Peterson Trunk Show at Nat Sherman

[ May 5, 2008; 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. ] There will be a Pipe Show at Nat Sherman’s 5th Avenue store in New York City (12 East 42nd Street) on Monday May 5 from 10 am - 5 pm.

Tom Palmer from Peterson of Dublin will be there to talk about pipes and the biz. There will be some amazing pipes on display and for [...]

Avoiding Burning Out A Blowfish

Jonathan writes in to ask:
I was hoping for some advice. I have a very high grade pipe from a very well known carver. It is a blowfish shape and one of the walls was cut very very thin. The carver has offered to replace the pipe at no additional cost to me but I am [...]

Brief Update

John Lennon said “life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans”, and he was oh so very right. Life has happened here folks, and all my plans have come to a screeching halt for a little bit.
As some of you know, I am living in south Georgia at the moment in order to [...]

Pipe & Tobacco Trades, Swaps and Auctions

I have been a bit out of the loop for a while and I was wondering, what are the venues people use these days to trade or sell estate pipes and aged tins? Is it mostly through dealers and eBay, or is there somewhere I don’t know about?
How do you swap, buy and sell your [...]

Comments Are Now Threaded

Just a quick note to let everyone know that every comment on every article now has a “reply to this comment” link. If you click that link, the comment you leave will be nicely nested under the comment you are replying to. That should help us keep our discussions straight!

More On Tagging Blends

My previous post on better searching and discovery of blends has generated a good discussion on the possibility of tagging. I thought it deserved its own thread here, so I am moving the discussion of tagging over to this post so we can keep it on its own.
Now, to respond to the comments so far. [...]

More Blend Discovery Ideas

User Tobold writes:
There’s been any number of times that I wish I could . . .
a.      Bring up a list of blends that I would have flagged in the past as being of interest to me.  Then, I would click on the blend and go to the review page of that blend.
b.      Bring up a [...]

Duty Free Smoking?

Philip writes:
Do non-Uk pipesmokers realise that some blends of tobacco bought at UK duty free shops are not the original blend that would be bought in UK tobacconists? Examples are St. Bruno and Gold Block.
This assertion is news to me. Perhaps Philip, or someone else, would care to fill us in a bit further. Specifically, [...]

Better Searching & Blend Discovery

The responses to the Classifying Blends post have been very enlightening. It seems that the overwhelming sentiment is that instituting some sort of classification scheme for tobaccos would only be useful if it was helpful in finding new tobaccos to try out. There also seems to be wide agreement that there is too much disagreement [...]