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Have about 4 pipes which have a 1 - 2 mm. gap between shank and stem. All were perfectly flush when new and the gap has developed over time. Question 1: what may be the cause? Question 2: How to fix: --dress the shoulder of the stem --dress the end of the tenon or deepen the mortise...

The subject of "ageing" tobacco came up (as an aside) in another thread. In spite of having been a pipe smoker for 6+ decades, this is a subject about which I am totally ignorant. My routine is simply purchase the tobacco (almost always in bulk) and, after adjusting the moisture content to my...

This may be very old news to some, but thought I would post it anyhow. Early on in my pipe smoking I acquired a couple of Kaywoodie pipes.  I never really liked the way they smoked and mentioned this to my local tobacconist.  He recommended that I have them modified by his pipe repair person...

Anyone have any knowledge about this make? No other stampings; just "Sydney P. Ram" in script. I have one in my collection.  Don't recall where or when I got it.  (The perils of old age.) It's a good smoker.

I have been smoking English and Balkan blends with significant amounts of Latakia for many years. Is it my imagination, nostalgia or simply memory failure that, after Iranian Latakia became unavailable and everyone switched to Cyprian, there was a distinct change in the flavor of all these...

After being an occassional lurker for the past several years, I decided it was time to join up. I started pipe smoking in 1948. Began with Mixture 79 (does it still exist?) which an older friend who introduced me to pipe smoking, habitually smoked. Very soon tired of that, and after rejecting...