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    April Showers Bring May Pipes

    It doesn't rhyme, but that's what happened with Fred Brown in his new column for May. Check it out right here. Pipes Running Amok!
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    Pipe Maker Brian Laurent on Radio Show of April 30, 2024

    Our featured interview on tonight's Pipes Magazine Radio Show is with pipe maker Brian Laurent. Brian has worked with his hands since he was 14-years old. He’s been a woodworker for over 20 years. After he became a pipe smoker, he started making pipe racks, and then graduated to making pipes. He...
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    History of Pipes Magazine?

    No. The guy bought four cigar sites including mine. My site was the only profitable one until he bought it and ignored everything I said. It was out of business three years later.
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    History of Pipes Magazine?

    Usually I'm not a fan of old posts getting bumped, but this one is funny. I sold the cigar site in September 2008 for six figures. I signed the contract the same day Lehmann Bros collapsed. Lucky timing for me. I registered the domain PipesMagazine.com in November 2008 after spending the day...
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    Per Jensen on Radio Show of April 23, 2024

    Our featured interview on tonight's Pipes Magazine Radio Show is with Per George Jensen. Most pipe enthusiasts know Per as the longtime Mac Baren Tobacco Company spokesman. Last year he made some changes in his life. He got married, moved to Germany and parted ways with Mac Baren, but not with...
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    Chicago Pipe Show was Epic! Here's the 2024 Report

    The Chicago pipe show is back with a vengeance!. This year we had a pipe smoking TV celebrity in attendance, new management at Kaywoodie was announced, more people attended than last year, it's Sutliff's 175th anniversary, Missouri Meerschaum's 155th anniversary, and there was high drama at The...
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    Pete Provost of BriarWorks on Radio Show of April 16, 2024

    Our featured interview on tonight's Pipes Magazine Radio Show is with Pete Prevost. Pete is a pipe maker and the President of the BriarWorks pipe factory in Columbia Tennessee. BriarWorks is a a pipe maker co-op with several other pipe makers, including Todd Johnson, who co-founded it with Pete...
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    Jon David Cole on Radio Show of April 9, 2024

    He was on two months ago before this - February 6.
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    Broken Pipe Craig Cobine

    Wow! I missed this until just now. RIP Craig. He was one of the first enthusiastic supporters of PipesMagazine.com when we met at the 2009 Chicago show. I was met with much skepticism when I appeared at that show by several people. Many thought this site wouldn't become anything as it was brand...
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    Smoking a Pipe is Simple ... Unless You're Doing it Wrong

    While reading Gregory Pease's new article for April, I was nodding my head in agreement throughout the entirety. I don't often think about what I'm doing when filling and lighting my pipe, and it usually works out ok. Usually. Then there are the times when it's just a complete failure - smoking...
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    Jon David Cole on Radio Show of April 9, 2024

    Our featured interview on tonight's Pipes Magazine Radio Show is with Jon David Cole. JD is the Owner/Tobacconist at The Country Squire in Jackson, MS, and he is the former co-host of the podcast, Country Squire Radio, which ended their 10-year run last year. We’ll have JD with the “From the...
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    Sutliff – Pipe Force Episode I Tobacco Review

    Sutliff's Pipe Force One tobacco series, created by Per Jensen, is certainly the most creative modern take on one of the most old school pastimes in the world. Conventional pipe tobacco blends are mixed with rarely seen pipe tobacco components, and put under a Stars Wars-like theme artwork, and...
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    Collector and Author Rick Newcombe on Radio Show of April 2, 2024

    Our featured interview on tonight's Pipes Magazine Radio Show is with Rick Newcombe. Rick is a well-known author of two pipe books, and he is currently working on his third book about pipes. He is a prominent collector of Danish pipes, and vintage tobaccos. He has traveled the world visiting...
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    Springtime is Pipe Walkabout Time

    Fred, in his April column, is readying himself and his pipes to take in the spring flowers, sunshine and mild temperatures with a leisurely walk with mother nature. Check it out right here: Huffing and Puffing in the Wildwoods
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    Kevin the Hobbiton Piper on Radio Show of March 26, 2024

    Our featured interview on tonight's Pipes Magazine Radio Show is with Kevin the Hobbiton Piper. Kevin was originally on the show in August 2021. The Hobbiton Piper YouTube Channel has 9.24k subscribers and over 120 videos with pipe and tobacco reviews, box openings, food, drink, and more...