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  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,460 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 16

    Next up is another one from the discontinued Brazilia line.

    STANWELL BRAZILIA 88: Unsmoked/New Old Stock! 70s-90s Danish Vintage Birds-Eye/Cross Grain Briar Straight Billiard w/Brazilian Cattle Horn Mount.



    I've caught the Stanwell bug.

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  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,663 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I can see the attraction, those are beautiful pipes, Shawn. I'll live vicariously through your PAD.

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  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,460 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I live precariously through my PAD. 🫠

    Second pipe may stay unsmoked. May not.

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  • d_blades
    d_blades Posts: 4,577 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'll take the not.

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  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,460 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 23



    STANWELL GOLDEN CONTRAST 129

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  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,460 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Luigi Viprati 2 Clover estate pipe. He grades his pipes 1-5 clovers. 1 being exquisite, 5 being average. It's a beautiful pipe with a large chamber. I'm a little disappointed with the seller's description of the pipe, though. He didn't mention that the bottom of the chamber is burned oversize. You can really feel the difference when you stick your finger in the chamber.

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  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,663 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That's a very nice looking pipe, Shawn.

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  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,460 ✭✭✭✭✭

    After I finished that bowl of Wilke I checked the chamber again. It doesn't get larger, there is just a ring around it just above the bottom, probably from not reaming all the way down. Smoked ok. I suppose I should be more thorough in my checking and thinking before posting.

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  • OutdoorsSmoke_21191
    OutdoorsSmoke_21191 Posts: 5,567 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ShawnOL said:
    Luigi Viprati 2 Clover estate pipe. He grades his pipes 1-5 clovers. 1 being exquisite, 5 being average. It's a beautiful pipe with a large chamber. I'm a little disappointed with the seller's description of the pipe, though. He didn't mention that the bottom of the chamber is burned oversize. You can really feel the difference when you stick your finger in the chamber.

    Probably good you bought it now because those prices are going to go up.

    A good cigar and the open road solve most problems.

  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,460 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 2


    Got this for work. Those plastic ones I bought tip over too easily.

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  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,460 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Got this the other day. Nording. Gifting it to my brother.

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  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,460 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1/4lb nicotiana rustica and a shredder.

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  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,663 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ShawnOL said:
    1/4lb nicotiana rustica and a shredder.

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  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,460 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Have you had the Night Mare before, Stephen?

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  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 9,868 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 3

    @ShawnOL said:
    Have you had the Night Mare before, Stephen?

    No, all of these are new to me. I think the only KBV I've had in the past was Jupiter Slices, which I liked. Opened and jarred all these I got. I'm starting to think KBV may be the new McClelland. I like the stickers for the jar lids. Nice touch.

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  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,460 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Agree on the jar stickers. Deep house is also good.

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  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,460 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Would you like some samples of other kbv blends? I have plenty.

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  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 9,868 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ShawnOL said:
    Would you like some samples of other kbv blends? I have plenty.

    Much appreciated, but, I'm already crazy for buying these, lol. I contemplated this purchase for a while, finally broke down, read all the descriptions a few times, and my curiosity got the better of my common sense. I've got about 70 blends on hand, and only smoke one or two pipes a day. Sometimes not that much.

    It is fascinating to me how the various blenders can make such a wide range of tastes. GLP, Gawith & Hogarth, Robert McConnell, Seattle Pipe Club, C&D, Lane, and more. Amazing.

    I'm also saddened when a venerable institution like Sutliff goes under, victims of fashionable trends in manipulation by government and "movements". For instance, cigarettes are extremely addictive, thus leading to overindulgence, then on to serious health risks and a need to inform the population about this.

    Fine, I'm for that.

    What happens instead is that any mention of any form of tobacco in any form of public entertainment is frowned upon and stories like The Hobbit have any form of smoking is awful, requires government and industry warnings etc. Over reach at best.

    At any rate, I'm rambling. Thanks for the offer.

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  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,603 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Even frosty the snowman can't smoke a corncob pipe though he sill can have coal for eyes.

  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,460 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Yakster said:
    I found a Keurig coffee rack at the thrift store, bought it for holding pipes.

    Amazon has these on sale for $15 right now.

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  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,603 ✭✭✭✭✭

    alien scary pipe rack ^

  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,460 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Looks like you found a source, Joel.

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