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  1. danish

    From Cigarette to Pipe

    I unfortunately also smoked cigarettes during a period of some years but returned to pipes only, many years ago. I was however already used to the pipe and smoked mostly Capstan. Get some small pipes and some Orlik Golden Sliced or similar for example. Use a pipe cleaner when necessary, during...
  2. danish

    Blend Recommendations For A Viking Raid

    Yeah, the poor Irish. We couldn't understand them. They didn't speak Anglo.
  3. danish

    Blend Recommendations For A Viking Raid

    Exactly! As the heathens we were, we couldn't figure out what was up or down on the local pipes but the helpful native vinlanders then painted a white dot on top of our pipes for us, which increased their usability and value tremendeously. Wish my father didn't toss our old Danehills.
  4. danish

    Blend Recommendations For A Viking Raid

    My forefathers stole tobacco in America (Vinland) 500 years before Columbus. According to the sagas, they smoked something they named after Cartur Hallssonsdottir, afaik.
  5. danish

    Holy Mailbox Explosion!

    Congrats with the tobacco... Be careful with opening the Exotic Passion indoors. I can still smell a small sample, I received some time ago, in most of the cellar, although it is still packed in a closed plastic bag. I am not sure I want to ghost a briar pipe with it. I may try a cob with it...
  6. danish

    What Would a Pipe Smoker in 1921 Have to Say About Pipe Smoking in 2021?

    If I could afford a good life, in for example London in 1921, I would easily enjoy being a pipe smoker. Wouldn't miss modern aromatics and pipe shapes. But I would miss this forum?
  7. danish

    Your Most Unmistakable U.S. Made Pipes

    When pipe smoking was common, most pipes sold here in Denmark were made locally or somewhere else in Europe. Cheap US cobs were sold everywhere but mostly used as an emergency, if you eg had forgotten a 'real' pipe when out and about...
  8. danish

    Apple iPad: Any Advantage Over A Kindle Fire 10?

    I have always loved the intuitive interface, natural pictures and colors of the screens of my Apple devices and still using my first iMac from 2008 and my almost as old iPad mini 1st gen (now mostly for reading ebooks) . I am also still happy with my iPhone 7. My wife’s new basic model iPad is...
  9. danish

    Shocking Lack of Knowledge

    Since I started the pipe and tobacco journey in the ‘80s, I have of course also experienced ignorant pipe tobacco sales people here in Denmark. As well as the opposite. Only about 7 years ago, I visited a new (to me) B&M and quickly felt embarassed about myself, pretending to know more about...
  10. danish

    Your Earliest Pipe and Your Latest

    One of the very first pipes I bought (maybe tossed as ‘too used’ 30 years ago?) was a new Stanwell no. 17 ‘sitter’, of which model I have bought more since. The last pipe I bought, about a year ago, was a new but old stock Stanwell no. 78. Both designed by Sixten Ivarsson and no longer produced.
  11. danish

    1918 BBB Army Mount Pipe

    I would probably not smoke it and just ‘enjoy’ looking at and touching/feeling as a museum piece of my collection. Doubt the smoking properties would live up to the rarity, anyways.
  12. danish

    What Can You Learn about Yourself by Looking at Your Own Pipe Collection?

    My collection tells me, that I am just a lucky bastard! Now reading ‘Life Stories of the Other Half’ by Jacob A. Riis.
  13. danish

    Have You Ever Had One Of Those Pipe Smoking Days Where...

    Buzzing brass increases the smell and sense of taste. A mouthpiece would suffice but that is perhaps more boring. Both may however also help keeping social distance.
  14. danish

    Show Off Your Meerschaum Pipes Here!

    My teacher in college (almost 40 years ago) preferred his Bauer and Capstan. I was also a pipe smoker then and wanted to own and try a a Bauer. But I probably found them a little too expensive then, so I never got to own one until I found below in an antique shop, on a lucky trip with my son, a...
  15. danish

    Guess The Maker

    Look like Ivarsson and Winslow designs.
  16. danish

    New To The Family

    Wow! Congrats. First I thought it looked like an Eltang. But then you probably wouldn’t have received it so fast with ‘Snail’ mail?
  17. danish

    Stanwell Pipe Stems

    Interesting! Huber also mentions the optimal bite height of approx. 4 mm. Like I read in my Danish ‘pipe bible’ many years ago, based on dental science and the very reason I always liked ‘thin’ bites: “Wir sprechen beim Mundstück von der Bisshöhe, also genau dem Bereich, der im Mund gehalten...
  18. danish

    Stanwell Pipe Stems

    Not that it matters much to me if 1995 or about 1998, as I already mentioned above but I would then guess that Stanwell may, as Huber said, already have introduced some acrylic stems earlier, with the 9 mm filter pipes for the German market. Danes didn’t buy 9 mm filter pipes.
  19. danish

    What's Your Oldest Pipe That You Bought New?

    I have lost or tossed the first pipes I bought. Since then I bought the same Stanwell model (at the bottom) again in the nineties, from Tom Eltang, when he had a shop in Tårbæk. The much older Stanwell (sixties) at the top, was only smoked once and as new in the box, when I bought it a few...
  20. danish

    Stanwell Pipe Stems

    Good question? About 1998, when they wre still made in Denmark, they switched to acrylic. Just checked in the Danish ‘Piber og Tobak’ magazine of Sep. 1999. Production moved to Italy about 2010.
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