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***What Are You Smoking, September 2025?***
That is a happy cat! Today I cleaned up my Dad's old (late 50s) Kaywoodie Supergrain large apple and enjoyed a very pleasant bowl of Velvet during a walk around the lake with my dog. Beautiful day and a wonderful smoke.- Joe H
- Post #163
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Cellar Label Collection
Just a quick thank you for my much nicer looking bread yeast jar tobacco storage system!- Joe H
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- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Ashtray
That's impressive chisel work! I assume there was a fair bit of sanding as well. That's a great project from stuff already around the house!- Joe H
- Post #10
- Forum: Pipes Accessories
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Three Months with a Homemade Corn Cob Pipe
@Sir Yak , above is a picture of the end of my pipe’s bamboo stem. The hole is completely natural, not drilled. I don’t think it could be sanded down much without reducing its longevity. Bamboo is denser at the outside and much less so towards the center. The hollow part is filled with a soft... -
Three Months with a Homemade Corn Cob Pipe
Your place sounds like a nice set-up. My dad’s first pipe was made from a cob from the farm he grew up on. He smoked dried corn silk because he was too young to get tobacco and too honest to pinch his dad’s stash. We had a pretty big garden up here (Alaska) but we didn’t grow corn. Dad said even... -
Three Months with a Homemade Corn Cob Pipe
This post might be of some use to people wondering about homemade corn cob pipes. I made one back in May with a cob saved from dinner and a bamboo garden stake. It cost nothing, took about an hour (not counting the cob drying time) and worked well enough. My biggest problem was the chamber was... -
***What Are You Smoking, August 2025?***
I was feeling melancholy today as my son went off to college in the Lower 48 over the weekend. We had 19 beautiful years with him and his departure leaves a huge hole. I took an hour or so to commiserate at the top of the hill in my back yard where he built an impromptu golf driving range. This...- Joe H
- Post #3,076
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Cellar Label Collection
I really appreciated your efforts on behalf of the pipes-mag readership. I jarred some 2024 Golden Days of Yore in an old cleaned up bread yeast jar. The tin label worked fine to cover the sides of the jar, but I wanted something for the top. Now I want for nothing! Many thanks.- Joe H
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- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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***What Are You Smoking, August 2025?***
Had a very enjoyable hour today with a cherry version of Three Friars in my home-made cob while helping my son collect golf balls from an abandoned golf course. The water trap was full of them. We even had a moose show up to see what we were doing.- Joe H
- Post #1,289
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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How much do you cellar?
This has been an enlightening thread. I have 10+ years' worth of tobacco at my current smoke rate. I'd be happy to be smoking another 20 or 30 years on this Earth, so I still buy now and again, but I'm not worried about ever running out. I was doing some math and a lot of the bigger cellars...- Joe H
- Post #86
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Zippo Pipe Lighters...Opinions Please!
Luckily, I live in Alaska where heat-based evaporation is not a problem. I usually have a full sized Zippo in my left front (junk) pants pocket. My cell phone lives alone in my right front pocket. I fill it on weekends and have never run out. I'll admit to not smoking as much as some here...- Joe H
- Post #91
- Forum: Pipes Accessories
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Skippy's Blend of the Week
"...no coffin..." Great line! Skippy, another great write-up! As a confirmed cherry-holic I really appreciate your extensive testing of the genre. I'm trying to reduce my tobacco holdings so rarely buy, but I do keep notes on your experiences. Many thanks, these articles are a real benefit...- Joe H
- Post #242
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Reviews
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***What Are You Smoking, July 2025?***
Prince Albert in a home-made cob during a beautiful day in Anchorage.- Joe H
- Post #634
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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The Clear Coats on Inexpensive Factory Pipes
I’m in the camp that likes a pipe most when it has a polished wood finish that looks like the hand-rubbed finish on an old, fine English firearm. Most of my pipes are 50 to 70 years old and only two have any vestiges of their original finish: A huge 1970s Yorkshire (used to be sold in the Sears...- Joe H
- Post #12
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Vanity or Insanity... or BOTH?
You are definitely not monkeying around!!! Edit: Sorry, I kinda went bananas there...- Joe H
- Post #6
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Vanity or Insanity... or BOTH?
Too far?!? No way, you're setting up your little corner of perfection. You could even use different apes for different families of tobacco. Look at the crazy art project I undertook for modified versions of Three Nuns and Three Friars. Well done!- Joe H
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- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Pouche Replacement.
The old one looks great, as does the new one. I'd definitely keep the old one though, "just in case." I tend to fall on the side of @VDL_Piper in that I love the unique way some objects age and tell a story about the owners. Old violins can easily be used for hundreds of years and even the...- Joe H
- Post #7
- Forum: Pipes Accessories
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Skippy's Blend of the Week
I love your tobacco reviews, your writing style and amazing photography! All of your reviews are enjoyable quality reading material, but this last review was possibly the best yet. I really feel like I have already tried this blend, but I never have (I may swing by the local pipe shop to fix...- Joe H
- Post #207
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Reviews
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Your first cigar experience - mine was a little bit funny...
In the mid-1970s my friends and I were teenagers but not yet 18. Nobody cared about IDs at the Alaskan gas stations where we stocked up on beer and cigars on the way out to hunting or camping trips. My first cigars were White Owls and Swisher Sweets and Wolf Brother’s rum-soaked Crooks. They all...- Joe H
- Post #7
- Forum: Cigar Discussion
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***What Are You Smoking, June 2025?***
It was raining all day so I took a break from yard work to smoke my home made cob under the covered porch. The pipe has proven to be a solid 40+ minute smoker. Today it was filled with a house blend of (roughly 33% each): my kicked-up Three Nuns, my modified Golden Days of Yore, and a rum...- Joe H
- Post #1,017
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion