I'm smoking my pipe right now. It has a fine blend of tobacco.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

puff puff.

[lenidog]

1. What kind of tobacco and pipe is it?

[Crazy Guggenheim]

2. It's called Belden Blend and a Savanelli Pipe.

[lenidog]

3. I approve of your choice of pipes

Savenelli makes some excellent and cool smoking pipes. I was always partial to Petersons and still have a couple around. I also have a couple of Church Warden pipes made by a local pipe maker by the name of J. M. Boswell. One made out of elk horn and a pair of meerschaums.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

5. Oh, Impressive.

[lenidog]

14. Not really they all just good smoking pipes

Nothing spectacular though the elk horn one is rather cool. I always like the Petersons because they were thick muscular pipes that sat well in the hand. While the Boswells were just great pipes for not alot of money.

[Jara sang]

9. I collect pipes too

Mostly Native American ceremonial pipes. I have a few from a pipe "home industry" that are from Virginia, turn of the century.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

10. Whoa.

[lenidog]

12. My girlfriend got from her mother the auction, yard sale and flea market

bug. So over the years since I have known her (I have known her since I was ten) she and her mother have dragged me to many such places. One time we ended up at an auction and she boght for five bucks a small seamens chest. It was locked so we didn't know what was in it. I managed to get it open for her and we rooted around and found a mess of junk. We found some cool things like old signal flags for ships, foreign coins and of a things a pipe. Now this was the wierdest damn thing I had ever seen. It was about two feet long, made out of a soft medal with wood shapes inlaid in the length of the pipe, a bone bit and it swept up to a very shallow bowl. She thought it was an old opium pipe and I disagreed. Her pop thought it was intresting and took some pics and wrote up a letter and went down to the office of our House representative. They ended up faxing the pics and letter to the Smithsonian. They replied that it was a pipe made by the Ostiak people of Siberia and because of the size and it was made out of metal it was probably made in the 1700s. I later took it down to the "Antiques Roadshow" and the guys there confirmed it and gave it a value of around $1500 dollars. She still has it.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

13. OMG!

[lenidog]

16. She still picks on me over that.

I like to kid her over the junk she sometimes brings back from her expeditions. She counters with that saying that you can find treasures everywhere and in the most unlikely places.

[lenidog]

4. Your post reminds me of a customer who used to come into

the tobacco shop I used to frequent. Everyone called him just Doc Neibert, he is a local vet who now is mostly retired but still hangs around the vet center he started to keep busy. Now Doc Neibert always dressed like he was one step from living on the street even though he is one of the richest men around York County. He could basically buy anything he wanted cash on the barrel. He loved his pipes and he only smoked Dunhill pipes. So every six months the shop would special order two them because they carry them in stock because as I recall the style he smoked was about 800 dollars a piece. The reason they had to do it every six months is because by that time Doc had totally and utterly destroyed the pipes beyond saving. I don't know what he did the bowls were usually burned through on the sides and sometimes even through the bottom of the bowl. He must have smoked them 24/7 is all I can think of.

[Jara sang]

6. I like American Spirits Pow-Wow blend

The Pow-Wow Blend is a ceremonial pipe blend of additive-free, whole leaf, natural tobacco and the following pure herbs and botanicals: Sage, Red Willow, Bearberry, and Yerba Buena (spearmint).

[vs the introvore]

15. hate to be this honest and sick but...

i am smoking resin right now that i scraped outta this hand-blown glass # and that suits me just fine. and while the 'tobacco' smoked in said spoon was organic and local, this particular mining score yielded some potent pipe coagulate. and now that i reek more chemical desperation than from 10 hours of grinding welds i wonder, i mean what else am i supposed to do? clean the pipe and throw all that good shit away? on some kinda principle? i may not be nothing to brag so much about- and i am not truly getting down on myself here, but atleast i ain't smoking no kinda rocks. peace. oh, i onced smoked fine tobacco out of a hookah at a bar in san diego. i think it was on 6th. nice. they for some reason flavored the tobacco though. some varieties anyway, like strawberries. peace out on yer pipe trip man.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. And a very pleasant good evening to you, my dear Crazy Guggenheim!

Sounds like you're having a nice, relaxing time...Does the pipe make you tranquil?

:hi:

[Crazy Guggenheim]

8. Just professorial.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. How appropriate! LOL...

:hug:

[bridgit]

17. my grandpa used to smoke a pipe...

i can still see his pipe rack, hold his pipes w/their weathered bowls in my mind's eye & smell his humidified tobaccos in my nose on occasions such as this...thanks for the trip back home, CG :hi:

[MissHoneychurch]

18. My dad smoked pipe when I was a kid

so nowadays when I smell a pipe I remember my dad. And it reminds me of great relaxed times because mostly he smoked the pipe during vacation.