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  1. ssjones

    My #1 Holy Grail - Comoy's 499 Extraordinaire

    If you follow my posts and collection, you no doubt are aware that I love the chubby Rhodesian shape. My #1 and #2 Holy Grail pipe shapes are the Comoy's 499 and GBD 9242. Well, last week, a generous member of another forum offered to me his 499 and I bought it in person yesterday. I had to...
  2. ssjones

    Playoff Lighter

    My daughter gave me this Baltimore Ravens Zippo for Christmas and I broke it in today with a smoke before our playoff victory. I had a Ravens lighter 10 years ago and it just disappeared. The daughter lives in Florida now and we opened gifts via Skype. After opening my new lighter, she shared...
  3. ssjones

    Ashton Cherrywood PAD

    My wife has been sick the past few days....so I needed to get out of the house. I headed South down to the J.B. Hayes Tobacconist in Winchester, VA. They always have numerous boxes of estates to look thru and I found this 1998 Ashton Pebblegrain Cherrywood in my favorite, XXX size. We struck...
  4. ssjones

    Boswells/PA: 12/22 Open House - ?

    Boswells is having their open house on Saturday. Mrs. Jones cut me me loose for a few hours, I'll probably be there between 10 and noon-ish. Anyone else interested?
  5. ssjones

    Smokin Holsters Ultimate Six Pipe Bag

    I've admired the Smokin Holsters bags, particularly after handling one in person at the Richmond Show. But, they were priced far out of my budget. This week, someone had an "Ultimate" six pipe bag and I was able to get it at a very reasonable cost. It looks like it will hold exactly what I...
  6. ssjones

    GBD 9438 Prehistoric

    I didn't have a Prehistoric 9438 and was able to grab this one from Ebay last week. Even with curiously high prices for 9438's on recent auctions, this one went unnoticed. (pix were a little weak). I was surprised to have won it for a buck over the opening bid. The pipe was delivered today...
  7. ssjones

    Cigars International (Hamburg, PA)

    http://www.cigarsinternational.com/html/store.asp I stopped by this huge location in Hamburg, PA this morning. Wow, what a huge a lovely store. They had a decent pipe selection and great tin prices ($7/Sasieni, $9/MM965). The smoking lounge,well the whole two story store is a lounge complete...
  8. ssjones

    MacBaren HH Vintage Syrian

    I'm not much of a tobacco review, but yesterday member FoggyMountain gifted me a tin of MacBaren Vintage Syrian. I had never tried a dark-stoved blend and found it to be a very good English smoke. Very rich but not overpowering that smoked very well as well. I shared the tin with some NYC...
  9. ssjones

    NYC Pipe Club & Foggy Mountain

    I'm working in NJ today/tomorrow, so I rode into the city to take in the NYC Pipe club meeting. Enroute, I stopped in Chelsea and met member "Foggy Mountain" at a local watering hole. We shared a few drinks and swapped some tobacco. What a nice gentleman, it was a real pleasure! A shapley...
  10. ssjones

    Alpha Abrasives - Micromesh Alternative

    Yesterday I reluctantly escorted Mrs. Jones into our new "Hobby Lobby" store. After overcoming the fright of a giant floral area near the entrance, I have to admit there was some interesting items for sale. I made my way to the model making section and found some products made by Alpha...
  11. ssjones

    Ehrlich Four Pipe Bag

    I bought this neat, four-pipe leather bag via Ebay this week. It arrived today. I was hoping it was a touch larger, but it neatly holds four medium sized pipes. It has a zippered tobacco bag that I'll most likely use for a lighter, tamper, cleaners but I suppose those could be fitted on top of...
  12. ssjones

    Risky Business....

    I was looking thru the German pipe clubs website and their gallery and spotted this risque interpretation of a pipe... http://www.daskunstportal.at/pipemaker/gallery.php?start=0&mode=1&id=1284&img=2&sel1=Alle&sel2=Alle&sel3=Alle&sel4=Alle&sel5=Alle
  13. ssjones

    GBD 9438 New Standard Restoration

    You folks know I love the GBD 9438 shape, but I was lacking one in a smooth finish. This New Standard popped up on Ebay last week and I won it with a last second bid. I detailed the simple restoration on Steve's "Reborn Pipes" Blog...
  14. ssjones

    Celebration Day - Zeppelin Movie

    Anyone else catch "Celebration Day" the new Zeppelin concert film? It opened last week in NYC and today in area theaters. I was up on NJ and caught the movie at a Secaucus theater. Excellent film and show. Robert can still sing and Jason Bonham filling in on drums is outstanding. They...
  15. ssjones

    Boswells- Oct 20th

    I'm going up to Boswells this Saturday, 10/20, 9:30 until about noon-ish. I'm meeting a few guys from another forum. Any PM members game?
  16. ssjones

    Ashton Pebble Grain PAD

    Ah, all is right in my pipe world. After a failed experiment with a Rad Davis Tadpole (fabulous pipe, I just couldn't appreciate the shape),a proper British shape/maker is in it's place on my rack. This Pebble Grain XXX Bulldog came courtesy of Dave at Mkelaw pipes. If you have considered some...
  17. ssjones

    Comoys 215 "Patina" Restoration

    Lately, Comoys with the 3 piece C logo seem to be getting a lot of bid attention on Ebay, but this "Patina" model flew under the radar last week. I was not familiar with that line and can't find out much about it. I had it with me at the CORPS show today, but the folks I saw also didn't know...
  18. ssjones

    CORPS Show Report (Saturday)

    I drove down to to Richmond this morning to for my very first pipe show. Unfortunately, a family matter tomorrow morning meant I had to drive up and back on the same day (about a 400 mile round trip). So, I had to cut the day short and left at 3 PM. What a great day. If you have not made a pipe...
  19. ssjones

    Web Photo Hosting?

    I have 25 albums with 1,600 photo's stored on the "Webshots.com" online photo storage site. Today, they announced they are switching to "Smile" which will be more of an Instagram type site, where photos are only viewable by folks who are your friends. That won't work for me or for sharing on a...
  20. ssjones

    GBD 9438 Stem Repair (Tapestry)

    Using my Android Ebay app, I fell prey to this GBD 9438 in Tapestry finish. The seller described the damage to the stem button and included a large picture. In my haste to make an offer, I missed this glaring issue. I checked into having Dave Walker make a new vulcanite stem, but he said that...
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