Pipe Lines and Seconds

For all of you that might looking for an information about pipe lines and seconds I recommend to read this article an pipes.org

Another source on tobacco blending

Here you can find very interesting informations about tobacco types, their characteristics,  and finally receipts on tobacco blending.

A really great source. Hope you enjoy

And here is one of receipts :

“Sailorman Jack’s cigar leaf blend

2 ounces red virginia,
2 ounces lemon virginia,
11.5 ounces latakia,
0.5 ounces perique,
4 ounces shredded cigar leaf.
After blending, LEAVE IT ALONE for 10 to 14 days to allow the various ingredients to “marry.”

Barcelona Pipe Club and Contest on photography

Here are few pictures that were send to Barcelona Pipe Club for photography competition.

by Santiago González Barros

by Inmaculada Reina Segovia

by Copérnico García

For more pictures please visit Barcelona Pipe Club website

How to Smoke a Tobacco Pipe

On WikiHow I have found a chapter called: How to Smoke a Tobacco Pipe

from wikiHow – The How to Manual That You Can Edit
The art of pipe smoking is a fully underestimated task of complete enjoyment for all! Here is how to smoke your pipe to enjoy it the most!

Steps

1. Find a pipe that fits you. There are many tobacconists around the world who would be more than happy to help you find the perfect pipe. Prices range from six dollars to several thousand.
2. Find the right tobacco for you. There are many varieties: aromatics, American blends, English blends, Virginias, Burleys, and many more. A tobacconist will be able to help there, as well. People completely new to smoking may enjoy an aromatic or lighter strength tobacco, while someone coming from cigarettes or cigars might prefer a heavier type of blend. Buy small amounts representing several different genres.
3. Fill your bowl. Fill loosely with tobacco and compress it lightly (using a “child’s touch”). Compressed halfway from the bottom of the bowl to the top. Fill again to the top and compress with a little more force (a “woman’s touch”). This time halfway from the top of the previous packing to the top. Now top it off and compress a bit harder (a “man’s touch”). Again half way from the last point to the top. Should leave roughly a 1/8th of an inch gap from the tobacco to the top of the bowl. You need to make sure it is not so tight that you cannot draw through it; you should be able to draw air though with little or no resistance. The tobacco should be springy to the touch. It’s best to have your tobacconist or an experienced pipe smoker show you. Correct packing takes a little practice, and has a lot of impact on how enjoyable your experience will be.
4. Light the pipe with a wooden match or a pipe lighter. Let the match burn off the sulfur a few seconds. Move the flame around the surface of the tobacco while drawing gently until evenly lit, then tamp gently with a tamper. Let it go out, then relight the same way.
5. Puff slowly and rhythmically. Patience is rewarded. Puffing too fast will result in tongue bite – a burning sensation on the tongue.
6. Tamp the tobacco gently periodically throughout the smoke to ensure the bowl remains correctly packed while smoking. Don’t worry if the pipe goes out from time to time – it will. Simply relight.
7. Make sure you smoke your pipe to the end to create a nice “cake” at the bottom and side of your pipe bowl.
8. Relax and enjoy. Pipe smoking is the quintessential art of smoking.

Tips

• Above all, be patient, and take things slow. For most, the pipe smoking experience isn’t pleasant until skills in packing, lighting, tamping, and smoking cadence are mastered, and you’ve found some tobacco blends and a pipe that suit you. Tongue bite means you’re doing something wrong. If you don’t like it at first, keep experimenting, and discuss your new hobby with experienced smokers.
• Keep a pipe cleaner handy. At the first sign of moisture coming through the stem of the pipe, stick the pipe cleaner into the stem and let it absorb any condensation.
• If the pipe gets hot, let it go out and cool down. Smoking a pipe too hot won’t taste good, and it may damage your pipe and/or your tongue. A good guide as to whether your pipe is too hot is if you can’t hold the bowl against your cheek comfortably then let it cool down.
• Allow briar pipes time to rest between smokes – the consensus is at least a day. Consider adding some corn cob pipes to your rotation while you build your collection of briar pipes. A meerschaum pipe is a great investment due to their smoking quality and the fact that they don’t need to rest between smokes.
• Avoid buying the cheap “basket” or department store briar pipes. A corn cob pipe will smoke much better than a cheap briar, and cost much less if finances are a problem.
• Never buy a metal (brass or silver) pipe. They look very unusual and striking but remember – metal conducts heat. These are for show. You will seriously burn yourself with these.
• Allow a nice cake to grow in the bowl of the pipe. This protects the bowl from cracking. After a while, it will become necessary to scrape some of the cake off, but you may want to consult your tobacconist about that.
• Whenever you are finished with a pipe, allow it to cool and then polish it using pipe polish and a clean, lint free cloth. This helps to preserve the shine and appearance, as well as protecting the bowl from heat, dirt, and corrosion.

Warnings

• Smoking can cause cancer and has been linked to heart disease.
• Don’t smoke if it is illegal to do so in your area.
• Pipe smoking is only marginally safer than cigarette smoking.

Things You’ll Need

• A good pipe
• Pipe tamper/tool
• Reamer (you won’t need this right away for cleaning)
• Pipe cleaners
• Tobacco
• A knowledgeable tobacconist!
• Pipe polish
• Clean, lint free cloth

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Meerschaum pipe making

Here is another video I have found about Meerschaum pipe making.

and here is another-one

AlPascia visit Mimmo Romeo

Here is another great video about Art of pipe making and very interesting info about briars.

Enjoy

Shapes, Flakes and more. Movie by Peter Wallner & Thomas Schober.

Another great tutorial by Peter Wallner from Vienna Pipe Club

How to fill your pipe. The Airpocket Method

How to fill your pipe. The Airpocket Method – another great guide by Peter Wallner

Vintage cigarette TV advertising

Just watch and listen

Dunhill Duke Street Shope – Special Pipe

Two points about the smoking ban

Here we got very interesting point about Smoking Ban

If you are interested to leave any comments or see some more videos, please visit Dorm2003’s channel on youtube.com

A Rare Pipe from a Plantation Slave Cemetery

In African Diaspora Archaeology Network, Newsletter, September 2007, you can find a great article about European pipes find.

Here is an article

Pipe Smoking – Postcards

Here are some pipe smoking postcards I have found.

Sherlock Holmes Pipe Club of Boston – Monthly Newsletter

For all Sherlock Holmes fans I recommend you to visit Sherlock Holmes Pipe Club of Boston

Lincoln London Pipe – refurbish process

I was fortunate enough to finish refurbish process on my latest arrival Lincoln London Made Pipe.

That was before condition of the pipe:

The biggest problem was with stem.
I decided to bring back live in to old stem, I have made a wooden extension from oak tree.

with extension:

Vienna Pipe Club – The Antigravitation Method

Vienna Pipe Club

How to handle Plug & Twist – Great Guide

How to handle Plug & Twist tobaccos – another great video how to prepare and pack your pipe with Plugs and Twists Tobaccos

Philadelphia Old Mans Pipe Klub

Here is a great slidshow presented by Philadelphia Old Mans Pipe Klub

Vintage Tobacco commercial -Lucky Strike “it’s toasted”

Here is another great Vintage Tobacco commercial

Old Camels Cigarette Commercial

More Doctors Smoke Camels Than Any Other Cigarette

and

Classic 1970/71 Camel Filters Cigarettes Commercial

and here is another one

Camel Cigarettes : Born Rich

Swedish Snus, Smokeless Tobacco ad

Another great add, this time about Swedish Snus

And here is another article on my blog about Swedish Snus

Big Red Chewing Tobacco, 1981-01-15

and here is another commercial about chewing tobacco

Levi Garrett chewing tobacco commercial (1986)

Robert “baldpipeguy” and his ARDOR GIANT

Here is Ol’ Judge Robbins in the “Horseless Carriage” Days

Here is Ol’ Judge Robbins in the “Horseless Carriage” Days (Popular Mechanics,  Jul, 1936)

O’ Judge Robbins in the “Horseless Carriage” Days
GENTLEMEN, MEET THE PRINCE OF PIPE TOBACCOS-PRINCE ALBERT

Introduce yourself to Prince Albert at our risk. As a tobacco fancier, notice how P. A.’s “crimp cut” makes for a cooler smoke. Enjoy steady pipe-smoking that doesn’t bite the tongue. See how evenly Prince Albert cakes in yourpipe. How mellow, fragrant, and comforting it is! Below is our man-to-man offer. P. A.’s grand “makin’s” too.

50 pipefuls of fragrant tobacco in every 2-oz. tin of Prince Albert

OUR OFFER TO PIPE SMOKERS

“You must be pleased”

Smoke 20 fragrant pipefuls of Prince Albert. If you don’t find it the mellowest, tastiest pipe tobacco you ever smoked, return the pocket tin with the rest of the tobacco in it to us at any time within a month from this date, and we will refund full purchase price, plus postage. (Signed) R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Winston-Salem, N. C.

Prince albert

THE NATIONAL JOY SMOKE!

For more great articles see ModernMechanix

La trahison des images – René Magritte

Here is another post, related to Art and pipe smoking.

Treachery of Images (La trahison des images ) great painting by René Magritte, which shows us that the painting is not a pipe, it is an image of a pipe. Great piece of classic. And great prepared slideshow with more Magritte’s works.

Evening pipe video

I have found another interesting video about pipe smoking,  this time a nice and relaxing evening with pipe.

Player’s tobacco advertisement

Here is very interesting advertisement of Player’s tobacco I found recently

Pipe smoking on film

I think that will be a series about pipe smoking appearing on film.

Here is first lot:

This is a clip from the 1966 film “Maigret und sein grosster Fall”

This is a clip from the magnificent 1959 GB comedy ‘Battle of the sexes’

“Ancient Creature” – another hand made tamper

My last hand made tamper is on its way to new home, so I decided to gain new skills and have a relaxing time, and keep myself with good work

I have choose pear wood again.
On pictures you can see, how my work was looking like.

As recently my tampers are inspired by various things, I called this one Ancient Creature 

Lincoln Real Sandblasted Briar London Made

Here is a pipe I won on Polish auction.
It’s Lincoln Real Sandblasted Briar London Made.

Pipe got nice shape. But the only problem is really bad condition of stem.

I’m looking forward to do some refurbish on stem and bring some live to my latest addition

My first freehand tamper “No. 1″

Few days ago I decided I need to relax myself for a while.

I took pear wood, which some Polish pipe makers are using for pipes making.

And I cut this tamper out. When I have finished I waxed it with Carnauba .

Here is the final result of my work.

And that is my first freehand tamper now

As my friend, an artist said, that tamper is closer to strange sculpture than to pipe tamper  but I hope you enjoy