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A quick notice I am creating a praise or critic line it will be the official contact between me and you, the reader. I will delete all and everything troll, hate and non constructive criticism. But I will read it, if you have an idea for an article I'll MULL it over and decide whether or not to write it. However I will ONLY do three idea articles a month. So make sure they're good, and you do not waste my time with crap emails trolling my ass. 


So here is the link. Pipesmoking33@hotmail.com, so if you have an Idea Article, want to praise, or pass on some constructive criticism then by all means use this email address. 


puff you later.

Turkey, the Meerschaum Monopoly

Turkey the place to go when you want meerschaum, but it wasn't always like this. Up until the 1970s the exportation of the valuable soapstone was stopped by the Government of Turkey, with the excuse of starting up their own pipe industry.

Now not all meerschaum comes from Turkey. But if you want a meerschaum pipe you'll have to scour the entire internet looking for good meerschaum pipe that wasn't carved in Turkey. Now normally I will not delve into political matters of this kind very often. But I feel it is best that we lobby the Turkish government to re open the exportation of meerschaum. Because mainly I feel it is unfair for the Turkish government to prevent the pipe making of meerschaum pipes in other countries. Not to mention that it hampers the spread of knowledge of how to carve a meerschaum pipe.

If Turkish government fears that the flow of meerschaum would destroy or cripple their own industry. Then I say lets do an experiment. Where the Turkish government would allow about six tons worth of meerschaum to be exported to the United States, Canada, England, Denmark, Italy, and Russia. Where as each country would then distribute to the rest of the world were pipe smoking is known. Russia would distribute to Eastern Europe, Italy distributes to Central Europe including Switzerland, England would distribute to Ireland, the Iberian Peninsula and France,  Denmark would have the Scandinavian Peninsula and the rest of Northern Europe.

With the United States charge with distributing to Mexico and the entire Central American region including Panama and Canada would primarily distribute to Greenland and the Caribbean.

Then the Turkish government can, depending on UN survey on how many pipe carvers go out of business in Turkey,  increase or decrease the flow of meerschaum. Or a much simpler plan would be boycotting every meerschaum pipe and publicly protest at every single Turkish cultural event, including Turkish Embassies, until  the flow of meerschaum is reopened.

But until that actually happens then there is no chance that Meerschaum will be openly traded.

So I'll puff you later.

The most expensive pipe paraphernalia

I've recently found a good website with an artistic twist to it. Now your probably wondering what the fuck does this have to do with pipe smoking. Well hold on I'm getting there, because you see this website creates some of the most beautiful and expensive Pipe Tampers.  You would have to check out the site but rest assure that you'll be seeing some of the most beautifully sculpted tampers you have ever seen.

Before you grab your wallets. Check out what is available and how much a tamper cost, because high quality usually equals in high prices. But fortunately I have found some, on the this site, that are tamper in the price range of $50-$80 a piece. So fortunately if you can't afford the more high end tampers then at least you could buy an good tamper.

See you later and puff you later.

Pipe Rack update

Attention anybody who still reads this blog! I have an announcement to make the fourth and final post of How To Make Your Own Pipe Rack is coming soon. It will have instructions, it will have photos, and it will have a photo of the finished product. Now before you give self a wedgie of anticipation, note that even if I finish there is a slight possibility, due to an act of God, that I won't be able to post it immediately after I am done. 

So be patient as I get all the stuff together and then publish it. So I don't screw up and give you instructions to build a birdhouse. In other words it will take me some time to write and edit some things out before I get the post published. 

An Hopeful Interview

As I post this and get ready for the final posting of How To Make Your Own Pipe Rack, hopefully it gets posted by the end of next week. I am hopefully going to do an interview with one the world's most famous pipe smokers. No it's not Stephen Fry or any other famous pipe smoker, that is currently alive. But a far more famous one than him.

The reason I am not going to reveal his identity to anyone is because I don't know if the interview is going to happen and if it did. Not to mention there is a possibility that I'll get rejected. So I will reveal  the identity of the person whom I'm interviewing, only if I get a yes to the interview.

So that's that. Have a fine day to smoke and enjoy a pipe. Puff you later.

Tobacco obsession to the fullest

Recently I have come to realize that I have an obsession with three different tobacco blends. That each entice and attract me through my own personal way. Each blend has it's own merits but again I lack experience to write a full blown review.

But these do capture to my imagination as to what they taste, smell, and how good they smoke. I'm hoping in the near future that I do get to try these three different blends and write an honest review.
 
But until then lets continue writing note these are my mysterious trio and yes it is biased due to my inexperience with these three.

1. Moontrance by CAO, the reasons for this is its claim to be a blend of exotic fruit, vanilla, and bourbon. Not that only I am infatuated with this blend of tobacco. It consumes my desires of smoking when I am using one of my older blends that I buy from a local tobacconist.
2. This tobacco is one of my newer obsessions so I think it is playing on my growing desire to try something new. Its name is Devil's Holiday, by Dan's Tobacco, and it has put a spell on me. The reason behind my obsession is the intrigue of its 'wild forest flavor'. But mostly due to marketing.
3. This blend of tobacco isn't caused by a particular brand, per say. It's caused by the residual flavors in the pipe's cake. The said pipe used to be owned by my grandfather, that is now in my possession. Who past away earlier this summer. Who was a modest collector and smoker. But I am getting off track, what attracts me towards this mysterious blend. Isn't sentimental, though it's part of the reason. It's because of the smell if anything else.

That smells like…………………………………………… I can't describe it perfectly so bare with me. Pine needles with a hint of Oak. Its the kind of tobacco that really brings out the nostalgia of being a pipe smoker, despite the health risks. And makes you want to pick up a pipe and smoke after a good steak and potato dinner with a glass of Jack on the rocks.

So Puff you later

Making Your own Pipe Rack: the interlude

After taking a look and seeing that beside the churchwarden article, that most who read this blog isn't for my two cents on which tobacco to buy or which pipe is awesome or not. But building a pipe rack, getting your hands dirty and using tools that have the power to claim your use of grabbing things and ridding a bike.
I have decided to again post, with pictures, the fourth and final posting of Making Your Own Pipe Rack. Yes I am counting this as part of the series of posts. So live with that.
If you are wondering when then you'll be out of luck because of several reasons one of them is that I myself don't know when I'll resume making this fascinating blog series.

So…………………*awkward pause*…………puff you later.