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  1. Mike N

    ***What Are You Smoking, September 2025?***

    All of Jeff Gracik’s pipes are fantastic, but that billiard is incredible.
  2. Mike N

    ***What Are You Smoking, September 2025?***

    Some Briar Works “Country Lawyer” in a smooth SmithHouse bamboo billiard. Rich makes a great pipe.
  3. Mike N

    Big Pipe Meet-Up This Saturday 9/27/25 Near Wheeling, WV

    At My Best Cigar Life in Moundsville 4-9pm. A Laudisi rep will be present with a large number of HU and C&D tins. YouTuber Beans316 will be one of the hosts. It’s been a great quarterly event, located only 67 miles from Pittsburgh; 2-1/2 hours from Columbus and under 3 hours from Cleveland, it’s...
  4. Mike N

    Jay Furman from Pipe & Tamper on Radio Show of September 23, 2025

    Jay is a great common sense voice on all things pipe related. Always a great listen.
  5. Mike N

    My 1,000th Post: Thank You All

    If someone told me 5 years ago that I would spend my morning pipe smoke and coffee reading a pipe forum before I read the Wall Street Journal, I would have told them they were nuts. I don’t have a Facebook page and never posted on Twitter. But a buddy got me watching pipe videos on YouTube...
  6. Mike N

    Switching from cigarettes

    A previous post I made here: From a 2020 article by Chuck Stanion on this website: The main categories of pipe tobaccos in order of nicotine content, from low to high, though there is overlap: Orientals and Latakia (Lowest nicotine content) Cavendish Bright Virginia White Burley Red Virginia...
  7. Mike N

    Looking for Non-Aromatic Recommendations:

    For a lighter Drucquer blend with a bit of Cavendish I also recommend The Merry Monk and King's Fool. These may be a good transition from goopy aromatics to full English.
  8. Mike N

    Chacom Booth at Trade Fair in Germany

    Here are a few photos the French pipe maker Chacom posted on Instagram today of its booth at InterTabac show in Dortmund, Germany, the world's largest trade fair dedicated to tobacco products and accessories for smokers. I’m glad to see the company is going strong.
  9. Mike N

    Looking for Non-Aromatic Recommendations:

    The Drucquer & Sons series by master blender GL Pease are as good as I’ve ever smoked and rival the unicorn Esoterica blends for quality sourced leaf. Give Casbah and Loch Ness a try.
  10. Mike N

    What Am I Missing With Brothers In Arms?

    Brothers in Arms and Port Guardian are both temporarily sold out on Smoking Pipes. Just fantastic blends, and Harbour Watch will likely be in my “all day smoke” rotation going forward. The tin art on this entire series is really old school, and the red “liquor bottle” seal tabs are going to...
  11. Mike N

    PipesAndCigars.Com: Are They Trustworthy?

    I try to make it a priority to patronize the sponsors of this website and my two local brick and mortars. SmokingPipes.com provides incredible customer service, quality control, great selection, fast shipping and solid packaging. Their website is seamless, although a photo of what’s inside the...
  12. Mike N

    Show Off Your Castello Pipes Here!

    “Ancoretta”, signed Castello, produced in 2023 in a limited edition series of 120 numbered pieces in various finishes in honor of brave fishermen. (The pipe on the far left #66 has the diamond insert on the stem rather than the classic bar and the one with the white stem #24 has a black dot. )...
  13. Mike N

    Show Off Your Castello Pipes Here!

    I agree with Dave that it is a shape 16 like the one in this Castello shape chart, but without the military mount.
  14. Mike N

    Show Off Your Castello Pipes Here!

    I have seen articles that claim the Perla Nera black stain is derived from cochineal beetles, but the exact composition is a trade secret, and others claim it is likely a mineral-based substance, such as carbon black, or a synthetic aniline dye. It would be cool to find a beater and have the...
  15. Mike N

    Show Off Your Castello Pipes Here!

    Perla Nera series
  16. Mike N

    Corona Old Boy - Are They Worth It?

    I really only use old boy lighters due to their light weight and compact size and most of all reliability when you strike that flint. The pipe tool insert comes in handy often. Here is another one I repainted yesterday. They get scuffed up in my pocket bouncing around with my car keys and Czech...
  17. Mike N

    CORPS 41st anniversary Pipe Smokers' Celebration and Exposition!

    There are several good YouTube videos on the Richmond show, but this one in 2021 by Old Hollywood Briar is my favorite because of its production quality and the slow paced video of all the pipes and tins for sale on the tables.
  18. Mike N

    $800 De Minimis Import Tax Exemption Set To End Friday

    One accurate rationale for removing the de minimis exemption (and little or no paperwork by the sender) was its abuse by the cartels and some Chinese shippers to smuggle small batches of fentanyl undetected into America that killed tens of thousands of young people here. I say this from...
  19. Mike N

    Farewell Sutliff Tobacco Company - Monday 3/4/25

    Yes, Apple is a US based company. What’s Fool’s Folly is to leave out that nearly all of Apple‘s iPhones are made offshore in places like China and India, and that as a % of revenue, it’s much cheaper to re-machine a low-tech tobacco plant in Richmond to make Lane’s IQ than to build an IPhone...
  20. Mike N

    $800 De Minimis Import Tax Exemption Set To End Friday

    So, Briar, if only Congress can “lay and collect taxes,” why is the Internal Revenue Service under the Executive Branch? What did your Con Law 1 Prof say about that? Thx.
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