Chuck Stanion

Pirates Loved Tobacco

Pirates Loved Tobacco

May 29, 2019 by Chuck Stanion

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Pirates had a profound relationship with tobacco, alcohol, and, oddly enough, fine porcelain dinnerware. I'm talking about the pirates of yore, shiver me timbers and arghhh, matey, not the modern pirates who attack container ships with speedboats. ... Read More

Ryan Alden: Practical Artisan Pipemaking

Ryan Alden: Practical Artisan Pipemaking

May 24, 2019 by Chuck Stanion

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Ryan Alden, a long-distance truck driver, had been restoring estate pipes for a while when he had an epiphany: "I thought, well, if pipe restoration is so much fun, making new pipes must be even better." ... Read More

Smoking In Nature

Smoking In Nature

May 1, 2019 by Chuck Stanion

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Hiking in the woods behind my house the other day, I ran across a squirrel with an attitude. She was standing in the middle of the trail and didn't seem to want me to pass. ... Read More

Small Batch: The Historical Sansepolcro

Small Batch: The Historical Sansepolcro

April 24, 2019 by Chuck Stanion

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Mark Twain didn't like Italian tobacco. He said it tasted awful and expanded implausibly at the charring light, towering precipitously above the bowl until spilling onto the nearest flammable objects and raising insurance premiums. When visiting Italy, he carried plenty of his own tobacco. ... Read More

Grandpa & The Revenooers

Grandpa & The Revenooers

April 12, 2019 by Chuck Stanion

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My grandfather used his pipe to call the six Tobys (all of his dogs were named Toby) by lighting a bowl of Granger when they were out exploring the farm, and they would come howling and barking from whatever distance they'd traveled. The "heel" command was delivered via Carter Hall. ... Read More

Sir Walter Ralegh: The Alpha Smoker

Sir Walter Ralegh: The Alpha Smoker

April 3, 2019 by Chuck Stanion

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Brave, impetuous and dramatically gallant, Sir Walter Ralegh (his own spelling for his name) is perhaps best known to readers here as the European alpha smoker. He's the man who popularized smoking in the old world and whose image has been emblematic of the tobacco that bears his name since before any of us can remember. ... Read More

The Hairy Pipesmoker

The Hairy Pipesmoker

March 28, 2019 by Chuck Stanion

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When hundreds of pipe smokers congregate for a pipe show, common characteristics become noticeable, aside from everyone smoking pipes. ... Read More

Excommunication By Chicken

Excommunication By Chicken

March 14, 2019 by Chuck Stanion

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When I was a boy in a little farm village in upstate New York, my grandfather and the 10 Tobys (all of his dogs were named Toby) were unceremoniously and permanently expelled from church, much to my grandfather's vexation. He cared nothing for his own religious instruction, but, because he wasn't particularly expert in the ... Read More

A Non-Review of Savinelli 140th Anniversary

A Non-Review of Savinelli 140th Anniversary

February 27, 2019 by Chuck Stanion

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Among the first things we did after I joined Pipes and tobaccos in 1996 was to start publishing a tobacco review column in the magazine. I tried writing the reviews myself at first but, because I didn't like the results, my attempts never made it into the publication. The reason I didn't like them was that they sucked. ... Read More

The Irresistible Tamper

The Irresistible Tamper

February 25, 2019 by Chuck Stanion

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My admiration for the creativity and beauty of pipes drifts into related categories. Lighters, for example. I like an attractive, reliable lighter, and I have more than I can justify, though I wouldn't categorize them as a collection. I also seem to have assembled more tobacco humidors than I need, especially considering ... Read More

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