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Should I Be Concerned About This Draft Hole?
It's my understanding that this how all Pete's are drilled. There should be no expectation that a Pete should pass a cleaner. It's just the way it is with them. It can be corrected with a Dremel and needle files, which I used on the one Pete I own.- pinem
- Post #17
- Forum: Pipe Repair and Maintenance
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Tobacco Quality
The overnight decline of K&K blends, that in 2015 when I started smoking a pipe, were considered top choices (Solani, Wessex, Rattrays, F&T, Aylsbury, Astleys, McConnell, etc.) would seam to indicate all is not equal. The decline also matches up with McClellands exit.- pinem
- Post #26
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Captain Black Grape 🍇
Not sure if this has been brought up yet, but GP Haddos Delight strikes me as a stand in for CBG. Granted I have only smoked the CBG cigarellos, about 3 years ago, and am cross referencing this to a tin of HD that had 7 years on it before opening (which might be causing the blend to be overly...- pinem
- Post #101
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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A DTM/Orlik Question for Those in the Know
I consider cigar smokers, like wine snobs, to be the type that kept PT Barnum employed. I enjoy both, but the high priced stuff, while good, is meant to serve the needs of the 1% only. Middle and upper class buyers are just letting vanity get in the way of sanity, by horning in. Pipe tobacco...- pinem
- Post #32
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses.
I'm a civil engineer, and have help design dolpins and piers for vessel impact. Those dolphins appear to be too far away from the pier to be useful. There is a lot of old infrastructure that has been underdesigned. This appears to be one of those cases.- pinem
- Post #84
- Forum: General Discussion
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What are You Watching? [2024] Please Rate 1-5
3 Body Problem - Netflix - 1/5 So frustrating how the hacks that destroyed GoT have been given permission to destroy another great book series. The source material is so original and unique, and the writers have turned it into a love triangle melodrama that should be on the CW network. It's a...- pinem
- Post #185
- Forum: General Discussion
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A Sherry Evening
PXs are the most approachable for neophytes. Another fortified wine that parallels Sherry is Madeira. I generally prefer it if I'm buying the cheaper bottles. It also stores really well once opened, unlike Fino and Manzanillo that should be used up within a day or two. Madiera was also the...- pinem
- Post #23
- Forum: Food & Drink
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Tools Trifecta Thread
Might be fun, might not, but thought I would post a photo of my currently favorite pipe, favorite source of fire, and favorite tamper. It's taken me a few years to figure out what I like, and this seems to be it. Ardor Meteora, IM Corona Pipemaster, and a modest 8Deco tamp. What's yours?- pinem
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The Four Hundred Marxman Pipe Owner's Thread
It has to be said. The emperor has no clothes. What a waste of good briar. Vanity has no bounds of turning natural beauty and wonder into trash. A pox on Marxman! It's so obvious he hated natural (dare I say it, divine) beauty and wanted to scar it, twist it, ruin it, rape it, to stoke...- pinem
- Post #80
- Forum: Pipes: Show Us Your (fill in the blank) Pipes
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What are You Watching? [2024] Please Rate 1-5
A Round of Appaulse- Netflix - 4.5/5 A surreal Turkish series. Pretty original and clever. Normally I find most of the foreign content on Netflix (exception being the German content in general, and a few French series/films) to be derivative and uninspired. This was different. A existential...- pinem
- Post #128
- Forum: General Discussion
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On the Importance of Beauty
I don't see that turning into a swan, unless we are talking about a swan that found its way through a jet engine or cockpit window. That is truly an exceptionally ugly pipe. As for the first pipe, it reminds me of pre-torn jeans. I appears there was a lack of hands present in the vicinity of...- pinem
- Post #25
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Help Me Choose a Blend for the Redwoods
They're brick pavers, not stone. Tomayto, tomahto.- pinem
- Post #30
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Help Me Choose a Blend for the Redwoods
I'm just a State of Jefferson agitator 😗. That collision probably happened on the Lincoln Highway. There is still a segment of the Lincoln Highway north of me that still has the original cobblestone pavers.- pinem
- Post #27
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Help Me Choose a Blend for the Redwoods
Thanks guys, yes I'm overthinking it. Do greatly appreciate the responses though. I have previously been to Cresent Beach / Jedediah Smith SP and did the Boy Scout and Grove of the Titans trails. It was raining when we did Boy Scout and the trail was deserted. One of those cases where you...- pinem
- Post #26
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Help Me Choose a Blend for the Redwoods
Taking a family trip to real northern California (the bay area is fake northern California ;) ) in a few weeks, and I am struggling to choose a blend or two to take with me. If you been, you know the smell of the redwood forests, and I am trying to pick something that will pair well with the...- pinem
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- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion