown with my dad to his work place in the city one day during Christmas break. We'd ride in the smoking car so he could smoke his pipe, and we'd read the newspaper. Others would do some work out of their briefcases or groups would play...
  20. mso489

    Need Pipe suggestions

    The French pipes Ropp and Genod have good quality at moderate prices. Kaywoodie pipes seem to have held up in quality despite their waning presence in the market; some people think they're not so good, but I have been entirely satisfied. The Chicago pipe shop Iwan Ries has house pipes made...
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