My New Reading Aid

[Lawson]

I've got a few big technical watchmaking books to read in the near future, and I'm not a huge fan of reading ... so I purchased an aid to help me through the long hours of study ahead of me :)

Recommendations for a nice Rum/Port aromatic blend would be appreciated :cigar: 

 

My new Vauen #277 Nobile Lounge Churchwarden

 

 

 

 

 

[WillFly]

Ah - the pleasures of the pipe! I still have mine somewhere, though I gave it up some years ago.

 

I used to smoke Old Holborn. There's a very nice tobacconists in Brighton which has jars of different leaves and mixes them to taste.

[bobm12]

Beautiful pipe! Congratulations on your new watchmakers study aid! Does the little part connect to the book? :)

[Vich]

Like Will I gave up but still have my old well burnt in pipe and used to smoke Amphora - lovely smell.  There was an art to pipe smoking and it did certainly aid relaxation as far as I was concerned.  Though it has to be said cleaning out the stem and bowl was a tad yucky.

 

Cheers,

 

Vic

[Geo]

Tried one once, was as sick as a parrot and it put me off smoking for life. I was fourteen at the time!

[PadraicB]

Fellow nicotine addict, here. For the past year and a half, I've actually been using one of those very conspicious electronic vaping devices with an odourless fruit flavoured liquid (I learned quickly that the tobacco flavours can smell something terrible - almost anything else should have minimal or no odour). So glad I switched over, though I still have to get around to truly quitting.

 

Someone needs to do a pipe conversion for these. I bet it has been done if I bother checking on ebay!

 

Edit: Haha! They have: http://www.ebay.ie/itm/Luxury-Electronic-Rechargeable-ePipe-618-E-Shisha-Electronic-Epipe-/201159406965?pt=UK_Collectables_Tobacciana_Smoking_LE&hash=item2ed608f575

[bobm12]

You guys are tempting me! Do you know my sickness is collecting beautiful stuff? Even though I don't smoke, I have collected about 30 zippo lighters and now you got me thinking about pipes! Oh for crying out loud! :)

[Lawson]

bobm12, on 15 Sept 2014 - 09:34 AM, said:

You guys are tempting me! Do you know my sickness is collecting beautiful stuff? Even though I don't smoke, I have collected about 30 zippo lighters and now you got me thinking about pipes! Oh for crying out loud! :)

 

ROFL, sorry mate.  But there are heaps of "Estate Pipes" that go pretty cheap on the Fleabay.  And there are videos on Youtube showing how to restore them to as new condition.  So I think I might be starting with you mate :p

[bobm12]

Come on Lawson, if my wife catch me collecting anything else she will probably throw me out with all my things! You wouldn't do that to my poor watch collection now would you? :fpc: