300. System Day 2022: The Seven-Day Challenge
PPN / CPG Commemorative Pipe Update Thanks for bearing with me as I made my way through the avalanche of unexpected emails. I am amazed the PG community has grown to such an extent. Special thanks to those who helped me find their original confirmation emails. At this point we have 72 smokers who have reconfirmed their pipes. I'm waiting for the remaining 8 until Thursday morning at 10 CDT, at which time I'll send out emails to those on the Alternate list letting them know if they have a pipe waiting for them. On Friday September 9th K&P is scheduled to begin work on our pipe. Sykes Wilford sent me this video from K&P's blasting cabinet of the very first CPG / PPN bowl to be blasted. How cool is that?! For those who've written and asked to be on the Alternate list, the first call for the PPN / CPG pipe went out in post #279 on April 24th and was repeated over the next few weeks until we had 80 interested buyers. Eighty wasn't an arbitrary number (numerologically I wouldn't have chosen that number). It was simply the number of bowls K&P had in our shape! FINLAND •AUSTRIA • FLORIDA (3) • DUBLIN • MISSISSIPPI (3) • EUROPE • KENTUCKY • ROMANIA • SWITZERLAND (2) • ALASKA • TEXAS (5) • NEVADA • NEW YORK • OHIO• OKLAHOMA (2) • NEW HAMPSHIRE • WASHINGTON • HONDURAS • CYPERSPACE • BRAZIL • UNITED KINGDOM • COLORADO • VIRGINIA • NORTH CAROLINA • IDAHO • CAYMEN ISLANDS There are pipe smokers. There are Peterson smokers. And there are Certified Pete Geeks. Happy System Day 2022! The Seven-Day Challenge has broken all Peterson Pipe Notes records, nearly burned out the hard drive on my computer and overtaxed my keyboarding skills. 'Thinking Men' from across the world gather virtually in today's post to share their passion for Petes in an amazing Pete-show featuring some outstanding pipes. I hope you'll take time during System Week to enjoy your own favorite Petes while perusing the offerings below as we celebrate the legacy of Charles Peterson's System Pipe, which received its final patent on this day 124 years ago. And if you haven't done so, you can download this year's System Day tobacco mat at the end of the post. The only 7-Day set in the K&P ephemera, from the 1939 Rogers catalog. Can you name the 7-Day set seen in The Peterson Pipe? * Gilbert Ludwig, Finland I don’t have a huge collection, but enough to make some decisions on which to pick. Here they are: Mon Ulysses 9B Tue XL9s from 1979 Wed Deluxe XL5s sandblasted Thu Spigot System XL315 smooth Fri Deluxe XL5s Dark Smooth Sat 4AB (POTY21) Sun Pub Pipe Oak Best regards from Finland Scott Forrest For this year’s System Week, I’m going with my best representation of the System’s history: 1905 - Patent Dublin 20F.AB. I’m partial to this one because of how it…