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We have a couple out here on the mountainside in Trabuco Canyon, CA, who routinely hammer away on the eaves of the third story of our house . . . around 6 a.m. Now, that does not move me to strangle them, but it affords a route of entrance to termites, which has proven to be an ongoing problem...

So, Cart, did you light that double-barrel bad boy up?  If so, was it hard to keep lit?  How did it smoke?  Does it smoke hot?  Seems to me that not only is the pipe great looking in the Danish tradition, but also has the advantage discussed above that both bowls are equidistant from the stem...

Now, THERE's a great idea! I wonder if they make that hummer in a 8.5 size? Love it!

Dutch, That is one gorgeous straight grain.  I have never seen a Moretti with a horn bit.  For that matter, yours is the first bamboo Moretti that I've seen, too.  I did not start following Morettis until Tony started offering those Moretti war clubs for sale.  He makes a lot great chubby...

 :lol!:  Yes, I've done that very thing with the swabbing out.  Aromatics definitely make a (bad) difference.  I started off with Rattray's Black Mallory and Red Rapparee, and they weren't as bad, moisture-wise, being English blends.  But then, when I was in Texas in the middle '70's my...

Hi, Todd, And thank you for your reply.  Wow!  I've never smoked the same pipe more than once in a 24 hour period in the last 46 years, meerschaums excepted.  When I first started in 1967 in college, against the advice of a pipe-smoking classmate of mine, I tried smoking my bulldog a second...

I picked up a new Moretti morta on eBay from Marco for what I regarded as a bargain price, just to see how they smoke without making a large financial commitment. But, now that I've done that, and before I take the plunge to order a nice long Canadian from Todd like Cajun's, some questions...

Lucked out on eBay the other day and got a Moretti smooth morta pipe for less than morta of similar configurations seem to be going for, from Moretti or anyone else.  I would have liked it to be longer, of course (see my other two Morettis, above), but because it has such thick walls because...

Okay, you fellows are the experts where Polinskis are concerned, but I am certain that this Polinski poker has an acrylic stem, as it is yellow, with a sort of faux amber effect, and, although this picture does not show it, the other side of the stem has the Polinski "P" logo on it, showing that...

 :lol!:   Oh, God!  That is too funny!  I didn't even think of that until I read what you wrote.  Oh, geez!  Still laughing.  Yeah, while the engineering is probably superior to the bowls-in-a-line design from an equal draw perspective, the Freudian implications are, shall I say, a bit too...

One of my favorite pipe carvers, Preben Holm, whose pipes generally are very satisfying to smoke and own, apparently also gave in to the urge to carve a multi-bowl pipe, and came up with this bizarre thing, which is a different engineering approach than the ones pictured above.  You will note...

On a happier note, the break-in smokes of the two Polinski poker pipes shown above with Harbor Island went very well and very coolly. Polinski must have somehow cadged some good briar for a considerable number of his pipes, although the break-in smoke of that rock referenced above was a bit...

On the other hand, the first break-in smoke of this Polinski rock with the same tobacco (Harbor Island) used in the little red Polinski bent ball discussed above was rather hot about half way through the 1/3 break-in fill with that tobacco, so I'll be using Deep Hollow on the 2/3 fill break-in...

Well, you're right.  However, sometimes the bidding is intense enough to drive some of the big, bulky ones over $100.  Even so, their smoking characteristics make them worth it so long as their price stays below the similarly-configured Morettis.  As between Polinski and Moretti, I suppose I...

I am pleased and a little relieved to report that the above rather oddly-shaped and less-massive-than-the-other-Polinskis pipe smoked coolly on the first break-in smoke, nothwithstanding its lesser bowl mass and short shank and stem.  I don't know what Polinski does to make his pipes smoke so...