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Going on the dry — 8 Comments

  1. I am a wet smoker as well. It is annoying but not to the point where I am ready to go to the same extent as you did grandad. (Pipe cleaners are pretty cheap anyway.)

    We are renting our current home from our son and he would prefer that I not smoke a pipe in the house. After careful consideration I decided to go ahead with my current plan and continue smoking in the house. After all, in his younger years I fixed my fair share of broken windows, holes in walls, so on and so forth. A few years of pipe smoke, (Latakia heavy blends of course) seems a fair trade.

    • You need not go the whole hog. All you need to do is surgically detach your upper lip from your nose and remove about a third of the lip, and you’ll then be in the same boat as myself.

      I trust your rental agreement allows for deductions for unreasonable conditions?

  2. Falcon pipes were the way forward for me, and I seem to remember a famous Pipe Smoker of The Year turned up to the ceremony with one, which dismayed several hardened briar specialists! The bent stem was the best!

    Peterson’s are quite good too, but a blast with an aerosol cleaner could clear a Falcon stem in seconds!

    I also used to have great success with a ‘The Pipe’, which was made of a polymer, came in all colours, (mine was white), and had a graphite lining which stayed as dry as a bone! I think it was designed after a good Meerschaum using the same principle!

    • I started with a Ronson which had a great filtering system in the barrel. I also later got a Falcon or two. If I remember, both suffered the same design flaw – the thread on the bowl used to wear out. Elie has his own unique filtering system which leads to a nice cool smoke. I also love his designs which are really quirky.

  3. I have been listening to the complete Sherlock Holmes stories on Audible (45 hours of listening). Pipe smoking plays a significant part in the stories and I am sure that Holmes would have been delighted to have been the owner of one of the pieces of Elie’s handiwork.

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