Recent content by Isagar

GLP Montgomery in a red billard Gasparini on a quite rainy afternoon. Atmosphere couldn't be more right.

Hmm, I'm leaning more towards the cherrywood camp. Mainly due to the angled bowl and bent stem. (thought a poker could have both features too) I think the distinction between a poker and cherrywood is quite blurred to most and overall, a subjective matter. Nonetheless, this is a great looking...

Honestly, it's things like this that makes me think that theres still hope for humanity. :cheers: 

Thanks everyone for the kind comments. It is, in fact, my first prince shaped pipe, and also my first tanshell blast too. So quite unique in my collection.:D 

So first, a little back story: As some of you may or may not know from my profile, I have a particular fond for Mr. Vladamir Grechukhin's pipes starting since 2011 when I purchased a pipe of his when smokingpipes.com became a dealer. Since then, I have collected so far 6 pipes from the man...

I've got a love-hate relationship with smooth shiny pipes. On my hand I love them because of the glossy looks, but on another, I know that it is impractical to continuously maintain it that way (unless of course you don't smoke it) and my OCD really kicks in. So since the very beginning, even...

Thanks for much Scottie for that photo. It's exactly what I was looking for :cheers:  Bad news is...I'm probably not gonna smoke the Refbjerg pipe....for now.

I know people hate fills for 2 reason: 1. Craver trying to hide flaws from buyer (either unethical or just low grade pipe/briar) and 2. After lots of smoke it melts down and eventually show off the flaws beneath So as regards to reason no.2, is there any photos anyone can post to show me...

Below is solely my personal experience with nording pipes: In my earliest days of pipesmoking, I bought a freehand bent horn shape from Nording because I thought it looked very cool and its only around 60 dollars. It is quite frankly (no offense to the nording lovers) the worst pipe I own. The...

The first I ever tried was Davidoff's blue mixture. It was my father's in fact, and being a non smoker, the smell was too good to be true. I couldn't wait to try it when my first pipe arrived. The taste? Blunt and unsatisfying!

Thanks for all the insightful replies guys. I guess I'll try Norwood first seeing as they got less than a week turnaround time compared to Mike's 6 weeks. PS. Is the gentleman photo on http://www.norwoodspiperepair.com/ Mr.Norwood himself?

Have you sent any pipes to them for cleaning before? I'm really curious about their 'ozone' machine.

I just recently bought a nice estate pipe from ebay that requires a good bit of refurbishing (inside and out). I have researched a few places such as Starfire pipe works, Walkers pipe repair etc. Does anyone have any experience with those? Or perhaps got one that they can personally recommend?

When will 4noggins start stocking them?

As the title suggest. What do you guys use to polish rusticated pipes? I usually use Renaissance wax on my smooth pipes but they're way too hard for deep sandblast/rusticated finishes. Also a buffer is out of the option for me :(