Post #1000 – October 15, 2013
8 months, and 9 days since I registered here at pipesmagazine.com/forums
I thought I’d use this post to document my journey as a pipeman since joining this site (read, “Dump ALL responsibility for my PAD/TAD and EPARD on you all!”), so here is a quick inventory of piping milestones I’ve hit since connecting with each of you:
- Built my “Pipe Cave” for cleaning and restoration work
- Restored over 50 estate pipes
- Purchased and re-sold 25+ NOS Trypis pipes
- Built up a Virginias rotation of 7 wonderful billiard/pot/dublins
- Built up a Latakia Blend/Balkan Blend/Oriental rotation of 10 wonderful eggs/cuttys/apples/authors
- Commissioned my first pipe from an independent pipe carver
- Smoked my first commissioned pipe!
- Sold estate pipes online (RIP BriarBid)
- Joined a local Pipe Club
- Hosted a Piper’s Burner and Swap Meet
- Bought and smoked my first Meer
- Fell in love with vintage made in Canada pipes; Trypis, Brigham, Blatter & Blatter, Calich…
- Traded for a birth-year Dunhill
- Joined NASPC and started reading “The Pipe Collector”
- Read Rick Newcombe’s book “In Search of Pipe Dreams”
- Listened to _all_ of the pipesmagazine.com radio shows via podcast
Thanks to all of you for your advice, opinions, insights, stories, jokes and pictures. I look forward another 1000 posts worth.
-- Pat
8 months, and 9 days since I registered here at pipesmagazine.com/forums
I thought I’d use this post to document my journey as a pipeman since joining this site (read, “Dump ALL responsibility for my PAD/TAD and EPARD on you all!”), so here is a quick inventory of piping milestones I’ve hit since connecting with each of you:
- Built my “Pipe Cave” for cleaning and restoration work
- Restored over 50 estate pipes
- Purchased and re-sold 25+ NOS Trypis pipes
- Built up a Virginias rotation of 7 wonderful billiard/pot/dublins
- Built up a Latakia Blend/Balkan Blend/Oriental rotation of 10 wonderful eggs/cuttys/apples/authors
- Commissioned my first pipe from an independent pipe carver
- Smoked my first commissioned pipe!
- Sold estate pipes online (RIP BriarBid)
- Joined a local Pipe Club
- Hosted a Piper’s Burner and Swap Meet
- Bought and smoked my first Meer
- Fell in love with vintage made in Canada pipes; Trypis, Brigham, Blatter & Blatter, Calich…
- Traded for a birth-year Dunhill
- Joined NASPC and started reading “The Pipe Collector”
- Read Rick Newcombe’s book “In Search of Pipe Dreams”
- Listened to _all_ of the pipesmagazine.com radio shows via podcast
Thanks to all of you for your advice, opinions, insights, stories, jokes and pictures. I look forward another 1000 posts worth.
-- Pat