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Frost, you have my prayers and best wishes for a speedy recovery.

Mark should get 2x BoB points for his post. Duck Dunn was an ardent pipe smoker.

One of my fans from the late '60's. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/s7rHCYtbZRo" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" allowfullscreen></iframe>

I have checked every MSDS that I can find for heat shrink tubing and I can't find any that have any sort of ingestion precaution other than the normal CYA verbiage that everyone puts in when there is no specific danger but they want to make sure they are covered (drink water, see a physician, I...

Do many of you use bite protectors? I have adopted them for all my pipes the past few years. However, I have never been pleased with the quality of the rubber bites that I have purchased either at my local B&M or via the internet. Regardless of the brand or source, they only last a few months...

I don't know if I actively collect anything. I have a lot of man stuff, guitars, guns, knives, fishing gear, pipes, cigars, Zippos, cameras, Apple computers, tools, etc. Most of it is way over the top of what you would need just to enjoy it as a hobby. But I can't say that I am an active...

My EDC is a Case Trapper with the classic yellow handles. I have a carbon fiber and rosewood Benchmade that my son gave me that is my "good" knife, and one of those little Gerbers in Kyles photo that I sometimes clip to the waistband of my jeans (I also EDC pretty much that same Surefire). While...

Just took delivery of 2 unsmoked Ferndowns from Atwageman. Bee-you-tiful pipes. Well packaged and arrived in just a couple of days. Highly recommended.

If you are liking McC virginias, you should check out bulk #5100. By itself it is a good all-day smoke, kind of a Prince Albert of VA's although it will bite you if you don't pay attention and smoke it slow. However, blend it with either some dark VA - bulk 5105 is a great choice, or some...

I will breath some life into this thread. I have always gravitated to torps/belicosos which are most often 6 x 52 or there about. I like the larger cigar for flavor and smoking characteristics, but can clip the head at whatever ring size suits me. Favorite wrapper is cameroon. Lately I have been...

Irish Flake is one of my favorite tobaccos. It is a virginia/burley flake. Nice appearance in the tin. I find it to be a little moist, especially when the tin is just opened. Flavor is full, but reasonably mild, a very nice blend. Depending on how much I dry it before smoking, the smoke can be a...

I have an old-old Corona that has worked flawlessly for many years. Recently I purchased a Xikar soft-flame cigar lighter for my EDC and so far it has performed extremely well. As Mikem said, with any butane lighter, bleeding it regularly is part of the maintenance process. I also usually take...

I have not been hanging out at BoB much in the past few months. For the past year my wife had been suffering from a very serious cardio-pulmonary disease and I had given up most of my other activities including pipe smoking to spend time with her and take over most of the household duties that...

I spend about 3 days a week on the road and could not do it without XM. Mostly either the finance shows or news radio, so it really acts more like a substitute for TV that is on all day when I am in the office. At our weekend cabin in the woods, we have no satellite or cable, so all our...

Been a loyal JR's customer for over 10 years. Both pipes and cigars. Have always loved his catalogs, don't know if Lew is still involved in the writing but always enjoyed his stories of he and Lavonda getting their start in NYC, or his days on the farm out in Kansas. JR has gotten a pretty...

Have collected a few mostly Fenders over the years but this JV Strat seems to get played more than the rest.

Most of my tobacco stash, along with all my cigars, reside in coleman-type cooler chests. These have proven over the years to be relatively air-tight (cooler-dors are popular in the cigar crowd) and will maintain decent humidity as long as they are not opened too often. For cigars I also keep a...

Neat looking rifle. Is it a .308? Been hankering for a Springfield myself lately.

I wouldn't mess with trying to repair myself especially if pipe is a nice one. Fitting a new replacement tenon should be dead simple and relatively cheap at any decent repair shop. Easiest would be a replacement delrin tenon but matching the exact stem material should not be a problem although...

Go back and forth between CH and Walnut.