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    PSA Pipes and Cigar Coupon 25%

    Coincidentally, that discount percentage matches the chance you'll get what you ordered.
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    What’s Your Favorite Esoterica/Germain’s Blend?

    Stonehaven is the only one that would inspire me to pay above retail prices for.
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    ***What Are You Smoking, May 2025?***

    Some 2020 Rustica I bought at the Chicago Show in allocate made by Jason Patrick.
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    2025 Texas Pipe Show Nov 14-15

    I really like the logo! I had to slow down when looking at it to appreciate it fully but now that I have, I dig it.
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    Pipe Collection Succession Planning

    He was an avid Dunhill collector. His collection included all sorts of Dunhill products like clothing, canes, memorabilia, pens, pipe furniture and pipe accessores. Unsurprisingly, a lof of his pipes were Dunhill but he had drawers full of artisan made pipes as well (S. Bangs, Cooke, Jeff...
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    Pipe Collection Succession Planning

    In 2023, I helped clear out the estate of a prominent pipe collector in the Chicago area. I suspect he thought his wife would take care of it for him but she was not in good health herself. It took four guys, two more friends of the family, two truck loads, and a rented U-haul to get most of...
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    Rainy Weather Smokes?

    Maybe I'm just prone to suggestion but Ashton's Rainy Day always sounds good on such a day. But, in reality, I reach for "comfort" blends which (for me) are blends like Navigator, Sixpence, First Amendment, or Scottish Flake.
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    Broken Pipe: Mark Ryan

    I spent a couple hours talking to Mark in the smoking tent at Chicago a year a couple years ago. He was welcoming, talkative, passionately opinionated (especially when it came to government regulations of tobacco), and funny. I am glad for the memory but sad to hear that it will be the last...
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    SmokingPipes Site Redesign

    I found one such filter for tobacco but it's buried so deep I can understand why someone wouldn't find it. From the home page, you have to click on "All Tobaccos". If you click on either Tinned Tobaccos or Bulk Tobaccos it will take you to page showing the brands. But clicking "All Pipe...
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    SmokingPipes Site Redesign

    Please correct me if I'm misinterpreting your comments. Of course, I didn't actually offend you. You just think it's comical or ridiculous that anyone would have complaints about a pipe-related web site and they would complain about it on a pipe-related forum because it used to be much harder...
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    SmokingPipes Site Redesign

    Sorry to have offended you George but some of us test web sites for a living and it's hard not to notice when things change for the worse or don't work as a user might expect to. But besides that, I would say that just because we have modern conveniences doesn't mean we lose the privilege to...
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    SmokingPipes Site Redesign

    The filtering is confusing at first. If you select "Estate Pipes" and then "Dunhill" as a brand, it returns a blank screen because (I guess) you're searching for an Estate and a "new pipe brand" at the same time which would be a null set. I feel like this is a UX mistake. If you select New or...
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    SmokingPipes Site Redesign

    I'll get used to the site redesign, but my first gripe about an aspect I don't think I'll get used to: when the new pipes hit the site like they did today, I can scroll through the carousel. It's annoying but I can do it. I can then click on a pipe brand to look at the new pipes. When I'm...
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    HH Old Dark Fired Dropped

    Yeah, it's close to $8 more per pound than I paid last June but the same price that I paid 10 days ago.
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    2025 Chicago Pipe Show!

    Wednesday to Monday for me! I can't wait. I really encourage people that can make it but have never gone to a show to try it. Especially if you can bring a friend along. But even if you can't, there are plenty of friendly people around that will talk your ear off about pipes and tobacco and...
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    Inconsistent Presbyterian Mixture

    Have you, by any chance, purchased tins that were produced for different markets? Are you smoking a tin that was produced for the Germans and then comparing it to the ones sold in the United States for example?
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    200 MacBaren Blends Will Be Kept in Europe According to STG.

    I'm going to caveat this by saying I don't actually know if any of what I'm about to write is accurate. That said, I recall Leonard saying that HH Old Dark Fired only sold 100 pounds in an entire year in the entire German market. Given that I personally bought about 5-10% of what the entire...
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    Las Vegas Intl Pipe Show 2025!

    Loved the video, Dave! I particularly loved what Marty had to say.
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    Pipe Tobacco is no Good Anymore/Better Than Before

    This is a complicated question worth exploring in greater depth but I feel like the words of Charles Dickens apply here: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity...
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    Let's Discuss this Forum

    If you really want to get in touch with him, he's on Instragram with the same user name.
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