Recent content by SirGawain1

You should really try one of my favorites: Pipeworks & Wilke's "Dummerston." It's a pressed Virginia, a broken flake, and it's absolutely DELICIOUS. It's very lightly flavored, though I wouldn't call it an aromatic at all; there is a spicy-sweet undertone not unlike gingerbread. The room...

Kiko pipes are my hands-down favorite smoke. I have several. They're durable, smoke dry, and have all the wonderful qualities of a meer without many of the drawbacks. Most are beautifully colored already (black, or golden with a "fumed" rim), so there's no need to worry about "babying" them...

Mr. Rathbone may have had a Peterson or two, but to the best of my knowledge, both on-screen and off, he preferred Parkers by far...in most publicity photographs, the pipe he is smoking is identified (mistakenly) as a Peterson; however, 99 percent of the time, it was a Parker. Incidentally, the...