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Your Experience with Bit Grips/Softy Bits?
I use them on all my pipes. I rinse them with water and apply a small amount of my homemade stem ointment (combo of beeswax and mineral oil) to the stem and the bit and have never had an off taste. Reapplication every once in a while keeps them from drying out. I have never experienced the...- G-beard
- Post #48
- Forum: Pipes Accessories
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Pipe Cleaner Not Passing Through Shank
Shine a flashlight down into the bowl while looking into the shank. This will allow you to see the outline/profile of the airway. If you have other pipes, do this to them as well, to give yourself an idea of what normal looks like. You can also do this with the stem on to see how well the stem...- G-beard
- Post #13
- Forum: Pipe Repair and Maintenance
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Turkiewicz Mortas?
Interesting. I didn't know morta had a tendency to crack. Seems like a reason to avoid it, and it explains my limited experience. I bought a morta off of Smokingpipes a few years back. While cleaning it after it's first smoke, I noticed a crack. I wasn't sure if it came with a crack that I... -
Have Any Blends Gotten Better?
- G-beard
- Post #78
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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My First German Pipe
I have one German pipe, a Vauen. It reminds me of van Gogh's Starry Night. Came with both a standard length bent stem and a churchwarden stem, so you can smoke it as either. Highly recommended. -
Pipe Rotation
1) Don't really have a rotation. I try to move through all of them equally, but really just pick what strikes me in the moment. My meer is probably the only one that definitively gets a disproportionate number of bowls, but that is just because I want to color it more. 2) 50-60 3) One more... -
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Dunhill Experts- Pipe Date
Glad I'm not the only one. The T or S following the group size circle being the same size as the circle, almost the same size, or smaller than the circle also seems a bit nebulous at times. I've seen examples where it clearly seems to be the same size as, or clearly smaller than the circle, but... -
Dunhill Experts- Pipe Date
There wasn't actually all that much consternation. I own the pipe and have never yet sold a pipe that I own, so it's relatively moot. I just like to know, for the sake of knowledge, and it can be useful for future potential purchases. I have seen suggestion that Dunhill had to move away from... -
Dunhill Experts- Pipe Date
Interesting. I also have a '52 Tanshell that is VERY craggy - much more so than typical Tanshells. I was wondering if they might have experimented with Algerian originally. -
Dunhill Experts- Pipe Date
Pipedia, however, suggests that underlined versions did occur in the 60's, at least for shell finishes - hence the consternation. https://pipedia.org/wiki/A_Dunhill_Pipe_Dating_Guide -
Dunhill Experts- Pipe Date
Also apparently '64 and prior, the T for Tanshell was smaller than the group size circle, and '65 and after, the T was "approximately the same size" as the preceding circle. It seems like both of these descriptions could be argued in this case. -
Dunhill Experts- Pipe Date
What say you? Is this a '56 or '66? It seems as though the underlined/raised numbers were more indicative of 50's and those without the underline more indicative of 60's, but both versions occurred in both decades. The size being smaller than the D or same size as the D is also supposed to be a... -
Big Home-Brewed Billiard
I have a very similar pipe. Big billiards are great! Yours is larger, though. This one is 5 & 2/3" long with a chamber that is 1.8" deep and 0.82" in diameter. -
Dane Gelder pipes?
Anyone know anything about Dane Gelder pipes? Nothing in pipedia or any of the other usual sources that I can find. I have only found a few offered for sale in a few places like eBay, but without any good info. One listed for sale claimed it was from 1914 without any supporting info. Another...