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A Tasty Twosome
Had the family over yesterday for some ribs on the Big Green Egg. It doesn't get much better than this...- zack24
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Photographing Pipes
One thing that makes me crazy is taking consistent, quality pictures of pipes...Tried out a new rig today with an old Canon EOS 20D hooked up to my iMac with Digital Photo Professional- it gives me full control of all the camera settings and even triggering the shot from the computer...Still...- zack24
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Just Off The Bench....
I've been doing some retooling of my lathe in the shop over the past couple of weeks and haven't really had time to make any pipes. Just completed this one today. Managed to take some of the lessons learned in Vegas and incorporate a few of them into this one....Pretty happy with the... -
Mystery Tobacco From The West Coast Pipe Show
Had a nice last minute score as the show was closing down- the tobacco vendors gave away their jars of samples to avoid the hassle of shipping them. Ended up with a couple of Peter Stokkebye jars with a good amount of Luxury Navy Flake and Luxury Bulls Eye Flake. Also ended up with a couple of...- zack24
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My Wife Was Really On My Back This Afternoon...
(You can probably see where my design for this shirt came from...) I had to revise the design 3 times to get it to work in embroidery, but man.... loved the way it came out!! It should make it a little easier to find Greta and me in Vegas this weekend- zack24
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St James Flake At The Beach
I've found St James Flake to be a little challenging to smoke due to the moisture content. Went to the beach today- smoked a blend while I let a couple of St James Flakes dry on top of the tin in the sun and wind...Rubbed it out an hour later, fired it up and smoked it to the bottom of the...- zack24
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Last Pipe Before Vegas
Just finished this one this afternoon...Really happy with the stem- changed techniques and scraped it to the final dimension with a knife- makes it much easier to really control the thickness...Combination of some of my 30 year old ivory with blue/black Cumberland... -
Eight Year Old Blakeney's Best Acadian Ribbon
An interesting combination- a 2005 tin of Blakeney's Best Acadian Ribbon we bought from Dick at Carmel Pipe Shop in Ca, smoked in a pipe hand signed by our friend Carlo Carlini when we visited him in Calabria last month...This was dry out of the tin, so I rehydrated with a damp paper towel for 6...- zack24
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Cute Little Lizard
Alexey Kharlamov carves pipes that are Sooo far out there...This is one of the most amazing ones I've seen...Don't know how you could smoke it- but I love it!Iguana Pipe -
Before And After
The most frustrating part about making pipes for me is looking at a pipe I made three months ago and knowing I could probably do it a little better today. This is a pretty good example- when I did it in June, the draft was too tight, the stem was badly shaped, and the finish didn't pop. The same... -
My First Embroidered Shirt Design
The toughest thing about trying to make and sell pipes is coming up with all the other stuff you have to have to go along with it....like web sites, branding, bags, cards, and in this case- embroidered pipe shirts.Just sent this design off to the embroidery company where it will be converted...- zack24
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The End Of Our Trip
After three weeks of Greta and I smoking, eating, and drinking our way across Italy, we took 4 flights over 28 hours to get to Monterey, Ca. in time for my son's graduation from a 15 month school in Mandarin Chinese at the Defense Language Institute. An incredible achievement- graduated top of a...- zack24
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Visit To The Carmel Pipe Shop
Met Dick Hardin at the Carmel Pipe Shop in Carmel-By-The-Sea in California while attending my son's graduation from the Air Force Chinese language school in Monterey. Now THIS is the way a pipe shop should be- you can smell the pipe tobacco from 20' away- He has a great collection including an...- zack24
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The Only Thing Better Than A Beautiful Woman Smoking A Pipe
... would be two beautiful women smoking a pipe. Greta and her daughter Vanessa(who just joined us in Italy) smoking St. James Flake at Lo Scoglio delle Sirene in Marina Piccola on Capri...- zack24
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Scored A Pipe And Tabacchi From Italy
Not sure if "scored" is accurate...More truthfully, was robbed with a smile on my face...A pic of the purchase...and Greta with the owner of Tabacherria Sisimbro in Naples- a very cool shop... Picked up a tiny Group 1 Savinelli for Greta about 70 Euros. Some Saint James Flake 18 Euros SG... -
Smoking, Drinking, and Eating Our Way Through Italy
(and a few other activities as well, but I'll spare you the details...) Finally back in Sorrento after a few days in Ischia without a wifi connection...Great time in Ischia- the thermal baths where the boiling water at the cliff base meets the cold seawater is amazing. We stayed at Punta...- zack24
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Food, Great Wine, & Beautiful Pipe Smoking Woman In Italy
Ok...a few updates on pipe smoking in Italy...The waiters at the restaurants look confused when you ask "Pipa de fumere- Toto Bene?" (Loosely translated- Pipe smoking is OK?. Although I was the only pipe smoker I've seen on the trip, they seemed to like it...and everyone was smoking cigarettes...- zack24
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Visit To My Briar Supplier In Italy
Visited my briar supplier in Southern Italy...the little mountain town of Mandatoriccio. A third generation cutter- they have a four story building- machines in the basement, shop on the first floor, and home on the 4th floor... First picture is the 20" saw used to cut the briar....very scary...- zack24
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Father & Daughter Piping
Went to the rehearsal dinner (low country boil- gooood stuff!) in Oxford for my niece last night. The M&M Cobs were a big hit as well as the blend from Bennington's Tobacco in Sarasota. One surprise was my daughter Nikki- she grabbed a cob early in the night and smoked two bowls. A good time was...- zack24
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Black Bamboo Group 2
A little Group 2 with black bamboo...my last pipe I'll carve for 3 weeks- leaving for Italy Friday.... Some nice grain on this one...sigh...with a visible sandpit- Could always stain it, but I like the contrast between the bamboo and natural enough where I'll probably leave it as is...