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  • @RockyMountainBriar I love those tobacco jars, and that 4th gen pipe looks great. 
  • edited August 2022
    @Zouave
    I like the 4th gen, but it smokes wet as hell.  I have the smooth orange contrast ball F,F&F from a previous year too.  The older orange contrast one smokes wet as hell also🙁.  I only have a few bowls through each though, so I am hoping they dry out.  I’m still looking at this years smooth orange contrast rhodesian, but there are only a few, not so good grained ones, left.  I just don’t have the cashola at the moment.
    Over the years I have acquired six of those tobacco jars and I am always on the lookout for
    more.  Usually they are over priced though.  Only thing about having them all exactly the same….I don’t know what tobacco is in each until I open them.  I really need to make some little, easily removed/transferred labels for them.
  • @RockyMountainBriar good to know about the 4th. Gen pipes. I keep looking at them, but couldn't make up my mind on them.  
  • Just giving someone a heads up; here's a Sav Canadian for a good price ($65 unsmoked). I own several and they are all great smokers.




  • Some jamoke/s bought up the last two natural and brown Savinelli 2019 Collection pipes on SPC today.  I have been looking at them in my wishlist for awhile…apparently 2-3 years.  They were just a bit too spendy.  I missed out on the last Savinelli 2016 Collection pipes a few months ago too, snooze, ya lose.  It sucks not being independently wealthy.

  • Somebody buy this pipe for me and I'll pay you back over the next year :D I LOVE THIS PIPE!!! This is the best one I've ever seen CC make!





  • edited September 2022
    @vtgrad2003
    You bastard, quit eye-ball’in my pipe😬
    If I got it, I’d straighten the stem.
  • @vtgrad2003
    I like these two….and many more.  My SPC “favorites” list is waaay too deep to find them all.  I actually prefer this Dublin to the danish-esq billiard.  I’m not a big fan of a Danish type tapered bowl (narrow top) on a billiard.  I also want a nice cherrywood/poker, and this one would have fit the bill.

  • That's some DAMN fine grain.
  • My big problem is that I have to stay under 2 ozs or clenching starts to hurt my teeth but most of his are over 2 ozs, so I really drool when something like that billiard comes out at well under 2 ozs.

    Hands down Cavicchi gets the best briar out there and knows how to exploit it. The story is (and whether it's true or not I don't know) he's childhood friends with someone that supplies Sav with briar, and after a harvest, that guy always calls him first so he can come take his pick before he sells the rest. Again, I don't know if that's true or not, but I can't see how a small carver can get the best briar on the market and sell his pipes at those prices if its not. 

  • @vtgrad2003;
    If I sold all my pipes, my pickup and my Tobac Tin collection, I might be able to afford that beauty. 
  • edited September 2022
    I’m getting excited.  The release date for the Peterson CPG/PPN (Certified Pete Geek/Peterson Pipe Notes) limited edition pipe is drawing near.  It is going to be a sandblasted deluxe system D18 Oom Paul with the “Harp” line bowl stain and a vulcanite P-Lip.  I’m not a fan of the “Harp” line stain without the red/black Cumberland stem, but I couldn’t pass up the first edition CPG/PPN run pipe.
    https://petersonpipenotes.org/2022/08/28/299-announcing-the-cpg-commemorative-deluxe-system-pipe/
  • mapletopmapletop Master
    edited September 2022
    So we had out monthly pipe club meeting last night and the Chicago pipe collectors club has a number of very well known pipe carvers in it ranks, I mention this only because we have a newer member who revealed last night that he is a carver (10 years) also.
    He brought a number of his latest creations with him last night (sold one) to show us his work, I was impressed by his work and creativity and took some pictures to share with you..

    I thought this next one was creative, an acorn wrapped in an oak leaf.

  • @mapletop
    He’s not satisfied with the mundane, that’s for sure.  Those wild ones must have took some time.
  • I saw these and thought they were kinda cool.  Looks like a Savinelli 320/321.  I’d buy one, but my pipe budget is all used up until I pay for my PPN/CPG pipe.
  • I'm not buying any more pipes! I'm not buying any more pipes! I'm not buying any more pipes! Let me put it this way, I'm not buying any more pipes!
  • @opipeman  You just keep repeating that mantra; till, and then you own another pipe, but the up side is you will be happy
  • @Zouave
    That is my little sister and her hubby exactly.  Except his passion is Radio Controlled airplanes,  including real fuel burning real jet engine models.  Those things are hella expensive.  I think he has one that is close to, if not over $20K….yep, those are US dollars too😳.  All it takes is a little mistake or another AHole with the same frequency turning his radio on and down in flames…actual flames….it goes.  Although nowadays I think the radio receivers filter out unwanted signals better than when I used them.
  • @RockyMountainBriar  Yeh, they are cool though difficult to watch (small and fast), they must be very difficult to fly as well.
    At that price point I'd rather double the funding a get a gyro-copter, actually I'm soft peddling the price; they are more than that and when you include flight training you over 100K
  • edited October 2022
    I’m not sure where this should go, but it should be ok here.
         Anyway, I received my brand spanking new Peterson 2022 Halloween pipe yesterday.  When I purchased it, I had an “idea” in mind.  Normally, if I’m looking at buying a sandblasted pipe, I would look for some nice ring grain, barring that, a least an even, symmetrical ring blast L/R of some sort.  I’m not a fan of the “moon crater” blast look, unless it’s on the Neerup “Harvest Moon” special edition pipes.  This time I specifically picked a non-symmetrical pattern, “moon crater” on the right side, partial ring on the left side.  I saw a pattern🙂
         Now, hopefully my idea will work.  I took a chance and started sanding on a brand new pipe😳. It worked and it looks as I wanted it too.  I just took the very top stain off of the ring grain.  Surprise!  A “spider web” on the ring grain side just as I had hoped, without completely thrashing the pipe or finish👍🏻 
         After chamfering the tenon, taper drilling the stem airway, clearing the pipe airway to 4mm, drilling a small well in the shank, and removing the bowl coating, I loaded it last night with some C&D “Espresso”.  It smoked very well on it’s inaugural bowlful.  I’m ready to load it again this morning to have with my Java.
  • @RockyMountainBriar that's a great looking pattern. I'm not a huge fan of the Peterson rustication, but the Peterson sandblasting is pretty spot on. Nice work making that stand out more!
  • May you get a quick return to health, @KA9FFJ
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