Vacuum seals are awesome, gonna do this to some lane bulk blends soon ❤

Hey thanks for sharing this. Does this work for both acrylic and vulcanized stems?

Excellent tip. Love your Ikea pot top holder for holding your pipes in progress!

What a great way to bring old tobacco back to life!

You're awesome! ❤

Wow that's brilliant! I can't wait to try that method with some of my estate pipes.

Hello sir. You had reviewed Joyce cigar pipe. Can you help me get those? I'm trying to get some but couldn't. It doesn't have to be the same brand but the kind should be same.

Hey, we're meeting this Sunday (3/13) at the Rose and Thistle after the St. Patrick's Day parade. Come by if you're free.

Great review as usual. I always love the way you describe the flavors/notes. Perfect example; “It’s like diving in to a briefcase”

Birth year Dunhill is the Bee's knees. Wonderful day for a review. Enjoyed an hope you have a great weekend Brother

I use heat to burn out most of the oxidation on old stems, then I use Mark's products (although I use his extra strength version), and I do one overnight, full-immersion application in a jar of the product, and it takes care of all but the very, very worst cases and even then, saves me a ton of time with the sanding pads. I don't know how long the jar will last, but I'm on my third batch of 4-5 old stems, and it's still going strong. Off-topic - I also use an old rolltop desk as my pipe restoration station.

Great news Kent Ill light up a bowl of Maltese Falcon for him Well pray for him down the road Alex Pipesmoker from Royersford Pa

Can you do it by holding it over a heated stove eye?

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To avoid covid right? Lol

Thanks for the review! I’m going to try it. Grace and peace be to you through Christ Jesus.

Awesome tip- I am new in the pipe world but have already done some limited restoration and your technique will definitely come in handy. Thank you for the info and demonstration.

Anyone tried a heat gun as a source?

Hello Kent, just catching up on some videos from around the YTPC! Very good news regarding your son Ethan...hope he continues to heal. Always enjoy your tin opening videos, always interesting blends. Thanks for sharing both with us! Take care...and be well! Corey

Wow, amazing so happy for him and you all!! 😁😊💚💜🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Awesome news! Thanks for sharing. PGU🙏🍭🐓👶

Hello Kent, good to see you! Hope you're well...and hope your chicken came out alright. Sounds like an interesting blend, if you don't mind the Balkan type blends. I've been impressed with the SPC blends as well, and I like that they name the blends after local places....for instance, I lived for quite some time as a child on the Hood Canal. Thanks for your thoughts on this blend, take care, Corey

Cool Smoker bro! Thanks for sharing the baccy! It cool you can attend the SPClub! 🍭🐓👶

yo man what software you be using mane? I have my speakers turned up to 90 to hear you.

You are an idiot with your flavor notes! 😂 actually the cedar notes remind me of What I enjoy in Presbyterian mixture. Which also if I recall correctly has a lot of Turkish in it. Might have to pick up a tin of that sometime in the future.

Good review. Keep em coming.

Killer tip. 👍👍👌👌

Hey SlowLifePipes, to support your channel i give you a sub. Greetings from the Netherlands,, Kitty.

Hello Kent, hope you're well! Well....many complicated topics to unpack there...so many thoughts. Sounds a lot like Buddhism in many ways, struggling creates suffering, which is detrimental. Quite different to the ancient Christian faith that I was brought up in, wherein Grace is a Divine Energy of the Trinity, with which, through ascetic daily struggle, the old man is disposed of and the new man is put on....fasting, prayer, love, forgiveness, humility, communion, self denial all come into play along the pathway to sanctification and finally deification...it is nothing that we earn, but Grace is the gift given through our struggle toward God...it is an action of "synergy" ,a cooperation with Christ. “He that endureth to the end shall be saved” (Matthew 10:22), “To us who are being saved” (1 Corinthians 1:18), etc. Christ Himself indicates that salvation is a life-long journey: “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me” (Matthew 16:24).....and the Apostle Paul wrote in the Phillippians to “work out your salvation with fear and trembling” (Philippians 2:12)....these are the passages (and many, many more) that the Church Fathers and Mothers would point to, along with Holy Tradition, to understand the process of purification, illumination and finally Theosis (Deification, 2 Peter 1:4). Anyways, I don't want to be too preachy, especially since I'm not really religious...though I did study it extensively during my undergraduate...and my childhood, LOL! It's just interesting to me the different ways philosophically to understand, "why suffering?", "why life?", why death?". So,...good to see you on the YT, and hope you and your family are doing alright, miss having you up in Portland, but perhaps we could meet up in the future. Take care, Corey

Thanks for the wisdom bro. Dealing with these exact struggles right now as my life hasn't gone the way I thought it would since I returned from the mission field a year-plus ago. Been really restless in life. You're convicting and encouraging.

Greetings from gresham! Really enjoy your videos, nice pipe. I have tried the luxury bullseye flake but not the twist flake. Sounds good.

Hello my friend! Hope you're well...and hope your move down south is working out for you and your family. Good to see you back on here...nothing better than some really good aged baccy, especially some Virginia....but sounds like this wasn't quite to your liking,...sorry for that! Virginias can often be a one dimensional smoke, even though they do age quite well. Take care...and thanks for sharing your experience with this blend! Corey

So this does work with acrylic as well?

That is an awesome set up in the garage with your heater! I really enjoyed hearing about your life and interests. Happy piping my bearded brother!

Hello my friend, hope you're well! A beautiful pipe, good baccy, some music, and a sooth drink....Happy IPSD! Thanks for sharing your thoughts...take care... Corey

Amazing man. Thanks for the great information!

That's a great set up! Thanks for sharing 👊

Hello my friend, hope you're well! A belated Happy Birthday to you....looks like you're getting a great place to sit, pipe and work on some handiwork. And don't think you're alone, many...especially younger people are feeling very alienated by the (State) capitalism system, enslaving yourself for others profit....it certainly has it's traps....losing control of your dignity, time, desires, inclinations, creativity. Just as Wilhelm von Humboldt said, ... "…man never regards what he possesses as so much his own, as what he does; and the labourer who tends a garden is perhaps in a truer sense its owner, than the listless voluptuary who enjoys its fruits…In view of this consideration, it seems as if all peasants and craftsman might be elevated into artists; that is, men who love their labour for its own sake, improve it by their own plastic genius and inventive skill, and thereby cultivate their intellect, ennoble their character, and exalt and refine their pleasures. And so humanity would be ennobled by the very things which now, though beautiful in themselves, so often serve to degrade it…But, still, freedom is undoubtedly the indispensable condition, without which even the pursuits most congenial to individual human nature, can never succeed in producing such salutary influences. Whatever does not spring from a man’s free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter into his very being, but remains alien to his true nature; he does not perform it with truly human energies, but merely with mechanical exactness… …we may admire what he does, but we despise what he is.” Hobbies can be...just like many things....either edifying or detrimental....depending on how they are pursued. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and time...good luck with the hunting and fishing, sounds like a good lifestyle for you and your family. Take care and be well... Corey

Hello my friend, hope you're well! Very good and thorough review of this blend...I enjoyed it as well, not as good (or me) as Holiday Spirit by McClelland, which I agree is a great blend. Hope you had a good holiday season and hope you have a Happy New Year, see you then! Take care, Corey

The taste of a chocolate orange without actually having to eat it sounds good. 👌🏼

Nice,i have the exact same pipe

Don't give up on it. Instead, see it as a challenge. I had to go find a picture of one to see an original. Do you believe the top of your's was rusticated? I saw a lot of the Ben Wade pipes had that. A sandblast of that rim and the end of the shank might bring some of that back. Also, most seemed to be super smooth and fluid so the file marks might be erasable given the proper sandpaper persuasion. There are apparently ways that I've seen (not done myself but seen) to rebuild stem with good success. It might not be a sellable, Ben Wade when you are done, but it will be "your" Ben Wade that you lovingly restored - recovered from the bowels of pipe hell -and that might make it all the better. (So far I've only fixed a Butz Chhoquin Rocaille. It had a cracked shank. It now has a very shiny metal band and I can already tell I'm going to love smoking it.)

Thank you for doing a review. I thought it was fairly done. It made me aware of some things I should add to the description to help those who buy it get the most out of the product.

Great review. Might be worth splitting it with several guys... for light oxidation

That's pretty cool man. Bummer on that haze-away I got you...least you didn't have to pay for it 😁😁😁😁...I have a couple of stems if you need them 😉😉😉😉

You sir have blown my mind, even works with a lighter!

This also works on faded plastic automotive trim. 👍

Dang, at least the briar itself is decent and high quality. Probably be a great smoker.

You can fix it man. My dad has a sweet set of tools. I can fix it! Hahhahha. Make em shop pipes. Knock around under the hood pipes. No buttons! I don’t need no stinking button!