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  1. RustiePyles CPG

    Swapping a KW Stem Logo to a New Stem.

    I’ve had this little 4 digit apple kicking around for a while, it belonged to a deceased relative so I wanted to try and save it. The original stem was bit through and the stinger was clipped off. I detest clipped stingers so wanted to fix that as well. I had a twin bore stem and a few extra...
  2. RustiePyles CPG

    Box Pass 2023 Signup

    Box Pass 2023 Rules You must have joined the forum on or before 4/28/2022. You must have at least 200 posts as of today (4/28/2023) You must post pictures when you receive the box. You must be able to pass the box on in a reasonable amount of time. Every recipient is responsible for the...
  3. RustiePyles CPG

    Any Interest In a Box Pass?

    I'm sure it's been done here before, but for those that don't know what it is I'll explain. A box full of "pipe stuff" could be anything including but not limited to pipes, tampers, tobacco, reamers, cleaners, rests, stands, cigars, cutters, lighters, matches, etc. Is sent out. Participants...
  4. RustiePyles CPG

    Hand Cut Deluxe System Stem For a WDC.

    I buy WDC Wellingtons with out stem for cheap because I’ve got some NOS Wellington stem I can fit them with and I like WDCs. I picked this one up for $4 on eBay, there nothing for scale in the pictures and no measurements were provided. I wasn’t too worried about it because I’ve got stem in...
  5. RustiePyles CPG

    Ehrlich's Meerschaum Lathe tooling.

    I recently acquired a large lot of antique Meerschaum pipe turning tooling (not carving tooling, there is a difference). I bought it not knowing anything about where it had come from or any other history about it. I really only bought it to get all the tenon taps that came with it, meerschaum...
  6. RustiePyles CPG

    What to Do with Old Broken Pipes…

    Title edited. Please see Rule nine. Recently one of my relatives passed away, he was 98 and a pipe smoker till the day he died. He was for all intents and purposes a codger to the enth degree. He and I were very close and he had given me several pipes over the years, but when he passed I...
  7. RustiePyles CPG

    Dr G Viking bowls?

    Does anyone know if there is someone still making DR Grabow Viking bowls? I'd like to find some extra bowls and some Meerschaum bowls. I inherited my Vikings from a relative and don't really want to buy more pipes just to get bowls. There was someone in Mexico making bowls a few years ago, I got...
  8. RustiePyles CPG

    Alphonse Hippolyte Bonnaud French Clay

    I’ve had this unsmoked Bonnaud clay pipe kicking around for a while but it had no stem on it. I was at the garden center today and they had small diameter bamboo for $0.63 per 3’. I grabbed a few pieces thinking I could whip up a quick stem for my clay. Bonnaud clay pipes were made in Marsalis...
  9. RustiePyles CPG

    Mountain Laurel & Manzanita Pipes

    Anyone else collect WWII American made Mountain Laurel & Manzanita pipes? A Sparta made Spartan Pipe, made from rhododendron with a maple stem. These were made by Dr G to be sent to the front in C-Rats. Very few survived the war. This display is full of all its original manzanita pipes all...
  10. RustiePyles CPG

    S.M. Frank History and Information

    The following was written and posted by @jguss in another thread, I'm re posting it here as the kick off for the SM Frank history thread. It's tough to know where to begin with this one. Kaywoodie and its related entities form a story fully as convoluted as the Cadogan analogue on the other...
  11. RustiePyles CPG

    Pete Geek Zippo

    Anyone else get a Pete Geek Zippo from Petersonpipenotes.org ? Mine showed up today!
  12. RustiePyles CPG

    Making a Weichsel Stem for a Kalmasch.

    Well @Briar Tuck was kind enough to send me a bunch of cherry pieces to use for my stem. After letting them dry out for a while I finally got around to making the stem today. I used a pre-formed p-lipesque stem and a piece of faux ivory for thread reinforcement. The cork end is reinforced with...
  13. RustiePyles CPG

    Making an Albatross Egg Pipe

    Well ok not exactly, I’m fresh outta albatross wing bones. But a Dunhill inner tube will make a nice stand in. Using a block meer repair insert. Using yellow amber catalin for the bit, vulcanite for the mortise, and NOS nickel shank cap to dress up the bit. Sanding to shape on the lathe...
  14. RustiePyles CPG

    WDC Restoration

    Title redone. Original: "Ordered an antique high grade stummel for a stem I had laying around." Ok, the title is a gross oversimplification of what I did, but it’s not inaccurate. I have a large number of 100 year old NOS WDC stems. I found this WDC Hand Made (one of their highest grades) on...
  15. RustiePyles CPG

    Show Off Your Naval Treen.

    There was at one time a fairly brisk industry of making decorative household goods out teak and other hard woods reclaimed from ships being broken. I’ve seen anchor shaped pipe racks, humidors, and rests like this one. Mine is a pipe rest made from the teak decking of the 1st RMS Mauretania. A...
  16. RustiePyles CPG

    Photographing Pipes in a Light Box.

    Title edited. See rule 9. So I picked up an actual light box a while ago. I’m having a little trouble getting what I think is good pictures. I try to edit them the best I can with my phone, but I feel like I’m missing something. My light box has two LED bars with an intensity control land a...
  17. RustiePyles CPG

    “Restoring” a 19th century Yankee No.0 plug slicer.

    I’ve restored/repaired quite a few of these, @georged has one of them I believe. These are not the usual anvil type “tobacco cutter” that does more smashing than cutting. This is a bypass type plug/flake slicer designed to make very fine flake from plug. They were made from 1870’s to the 1910s...
  18. RustiePyles CPG

    A Big ol’ Spigot for a Meerschaum Kalmach

    To quote Sherlock Holmes, “you know my methods” so I’ll spare you all the pictures of stuff chucked up in a lathe, files, and sandpaper and just post a few and cut to the chase. I used a premolded P-Lip stem and cut a rather large aluminum spigot to get this kalmach smoking again. I’m still...
  19. RustiePyles CPG

    Condor

    Given what a polarizing tobacco this stuff is I thought I ought to try it. I’ve read so many horrible things about condor that I just couldn’t fathom how a blend thought to be so terrible could still turn a profit for any company. How can this still be sold if it’s as bad as everyone says it is...
  20. RustiePyles CPG

    Peterson St Patrick's Day 2023 Pipes at SP?

    Peterson released a huge catalog of shapes and finishes for the 2023 St Patties day pipes, and SP has 7 pages of nothing but rusticated pipes?! No blasts, no smooths, WTF? They own Peterson, and they couldn't get anything but the rusticated pipes?
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