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Who Remembers Smoking Cars?
Actually, I was in a smoking seat on the bullet train from Tokyo to Osaka as recently as 2017. More recently--this past February--smoking seats were not available on the bullet train from Tokyo to Kyoto (this time, they had cramped little smoking cabins designed to hold four standing smokers...- swilford
- Post #31
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Sealed Tin Weight Variation - GLP
Most were flakes and plugs other than the Chelsea Morning, right? There's more packaging in the tins with flakes and plugs (paper 'holders') to keep those secure. Assuming your data points other than Chelsea Morning are flakes and plugs, the difference lies there. Beyond that, yes, there's...- swilford
- Post #9
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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SP Tech Glitch
Give us 15 minutes. We were doing maintenance that we thought would be brief that turned out to take longer than anticipated.- swilford
- Post #3
- Forum: Pipe Tobacconists - B&M's and Internet Retailers
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Why Do Good Retailers Go To Surepost???
And that is pretty much what we tried to engineer by subsidizing options that aren't Surepost.- swilford
- Post #28
- Forum: Pipe Tobacconists - B&M's and Internet Retailers
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Why Do Good Retailers Go To Surepost???
Here is exactly why: We didn't use Surepost for years. We offered either USPS Priority or UPS Ground, depending on weight and destination. In a nutshell: Ground is cheap and really fast close by (shipping from us to, say, Charlotte, NC) and Priority is faster across the country. However...- swilford
- Post #26
- Forum: Pipe Tobacconists - B&M's and Internet Retailers
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Tin Limits
Just to quickly weigh in: we sort of hate having to have tin limits too, but the alternative--getting cleaned out in minutes--is much worse. We've experimented with various ways to allocate scarce tobaccos, but at the end of the day, the problem is that there are fewer tins to sell than people...- swilford
- Post #29
- Forum: Pipe Tobacconists - B&M's and Internet Retailers
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Savinelli Issue
Obviously I have no idea who you spoke to or what company you bought the pipe from, but what the customer service agent should have said is that this is fairly common, particularly in winter, because the wood contracts somewhat in transit when it goes from a climate controlled warehouse to a...- swilford
- Post #16
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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SP IPSD 2020 Sale - New and Estate pipes 15% off and Tinned and Bulk Pipe Tobaccos 10% Off
Except that we're not. Not that there's anything wrong with selling on ebay, but we don't. We bought that pipe back in October; I don't see how it could have been (in a literal sense) the same pipe as the one you saw on ebay.- swilford
- Post #28
- Forum: Pipe Tobacconists - B&M's and Internet Retailers
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If HU Tobacco Was Available At Smokingpipes.com, Would You Order It?
The short answer is that it is not possible to bring in HU because it wasn't on the market in the US prior to the summer of 2016. It would require an SE which would require pre-approval from FDA. If it weren't for that impediment, it's exactly the sort of project we seek out. So, it's not us...- swilford
- Post #12
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Heads UP!
The UPS thing only applies to the US and will, I hope, be temporary. They had some policy/contract changes on carriage of tobacco to consumers that we're sorting out with them right now (that we disagree with), but rather than violate the terms of contract, we opted to turn off UPS for domestic...- swilford
- Post #5
- Forum: General Discussion
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What Is The Peterson Deluxe System Shape Number For A 312?
The 317 (Standard and Premier System) = 12.5 (Deluxe System) = 230 (non-System). There's a little variation from bowl to bowl, but not like this. The measurements on Peterson.ie are simply not right for the Deluxe System 12.5. Stay tuned for a revamped Peterson.ie where, among many other... -
TobaccoReviews.com Lore Discussion
Along with Billy Budd - Sailorman Jack, there are a bunch of old alt.smokers.pipes references: Firedance Flake from Samuel Gawith is named for June Stark, an old regular on ASP who passed in the mid-2000s also, for example. I participated actively on Alt.Smokers.Pipes from late 1999 to about...- swilford
- Post #4
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Carolina Red Flake Tin Number
C&D made 10k for the US market and about 300 (unserialized) for other markets. There's easy way to keep the serializing straight across markets (for a variety of reasons, but not least of which is because of labeling requirements being different in different markets). And, yes, they didn't fill...- swilford
- Post #9
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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K&P & Peterson: Whats the Difference?
Eamon's answer from Peterson is spot on, of course. The company name is (and has been for a very long time) Kapp & Peterson, Ltd. and the pipes have been variously branded Peterson, Peterson's, Kapp & Peterson and K&P. It doesn't really signify. The stamps on pipes these days are all some... -
The Pipes of Sherlock Holmes
We're doing lots of things along these lines. There is so much old interesting stuff at Peterson that it's more a matter of prioritizing projects than it is deciding to do these things or not. The resurrected John Bull for 2019's Pipe of the Year was the first project like this. The next few... -
New Peterson - draft hole too high?
I first read it as XL315 (which doesn't exist in Kinsale, but is the same shape as the XL11 and Sherlock Holmes Original), not XL15. On a pipe with this much bend, it should have been a bit above the center in the mortise, but not as high as it is in the photo. My mini-treatise on drilling... -
New Peterson - draft hole too high?
<quote>That said, the hole in the shank portion (bottom pic) looks just like a normal Pete to me (or, at least, like the few Pete's I've owned). All four of mine had either a sump on the system or the dimpled beginning of a sump on the nons directly in the center of shank, with the draft hole... -
When Artisans Make Lower Grade Pipes
On China, I think it's just really unclear what's going on with that market as a whole. Different people have had very different experiences over the past couple of years. It's certainly maturing and the growth isn't as crazy as it once was, but that's very different from suggesting that the... -
When Artisans Make Lower Grade Pipes
I think it's easy to read too much into either wider economic trends or perceived (by some) trends in the pipe world. Of the guys listed, most of them started their lower price brand a long time ago (Sara Eltang in 2005; Ligne Bretagne, gosh, about the same time; Alan Brothers was started in... -
Brigham Pipe Stacker Deep 3 Pipe Drawer
The pipe version was discontinued. It came about during a meeting between Dan More (of Brigham), Brian Levine (then of Brigham) and me in 2011 or 2012. They were the distributor for Stackers, which were mostly jewelry trays. I suggested they take the masculine version and make a pipe stacker...- swilford
- Post #10
- Forum: Pipes Accessories