Duplicated: Peterson Pipe Notes: shapes, lines & series – [#3183]

  PSAs The Chicago Pipe Show will be held May 1st – 4th. On Friday May 2nd, Glen Whelan, Managing Direction at Peterson, will join the Pete Geeks and Pipe Smokers of Ireland for a “Pete Geek Meet” from 12 to 2 in the secondary SMOKING tent. At 2pm I’ll be presenting “‘A Perfect Pipe’: Peterson’s 1906 Catalog” to coincide with the book launch of the catalog’s restoration.  The new book will be available at the show...

Of course you’ve heard that Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) bought Mac Baren last summer and is dismantling the Mac Baren factory.*  It’s been everywhere in the hobby news, on vlogs, forums, and passed by word-of-mouth. Anytime something like this happens to a community as small as ours, it causes some seismic tremors. I remember running out of my classroom almost hysterical in 2018 when I heard (and I was apparently the last) that McClelland had...

Banner: Two of Steve's favorites, his beloved 53 and his 01 System DeLuxe This morning I’m in my full-on fanboy mode, so be prepared.  Smoke strong tobacco.  Drink strong coffee.  Throw on your best Irish kilt & don't be afraid of the breeze—Éirinn go Brách! Some believe the Irish invented the kilt. I’m always in awe of everything that goes on at SPC, and when I finished up my last year’s teaching back in 2018, I was trying...

  It’s almost funny, me wanting to forget the Everything That Happened, when that was exactly where I was still stuck. Maybe the only way to get unstuck was to remember. --Allie Millington, Olivetti (2024) First, this is not about FOMO—“fear of missing out”—and neither is it about PPAD—“Peterson Pipe Acquisition Disorder.”  So if you feel your heart palpitate, your blood pressure rise, or your fingers begin scrolling to retail sites for pipes of days past, get up.  Get...

Ó, tagaig' uile is adhraigí An leanbh cneasta sa chró 'na luí Is cuimhnígí ar ghrá an Rí A thug dár saoradh anocht an Naí. 'S a Mhuire Mháthair i bParrthas Dé, Ar chlann bhocht Éabha guigh 'nois go caomh, Is doras an chró ná dún go deo Go n-adhram' feasta Mac Mhuire Ógh. Good people all, this Christmas time, Consider well and bear in mind What our good God for us has done In sending His beloved Son With Mary holy we should pray, To God with...

Pictured in banner above: the first three Peterson Christmas pipes, from 2009 – 2011   Santa’s Little Helpers, the 304 Christmas pipe 2019 Almost every year during Advent or the first week of Christmas, we read or listen to Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, which against all odds hit the book stalls on December 19, 1843.  It was a personal statement for Dickens and one his publishers weren’t much interested in.  If you’ve seen The Man Who Invented...