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  1. newbroom

    A Choice From 3 Tins

    I'm thinking about opening and trying for the first time, one of the following. HH White Knight, Dunhill Nightcap, and Balkan Sasieni. I've already exposed myself to a few blends containing Lat. ( Newminster's Ultimate English, HH 10toMidnight, and SPC MissRiver) I'd love to hear comparisons.
  2. newbroom

    Suggestions on Small Ebachons

    I've finally got my kid brother interested in making pipes and much to my surprise, he's gone and found someplace to get some Greek ebachons, only when they arrived they were all about as small as you could use. He realizes that he took some risk, I'm sure, but I'd love to hear from you...
  3. newbroom

    New Pipe Maker Maybe?

    I've been attempting to attract my woodworking youngest brother to become interested in making a pipe. He either got fed up with the links and pics I was sending or he got bit a little, cuz, yesterday after another motivating email from moi, he went out and roughed out a bent bowl from a piece...
  4. newbroom

    MM's Bag 'O Seconds

    Always looking to increase my rotation with good quality, but inexpensive pipes, I ordered a bag of 10 cob pipes from Missouri Meerschaum. I'd read several reviews, which led me to expect. I was wrong to expect. Disappointment? Yeah. Not only did I receive seconds, I received seconds of mostly...
  5. newbroom

    Two Months on This Forum

    2mos.and I've gone from one MM Legend to a collection of pipes including mostly aged Algerian or 'imported' briar, block meer, cherrywood, and two (early uninformed selections)artificials. I've got full bent, lovat, Canadian, Prince, Dublin, curved, smooth, sandblasted, round, oval, square...
  6. newbroom

    Just Ordered My Free Knife

    from Pipes and Cigars....all I had to do was buy over $75.00 worth of stuff! Free knife! Pretty nice anticipation of my treats:
  7. newbroom

    Mississippi River Review / Youtube

    This guy is hilarious. He's got a bunch of videos. This one is not overly long and gives the thumbs up to MissRiver and P & C. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9aPmc3-gH8
  8. newbroom

    First Bowl of LuxNavyFlake by PeterSt.

    I'm still smoking my first bowl of this tasty flake. Right outta the bag it has not required a relight since charring. Smooth, tasty, did I mention it tastes really good? My Escudo was back ordered, but this will help me get over the hump.
  9. newbroom

    PAD Drove Me to Buy an Old Dunhill

    I have begun to think my focus may be misplaced. Pipes can become an obsession, but, they're not much good w/o tobacco...TAD might be a better priority, and is developing nicely. One name that seems to hold its value more than most others in production pipes of vintage manufacture, is of course...
  10. newbroom

    Roma Pipes? Savenelli Related?

    I saw a pipe on fleabay that struck me as rather fetching and I began to chase. Last night, after I'd gone to bed, I won an unsmoked Roma Select Natural Freehand sitter with incredible grain patterns. I'm thinking that it's almost too nice to spoil by using it. So pretty. I've seen the Savenelli...
  11. newbroom

    Sunday Morning Smile ( An Ode to Fr. Leonard )

    Father Leonard A tribute by the anagrammatic Jonah Nose, with apologies to the poetic Lewis Carroll You are old, Father Len, the young man exclaimed And I notice from long observation That your pipe stays alight By day and by night Without bother or deep tribulation. It's a knack, said the...
  12. newbroom

    Addiction, Moderation, Fascination, Obsession?

    Started smoking a pipe to use up some ryo instead of using papers. Got curious about pipe tobacco. Got some. Learned to appreciate tobacco from a new perspective and found that pipe smoking moderated my tobacco use. I learned to sip and taste and to derive enough nicotine from retrohale and...
  13. newbroom

    Pipe Smoking Contests

    I just read the rules for a pipe smoking contest. I've even watched youtube clips of people slow smoking their pipes..but, I must say, these rules and a contest sort of defeat MY purpose.
  14. newbroom

    My pipe is marked PIPE DREAMS

    I have an old briar pipe marked PIPE DREAMS. Nothing else appears anywhere...no briar indications, no country of origin, nada. It is a finely crafted, obviously briar bowl and medium shank with a curved stem. This pipe is wonderful. It's light yet has a nice large chamber. The briar seems to...
  15. newbroom

    Broke my stem

    I got a pipe from an 'estate' sale yesterday. Started messing with getting it cleaned up. It's a Wally Frank Ltd. and a nice bent bowl...curved stem...couldn't get my pipe cleaner through the stem. There was obvious detritus caked up there..dry...whitish..and I started prodding it with a cuticle...
  16. newbroom

    Beginner's Folley

    I recv'd an old bent bowl briar today and was trying to get a cleaner through it right away...I had trouble and took my cuticle tool to the bit, ever so slighly...and snap...off comes the bottom riser. Where's that custom stem maker?
  17. newbroom

    Maybe not "cost effective"?

    I've become enamored with vintage pipes. I envision a computer driven stem cutter capable of scanning the mortise of your pipe and generating the stem of your choice. Pre-loaded standard types as well as anything you could dream up. Well..this is sort of a dream. That's probably how most stems...
  18. newbroom

    I got lucky today

    The much maligned USPS just dropped off a package containing a recent auction site score. I've been waiting all week, but it isn't the USPS's fault, it's mine...I'd won the auction and missed that fact for about 24 hours..or more..anyway..it was for 9 medico imported briar pipes. Various shapes...
  19. newbroom

    I Messed Up and smoked Escudo

    Now, everything else is not as good. At least what I have on hand. What else compares to the excellence experienced with Escudo? Orlick Flake? HH ODF? (cobguy seemed to think that was a good try)...I just cannot get over how quickly this stuff has captured my appreciation. I can put ONE coin in...
  20. newbroom

    Daily Word Jumble

    I'd been exchanging phone calls with one of my fellow Golden Seniors Softball Club members every a.m. after Joe had had time to solve the Daily Word Jumble. I began to also exchange daily emails with my son, daughter, their spouses and my Ex to have a daily 'competition'...well, the Ex wasn't up...
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