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  1. groovediggerdan

    Pipe Spotting: "1917" Vs. "They Shall Not Grow Old"

    1917: One pipe They Shall Not Grow Old: Pipes a-plenty (as the dead cat swings) Both very good, but I would have thought the makers of 1917 would have seen They Shall Not Grow Old and picked up on the abundance of pipes in that time period. Oh well. Is it too much to ask for the invention of...
  2. groovediggerdan

    Hot Water Flush For Cobs?

    I'm a fan of the hot water flush on my briars, due to the general defunkification it applies. How about cobs, though? I just got my first MM, with a forever stem (shameless plug: forever stems are great!), and I got to wondering if the cob would handle the water in the same way (more porous than...
  3. groovediggerdan

    Royal Yacht: A Lesson In "Better Late Than Never"

    When I started with the pipe about a year and a half ago, I built up a "sampler" of blends that I had read good things about, such as the Dunhill blends, the Frog Morton series, Peterson, Stokkebye, etc. Since then I've been sampling around 3-4 blends at a time, and after trying about 20 so far...
  4. groovediggerdan

    Topping Off?

    Sometimes I'll get so into a bowl I'm smoking that it'll run out quicker than I'd hoped (Luxury Bullseye Flake as of late). What's the GAPP (Generally Accepted Piping Protocol) for just taking a pinch and throwing it on top of your existing ember and getting it going? Any adverse effect from...
  5. groovediggerdan

    Vintage Ad Browser

    If you like perusing old print advertisements like I do, here's a great place to kill an hour or fourteen: Vintage Ad Browser The Cigarettes & Tobacco category has some great stuff, but I'm lost in the other categories as well (lookit all the booze!) -Dan
  6. groovediggerdan

    Pogo

    Fantagraphics Books has been releasing Walt Kelly's Pogo strips for a few years now, and although there have been significant publishing delays (the volume I received this past weekend I ordered in March 2016!) the wait has always been worth it. Kelly's pen and ink work is amazing, and his use...
  7. groovediggerdan

    Pipe With A Scratchy Throat

    I've noticed when using pipe cleaners that occasionally the wire on the end will scratch the stem right at the bend. I shined a flashlight in the stem and there's scratches in the top of the "throat". Is this kind of thing par for the course, or is there some trick to cleaning a bent stem that I...
  8. groovediggerdan

    Estate Pipe Questions

    A few months into this hobby, and like every other hobby of mine I'm hittin' it hard, trawling websites, reading about pipes, tobacco, etc. as well as constantly scanning eBay for assorted pipes and whatnot that I'll never afford. It made me wonder about the whole estate pipe thing: 1. What...