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  1. swilford

    G.L. Pease: Silver Jubilee

    A lot of Dark Fired Kentucky is grown in Tuscany and it's mostly used for Toscano cigars. C&D has had a relationship with an Italian farm and cigar manufacturer for many years from which it sources different grades (grades, as its used in tobacco, in the sense of having different...
  2. swilford

    How're These Tins Workin' Out for Ya'?

    I don't know on the 2008 8oz tin; I've not seen problems like this with the 8oz tins. There were issues on the tall, narrow pre-2004 GLP tins (before both C&D and GLP converged on the present 2oz tin in 2004). For funsies, I just cracked a 2006 tin of GLP Fillmore. It's perfect; tobacco is...
  3. swilford

    Anyone Else Lose Their Favorites on Their SP Accounts?

    Hey all. Thanks for pointing this out. We changed the rules around favorites lists for site performance reasons unrelated to the way you all are discussing using the favorites list. When we made the change, we hadn't contemplated this as a use case for the feature and turning off access to out...
  4. swilford

    I love smoking pipes

    Are you saying that the billed price was different from what you saw at checkout or are you saying the sale ended? If the former, please contact Smokingpipes CS. As for broadly this getting more expensive, there was a price increase in the US market in early June because of price increases...
  5. swilford

    Tobacco Reviews Website Down

    Yes, Laudisi owned it, but hasn't in almost 20 years. Jon Tillman created it in late 2000. In 2001, it became part of Laudisi when Jon was working for Laudisi on Smokingpipes and I was helping with TR. Jon traded his part of Laudisi for TR when he left the company in late 2005. He sold it to...
  6. swilford

    New Dunhill Smokingpipes Collab

    Well, it does literally say 'Alfred Dunhill's The White Spot' (with different formatting and such, of course). So, yeah, they do literally say 'Dunhill', albeit not as centrally as they used to. Whether one thinks this is dumb is fair game of course, but they deemphasized 'Dunhill'; they didn't...
  7. swilford

    Enlighten me on C&D and GLP

    Just chiming in here quickly to say that we don't own the Perique farm (31 Farms); it's owned by the Roussel family, who have been growing perique in St James Parish for generations. We have had a very close relationship with the Roussels since the farm's resurrection over the past few years...
  8. swilford

    Mac B's ODF vs C&D Dark Fired Kentucky?

    C&D DFK is a blending component. It's, ah, an acquired taste on its own. It's, uh, challenging on its own (and by challenging, I mean in the same way fish sauce would be challenging on its own). Think of it as condimental tobacco like straight latakia and straight perique, which also aren't...
  9. swilford

    Is the New Peterson Foursquare (444) a Permanent Shape?

    It'll be more than one drop (at SP and other retailers) since there's some inventory on hand still in some of the finishes, but from the factory's perspective it was a one time project so when we run out, they're done. Of course, we reserve the right to resurrect the shape (again) at some point...
  10. swilford

    Jeremy reeves on Radio Show of December 24, 2024

    In a way, it was that simple. Smokingpipes hired Jeremy in 2013 during the same period that I was talking with Chris and Patty Tarler about acquiring the company following Craig's passing in 2012. We spent much of 2013 working to get C&D ready and we consummated the deal at the beginning of...
  11. swilford

    MySmokingShop Christmas Pipes 🎄🎁

    Oh, I know Simon. Yes, his email is less untrue than the summation of his email, which indicates (incorrectly; untruly) that there are Peterson pipes manufactured anywhere but Dublin. He's simply claiming that there's a common supplier, which I did not dispute. I don't know where he is having...
  12. swilford

    MySmokingShop Christmas Pipes 🎄🎁

    This is untrue, mistaken, or at least a very complete and intentional misreading of the facts. All Petersons are manufactured by Peterson at the factory in the Deansgrange neighborhood in south Dublin. Peterson manufactures only Peterson branded pipes (and, obviously, Irish Seconds, about which...
  13. swilford

    Hu Drop at SP

    There's not a great mystery here to be puzzled out on the question of the range brought it. For capacity reasons (so it didn't take longer to make happen) and logistical reasons, both Kopp and Laudisi thought it impractical to launch the full range at once. These were the ones they thought best...
  14. swilford

    Metal Bands and Caps

    Wow. Thanks for sharing all of that. I didn't know that about white gold. I should have added to my post that I totally echo your recommendation on sterling silver. $30/ounce might sound like a lot, but it takes less than a tenth of an ounce for a pretty hefty band. It's just not expensive in...
  15. swilford

    Metal Bands and Caps

    I'm sure you know all of this, but figured it might help the OP to contextualize your post: The element Nickel (Ni) is different from what is normally called Nickel, or nickel silver (also called German Silver), in the pipe world, which is an alloy, which is about 20% Nickel, 60% Copper and 20%...
  16. swilford

    Peterson upside down logo.

    Absent photos, and assuming the P is on the top of the stem, and given the series in question (both of which were discontinued by mid-2018), I'm chalking this up to a brief period--a couple of years around 2016--where Conor Palmer thought the P should be on top of the stem and upright if the...
  17. swilford

    Peterson Silver Spigots Update?

    I was asked to weigh in here and this assessment is partly right. When Laudisi acquired Peterson, all (or almost all) spigot stems were acrylic and had been for a few years. We added back the System Spigot series, which used vulcanite P-lip stems. And for some (but not all) spigot series, we've...
  18. swilford

    1792 Gone In Less than 12hrs

    Unfortunately, it's still illegal to ship to a final consumer in Hawaii, even with an excise license. We collect and remit excise in a number of states, but that's just not possible in Hawaii, sadly. Here's a Halfwheel article (which also links to the senate bill in question)...
  19. swilford

    Sam Gawith Burnt Ends

    I also totally love the 124. The 230/317, the 124, the 102/15 (number depends on mount) are my favorite Peterson shapes. I also really like the lovat, the billiard and the acorn from the Juniors range. At least, that's all from a 'what I smoke' perspective. Some of my favorite shapes as a...
  20. swilford

    Sam Gawith Burnt Ends

    It's a Rua Spigot 230 (which is the classic range version of the 317). Sykes
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