I saw that pipe on eBay and considered bidding, but I had some other bids outstanding so decided not to. I'm glad to see it went to someone in the Shave Den.
Excellent! The bowl rim and the tooth marks can be buffed with #0000 or finer steel wool. That should be a great pipe!
I think it's going to turn out to be a great purchase. I don't think tooth marks is really an accurate description. Just 2 small rough spots really.
Still marshaling my funds, but I've located a couple suppliers in town. One carries Peterson of Dublin's Irish Oak; Brazilian & African Virginia leaf with Cavendish and Perique. They also sell Perique straight up. Both had a plum scent that I'm anticipating. I still have near eight gallons of Japanese plums harvested this spring sitting in the freezer. Those will be wine about two months after I dedicate the time to get the brew started. As I suspected Walmart's Murphy gas station carries the full line of American Spirit. I picked up & enjoyed the "100% additive free U.S. grown Perique blend"
If the smell of burning horse manure and hay makes you want a pipe it sounds like you should be smoking English blends with Latakia instead of Virginia blends.
Pipe looks good, that's a neat looking stem. Sorry about your barn fire, but glad at least the animals were out. Did you ever get around to a smoke?
Yep, that must be it. That is certainly my idea of a great evening. Don't drink much bourbon, but I'm with you on the pipe part. Tony
Saturday morning pipe, H&H Lousiana Red in a Chacom Canadian, with coffee. We spent a few days in New Orleans, and visited the National WWII Museum. I picked up the WWII mug and Zippo lighter shown above; I'll send the insert to Zippo and get it swapped out for a pipe insert. Every time I use this mug and lighter, I'll think of my dad and every one of my uncles that fought in WWII. Unlike many families, they all came home.
Nope, never did get that smoke. Was kinda late by the time we got the trucks back in service and I was exhausted.
My dad and one uncle went to the Pacific, and 3 other uncles were in Europe. My dad was scheduled to go to Pearl Harbor the second or third week of December, and came home on furlough the weekend of December 7, 1941. At home, they heard about the attack on the radio, so he had to cut his visit short and return to camp. He subsequently went to Christmas Island, and later went to the Gilberts, and was at the battle of Tarawa. Later, he wound up in the Philipines, and was on the Japanese mainland invasion task force. As bad as the atom bombs were, I might not be here today if not for that. Incidentally, my birthday is December 7. One uncle went ashore at Normandy a couple of weeks after D Day, but the fighting was still very fierce close to the coast for a while. Later, he was at the Battle of the Bulge, and was one of 20 survivors out of his company of about 100 men. Another uncle was the first American to drive across the Rhine River, following the battle at Remagen, over a bridge over the river. The movie A Bridge Too Far was loosely based on that battle. The Greatest Generation..... Edit: there was another battle over a bridge that was also loosely the basis for A Bridge Too Far, but I can't remember it at the moment.
