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    Pipe Collection Succession Planning

    Wait a minute: No Sgt. Slaughter? I’m appalled. 😀
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    Estate Pipe With Tight Fitting Stem

    I have had success with rubbing Ivory bar soap on the tenon.
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    Another Nice French Pipe!

    If you’re happy, that’s all that matters. As for going to hell, that’s way beyond my pay grade.
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    Another Nice French Pipe!

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    An Illustrated Guide to Buying a Good $20 Pipe

    They’re not much to look at, but I’m glad they smoke well. Good work.
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    Arlington Pipe and Cigar (Illinois)

    When I get back to the Chicago area, I try to drop in there. It is truly a great place for pipes and pipe tobacco. Not quite the level of Iwan Ries, but that’s a very high bar, and you don’t have to deal with the the once-great Chicago Loop area which has degenerated into a s#@thole.
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    How to treat PAD (and TAD)

    25 pipes in just over a year is more than “intense immersion“. And I admire your work.
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    A New Family Addition

    Bulldogs by definition have a diamond shaped shank. It is a Rhodesian.
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    Another Nice French Pipe!

    I’m not a fan of Charatans, but you did a magnificent job on the restoration.
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    In Support Of Calabash Pipes

    I am not a fan. Nor am I a fan of cobs, meerschsum, morta. My 37 pipes are exclusively briar, nearly all with acrylic stems. I bought A Ser Jacopo briar calabash years ago, but eventually traded it because of the size and shape. That said, I ascribe to the old Latin saying De Gustibus non est...
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    Tinbids Observations

    Neither am I. Those are our individual choices. Thanks.
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    Cursed Pipe Won't Smoke

    I know this is apostasy among our brothers on this forum, but the last Peterson I bought was 35 years ago and was poorly constructed. I cannot try them anymore.
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    Anybody Else Mashed the "Complete Order" too Soon?

    I generally have no problem ordering on line, but when I order from SP, I always call in the order. The guy answering always verifies the product. The interaction forces me to think and Sps verification is a backup check.
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    Tinbids Observations

    Yes it’s supply and demand. It’s a market. A buyer and seller agree on a price and both are satisfied. People claiming to “ know” or “believe” the worth of a good for sale drive me nuts. Only the market determines price, not some belief.
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    Turning down the nicotine dial

    After 50+ years of smoking a pipe, I still cannot tolerate burley. I suspect it’s body chemistry.
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    Who Made my Irwin Ries?

    I remember this line of Danish shapes back in the 70s when I lived in Chicago and regularly took the El downtown to Iwan Ries. I had a couple smooth and semi-blasted like the one above. I wanna say they were Stanwell seconds, but won’t swear to it.
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    Master De Paja

    I’ve owned several Mastro de Pajas through the years and they’ve all been great.
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    Pipe Smoking In Bed

    Correction: the only two things to do in bed are SLEEP and ( you know what). My original post of smoke and ( you know what) was a Freudian slip.
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    Pipe Smoking In Bed

    There are only two things to do in bed: smoke and ( you know what).
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    Burley Thoughts

    Wish I could help, but I detest Burley. I’ll check in when you ask about straight Virginias, VaPers, and/or English blends. And yes I realize the Perique is Burley, but the processing makes it agreeable to me.