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I love my Peterson pipes. Most of my Petes are among my best smokers. But they almost all have one annoying issue. Petes don't take pipe cleaners worth a poop. I know that you cannot expect a system pipe to take a pipe cleaner all the way to the bowl. But of all my Petes, the only ones I have...

How many of you pipe smokers prefer to drive a car with a manual transmission? I started thinking that the nature of pipe smoking vs cigar or cigarette smoking is akin to the difference between a straight drive and an automatic. Folks who prefer a manual like the feeling of being in touch...

I lost my little girl this weekend. No, it is not a child or a wife. It was my dog Annie. We’d had her for 15 years, ancient in dog years, 85lb at her peak. We finally had to have her put down on Saturday. I loved her dearly. I fell in love with this silly beagle/basset/etc. mix the first...

I may be a little out of the mainstream when it comes to meershaum pipes. I was reading an old Pipes & Tobaccos magazine about coloring meershaum pipes. They went into lots of exotic methods of coating with beeswax etc. to make the meershaum color a nice golden, brown, red etc. color faster than...

I need to get a calendar for my cube wall at work. I'd like to get a nice picture calendar of various beautiful pipes or famous pipe smokers. Of course, it is not something I'm going to find at your usual calendar rack at Barnes & Nobel, etc. Does anyone sell a nice pipe smoking calendar? If...

I've been trying to keep my pipes' innards nice and clean. I use pipe cleaners regularly during smoking. And every so often I dip a pipe cleaner in 151 alcohol and run it through both the bit and the shank to clean out the gunk. However, I've had a couple of vulcanite stems that turn almost...