When it comes to places I would visit or re-visit...
The Danish Pipe Shop (can you sit down and smoke there?)
Iwan Ries (huge selection, amazing lounge)
The Country Squire - it just feels like you're home when you walk in the door, I always seem to meet new people who all smoke pipes.
you should read mark irwans thesis on correct plip and engineering its a thing of beauty. But most of the petersons you see today are done incorrectly.
Join us Saturday November 9th 2024 in a suburb of Dallas called Midlothian Texas at the Oasis Bar and Grill. The venue can hold up to 700 people and is a smoking venue so we can smoke our pipes inside!
More details to come in the next couple weeks.
Absolutely. And everytime this stuff happens, I go re-install linux and see if I can get parity with the programs that I use. I've gotten really close with one exception - I can't get Adobe products like photoshop to work there without creating a VM and installing an instance of windows in the...
Davorin Denovic (Coatia) Golden Morta - which the color indicates age from what I understand so its a bit younger of a piece.
I also have a Ryan Alden Black Morta with a white stem and a Briarworks Morta pipe.
The truth is there is not a lot of pressed meerschaum out there - it takes a lot to make pressed meerschaum and it was usually linings and calabash bowl inserts.
https://pipesmagazine.com/blog/pipe-collecting/meerschaum-the-past-and-present/
I got my first Dr Bob pipe from @pipestud as a gift.
So paying it forward as a gift to one my my Austin pipe club guys (and the guy behind turbotin) for helping me out - I picked up a Dr. Bob pipe for him.
He got a hawkbill that I snagged from Dr. Bob at the Vegas Pipe show last year.
Hell the kicker is, we met in person at the Kansas Pipe show. But I get it, I'm poor with names myself. I'll meet people, tell them my name is James... and then they find out "oh you're pylorns" and suddenly they know me. Online fun...
Well I get called a few things, but never John.
We've got the 2nd weekend of November earmarked - our Cedar Hill retailer that helps facilitate is working to secure the location still, story of our lives always late to the party.
It was definitely slow when I was working on my article but the backend of Wordpress is always slow so I didn't think anything of it - but yeah... does seem slower - could be the amount of traffic on the site - php/mysql can be a drag on resources if a ton of people are hitting it.