The Sculpted Vineyard Meerschaum now on the table came to me recently when Corey from Orange, California, reached out to me concerning a box of pipes he discovered in the attic. The pipes had belonged to his father who passed away 10 years earlier. He did not know that his father had smoked pipes, but …
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Even as I begin this project, I’m not sure if this Big-Ben Crosley is going to come out on the other side ready to go again. It came to me in February 2019 as part of a Lot of 68 pipes from a seller in West Hartford, Connecticut. My final bid was sufficient and the …
Darryl reached out to me with a request to bring new life to his Dr. Grabow Omega. What caught my attention was that he’s a neighbor here in Colorado. He lives north of where I reside here in Golden, the home of Coors beer – in Longmont, Colorado. The email he sent has the subject …
Continue reading Upgrading a Pipeman’s First Pipe as a Teenager – A 1990s Dr. Grabow Omega
The Pipe Steward 