Recent content by standaman

I joined Photobucket for the sole purpose of posting pictures of my custom Sterling Silver work on BOB. Recently Photobucket emailed me that suddenly it will suddenly cost me $400 a year for the use of their useless website to do one simple thing. Format my images for posting. They sent me...

You're absolutely right Zeno Mark. I don't think that there's any real change in public opinion and certainly the anti smoking zealots. I'm referring to the younger, hipster crowd that seems to be more accepting of the pipe as an alternative. To that end, seeing pipes in any popular and...

That's Blue Room Briars! Hate this little qwerty keypad!

I must own a dozen or so devil anse pipes. Ever since the movie, I knew I had to have that pipe. Started with Moonshine Pipe Co. Bought half a dozen of those. But the proportions were never quite right. Found what may be the truest rendition made by Paul Menard. It's dark stained, short...

Yeah that's the point. I'm feeling like I've been seeing more examples like these recently. Maybe pipe smoking is seeing a new level of acceptance in today's culture? Anyway I love movies with lots of pipes in them. We all know the list of pipe friendly flicks like "The Quiet Man" and stars...

I'm really enjoyed the first episode of "The Son" with Pierce Brosnan. It's a new series on AMC, set in turn of the century South Texas. A period piece about Texas oil versus the Mexican and Native American population. Pierce plays the patriarch of this family and he is shown often smoking a...

Thank you BREWDUDE- I sometimes worry about the length of my posts. I notice that the majority of others post very brief comments. Maybe a sentence or two, and I'll admit to some insecurity about being perceived as verbose or just a plain old "Wind Bag"! It's not my intention, and believe it...

To WarlockBob- I agree with you. I've purchased batches of pipes, handed to me in a plastic t-shirt bag, for $1.00 a piece that had obviously been smoked literally "To Death", never cleaned ever. This smoker thought of a pipe as simply a utilitarian thing, like a comb or a shoe. I've met men...

That word is "obsolete". I hate spelling errors! William Serad agreed with my basic opinions on this issue. He too has modified numerous pipes for himself. As to the printing of my question in his column "Pipefuls" he was a bit disappointed that the subject didn't receive a ton of comment or...

Well it's a complicated answer. First off both Wiliam and others like Scott Townsend and even Trevor Talbert will site old world established standards as sort of the default way many makers are wired to think on this subject. Scott even made the argument that at one time, historically, tobacco...

I thought that I'd tell you how I managed to get an article written about my work. I met William Serad after I emailed a question to him for his column. He appreciated my question enough to ask my permission to reprint the topic in his next column. My question had to do with pipe engineering...

Thanks you guys!

That's supposed to say SPRING issue. Sorry!

I just picked up a real bargain on a Vauen "Wood" bent Apple. It's made with a blonde Maple stummel fitted with a briar bowl insert. It's really beautiful with the lightly grained, pale wood (almost the color of balsa) set against the supple curves of the black acrylic stem. Of modest weight...

This is an amazing section of the BOB forum. It seems at first glance to be a bunch of us guys bragging about what rare or eclectic tobacco and what specific variety of pipe we're smoking. But what it really is, it turns out, is a testament to the dedication to this hobby of ours that so many...