I had some free time and nothing in particular to do with it this morning, so I decided to repurpose an empty Mac Baren HH Pure Virginia tin into a pocket sized grab-and-go pipe kit. I took the label off the back, cleaned the sticky label gunk off with some isopropyl alcohol, then slapped a Morgan Pipes sticker on the front and filled the tin with a BIC lighter, Czech tool, 10 neatly bent pipe cleaners, and a snack sized Ziploc bag with about 5 small pipefuls worth of tobacco. Gawith Hoggarth Dark Bird's Eye, for those who may be curious.
It was a fun little project and everything fits nicely without rattling around, so it should come in handy for afternoons out and about. I do already have a couple proper leather pipe and tobacco pouches that'll hold all of the above and a lot more without the need to bend the pipe cleaners, but I thought this was just a neat way to reuse an old tobacco tin that would have otherwise ended up in the trash.
How about you? What uses have you found for empty tobacco tins?
It was a fun little project and everything fits nicely without rattling around, so it should come in handy for afternoons out and about. I do already have a couple proper leather pipe and tobacco pouches that'll hold all of the above and a lot more without the need to bend the pipe cleaners, but I thought this was just a neat way to reuse an old tobacco tin that would have otherwise ended up in the trash.
How about you? What uses have you found for empty tobacco tins?
