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Brad H

Part of the Furniture Now
Dec 17, 2024
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I’ve found the sliced brown and black twists that I’ve gotten recently smoke well as received.
I should have let it dry, but it was a "I looked at the cellar and instinct smoke!!!" Dry time needed. So I lit it a few times and put it down I will pick it up in a bit.
I prefer the brown irish twist aro...... I got a 250g box im looking to trade towards some dark twist aro in the future.
 

Sobrbiker

Lifer
Jan 7, 2023
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Casa Grande, AZ
Nørding Pointer in a Pete SPD 53

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I so should’ve grabbed a SPD25 53
 

BenMN

Lifer
Jun 21, 2023
2,761
46,620
St. Paul, MN
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I’ll join the Peterson club by loading up this new Peterson Christmas 2024 pipe with some Quiet Nights!
This is a sharp (good) look, with the black turtleneck and glasses and the Pipe's colors. I've heard from a few old timers that some thought would go into, for example, which pipe for a given occasion like Senior pictures

I smoked my Peterson today too. A short 264 with Escudo

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Eire
 

BenMN

Lifer
Jun 21, 2023
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46,620
St. Paul, MN
If you know me, you know that I’m not into any of that sentimental holiday bullshist. Just having a dram of Irish whiskey, and some McClellands Rose of Latakia, circa 2013, in a Pete spigot.
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Nice picture, great looking spigot

Running Escudo in my Short 264 again, couple small cigars in between the morning pipe and this one

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Dec 3, 2021
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Pennsylvania & New York
Having Daughters & Ryan Three Sails British style Virginia in the smaller of the two Japanese nobe-kiseru pipes from my 2025 Birthday Haul—this is the plain, undecorated one (the other is decorated with a dragon motif). A nobe-kiseru pipe is a single piece of metal, and much less common than rau kiseru (made with three pieces—two metal ends, usually connected by bamboo). This cast iron pipe could be from the earlier or middle part of the Edo period (1603–1868), but there’s no way of really knowing; it is much bulkier and cruder than most kiseru pipes, which often look elegant (this makes me think it’s from an earlier part of the period). This one measures about 7.5" in length (the dragon motif one, about 8.0"); it’s not as long as most kenka-kiseru (fighting pipes) which would normally fall in the 12.0"–18.0" range, but it is entirely possible that it was used for eye gouging and could have been a fighting pipe.

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We made some progress on the attic and got about 90% of the boards back in place and screwed down. Some needed blocks of wood to be sistered to the wood underneath in order to have something to screw the boards into; the electrician that started the job a few years ago cut the boards, but not always in spots where they could easily be remounted with support. The Honeycomb Hideout is one step closer to being ready.

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For Saint Patrick’s Day, Susan made corned beef and cabbage with potatoes. It was yummy.

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This morning, Susan got some sad news. A dear friend of hers in Florida succumbed to ALS last night. While not unexpected, it was sooner than we thought.