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  1. misterlowercase

    1st Try Of A Condor Blend.

    GQ Tobacco is the cheapest way for Yanks to get this stuff. Although it requires a little creativity to order, after you're over that first hurdle it's all gravytrain to groovytown. If details are required for Americans who wish to order, pm me and I'll fill in the blanks...
  2. misterlowercase

    What New Pipemakers Are You Watching?

    haha :worship: All Hail Cigrmaster!
  3. misterlowercase

    What New Pipemakers Are You Watching?

    Ah! I forgot about Evan Wiseman. thanks Pat, for the reminder! For me, it was totally his instagram page that won me over, his personality comes through and I think he's a really cool cat, very soulful too, and he has an uncanny knack for putting out some stupendous sandblasts. It was a...
  4. misterlowercase

    What New Pipemakers Are You Watching?

    Excellent thread topic Peck. :clap: For me, it's mostly based on the vibe I get, I usually have pretty good gut feelings about what I'll like. But I also go pretty in-depth with research and looking over the portfolio or what have you. In some cases, all the questions have been answered. Like...
  5. misterlowercase

    What are You Reading?

    Quit reading! Put the book down! Get yer ass back to posting, we miss you. I just got finished reading Noir by K.W. Jeter and now I'm sad that it's over, it was a great book and had me totally enthralled. With a main character named McNihil who is an asp-head, you know it's going to be...
  6. misterlowercase

    The Breathability Of Briar Wood - What Do You Think?

    Holy Shit! :P Many thanks Sasquatch for highlighting that particular detail, dammit, even though I've "studied" the docs, it had never clicked or sunk in, yes I'm dense with an impervious coating upon my brain, perhaps my mind needs a good sandblasting! :-) You are hereby awarded the...
  7. misterlowercase

    The Lovely Squash Of Low-Slung Squatters

    Nate. 8O Jawdropper. Like a stungun to my head, frozen, eyes wide, drool slithering from my lips, like a deer transfixed in headlights. Me, looking at your Rasmussen. My God. That thing is *perfect*. I would make an exception for a smooth in the case of that pipe! Thanks for including the SP...
  8. misterlowercase

    The Lovely Squash Of Low-Slung Squatters

    Neat necrobump Beefeater, I had forgot about this thread. It saddens me to see the broken image links from when I posted Rad squats for Cigrmaster, I had hotlinked directly to Rad's site and now it's gone --- I wish I had somehow saved the whole gallery and made a little booklet complete with...
  9. misterlowercase

    $700 Comoys

    That Comoy is outstandingly beautiful, but I too am surprised at the price it fetched, yowza! 8O Dave, I was the first bidder on that old Sasieni, $38.83 for the win baby! :-) That shape doesn't pop up much, I knew it'd go pretty high, sometimes I bid just for fun to feel like I'm "part...
  10. misterlowercase

    Gawith Hoggarth - ✮ ✮ ✮ ✮ ✮ - Revor Plug

    = ) Thanks for the update Hawky, it pleases me to read that it clicked. Weird how it works ain't it? I wish my palate had picked up on it earlier as I went a couple of years thinking that it was only a mediocre smoke, hence my lengthy post about it, I was stunned and bewildered at to how I could...
  11. misterlowercase

    Show Off Your Orlik Pipes Here

    Ahmad, I love that little L220, it's a good looker, and you got really lucky to find complete with box and everything as "new old stock", does your B&M have any other older pipes laying around? I've been thinning my herd lately and had to let a crown jewel go because it was a smooth (I collect...
  12. misterlowercase

    An especially difficult re-stem (another giant straight grain)

    The pipe viewed before/after is just spectacular, I think you gave it an extra golden egg George, so it needs an additional stamp on it.
  13. misterlowercase

    The Breathability Of Briar Wood - What Do You Think?

    I think that was why Alfred started blasting them, it was a root unsuitable for smooths, or so I've heard, and his solution was to obliterate the surface with that heavy industrialized process we all love so much - it was pure genius on his part!
  14. misterlowercase

    The Breathability Of Briar Wood - What Do You Think?

    I didn't know that. What makes it different? EDIT: earlier I mentioned Ashton's Pebble Grain, it should have been the Pebble Shell, those were the ones with the patented special process.
  15. misterlowercase

    Why is 3 Nuns so expensive?

    Ogden-made St. Bruno, a pipes best friend. : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Nt1RNpGgPY : : MacBarren-made St. Bruno, not very friendly. :
  16. misterlowercase

    The Breathability Of Briar Wood - What Do You Think?

    That may be part of it, but now (I think?) Algerian briar is available again and being used for pipes and I ain't seen nuthin' like them old Shells emerge upon the scene. According to Balfour in his magnum opus, Dunhill outsourced the blasting in the early days to the London Sandblast Co. of...
  17. misterlowercase

    Naked Pipes... thoughts?

    Very interesting. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience. :clap:
  18. misterlowercase

    The Breathability Of Briar Wood - What Do You Think?

    I think perhaps that oil-curing may perhaps aid in getting extra gnarly blasts? Ashton came up with the Pebble Grain patent where he used steam to soften the wood then blast it, and those PG's do appear to have gnarlier blasts. The question I have is in regards to the very early Dunhill Shells...
  19. misterlowercase

    Question About St. Bruno

    I'll be interested in hearing what you have to say Eric, as I know you've smoked a lot of St. Bruno from various vintages. I'm sorry to hear it didn't click for you, it would have been an acceptable alternative to Condor if the price was more reasonable. I know what a large quantity you smoke...
  20. misterlowercase

    Dunhill Seven Day Set

    Matt, that's what I'm talkin' bout! DUNHILL in the finest of form! Proper venticase with spectacular blasts, and man, they look is such fine condition too. If I were you, I'd be tinglin' with electricity from head to toe every time I opened it up. It's a jawdropper. Congratulations on scoring...
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