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  1. sailortodd

    Pipe makers that use water glass to coat bowls?

    I did a quick search here and more broadly across the internet, and couldn't find a list of manufacturers that are known to use water glass (sodium silicate) to coat their bowls. From my limited understanding, among bowl coatings, most are harmless, but water glass forms an impermeable barrier...
  2. sailortodd

    Slowing down for a cooler, sweeter smoke - in practice

    I have smoked a pipe on and off for six years now, and for the longest time paid little attention to the finer nuances of the flavor, most specifically how the pace and power of my smoking affected the flavor. I'd note that the smoke would taste better at certain times than others throughout a...
  3. sailortodd

    OPD - Obsessive pipe-shopping Disorder

    I don't need a pipe. I have three in rotation with me, and another three somewhere in the Navy mail system waiting to get to me. But I was on P&C looking at pipes to recommend for some buddies to buy, and found many that I myself wouldn't mind procuring. But why would I buy another pipe or four...
  4. sailortodd

    I've created a new pipe smoker

    I was out enjoying a pipe while some of my shipmates were smoking cigars the other night, and it garnered more than the usual passing interest by one of them. I let him have a couple draws from the pipe (Samuel Gawith Navy Flake in this case), and he instantly loved it. After some talking, he...
  5. sailortodd

    A little fellow follows me

    In the spirit of the grand day many of us will celebrate Sunday as fathers, sons and daughters, I want to share a poem I came across today. It came to my inbox via The Art of Manliness blog, cited as an anonymous poem, and after some digging I discovered it was a poem much loved by late great...
  6. sailortodd

    What do you know about GOC?

    I just ordered a trio of pipes from piperestorer.com that includes a "GOC Plexi St. Claude." I tried to find information about GOC, but little is out there beyond its current obsolescence. I am just curious about its background and possibly rough age. As it is being shipped to a deployed ship I...
  7. sailortodd

    What do you think of new Comoy's/what pipe should I buy

    I don't need a new pipe...the three I have are doing fine in rotation considering I only get one opportunity a day to smoke. But... I recently saw a pipe I am rather quickly becoming infatuated with, a Comoy's Traditional 80 (bulldog). Most of what I have seen on here regarding Comoy's regards...
  8. sailortodd

    Tobacco in ziploc bags

    I did a cursory search for the answer and couldn't find anything definitive regarding the subject: what is bad about storing pipe tobacco in a ziploc bag if that's how it came? I see in plenty of places that the widely accepted method of storing pipe tobacco is in a sealed glass jar, naming the...
  9. sailortodd

    My pair of pipes, a Peterson Aran and Savinelli Antique Shell

    I'm hanging out, smoking a pipe and brewing some beer, so I figured I'd take the time to post some pics of my two pipes. One is a Peterson Aran 01 I got a few weeks ago. It is a beauty, and has a large bowl that holds about an hour and a half worth of tobacco. It smokes pretty well, but has a...
  10. sailortodd

    New Savinelli, Oxidized Stem

    I just left on a short trip and forgot my pipe and tobacco at home, so I poked my head into a local tobacconist to see what they had. The original plan was to get a basket pipe that I could bang up or lose and not feel bad about it. But then I started looking at their selection of more modestly...
  11. sailortodd

    Adirondack Northway

    My first attempt at any sort of review and breakdown of a tobacco... I guess I should have heeded the warning in the description on cupojoes.com describing it as "minty cool and delightfully refreshing." Not expecting quite that minty of a punch, I got it to try it out. I'm still struggling to...
  12. sailortodd

    Caught the addiction

    So I have now caught the pipe bug. I went from a pipe a day smoker for the last several weeks to now having smoked four bowls in twenty four hours. Of course it was in part a trial of the three pipe tobaccos currently in my inventory, as well as a trial of my two pipes. I also ordered two cobs...
  13. sailortodd

    Why I smoke

    Greetings, As you can see, I am brand new to the site. Wanted to introduce myself thoroughly. As the name might entail, I am a sailor, an officer in the Navy, currently in Bahrain (a little island in the Persian Gulf). I'm also fairly new to pipe smoking. Last year I visited my favorite...
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