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I’m playing around with oak scraps from new stairs I put in. Still working on the stairs.

Here’s a few pics
 

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I'm surprised I haven't seen this thread before, considering the number of posts.

I started smoking a pipe when I was about 54 and turned 62 today. Along with homebrewing and photography, pipe smoking and collecting is my other main hobby. While I do enjoy smoking and admiring my beautiful pipes, it is the friendships I have forged through pipe smoking that has been the main benefit. I have now have many friends in the pipe community both locally and internationally.

The last weekend of May 2022, my pipe club, the Chicago Pipe Collectors Club (CPCC), is hosting the 25th Chicagoland International Pipe and Tobacciana Show near Chicago. It has been the largest pipe show in the world for most of those 25 years. It's a great, multi-day event. Although I expect a modest decrease in foreign visitors due to COVID-19, this is looking like another great show. If you're able to come, check it out!
 
Welcome Craiginthecorn

Thank you for sharing!
Tobacco pipes are art-full creations and pipe smoking is not a lost art as my title to this thread suggested.

Welcome! I look forward to your sharing

Mahalo
Dan
 
Its been so long, I don't remember. Started off as a cigar smoker and transitioned to a pipe at the behest of my brother. Not that I don't enjoy a great cigar, I do. Any fool can smoke a cigar but it takes a little talent to smoke a pipe.
 
I'm going to be at the Chicago Pipe Show this Thursday-Sunday and will have 5 gallons of a California Common with Simcoe in addition to the traditional Northern Brewer hops. First time brewing this style and it's pretty solid.

Anyone else going?
 
To far away from SC for me!
I just saw this thread and wanted to add I’m a pipe smoker also, enjoy a good bowl with a bourbon.
I order lots of different tobacco to try, just like beer or food I don’t want the same flavor every time.
 
I use this kind of tobacco pipe , for me its not a lost art its more of a forgotten art and i forgot what i was gonna say 😉
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I was sick a few weeks ago and it stuck with me for a whole two weeks so I hadn't smoked in about a month but I did today and hell the first whiff of tobacco excited my senses in a way that's hard to explain.
 
Have been enjoying some Sutliff Heavy English recently. It’s Latakia forward but not heavy by any means. Cool, dry smoke. I have a dedicated pipe for this because all my other pipes are aromatic seasoned.

Will keep this tobacco around, probably delve into more English blends but will also keep smoking aromatics.
 
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Been looking for a pipe tobacco that taste like a good cigar. Haven’t found one. Finally decided if I want good cigar flavor, just open my humidor and smoke a good cigar.

I haven’t found a cigar that taste like a pipe and vice versa.
 
Been looking for a pipe tobacco that taste like a good cigar. Haven’t found one. Finally decided if I want good cigar flavor, just open my humidor and smoke a good cigar.

I haven’t found a cigar that taste like a pipe and vice versa.
Potentially stupid question, but can one buy cigar tobacco leaves and instead of rolling shred it for pipe smoking?
 
Anybody still check out this thread?


i just saw it again and want to ask if the one handed roll of a cigarette was a lost art too? on horse back of course..... :mug:

Potentially stupid question, but can one buy cigar tobacco leaves and instead of rolling shred it for pipe smoking?

i shouldn't say this but

https://www.leafonly.com/
and if you ever wanted tobacco flavored wraps to compliment your glass dick... good for that too!
 
i just saw it again and want to ask if the one handed roll of a cigarette was a lost art too? on horse back of course..... :mug:



i shouldn't say this but

https://www.leafonly.com/
and if you ever wanted tobacco flavored wraps to compliment your glass dick... good
i just saw it again and want to ask if the one handed roll of a cigarette was a lost art too? on horse back of course..... :mug:



i shouldn't say this but

https://www.leafonly.com/
and if you ever wanted tobacco flavored wraps to compliment your glass dick... good for that too!
Shots fired 😆
 
Gotcha thats cool, you do whatever you like to do


i have experimented trying to figure out how to make ALL my own, f'd around with cell cultures. unfortantly, a glass petri dish with a marijuana cell culture isn't the same for a pipe smoking thread 🤣


of course me saying over and over when i asked for a tobacco pipe at the head shop a few years back, and had to keep saying NO a 'TOBACCO' pipe...until they took me a little glass display to get one...it is a lost art..
 
I’ve made a few pipe stands.

Here is one I made for my son. The hole is off center. Can’t believe I got that wrong. Very embarrassing

The wood is red oak and maple
 

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My dad was an avid pipe smoker. He always like the bent ones. I can’t remember times when he didn’t have a pipe in his mouth. Crazy thing is, he was a doctor, a physician. I guess back in his day smoking was ok. Funny thing though he wasn’t a heavy smoker just always had a pipe when he was not at his practice.

Good man my dad. My hero in many ways
 
Dad grew up on a farm. My grandpa was a tough father. Assholish. I think that is why Dad got the hell out of the house and went to college. Dad and his older brother went to Palmer College, Davenport

My sis once told me something my mom told her. Back in the early days my grandparents brought food to Mom and Dad.

Fast forward 20 years and Dad and Mom were a bit, not sure wealthy is the correct word. But they were a little well to do.

Both passed in there mid 60’s. I’m almost that old in 5 years. I have no idea why cancer took them out. It’s just effed up
 
I’m not sure how to work this.

I’d like to give away pipe stands to HBT. Like the ones I showed. I’m not an artist.

Maybe some of you can help me figure out how.

Tex and Passedpawn are my go to folk

Mahalo
Dan Dawson
 
You're a good man Dan, I always love your posts. I'm sorry about your parents, that's way too young to go.

I have about half and half bent stem and straight stem, I love them all. I'm the first one in my family to start smoking a pipe, my parents never touched tobacco as far as I know, I'm pretty sure my grandparents smoked cigarettes but everybody did back then and they stopped early on.

I haven't smoked much lately because either I'm having lasting symptoms of the flu or I have really bad allergies.
 
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THIS IS A LONG POST I HOPE YOU READ


I hope you get to feeling better soon Sam!

Obviously smoking tobacco means a person doesn’t care about their health….Ahem, snortle, BS :)

I care about my health or wouldn’t try and take care of it. I have some behaviors that taken to extremes would probably be my doomsday.

I believe a human body is extremely strong. Taking good care of it helps along the way to fight off disease and crappy stuff.

My parents pretty much lived a clean life. A bottle of wine would last for a few years. Only to be had at New Years dinner. Morgan David- yech.

Ya, Dad smoked a pipe very gently. I think mostly it was an oral fixation thing (that shouldn’t sound gay, it’s like some people chew on toothpicks or pencils)

He didn’t die from oral or lung cancer. It was colon. Mostly preventable now if a person gets a colonoscopy regularly. I don’t think my dad did. Can’t ask him now but guessing no.

My last colonoscopy at age 57, I had 10 polyps. None cancerous or pre-cancerous. The doc removed them all. I pretty much woke up during the procedure. Enough to talk to the doc and remember.

If you’ve ever walked through tunnels that are amazingly beautiful you would be more amazed at the inside of your colon.

There’s no poop. A cleansing process that will turn your ahole into a wide open fire hydrant the day before ensures no poop.

Sounds like a bad process to go through. It isn’t really. The two castings days before is really the hard part. Liquids only

As I was saying I woke up during the procedure. Not enough to feel a big ass snake with camera stuck deep into my colon

I’m going to tell you your colon (cleaned out) is a beautiful mysterious tunnel

How many still hanging into this post. Lol.

I talked to the nurse after the procedure and told her how amazing the video stream of my colon were. She said she had been the doctors nurse 33 years and since she started 30 years ago she has been amazed by the beauty of a (cleaned) colon.

I’m not making this up.

Everyman and woman by the age of 50 should have a colonoscopy. Polyps can be removed before they become cancerous. Years before

If my dad would have done that early on. Potentially he would been 90 this year which isn’t real crazy. He has two older sisters in their 90’s and his much older brother died at 96.

My dad died at 66. 35 years younger than his oldest brother.

My mom? 62. Cancer. I have no idea why

This is a very long text but I feel it is important.

Don’t be hesitant to get a colonoscopy. Trust me it’s better than not getting one, getting colon cancer and having so much colon removed you need to poop through a bab stick I’m your gut and needing a nurse to clean it out. Worse off your Kim’s have to do that chore.

I had to do that once for my dad. I wish to hell his; maybe pride, maybe embarrassment having the procedure done. I wish he would have gotten over that aspect. Because I’ll tell you what. Having my dad around would have been really great these past 28 years would have been great!

My mom. I think from what I know now. PAP smears would have saved her life too. She was the youngest in her family. The oldest sister died in her mid-ninetees. Mom’s two older brothers alive are in their late eighties. Mom would be 86 now.

Cancer screening. If you think it’s embarrassing and you’re ok. Not so embarrassing, you might be ok now. But cancer is like rust, corrosion. It might only be a little now but time doesn’t wait. Eventually it eats through the structure

I didn’t plan to put anything like this on a pipe thread. I just hope those who have read all the way through please heed my advice.

Your children will be happy you are taking precautionary measures so you’ll be around when your children will still need you. So your grandchildren will get to spend a good number of years with you.

Mahalo
Dan Dawson
 
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