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  1. sittingbear

    Beware Exploding Lighters!

    I work in the local emergency room. Yesterday, an elderly patient came in by ambulance after they had suffered severe burns to their face, neck, and ears. Their hair was singed and black, crispy ashes were falling onto the pillow. The entire room smelled like burnt hair and the patient was in...
  2. sittingbear

    Swedish Pipe Book?

    I know we have a few Swedes in this group, so I'm going to throw this question out there. I lived in Sweden in the 90s, in Värmland. I picked up my first pipe in Arvika, along with a book about pipes and pipe smoking. It was in tobacconist shops everywhere, as far as I could tell. That's how I...
  3. sittingbear

    FDA Wants To Regulate Nicotine Levels

    Questions that remain are: what would be an "acceptable" level of nicotine, how would that be controlled in tobacco not processed like big name cigarette tobacco, and the ever popular question, would this apply to pipes and cigars...
  4. sittingbear

    Wood Putty In The Mortise?

    I have a pipe that I truly love, a Ferndown two star bulldog, but it has a flaw: the tenon is shorter than the mortise. A while back I tried to fix this by putting pipe mud in the mortise to eliminate the airspace. This worked insofar as it stopped the gurgling, but I think it's affecting the...
  5. sittingbear

    Where Are All The Comoy's Cask Blends?

    I see on Pipes and Cigars that my favorite aro of all time, Comoy's Cask #2 (Portwood) is no longer available for purchase and it's also out of stock everywhere else I look. In fact, I'm having a hard time finding any of their blends. Did Comoy's give up the ghost?
  6. sittingbear

    Antique Store Find in Need of Minor Repair

    I purchased two pipes today from an antique store in downtown Olympia, WA. One of them is this Peterson 9BC. I'm really excited about it but it has a very small crack in the bowl. Since it seems to be a pretty rare pipe (SPC described one like this as a pre-republic "holy grail") I've decided to...
  7. sittingbear

    Any Clubs In Olympia, WA?

    We are in the process of relocating to Oly for work. Of course I'm aware of the Seattle Pipe Club, but I was wondering if there's anything closer to Olympia?
  8. sittingbear

    Ken Byron Ventures and the Deeming Regs

    (Great name for a band, no?) Apologies if this has already been covered ad nauseum. I was surprised to hear of a new small batch blender recently (KBV), given the pending crackdown on a variety of newer blends via the deeming regs. Does anyone know how the regs will affect their business?
  9. sittingbear

    Keepin' It Smokey...

    I was honored to have won a pipe from fishnbanjo's collection on ebay: a Tsuge Tokyo Cherrywood with a two knuckle bamboo shank. It arrived today and after a good cleaning-- not that it needed it--I stuffed it with Orlik Golden Sliced and lit it up. He was right, it's a great smoker! Keep it...
  10. sittingbear

    Awesome Birthday Present From My Wife

    You know the old saying, "give a man a fish, etc."? For my birthday my wife bought me some tobacco seeds (Virginia Bright Leaf and Burley 21) and this manual. I definitely married the right girl! Now I just need to hone my gardening skills....
  11. sittingbear

    What Is Your Favorite "Complex" Blend?

    As I read the reviews for my favorite blends, I notice that many of them are described as "simple all-day smokes" or "not very complex." Which is maybe why I like them, as I like to do other things when smoking, such as reading, typing, etc, so I guess I don't focus so much on the complexity of...
  12. sittingbear

    Prepper Order

    I'm severely tempted to place a "prepper" order to stockpile several pounds of tobacco before the axe falls. If you were placing a large order, and say your budget was around $500, what would you order?
  13. sittingbear

    Chatham Manor Now Produced By Sutliff??

    I just saw on SPC that Chatham Manor is now being offered in bulk by Sutliff. I've only ever seen this on offer from P&C as it is one of Russ Oulett's Midtown blends. Did I miss something? Did P&C sell the recipe or something?
  14. sittingbear

    Changing Tastes...Shifting Toward Aros (Long Post)

    I picked up my first pipe 24 years ago and, like most others, started with an aromatic blend. For many years, I only smoked cherry cavendish beginning with Borkum Riff as I was living in Sweden in the town where their tobacco was processed. You could smell the various flavors in the air from the...
  15. sittingbear

    TED Tobacco?

    Has anyone had experience with TED Tobacco? Are they a legit site? https://www.tedtobacco.com/
  16. sittingbear

    New Peterson

    So on my way home from work today I just happened to pass by Rich's Cigar Store in downtown Portland, OR, so of course I just had to go in. And there, in the display case that I entirely coincidentally walked right up to (resilutely), was a pipe I had seen a couple of weeks ago, haunting my...
  17. sittingbear

    Portland, OR Pipe Club?

    My wife and I just moved to the Portland area and I'm wondering if there is a local pipe club here? Or, if not, anyone interested in startng one?? (And yes, I know about Rich's! :D )
  18. sittingbear

    RIP Leon Redbone

    Sad news for musicians today. Leon Redbone has died...at the age of 127. :wink: Singer Leon Redbone Has Died
  19. sittingbear

    Graduation Present To Myself

    Three and a half years ago, I had a midlife crisis. I quit my job at the State of Colorado Unemployment Department, packed up, and moved to California with my wife to pursue my dream of studying theology. Last Saturday, I graduated with my Master of Divinity (MDiv) degree from the Franciscan...
  20. sittingbear

    100-Year-Old-Picture

    This picture was in the local paper from my hometown of Burlington, Colorado. It shows a Volga German (Russian German) immigrant by the name of Christian Adolf as he shelled his corn. It looks like he just took a corn cob from the stack behind him and made his own cob pipe. The picture was taken...
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