Chacom

Meet Antoine Grenard of Chacom

February 16, 2024 by Chuck Stanion

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While many of us remember a childhood of green playgrounds with soccer fields and play equipment, Antoine Grenard remembers a giant, multi-floored, cavernous pipe factory filled with storage racks, ancient ebauchons, briar dust, ancient original French pipe-making machinery, and thousands upon thousands of ... Read More

The History of Comoy's of London

January 12, 2024 by Kayla Ivan

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The Comoy family name is renowned for being the first to offer briar pipes and interpret classic shapes in a distinctive fashion. Although ownership may have changed, this tradition of shaping and briar as the best pipe-making material has persisted into modern-day pipe making. The Comoy's were not only a successful ... Read More

Top Pocket Pipes for Everyday Carry

August 24, 2023 by Davin Hylton

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Pipes, like with most things, come in all shapes and sizes, ranging from the giant, palm-filling briars of the Italian neoclassical tradition to the compact and muscular pipes of North America. The wide variety of pipes reflect the diverse taste of pipe smokers, as well as what they want from their smoking instruments. For some, ... Read More

Smokingpipes' Own Shane Ireland Has Joined The Confrérie Des Maîtres Pipiers De Saint-Claude

June 30, 2023 by Chuck Stanion

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The discovery of briarwood as a medium for pipes was perhaps the most important technological advancement in pipe-making history. Before briar, fragile clay and meerschaum pipes dominated the choices of pipe smokers, supplemented by pipes of various kinds of wood: boxwood, cherry, beech, maple ... Read More

Tasting Notes: Chacom No. Three

September 30, 2020 by Shane Ireland

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Welcome back to another episode of Tasting Notes. Over the last several weeks, I've been tasting my way through four newly available blends from Chacom. I began with Chacom No. 4, because it was the blend I was most interested in. What's been really interesting about this exercise, however, is that it forced me to get out of my own comfort zone in terms of what I normally smoke and try blends like Chacom No. 1, a delicious medium-bodied and well-balanced English Mixture; Chacom No. 2, which renewed my interest in Aromatic blends in general; and now Chacom No. 3, a genre-bending Aromatic that I'm excited to review today. ... Read More

Tasting Notes: Chacom No. Two

September 3, 2020 by Shane Ireland

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Welcome back to another episode of Tasting Notes, a video review series all about discovering (or rediscovering) some of the best pipe tobacco blends on the market. Continuing my journey through Chacom's tobacco portfolio, today I'm taking a closer look at one the brand's more recent additions ... Read More

Tasting Notes: Chacom No. One

July 2, 2020 by Shane Ireland

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Welcome back to another episode of Tasting Notes. In this installment, I take a closer look at Chacom's #1 blend, which is a mellow English mixture comprised of Virginia, Black Cavendish, and Oriental tobaccos with a touch of Latakia. ... Read More

Tasting Notes: Chacom #4

June 18, 2020 by Shane Ireland

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Welcome back to another episode of Tasting Notes. In this installment, I take a closer look at Chacom's #4 blend, which features various Virginias combined with a small portion of Perique for some added strength and a touch of fruity spice. One of four new recent additions to Smokingpipes' portfolio of Chacom blends, this ... Read More

How to Pronounce Pipe Maker Names

February 19, 2020 by Truett Smith

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It's never my intention to insult someone's intelligence (but sometimes I do). It's also never my intention to mispronounce someone's name (but sometimes I do). Mispronunciation is a particular potential if a person's name follows the phonetic standards of a language other than my native English — ... Read More

All Pipes Considered: Chacom

April 13, 2018 by CJ Pendergrass