Meers are tougher then most give them credit for but if you want a small pipe then look at Ropp pipes, Savinelli Petites, Peterson builge or calabash. I have a few tiny meers and a couple peterson calabashs that are great for a 10-20 min smoke.
My only suit is a black three piece and it works as most of my rotation are meers so the black and white works. If I was to match my everyday clothes to my pipes I'd be wearing a lot of tweed. lol
The top three meers are among my favorite clenchers and are the perfect sizes and weights for clenching. I have a couple of Medico Varsity pipes that make great clenchers as well, but the very best clencher I have is a BigBen Barbados egg that hangs about as perfect as a pipe can for me.
While I would never slam such an upstanding individual as Peck 8O I would have to agree with him that a phone with a Blackberry keyboard and Iphone OS would rain supreme as a mobile phone. I had a BB Passport for a while and loved it..... and would probably still have it if there were as many...
Great old Meer Fish! Both are beauties and nice to see that Simon doesn't get every cutty! lol I have an old girl getting fitted with a new stem as we speak and looking forward to have it in my rotation of meers.
I got a tankard on a trade with a P-lip but liked the shape so much that I had my guy at the local B+M cut me a new stem about an inch shorter and fishtail. Great pipe and amazingly light for clenching.
Still water is boring but I could sit with a pipe and watch the ocean roll or a brook babble for hours. In fact I'll be spending the first week of November sitting in Mexico doing just that.
Goggle "Sporran"...... Traditional leather pouch worn with a kilt but there are several that will go onto a belt and they would be the perfect size for a round tin, a lighter, tool. etc.
Supposedly a coloring bowl is use so that the pipe takes color faster due to the fact that it will build no cake in the pipe itself. The more cake you have built up in your meer the slower the "juices" will permeate the bowl material so by using the coloring bowl you will color faster...... at...