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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It’s nice being inside working on the next pipe in the queue with the cold outside here in Golden, Colorado. Last night it was 3 degrees outside…. The next pipe on the worktable is another pipe I acquired in February 2019 from a seller in West Hartford, Connecticut. The Lot of 68 pipes on the …
After celebrating the birth of our 10th grandchild – a boy 😊, it’s time to look at the next pipe on the worktable. This Meerschaum is the second of 3 pipes that pipe man, James from Dayton, Ohio, has commissioned. The first, pictured below, was another striking Peterson’s Meerschaum that turned out great (Reviving a …
The next pipe on the worktable has some sentimental value for me. I remember well seeing a trove of pipes sitting on the vendor’s table in the shadow of Nevski Cathedral in the center of Sofia, Bulgaria. It was December 27, 2019, and two of my five children were visiting from the US with one …
The Pipe Steward 