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  1. newbroom

    Good To The Last Drop

    OK, you've smoked your bowl of tobacco and put it down before it's completely burned. Later on, you pick up that pipe and see that it has the remains of a fill topped with ash, and you tenderly poke the ash to determine the value of unsmoked/burned tobacco remaining. You say to yourself, well...
  2. newbroom

    Dwindling Cellar Deprssion Easily Fixed

    Judging from what I read on these 'pages', not many of you 'suffer' from tobacco anxiety. Anxiety is something with which I've had a lifelong 'love' affair. It's what keeps me on my toes. Keeps me looking out. It's not paranoia I'm talking about, it's a nagging sense of dread or discomfort that...
  3. newbroom

    Bent Stems More Comfortable?

    I seem to find that bent stems or bent bowls are more comfortable to clench and just easier for me to use. I had a couple of bent stemmed MM cobs that always gave me trouble with passing a cleaner due to the crink in their bends so, I lit up a tea candle and modified them to my delight. That...
  4. newbroom

    Radio Show w/ Randy Wiley: Great Stuff!

    I just listened to Kevin's Brian's interview with Randy Wiley and Randy was just fun and interesting to listen to. Nice going guys! Kevin Brian was pretty good, too. I think he was a little afraid that Randy might get too happy, but man was that a palpable happiness!
  5. newbroom

    Whole Leaf Tobacco

    Here is a website that will get your attention. https://www.leafonly.com/index.php I'm planning on some experiments.
  6. newbroom

    Putting Calamity Into Perspective

    Last month I acquired a RokRoot billiard that quickly became the most prized pipe in my rotation. Last night, on the dimly lit way to yet another voiding of my bladder, I knocked it off my pipe rack to the hardwood floor. This a.m. upon inspection, I find that the shank has a hairline crack...
  7. newbroom

    This & That In My "Dottle" Bowl

    I don't know about the rest of youse pipers, but sometimes I don't smoke all the tobacco in my pipe. If there's a fairly useful amount, after I've cleaned out the ashes, I save that dottle in a small salad bowl and accumulate it and let it dry in the open air. I'll mix lat blends with VaPa and...
  8. newbroom

    My Cobs Tend To Develop Exterior Cracks

    I've got several cobs in my rotation. I've got a couple of estate Beuscher's, my original Legend, a Freehand, an MI Pride, and another legend. Even my Freehand has started to show a tendency to bulge at the latitude of its stem. This too, is typical of the MM's, but these old Beuscher's haven't...
  9. newbroom

    Must See: How To Make A Poker Video

    Aside from the fact that this fellow has every tool known to man, he does seem to know how to produce a very nice pipe. I did think that the plateaux he burned to make this poker was illustrative. I'm going to be really interested in any comments.
  10. newbroom

    I Bought A Cigar, Now I Think I'll Chop It Up For Blending

    I've had a cigar for about a week that I picked up at a wonderful B&M on a whim. I don't smoke cigars. It dawned on me after watching several cigar preparation videos that I might get better use out of this thing by using it as an additive to one of my more milder Cavendish blends. It makes for...
  11. newbroom

    A Wonderful Visit @ The Pipe Den

    I received a gift certificate from my Ex for The Pipe Den in Vero Beach this year. I happened to actually BE in Vero Beach for the Holiday and was able to stop by this well established emporium. I am going to be posting pics after I get them from my Ex's camera to my computer via email, but I...
  12. newbroom

    Color Change in My Moustache

    Must be from retro haling. I noticed my white was turning 'red'?...or brown..it once was red. I guess I've got a meerstache.
  13. newbroom

    First Half / Second Half

    No, I'm not talking about a codger blend. I've noticed that if I smoke a bowl in two sessions, having allowed it to cool after incompletely smoking a full bowl, I get an entirely different and often surprisingly pleasant change of the particular blend's flavor. I may do this more often and see...
  14. newbroom

    Carnivores, Pipe Smokers, and Fracking for Gas

    On a planet with over 7 billion mouths to feed we all share a responsibility for putting food on the table. Some of our indulgences are not carbon neutral nor do they efficiently utilize what we are now recognizing as finite resources. I guess I should have included 'bloggers' in the topic...
  15. newbroom

    Marlon Brando in The Chase

    I just watched a scene where he seemed to be intentionally rubbing the bowl of his pipe along his nostrils/nose alternating on both sides..was he employing some sort of enhancement technique?
  16. newbroom

    My Pipe Smoking / Softball Analogy

    When I consider my exploits and adventures in pipe smoking, I realize that there's a similarity in my sense of excitement when I get into the batter's box to when I pick a pipe and tobacco and get ready to smoke a bowl. I play on a field that is not that much of a challenge to hit the ball out...
  17. newbroom

    "Bachelor" In Paradise

    Yesterday was overcast and rainy. I decided to make some old fashioned hot chocolate, having begun months ago to limit my coffee intake to the equivalent of two brewed cups a day. Got up this a.m. and after my usual bowl of oatmeal decided to make banana pancakes for 'second breakfast'. Mixed...
  18. newbroom

    PAD Unsmoked Straight (?) Grain

    I have now, about 14 assorted estate briar pipes but haven't ever lucked into or paid the price for some of the more 'desirable' sort...this one caught my eye because of its grain. I think it's straight, but it might be flame? I bid on it and 'they' let me have it. I don't know what Carlin...
  19. newbroom

    Pipe Repair Glue?

    First, I've enticed my woodworking kid brother into beginning to make some pipes. He was coming along very nicely with his first effort. Was. He emailed me this a.m. and said that he'd drilled right through his bowl trying to put some touches on it. I told him about the possibility of salvage...
  20. newbroom

    Rocket Really Packs A Whallop

    I just watched a live broadcast of a failed rocket launch from Virginia. I watched Challenger happen from the side of the road in Sebastian FL.
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