Product DescriptionFinally, a book for pipemen that tells it like it is. This is the first lifestyle guide for the inveterate and novice pipe smoker alike. Topics range from pipe and tobacco selection to collecting to etiquette. A primer to some, rollicking good laughs to others. Confessions of a Pipeman … An irreverent guide for [...]

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When I started estatetobaccopipes.com about 15 months ago, it was more a bit of an experiment. But obviously some folks liked it ;-) Thanks to your continued usage and positive feedback, and despite my crappy English (I am a German expat living in Paraguay) the site has become one of the reference sites when it [...]

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Search engine optimization (SEO) is not a main topic of this blog, but sometimes I will drop a note or two. This time I noticed something really positive. Over the past year, Google & Co have done a fairly good job reducing the number of mere spam pages in their top 10 search results. And [...]

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Proper cleaning of the pipe and stem is an inevitable part of the pipesmokers daily routine. And sometimes it has to be a little more. From time to time, or after an extended period of careless use, any pipe becomes kinda „smelly“. And in case you bought a beautiful estate pipe, you will quite often [...]

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Now THAT guy certainly is not your typical relaxed pipesmoker… ;-)

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OK folks – second try. Some months ago I had already started to integrate a pipe-smoking-blog with my main site estatetobaccopipes.com – but my previous webhoster screwed up the server and in the process of moving the site to my own server the poor young blog got lost… ;-) Now the blog is back. There [...]

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