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Travel Destination Tips For Cigar Smokers

Travel Destination Tips For Cigar Smokers

August 8, 2024 by Kayla Ivan

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The backdrop might not seem like the most crucial element when enjoying a favorite cigar. However, cigar smoking can be a transcendent experience connecting you to the moment, elevating your senses to create lasting memories around your favorite company (which could very well be your own). As summer sizzles ... Read More

40 Years of Kurt Balleby Pipes

40 Years of Kurt Balleby Pipes

September 7, 2023 by Truett Smith

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This year marks Kurt Balleby's 40th pipe-making anniversary, and it's a milestone worth celebrating. I haven't even been breathing for four decades, and that's perhaps the easiest, most passive action available; it's hard to imagine intentionally dedicating sweat and effort to one specific pursuit for such a span of time. ... Read More

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

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

The Chicago Pipe Show

The Chicago Pipe Show

April 21, 2023 by Chuck Stanion

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This year's Chicagoland International Pipe and Tobacciana Show (April 25-May 1) will be held at the Lincolnshire Marriott Resort at 10 Marriott Drive in Lincolnshire, Illinois. ... Read More

Kapp & Peterson Relocates Factory to Nearby Deansgrange

Kapp & Peterson Relocates Factory to Nearby Deansgrange

June 24, 2022 by Chuck Stanion

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Peterson has always been an Irish institution. While the factory moved as of May 23, it remains where it belongs: in Dublin, where it was established more than 150 years ago. ... Read More

A Visit with Ser Jacopo

A Visit with Ser Jacopo

December 9, 2021 by Sykes Wilford

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In mid-2010, I visited Ser Jacopo for the first time. Smokingpipes had carried Ser Jacopo pipes for almost a decade at that point and finally meeting Giancarlo Guidi was an extraordinary experience. ... Read More

Single-Farm Components: Carolina Red Flake with Perique

Single-Farm Components: Carolina Red Flake with Perique

October 15, 2021 by Chuck Stanion

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Most of us take what we can find at the grocery store. Chefs, however, choose the highest quality ingredients that they can, some personally inspecting and selecting produce at the farm itself, guaranteeing the quality they require to achieve the creative combinations that make a night at a fine restaurant a meaningful event for the rest of us. A very few are so dedicated to quality ... Read More

Italy, July, 2021: A Pipe Travelogue

Italy, July, 2021: A Pipe Travelogue

July 23, 2021 by Sykes Wilford

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We go where the pipes are. Our special relationships with pipe makers and manufacturers are predicated on being responsible, supportive stewards for their pipes and their efforts, and a near limitless willingness to just show up. Travel is a big part of what makes Smokingpipes what it is. ... Read More

Unexpected Company

Unexpected Company

December 31, 2020 by Truett Smith

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Airports are universes unto themselves, dictated by their own laws of physics and time. Ten minutes through security actually takes five hours, and a five-hour layover really only lasts two beers — yes, beers transmogrify from beverages to measurements of time (the result of a complicated process that Einstein only touches on in his fifth Annus Mirabilis paper). ... Read More

Collecting Pipes As Souvenirs

Collecting Pipes As Souvenirs

April 22, 2020 by Truett Smith

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The word "souvenir" is an English noun borrowed or, rather, inherited from French and its word for "memory" or "memento," a somewhat curious linguistic adoption since French and English find themselves on different branches on the linguistic family tree. We English speakers have William the Conqueror to thank for that. ... Read More

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