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Antique + Modern = High Performance Smoking Machine
This is the sort of thing that would have driven me a bit crazy 20 years ago, but now makes all the sense in the world. Take an old pipe---in this case a factory replica of an old pipe---and combine its best features with the ergonomic sensibility that made high end Scandinavian carvers... -
One-of-a-kind Butera Churchwarden Cavalier (w/two gold bands)
I've been messing with some camera settings & related, so thought I might as well shoot something entertaining. Commissioned over 30 years ago. Mike couldn't resist the challenge. Faxed him a sketch and he said, "Yeah, I can work with that." The gold was his idea. I figured why not go all... -
The Pipe With No Name (Sergio Leone is smiling)
Neither fish nor fowl, this one. Posted mainly as idea food for hobby restorers and repairers who've felt the urge to make a whole pipe, but concluded after thinking it through they don't have the space, money for a lathe, etc. The idea? Get yourself a decent oversize stummel, and use it as a... -
The Best Black Beans You'll Ever Eat
More "assembly instructions" than a recipe, but there you go. Dead simple & foolproof: Into a large (8 qt) Dutch oven/stock pot type vessel: --- one gallon water --- 2 lbs washed black beans --- 2 baseball-sized onions peeled and cut into 3/4"-ish chunks --- 1 tsp whole cumin seeds --- 1...- georged
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Calling Laudisi... Calling Laudisi... Come In Laudisi...
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Calling John Connor
What matters is not how far in the future Skynet becomes self-aware, because it's all the same at this end, right? And the liklihood of that happening is definitely increasing. Enough that everyone should be on the lookout for lightning-crackly spheres of light late at night in back...- georged
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When Design Brilliance Meets Killer Technical Execution
It's rare in any field, not just the PipeWorld, to find artisans who can come up with original ideas and execute those ideas to a high standard. I suppose it's a left brain / right brain thing... Designers want to sketch and invent, while technicians are obsessed with detail and precision... -
How To Have a Stressful Coming Week
Live in one of Tampa's canal neighborhoods: With scary Swirly Things happening a thousand miles to the south:- georged
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Group Identification Assistance Request
Part of the human experience is people sorting themselves into groups that share the same values, goals, outlook, and so forth, and along the way developing outward characteristics for both internal and external identification purposes: Dress, manner, speech, vocabulary, hairstyle, etc. When I...- georged
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New Guys --- This is Why You Want to Join (or start) a Pipe Club
There's a phrase for what HAPPENS at pipe club meetings: Having a great time :col:- georged
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Rocket Scientists Are Everywhere
Looks real to me: :oops:- georged
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Pipe Smoking Thought For the Day
Every human alive today would fit into a building slightly over one cubic kilometer in volume. Meaning, unless you knew exactly when and where to look down and used binoculars, the BHE (building holding everyone) couldn't even be seen if you flew over it in a commercial airliner at cruising...- georged
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When Less is More... a.k.a. Minimalism in the PipeWorld
With pipes, the Minimalist concept of stripping a design down to its bare essentials, and casting aside any elements that do not contribute to the beauty or function of an object or space, can be expanded to include materials. In this case, a flaw-free piece of briar. This pipe doesn't have... -
When Dunhill "Factory Funk" Meets 21st Century Artisan Standards
All factory made pipes are produced "on the clock", assembly line style. A worker has only X minutes to complete his task before the whistle blows (so to speak), and the pipe (or batch of pipes) moves on. Anyone who couldn't keep up didn't stick around long. The top name artisan carvers... -
1946 Dunhill Shape 59 --- a Sandblast (Shell) Finish For the Ages
There's this weird balance thing when it comes to sandblasts. Too deep and profile lines are lost; too shallow and there's no drama. Once in a while a piece of wood would react to being blasted as if it was aware of that balance. I'd guess it occurred about as often as a straight grain... -
If You Like Well-Made Creepy Movies, Give This One a Test Drive
Released in 1990. Doesn't really fit a genre, so is hard to describe. Definitely works well, though. Called Jacob's Ladder Just popped up on Amazon Prime as a freebie.- georged
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An Example of How Common Pipe Smoking Was...
...not all that long ago. In this case, 1984. The Movie? One of George Romero's zombie films. The third one, where things play out in an underground storage facility where everyone left alive is hiding from The Horde. Called The Day of the Dead. How is the setting and weirdness of the...- georged
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Before Using Your Pipes as Flower Pots or Throwing Them in a Landfill, do this...
Because geometry tolerates no argument, sometimes the bottom-dead-center of a pipe's tobacco chamber and the bullseye-dead-center of its mortise floor cannot be connected with a straight line. It isn't a brand-dependent thing, or even (necessarily) a "quality thing". It's simply three... -
A Dunhill LC and a Former Stacked Bulldog had a Baby
What's with my recent love for large pipes? Because of the fizziks. They're a de facto reverse calabash with the dead air chamber filled with unburned tobacco. Meaning the next puff gets to marinate in a matrix of unburned tobacco AND cool down a bit before being snorfed. The flavor... -
If You Are a Fan of HARD Science Fiction---meaning documentary style---Watch This Movie
Zero Hollywood drama, no "life stories", no flashbacks, no sympathetic character building, no Luke/Leia romances, etc. It's just you being a "ride along" on the International Space Station during a mission where things get, well, interesting. VERY interesting. The physics---always a problem...- georged
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