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- A Masterful Collector
- A pipe for one last smoke.
- Guest Post: The First Phoenix
- Otherwise Occupied for Now
- Taking a Pipe from Good to Great
- NeatPipes' AeroBilliard takes flight
- Get 'em while they're hot!
- Undiscovered Country
- Charles Cole
- A Visit to Raven's Grove
- On Single Artisan Collecting
- Celebrating International Pipe Smoking Day
- Talking Shop
- Advice to new pipe-smokers on selecting a pipe.
- Advice to New Pipe Smokers on Choosing Tobacco
- Be careful to whom you pay attention.
- You can't smoke Créme Brûlée.
- Inspiration
- Relax with Edgeworth
- Bill Unger
- Lessons from a Park Bench
- The sad decline of pipe tobacco merchandising.
- 'Twas the Pipe Before Christmas
- The 2012 Piper's Dozen
- New Vintages Project Publications
- Wit for Bile
- The Perils of Pipe Remodeling for Buyers and Sellers
- How a block of briar turns into a child's loving home.
- Cool and the Geezer Factor
- A Perfect Pairing: Sazerac and English
- Why Less is More
- Sixty
- Pipeness
- A Wartime Treasure
- Rick Newcombe's Still Searching for Pipe Dreams
- The Package
- Catching Fire
- The Second-Millennium Falcon
- 2012 Richmond CORPS Expo
- Steve Liskey: "Bamboo First"
- Frog Morton's Cellar
- When does a pipe become ours?
- Sampling Sextant
- No Nonsense.
- Nate King's GearPunk Vroom Paul
- A Labor of Love
- The Whangee
- Slots and Buttons, Part Two
- Slots and Buttons
- A blend is a blend is a blend. Not.
- Failing forward.
- Tobacco Roads
- Is pipe-smoking your dirty, little secret?
- Pairing Pipes and Tobaccos
- Steve Liskey crosses the chasm.
- Some pipes are better than others and other heresies.
- Jan Anderson's Scandinavian Pipemakers
- Why I think Tom Eltang is an artist.
- Fred Hanna's "The Perfect Smoke"
- Today is the Fifth Anniversary Pipe Order Deadline
- Put this in your pipe and smoke it.
- Lost or Stolen Steve Morrisette Pipe
- On Pipe Photography Image Processing (with a tutorial)
- Reborn Pipes
- Prerogatives and Regrets
- Is there HBO in Heaven?
- Smokers Haven tobacco blends are again available.
- Please forgive me....
- The pipe-smoker's mythology and persona grows more complex
- Passion for Pipes 5th Anniversary Commemorative Pipe
- Heads Up
- Chicago 2012: My reflections
- The Seven Year Itch
- Agonizing
- On price, value, meaning, and the scourge of flame wars
- Paring to the Essentials
- Starkov interprets Bo Nordh
- The Refreshed Palate
- The Susquehanna Pipe Chest
- Ligne Bretagne Pipes
- The Orphan
- 2012 Throwdown aims to reincarnate John Cotton's Nos. 1&2 Medium
- Wit
- Madness
- Just 60 Days from the Chicago Show. Book your Pheasant Run rooms now!
- An artisanal case for artisanal pipes.
- "Do you aspire to own a Bo Nordh pipe?"
- S. Gawith Tobacco Prices Rocket Up
- The Seattle Pipe Club 2012 Dinner
- Beauty: a fickle muse.
- The William Tell Overture
- Announcing the Vintages Project
- Study in the journal "Neurology" suggest nicotine improves cognitive functions
- International Pipe Smoking Day 2012
- Michael Parks' Star Rises
- Is smoking your pipe important to you?
- Trendwatching: There will increasingly be great pipes and good buys in the British-made estate market.
- Video: Balkan Sovereignty
- Advice to a new pipe smoker
- The Gift
- Merry Christmas
- Running from the Nicotine Monster
- Bamboozled
- Stereotyping and Uncle Sin
- Grotesque to Graceful
- Tyler Lane returns to pipe-making
- Boris Starkov's Magic
- High Notes at the Blue Note
- Uncle Sin
- A Magnum Opus Experience
- Small things matter
- Checking in on the fly.
- Opus 2
- Agincourt
- A Landaw Barling Billiard
- Recreating Comoy's 3-Part C
- Cockamamie Schemes
- The Experiment
- J.F. Germain's Revival of Balkan Sobranie Original Mixture
- Interviewing Adam Davidson
- Michail Revyagin’s Transfigurations
- Harvests
- New: Pipe Photography Blog
- Best Friends
- Dad's Gift
- Sojourns
- The Perils of a Higher Profile Redux
- Eating the bear
- Getting it down in black and white
- News and Updates
- Simple Gifts
- TobaccoDays off to a great start.
- Sisters
- Longings
- Summer Respite
- Function and Form
- The Pipe Smoker
- On Conventional Wisdom regarding the Place Origins of Briar
- Seven Centuries
- The inimitable, incredible Ilsted
- Ephemera
- What is our fate?
- Finding your favorite shape.
- I am a pipe smoker. Deal with it.
- How I loved to hear that doorbell ring.
- Portkeys and Horcruxes
- Pearls of the Orient
- The Nosewarmer Phenomenon
- Love at first smoke.
- 2011 Chicago Pipe Show Gallery is now live
- Russ Ouellette wins Balkan Sobranie Throwdown. Mike McNeil wins People’s Choice Award
- Help track down a stolen pipe.
- Catching up.
- The Poetics of Simplicity
- A clean pipe smokes sweet.
- Jan Pietenpauw no longer making pipes.
- Joe Harb, Rick Newcombe, and I discuss our approach to judging the Balkan Sobranie Throwdown
- Comparing Throwdown Tobacco Blends
- Balkan Sobranie Throwdown
- Curses! Foiled Again!
- Some things change you for good.
- Viktor Yashtylov's Astounding Imagination
- Comoy Blue Riband Buyers Beware!
- Keep our brother in your prayers
- The Canadian 309 XXL Blue Riband
- The Amazing Beattie Jet Lighter
- New Tamper Photo Gallery
- A Pipe Evangelist
- For Your Necessities
- Passing the Sacred Pipe: Guest Post by Richard Friedman
- Announcing Passion for Pipes First Pipe of the Year Subscription
- A Visit to Jeff Gracik's San Diego Workshop
- Ducking the Nicotine Hammer
- Old Soldiers
- The Amazing Phil-o-matic! (But wait! There's more!)
- Love and Sara Geiger Reinterpret Bo Nordh's Bulldog
- The Calabash Effect
- How to Rehydrate Tobacco Successfully
- Making the best of finding oneself temporally displaced.
- The smoking pipe as icon.
- International Pipe Smoking Day this coming Sunday, February 20th
- Date and Venue Change for Richmond’s CORPS Show
- Style and Literacy
- Swept Away
- "I need a favor."
- The Glory of Old Wood
- Dunhill by Dunhill for Dunhill
- Fortnight Pipes
- At last! A Comoy Blue Riband large bent billiard.
- Review: Pete Prevost Volcano
- Artisan Jack Howell on Pipes and Values
- OLD PIPE OF MINE
- Exceptions
- Serendipity
- Contrary to rumors, I have not become a Hari Krishna.
- Value increases with care
- Time for a break.
- For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
- Tiny Steps
- "The more you smoke them, the better they get."
- Pete Prevost on the Rise.
- Bagging that rare bird
- The Ugly Duckling
- Announcing 2010 Collectors Choice Awards
- What tobacciana can tell us
- Keep your favorite tobaccos optimally fresh
- Thanksgiving Blessings
- Two Great War vintage pipes from BBB: Britain's Best Briars
- A rare, early Bo Nordh pipe surfaces
- Ah Wilderness!
- Watching Bill Shalosky
- The Warrior
- Smoking Flakes: Fold and Stuff or Rub Out?
- Tamp Often for Better Smokes
- The Elusive Baccyflap
- Balkan Sobranie Black and White
- Santa Barbara Cigar and Tobacco
- How and why chamber geometry impacts tobacco flavor
- Finding That Magic Fit Between Pipe and Tobacco
- 'n Legende
- Yearning for a Pipe
- West Coast Pipe Show Looks to be Successful Already
- A Pipe Man's Must-Read
- Our Global Pipe Village
- Adam Remington's Path
- Furthering the Common Good
- Innovation, Development, and Consummation
- A gathering of gifts
- A week of disappointing, discouraging lessons
- The best of all possible worlds
- I'm eager for the 2010 Richmond CORPS Show
- What a Blast!
- Balkan Sobranie Virginia No. 10
- A Victorian-era GBD
- Smokingpipes.com Under Attack
- What’s in a Name?
- The Nautical Pipe
- Tobacco Surprises
- Listening to the Alaskan Song
- Ozark Pipe Club Emergency Meeting
- Early morning pipe at the feed store.
- Visiting my brothers of the briar in Northwest Arkansas
- Can one get nightmares reading from a pipe book?
- If you think pipe prices are high now....
- The Marcovitch Mysteries
- Jacques W. Cole's GBD St Claude Story
- Age Before Beauty.
- A few improvements and changes.
- Scott Thile's Journey
- A fitting home for your best tobaccos.
- Pondering difficult choices
- Wandering Through the Orient
- Laughing all the way to the library.
- Five Strategies to Improve Your New Tobacco-Blend Explorations.
- Bejeebers! It's Hot!
- Sharing
- Guest Post: Rich Esserman reflects on Comfort Smokes
- A Great Kansas City Pipe and Tobacco Show
- Pondering the pipe world and its economic sustainability.
- Broken Pipe: Derek Green
- Could there be a Danish-Retro Revival on the Horizon?
- Reconnoitering with humility.
- Checking in.
- Let us venerate the fallen and remember that for which they perished.
- Comfort Pipes
- iZulu iliZulu liTulu
- The Streamliner Blowfish
- A wonderful old video depicting clay pipe-making
- How we can help each other, Collector to Collector
- How we can help each other.
- The Fruits of Friendship
- Mysteries of the Sphinx
- An old-time documentary film on pipe-making at Charatan
- Chicago Show 2010, Part 2
- Chicago Show 2010, Part 1
- The Chicago Show in Pictures
- Honoring Smokingpipes in Chicago
- Countdown to Chicago ‘10
- First Pipes
- Constant Craving
- Welcome to the New and Improved Passion for Pipes
- Musings and Announcements
- The Accidental Pipe Smoker
- Your Input, Please.
- Pipe No. 47
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