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I never broke an amber stem on any of my antique meers, just it's easy to do and with age/use I think they get more brittle - maybe UV effects them, too. Never turned amber rod on my lathe, if it's even available anymore. But acrylic that resembles amber is. You might look into getting that...

Zippo, beautiful pipe. Look how similar yours is to mine, although mine is capped with gold. I fit mine with a DC bit years ago. Never thought about it having an amber bit, but I bet it did.

MB HH Virginia in my 1950s vintage Comoy Blue Ribbon with silver band and vulcanite bit.

Built a fire. Second round of snow coming. After dinner smoke. MB Virginia in my unknown maker bulldog with gold filigree and a Charatan DC bit that I fit to the pipe years ago. It's an antique I found in KCMO in the 70s. Dinner was Chicken in tomato sauce, green beans. My drink is Thomas Moore...

I once got an eBay Charatan Freehand Relief, Lane era Cutty shape that I paid very little for. It was splattered with dried paint, had a completely oxidized bit, and a cake so think you could only get a pencil into it; it was short of a miracle it hadn't split the bowl. It took a week, but a...

Singed, do you enjoy your Brigham pipe. I love my apple -sweet smoker.

First pipe today. Just finished lunch. I had to fast for my annual physical at 7:30 this morning - no breakfast. Past the physical with flying colors, thank God. Finishing my Arab head pipe. Smoking Stokkebey LBF in it. In my gazebo watching it snow.

Flannery O'Connor once wrote, "Mystery is an embarrassment to the modern mind". Bottom line: everything is filled with mystery. I had an astrophysicist at the S. Pole when I was stationed there who told me he studies how stars are born - using the radio telescope there - because it's filled...

A second pipe of Stokkebye LBF VaPer. In a carved head of an Arab. Stamped "Made in France" and "Made by Hand". No factory name. I inherited this pipe, left to me by my professor of philosophy after he passed away. Dates from the 1950s is my best guess. The pipe has a beautiful Birdseye on both...

Should be Luxury Bullseye Flake.

First pipe if the day, or fast fading day. Stokkebye Luxury Curly Cut, 06 vintage in my Fred Diebel Benchmade. Diet Pepsi is my drink after a dinner of roast beef and cabbage.

All oils can go rancid. I keep the oil tin, that is food grade and I get it at the grocery store, in the refrigerator. I've just used it when I turn a Benchmade and in the bowl with heat - short burst from the microwave will boil it, adding oil as needed. I plug the shank with a wooden dowl. I...

Last pioe for the night. NB HH Virginia in my Benchmade. Watching Svengoolie.

OM Gosh, I have many. IMHO, MacBaren has some of the best. I prefer flakes and curly cuts. Rainers is another favorite

Almond oil is a safer and better alternative IMHO. I have oil cured Benchmade pipes I've turned with it. If there are any plant resins in the briar it will drive them out. I boil the oil in the bowl using my microwave. All I have kept have been sweet smokers.

Finished dinner. MB HH Virginia in my Comoy Bacchus 502.

Finishing my GBD Sablee King 193 French factory made that I filled last night with MB HH Virginia - it's a big bowl. It's Saturday so I'm enjoying a pre-dinner Weston. MO.Burbon while watching Westerns.

Singed, cooler and greyer here today, still moments of Sun. The storm will be North of Fargo. Devils Lake North your way. I hope you don't get clobbered

Jim, do you experience that the Dead Roots smoke better than the regular Dunhills you own?

After lunch smoke in one of my own Benchmade pipes. Turned it maybe 20 yrs ago. Oil cured it. Fantastic smoker. I call it a Tulip-Canadian. MB HH Virginia with coffee.