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Yesterday we hosted an event for Drew Estate cigars down at our brick and mortar shop Low Country Pipe and Cigar. Now, we host such events with relative frequency, about every six months or so, but this one was a special occasion. It was celebrating the relatively new line of MUWAT Kentucky Fire-Cured cigars. ... Read More

A while back, we talked about how to prepare rope tobacco using a cigar cutter. Recently I've translated this technique to plug tobaccos. Rather than using a knife to slice off flakes, simply take your cigar cutter and shave off tiny "microflakes" from the corners of the brick. Here's a video of what I call the "slice and dice" method ... Read More

Well, International Pipe Smoking Day has come and gone, but I have to say it was one of the greatest I've ever experienced. We encouraged you all to join in on the celebration and share a picture of you smoking your favorite briars, meers, or clays. ... Read More

With the recent release of their Craftsman line, Peterson sought to highlight the long-standing tradition of excellence evident in each finished product — a legacy spanning 150 years. The series stands as the epitome of the Peterson design manifest, an interweaving of the past with the modern, but in reality, each and ... Read More

While Smio Satou trained in the classical Danish hand made pipe tradition, he has very much charted his own path as a pipe maker over the past couple of decades. He went, with Fukuda, who still makes Tsuge Ikebana pipes, to Denmark on two occasions in the 1970s and worked at Tsuge in the 1970s and 1980s, but in the ... Read More

Busy, busy, busy — that's been things around here of late, even more so than usual. Nonetheless, we still managed to slip in some time for me to wander around the warehouse in search for something special, and for several others to be press-ganged into smoking it. And, as usual, time for Andy to make several poor attempts at getting me to name the picked blend ... Read More

If you smoke a pipe, you already know the basics of what a pipe tool or tamper is, but there are a few different types, ranging from the basic to the ornate, so here's a quick guide to supplement your knowledge. ... Read More

Every year, we get one day, one glorious 24 hour span, specifically dedicated to this thing of ours. Every year, on February 20th, we observe our appreciation for tradition and camaraderie through International Pipe Smoking Day. ... Read More

It has been a cold winter here at the beach this year. Sure, some other places have been way colder (sorry New Englanders), but I have had just about enough of those inevitable winter time blues. The other day, I decided that I needed something that was going to put me back in a summer-like mindset and maybe, just maybe, make me feel a bit warmer. ... Read More

We usually think of pipe smoking as a solitary endeavour. Not lonely necessarily; though the number of pipe smokers around these days has definitely decreased since the 40's and 50's, the internet has largely plugged the gap and allowed existing pipe smokers to connect with one another, but aside from pipe clubs, conventions or other, informal gatherings of pipe smokers ... Read More