Pipes and Drums
I've never written here about the pleasures of pipesmirkin' but I have often meant to and so do now.
As the winter rolls in (and winter in Scotland blasts in at terrible pace) a gentleman's thoughts turn to his pipe. Well this gentleman's thoughts do anyway. A pipe in winter is a handy hand warmer apart from anything else. It soothes and calms the frozen brow. It brings peace and fills the room with pleasant smoke.
For many years the pipesmoker of Glasgow was served by a duo of specialist tobacconists, Herbert Loves of George Square and Graham's in St Vincent Street. Graham's burned down (oh the irony) two years back and Love's closed just last year leaving your writer with recourse only to online satisfaction. Stop giggling at the back!
To my mind the best of the online retailers is James Barber.
Here you'll find good advice and great pipes, such as this, very similar to my own Dunhill.
Of course, when one first starts smirkin' there aren't all that many places you can go for advice but when I started I tried hard and found after many disappointments the wondeful Pipe Club Of Lebanon.
Their section on filling your pipe is the classic work on the technique. "With practice, you will happily discover that your fingers will do the job for you!" Stop giggling I said!
This guy, from the members section, is my favourite ahem! member.
"Ted, known to his pipe-smoking friends as "T-Bear," is a mechanical design drafter from Missouri, U.S.A., and has been smoking the pipe since he was 16." I won't tell you again, stop giggling! MacBaren have a great site all about tabocco. MacBaren are a Danish Company but wanted to seem Scottish because that's where all the Tobacco Lords were from.Click the pic for link
And here's Ol' Cyclo's Pipe of the Week
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