The Saruman Let’s roll back to 1998. We all accessed the net with dial-up modems and most online pipe chat happened in Alt.Smokers.Pipes and on IRC. The Lord of the Rings movies hadn’t come out yet, and there was no advance publicity about them. LOTR was still simply this quiet, Read more…
So, it’s October and for the first time in a few years, I’m making Halloween pipes for open sale. It’s been a long and strange road to get here, and I want to explain just how and why I’m “re-imagining” my Halloween pipes. I first made them 12 years ago, Read more…
So, today I sit myself down to write the last part of my article series on this pipe. Please pardon me if I ramble a bit, as I was up late last night for our regular Sunday night “Twitter and a Movie”, a recurring internet get-together where various friends and Read more…
Here is the continuation from the first part of this story. To recap, I’ve been thinking about an expansion chamber design that would be a modern, more exotic variation on the traditional calabash. My last post brought me up to the stage of designing an African meerschaum insert for the Read more…