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Birdseye vs. Sraight Grain & Break-in
I'm interested if others here have experienced that cross-cut pipes with a predominate Birdseye grain are easier to break-in and perhaps sweeter smokers then straight grains. It may be a myth, (I've heard this from other pipe smokers thru the years) but I too have experienced this. Some of my... -
***What Are You Smoking, February 2021?***
Beautiful Birdseye in that pipe. It may be my imagination but I think Birdseye pipes break in faster then straight grains as they are more absorbant.- Ziggywm
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- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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***What Are You Smoking, February 2021?***
Smoking Edgeworth Ready Rub in a Soren Danish Freehand- Ziggywm
- Post #1,108
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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***What Are You Smoking, February 2021?***
I love the Nat Sherman ashtray. The pipes are nice too.- Ziggywm
- Post #1,106
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Show Us Your Bullcaps!
The only pipe I ever lost was a GBD New Standard in the same shape. Slipped out of my pocket on campus where I was teaching and into the snow. When I realized it was gone, retraced my steps, but to no avail. Some student found a nice pipe. -
Your Earliest Pipe and Your Latest
My first pipe: A Yellow Bole Spartan purchased in 1965. My last pipe purchase: A Dunhill Cumberland #5117 in 2013 at IRC. -
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Show Us Your Bullcaps!
Love your pipes, especially the Dunhill. However, I always thought the Dunhill shape was an Author. -
Making A Lovat Tomato Fancy
Thanks for the kind comments. Along with woodworking its been a 50 year hobby. I made my first pipe from a piece of Applewood in 1970. It split. I thought about doing it for a living in 1975 along with a B&M store, but graduate school called to me, along with teaching at the University level and...- Ziggywm
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- Forum: Make Your Own Pipe Project
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Show Us Your Bullcaps!
This is another of my Ziggy Bench Made briars. I never had a name for it, but I think Bullcap fits. -
Show Us Your Bullcaps!
Here is one of my Bench Made pipes. I guess it fits fir a Bullcap. It's one of best smokers. I fit the shank with Yellowheart, a very hard tropical wood and naturally yellow. -
***What Are You Smoking, February 2021?***
I love the Nat Sherman ashtray. The pipes are nice too.- Ziggywm
- Post #943
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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***What Are You Smoking, February 2021?***
- Ziggywm
- Post #941
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Lathe Pipe Making Tools
I have all the tools. I learned to make pipes when I worked at Diebel's Pipe shop in the 70s. The best way to learn equipment and techniques is to watch someone at work. I suggest you try YouTube. The tool list can be long and individualistic based on personal likes and dislikes and the way one...- Ziggywm
- Post #7
- Forum: Make Your Own Pipe Project
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Making A Lovat Tomato Fancy
This was my Thanksgiving time project for a friend who wanted it for a girlfriend. She liked long stem colorful pipes. So I turned a tomato that took advantage of the Birdseye grain a d would leave a little briar bark on top. Because I turned the briar on its side for turning the bowl it didn't...- Ziggywm
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- Forum: Make Your Own Pipe Project
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Savinelli Autograph 00 Grade
I have several Autographs, this one a grade 6. It is sans signature, too. I'd have to check my others, but as someone said here, "it doesn't take much to buff them off." Your stem could be a replacement, but looks original. Its hard to believe Savanelli would let one leave the factory w/o it on...- Ziggywm
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- Forum: Italian Pipes
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Can I Smoke in My Room Tonight?
My roommate never complains about my pipe. Sometimes, as here, he questions my taste in tobacco.- Ziggywm
- Post #47
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Pipes in Movies - A Review of Sherlock Holmes
The movie with the pipe shop scene with Rathbone and the Peterson tobacco urn on the counter - a beauty by the way - was "Dressed To Kill", 1946 which was colorized in the 80s. The colonization is especially nice with the pipe shop scene.- Ziggywm
- Post #4
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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1st Estate Pipe Purchase Has a Demon of a Lakeland Ghost!
Maybe you've done this: I would soak the vulculnite bit in 100% grain or wood alcohol with some unsented clorax or oxi-clean added to the alcohol. I think I would use the Oxi. Let it soak for a day or two. This will oxidize the rubber turning it brown like our mouth acids and sunlight do over...- Ziggywm
- Post #49
- Forum: Pipe Repair and Maintenance