I have been (grimace) a pretty good customer of smokingpipes.com. I was surprised to receive this nice Christmas gift in the mail from them today. Shane and his crew are class acts.
I just bought three pounds of PS Luxury Navy Flake from a vendor in West Virginia. It arrived today and included some of their Holiday Blend and a lovely pipe tamper/knife as gifts. The Xmas spirit personified!
Those are nice little lighters, though perhaps not meant to last forever. I got a black one for Christmas a few years back. It works still, but it has a few issues that make it a bit finicky. If you keep it in good condition, it should give you all many years of service.
As I posted on another thread, SmokingPipes’ YouTube segment on identifying the “mystery pipe blend” hosted by Shane Ireland, with Andrew Wilkie, Truett Smith, Stephen Mawby and Alan Britt is something I always look forward to watching. They always start by identifying the “tasting pipe” each is using. Check it out.