Recent content by ArleighBerg

The more I smoke of this EM the more I like it. Em with a cup of hot strong black coffee...mmmm.

I just bought a nice Ben Wade rusticated bent bulldog. It feels great and smokes great. However, being the relative newbie I am, I didn't think of checking with a pipe cleaner before buying at a shop. Because of the bent, the drilling on the mortise of the shank sits a little higher than and...

So it's not a sitter, I take it...

Your brain is not screwed up. I assumed it was a kiwi from the first time I saw the logo, too. I thought it was a reference to something or that the originator of the forum is from NZ or something.

It may be that my post was a bit misleading. I was not necessarily talking about the typical “who is the best band” discussion theme, but more about those recordings that no matter how many times you hear them, they are just plain GOOD. Good quality sound, good solid songwriting, memorable...

By putting the turquoise "in" the body of the bowl, my first thought is the stone material may have a different coefficient of expansion than the wood. Any problems with separation or the insets popping out?

There are some bands and particular recordings that after thousands of listens - keep sounding fresh and make the hair on my arms stand up. Some examples, in no particular order: [list]Steely Dan Tool Temple of the Dog The Company Band Rage Against the Machine Pink Floyd (Welcome to the Machine...

Any other Manhattan drinkers out there? I'm sure there are. I have been hooked on the concoction since a stop in a downtown Minneapolis, MN establishment (Ike's for those in the know) where the staff wear tuxedo jackets and white aprons, the floors are 1" hex tiles, and the bathrooms have...

I had an image of a nice wool or leather vest to be worn by the smoker, with pockets for the pipe, tools, tobacco, etc. Bah!

OK - as a neophyte I have to ask: are most courses OK with smoking? If I just show up the next time I play (which isn't often but I plan to increase) am I liable to tick somebody off?

In Naples, FL for business, I stopped in the only tobacconist I saw relatively close to my hotel (Marcus Daniel). I liked the atmosphere but like a lot of shops, very heavy on cigars and light on pipes. A couple of dozen pipes in a case, almost exclusively Petersons. Only tobacco was very...

My first tobacco order as a new smoker was a 965 match. When it arrived I opened the box and was almost killed dead by the powerful sickly sweet stink of the Lat. For you longtime smokers I'm sure you can't recall what your first tobacco experience was like but I literally felt ill upon...

I'd buy that in 2 seconds. I love it just like it is. As I looked at it I wondered (if you ever carve this shape again), what if the top of the shank was scalloped a bit, leaving a center "hump" along the top of the shank? I can see it perfectly in my mind and as I sketched it, it began to...

Welcome Scott from another relatively new BoB-er. Don't be embarrassed about Captain Black. Yes there are a lot finer tobaccos but I say smoke what you like. Look at Prince Albert - it's in the same drugstore class as CB and Borkum Riff but yet is highly rated on TobaccoReviews.com.

Welcome from the East Grand Forks/Grand Forks area. May your smoke waft eastward...