Recent content by smokinallover

A highball of Olmeca Altos (doggone fine plata), big ice cubes and a quarter of lime squeezed over it.

I have a few of these and they're ok for the price. But the tamper head is too small. Lately I have seen some limited editions with horn or stag scales for 100 bucks on ebay.

I used to buy through the mail from these guys Lehman's Hardware Store | Order Online when they had no website and only a paper catalog and a real ole' fashioned mail-order business. I cannot get to the website from where I am now, but it's worth checking. Surely in Iowa (I think you said?)...

In the late 1980s we were still able to smoke cigars and pipes at our desks. By 1991 they had instituted a "smoke room" and by golly that's exactly what it turned out to be. More of a health hazard than anything else and almost impossible to see anybody. If we had to go pull somebody out of...

Sorry, I meant to say SM Blue rather than SM 500 but I don't see a way to edit my post.

The situation in the EU has deteriorated beyond belief. Brexit cut off all possibility of affordable snuff and recent changes make it unlawful to sell tobacco even between EU countries. I'm back into pipes (at huge expense) due to inability to buy snuff. So, I try to take the good with the bad...