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  1. swilford

    Peterson St Patrick's Day 2023 Pipes at SP?

    Smokingpipes put up about 700 Saint Patrick's Day pipes yesterday, of which more than 100 were smooth and more than 50 were sandblasts. We didn't expect the smooth and sandblasts to sell out as quickly as they did (it took about ninety minutes to sell through both). It's also worth noting that...
  2. swilford

    Samuel Gawith Tin And 250g Box Laudisi Availability List, Including 7 Plugs

    First of all, sorry everyone. This is our new, better response to automated traffic at work. Based on what we're seeing now, you're probably good to try to get back in and complete orders. It was really bad there for awhile; looking manageable now and the server is sloughing off less traffic to...
  3. swilford

    Captcha on SP

    Could you email us directly (to the info@ account and they'll get you connected to the right folks here)? There's a long, possibly complicated story here, but basically if you're a human you shouldn't be seeing these. We know that these tools are ridiculously blunt, but we thought they weren't...
  4. swilford

    Is there any kind of guide to C&D?

    Man, I did too and ended up buying the factory.
  5. swilford

    Show off Your Sandblasts

    I hear you on the treasure hunt aspect; and there are tons of really amazing sandblasts that don't make the cut to be PSBs, so you'll find great blasts throughout the range. On 'caked on with finish,' can you give me a bit more to go on here? Do you mean the shinier black ones? Dark colors in...
  6. swilford

    Show off Your Sandblasts

    I think he was saying they're not PSBs, the new high grade blast. I'm pretty sure at least half of those are newer Petersons with the newer blasting, though (though maybe not the 999? Or is that the 2019 POTY? Either way, the 2019 POTY preceded the new blasting). One of them is a Christmas pipe...
  7. swilford

    Haunted Bookshop pricing?

    Just catching this now. When C&D raised prices a little bit in September, they also reviewed pricing structure for various products seriously for the first time in a couple of years. Bulk has always had at least three different pricing levels. For the first time, tins were split into two...
  8. swilford

    Price??

    Cosmic, I'm not exactly sure how it happened, but the first page you had the VIP discount showing and the product page you didn't, so I think between those two clicks something happened--with your browser or session timing out on the site end--that meant that you weren't being recognized as VIP...
  9. swilford

    Am I Doing the Math Right?!

    Yes, low single digits is right. And C&D is small by tobacco factory standards. And pipe tobacco factories are all tiny by big factory standards. Industrial scales are mind-boggling sometimes, particularly for fairly inexpensive consumables. I was reading about the Jiffy mix factory (my kid...
  10. swilford

    Very Interesting Happening at Smoking Pipes

    Yes, see above. Supply has been down a little over the past while, but the real immediate problem--that's harder to buffer--has been lots of people out during the most recent Covid wave (no one seriously ill, but we had lots of folks out for most of January). We were already a bit short-handed...
  11. swilford

    Very Interesting Happening at Smoking Pipes

    This ^ We've been short handed in restoration for the past few weeks and the update numbers have suffered. We've also not had quite as much supply in the past eighteen months or so, but that seems to be getting better. Sykes
  12. swilford

    We Want your Reviews...

    This is a good suggestion in other circumstances, but wouldn't really fix the problems: we know well enough what we need, we have sizable orders stacked up with Gawith. Laudisi brought in a whole lot more in 2021 than had come to the US previously, but we're (both Gawith and Laudisi) still very...
  13. swilford

    Peterson Barlings?

    Gosh, I'm not even sure what that could be referring to, but if true it has to be a very long time ago indeed (at least twenty years).
  14. swilford

    Peterson Barlings?

    Peterson is not making them and has nothing to do with the project. Peterson makes Peterson pipes and that's all (oh, well, Irish Seconds, but those are transparently Peterson seconds).
  15. swilford

    Is Baracchini Owned By Savinelli?

    Barracchini is owned by STG/Cigars International and is primarily marketed by pipesandcigars.com. It is definitely not made by Savinelli. Sykes
  16. swilford

    Dunhill now made in Italy?

    Dunhills are made in England and have always been made in England. Bits of the their supply chain upstream happens elsewhere. Some materials come from elsewhere in Europe and packaging probably comes from Asia. Because that's how supply chains work. And this isn't a new phenomenon. As long as...
  17. swilford

    How are Smokingpipes.com and Laudisi Distribution Group Related?

    Other people covered this pretty well, but here's a tidy way to think about Laudisi's business units: Cornell & Diehl & Peterson: Sell globally in various markets to national distributors. In the case of the US market, sell to LDG. For other markets, sells to distributors in those countries...
  18. swilford

    Peterson Rua

    Thank you for this. And thank you for being so generous with your time and advice, George. We were spinning in circles on that one--something Peterson had last done decades ago--and Josh and I were sitting in his office (in the US) trying to figure out who to ask (Josh had already asked all the...
  19. swilford

    Peterson Rua

    The blasting was done at Peterson. The staining was done at Peterson. They were done at Peterson. The first idea to do something like this was Shane Ireland's (Director of Smokingpipes). The sandblasting is the result of Peterson's normal process, with bowls selected that were particularly...
  20. swilford

    Recommendations on a Lightly Flavored Blend That Retains Tobacco Flavor

    GL Pease Haddo's Delight has been my go-to for exactly this for twenty years. It's fairly strong, the flavoring is noticeable but not overwhelming, and it also ages really nicely.
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