393. Gary Hamilton’s Peterson 80s Tenon Extension Project
The Starting Point PETERSON’S SUPREME MADE IN IRELAND 80s The Tenon Has Internal Threading To Accept A Tenon Extension Threading Is Metric M4.5 X 0.75 The Mortise Is Drilled Deeper Than Required (1-1/2”) Than Typical The Draft Hole Enters On The Top This Pipe Exhibits All
392. Pete Geek D. H. Billings on the Purposeful Point of a Pointless Pursuit
“My sympathies for the obsolete are climbing higher every day” —Mutemath, Break The Fever Before I was a husband, before I was a father, before I was a nurse, before I worked in mental health, before I’d realized that one day I might lose my hair, I was a pipe
391. SPECIAL BULLETIN: The Shannon Air System Descends Tomorrow
REVISED 3/31/04 9:15 AM Public Service Announcement The Pete Geek Meet at the Chicago Pipe Show, 4:15-6:15 pm in the Sky Harbor AB room after the Saturday show. PETE GEEK MEET @ THE CHICAGO PIPE SHOW. We’ll be doing a swap & sell of pipes, tobaccos & ephemera, a show
390. A Visual History of Peterson’s Bulldog Shapes, Part 2: From the End of the Patent through the Irish Free State and Éire Eras
Banner: Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson, smoking a Peterson bulldog in the Sherlock Holmes film Dressed to Kill (1946) Rev. 9am, 3/24. Irish Bulldogges! I had no idea they were so popular among the Pete Geeks, really I didn’t. This morning we’ll continue on with our survey of the history
389. Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Daoibh!—Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Duit! Happy St. Patrick’s Day to You! This morning I’ve invited Jason Canady, the blog’s resident St. Patrick’s Day commemorative expert, to step in and take a look back at what will go down in Kapp & Peterson’s history as the very finest SPD ever issued
388. A Visual History of Peterson’s Bulldog Shape, Part 1: The Patent Era (1891-1919).
PSA: If you missed out on the mugs, flatcaps or tampers, see the end of this post. The quest for the perfect Peterson bulldog began for me with the first pipe I smoked, my Dad’s Kaywoodie White Briar shape 12B, one of his two Kaywoodies. I knew nothing about pipes