At last weekend's Greater Kansas City Pipe Club Pipe Show a 1926 Barling Spigot was stolen. This is an incredibly uncommon pipe, so if you happen to catch a glimpse of such a pipe, you are most likely looking at stolen property.
The Pipedia Barling Page has images of a Barling with 1926...
My thanks to the mods for granting me a little leeway here. I need to reduce my cellar, which due to a string of events also includes a lot of a friend's tobacco. Being able to work with nearby pipers would let me accomplish what is needed much more quickly and efficiently. If you are within...
I just saw this slew of new Piersel pipes at Smokingpipes.com. What a magnificent sight! I consider myself lucky to have one of her pipes, a little nosewarmer chubby Billiard. With more luck I will someday own one or two more.
https://www.smokingpipes.com/pipes/new/scottie-piersel/
For reasons I have yet to discover I am unable to use key parts of P&C's site. If I try to login I get only a blank page after submitting my login information. Some of my searches also produce only blank pages. Is anyone else having similar problems?
A prog rock icon has passed. While "Lucky Man" is not the song that exemplified the prog rock credentials of ELP, it was the song that introduced me to the band and has remained a favorite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89g1P_J40JA
Am I wrong, or is the shank on this LBS on the short side for that shape? Note, I am not suggesting foul play. Actually given the double date stampings, I wonder if the pipe was repaired by Dunhill or an authorized repair outfit...
Those of us who buy estate pipes in unrestored condition sometimes find under the cake varying degrees of heat damage. During my time as an estate pipe enthusiast I have heard conflicting advice regarding the remedy for heat damage. The conflict basically forms up into two opposing camps. One...
Imperial Fireplace Mortar and Cement comes up from time to time as a repair material for charring, beginning burnout, and the like. I have recently contemplated using it for a couple of repairs I need to make. The label says it contains sodium silicate, but I was not sure what else might be in...
The following is from Maxim Engel's Pipes2smoke.com 11 February 2016 Pipe Missive. Maxim has graciously permitted me to post the text of the missive here. If you are not currently subscribed to his email list, I encourage you to sign up on his website.
The demise of UK-made pipe tobacco is a...
I am looking for calipers to measure bowl wall thickness. They will need to allow me to take measurements from the bowl rim on down into the chamber. My search was precipitated by the acquisition of an unsmoked Taylor-era Ashton. It is a lovely pipe, but the seemingly thin walls have me...
Wow! This Christmas season Craftsman has once more seized the cutting edge of hand tool technology. The boffins at Craftsman offer to the discerning handyman a new spiral ratchet driver. Will wonders never cease! If the handyman is truly discerning, though, he will note that the spiral ratchet...
As someone with one foot in the Britwood world and the other in the realm of KBB/Kaywoodie, I have often wondered why Sasieni buyers/collectors, in stark contrast to the Kaywoodie crowd, seem to care little about the absence of stingers in patent era Sasieni pipes. I suspect there may be a...
I unwittingly purchased an inexpensive lot of pipe accessories from a Russian eBay seller - the low shipping charge and correct English led me to presume the items were offered by a US seller. To this point my only forays into international eBay transactions had been with UK sellers. So, should...
I have an early Kaywoodie whose Synchrostem is seized up unlike anything I have previously encountered. Prior experience tells me that the likely culprit is tar and gunk binding the threaded fitment. To dissolve the tar/gunk I have been using a syringe and angled tip to drip grain alcohol down...
I am going to have to get a replacement stem for a Comoy's 107 Bulldog. I do not have the original, and would like to have a picture of what a complete 107 looks like.
A while back I bought a sandblast pipe that I thought was either lightly used, nicely restored, or both. Today was I was going to smoke the pipe for the first time, and upon taking it outside I noticed a green residue in some of the nooks and crannies on the shank, in some light tooth chatter on...