This method was recently shared by Tom T. over at Pondering from Piper's Paradise and I thought I'd help share the knowledge. If you aren't familiar with PFPP, you owe it to yourself to check out their blog. While it has only been up and running since the first of this year, Tom has a great way with words. I'm looking forward to stopping by his shop this spring when I make a trip back to Arkansas on family business. Anyway, here's his discussion about a pipe meeting where they discussed how best to do a pipe cleaning using the...

Looking for a real wild time this Halloween? Then why not pack up your old kit bags, a few pipes and some tobacco and head for swinging Las Vegas, Nevada for the West Coast Pipe Show on October 31 and November 1, 2009. For a mere $10 cover charge, you’ll get access to over 100 tables of vendors hawking pipes, pipe tobacco and pipe smoking accessories at the Palace Station Hotel and Casino. This pittance of a cover charge will get you show access on both days of the show! Looking to exhibit or sell off part of...

The L.A. Pipe Club will be holding their December meeting at the Tobacco Barn in Lake Forest, CA in our lounge on the afternoon of Sunday, December 13th. All pipe aficianados are welcome. Please bring your favorite pipe(s) and tobacco (or pick up some fine pipe tobacco at our shop) and spend the afternoon talking with like-minded Brothers of the Leaf! View Location On Google Map

PipesMagazine.com has a great article on corn cob pipes from the Missouri Meerschaum pipe company. In addition to some great information about the formation of this legendary company. In addition, you’ll find a great number of updated images from those found in the Life Magazine article that we talked about last December. The Corn Cob Pipe is an American icon and known the world over. They have been around for over 100 years and are still popular today. This is the story of the Corn Cob Pipe with the history of it’s...

We received an email today from a customer with a great animated image in his signature that I thought you pipe smokers would appreciate: It is a bit more flattering than this:

With the exposure of pipes in retro-television shows like “Mad Men” and the current increase in pipe smokers, some wise-guy on Puff.com Mister Moo suggested: Tux = nothing in the pockets, please - no pipe Styled Italian sharkskin suit = Porsche Design Smooth-finish wool or silk (50% or more) suit, including herringbone = smooth billiard Smooth finish wool or silk (token content) = any smooth or blasted billiard Any Tweed...

Stumbled across this hilarious clip from Top Gear (great British show about all things automotive) where the boys are skewering Porsche Design Pipes. Funniest part I found to be when Jeremy Clarkson, being his witty self, flips the pipe around places the bowl in his mouth proclaiming that it is a 911 pipe and the “hot bit goes in the back.” Kind of backfires on him if you’ll pardon the pun.

  Jim Allison recently shared some of his favorite pipes with the OC Briars Pipe Club at the Tobacco Barn.   A small selection of JIm’s treasures (left). This oversized Peterson pipe (right) was commissioned by Alfred Hitchock for a movie. Anyone know which one?   Jim discussing pipes with Rene C. and Jim V. at left. At right is his Dunhill ”Space Shuttle” pipe with gold “Barley” pattern band from 1982. Created in ...

MEERSCHAUM, n. (Literally, seafoam, and by many erroneously supposed to be made of it.) A fine white clay, which for convenience in coloring it brown is made into tobacco pipes and smoked by the workmen engaged in that industry. The purpose of coloring it has not been disclosed by the manufacturers. There was a youth (you've heard before, This woeful tale, may be), Who bought a meerschaum pipe and swore ...

While I’m not too terribly keen on the subheading of their article (“Despite Risks, More Young People Light Up; 'It Looked Like the Coolest Thing Ever'”) it is a pretty good piece overall. The timing of their article coincides with International Pipe Smoking Day so hopefully you’ll all break out your pipes and smoke a bowl or two! Early on in the article they point out that: Friday is International Pipe-Smoking Day, when a number of puffers will unite to protest tobacco taxes and smoking bans. They will also engage in slow-smoking competitions to...