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What's the best idea for a new poll? - poll (they're all LIP's ideas :)

Bent pipe and beard or straight billiard and clean shaven?

10%

Pipe and scotch or pipe and tea?

25%

Bent and Fedora or Straight and baseball cap?

Do you really rotate your pipes and assign tobacco or do you just grab a pipe and load up?

42%

Do you enjoy the aroma of your pipe after it's done by smelling your mustache or are you mustachless and losing out?

Do you carry just one lighter or do your carry two (in case the first one craps out on you)?

Do you ever half load a bowl with one tobacco and then fill the rest with another?

Ever make an oreo tobacco sandwich in a bowl with two tobaccos?

Total votes: 48

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Fri, 05/08/2009 - 09:01 — admin

So, you have decided to join the world of pipes and all it entails? Congratulations. At first it all may seem a bit confusing. This page serves as your one-stop resource for everything you could possibly want to know about pipes, how to smoke them, care for them, what tobacco's there are, how to store them, and so on.

This page is subject to frequent editing. If you are looking for some information that isn't found on this page, leave a comment below with your suggestions. Thank you.

General

Pipe Identification: http://www.pipephil.eu/ (Thanks m0rl0ck)
Pipe Shapes Chart: http://www.aspipes.org/shapes/shapes.html (Thanks mikey)
Pipelore Misc. beginner info: http://pipelore.net/index.php?s=beginnermisc
Tobacco problems/questions: http://agingfaq.nocturne.org/related.php#q1

Packing techniques

Flake Packing Methods: http://pipelore.net/index.php?id=142 (Thanks stieltje)
Frank Method (with video): http://pipelore.net/index.php?id=97 (Thanks Corneel)
Frank Method: http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze43wza/franck.html
Three layer packing method: http://pipelore.net/index.php?id=6

Pipe Parts/Anatomy

http://www.aspipes.org/faq/parts1.gif
http://www.aspipes.org/faq/parts2.gif
http://www.aspipes.org/faq/parts3.gif
http://www.aspipes.org/faq/parts4.gif

Tobacco Types

http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze43wza/types.html

Tobacco touchstones

http://agingfaq.nocturne.org/touchstones.php

Tobacco Aging

http://agingfaq.nocturne.org/aging.php

Tobacco Storage

http://agingfaq.nocturne.org/tinstorage.php
http://agingfaq.nocturne.org/bulkstorage.php
http://agingfaq.nocturne.org/jarhowto.php

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Fri, 05/21/2010 - 19:47 — Corneel

I'm

I'm hoping with you, but I have to say that with each passing day it seems less and less likely to actually happen ...

Fri, 05/21/2010 - 19:38 — slartie

I'm still clinging to the

I'm still clinging to the hope of reviving pipelore, so I'm letting them stay on.

Fri, 05/21/2010 - 19:29 — Corneel

and ...

What about the pipelore links? Are they dead? Alive? Keep them here or not ..?

Wed, 05/05/2010 - 14:50 — slartie

Yeah, that's a bit of a

Yeah, that's a bit of a shame. Then again, is Jason is still answering his e-mails, I'd be happy to provide the hosting for agingfaq here, or on another domain to have agingfaq remain unaffiliated to any particular site.

If anyone can get in touch with Jason, please let me know.

Wed, 05/05/2010 - 09:02 — MahkMahkMark

agingfaq.nocturne.org links are DEAD

It's too bad too. That was an amazing resource. Thankfully however, I saved the entire website to my computer a couple years ago! At the time, I had sporadic access to the internet, so when I came across the agingfaq site, I saved it to my computer so I could go home and peruse it at will. So much great information there... Too bad it would be illegal for me to repost it on the web. There is nothing like it on the web at the moment.

Sat, 10/17/2009 - 11:31 — vasco