I plan on visiting cigar bid when I'm prepared to snag several items. Grabbing a 16oz bag of SP for $3 looks fun, but I don't want to degrade the thrill of the score by paying $5 shipping. I know... stingy a$$. 8-) You can set up your account to hold winning items for shipping, so if you set it up ...

Here's an Italian made "Old Vic". It wasn't in bad shape before I started and general clean up was painless but I decided to lightly sand the rustication, the rim of the bowl and the end of the shank in order to add some mahogany and give the pipe a little more color contrast. :D Before... https://...

Wooda wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 17, 2019 11:40 am

You guys here will have exclusive access to a sweet deal here and there

Nice work and congrats! Any Morta in the future?

rekamepip wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 17, 2019 5:24 pm

steaks ribs and shrimp is a smokin

ODF in an unmentionable pipe

We don't talk about those!

Houtencake in the same Grand Duke. So about 6 months or so ago, I bought a couple Dr. G's and after 4-5 smokes the finishes suddenly blistered and bubbled. Just now the Grand Duke I was smoking did the same thing.. totally cool bowl, then all the sudden bubbles in the finish. I think this is happen...

totally awesome pipe there monk. Thanks, man, love those smooth African meers in classic shapes. I’ve been seeing some of your pipes and obviously we share some of the same taste. You have a few that make me double take. Thank you, I can be... particular, to say the least. When something catches my...

Happy Berfday, Mr. Keif!

Fr_Tom wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 15, 2019 5:44 pm

Oriental Dusk in a Piersel Rhodesian

Nice. How long have you had this one?

Jarred some FVF and have a little bit of trimmings leftover from cutting them to fit, packed in a Barling

Mrm1775 wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 15, 2019 5:10 pm

Thelonious monkfish wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 13, 2019 7:12 pm

Barling Meer

totally awesome pipe there monk.

Thanks, man, love those smooth African meers in classic shapes.

One thing I've always wondered, since I tend to avoid pipes that need significant patches like this - I am assuming you used black super glue, perhaps with some sort of substrate to repair that stem. When you do this, if the vulcanite begins to oxidize is it totally glaringly obvious that the stem ...