Another trip down memory lane with another 1998 pipe donation needing some work. This pipe, which I informally dubbed the Marlowe after a certain PI, was one of the most difficult things I’d tried at the time, though looking at it now it’s a terribly clunky thing – To my Read more…
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…
Very recently, I’ve gotten my hands on a small treasure trove of my older work which I’ll be cleaning up and selling in order to raise funds to help pay for my wife’s cancer surgery. It’s been a fascinating trip down memory lane, particularly in regard to the oldest pipes Read more…
A while back, I accidentally dropped one of my favorite pipes on our hardwood floor. This is not a thing that I normally do, and I was annoyed with myself. Further, the stem snapped neatly off, with the tenon breaking in the middle. It left me with half a tenon Read more…
I recently did a repair job on one of our Ligne Bretagne tenons, replacing one that the owner had melted with a new one, and I thought it might be worth photographing to show the process involved in even such a simple repair as a tenon replacement. This is an Read more…