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  1. Zeno Marx

    Inherited this pipe, need assistance

    taking a wild stab, but that looks like something out of this factory https://pipedia.org/wiki/John_Redman_Ltd./British_Empire_Pipe_Co.
  2. Zeno Marx

    Tobacco reviews blocked?

    I was watching tobaccopipes for the non-stg tobacco to get discounted. No wonder it never did. Back to P&C so many of us will go. Monopolies we will go.
  3. Zeno Marx

    Ser Jacopo

    They, like Ardor, were really a forward thinking maker, and they're even more so now. I associate the briar calabash with them. It was their signature shape back when they were introduced to the US market. I never see those things come up for resale either. BIG pipes. Bigger pipes than I...
  4. Zeno Marx

    For rock music afficianados...

    Punk, experimental/difficult/noise/electro-acoustic/avant-garde/ambient, metal, Grateful Dead, and krautrock are my primary loves. There really isn't anything I don't listen to, but I have little interest in any pop(ular) artists. I give them listens, but I rarely come back to them. I spend...
  5. Zeno Marx

    Rest/rotation help needed

    You're overthinking it, and your experience is suffering for it. When I managed a shop, I had guys who only had a single pipe and would smoke 1LB/week, one pipe full after another. Another guy who was a traveling salesman in the region, and he would bring 2-4 pipes with him each day, or for...
  6. Zeno Marx

    Tobacco reviews blocked?

    you can install a VPN extension on your browser. I have one on Firefox that I rarely use, but it was free and installed with a click. maybe try that? and set it to USA.
  7. Zeno Marx

    What are you listening to?

    My introduction to Indian music was likely movies, but if not, it was also surely The Beatles. Then picking up a Ravi Shankar album or two in the used bins at Cheapo. Youtube and torrenting are godsends for exposure much further than that.
  8. Zeno Marx

    Anyone else addicted?

    Scones are my favorite biscuit. Or any pastry really. The density and crumble get me. I modified a recipe several years ago with cocoa, and they look exactly like a triangle of chocolate ice cream. I call them Double Chocolate Ice Cream Scone. I haven't made any for fifteen years though...
  9. Zeno Marx

    What are you listening to?

    If I've said this before, I'm saying it again. I love Indian music. I know very little about it though. Even though I've looked up the instruments 100 times, none of it sticks. I love the sounds and tones. I've made a halfhearted attempt to understand that various applications or uses or...
  10. Zeno Marx

    Nicotine Amounts From Pipe Smoking

    I can sometimes inhale once or twice near the end of a bowl, and I wait until then because I notice how significantly it negatively affects my sense of taste. I do it because I like the sensation of inhaling, but it comes at a cost. After that, I can't taste any nuance.
  11. Zeno Marx

    Here's a weird one

    Is that an explosion in your pants, or are you happy to see me?
  12. Zeno Marx

    I embraced the squiggle with this pipe

    Rustication is my favorite finish, greatly because of all the different takes on it. Nice work.
  13. Zeno Marx

    No Instagram BoB?

    Be careful how many windows you open if you operate in a "finsta" manner, like you're doing. They clock the lack of personal engagement, and you can easily be considered a bot or bad agent or whatever it is they call it. I have instagram only because they force you to have one to use it. I...
  14. Zeno Marx

    A pipe for tasting?

    I've never heard of it, but the pipe world of today has lots of rules, expectations, and behaviors I've never heard of until the social media age. Who knew being connected to each other at this level could actually be a negative thing?
  15. Zeno Marx

    What are you listening to?

    I know this is going to be like a fart in church and of little interest to this board, but just in case there are any old skaters/crossover nuts here, I've been listening to this this morning: recorded in 1986 and just now seeing the light of day. The hype sticker says Corrosion of...
  16. Zeno Marx

    TENNIS

    That Keys/Sabalenka match was a great one. Not a whole lotta rallying, but when big hitters like that are both on, it makes for an entertaining match nonetheless. Nice to see Keys finally win a Grand Slam. When people are crying in the booth, you know it is a special, unique moment in a sport...
  17. Zeno Marx

    STG closes Mac Baren and Sutliff

    I'm looking forward to watching the aftermarket. McClelland smartened up a lot of our community (as noted, me included), but that isn't going to get in the way of us feeding on each other. Pipestud is going to benefit greatly.
  18. Zeno Marx

    STG closes Mac Baren and Sutliff

    It's weird. I was signing up to be notified by tobaccopipes for certain restocks, but each morning waking to them being sold out. They sold out before I was able to see how much was restocked, so when I thought I got lucky and got to one of the notifications in time, I immediately ordered. I...
  19. Zeno Marx

    STG closes Mac Baren and Sutliff

    I believe tobaccopipes might have just restocked.
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