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While we love visiting pipe makers in their shops, and having a smoke with them during the various pipe shows throughout the year, it's also a lot of fun to have folks visit the SPC campus. We recently had the pleasure of showing Jared Coles around the office. We looked at pipes, smoked pipes, talked about pipes ... Read More

When one thinks of Michael Lindner's body of work, it's hard to not immediately imagine an assortment of classical shapes — many of them trim, lean designs, in addition to various plump, Comoy's-inspired shape renditions. ... Read More

There's a whole lot of information available on how to get started as a newbie pipe smoker. But what about pipe smoking techniques aimed at the more seasoned, serious, fully initiated pipe smoker? Not so much. ... Read More

Several weeks ago we had the pleasure of hosting Smio Satou here at Smokingpipes headquarters. While good food and tobacco were all on the menu during Satou's trip, we also had the opportunity to sit down with the Japanese master and ask him a series of questions about everything from his unique tsuishu accents to ... Read More

Although we've been given a brief reprieve here in South Carolina, the height of summer is definitely upon us. For us, great heat means great irresponsibility, as we shirk our usual weekend tasks in favour of heading poolside with a cooler of beer, a pipe of our favoured leaf, and a book good enough to lose ourselves in. ... Read More

A while back, we posted a number of high-resolution, pipe-smoking desktop backgrounds for you all to download for personal use, featuring some of the banners and advertisements we've created over the years. The response was overwhelmingly positive, and some of you even asked for more images. ... Read More

We're a few weeks into Pokémon Go fever, and we here at Smokingpipes.com have been no more immune to the zeitgeist than anyone else. Lunch time talk has turned to trading stories and, in the absence of a nearby gym or Pokéstop, trading tips on the best places to hunt in the area. ... Read More

As we'll mention a couple of times in this post, there is no definitive way to enjoy, or even smoke a pipe "correctly". I mean, if there were, the various pipe forums out there would have very little to talk about outside of new tobacco blends and how hipsters are ruining everything. ... Read More

Temple Bar and Regents Flake are the two latest pipe tobaccos in G.L. Pease's Old London Series. Both blends feature a base of bright and red Virginias, with varying proportions of Oriental leaf. Though working within the same basic theme, make no mistake: these are two very distinct blends, both in cut and flavor profile. ... Read More

With the release of the latest Small Batch projects and the Small Batch Blending Kit, there's been a lot of conversation about tobacco blends around here lately. Not that this is all that unusual; we share the same building with Cornell & Diehl, and their head blender, Jeremy Reeves, often makes his way around ... Read More