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  1. pentangle

    What Santa (Me) Has Given To Me

    "I'm going to be back in Italy in April - I highly recommend that you lock your doors or I may walk off with some of those - and some of the ones you've carved - great pick ups!!!!" Well maybe you'll not bring my pipes but some glass of nice wine for sure, My doors are unlocked for friends...
  2. pentangle

    What I Carved For Santa.

    Thank you guys i really appreciate maurizio
  3. pentangle

    Christmas Feelings

    Christmas WAS my favorite time of year, now for the same reasons you said I hope these days will pass quickly.Only my sons and my wife help me to keep a little the Christmas soul.I smell but my heart not
  4. pentangle

    What I Carved For Santa.

    These are surely the last i carved in that year :?.And probably will take a pause for a little also in the next .Carving briar is nice for sure but can't be an obsession,isn't my job at all :wink: Maurizio
  5. pentangle

    What's your New Year's Eve Plans

    Band of brothers are very nicely done episodes.I have seen all, several times on satellite tv
  6. pentangle

    What's your New Year's Eve Plans

    "Unfortunately i have to work" Why? Is simply a day like another
  7. pentangle

    Stuck Stem on a Meer

    As the meer needs to be bathed to be carved (with water become soft) probably if shank will be softed will let you remove the stem..............I guess Maurizio
  8. pentangle

    What's your New Year's Eve Plans

    Well i want to continue to update my photographic site.So nothing new, simply i have to work harder with pictures.A lot of byrds ,butterflies,flowers,landscapes etc. needs to be photographed,so i will do ,that's my plain for the 2012 and guess isn't a little thing Maurizio
  9. pentangle

    What Santa (Me) Has Given To Me

    from 200 to 300 including what i carved, but really don't know exactly at the moment 8O
  10. pentangle

    What I Carved For Santa.

    Just finished to carve In the Christmas morning and i will start to smoke them tomorrow This one is compared to my Dunhill Bruyere group 3 has a rusticated finish and horn insert This one is compared with my Dunhill Root briar group4
  11. pentangle

    What Santa (Me) Has Given To Me

    Just few days before Christmas i bought at an estate sale about 30-32 pipes for 650$.I decided that was a gift for me for the upcoming Christmas day.I started on refurbishing the ones of better quality and these i'm sharing are what i have put under the Christmas tree, the others can wait...
  12. pentangle

    Seeking Info on a UK Estate Pipe

    it's a Charatan , no doubt Maurizio
  13. pentangle

    No Finish (Natural) Pipes

    I have a natural virgin Savinelli "corallo di mare" probably made in mid seventies it's a nice pipe, but i can't find differences between top quality pipes.They all smokes perfectly.I find differences only due to the briar thickness and sometime due to the shape.It's more a question of beauty or...
  14. pentangle

    Is this meer any good ?

    maybe not carved from a block but meer paste.Good meer is expensive or not so easy to find nowadays as bargain
  15. pentangle

    Help Identify: MLC / Imperial Oom Paul ?

    Grabow started in 1982 as" M. Linkman & Co" so we could say : (M) (L)inkman & (C)o.......MLC.Think that's not the silver mark Maker but an old mark of Linkman.Probably they ordered in Birmingham the silver bands asking to print MLC on them. That seems to be a reasonable reasoning Maurizio
  16. pentangle

    French Pipes.

    Yes American :-) Never saw a Ronson Viking? Produced from about 1957 to 1968 was the first gas lighter on the market,then come the ronson varaflame.It's beautiful and has a nice particularitity.If you turn it down the flame become straight and enchance the flow.The first and only lighter made...
  17. pentangle

    French Pipes.

    benzine lighter aren't good enough they leave smell to the tobacco
  18. pentangle

    Looking for a good tobacco for when I fish, suggestion?

    As i like fishing i can say that i smoke what I like day for a day.Don't know any other possibility
  19. pentangle

    French Pipes.

    I think most of americans speak only english , and maybe a different version of it,so let the french speak what they like.French pipes are good pipes industrial like many all around the world.Danish and Italians follow different ways but their pipes usually cost more.About lighters i guess...
  20. pentangle

    Coca Cola pipe rack!

    It's a fine example to how broke or ruin stems.Take care to your nice pipes my friend and use the vintage wooden box maybe to hold something else like bourbons and glasses maurizio