The title doesn’t refer to Fred Sanford having another heart attack, rather, it’s about the Chicagoland International Pipe and Tobacciana Show; my favorite place to be the first weekend of May. This year was special for a number of reasons. First, we had a number of first-time attendees with us from the offices, who were [...]
A Grain of Truth
March 18, 2013 By 1 Comment
Briar is an amazing material, and is ideally suited to making tobacco pipes. It’s a hard wood that polishes beautifully, it’s heat-resistant and it has a relatively neutral flavor. But one of the main reasons for its popularity as a pipe making wood is the intriguing grain that it has. The way it grows accounts [...]
Countdown To IPSD
February 18, 2013 By 2 Comments
Hey Everybody, I know you’re not used to seeing me in your inbox on Mondays, but I wanted to write you today since this is a very special week for all of us in the world of smoking pipes. I wanted to remind you about our favorite holiday, International Pipe Smoking Day that’s coming up [...]
Bobby G. Waxes Poetic
February 7, 2013 By Leave a Comment
I look around the P&C Warehouse, Marketing office, NPI Office, Accounting Office, Customer Service office and I am amazed at what happens here on a daily basis. Scotty hired me almost 9 years ago to “help” with a budding online store called PipesandCigars.com. In the early days we were located in a mall in a, [...]
Tobacco Legislation and The “Social Creep”
January 18, 2013 By 4 Comments
We’ve all heard the truism “Give ‘em an inch and they’ll take a mile”. It’s usually in reference to children regarding self-discipline, but I’m coming to realize that it has a lot to do with government, especially legislators. Let me explain. I remember a time, not all that long ago, when smoking pipes, cigarettes, and [...]
Pipes and Cigars
Despite the title, this isn’t about our website. This is about my thoughts on the differences between pipe and cigar smoking. Some are obvious, others are less so. All of them are just my opinion, but that’s what I have to work with, so here I go. The first thing I ever smoked was a [...]
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