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  1. maxpeters

    Looking For The Elusive Pipe

    MP31, like others here have noticed, the perfect pipe is just a pipe dream. I have had many perfect pipes. Until the next one came along. That's how I ended up with so damn many pipes. When I fist started looking, I started thinking, now THIS one certainly will be my signature pipe. My looking...
  2. maxpeters

    Ser Jacopo Picta #15 Van Gogh Old Fisherman

    Hey Annapolis, Great looking pipe! I have always liked my Ser Jacopo pipes. I have bought and sold quite a few over the years, but I always manage to hold onto these two. They have been excellent smokers. I'm sure yours will be too. Here are mine. It's nice to see another who member...
  3. maxpeters

    Cleaning a Pipe TOO OFTEN?

    Wow. I never realized that I was such a dirty smoker. I only use the alchohol-salt treatment when I buy an estate pipe. Once it's cleaned, I only use it again when it has to be reamed. The rest of the time it's only pipe cleaners. I only take them apart once in a while to get down into the...
  4. maxpeters

    GBD Pipe Restore - Walker Briar Works -before and after-pic heavy

    That does almost look like a new pipe. I am really picky about pipe restoration though. If I were to have a pipe restored professionally, I would ask if they could, if at all possible, work around the nomenclature. I have yet to need one restored to that extent, but I think keeping the pipe's...
  5. maxpeters

    Resting your pipes

    I guess it's a good thing to let a pipe rest if you want to. I doubt if it's absolutely necessary. Depends on how many pipes you have available to you. I smoke a pipe for several days, and then run a couple cleaners through it, and put it aside for a while. I have a lot of pipes, so the time...
  6. maxpeters

    Charatan repair

    Another thread on Charatan pipes got me to thinking about one of mine that I had repaired a couple years ago. I bought it online, and when I recieved, it I found that it had a cracked lip. It felt so good in hand, and the bowl was in such good condition that I decided to keep it, and one day...
  7. maxpeters

    Porshe pipes??

    I've owned two at different times. The original Porshe design had a larger bowl with fins around the circumfrence, and was supposedly effective in cooling the bowl, but it wasn't that popular, and was replaced by the newer design. Both of mine were of the newer design, and neither did anything...
  8. maxpeters

    Looking for a good Virginia

    Well, not just to be different here, but I have never gotten along well with most Virginia blends. Maybe I don't have a sophisticated palate. I don't know, but most Virginia blends, and I have tried a bunch of them, just taste something like straw to me. I really would like to experience what...
  9. maxpeters

    White Ash

    Do many of you read pipe/tobacco literature? If so, how many times have you come across someone saying that such and such tobacco burned down to a perfect white ash, by implication, meaning that somehow it was an excellent tobacco? I have read that proverbial statement many times, and have...
  10. maxpeters

    English Blends

    English blends are great, but I don't like to smoke them inside. They really stink the house up, as my girlfriend never ceases to remind me. And since it's cold as a witch's tit now, I'm reserving them for more pleasant weather, when I can sit outside or in the garage and enjoy them.
  11. maxpeters

    Question from a novice pipe smoker.

    All the things said above. Just remember. It's not complicated. It's supposed to be enjoyable. Listen to all the advise, and then just load it and smoke it. Enjoy it a while. There's not a whole lot you can do that will damage it. Smoke it as often as you wish for a few days, and then let it...
  12. maxpeters

    Clay Tobacco Pipes = Need Your Opinions....etc,..

    I have a clay, but don't smoke it very often. It is just too small. I tried to find a maker that produced larger clay pipes a couple years ago, and thought I had found one out of England, but when contacted, I was informed that they no longer produced clay pipes, and didn't think they would do...
  13. maxpeters

    Codger burley tub life?

    I agree with Mark and Colorduke. Those plastic tubs keep the tobacco fresh a long time. Either that, or they have chemiclas in them that do. ( I hope that's not the case though). I don't know. I have kept some Middleton's Sugar Barrel in the tub for up to a year and a half, and it was still...
  14. maxpeters

    A Movie Moment

    It's been a good while ago now, but whenever I start to smoke an OTC blend, I always remember a scene from an old B/W British WWII movie, where some officers are setting around planning a military operation, and out of the blue the commander, who's setting behind a desk smoking a pipe, says "how...
  15. maxpeters

    Freehand Pipes?

    I don't care for the look of most freehand pipes. But that's just me. I remember back in the 70's when it seemed like everybody was trying to out do one another with weird shapes. A lot of them looked ridiculous, just to be different I think. I'm sure a lot of the time it was just so the...
  16. maxpeters

    What is your current "go to" or "everyday" smoke?

    Mine is Middleton's Cherry blend. Funny how just a few years ago I wouldn't have even thought of putting a cherry blend into my pipes. Part of the reason was that I remembered how overly gooey and sweet the first cherry blends were when I first started smoking a pipe. I didn't want to repeat...
  17. maxpeters

    Penzanze is the Real Deal

    I used to smoke Penzance, but I smoked it outside. I liked it well enough, but thought it was pretty strong, so I usually smoked it in a gourd calabash. Great taste. I have been told by my significant other that she will not tolerate me smoking that particular blend inside. Period. She...
  18. maxpeters

    Radice PAD Beast Rages On....

    I've had a few Radice pipes around for a lot of years. Mine are all wonderful smoking pipes. Here are mine. All bought about 20 years ago. Top: Radice Brown Bottom: Radice Clear S/F Radice Brown
  19. maxpeters

    Hilson and Big Ben pipes

    Hello Mick, I do have a Hilson. I think I picked it up at a pipe show some years ago. I think it smokes great. It's never given me any problems. I don't know what the bowl is finished with, but it has never lost it's luster. That worried me at first because pipes like that usually smoke hot...
  20. maxpeters

    Cherry Aromatic Tobacco

    I used to like Rattray's Terry red. Don't know if they still make it though.
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