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  1. Ziggywm

    Remembering Rex's In Topeka, KS

    Anyone here remember Rex's Pipeshop in Topeka, Kansas. Hus shoo was at 909 Kansas Ave. I purchased pipes and tobacco there in the early 70s. I still have a natch folder.
  2. Ziggywm

    My Pipe Smoking Chair

    I worked most of the winter making this Windsor chair. From tree to finished chair. I veneered the side arm with Walnut burl edged with Yellowheart. It makes a fine place in my library to smoke my pipes.
  3. Ziggywm

    General MacArthur's Pipe

    For the corncob smokers among us, including me. I was staying at the Marine Memorial Hotel in San Fancisco where I used their library, which was also a museum. Under glass was Gen. Mac's pipe and a great story with it. I thought it should be shared here. You should be able to expand the...
  4. Ziggywm

    Birdseye vs. Sraight Grain & Break-in

    I'm interested if others here have experienced that cross-cut pipes with a predominate Birdseye grain are easier to break-in and perhaps sweeter smokers then straight grains. It may be a myth, (I've heard this from other pipe smokers thru the years) but I too have experienced this. Some of my...
  5. Ziggywm

    Making A Lovat Tomato Fancy

    This was my Thanksgiving time project for a friend who wanted it for a girlfriend. She liked long stem colorful pipes. So I turned a tomato that took advantage of the Birdseye grain a d would leave a little briar bark on top. Because I turned the briar on its side for turning the bowl it didn't...
  6. Ziggywm

    Making A Fancy Bent Bulldog

    I made this pipe for a friend. He likes churchwardens, so I made it with a bit extension. To take advantage of the Birdseye I cut the bowl in the side of the bowl. I oil cured the briar and my friend said its a great smoker.
  7. Ziggywm

    Drucquer's Inns of Court Review

    Drucquer’s Inns of Court is an appropriate name for this blend. The Inns of Court in London are about as “old school” and conservative as it gets. Not only did many buildings survive the Great Fire of 1666, and the blitz of World War II, but it’s inhabitants are London’s lawyers, a very waist...
  8. Ziggywm

    My First Pipe Cabinet

    I made this pipe cabinet, in my father's shop in 1972. I had graduated from college that year and during summer before I married I knocked this out with some 1/2" pine my dad had laying around. I couldn't afford the one Decatur sold, so using a catalog picture I put this one together. I was...
  9. Ziggywm

    Nine Noggins Watching Over Me

    Ok, here is my lifetime collection of briar heads. They watch over one of my pipe cabinets. They are Grumpy, Sneeze, Dopey, Bashful....? just kidding! When I start talking to them its time for the funny farm. ? From L to R: 2 Arabs, a Native American, Shakespeare, a large Arab with meerschaum...
  10. Ziggywm

    Repair & Treatment for Cantankerous Pipe

    The most cantankerous pipe in my collection of more than a hundred briars and meerchaums is a Savinelli de Luxe 804 Ex, a Canadian sandblast that because of its long shank (5 1/4" - 7" with bit) caught my eye in the 70s. This pipe has never "broken in". Well some time ago I cracked the shank and...
  11. Ziggywm

    Cellini Original

    In 1971 I was in Chicago. After checking out Iwan Ries my girlfriend (later my wife) and I made our way to Victory Pipe Shop. Its an over used phrase, but I was a kid in a candy store - absolutely blew my mind! There were pipes everywhere, displayed and in boxes. I took my time and waited for...
  12. Ziggywm

    Parker 189 or a Dunhill 120 ??

    I have a "Parker Golden Bark" marked 4 in circle (a Dunhill size #) and a shape #189. I've owned it since 74 - purchased it second hand from a man who came into Diebel's Pipe Shop where I worked. I remember the man as an elderly Englishman, a very distinguish looking survivor of WW1 (I enjoyed...