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Tired of Crooks
Mine got hit to pay for a Facebook ad, and my bank stopped it. I talked with the fraud prevention person and she said they didn’t want a Facebook ad, they were preparing to scam something that would benefit them. Few scammers are caught but those few serve at least ten years hard federal...- Briar Lee
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- Forum: General Discussion
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Watch Out or Watch on? Pt 2.
18 hours of wearing and my Citizen is within a second or two fast of where I set it yesterday. And I tested the lume last night, and while the dial looks perfect, the lume simply doesn’t glow at all, and the watch just sits there all red and funky and disco era looking like it was 1981, and...- Briar Lee
- Post #613
- Forum: General Discussion
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***What Are You Smoking, March 2024?***
In seventh heaven savoring coffee grinder ground up Buoy Silver in a Marxman too ugly to show here.:) My high toned friends are missing out, you know?- Briar Lee
- Post #344
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Four Aces Red by Republic
I wonder if Five Brothers was ever granulated to the consistency of coffee grounds and packed in a cloth sack? I’ve only heard of Five Brothers since online tobacco sales and the internet. I’ve never seen it once, in a brick and mortar store. All these ultra cheap shag pipe tobaccos are...- Briar Lee
- Post #23
- Forum: General Discussion
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What Are You Listening To - March, 2024
The Poet of Outlaw Country- Briar Lee
- Post #41
- Forum: General Discussion
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Help me on Vulcanite Restoration
I want to thank everyone for their help, and a week of rubbing the stem with 4/0 steel wool once or twice a day has accomplished wonders for my ugly stem. It’s not quite new looking yet, but more than good enough It’s bad enough smoking an ugly pipe, without people pointing at your stem and...- Briar Lee
- Post #11
- Forum: Pipe Repair and Maintenance
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Hunting scope for 30-06
Before the Tasco World Class came out, there were Redfield Leopold, Weaver, and Burris and cheap Japanese scopes that busted and leaked and were horrible,,,,except for Simmons ATEC. The Simmons ATEC might have been the first really good Asian scope, other than expensive Bushnells scopes that...- Briar Lee
- Post #42
- Forum: General Discussion
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Four Aces Red by Republic
Try the Silver Four Aces. All the Silver blends of the bottom rack shag pipe tobaccos are intended to appeal to ultra light cigarette smokers. They use lower nicotine leaf, or they soak out the nicotine, but those are good tasting but lower kick.- Briar Lee
- Post #21
- Forum: General Discussion
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Four Aces Red by Republic
From what I understand today Old Crow is three year old Jim Beam White. I’ve visited the distilleries around Bardstown, and there are these trucks full of grain going to a GREAT BIG BOOZE FACTORY and then other trucks haul away bottles of booze. Same thing, different grains, at the GREAT BIG...- Briar Lee
- Post #17
- Forum: General Discussion
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What Are You Listening To - March, 2024
Answer song Similar sentiment song- Briar Lee
- Post #36
- Forum: General Discussion
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Four Aces Red by Republic
The cardinal rule and prime directive for all sinful products is they must first, taste good. People won’t tolerate bad tasting products when they sin. Old Crow bourbon is good stuff, and so is Bud Ice Beer. King Edward cigars taste good. All the plastic pillow bag pipe tobaccos taste good...- Briar Lee
- Post #14
- Forum: General Discussion
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Watch Out or Watch on? Pt 2.
There is more information on the internet than I can imagine about my $18 Indian watch. If it’s geniune, it’s a Citizen Eagle 7 made in June 1981, with a Citizen 8205 21 jewel Japanese Miyota automatic movement, by the case back numbers. The Eagle 7 was a competitor to the Seiko 5...- Briar Lee
- Post #611
- Forum: General Discussion
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Watch Out or Watch on? Pt 2.
My $18 Citizen came and the looks of it are impressive. The Indian watchmaker replaced the strap with a new leather one, polished the case and back perfectly, refinished the dial to new, put on a new crown, date wheel and new crystal, and the only thing that looks used is the day feature...- Briar Lee
- Post #610
- Forum: General Discussion
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Watch Out or Watch on? Pt 2.
They have to pay the overhead and the watchmaker. The absolute miracle is an NH35 is $40 retail price to your door. The jewelers get a discount. The Seiko automatics can run ten, twenty, even fifty years without service. The new movements should be better! About ten or so years ago the...- Briar Lee
- Post #608
- Forum: General Discussion
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Watch Out or Watch on? Pt 2.
This thread prompted me to get all my quartz watches going again, and I’ve developed a better appreciation for quartz watches. They don’t seem to ever go bad. Ones I have forty or more years old fire right up with a new dollar or two battery. They don’t appear to ever need cleaning, oiled or...- Briar Lee
- Post #605
- Forum: General Discussion
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What Tobacco did your Ancestors Smoke?
My grandfather smoked cigarettes, tailor made and hand rolled, cigars, smoked a pipe, chewed leaf, plug and twist, dipped and snorted snuff, and if he could he’d have shot it up in his arm.:) He began smoking at age 6 in 1886 and died of old age (Alzheimer’s we’d call it today) with a sound...- Briar Lee
- Post #10
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Burnout?!?
It’s not all altruism or obsession. A “C” size is not rare, but it’s scarce. Marx sold pipes at $2.50, $3.50, $5, $7,50, $10, $15 and the top dog $25 400. The overwhelming majority of those I see for sale are $5 or $15 size. Marx made beautiful, polished conventional Super Grain pipes at...- Briar Lee
- Post #20
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Burnout?!?
It has the worst oxidized stem I can remember. Once or twice a day I’ll rub the stem with 4/0 steel wool and smoke it. At the same time, I take a flame from a butane lighter to the tenon. I’ve got the stem black again and the stem mates with the shank perfectly now. When I’m done loving on...- Briar Lee
- Post #16
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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On the Importance of Beauty
Marx was selling the most expensive factory pipes in the world at ten dollars for the C size, from 34-36, which mine might well be from that early era. And he had a direct competitor, Custombuilt making rough carved pipes as well. Today a Custombilt sells for several many times what a similar...- Briar Lee
- Post #27
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Returning to Canada with Tobacco: Receipts Required?
It’s been fifteen years and I can’t remember all the details but my friend had no trouble getting the tobacco to grow. He bought something to keep the bugs off. He had a good crop. He had a small wooden barn to age it. But to heat cure it, he needed my greenhouse, which had a heater in it...- Briar Lee
- Post #56
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions