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A Fungal Future

A Fungal Future

October 8, 2019 by Chuck Stanion

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Fungus absorbs oxygen and releases carbon dioxide, so we have much in common, the most important difference being that we smoke pipes with our respiration and fungus does not. We were fungus once, and the compelling argument has been made that many of us still share many traits with our fungal forebears. ... Read More

Field Report: 2019 Sutliff & CORPS Pipe Extravaganza

Field Report: 2019 Sutliff & CORPS Pipe Extravaganza

October 5, 2019 by Chuck Stanion

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Play by play report of the 2019 Richmond Pipe Show and Sutliff Factory Extravaganza. ... Read More

The Secrets of Ancient Shank Drilling

The Secrets of Ancient Shank Drilling

October 3, 2019 by Chuck Stanion

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A couple of branches up in my family tree is a great uncle of some sort who was an Indian agent for the U.S government in the late 1800s. I mainly know about this person, whose name I do not recall, because many of the Native American artifacts that he collected during his career remained in my great-grandfather's house. ... Read More

Smoke Rings University: How To Cut A Cigar

Smoke Rings University: How To Cut A Cigar

October 2, 2019 by Shane Ireland

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On this episode of Smoke Rings University, we're going to discuss how best to cut a cigar by exploring three different methods. This may be routine knowledge for most cigar smokers, but it's never a bad thing to have a refresher course every now and again. You may even find some new tricks to add to your repertoire. ... Read More

5 Pipe Accessories You Never Knew You Needed

5 Pipe Accessories You Never Knew You Needed

October 1, 2019 by Shane Ireland

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As pipe smokers we all use the usual accessories: lighter, tamper, tobacco pouch. And yes, you can always add to your collection and expand your rotation of pipes. But what are you missing? What is stopping you from maximizing your smoking experience? I've devised a short list with some accessories you might not ... Read More

Savinelli: A History Of Making History

Savinelli: A History Of Making History

September 26, 2019 by Chuck Stanion

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1876 was a year of breakthroughs: Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky completed Swan Lake, Mark Twain published Tom Sawyer, and in Milan, Italy, Achille Savinelli opened one of the first shops exclusively focused on tobacco and smoking accessories. ... Read More

The Meaning Of Pipes

The Meaning Of Pipes

September 26, 2019 by Jeffery Sitts

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When I started working at Smokingpipes in the Shipping Department in 2017 I knew virtually nothing about pipes and their importance to people around the world. Sure, I'd dabbled with pipesmoking during my undergraduate studies in college and had seen countless representations depicted in television shows and movies ... Read More

Mystery Review: September 2019

Mystery Review: September 2019

September 25, 2019 by Andrew Wike

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Welcome back to the Mystery Tobacco Review, the blind taste-testing game everyone thinks they're good at until they're on camera. For this month's episode, we outsourced the selection of our Blend of Intrigue to Mike Flanigan, our Systems Administrator here at Smokingpipes. ... Read More

Burley Bias

Burley Bias

September 24, 2019 by Truett Smith

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I've never liked Burley-based blends. All the mixtures I've tried seem to fall flat, never delivering on those "nutty chocolate" flavors that so many reviews lauded. To me, Burley tobaccos offered only what I could describe as a burning flavor; I could taste something burning, but that's all I could perceive, the lack of discernible flavor ... Read More

Driving Through Tobacco Country

Driving Through Tobacco Country

September 20, 2019 by Andrew Wike

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One Saturday a couple of years ago, my girlfriend Brandee and I headed down to Conway to visit the Riverwalk, a quaint little spot on the Waccamaw perfect for a spur of the moment lunch date. As we were driving down Hwy 701 with the windows down, enjoying a pipe and a brief reprieve from the tangible humidity, we passed fields of ... Read More

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