Howdy from Kansas City, more or less

[Kent Hartland]

I'm Kent. I'm 72 and long retired. I've enjoyed pipes and cigars off and on for over fifty years. I made my first pipe when I was 19 and only a few more in the middle years, before I got the bug again about three years ago. I enjoy woodworking so it's a perfect outlet. I do own a couple basic Grabows and a Dunhill I've had forever, but I smoke my own pipes now, you know to test them!

Thanks for having me. I'll try not to be too much of a nuisance. I'm looking for the conversations.

 

[AroEnglish]

Welcome, Kent! Glad to have you here. You have the great luck of being near one of the best pipe clubs around and they’re meeting this Thursday:

Greater Kansas City Pipe Club

The Greater Kansas City Pipe Club - GKCPC is a social club for pipe, tobacco, and cigar enthusiasts. Meetings are held monthly on the third Thursday at 8pm.

gkcpipeclub.com

 

[FurCoat]

Welcome from North Carolina

 

[PaulRVA]

Welcome from Virginia

 

[RustiePyles CPG]

Kent, welcome form a fellow KC piper, there's a few of us here.

 

[CoffeeAndBourbon]

Welcome from NC!

 

[yanoJL]

Hello Kent, and welcome from California Happy to have you here, friend!

 

[Kent Hartland]

Thanks, everyone.

"It is my belief that nearly any Artificially Invented quotation, fact or photo played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive the entire Internet."

~ Mark Twain

 

[TheIronMonkey]

Welcome from Pennsylvania and New York.

I suspect a number of us would be curious to see pics of the pipes you’ve been making and testing. There’s a monthly “What Are You Smoking?” thread in the Pipe Tobacco Discussion forum where members share what pipe/blend they’re smoking (and have sometimes made).

Loved the Mark Twain quotation.

 

[El Capitán]

Bully! Welcome to the forum!

 

[Kobold]

Welcome from Maryland!

 

[tobakenist]

Hi and welcome Kent from Northamptonshire, England.

 

[WVOldFart]

Hello and welcome from West Virginia.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Welcome from the Central Coast of California!

 

[jpmcwjr]

Photos of your work would be great! And the lake thing.. near KC? Sounds great.

 

[kcghost]

Welcome to a fellow Kansas Citian!!

 

[Kent Hartland]

Hi and welcome Kent from Northamptonshire, England.

Hello, Ken. I believe my family hails from Hartland, in or about Devon back before they paddled to America in the 1800s.

 

[Kent Hartland]

Photos of your work would be great! And the lake thing.. near KC? Sounds great.

Yipper, I have a small 10 acre forest in a semi wooded region bounding Smithville Lake. I can't see or hear my neighbors. Perfect.

 

[Sigmund]

Welcome from France

 

[MattRVA]

Welcome from Virginia