I visited! Very nice place. It's mostly about cigars, as I suspected, but they do have a large number of bulk pipe tobaccos, and quite a few of the tinned (Peterson, Mac Baren, SPC, and I think I saw a square tin of Capstan Blue). New pipes, no estates, and the only pouched stuff was RYO -- no Sir Walter or Half & Half, etc. Still, it's nice to know it's there. I picked up an ounce of their White Burley, which smells in the pouch much like SWR, and some pipe cleaners.
I am so out of control! This forum is evil!!!
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I didn't see this post before, but have to agree. I'm a 15 pipe owner now, and am going to have to start looking at moving some of these on, I can't see me smoking 15 different pipes...Oh boy. SWMBO stopped being pissed at me over guns, because I more or less quit buying them when I filled my second gun safe. I never spent that much on pens (and lost interest, I write mostly with two Lamy's a fine and a medium, and an old Scheaffer School Pen M), and she really pays no attention to my shaving stuff.
But she's starting to notice the number of pipes and tobacco showing up. I think I'm working myself into the doghouse again.
Maybe I could use an old gun buying tactic. I'd buy a gun, sneak it into the safe (one of them), then wait 6-9 months, then sneak it out to the kitchen and start cleaning it before a range outing. The conversation that ensued was like this.
SWMBO: "DID YOU GET ANOTHER GUN?!"
ME: "No, dear, I've had this one for 'a while', I'm just taking it out shooting today."
It worked more times than you can imagine.
I hope, like guns, all my pipes look the same to her.
But I do have a desk top stand that holds 12 and a vintage chair side floor pipe rack coming today that holds 16 pipes, so...
I just ordered a Peterson Arklow 606 from SP, and they threw in a free tin of C & D Alpine Lodge. And here i was thinking I had enough pipes and tobacco already. . . .
This is B&B. However many or how much you have, it's never enough!
If I don't stop at 28, that means I have to buy another pipe rack.
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I've been smoking a pipe since 2013, and you got me beat already, Phil. Well, with briars anyway 
You don’t have to smoke em to keep them around. Speaking from experience lol.
I bought another pipe rack then realized the way its made doesn’t allow bent pipes to be stored in it. Oh well, looks like I have to buy more straights to fill it up. Oh, and I need another rack for my bents.This is B&B. However many or how much you have, it's never enough!
If I don't stop at 28, that means I have to buy another pipe rack.
It's a sickness. I am ready to admit that at my age, but not ready to do anything about it!I've been smoking a pipe since 2013, and you got me beat already, Phil. Well, with briars anyway
I'll have to make up a chart of regular rotation and special event pipes!
I've moved a pot-bowl pipe, a no-name model with a lucite stem, and a Lorenzo Oom Paul model to a separate box with tobaccos I don't plan to smoke soon. (The pot pipe and the other tobaccos, Walnut Match for instance, I might give away or trade, but the Oom Paul has too much history; 'twas my very first real pipe.) So they are out of the rotation for now. And I find myself reaching most often for the newer pipes, those I picked up this year.
I need another rack too.
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JCinPA
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@luvmysuper Phil, you are awesome! You make me feel so good! I stop in here a couple, three months ago, had a few pipes, smoked off and on for decades, mostly off, and BANG! I'm buying pipes, buying refurbed pipes, buying pipes to refurb, buying tools, collecting tobaccos, thinking, "Oh, great, here I go again, off the deep end!" I'm wondering is there anyone else this susceptible to a new acquisition disorder?
Then you come along, and in about two weeks, you're like ...
Then you come along, and in about two weeks, you're like ...
It's like I said, I'm smart enough to recognize I have a problem, but having enough fun to the point that I don't really care!
We have precious little time on this big blue marble, and I'm going to try to fill it with as much fun as I can!
Can you put them in backwards, or turn the stem 180?
I remember when I was going to stop buying pipes when I had 50......
No, I tried it all. Judging by the amount of dust on the rack it had been in the shop a LONG time. The owner went to ring it up looked at the price and said “that’s too much” and knocked 1/2 off. It has circular openings for the stems, eventually I’ll take it out to the shop cut the circles into u shape openings so the stems will rest in the opening instead of being put through the opening. Does that make sense? It’s been a long day and the words aren’t coming easily.
When my wife gave me a 48 pipe cabinet for Christmas a couple of years ago. A while back she said, "It looks like you need another cabinet." I think I'll have to build this one myself!
I knew you were smart. It is impossible to fool @Marco , and I respect his opinion.Oh boy. SWMBO stopped being pissed at me over guns, because I more or less quit buying them when I filled my second gun safe. I never spent that much on pens (and lost interest, I write mostly with two Lamy's a fine and a medium, and an old Scheaffer School Pen M), and she really pays no attention to my shaving stuff.
But she's starting to notice the number of pipes and tobacco showing up. I think I'm working myself into the doghouse again.
Maybe I could use an old gun buying tactic. I'd buy a gun, sneak it into the safe (one of them), then wait 6-9 months, then sneak it out to the kitchen and start cleaning it before a range outing. The conversation that ensued was like this.
SWMBO: "DID YOU GET ANOTHER GUN?!"
ME: "No, dear, I've had this one for 'a while', I'm just taking it out shooting today."
It worked more times than you can imagine.
I hope, like guns, all my pipes look the same to her.
But this story PROVES that you. are. a. genius!
I am not nearly this smart, but I will be studying at your feet my friend.
That makes perfect sense and is a brilliant idea. Looks like I'll be in the shop tomorrow spending some quality time with my scroll saw!
You've got a keeper there my friend!
I have all the components cut for my rack. Used a router bowl bit for the indentations for the bowl and used a dado to cut all the stem holder thingees. Just need the time to put it all together.
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