Recent content by Dmntd_1

My mouth is constantly dry as a side effect of medication as well, coffee in the morning, Earl Grey tea with lemon in the afternoon, and water throughout the day. I also keep a bottle or Thayers Natural Menthol Dry Mouth Spray at hand, works better than any drink.

In Inferno, a science fiction take on Dante's inferno by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournell. There’s a level of hell reserved for advertisers where they spend eternity wading through neck deep crap, where does all this crap come from, it spews from their mouths every time they open them, as in life.

And we’ll send you another one free, just pay separate processing and handling. It's all horse crap!

It’s a warm august evening, the setting sun cast shades of red, gold and orange across the horizon, we find ourselves at the “Golden Age” retirement villa. Three centurions sit on the porch smoking pipes and a fourth (much) younger man stand before them, as we get closer we can hear the...

Well Ken, I don’t and never have smoked flake style tobacco, so I can’t speak to the “Flake Pipe” question, though I have a feeling it might fall into the same category as “Longer pipes smoke cooler”, “Area 51” and the “Nine foot tall primate running around the Pacific North West”. I have...

Smoking a pipe is what makes it dirty on the inside, handling a pipe is what makes it grubby on the outside, that’s it. How dirty a pipe gets is entirely dependent on how well it is maintained, good habits make for clean pipes. I clean and polish my pipes once a month, rarely is more than one...

Nonconforming attitude – I agree with Mark Twain, see signature. Creative – Love to draw, design and make furniture and jewelry. Intense curiosity – I read about everything that catches my interest. Idealistic – In a perfect world… Happy obsession with a hobby or hobbies – I’ll run with a...

A hoe to root them out and a level head rake to round them up works for me. Oh wait, I only weed the vegetable garden… never mind.

In a word... No!

I believe the stems are amber. They are harder than vulcanite or acrylic and very uncomfortable between the teeth, both have indentations and considerable wear on the pipe side of the button, the color appears more yellow in natural light. I’m quite sure they did not originally come together as...

My wife was in the area of an antique shop we frequent while out shopping last week. Remembering I had been looking at this pair of meerschaum pipes last we where there, she stopped in to see if they still had them. They did and she got them. It really was a nice surprise. ps The lighter...

Smooth with a light coat of wax, and hold the stain, please.

No trouble at all Alfredo.

A quick Google search for "GLPease Aging" resulted in the following quote from Greg Pease on Pipedia… “Most English style tobaccos can go 20-30 years before they begin to go "over the hill". So a Latakia “English“ blend" will improve for double the amount of time you were thinking. Google’s...

This was my favorite pipe for years, damn near smokes itself and is still one of my favorites. Not the most expensive pipe I have, but dollar for dollar it has to be the best value in handmade Danish pipes. The wood was nearly blonde when it was new, and it’s nice to know that over time I’ve...