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Avid Hobbyist. 40+ pipes, 100+ blends open in jars, 60+ lbs in cellar.
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Tampers & Tools - 8deco Tamper - Legend Redwood
Couldn’t Be Better!
I can finally give my son back the very nice bamboo 8deco tamper I “borrowed”… ;) Got my own now. The domed, drafting feet on these 8deco tampers have me hooked. Will never go back to “starter kit” tampers.

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2024 In Review
  • ► Happy New Year to all 200 of you! Thank you for keeping pipe culture alive and well going forward. May 2025 be your best year yet!
Aleister Crowley: The Beast That Inspired The Beast
  • ► Wow! 🤯 I am surprised this article got any comments at all. I stopped reading after the first paragraph, shrugged, and moved on. My first thoughts were simply, “hmm… first job out of college; too long; off-topic and boring; she will improve.” Then I looked to see when my SP order was scheduled to arrive. No big deal. 🤷‍♂️
Anyone Can Become Filthy Rich Just By Smoking Some Pipes
  • ► 🤣🤣🤣…I hereby nominate to for a Nobel Prize in April 1st Monetary Policy! That, or Honorary Chairman of The Fed. BRAVO!!!🙌
Bear Attacks and Pipe Smoking
  • ► Ha, ha! I have a whistling pipe! ...but not yet ghosted with Erinmore. Half way there. You got me to watch Shane Ireland's "Tasting Notes: Erinmore Flake" episode. Seems harmless enough. Well, I won't say you didn't warn me. Cheers!
John Milton: Pipe Smoker
  • ► Great article! You’ve inspired me to puff Drucquer & Sons “The Devil’s Own” in a German clay while wondering if Faust’s playwright, von Goethe has as interesting a story as a pipe smoker. Hmmm?
Letters to Sherlock Holmes
  • ► Great article! I have to suggest a minor correction, though, if I may. Nowhere in “The Man With the Twisted Lip” does it mention “an ounce” of shag tobacco “a night”. That would be 12 to 14 large bowls, which Doyle would not have been careless enough to assert could be smoked in a single evening. The closest reference GROK3 could find when I asked was this passage, quoting Watson, “He took out his pipe and filled it with the strong shag tobacco, of which he consumed a large quantity when he was engaged in thought.” Nobody in real life or realistic fiction ever consumed an ounce of strong tobacco a night. No author familiar with tobacco pipes would seriously assert it. I was glad to find Doyle didn’t. Please fix. Thanks!
  • ► Brilliant! I stand corrected! Thanks for the additional details, (…and the lesson not to trust AI over a real expert). One could easily imaging Holmes so focused that he lost all track of time and smoked a dozen bowls back-to-back - all evening, through the night and into the next day. Very believable.
My Cousin Mark Twain: A Trove of Twain Pipe-Smoking Anecdotes
  • ► Love these biographical sketches! More, please!
One Christmas Tradition's Odd Origin
  • ► Heart warming. Makes me want to try some old codger blends - especially half n half. Thanks. And Merry Christmas to all.