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Do any of you older pipers remember London Dock OTC blend?  Is there a modern match since it's been off the market for some time?  I had about a 25 year hiatus before I picked up my pipe again a couple years back and several of my old favorites seem to have disappeared.  :cry:

In the last two years I have purchased over a hundred pounds of pipe tobacco with 250+ blends. I admit that I have gone way overboard but I think this rampage is just a product of my obsessive compulsive nature to try to get one of everything. One analogy of this practice seems to be fishing...

I've noticed several of you seasoned pipers use terms descriptive of the size of a pipe's bowl (equating the amount of tobacco a particular pipe can contain?). Could one of you illuminate me on this scale or direct me to something already published regarding the topic?

I remember with great fondness the days of my youth when my father and many of his friends and acquaintances smoked pipes. More smoked cigarettes as was common to the day but there were enough pipe smokers that it seemed the aroma of pipe smoke ranging from homey vanilla to an occasional...

I smoked a bowl of Russ Ouillette's new blend Fusilier's Ration tonight. Plenty of Cyprian Latakia...too much for my preference. The Orientals were definitely in the flavor but I don't think this is going to be one of my favorites. The pressed "kake" was interesting to work with but the...

Either through some kind of hoarding frenzy or inate conspiracy theory that pipe tobacco would soon be banned from Internet commerce I have accumulated MANY bulk blends in plastic bags (you know, the little ziplocks you get from P&C). I now have enough tobacco to last me 50 years at the rate I...

I'm looking for some sage guidance from my fellow "pipers". I'm having problems with getting my pipes too hot when I smoke. I've read the "six second rule" and tried various packs and "sippings", but I still seem to get the bowls so hot that they blister the finish. I'm enjoying the smoke...

Hi! from beautiful, dry and hot Austin, Texas. I've been a newbie pipe smoker for more than 40 years meaning I have tried all those years to pick it up but never quite got the hang of it. I was a light cigarette smoker until two years ago when I just quit. I had a collection of 50+ pipes of...