Recent content by piperguckert

I have been A member of the SHPC for a little over 4 year now and have spent maney meetings just sitting with Ken chatting. He was one of the most decent fellows I have ever known and am truly trubbled by his loss. My first meeting back in January of 07 Ken was the first person to welcome me we...

Ken, I think we had a conversation about this one tiem at pipe club. I came to the realization of that becouse i smale flakes and (DO NOT) rub them out ( you losse something when you rub them out) that i need a small bowl. If i smoke something like Irish Flake in a large pipe it will not...

I am a wood worker by trade. I know more than you would ever want to know about verous typs of wood. Mahogany is a major carcogin. it acts just like aspestos or silocnin the lungs. It is a bad bad idea to make a pipe out of it even if they say there is no dust left mahogany is a wood that...

I love smokeing a pipe while working. Doing yard work, jesh i love smoking my pipe while doing anything sitting standing drvieng. About the only think i dont smoke a pipe while doing is choping down a tree.

I am also a match person I buy Dimond matches down at hanscom air force base for 52c a ten pack i have never had a problem with them not lighting or the head falling off. I did have a problem with soem elchepos that looked like Dimonds I bougt at a covience store for a trip to the bahamass. So...

I have a decent size beard but i do still shave my neck and down my cheeks a little to give it a nive streagt line and when the summer comes i shave it all off. I use a streight edge razor made in germany in 1896 i realy need to get a true strpe and shaving mug for now i just use a coffy mug and...

I have been doing that technique for as long as i have been smokeing a pipe no one tought me that it just seemd like that is wat it needed a reduction of carbonminoxided then ablast of oxygen. But ya i know waht you meen about lernign the finer things i gess you could call it.

See as you called it, an enlish toung i would have, yet i do enjoy virginias and other yet burly has never been a faavoret it bite and afgter a while i feel it tasts like mud. yet haver trying over and over everu blend that ever came near me i found that burley work very well in flakes...

People have to rember that it is part of human nature to exagerate memories so that someing that was or happend slowly over the years worps to exagerated great ness. This instict is aroud for survival. Peaple needed to refect on better timesso that they would pass intoration down to younger...

I have a 1915 dunhill billard that i smoke 2-3 times daley and this pipe was smoked like this by the man before me and ect so a 95 year old pipe that if you ay on a 7 day rotation would take 20 years to hit thousand bowls than this pipe has smoked 5 thousand bowls and thans based on a 7 day...

I have an old Hendergard pipe that has an olive wood stem extention. Now this is a $400 pipe and is a very reputal carver ect.... Well the humidity over the summer caused it to expand cracking the epoxy conaction cheering the brier splice incert inside and swelling to over 1/8 all the way around...

the pipe cleaner test is more about pasing a pipe cleaner past the tenon and mortise from stem into shank than any thing elce. This is to make shure that the holes line up so that there is no air turbulance. When u get down to the end were the bowl and shank meet the carbon cake narows the air...

I go to this hooka bar alot and have quite a few employees from the middle east. The Hooka tobaco is dessiend esspescaly for a hooka. Becouse the coals burn so hot if you used a common pipe tobbaco it would burn up like that and producew ash the mosture dose a few things one keeping it from...

I find that if you ream the bowl to as close to bear wood as poosible and ream the sank tha same and cleanm out with pipe cleaners that is not quite enough. after i do therswe steps i remove my stem get a small cork to fit in the shank and fill the bowl up with 151 rum it fills the smake and...

Id say 59 pennies but that will probley go up in smoke