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I see the bottle is 2 oz. How much will I need for 20 pipes?

Thank you, Rob; I'll get me some!

So do you know of one?

Unless it is a pricy, exquisite pipe, and that is never the case for me just now, I fire up a new or new-to-me pipe hoping that the tobacco still tastes like I think it should. As I dedicate pipes I don't usually have to overcome a ghost. So taste and overcoming the ghost to get the tobacco true...

Looks pricy; looks fine!

"I'm even willing to retry something I previously disliked because my tastes seem to change overtime." This is me. I really don't think I grew to dislike latakia when I was a young pipe smoker. I think I learned to wonder if I was supposed to like it, decided I didn't, and then missed out on...

I love the way SP presents a pipe, the best pictures and probably the best specifications on the internet. But to pay 25% extra for that privilege? Geez, if I don't like the pipe, I'll return it. I think you're paying extra for a monster operation; think of the overhead in employee wages. And...

Of course smoking what one likes is the grand maxim, but I'm trying to find out if the views that I sketched are indeed part of pipe tobacco folklore. I'm questioning what I feel I learned a long time ago in the effort to evaluate if this is just my understanding or if others learned the same, too.

I liked latakia for only the first year or two of pipe smoking; then I decided I didn't like it and only smoked it sporadically over the years. This year I decided to smoke it with an open mind; to my delight I find I like it again. My tobacco choices regarding latakia were defined by an idea I...

If Bilbo and gang don't get away with robbing Smaug, they won't become rich. If Frodo fails to destroy the Ring, Sauron will despoil all of Middle Earth. Somewhere between writing "The Hobbit" and the LOTR, Tolkien devised a plot about ultimates. It's been so long since I read the LOTR that I...

I don't think that "The Hobbit" and LOTR are comparable stories. Though they contain some of the same characters and environs, the LOTR is about self-sacrifice and being willing to take on seemingly impossible odds for the right cause while "The Hobbit" is more of a light romp to steal a...

The only way I can stomach knowing that my 3 y/o cat is going to age and die, and that I will have to witness that, is to appreciate her while she is young. Pets are so very worth the pain and financial cost of vet care; in fact, they have a value that humans in their relationships can't equal...

Greg, et al, how can you say with any confidence that some pipe and tobacco pairings are better than others? While this may be true, a multitude of things effect how a particular smoke goes. How do you separate the pipe/tobacco pairing from the vagaries of the palate or what effect the telephone...

Surely if you feel that the pipe may well not perform to your standards, then you would be best to return it. As regards the cob/artisan/workhorse pipes, I think cobs smoke better. Lighter, in at least some models, and fabulous draw. Artisan pipes aren't better but they are little works of art...

For a first effort that's a very nice chubby. I'm moving in the direction such that my affections can respond both to those glittering artisan pipes and those which, more homely, promise an immediate, comforting smoke.

60s here. The only problem we run into here in central NC are ice storms, which when we do get them, coat every branch of the trees; when the ice gets heavy enough the roots give up and the tree comes down, taking whatever wires are in the way. The heat goes out with the electricity. It can take...

I don't own a Falcon but one pass one up, when the deal is good. From what I know the Falcon's draw should be much better than my Kirsten, which I don't smoke because of it.

Todd made me a Dublin with saddle stem last winter, and the more I smoke it the more I am in love with it. His small fee is small compensation for its quality; he could get three times the amount charged. 1) It's a smooth with good flame grain. The finish is maroon, which he produced by mixing...

Not good news to me. smokingpipes is by far the biggest, most powerful pipe shop in the US. They throw the weight around with 5 Xs as much advertising as anyone else. They can afford to. Then too, as their ad admonishes us to believe, they are "experts." What a doodle-oooh of a claim. Not...

According to the user "acme," who has made RC pipes with chambers of differing size, the bigger the condensation chamber, the better it works, cooling the smoke and amping the flavor. Thus I agree the shank looks overly large, but if it contains a large/larger chamber, it might fulfill the...