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  1. mkelaw

    Who's Giving Up Pipe Smoking for Lent?

    If someone would make me a Cardinal, I'd vote for Bradley in a New York heartbeat and for all the right reasons, especially the fact that he's not chasing women anymore, an important attribute for prospective Popes.
  2. mkelaw

    Lots of Fresh Pipes at Mkelaw-Pipes.Com

    Thanks for fixing my URL goof guys...not to mention the kind words.
  3. mkelaw

    Weber Collector Unsmoked Pipes

    Gorgeous!
  4. mkelaw

    Dunhill Christmas Pipe Questiion

    Just found the Peretti site and they have photos of the sets from the 80's. No tampers.
  5. mkelaw

    Anyone From Clearwater, FL

    I think Edwards still makes pipes someplace in Tampa. Maybe you can get a tour of their factory.
  6. mkelaw

    Lots of Fresh Pipes at Mkelaw-Pipes.Com

    Restoring pipes is fun and rewarding. Photographing them and putting them on the website is pure drudgery. Yes, I've been remiss but have been inspired by a great bunch of estates that came in a couple of weeks ago. Lots of Dunhills, some nice Petersons and a bunch or other nice ones are now...
  7. mkelaw

    Dunhill Christmas Pipe Questiion

    Anyone know whether Dunhill always included a tamper with their Christmas pipes or just started with the 10 days of Christmas series?
  8. mkelaw

    Outsniping the (eBay) Snipers!

    Don't forget, you can always contact the seller and make an offer. Ebay doesn't mind so long as the seller completes the sale through ebay. There's nothing "devious" about sniping since anyone can do it. It costs almost nothing and, from a buyer's point of view, avoids artificially bidding a...
  9. mkelaw

    Bill Unger Resigns from NASPC Due to Terminal Illness

    Bill Unger is one of the greats in our hobby. Let's all hope and pray for that miracle! Sadly, Dave
  10. mkelaw

    Dave Neeb Cherrywood

    Thanks Bradley and thanks to all for the kind comments. It's pretty hard to screw up a piece of briar like that one. I'm must finishing a couple more pipes and they'll be up on the website in the next few days.
  11. mkelaw

    Advanced pipe cleaning!

    . I use Volkov Vodka which is the same proof as Everclear but cheaper. (Every time I buy it the local liquor store I explain what I'm doing with it so they won't think that I'm a complete drunk). Anyway, I've used rubbing alcohol on my personal pipes a few times. As rubbing alcohol, it's...
  12. mkelaw

    Advanced pipe cleaning!

    I've thought about starting a thread about Urban Pipe Legends that get repeated daily on one pipe board or another. One of the potential subjects in that as yet unwritten commentary had to do with bristled pipe cleaners damaging a pipe. Facts: 1) Briar is extremely hard. 2) Though the...
  13. mkelaw

    Thrift store find

    Nice! I don't smoke cigars but that's very cool. Personally, I've never found anything pipe or cigar related in a thrift store other than the odd, crummy ashtray.
  14. mkelaw

    Late Bloomer

    I've been smoking a pipe for 50 years and married for 48. My wife is a saint (as long as I stay away from heavy English tobaccos). Re your question: Better late than never.
  15. mkelaw

    Advanced pipe cleaning!

    Cigarmaster's got it pretty well down. You can't clean the airway in stummel unless you remove the stem. The diameter of the stummel airway is likely larger than that in the stem. Usually it's 4 MM or 5/32nds and a regular pipe cleaner isn't big enough to clean much of anything in that...
  16. mkelaw

    Pipe shapes and styles

    Pipes and their performance are a matter of physics. I don't know about coatings on pipes other than what's pretty when you buy it bubbles when it gets too hot. An open draw is cooler than a closed draw because, like a smaller water pipe/hose, you have to suck more air through the tobacco to...
  17. mkelaw

    Things you hate about smoking pipe

    Having some sweet young thing walk up to me and saying, "Oh, I loooove the smell of your tobacco" when the next line is, "My grandfather used to smoke a pipe." AARGH!
  18. mkelaw

    Florida Smokers Roll Call

    Homosassa for half the year.
  19. mkelaw

    Pipe shapes and styles

    You may want to go to pipedia.org and just surf around. There's a mountain of good information there.
  20. mkelaw

    Breaking News: Savinelli USA Closes, Laudisi Dist. Takes Over

    I may be wrong but my guess is that Savinelli's major market is in the U.S. As a well run business with as good an overall picture of the US pipe market as anyone, Sykes & Co. will have the ability to influence what Savinelli brings to market. I'm a big Savinelli fan for making quality pipes...
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