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With cigars, and likewise with pipes, it's easy to be accustomed to short smokes. Life is constantly in motion, and so the time and attention commitment required for a Group 6's worth of St James Flake or a full-bodied Churchill is typically in short supply. However, there are those occasions when you find yourself ... Read More

In this episode of All Pipes Considered, the second of two videos, I'm joined again by Jeremy Reeves, Head Blender at Cornell & Diehl, to take a further look at his collection as a whole, what draws him to a piece, and the lengths he'll go to to not give up on a particularly stubborn pipe.

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In this Tasting Notes video, Shane reviews Planta's Anno MMX (After Dinner Mixture), a mix of Virginias and black Cavendish with a light topping of chocolate and Scotch whiskey.

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A bit under a year and a half ago we realised that we had amassed a considerable number of photos. Not wanting them to go to waste, we decided to go ahead and make them available desktop backgrounds.

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In this episode of All Pipes Considered, the first part of two videos, I'm joined by Jeremy Reeves, Head Blender at Cornell & Diehl, to discuss some of Jeremy's collection.

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In the late 1960s, a young man of the age of 15 walked through the streets of Copenhagen to his job at a local newspaper, where he worked alongside numerous pipesmokers in the graphics department. Both at work and in the various shop windows ... Read More

In this second part of our Chuck Stanion All Pipes Considered interview, Shane and Chuck discuss their personal guidelines for selecting pipes in their collections, the surge in new pipe makers, plus the dreaded "which pipe to smoke" conundrum.

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It's not uncommon for shapes to fall out of production for a number of reasons. Trends in shaping change, sometimes rapidly, and some shapes just fall out of style. Others are given up due to difficulties in production. Thankfully, some see new life later on, whether as a re-release from their original maker, or reinterpreted by others. ... Read More

In this episode of All Pipes Considered, Sykes and Adam are in love with this Hiroyuki Tokutomi estate, an Elephant's Foot from 2009 with a boxwood shank carved to emulate bamboo.

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If you haven't seen it already, this year's Smokingpipes poster featured a tribute to the father of modern fantasy literature (and one of the most renowned pipe smokers in history) with a depiction of what the famous author's desk may have looked like. ... Read More