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<div>Old West Briar is a line of pipes finished by [[Tim West]]. For more information, see the maker's page.<br />
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[[Category: United States]]</div>Flatticushttps://pipedia.org/index.php?title=American_Pipe_Brands_%26_Makers_N_-_Q&diff=23532American Pipe Brands & Makers N - Q2016-02-27T15:46:55Z<p>Flatticus: Added page for Old West</p>
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|'''<font size="4">N</font>'''<br />
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|'''[[Nachwalter]]'''||Elliott Nachwalter; Manchester, VT<br />
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|'''Nash, Tom'''||Connection with [[Malaga, Briarworks]]; Madison Hts., MI<br />
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|'''[[Nate King]]'''||Indianapolis, IN<br />
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|'''[[National Briar Pipe Co.]]'''||Jersey City, NJ.<br />
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|'''Nat Sherman'''||Brand made for well known New York City tobacconist of the same name. <br />
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|'''Natural World'''||Brand of Frank '''[[Augsberger]]''' (†); Champain, IL<br />
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|'''[[Natures Bounty]]'''||"HANDMADE IN DENMARK" - Maker unknown. Private brand of '''[http://www.iwanries.com/ Iwan Ries Co.]'''; Chicago, IL.<br />
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| ||[[Image:Natures-Bounty_3.jpg|50px]] | [[Image:Natures-Bounty_3a.jpg|50px]] | <br />
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|'''[[Neeb]]'''||Dave Neeb; Elm Grove, WI; Hand Made Pipes at '[http://www.mkelaw-pipes.com/ MKELAW-PIPES.COM]'<br />
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|'''[[Needham]]'''||? Needham; Alhambra, CA<br />
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|'''[[Negoita]]'''||Rolando Negoita (ex Romania); <br />
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|'''Nelson, Joe'''||see [[Old Nellie Pipes]]: Fond du Lac County, WI<br />
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|'''New England Briar Pipe Co.'''||Subsidiary of [[Kaufman Brothers & Bondy]]. In March 1955, it was bought by [[S.M. Frank]]<br />
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|'''[[New Jersey Briar Pipe Co.]]'''||See '''[[S.M. Frank]]'''.<br />
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|'''Nielsen'''||'''[[Tonni Nielsen]]''' (ex Denmark); Louisville, KY<br />
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|'''[[Norse]]'''||Steven Norse; Dorset, VT.<br />
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|'''[[Norwalk Pipe Co.]]'''||Norwalk Pipe Co.; New York City<br />
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|'''[[Norwood]]'''||Floyd Norwood; Clifton, TN<br />
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|'''[[NOS]]'''||Whitehall Garrison, "Imported Briar". Ca. 1950.<br />
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|'''NPW'''||Brand of Metropolitan Tobacco Co.; Stamp: '''NPW''' in a circle<br />
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|'''[[N.W.R. Pipes]]'''|| Los Alamos, NM Brand of pipe maker Nathan Rimkus<br />
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|'''<font size="5">O</font>'''<br />
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|'''O-Johnny'''||The pipe that's different...<br />
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|'''[[Ogura]]||Andrew Ogura (†); ?, HI<br />
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|'''[[Okie Pipes]]'''||Ralph T. Gibson (RTG); Newalla, OK.<br />
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|'''[[Old Nellie Pipes]]'''||Joe Nelson; Fond du Lac County, WI<br />
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|'''[[Old West Briar]]'''||Tim West; Columbus, OH<br />
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|'''Old Reliable'''||Brand by '''[[Charles Tulsa]]''', Florida<br />
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|'''Old Salem Collection'''||The Pipe and Pint; Greensboro, NC<br />
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|'''OWL'''||Brand by [[Comoy's]]; Also OWL Club, and OWL Shop, which were North American brands<br />
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|'''[[Owl Shop]]'''||John Photakis (†); Worcester, MA<br />
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|'''[[Owl Pipes]]'''||Steve LaVoice Jr (†); Springfield, MA<br />
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|'''[[Ozark Mountain Briars]]'''||David Johnson; ?, AR.<br />
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|'''<font size="5">P</font>'''<br />
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|'''Paine, Dr. Harry'''|| See [[MelloPure]]<br />
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|'''[[Parfumi]]'''||Scott Parfumi (ret./† ?); New York City. See also '''[[JHW Pipes]]'''.<br />
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|'''Park Lane'''||Brand sold in England and USA by [[Lichtenstadts Ltd.]] and [[L&H Stern]]<br />
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|'''[[Passante]]'''||Anthony Passante (†) d.1994 ([[Kaywoodie]], [[Weber]], [[Connoisseur]]; New York City<br />
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|'''[[Patterson]]'''||James Patterson<br />
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|'''[[Peeples]]'''||Mark Peeples; Alice, TX<br />
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|'''[[Pedalite]]'''||???<br />
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|'''[[Peevey]]'''||Greg Peevey (ret./† ?); Nasville, TN<br />
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|'''[[Pellegrini]]'''||Ron Pellegrini; Staten Island, NY. Mentioned in context with a brand named '''[[Sovereign]]'''.<br />
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|'''[[Penguin Briar]]'''||Kim Kendall; Phoenix, AZ<br />
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|'''[[Peretti]]'''||Robert Peretti (L.J. Peretti Co.); Boston, MA.<br />
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|'''Perkowski'''||Al Perkowski; Sterling Heights, MI; See [[Creative Briar Pipes]]<br />
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|'''Perkins'''||Robert M. Perkins; Houston, TX. See '''[[R.M. Perkins Pipes]]'''.<br />
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|'''[[Perri]]'''||Paul L. Perri & Son; Manhattan Beach, CA<br />
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|'''[[Perry]]'''||Jerry Perry (ret./† ?); Colfax, NC<br />
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|'''[[Perry White Pipes]]'''||Bob Swanson; Fort Lauderdale, FL.<br />
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|'''[[Pesante]]'''||Tony Pesante (†); ?, NJ<br />
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|'''Peterson'''||'''[[Dennis H. Peterson]]'''; Bloomfield, IO<br />
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|'''PFL'''||Brand of the former Pipesforless, made be diverse makers, mainly [[Savinelli]]<br />
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|'''[[Phoenix Pipes]]'''||Jason Watkins-Brock; Phoenix, AZ<br />
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|'''Photakis'''||John Photakis (†); Worcester, MA. See '''[[Owl Shop]]'''.<br />
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|'''[[Piedmont Briars]]'''||Mark Spell<br />
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|'''[[Piersel Pipes]]'''||Scottie Piersel; Kansas City, MO<br />
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|'''Pipe Pub'''||Private label brand? Pipe Pub; New Rochelle, NY<br />
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|'''Pipes by Andre''''||'''[[Antony Andre´ Pipes]]'''; White House,TN<br />
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|'''Pipes by CAL'''||Craig A. Loscalzo; Lexington, KY. See '''[[Loscalzo Pipes]]'''.<br />
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|'''[[PipesMD Pipes]]'''||Charles Sharp<br />
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|'''Pipeworks at Wilke'''||Elliott '''[[Nachwalter]]'''. Formerly '''[[Wilke]] Pipe Shop'''; New York City.<br />
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|'''Pipesworld'''||Brand of internet shop of the same name, produced in Italy<br />
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|'''[[Pohlmann Pipes]]'''||Brad Pohlmann; Jacksonville, OR<br />
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|'''Polidori'''||Primo Polidori (Victory Pipe Craftsmen; Chicago, IL). See '''[[Cellini]]'''<br />
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|'''Poplar Ridge Pipes'''||Second brand of John H. '''[[Eells]]'''; Richmond, VA<br />
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|'''[[Powell]]'''||? Powell (ret./† ?)<br />
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|'''[[Premier]]'''||Premier; Chicago, IL<br />
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|'''[[Prevost Pipes]]'''||Pete Prevost; Nashville, TN<br />
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|'''[[Price, Mark]]'''||Mark Price, Springfield, MO<br />
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|'''[[Price PipeCraft]]'''||Vincent E. Price (ret./† ?); Elkins, WV<br />
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|'''[[Protter]]'''||Ben Protter (ret./† ?); ?, NY.<br />
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|'''[[Purdy]]'''||Will Purdy<br />
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|'''[[Pyro-bol]]'''||Frank Furedy, Chicago, Illinois<br />
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|'''[[]]'''||<br />
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|'''<font size="4">Q</font>'''<br />
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|'''Quagliata'''||Ryan Quagliata; ?, TX. See '''[[R. Quagliata Pipes]]'''.<br />
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|'''[[Quinn Pipes]]'''||Bryan Quinn<br />
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|'''[[Quinton Wells]]'''||Overland Park, KS<br />
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'''Back to''' [[American Pipe Brands & Makers L - M]] '''or continue to''' [[American Pipe Brands & Makers R - S]] '''!'''</div>Flatticushttps://pipedia.org/index.php?title=American_Pipe_Brands_%26_Makers_C_-_D&diff=23055American Pipe Brands & Makers C - D2016-01-06T13:34:41Z<p>Flatticus: Added dagner link</p>
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|'''[[Calabresi]]'''||Tomas Cristiano (†), [http://www.cristom.com/ Cristom Imports & Exports Inc.]; Tampa, FL<br />
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|'''Camelot'''||???<br />
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|'''Capt. Earle'''||Lopes states Hermit Tobacco had pipes made under this name for them by [[Ashton]], and Sam [[Learned]]<br />
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|'''Captain Black'''||Lopes states [[Orlik]] had pipes by this name made as a compliment to Captain Black tobaccos<br />
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|'''[[Cannoy]]'''||Walt Cannoy; Lakeland, FL<br />
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|'''Carburetor'''||'''[[S.M. Frank & Co. Inc.]]'''; U.S. PAT. 2082106<br />
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|'''[[Carey Magic Inch]]'''||[http://www.eacarey.com E.A. Carey's Smokeshop] 7090 Whipple Ave N, North Canton, OH 44720; phone 800-992-7427, fax 330-244-9518 or E-mail: mailto:jthames@eacarey.net. <br />
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|'''[[Carlson, Steve]]'''||Steve Carlson<br />
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|'''[[Carroll]]'''||Charles Carroll (†)<br />
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|'''[[Joe Case]]'''||Nashville, TN<br />
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|'''[[Cassel]]'''||Shannon Cassel; Tucson, AZ<br />
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|'''Castro'''||Pipes made by various third parties for David and Steve Casto of Davidus Cigars Ltd.<br />
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|'''[[Cates]]'''||Mel Cates; Springfield, MO<br />
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|'''[[Catterall Pipes]]'''||Van Catterall; Greensboro, NC<br />
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|'''Cazzetta'''||Dominic Cazzetta (†); New York City. See '''[[Don Lou]]'''.<br />
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|'''[[Cellini]]'''||Victory Pipe Craftsmen; Chicago, IL<br />
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|'''[[Chadwick]]'''||Tommy Hawk<br />
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|'''[[Chambers]]'''||Brandon Chambers; Olympia, WA<br />
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|'''[[Channber]]'''||Channber Briar Pipe - CBP<br />
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|'''Chesterfield'''||'''[[Kaufman Brothers & Bondy]]''' (KB&B); patented 1905.<br />
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|'''[[Chheda Pipes]]'''||Premal Chheda & Bill '''[[Shalosky]]''', [http://www.smokershaven.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=640 Smoker’s Haven]; Columbus, OH<br />
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|'''Chlebove'''||Dan Chlebove; Bethlehem, PA. See '''[[Gabrieli Pipes]]'''.<br />
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|'''[[CHP-X]]'''||Created by Chuck Holiday and partner Jay Rostov; Baltimore, MD. See also Michael V. '''[[Kabik]]'''.<br />
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|'''[[Christie Pipes]]'''||Eric C. Christie; Waynesboro, PA<br />
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|'''[[Cipolla]]'''||Robert Cipolla<br />
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|'''[[Clark]]'''||Chris Clark; Toledo, OH<br />
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|'''[[Clemons]]'''||Greg Clemons; San Diego, CA<br />
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|'''[[Clark Briar Originals]]'''||Bob Clark; Warren R.I.<br />
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|'''[[Clewell]]'''||R.A. Clewell<br />
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|'''[[Cole Pipes]]'''||Charles Cole<br />
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|'''[[Collins]]'''||Bill Collins, see [[Jost]]<br />
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|'''Colossals'''||[[M. Linkman & Co.]], Chicago, IL. Produced by [[Cellini]]<br />
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|'''[[Colossus Pipe Factory]]'''||CPF (New York, NY) - Formerly Known as '''[[Consolidated Pipe Factory]]<br />
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|'''Colt'''||brand by [[Civic]] Co. Ltd, and also in the US by [[Kaywoodie]]<br />
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|'''[[Comeaux]]'''||Larry E. Comeaux II; Memphis, TN<br />
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|'''[[Connoisseur]]'''||Connoisseur Pipe Shop; New York City. See also Edward [[Burak]].<br />
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|'''[[Consolidated Pipe Factory]]'''||CPF (New York, NY) - a subsidiary of '''[[Kaufman Brothers & Bondy]]''' (KB&B)<br />
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|'''[[Continental Briar Pipe Co.]]'''||New York City<br />
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|'''[[Conway Jr.]]'''||C.E. Conway Jr.; Orlando, FL<br />
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|'''Cook'''||'''[[Russ Cook]]'''; ?, MI<br />
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|'''Cook'''||'''[[Tom Cook]]'''; Amarillo, TX<br />
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|'''Cooke'''||'''[[Charles Patrick Cooke]]''' (†); ?, CA<br />
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|'''Cooke'''||'''[[James T. Cooke]]'''; East Fairfield, VT<br />
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|'''[[Consolidated Pipe Factory]]'''||(CPF?); Phil., PA<br />
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|'''Copenhagen'''||brand sold by [[Mastercraft]], and in Denmark by [[Dan Pipe]]<br />
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|'''[[Cortegiano]]'''||Joseph Cortegiano (†); New York City<br />
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|'''Counsellor'''||North American brand made in England by [[Comoy's]]<br />
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|'''Court'''||Glen Court; South Hadley, MA. See '''[[Royal Court Pipes]]'''.<br />
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|'''[[Courtley]]'''||'''[[Custom-Bilt]]''' sub-brand or second.<br />
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|'''Cowen'''||'''Louis Cowan''', an artisan who produced for [[Marxman]] after working for [[Loewe & Co.]] in England<br />
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|'''[[Crable]]'''||Joseph Crable; Kealakekua, HI<br />
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|'''[[Craig]]'''||William D. Craig - Fireside Pipe Shop; Hurffville, NJ<br />
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|'''[[Crawford Pipes]]'''||Jerry Crawford; Phoenix, AZ<br />
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|'''[[Creative Briar Pipes]]'''||Al Perkowski; Sterling Heights, MI<br />
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|'''Crider, Micah'''||Missoula, MT; see [[Yeti Pipe Co.]]<br />
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|'''[[Crisman, Harry]]'''|| See also [[Big Casino Pipes]]; Sarver, Pa<br />
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|'''[[Cristiano]]'''||Tomas Cristiano (†), [http://www.cristom.com/ Cristom Imports & Exports Inc.]; Tampa, FL<br />
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|'''[[Crosby]]'''||John M. Crosby; Lafayette, IN<br />
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|'''Crosby'''||Made by [[Savinelli]] and [[Rossi]] factories to Bing Crosby's own design:extra long shank with small perforations. Discontinued. [[Kaufman Brothers & Bondy]] also made "Crosby" pipes. See also [[Crosby|John Crosby]], an U.S. pipemaker.<br />
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|'''[[Cunningham]]'''||Ken Cunningham; pipemaker working for Salt Lake City tobacconist (1980s)<br />
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|'''[[Curtis Draper]]||brand of Washington DC tobacconist<br />
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|'''[[Curtz]]'''||Arley G. Curtz; Salt Lake City, UT<br />
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|'''[[Custom-Bilt]]'''||Founded by Tracy Mincer (†); Indianapolis, IN. Since 1946 named "Custombilt".<br />
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|'''[[]]'''||<br />
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|'''<font size="4">D</font>'''<br />
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|'''[[Dagner Pipes]]'''||Jayson Dagner, Florida<br />
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|'''[[Dakota Pipes]]'''||Serial pipes; ca. $40.<br />
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|'''[[Darby]]'''||Darby Pipe Shop, founded by pipemaker, Royal Aten; Mattoon, IL<br />
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|'''Davidson'''||'''[[Adam Davidson]]'''; Little River, SC<br />
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|'''[[Jo Davidson|Davidson, Jo]]'''||'''[[Jo Davidson]]'''. "... the world's most famous pipe, sculpted by Joe Davidson, that is insured for $7,500..."<br />
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|'''Davis'''||Jody Davis; Yuma, AZ. See '''[[J. Davis Pipes]]'''.<br />
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|'''Davis'''||'''[[Rad Davis]]'''; Foley, AL<br />
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|'''[[Dawes Pipe]]'''||''See'' [[The Lyon Pipe]]<br />
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|'''[[DCS]]'''||A Danish fancy styled freehand...<br />
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|'''[[De Franco]]'''||Charles De Franco; Trenton, NJ<br />
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|'''DeFant'''||Phil DeFant; Brooklyn, MI. See '''[[Marchetti Pipes]]'''.<br />
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|'''[[DeJarnett Pipes]]'''||Horace DeJarnett; Glendale, AZ<br />
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|'''[[Delta Pipes]]'''||Michael Fauscette; Discovery Bay, CA<br />
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|'''Demuth'''||'''[[William Demuth Company]]''' - WDC. New York City.<br />
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|'''[[Dengler]]'''||John Dengler; St. Charles, MO<br />
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|'''[[DePrey]]'''||James DePrey (†); Ft. Kent, ME<br />
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|'''[[Diebel]]'''||Fred Diebel; Kansas City, MO<br />
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|'''Dinwoodie'''||'''[[Kaufman Brothers & Bondy]]''' (KB&B). Introduced November 1919, discontinued till 1924<br />
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|'''[[Dodge]]'''||Robert Dodge, hobbyist pipe maker; Minnesota<br />
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|'''Doodler'''||Sub brand [[National Briar Pipe Co.]], Tracy Mincer; Jersey City, NJ<br />
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|'''[[Doerr]]'''||Diane Doerr. See also '''[[JHW Pipes]]'''; West Caldwell, NJ.<br />
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|'''[[Don Warren Pipes]]'''|| Brand Name of maker Donald W Gillmore, Albuquerque, NM<br />
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|'''[[Don-Lou]]'''||Dominic Cazzetta (†); Brooklyn, NY.<br />
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|'''[[Dr. Grabow]]'''||'''[[M. Linkman & Co.]]'''; Chicago, IL<br />
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|'''[[Dr. Kernel]]'''||Dr. Jos. E. Kernel. US Pat. 2614568.<br />
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|'''Dr. Mac Pipes'''||Private label brand of McCranie's; Charlotte, NC.<br />
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|'''[[Dr. Shotten's]]'''||??<br />
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|'''Drinkless'''||Brands of [[Kaufman Brothers & Bondy]], [[Kaywoodie]], and [[Reiss-Premier Co.]]<br />
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|'''DRS'''||Supposed to be Danish, D.R. [[Schmelzer]] is obviously an American carver. | As it seems, with a fondness for Fan shapes<br />
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|'''[[DSH Pipes]]'''||David Huber; Durham, NC<br />
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|'''Duleigh's of Hollywood'''||Private label brand? Hollywood, CA.<br />
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|'''Duke of Dundee'''||'''[[Continental Briar Pipe Co.]]'''<br />
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|'''Duncan Hill'''||Brand made by '''[[Monarch Pipe]]'''<br />
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|'''duPont Explosives'''||'''[[duPont Explosives promotional pipes]]'''<br />
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'''Back to''' [[American Pipe Brands & Makers A - B]] '''or continue to''' [[American Pipe Brands & Makers E - F]] '''!'''</div>Flatticushttps://pipedia.org/index.php?title=Dagner_Pipes&diff=23054Dagner Pipes2016-01-06T13:33:18Z<p>Flatticus: Added page for dagners</p>
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<div>From the company website:<br />
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Welcome to Dagner Pipes. I have been a fellow pipe smoker for many years passed down from my grandfather to my father. My Dad and I started a youtube channel many years ago to find more people like us that enjoy smoking a pipe. We started making videos to review tobacco and pipes that we had purchased. We pondered the idea for many years wanting to do something expressing our thoughts and description on what we wanted out of a pipe. We finally decided to take the plunge and create something special for everyone. We connected with a respectful company from Italy to create our designed simple pipes for an every day hard working individual. What you get is quality briar aged and handmade by several individuals in a factory. What you will receive is our quality priced pipe for a bargain. Our goal is to offer pipes for people like us that are affordable and look expensive that smoke incredibly.<br />
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Jayson Dagner<br />
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Contact information: http://dagnerpipes.com/<br />
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[[Category: Pipe makers by nationality]]<br />
[[Category: United States]]</div>Flatticushttps://pipedia.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Sethile&diff=23053User talk:Sethile2016-01-05T22:47:42Z<p>Flatticus: /* Another weird dead link. */ new section</p>
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<div>As per my other suggestion, perhaps it would be better to completely remove the Marks/Logo page altogether and just have a link at the bottom of each Brand/Maker's page to the Pipephil website for that particular Brand or Maker? --[[User:Frank|Frank]] - 3/26/09<br />
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: Sure, that would work fine too. The advantage of the Marks/Logo page, assuming it were to get flushed out eventually, is for situations where someone is trying to identify a pipe with some sort of logo without knowing the maker. Regardless, I think relevant off site links should be added at the bottom of each article directly. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 15:41, 26 March 2009 (CDT)<br />
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:: Lacking a Name Stamp, being able to identify a pipe from it's Logo alone would be useful. Pipephil does have a means of searching with criteria such as a Star or an Anchor or a Dot, etc., but it is lacking a couple of such criteria to search by, last I checked.--[[User:Frank|Frank]] - 3/26/09<br />
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Scott, Earlier on I checked on that item in Cyrillic that you deleted. I found a translation, and it is pipe related..--[[User:Frank|Frank]] - 4/13/09<br />
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:Thanks, Frank! I put it back. I wondered about that.. I was a little on the delete button ;) --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 21:18, 13 April 2009 (CDT)<br />
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== Notice for you ==<br />
This thing needs a bit of scouring just to make it palatable to educated folk! C'mon, this is just lazy. I say "c'mon" because this is the talk page. The entry itself ought to be perfectly written, not sounding like a letter to a dopey pal in Wisconsin!Thundersnow 00:08, 10 May 2010 (UTC)--A direct quote off the Tobacco page. It really needs work, that.[[User:Thundersnow|Thundersnow]] 00:10, 10 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== Bridge Too Far? ==<br />
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QUOTE FROM ME: "Hello Eric, Thanks for your work on the Tobacco article. Yes, it does need a lot of work! Also, it would be great if you can help with the Savinellis article. In short, whatever you have time for would be most welcome in deed--I really appreciate your help! All the best, --sethile 01:28, 11 May 2010 (UTC) [....]<br />
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Uhm, I do not know any Eric except an old colleague. And I must say that it is just plain wrong to try to do that to a contributor who wished to remain known by username. And by the way, I am Rev. Antonio Hernandez.Thundersnow 03:13, 12 May 2010 (UTC)"<br />
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Well, thanks a lot for this unwanted headache.[[User:Thundersnow|Thundersnow]] 03:15, 12 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:Since the email address (EricBlair@disciples.com), which you publicly posted, gave the name as Eric Blair, it was an understandable mistake on Scott's part, as he could hardly be aware that you use someone elses email address. I believe he was only trying to be friendly on a first name basis. Accusing him of "outing" you in such a heartless manner is a mean thing to do, since he obviously did not do it to deliberately "expose" you.<br />
:As you obviously aren't aware of the tremendous scope of this website, let me enlighten you of the fact that the vast majority of the design, information and contributions have been due to Scott's hard work. Furthermore, he is always extremely appreciative of corrections and contributions to the website.<br />
:Considering that you don't even know one iota about Scott, I find your jumping to conclusions about him offensive in the extreme. I also find your tone and attitude particularly rude and belligerent, especially as you claim to be a man of the cloth. - [[User:Frank|Frank]] 07:37, 12 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:: Thanks Frank! For what it's worth I apologized on his user talk, but apparently that was not what Thundersnow was after. He has elected to deprive us of his presence and help for the present. All the best, --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 23:17, 14 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== QuestyCaptcha not working? ==<br />
<br />
Hi,<br />
<br />
I operate a wiki and I was going to install QuestyCaptcha. Can I ask, does your Aug 14th note about spam mean your Apr 13th installation of QuestyCaptcha isn't working?<br />
<br />
Are the bots responding correctly to both questions or just one? (The "''What is this wiki's name?''" question is probably very common, so spambots might be configured to always stick in the wiki's name when confronted with QuestyCaptcha) If they're getting both questions right, then I guess a human actually took the time to note your questions and the correct answers, so adding a few dozen new questions is probably what's necessary.<br />
<br />
I'd be very interested to hear more about the problem. Thanks. [[User:Ciaran|Ciaran]] 15:51, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
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: I'm not sure the bots responded to either question... It may just be my QuestyCaptcha configuration needs more tweaking. I installed it when I had a bunch of spam that appeared to use humans to make registered users in spite of using ReCaptcha (about 5 to 10 per day), and than that info seemed to be plugged into bots that used the registration information to spam. QuestyCaptcha shut that attack down. I had some new bot yesterday that was not spamming links, just junk. Looked like maybe it attempted to put in links and when it hit QuestyCaptcha it created new articles without links, or was deleting existing content and replacing it with a line like "Great post" or something similar. Apparently edits without links does not trigger QuestyCaptcha due to my settings.<br />
<br />
:It may be I can tighten up my QuestyCaptcha settings to catch this new stuff too. Haven't had time to play with it much. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 16:20, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
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::I've been reading the docs:<br />
::* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:QuestyCaptcha<br />
::* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit#QuestyCaptcha<br />
::* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ConfirmEdit_Test_Plan<br />
::... and the comments in the source code.<br />
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::If you want all edits to require passing a captcha, change "false" to "true" in this line of ''nameofwiki/extensions/ConfirmEdit/ConfirmEdit.php'':<br />
:: $wgCaptchaTriggers['edit'] = false; // Would check on every edit<br />
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::I haven't tried it out yet, but it seems you can exempt logged in users from the captchas by setting:<br />
::$wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['skipcaptcha'] = true;<br />
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::Or logged in users who've confirmed their email address by setting these to ''true'' in ConfirmEdit.php:<br />
:: $wgGroupPermissions['emailconfirmed']['skipcaptcha'] = true;<br />
:: $ceAllowConfirmedEmail = true;<br />
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::Thanks for the quick reply. I think I'll go ahead and install Questy for my wiki. [[User:Ciaran|Ciaran]] 16:59, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
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::: Thanks for the links! I've poored over those same docs too, but it's been a while. I changed the settings to allow anonymous edits again, but they will all trigger Questy while users will bypass it. To create an account triggers it though. That should take care of the bulk of the problems I've been having while still allowing anonymous edits. I guess we'll see! <br />
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:::How did your Questy install go? --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 21:03, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
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Hi. I only got it installed three days ago. (I don't have direct access to the server.)<br />
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To my great surprise, I'm still getting two or three spam edits per day: [http://en.swpat.org/wiki?title=Special:RecentChanges&hidebots=0] !<br />
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I'm baffled. I've searched the Internet extensively and I can't find anyone else saying that spam gets past QuestyCaptcha. I think I'll mention this on the mediawiki.org site. [[User:Ciaran|Ciaran]] 17:48, 3 September 2011 (CDT)<br />
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:My situation here seems to have stabilized for the present, although I had a new user and subsequent spam hit yesterday, but only one, and that was the first since I tweaked my Questy settings. It was different than most of the ones I've had in the past. I think it was a human... Your experience and my recent hit may mean the humans that were hired to work ReCaptcha implementations are now working on Questy sites. That makes some sense. I don't think it's possible to set up a captcha of any kind that will defend against humans without also severely limiting your potential contributions ;(<br />
<br />
:BTW, I hope your efforts against the Patent Trolls and other insanity with software patents proves fruitful. I heard a very interesting piece on NPR a month or so ago. Sounds like a completely out of control mess! I had no idea... --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 21:07, 3 September 2011 (CDT)<br />
<br />
== Gloredo ==<br />
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Dear Sethile<br />
You recieved like me a mail from these "other Gloredo" people.<br />
In my opinion there is no serious evidence for their activity in pipe making. <br />
The so called "Trademark Registration Certificate" you certainely got too has no value for me. I have to do with Chinese students and I know their degree certificate or diplom are sometimes "home made". <br />
<br />
And for fun I made a little faux of this certificate changing "Gloredo" by "Dunhill"<br />
[http://www.pipephil.eu/pics/gloredo-pipephil.jpg see here]<br />
see also my comment in the gloredo's Talk.<br />
I think at least the two gloredos should appear on the GLOREDO page<br />
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: Yes, I agree, and I responded in the Gloredo's talk as well. Regardless of the current status of the brand there is no reason not to include its history, which is way it is relevant... --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 09:38, 11 December 2012 (CST)<br />
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:: But there are TWO gloredos apparently. I think this should be clear in the article, no ?<br />
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::: OK, yes, I think I've got it now... I thought it was a buyout of some kind at first. What a mess!<br />
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== Removal of Link==<br />
<br />
Why did you remove my link on the health effects of smoking cigars and pipes? It was a link to WebMD, a well respected source for medical info. [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 08:05, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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: Hello Laughing Buddha. Thanks for you input. While WebMD has a lot of good medical information, this particular article was typical of the medical literature that attempts to lump pipes and cigars in with cigarettes by establishing the idea that all forms of tobacco are evil. This article allowed for some minor differences, which is better than some articles, but there remains in it a number of well documented inaccuracies typical of the medical literature. If you are really interested in this subject you could read through some of the other material we have linked too. <br />
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:In return, I would like to ask you why you linked to the article. I note that it is your one and only contribution to Pipedia, made shortly after you registered. My guess is your not really interested in pipes, but are just against tobacco. This wiki is for those of us who are interested in pipes and pipe smoking. Our take of this issue is going to be more nuanced than one would typically expect of the general public. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 08:39, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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::I have mixed feelings about pipe smoking because I used smoke pipes on and off for 15 years. I have three Savinellis, two Nordings and one Dr. Grabow to prove it. Also, my favorite tobacco brand was Peter Stockkebye's. Unfortunately, I eventually became addicted and smoked so often that I was staining my teeth and burning my mouth. Also, my dentist repeatedly warned me of the dental problems associated with pipe smoking including mouth cancer, so I stopped, which was very difficult for me. (However, I recently noticed England's "Pipe Smoker of the Year" list on Wikipedia. Many of them lived past 70. I found this very confusing.)<br />
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::I noticed your section titled Pipe Smoking Health and perused through it. It seemed to lack emphasis on the health hazards of pipe smoking. I sincerely believe pipe smokers should smoke with their eyes wide open with respect to the information on the health hazards of smoking and for that reason I added the WebMD link. By the way, I was planning to make other contributions that had nothing to do with health-related issues but my conscience would have bothered me had I not added information to the health section first. <br />
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::Even though the health hazards of smoking scare the hell out of me, I still love admiring the craftsmanship and artistry of pipes themselves. I can't tell you how many hours I've spent looking at pics of pipes on the internet. It's like porn for me. [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 18:37, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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:::Thanks very much for your reply. I'm glad to hear you're not anti tobacco and are just genuinely concerned about the risks. Pipe smoking certainly involves some increased health risk, but it has been greatly over exaggerated in the main stream health media, which tends to lump us all in with cigarette smokers. We have a slight increase risk for mouth and lip cancer, but that is very rare and to even slightly increase ones risk for them would involve smoking many more pipes per day than is typical of your average pipe smoker. Most pipe smokers do not inhale, which elevates nearly all the main risks associated with cigarette smoking. They also tend to smoke much less. <br />
<br />
:::The WebMD article has one statement that is completely false and very misleading, "...research shows that cigar and pipe smoking is every bit as dangerous as cigarette smoking, and possibly even more dangerous". That is a ridiculous claim. They don't even attempt to back that up, or cite the research they refer to. Unless I am very much mistaken, there is no viable research that would even come close to supporting that statement. <br />
<br />
:::I think it would be great to freshen up the Pipe Smoking Health area, but this is an issue that involves a great deal of misinformation from otherwise credible sources so it's going to be tough to pull off. For instance, there is a great deal of legitimate criticism with regards to the integrity of the research on the dangers associated with 2nd hand smoke, and that is seldom if ever reported in the main stream health media. BTW, none of that research differentiates between cigarettes and other forms of tobacco smoke, which typically contain much fewer chemical additives, burning paper, and other impurities associated with 2nd hand cigarette smoke.<br />
<br />
:::I hope you will do some more research. You mentioned being surprised at the older pipe smokers that were cited in the Pipe Smoker of Year list. I've heard of one study that indicates moderate pipe smokers that do not inhale actually live slightly longer on average than non-smokers. I have not followed up on that to verify it yet, but that is certainly supported by my own anecdotal observations and pipe smoking can certainly reduce stress.<br />
<br />
:::If in your research you would like to freshen up the Pipe Smoking Health article here on Pipedia, I would greatly appreciate it. It's even OK to link to articles such as the WebMD article you had linked too earlier, but it would be appropriate to point out any obvious flaws with the article if you do. Thanks again for your reply. I look forward to your contributions on this or other areas of Pipedia that may be of interest. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 22:33, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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::::Thanks, your response strikes me as very reasonable. By the way, would you happen to have a link on the information you mentioned about the longevity of pipe smokers? I'd be very interested in reading it. [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 08:15, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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:::::It apparently refers back to the original 1964 Surgeon General's report. Here is an interesting and fairly written [http://www.meerschaumstore.com/health.htm article by Mark Beale, MD] that mentions it as well as some other interesting and relevant information that rings credible to me, at least.<br />
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::::::Thanks [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 14:34, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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==New Question==<br />
What's the difference between an estate pipe and a conventional pipe? [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 12:34, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
:Nothing, really. Used or previously owned pipes have come to be known as Estate pipes. They can either be smoked or unsmoked and still qualify. They can be cheap or expensive, and still qualify, and they can come from an English Lord's estate, or picked up off of a dying bum on the street. It just sounds better. I guess like previously owned cars versus used cars ;) --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 12:41, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
::Thanks [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 14:34, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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== Tanzania/Tanganyika ==<br />
<br />
Saw you're working on african meerschaum a bit, figured I'd throw what I could into the ring. <br />
<br />
No expert, but I think the way it went on these is that Amboseli wasn't a pipe company, it's the name of one of the african meerschaum mines, the one that closed in Tanzania in 2006. I realize pipephil disagrees on that one. Tanganyika Meerchaum Corporation, LTD was founded in December 1955 in Kenya with nominal capital of 50,000 pounds. The internet will tell you they later moved from there to Arusha, Tanzania, which is both a city and also the region containing the Amboseli mines, when they trademarked their logo in September '68. That's actually wrong. The registered agent for TMC, Ltd. in 1955 wasn't in Kenya, it was in Tanga, Tanganyika. However, at the time, these were colonies, and joint ones. Stamps actually said "kenya, uganda, tanganyika" on them and were valid in all three. So they were always in Arusha. They owned Kilimanjaro and Kiko. Also Townsman, Countryman, a bunch of lines. However, as the mines are now closed, TMC, Ltd. is technically now owned by STAMICO, a wholly owned government enterprise under the tanzanian ministry of energy and minerals. <br />
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At some point the Tanzanian pipes were being listed in the Charles S. Loeb catalog, as Kikos and Kilimanjaros, not sure if they bought TMC, Ltd. or licensed the pipes from them. <br />
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The other mine that produced meerschaum was in Somalia, from Eilbur/El Burr, where somalis have made meerschaum incense burners for centuries. Apparently this block was cut into stummels and sold in its entirety to Laxey/Manx straight from Somalia, and is no longer available since Somalia fell apart. When you see a smooth african meerschaum, it's my understanding you're looking at somalian block.<br />
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Do with that what you will.<br />
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Chris<br />
--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 20:59, 25 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
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:Wow, that's interesting, thanks, Chris! Kind of hard to know what to put where, but I'll take a stab at sorting that out when I get a chance... It's not unusual to have difficult to sort out histories in pipedom, along with the occasional controversy surrounding them ;) --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 19:52, 26 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
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No doubt. At least it doesn't take a flowchart like Comoy/GBD/Chacom and such.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 13:19, 28 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
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== Photo question ==<br />
<br />
Was curious, and I probably missed it in the help, but is there a preferred size for photos? I need to get around to finally taking some, figured it couldn't hurt to grab some nomenclature snaps and such.<br />
<br />
Chris<br />
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:Somewhere between 600 and 1000 pixels wide seems to be a good range. By using thumbnails and/or gallery spots in the articles we can accommodate a nice fit with the context while still allowing for full sized images when they're clicked on. Takes a while to get the hang of how that works, but I'll be happy to help if you hit any snags.<br />
<br />
:It would be great to have more pics of nomenclature, and anything else you think relevant. It's great to see all your work in new and existing articles. Thanks very much for your help, Chris! Scott --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 15:42, 28 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
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Thanks, I'm learning a heck of a lot, too.<br />
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Chris<br />
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<br />
Changes do, indeed, look seamless. Everything seems to be working and displaying perfectly. How unusual, lol.<br />
<br />
Chris<br />
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::Great! Yes, my son, John [[User talk:Gilrain]] has pretty amazing skills with the back end stuff! Even with that I was surprised he pulled off this transition seemingly without a hitch. Still, you never know! Please let us know if you happen into anything. And thanks as always for all your excellent work! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 06:51, 12 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Saw you had to revert some of the changes to the Turks, hope I hadn't crossed any wires. No changes but mine while you were gone.<br />
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::I accidentally reverted your changes somehow and than reverted them back! Not sure how that happened. Sorry for any confusion. If anything is still messed up please put it back to how you had it... Thanks for keeping such a good eye on things!--[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 19:08, 17 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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No worries. And I'm just in the habit of checking "recent changes" so I happened to notice it, lol. Glad to see you're back in the saddle.<br />
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Chris --[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 19:13, 17 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
<br />
== Glossary Addition? ==<br />
<br />
What do you think about adding a glossary link to the main page. I'll get it started on the basics, and see if it grows. Nothing fancy, mostly to help new guys I'd suppose. <br />
<br />
--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 09:44, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
<br />
:Yes!! That's a great idea, Chris!! We have a fast growing population of new pipe smokers using the site, and I think your glossary idea would be a fantastic resource to them! <br />
<br />
:If you have something to work from already, or want to build it from scratch, that would be great, but if you want to save some development time we could build it from this one at smokingpipes: http://www.smokingpipes.com/smokingpipesblog/glossary.cfm and build our version out from there. If we use theirs to start we just need to make sure to credit them and link back to their version. Either way works great for me! Thanks for the fantastic idea and willingness to tackle it! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 10:03, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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I did one for Reddit at some point, I probably still have it around, and if not it goes pretty quick, but SP does have a good one, I'll check it out again. Threw up a blank page to start working on, I'll let it fill up a bit and then add a link.<br />
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:Perfect, thanks, Chris! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 10:39, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 10:13, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Grabow Shapes ==<br />
Hope it's kosher, working with RJ McKay to get a linkman's era grabow shape chart put together, you'll see the recent changes/uploads. he has an enormous amount of info that shouldn't go to waste. Still working on the glossary, but I do love my linkman's.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 16:06, 24 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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::Yes! The new shape chart stuff looks great! I love getting that kind of material included when we still have access to it! Lost a lot of great stuff from a very knowledgeable Kaywoodie collector a few years ago and have never let myself forget it. We've got to nail that stuff down while we still have the expertise available! Good work, Chris! Thanks! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 16:19, 24 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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<br />
Didn't know that about Svend Hangaard, very cool!<br />
::I though so too! I'm having a lot of fun while recovering from surgery. Can't make pipes yet, but I can sure enjoy researching and working on Pipedia! Great work on the Glossary, btw! That is really coming together nicely! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 20:42, 2 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
<br />
Thanks! Shouldn't be too long now. Hope the recovery goes well and quickly.<br />
<br />
== Glossary ==<br />
<br />
Still working on the glossary, but I think it's big enough to let people have at it. Where should I link it?<br />
<br />
--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 18:38, 4 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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:: Yes, it is looking great! Definitely ready to start linking it places. I need to spend a little time cleaning up some inathctive links on the left nav bar first, and then link it there. Also the mobile responsive version of that, which my son will have to do for us. I think also from the main page, which also needs some updating at this point. I'll get after the nav bar tomorrow morning. Do you have any other ideas? --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 22:22, 4 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Thanks, Scott, a few. I've been trying to learn about blending for a bit, and I've been thinking about some tools to help with that. If I knew how to make a flow chart I'd have done that already. Sort of a "you want to add sweet to a blend?" Then add this kind of thing. Either combined with or similar to some thoughts on tasting as well. And I've definitely been slacking on a bunch of meerschaum stuff. Like an "Is this pressed?" page with photos. I have a pressed meer around here somewhere I can show some differences with. I have a buddy who I think has written an estate pipe buyer's guide or started to, and if not I'll probably put together some kind of "things to look out for" page at some point. Also thought about talking some people into putting a topic of pipe pondering they're interested in down on paper. Like the Dutch Pipe Smoker, Arno, for example, his knowledge is pretty incredible. And of course there are still bunches of wanted pages and pipe mysteries to explore. Good thing I find all of this stuff so fascinating! Plus, I've been ogling a lot of new photos. Great stuff. Hope the recuperation goes well!<br />
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Chris<br />
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::Your Glossary is now linked from the nav bar, as well as the main page. This is great! It will be great to keep developing it, but it's already extremely helpful! Thanks very much for pulling that together. <br />
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::Blending information sounds like an excellent direction, and some kind of flow chart graphic or narrative on how to tweak flavor elements would be very helpful! Timely topic for me too. I have done a very limited amount of tweaking existing blends, and want to do more. In part, I have some tobacco growing. Too early to tell if it will make it all the way to harvest, but I'm growing Nadole (a variety of Kentucky Dark), and also some Burley (can't remember the variety). Incidentally, Kentucky Dark can be air cured, as well as fire cured. It is likely related to Burley, but is different than Burley. It's darker, and the leaves tend to be smaller, and it generally has a higher nicotine content. We live in the heart of the Black Patch region of Western KY, where Kentucky Dark is growing all around us here. Had to give it a try! If it makes it through the harvest and a bit of air curing process, I'll also try to fire some of it, but haven't figured out how to pull that off yet on a scale that will work for just a few plants. Build a very little barn of some kind, I guess!<br />
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::Have often wanted to see more on Meers! That would be great too, and an estate pipe buyers guide would be fantastic!<br />
<br />
::Let me know if you see anywhere else to link the Glossary that might be helpful, or please feel free to link at will when you notice a good spot. Thanks so much for all your work and ideas. It's an amazing help and encouragement! <br />
<br />
::Recovery is going better than I thought. And, it's great to have some time to play with Pipedia, which has also really helped me to keep from going crazy while I can't do much physically! Incidentally, recovering from a much more minor surgery is how I cam up with Pipedia in the first place! Thanks again, Chirs! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 07:48, 5 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Glad to hear it. And fascinated by the growing, that's my next leap, but I live on the surface of the sun apparently here in South Florida, so gardening has its own issues. For now I'll at least keep trying to catch when I run across a word that may need explaining and try to link from there, but not to the degree wikipedia does it. And I'll have to think about how to fire cure in miniature, but I bet you could flue cure the heck out of it with a barbecue smoker and a dog house with vents, lol. And I love doing this stuff, only in small part because of how much I learned here, but you're very welcome. There has never been a resource like this for smokers. Ever. <br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 09:25, 5 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Just noticed the banner ads on the complete corncob primer are blank. You're probably aware, but just in case.<br />
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cc<br />
--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 20:00, 8 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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::Interesting. I was not aware of that and just checked. They were showing up fine for me. And they showed up on my phone and tablet too. Had my wife check on her computer and they did not show! Turns out she uses an add blocker. When she switched it off, presto, there they were! Interesting in that it was only catching the Missouri Meerschaum ones and not ones for the other underwriters in terms of stuff in content, but all of them were blocked in the top and bottom positions that are part of the skin... So, my big question is, do you have add blocking enabled on your browser? Bet so...<br />
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::Pretty sure the reason the add blocker was catching the Missouri Meerschaum banners in content like that and not other underwriters was that the MM banners had "AD" in the file name, and the others did not. I changed the file names, but my wife's add blocker still caught them. I suspect the images themselves are now recognized by the add blocker independent of the file name. <br />
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::Thanks for the heads up on this, Chris! Very interesting! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 22:10, 8 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Just saw this. And yes, I have adblock enabled. Nice detective work, lol.<br />
<br />
--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 06:54, 10 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Au Pacha ==<br />
<br />
Lopes and The Pipe Companion book both have this one wrong. I'll change it later, just giving a heads up why, it's actually a tobacconist called Au Pacha de Nancy, they're actually still there, although it looks like a souvenir shop now. I have a picture of the Diana pipe somewhere. It's nuts. The steed is rearing because there's some kind of demonic hellhound trying to eat it, it's a pipe with a lot going on, lol.<br />
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::Thanks for letting me know! Yes, please do correct it! And it would be great to have that picture as part of it if you can find it...<br />
<br />
::I've run into several inaccuracies with Lopes. It's a great book, and a huge blessing that he put it together, but you can't trust the entries without pulling up some additional corroborative sources. Thanks for keeping an eye out! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 20:01, 9 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Sure, just one I've ogled before. And it's confusing, there were like 11 Au Pachas, even the Europeans have it wrong. I put the picture up. She should probably find a different hunting spot. I didn't mention it, either, but the Nashville museum closed, Dr. Sarunas "Sharkey" Peckus is the last known owner of this one, along with an incredible number of historically important meerschaums I'd like to have. He co-wrote the Rappaport porcelain pipe book. Never met or met anyone who has met him, but his collection is ridiculous. Got the big award in Chicago in '09. <br />
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Have a great one! --[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 10:50, 10 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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::Fantastic to have that straightened out, along with the photo! Thanks! That's a good example of the crazy rats nest of information out there when it comes to pipes! I'm in Nashville a lot, and tried to track that museum down at one point when I found it had been closed down. Too bad. That's a great little book, though! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 11:02, 10 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
<br />
== Lopes ==--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 18:51, 27 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
<br />
I don't have the book myself, only bits and pieces, but if you have it scanned and want to send me a chunk I'll share the effort. <br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 10:21, 12 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
<br />
:That's a wonderful offer, Chris, thanks! Just sent you an E-mail... It's been interesting, but more than a bit daunting. Couple other similar projects to do at some point too, and they may prove even more challenging! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 12:52, 12 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
<br />
Haven't disappeared, just swamped with work for the last couple of weeks, don't worry, lol. <br />
--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 18:51, 27 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
<br />
:Great to hear from you! No Problem! That's going to happen to me too come July... Hand in there! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 18:56, 27 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
<br />
== Mark Stewart ==<br />
<br />
Hey, Scott, you may be in your crazy period, I'm just coming out of mine I think Monday. In the meantime, I sadly learned yesterday that Mark Stewart, who went by periqueguy on the forums, has passed away. I don't know if you and he were acquainted, I only knew him a very little from his posts myself. He doesn't have a page here, but I'm going to go ahead and add one, and note him as a broken pipe. Wanted to bring it to your attention in case there's a process to that I don't know, and just for the sad sake of it all.<br />
<br />
--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 14:41, 17 July 2015 (CDT)<br />
<br />
:Very sorry to hear about Mark. Yes, by all means, please add an article on him. Any information about him and his work would be great! I only knew him from the forum, but very sad to hear he is no longer with us...<br />
<br />
:I'm on a trip now and will head into a very busy time at work when I get back... Was fun to have some focused time on Pipedia, and it kept me from going nuts during the early part of recovery! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 22:50, 17 July 2015 (CDT)i<br />
<br />
Travel safe. Don't worry, I'll step up the effort now that you're back in fighting shape and under constant demand again, lol.<br />
<br />
--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 05:25, 18 July 2015 (CDT)<br />
<br />
== Where does the time go... ==<br />
<br />
Looks like you're dealing with some real fun lately, sorry I've been so absent. Still haven't quite wrapped my head around the best way to start attacking the PSE, but stop in now like daily to start before something catches fire at work. Figured I should at least let you know I'm alive, and empathizing.<br />
<br />
--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 16:36, 16 August 2015 (CDT)<br />
<br />
:Great to hear from you, Chris! Thanks for checking in... Yes, the idea of diving into to the PSE project is daunting!! No pressure on that or other work here! It's great to have your help, and I totally understand that other things must take priority. Speaking of that, I've been back to work at the university for 2 weeks. The semester starts Tuesday.. And I have also been trying to get some pipes made for an upcoming show in Columbus. I miss the more focused time with things here I had for a while, but still dip an oar in now and then, and generally keep an eye on things... It's great to know it's here waiting for us when we have time to do it! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 18:19, 16 August 2015 (CDT)<br />
<br />
== Weird dead link. ==<br />
<br />
This page is impossible to link properly for some highly technical reason that's beyond me. Shows up blank when you link it anywhere. Shame, it's a good article. This link is dead, too, but if you search for "Fallon" it comes up and you can click it and see the text. No idea how that's possible.<br />
<br />
http://pipedia.org/wiki/Good-Bye_Cigarettes,_Hello_Pipe!<br />
<br />
:Hmm... That is strange. This should be the direct internal link: [[Good-Bye Cigarettes, Hello Pipe!]], and this should be the direct external one <br><br />
: http://pipedia.org/wiki/Good-Bye_Cigarettes,_Hello_Pipe!<br />
<br />
: Well that's odd. The internal link works fine. That is likely not a kosher URL, and I'll bet it has something to do with that exclamation point. It's odd how it displays in the link compared to when viewing it in the editor. I'll try renaming it, and also setting up a rederict.<br />
<br />
:OK, that seems to be working. You can get to it either way. For the record, this is now the article location for an internal link: [[Good-Bye Cigarettes, Hello Pipe]] , and this is for an external link: http://pipedia.org/wiki/Good-Bye_Cigarettes,_Hello_Pipe , but even the old way should work now because of the redirect. Is that as clear as mud?? Thanks for pointing this out, Chris. It is a great article!<br />
<br />
== Another weird dead link. ==<br />
<br />
Found this one by accident. Another one showing up dead if linked. I'm still coming back to get about a billion pages cleaned up any time, by the way. Not sure what the heck happened to the last half a year.<br />
<br />
http://pipedia.org/wiki/Laxey_Pipes_Ltd</div>Flatticushttps://pipedia.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Sethile&diff=22848User talk:Sethile2015-10-18T18:42:12Z<p>Flatticus: /* Weird dead link. */</p>
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<div>As per my other suggestion, perhaps it would be better to completely remove the Marks/Logo page altogether and just have a link at the bottom of each Brand/Maker's page to the Pipephil website for that particular Brand or Maker? --[[User:Frank|Frank]] - 3/26/09<br />
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: Sure, that would work fine too. The advantage of the Marks/Logo page, assuming it were to get flushed out eventually, is for situations where someone is trying to identify a pipe with some sort of logo without knowing the maker. Regardless, I think relevant off site links should be added at the bottom of each article directly. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 15:41, 26 March 2009 (CDT)<br />
<br />
:: Lacking a Name Stamp, being able to identify a pipe from it's Logo alone would be useful. Pipephil does have a means of searching with criteria such as a Star or an Anchor or a Dot, etc., but it is lacking a couple of such criteria to search by, last I checked.--[[User:Frank|Frank]] - 3/26/09<br />
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Scott, Earlier on I checked on that item in Cyrillic that you deleted. I found a translation, and it is pipe related..--[[User:Frank|Frank]] - 4/13/09<br />
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:Thanks, Frank! I put it back. I wondered about that.. I was a little on the delete button ;) --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 21:18, 13 April 2009 (CDT)<br />
<br />
== Notice for you ==<br />
This thing needs a bit of scouring just to make it palatable to educated folk! C'mon, this is just lazy. I say "c'mon" because this is the talk page. The entry itself ought to be perfectly written, not sounding like a letter to a dopey pal in Wisconsin!Thundersnow 00:08, 10 May 2010 (UTC)--A direct quote off the Tobacco page. It really needs work, that.[[User:Thundersnow|Thundersnow]] 00:10, 10 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Bridge Too Far? ==<br />
<br />
QUOTE FROM ME: "Hello Eric, Thanks for your work on the Tobacco article. Yes, it does need a lot of work! Also, it would be great if you can help with the Savinellis article. In short, whatever you have time for would be most welcome in deed--I really appreciate your help! All the best, --sethile 01:28, 11 May 2010 (UTC) [....]<br />
<br />
Uhm, I do not know any Eric except an old colleague. And I must say that it is just plain wrong to try to do that to a contributor who wished to remain known by username. And by the way, I am Rev. Antonio Hernandez.Thundersnow 03:13, 12 May 2010 (UTC)"<br />
<br />
Well, thanks a lot for this unwanted headache.[[User:Thundersnow|Thundersnow]] 03:15, 12 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
<br />
:Since the email address (EricBlair@disciples.com), which you publicly posted, gave the name as Eric Blair, it was an understandable mistake on Scott's part, as he could hardly be aware that you use someone elses email address. I believe he was only trying to be friendly on a first name basis. Accusing him of "outing" you in such a heartless manner is a mean thing to do, since he obviously did not do it to deliberately "expose" you.<br />
:As you obviously aren't aware of the tremendous scope of this website, let me enlighten you of the fact that the vast majority of the design, information and contributions have been due to Scott's hard work. Furthermore, he is always extremely appreciative of corrections and contributions to the website.<br />
:Considering that you don't even know one iota about Scott, I find your jumping to conclusions about him offensive in the extreme. I also find your tone and attitude particularly rude and belligerent, especially as you claim to be a man of the cloth. - [[User:Frank|Frank]] 07:37, 12 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:: Thanks Frank! For what it's worth I apologized on his user talk, but apparently that was not what Thundersnow was after. He has elected to deprive us of his presence and help for the present. All the best, --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 23:17, 14 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== QuestyCaptcha not working? ==<br />
<br />
Hi,<br />
<br />
I operate a wiki and I was going to install QuestyCaptcha. Can I ask, does your Aug 14th note about spam mean your Apr 13th installation of QuestyCaptcha isn't working?<br />
<br />
Are the bots responding correctly to both questions or just one? (The "''What is this wiki's name?''" question is probably very common, so spambots might be configured to always stick in the wiki's name when confronted with QuestyCaptcha) If they're getting both questions right, then I guess a human actually took the time to note your questions and the correct answers, so adding a few dozen new questions is probably what's necessary.<br />
<br />
I'd be very interested to hear more about the problem. Thanks. [[User:Ciaran|Ciaran]] 15:51, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
<br />
: I'm not sure the bots responded to either question... It may just be my QuestyCaptcha configuration needs more tweaking. I installed it when I had a bunch of spam that appeared to use humans to make registered users in spite of using ReCaptcha (about 5 to 10 per day), and than that info seemed to be plugged into bots that used the registration information to spam. QuestyCaptcha shut that attack down. I had some new bot yesterday that was not spamming links, just junk. Looked like maybe it attempted to put in links and when it hit QuestyCaptcha it created new articles without links, or was deleting existing content and replacing it with a line like "Great post" or something similar. Apparently edits without links does not trigger QuestyCaptcha due to my settings.<br />
<br />
:It may be I can tighten up my QuestyCaptcha settings to catch this new stuff too. Haven't had time to play with it much. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 16:20, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
<br />
::I've been reading the docs:<br />
::* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:QuestyCaptcha<br />
::* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit#QuestyCaptcha<br />
::* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ConfirmEdit_Test_Plan<br />
::... and the comments in the source code.<br />
<br />
::If you want all edits to require passing a captcha, change "false" to "true" in this line of ''nameofwiki/extensions/ConfirmEdit/ConfirmEdit.php'':<br />
:: $wgCaptchaTriggers['edit'] = false; // Would check on every edit<br />
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::I haven't tried it out yet, but it seems you can exempt logged in users from the captchas by setting:<br />
::$wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['skipcaptcha'] = true;<br />
<br />
::Or logged in users who've confirmed their email address by setting these to ''true'' in ConfirmEdit.php:<br />
:: $wgGroupPermissions['emailconfirmed']['skipcaptcha'] = true;<br />
:: $ceAllowConfirmedEmail = true;<br />
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::Thanks for the quick reply. I think I'll go ahead and install Questy for my wiki. [[User:Ciaran|Ciaran]] 16:59, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
<br />
::: Thanks for the links! I've poored over those same docs too, but it's been a while. I changed the settings to allow anonymous edits again, but they will all trigger Questy while users will bypass it. To create an account triggers it though. That should take care of the bulk of the problems I've been having while still allowing anonymous edits. I guess we'll see! <br />
<br />
:::How did your Questy install go? --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 21:03, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
<br />
Hi. I only got it installed three days ago. (I don't have direct access to the server.)<br />
<br />
To my great surprise, I'm still getting two or three spam edits per day: [http://en.swpat.org/wiki?title=Special:RecentChanges&hidebots=0] !<br />
<br />
I'm baffled. I've searched the Internet extensively and I can't find anyone else saying that spam gets past QuestyCaptcha. I think I'll mention this on the mediawiki.org site. [[User:Ciaran|Ciaran]] 17:48, 3 September 2011 (CDT)<br />
<br />
:My situation here seems to have stabilized for the present, although I had a new user and subsequent spam hit yesterday, but only one, and that was the first since I tweaked my Questy settings. It was different than most of the ones I've had in the past. I think it was a human... Your experience and my recent hit may mean the humans that were hired to work ReCaptcha implementations are now working on Questy sites. That makes some sense. I don't think it's possible to set up a captcha of any kind that will defend against humans without also severely limiting your potential contributions ;(<br />
<br />
:BTW, I hope your efforts against the Patent Trolls and other insanity with software patents proves fruitful. I heard a very interesting piece on NPR a month or so ago. Sounds like a completely out of control mess! I had no idea... --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 21:07, 3 September 2011 (CDT)<br />
<br />
== Gloredo ==<br />
<br />
Dear Sethile<br />
You recieved like me a mail from these "other Gloredo" people.<br />
In my opinion there is no serious evidence for their activity in pipe making. <br />
The so called "Trademark Registration Certificate" you certainely got too has no value for me. I have to do with Chinese students and I know their degree certificate or diplom are sometimes "home made". <br />
<br />
And for fun I made a little faux of this certificate changing "Gloredo" by "Dunhill"<br />
[http://www.pipephil.eu/pics/gloredo-pipephil.jpg see here]<br />
see also my comment in the gloredo's Talk.<br />
I think at least the two gloredos should appear on the GLOREDO page<br />
<br />
: Yes, I agree, and I responded in the Gloredo's talk as well. Regardless of the current status of the brand there is no reason not to include its history, which is way it is relevant... --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 09:38, 11 December 2012 (CST)<br />
<br />
:: But there are TWO gloredos apparently. I think this should be clear in the article, no ?<br />
<br />
::: OK, yes, I think I've got it now... I thought it was a buyout of some kind at first. What a mess!<br />
<br />
== Removal of Link==<br />
<br />
Why did you remove my link on the health effects of smoking cigars and pipes? It was a link to WebMD, a well respected source for medical info. [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 08:05, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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: Hello Laughing Buddha. Thanks for you input. While WebMD has a lot of good medical information, this particular article was typical of the medical literature that attempts to lump pipes and cigars in with cigarettes by establishing the idea that all forms of tobacco are evil. This article allowed for some minor differences, which is better than some articles, but there remains in it a number of well documented inaccuracies typical of the medical literature. If you are really interested in this subject you could read through some of the other material we have linked too. <br />
<br />
:In return, I would like to ask you why you linked to the article. I note that it is your one and only contribution to Pipedia, made shortly after you registered. My guess is your not really interested in pipes, but are just against tobacco. This wiki is for those of us who are interested in pipes and pipe smoking. Our take of this issue is going to be more nuanced than one would typically expect of the general public. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 08:39, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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::I have mixed feelings about pipe smoking because I used smoke pipes on and off for 15 years. I have three Savinellis, two Nordings and one Dr. Grabow to prove it. Also, my favorite tobacco brand was Peter Stockkebye's. Unfortunately, I eventually became addicted and smoked so often that I was staining my teeth and burning my mouth. Also, my dentist repeatedly warned me of the dental problems associated with pipe smoking including mouth cancer, so I stopped, which was very difficult for me. (However, I recently noticed England's "Pipe Smoker of the Year" list on Wikipedia. Many of them lived past 70. I found this very confusing.)<br />
<br />
::I noticed your section titled Pipe Smoking Health and perused through it. It seemed to lack emphasis on the health hazards of pipe smoking. I sincerely believe pipe smokers should smoke with their eyes wide open with respect to the information on the health hazards of smoking and for that reason I added the WebMD link. By the way, I was planning to make other contributions that had nothing to do with health-related issues but my conscience would have bothered me had I not added information to the health section first. <br />
<br />
::Even though the health hazards of smoking scare the hell out of me, I still love admiring the craftsmanship and artistry of pipes themselves. I can't tell you how many hours I've spent looking at pics of pipes on the internet. It's like porn for me. [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 18:37, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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:::Thanks very much for your reply. I'm glad to hear you're not anti tobacco and are just genuinely concerned about the risks. Pipe smoking certainly involves some increased health risk, but it has been greatly over exaggerated in the main stream health media, which tends to lump us all in with cigarette smokers. We have a slight increase risk for mouth and lip cancer, but that is very rare and to even slightly increase ones risk for them would involve smoking many more pipes per day than is typical of your average pipe smoker. Most pipe smokers do not inhale, which elevates nearly all the main risks associated with cigarette smoking. They also tend to smoke much less. <br />
<br />
:::The WebMD article has one statement that is completely false and very misleading, "...research shows that cigar and pipe smoking is every bit as dangerous as cigarette smoking, and possibly even more dangerous". That is a ridiculous claim. They don't even attempt to back that up, or cite the research they refer to. Unless I am very much mistaken, there is no viable research that would even come close to supporting that statement. <br />
<br />
:::I think it would be great to freshen up the Pipe Smoking Health area, but this is an issue that involves a great deal of misinformation from otherwise credible sources so it's going to be tough to pull off. For instance, there is a great deal of legitimate criticism with regards to the integrity of the research on the dangers associated with 2nd hand smoke, and that is seldom if ever reported in the main stream health media. BTW, none of that research differentiates between cigarettes and other forms of tobacco smoke, which typically contain much fewer chemical additives, burning paper, and other impurities associated with 2nd hand cigarette smoke.<br />
<br />
:::I hope you will do some more research. You mentioned being surprised at the older pipe smokers that were cited in the Pipe Smoker of Year list. I've heard of one study that indicates moderate pipe smokers that do not inhale actually live slightly longer on average than non-smokers. I have not followed up on that to verify it yet, but that is certainly supported by my own anecdotal observations and pipe smoking can certainly reduce stress.<br />
<br />
:::If in your research you would like to freshen up the Pipe Smoking Health article here on Pipedia, I would greatly appreciate it. It's even OK to link to articles such as the WebMD article you had linked too earlier, but it would be appropriate to point out any obvious flaws with the article if you do. Thanks again for your reply. I look forward to your contributions on this or other areas of Pipedia that may be of interest. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 22:33, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
<br />
::::Thanks, your response strikes me as very reasonable. By the way, would you happen to have a link on the information you mentioned about the longevity of pipe smokers? I'd be very interested in reading it. [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 08:15, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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:::::It apparently refers back to the original 1964 Surgeon General's report. Here is an interesting and fairly written [http://www.meerschaumstore.com/health.htm article by Mark Beale, MD] that mentions it as well as some other interesting and relevant information that rings credible to me, at least.<br />
<br />
::::::Thanks [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 14:34, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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==New Question==<br />
What's the difference between an estate pipe and a conventional pipe? [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 12:34, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
:Nothing, really. Used or previously owned pipes have come to be known as Estate pipes. They can either be smoked or unsmoked and still qualify. They can be cheap or expensive, and still qualify, and they can come from an English Lord's estate, or picked up off of a dying bum on the street. It just sounds better. I guess like previously owned cars versus used cars ;) --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 12:41, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
::Thanks [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 14:34, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
<br />
== Tanzania/Tanganyika ==<br />
<br />
Saw you're working on african meerschaum a bit, figured I'd throw what I could into the ring. <br />
<br />
No expert, but I think the way it went on these is that Amboseli wasn't a pipe company, it's the name of one of the african meerschaum mines, the one that closed in Tanzania in 2006. I realize pipephil disagrees on that one. Tanganyika Meerchaum Corporation, LTD was founded in December 1955 in Kenya with nominal capital of 50,000 pounds. The internet will tell you they later moved from there to Arusha, Tanzania, which is both a city and also the region containing the Amboseli mines, when they trademarked their logo in September '68. That's actually wrong. The registered agent for TMC, Ltd. in 1955 wasn't in Kenya, it was in Tanga, Tanganyika. However, at the time, these were colonies, and joint ones. Stamps actually said "kenya, uganda, tanganyika" on them and were valid in all three. So they were always in Arusha. They owned Kilimanjaro and Kiko. Also Townsman, Countryman, a bunch of lines. However, as the mines are now closed, TMC, Ltd. is technically now owned by STAMICO, a wholly owned government enterprise under the tanzanian ministry of energy and minerals. <br />
<br />
At some point the Tanzanian pipes were being listed in the Charles S. Loeb catalog, as Kikos and Kilimanjaros, not sure if they bought TMC, Ltd. or licensed the pipes from them. <br />
<br />
The other mine that produced meerschaum was in Somalia, from Eilbur/El Burr, where somalis have made meerschaum incense burners for centuries. Apparently this block was cut into stummels and sold in its entirety to Laxey/Manx straight from Somalia, and is no longer available since Somalia fell apart. When you see a smooth african meerschaum, it's my understanding you're looking at somalian block.<br />
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Do with that what you will.<br />
<br />
Chris<br />
--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 20:59, 25 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
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:Wow, that's interesting, thanks, Chris! Kind of hard to know what to put where, but I'll take a stab at sorting that out when I get a chance... It's not unusual to have difficult to sort out histories in pipedom, along with the occasional controversy surrounding them ;) --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 19:52, 26 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
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No doubt. At least it doesn't take a flowchart like Comoy/GBD/Chacom and such.<br />
<br />
--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 13:19, 28 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Photo question ==<br />
<br />
Was curious, and I probably missed it in the help, but is there a preferred size for photos? I need to get around to finally taking some, figured it couldn't hurt to grab some nomenclature snaps and such.<br />
<br />
Chris<br />
<br />
:Somewhere between 600 and 1000 pixels wide seems to be a good range. By using thumbnails and/or gallery spots in the articles we can accommodate a nice fit with the context while still allowing for full sized images when they're clicked on. Takes a while to get the hang of how that works, but I'll be happy to help if you hit any snags.<br />
<br />
:It would be great to have more pics of nomenclature, and anything else you think relevant. It's great to see all your work in new and existing articles. Thanks very much for your help, Chris! Scott --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 15:42, 28 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
<br />
Thanks, I'm learning a heck of a lot, too.<br />
<br />
Chris<br />
<br />
<br />
Changes do, indeed, look seamless. Everything seems to be working and displaying perfectly. How unusual, lol.<br />
<br />
Chris<br />
<br />
::Great! Yes, my son, John [[User talk:Gilrain]] has pretty amazing skills with the back end stuff! Even with that I was surprised he pulled off this transition seemingly without a hitch. Still, you never know! Please let us know if you happen into anything. And thanks as always for all your excellent work! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 06:51, 12 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
<br />
Saw you had to revert some of the changes to the Turks, hope I hadn't crossed any wires. No changes but mine while you were gone.<br />
<br />
::I accidentally reverted your changes somehow and than reverted them back! Not sure how that happened. Sorry for any confusion. If anything is still messed up please put it back to how you had it... Thanks for keeping such a good eye on things!--[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 19:08, 17 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
<br />
No worries. And I'm just in the habit of checking "recent changes" so I happened to notice it, lol. Glad to see you're back in the saddle.<br />
<br />
Chris --[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 19:13, 17 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Glossary Addition? ==<br />
<br />
What do you think about adding a glossary link to the main page. I'll get it started on the basics, and see if it grows. Nothing fancy, mostly to help new guys I'd suppose. <br />
<br />
--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 09:44, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
<br />
:Yes!! That's a great idea, Chris!! We have a fast growing population of new pipe smokers using the site, and I think your glossary idea would be a fantastic resource to them! <br />
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:If you have something to work from already, or want to build it from scratch, that would be great, but if you want to save some development time we could build it from this one at smokingpipes: http://www.smokingpipes.com/smokingpipesblog/glossary.cfm and build our version out from there. If we use theirs to start we just need to make sure to credit them and link back to their version. Either way works great for me! Thanks for the fantastic idea and willingness to tackle it! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 10:03, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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I did one for Reddit at some point, I probably still have it around, and if not it goes pretty quick, but SP does have a good one, I'll check it out again. Threw up a blank page to start working on, I'll let it fill up a bit and then add a link.<br />
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:Perfect, thanks, Chris! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 10:39, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 10:13, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Grabow Shapes ==<br />
Hope it's kosher, working with RJ McKay to get a linkman's era grabow shape chart put together, you'll see the recent changes/uploads. he has an enormous amount of info that shouldn't go to waste. Still working on the glossary, but I do love my linkman's.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 16:06, 24 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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::Yes! The new shape chart stuff looks great! I love getting that kind of material included when we still have access to it! Lost a lot of great stuff from a very knowledgeable Kaywoodie collector a few years ago and have never let myself forget it. We've got to nail that stuff down while we still have the expertise available! Good work, Chris! Thanks! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 16:19, 24 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Didn't know that about Svend Hangaard, very cool!<br />
::I though so too! I'm having a lot of fun while recovering from surgery. Can't make pipes yet, but I can sure enjoy researching and working on Pipedia! Great work on the Glossary, btw! That is really coming together nicely! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 20:42, 2 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Thanks! Shouldn't be too long now. Hope the recovery goes well and quickly.<br />
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== Glossary ==<br />
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Still working on the glossary, but I think it's big enough to let people have at it. Where should I link it?<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 18:38, 4 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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:: Yes, it is looking great! Definitely ready to start linking it places. I need to spend a little time cleaning up some inathctive links on the left nav bar first, and then link it there. Also the mobile responsive version of that, which my son will have to do for us. I think also from the main page, which also needs some updating at this point. I'll get after the nav bar tomorrow morning. Do you have any other ideas? --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 22:22, 4 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Thanks, Scott, a few. I've been trying to learn about blending for a bit, and I've been thinking about some tools to help with that. If I knew how to make a flow chart I'd have done that already. Sort of a "you want to add sweet to a blend?" Then add this kind of thing. Either combined with or similar to some thoughts on tasting as well. And I've definitely been slacking on a bunch of meerschaum stuff. Like an "Is this pressed?" page with photos. I have a pressed meer around here somewhere I can show some differences with. I have a buddy who I think has written an estate pipe buyer's guide or started to, and if not I'll probably put together some kind of "things to look out for" page at some point. Also thought about talking some people into putting a topic of pipe pondering they're interested in down on paper. Like the Dutch Pipe Smoker, Arno, for example, his knowledge is pretty incredible. And of course there are still bunches of wanted pages and pipe mysteries to explore. Good thing I find all of this stuff so fascinating! Plus, I've been ogling a lot of new photos. Great stuff. Hope the recuperation goes well!<br />
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Chris<br />
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::Your Glossary is now linked from the nav bar, as well as the main page. This is great! It will be great to keep developing it, but it's already extremely helpful! Thanks very much for pulling that together. <br />
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::Blending information sounds like an excellent direction, and some kind of flow chart graphic or narrative on how to tweak flavor elements would be very helpful! Timely topic for me too. I have done a very limited amount of tweaking existing blends, and want to do more. In part, I have some tobacco growing. Too early to tell if it will make it all the way to harvest, but I'm growing Nadole (a variety of Kentucky Dark), and also some Burley (can't remember the variety). Incidentally, Kentucky Dark can be air cured, as well as fire cured. It is likely related to Burley, but is different than Burley. It's darker, and the leaves tend to be smaller, and it generally has a higher nicotine content. We live in the heart of the Black Patch region of Western KY, where Kentucky Dark is growing all around us here. Had to give it a try! If it makes it through the harvest and a bit of air curing process, I'll also try to fire some of it, but haven't figured out how to pull that off yet on a scale that will work for just a few plants. Build a very little barn of some kind, I guess!<br />
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::Have often wanted to see more on Meers! That would be great too, and an estate pipe buyers guide would be fantastic!<br />
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::Let me know if you see anywhere else to link the Glossary that might be helpful, or please feel free to link at will when you notice a good spot. Thanks so much for all your work and ideas. It's an amazing help and encouragement! <br />
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::Recovery is going better than I thought. And, it's great to have some time to play with Pipedia, which has also really helped me to keep from going crazy while I can't do much physically! Incidentally, recovering from a much more minor surgery is how I cam up with Pipedia in the first place! Thanks again, Chirs! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 07:48, 5 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Glad to hear it. And fascinated by the growing, that's my next leap, but I live on the surface of the sun apparently here in South Florida, so gardening has its own issues. For now I'll at least keep trying to catch when I run across a word that may need explaining and try to link from there, but not to the degree wikipedia does it. And I'll have to think about how to fire cure in miniature, but I bet you could flue cure the heck out of it with a barbecue smoker and a dog house with vents, lol. And I love doing this stuff, only in small part because of how much I learned here, but you're very welcome. There has never been a resource like this for smokers. Ever. <br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 09:25, 5 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Just noticed the banner ads on the complete corncob primer are blank. You're probably aware, but just in case.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 20:00, 8 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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::Interesting. I was not aware of that and just checked. They were showing up fine for me. And they showed up on my phone and tablet too. Had my wife check on her computer and they did not show! Turns out she uses an add blocker. When she switched it off, presto, there they were! Interesting in that it was only catching the Missouri Meerschaum ones and not ones for the other underwriters in terms of stuff in content, but all of them were blocked in the top and bottom positions that are part of the skin... So, my big question is, do you have add blocking enabled on your browser? Bet so...<br />
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::Pretty sure the reason the add blocker was catching the Missouri Meerschaum banners in content like that and not other underwriters was that the MM banners had "AD" in the file name, and the others did not. I changed the file names, but my wife's add blocker still caught them. I suspect the images themselves are now recognized by the add blocker independent of the file name. <br />
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::Thanks for the heads up on this, Chris! Very interesting! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 22:10, 8 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Just saw this. And yes, I have adblock enabled. Nice detective work, lol.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 06:54, 10 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Au Pacha ==<br />
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Lopes and The Pipe Companion book both have this one wrong. I'll change it later, just giving a heads up why, it's actually a tobacconist called Au Pacha de Nancy, they're actually still there, although it looks like a souvenir shop now. I have a picture of the Diana pipe somewhere. It's nuts. The steed is rearing because there's some kind of demonic hellhound trying to eat it, it's a pipe with a lot going on, lol.<br />
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::Thanks for letting me know! Yes, please do correct it! And it would be great to have that picture as part of it if you can find it...<br />
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::I've run into several inaccuracies with Lopes. It's a great book, and a huge blessing that he put it together, but you can't trust the entries without pulling up some additional corroborative sources. Thanks for keeping an eye out! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 20:01, 9 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Sure, just one I've ogled before. And it's confusing, there were like 11 Au Pachas, even the Europeans have it wrong. I put the picture up. She should probably find a different hunting spot. I didn't mention it, either, but the Nashville museum closed, Dr. Sarunas "Sharkey" Peckus is the last known owner of this one, along with an incredible number of historically important meerschaums I'd like to have. He co-wrote the Rappaport porcelain pipe book. Never met or met anyone who has met him, but his collection is ridiculous. Got the big award in Chicago in '09. <br />
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Have a great one! --[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 10:50, 10 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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::Fantastic to have that straightened out, along with the photo! Thanks! That's a good example of the crazy rats nest of information out there when it comes to pipes! I'm in Nashville a lot, and tried to track that museum down at one point when I found it had been closed down. Too bad. That's a great little book, though! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 11:02, 10 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Lopes ==--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 18:51, 27 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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I don't have the book myself, only bits and pieces, but if you have it scanned and want to send me a chunk I'll share the effort. <br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 10:21, 12 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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:That's a wonderful offer, Chris, thanks! Just sent you an E-mail... It's been interesting, but more than a bit daunting. Couple other similar projects to do at some point too, and they may prove even more challenging! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 12:52, 12 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Haven't disappeared, just swamped with work for the last couple of weeks, don't worry, lol. <br />
--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 18:51, 27 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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:Great to hear from you! No Problem! That's going to happen to me too come July... Hand in there! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 18:56, 27 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Mark Stewart ==<br />
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Hey, Scott, you may be in your crazy period, I'm just coming out of mine I think Monday. In the meantime, I sadly learned yesterday that Mark Stewart, who went by periqueguy on the forums, has passed away. I don't know if you and he were acquainted, I only knew him a very little from his posts myself. He doesn't have a page here, but I'm going to go ahead and add one, and note him as a broken pipe. Wanted to bring it to your attention in case there's a process to that I don't know, and just for the sad sake of it all.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 14:41, 17 July 2015 (CDT)<br />
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:Very sorry to hear about Mark. Yes, by all means, please add an article on him. Any information about him and his work would be great! I only knew him from the forum, but very sad to hear he is no longer with us...<br />
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:I'm on a trip now and will head into a very busy time at work when I get back... Was fun to have some focused time on Pipedia, and it kept me from going nuts during the early part of recovery! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 22:50, 17 July 2015 (CDT)i<br />
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Travel safe. Don't worry, I'll step up the effort now that you're back in fighting shape and under constant demand again, lol.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 05:25, 18 July 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Where does the time go... ==<br />
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Looks like you're dealing with some real fun lately, sorry I've been so absent. Still haven't quite wrapped my head around the best way to start attacking the PSE, but stop in now like daily to start before something catches fire at work. Figured I should at least let you know I'm alive, and empathizing.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 16:36, 16 August 2015 (CDT)<br />
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:Great to hear from you, Chris! Thanks for checking in... Yes, the idea of diving into to the PSE project is daunting!! No pressure on that or other work here! It's great to have your help, and I totally understand that other things must take priority. Speaking of that, I've been back to work at the university for 2 weeks. The semester starts Tuesday.. And I have also been trying to get some pipes made for an upcoming show in Columbus. I miss the more focused time with things here I had for a while, but still dip an oar in now and then, and generally keep an eye on things... It's great to know it's here waiting for us when we have time to do it! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 18:19, 16 August 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Weird dead link. ==<br />
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This page is impossible to link properly for some highly technical reason that's beyond me. Shows up blank when you link it anywhere. Shame, it's a good article. This link is dead, too, but if you search for "Fallon" it comes up and you can click it and see the text. No idea how that's possible.<br />
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http://pipedia.org/wiki/Good-Bye_Cigarettes,_Hello_Pipe!</div>Flatticushttps://pipedia.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Sethile&diff=22847User talk:Sethile2015-10-18T18:39:38Z<p>Flatticus: /* Weird dead link. */ new section</p>
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<div>As per my other suggestion, perhaps it would be better to completely remove the Marks/Logo page altogether and just have a link at the bottom of each Brand/Maker's page to the Pipephil website for that particular Brand or Maker? --[[User:Frank|Frank]] - 3/26/09<br />
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: Sure, that would work fine too. The advantage of the Marks/Logo page, assuming it were to get flushed out eventually, is for situations where someone is trying to identify a pipe with some sort of logo without knowing the maker. Regardless, I think relevant off site links should be added at the bottom of each article directly. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 15:41, 26 March 2009 (CDT)<br />
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:: Lacking a Name Stamp, being able to identify a pipe from it's Logo alone would be useful. Pipephil does have a means of searching with criteria such as a Star or an Anchor or a Dot, etc., but it is lacking a couple of such criteria to search by, last I checked.--[[User:Frank|Frank]] - 3/26/09<br />
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Scott, Earlier on I checked on that item in Cyrillic that you deleted. I found a translation, and it is pipe related..--[[User:Frank|Frank]] - 4/13/09<br />
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:Thanks, Frank! I put it back. I wondered about that.. I was a little on the delete button ;) --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 21:18, 13 April 2009 (CDT)<br />
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== Notice for you ==<br />
This thing needs a bit of scouring just to make it palatable to educated folk! C'mon, this is just lazy. I say "c'mon" because this is the talk page. The entry itself ought to be perfectly written, not sounding like a letter to a dopey pal in Wisconsin!Thundersnow 00:08, 10 May 2010 (UTC)--A direct quote off the Tobacco page. It really needs work, that.[[User:Thundersnow|Thundersnow]] 00:10, 10 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== Bridge Too Far? ==<br />
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QUOTE FROM ME: "Hello Eric, Thanks for your work on the Tobacco article. Yes, it does need a lot of work! Also, it would be great if you can help with the Savinellis article. In short, whatever you have time for would be most welcome in deed--I really appreciate your help! All the best, --sethile 01:28, 11 May 2010 (UTC) [....]<br />
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Uhm, I do not know any Eric except an old colleague. And I must say that it is just plain wrong to try to do that to a contributor who wished to remain known by username. And by the way, I am Rev. Antonio Hernandez.Thundersnow 03:13, 12 May 2010 (UTC)"<br />
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Well, thanks a lot for this unwanted headache.[[User:Thundersnow|Thundersnow]] 03:15, 12 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:Since the email address (EricBlair@disciples.com), which you publicly posted, gave the name as Eric Blair, it was an understandable mistake on Scott's part, as he could hardly be aware that you use someone elses email address. I believe he was only trying to be friendly on a first name basis. Accusing him of "outing" you in such a heartless manner is a mean thing to do, since he obviously did not do it to deliberately "expose" you.<br />
:As you obviously aren't aware of the tremendous scope of this website, let me enlighten you of the fact that the vast majority of the design, information and contributions have been due to Scott's hard work. Furthermore, he is always extremely appreciative of corrections and contributions to the website.<br />
:Considering that you don't even know one iota about Scott, I find your jumping to conclusions about him offensive in the extreme. I also find your tone and attitude particularly rude and belligerent, especially as you claim to be a man of the cloth. - [[User:Frank|Frank]] 07:37, 12 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:: Thanks Frank! For what it's worth I apologized on his user talk, but apparently that was not what Thundersnow was after. He has elected to deprive us of his presence and help for the present. All the best, --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 23:17, 14 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== QuestyCaptcha not working? ==<br />
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Hi,<br />
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I operate a wiki and I was going to install QuestyCaptcha. Can I ask, does your Aug 14th note about spam mean your Apr 13th installation of QuestyCaptcha isn't working?<br />
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Are the bots responding correctly to both questions or just one? (The "''What is this wiki's name?''" question is probably very common, so spambots might be configured to always stick in the wiki's name when confronted with QuestyCaptcha) If they're getting both questions right, then I guess a human actually took the time to note your questions and the correct answers, so adding a few dozen new questions is probably what's necessary.<br />
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I'd be very interested to hear more about the problem. Thanks. [[User:Ciaran|Ciaran]] 15:51, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
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: I'm not sure the bots responded to either question... It may just be my QuestyCaptcha configuration needs more tweaking. I installed it when I had a bunch of spam that appeared to use humans to make registered users in spite of using ReCaptcha (about 5 to 10 per day), and than that info seemed to be plugged into bots that used the registration information to spam. QuestyCaptcha shut that attack down. I had some new bot yesterday that was not spamming links, just junk. Looked like maybe it attempted to put in links and when it hit QuestyCaptcha it created new articles without links, or was deleting existing content and replacing it with a line like "Great post" or something similar. Apparently edits without links does not trigger QuestyCaptcha due to my settings.<br />
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:It may be I can tighten up my QuestyCaptcha settings to catch this new stuff too. Haven't had time to play with it much. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 16:20, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
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::I've been reading the docs:<br />
::* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:QuestyCaptcha<br />
::* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit#QuestyCaptcha<br />
::* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ConfirmEdit_Test_Plan<br />
::... and the comments in the source code.<br />
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::If you want all edits to require passing a captcha, change "false" to "true" in this line of ''nameofwiki/extensions/ConfirmEdit/ConfirmEdit.php'':<br />
:: $wgCaptchaTriggers['edit'] = false; // Would check on every edit<br />
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::I haven't tried it out yet, but it seems you can exempt logged in users from the captchas by setting:<br />
::$wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['skipcaptcha'] = true;<br />
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::Or logged in users who've confirmed their email address by setting these to ''true'' in ConfirmEdit.php:<br />
:: $wgGroupPermissions['emailconfirmed']['skipcaptcha'] = true;<br />
:: $ceAllowConfirmedEmail = true;<br />
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::Thanks for the quick reply. I think I'll go ahead and install Questy for my wiki. [[User:Ciaran|Ciaran]] 16:59, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
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::: Thanks for the links! I've poored over those same docs too, but it's been a while. I changed the settings to allow anonymous edits again, but they will all trigger Questy while users will bypass it. To create an account triggers it though. That should take care of the bulk of the problems I've been having while still allowing anonymous edits. I guess we'll see! <br />
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:::How did your Questy install go? --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 21:03, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
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Hi. I only got it installed three days ago. (I don't have direct access to the server.)<br />
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To my great surprise, I'm still getting two or three spam edits per day: [http://en.swpat.org/wiki?title=Special:RecentChanges&hidebots=0] !<br />
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I'm baffled. I've searched the Internet extensively and I can't find anyone else saying that spam gets past QuestyCaptcha. I think I'll mention this on the mediawiki.org site. [[User:Ciaran|Ciaran]] 17:48, 3 September 2011 (CDT)<br />
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:My situation here seems to have stabilized for the present, although I had a new user and subsequent spam hit yesterday, but only one, and that was the first since I tweaked my Questy settings. It was different than most of the ones I've had in the past. I think it was a human... Your experience and my recent hit may mean the humans that were hired to work ReCaptcha implementations are now working on Questy sites. That makes some sense. I don't think it's possible to set up a captcha of any kind that will defend against humans without also severely limiting your potential contributions ;(<br />
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:BTW, I hope your efforts against the Patent Trolls and other insanity with software patents proves fruitful. I heard a very interesting piece on NPR a month or so ago. Sounds like a completely out of control mess! I had no idea... --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 21:07, 3 September 2011 (CDT)<br />
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== Gloredo ==<br />
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Dear Sethile<br />
You recieved like me a mail from these "other Gloredo" people.<br />
In my opinion there is no serious evidence for their activity in pipe making. <br />
The so called "Trademark Registration Certificate" you certainely got too has no value for me. I have to do with Chinese students and I know their degree certificate or diplom are sometimes "home made". <br />
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And for fun I made a little faux of this certificate changing "Gloredo" by "Dunhill"<br />
[http://www.pipephil.eu/pics/gloredo-pipephil.jpg see here]<br />
see also my comment in the gloredo's Talk.<br />
I think at least the two gloredos should appear on the GLOREDO page<br />
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: Yes, I agree, and I responded in the Gloredo's talk as well. Regardless of the current status of the brand there is no reason not to include its history, which is way it is relevant... --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 09:38, 11 December 2012 (CST)<br />
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:: But there are TWO gloredos apparently. I think this should be clear in the article, no ?<br />
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::: OK, yes, I think I've got it now... I thought it was a buyout of some kind at first. What a mess!<br />
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== Removal of Link==<br />
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Why did you remove my link on the health effects of smoking cigars and pipes? It was a link to WebMD, a well respected source for medical info. [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 08:05, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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: Hello Laughing Buddha. Thanks for you input. While WebMD has a lot of good medical information, this particular article was typical of the medical literature that attempts to lump pipes and cigars in with cigarettes by establishing the idea that all forms of tobacco are evil. This article allowed for some minor differences, which is better than some articles, but there remains in it a number of well documented inaccuracies typical of the medical literature. If you are really interested in this subject you could read through some of the other material we have linked too. <br />
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:In return, I would like to ask you why you linked to the article. I note that it is your one and only contribution to Pipedia, made shortly after you registered. My guess is your not really interested in pipes, but are just against tobacco. This wiki is for those of us who are interested in pipes and pipe smoking. Our take of this issue is going to be more nuanced than one would typically expect of the general public. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 08:39, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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::I have mixed feelings about pipe smoking because I used smoke pipes on and off for 15 years. I have three Savinellis, two Nordings and one Dr. Grabow to prove it. Also, my favorite tobacco brand was Peter Stockkebye's. Unfortunately, I eventually became addicted and smoked so often that I was staining my teeth and burning my mouth. Also, my dentist repeatedly warned me of the dental problems associated with pipe smoking including mouth cancer, so I stopped, which was very difficult for me. (However, I recently noticed England's "Pipe Smoker of the Year" list on Wikipedia. Many of them lived past 70. I found this very confusing.)<br />
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::I noticed your section titled Pipe Smoking Health and perused through it. It seemed to lack emphasis on the health hazards of pipe smoking. I sincerely believe pipe smokers should smoke with their eyes wide open with respect to the information on the health hazards of smoking and for that reason I added the WebMD link. By the way, I was planning to make other contributions that had nothing to do with health-related issues but my conscience would have bothered me had I not added information to the health section first. <br />
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::Even though the health hazards of smoking scare the hell out of me, I still love admiring the craftsmanship and artistry of pipes themselves. I can't tell you how many hours I've spent looking at pics of pipes on the internet. It's like porn for me. [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 18:37, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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:::Thanks very much for your reply. I'm glad to hear you're not anti tobacco and are just genuinely concerned about the risks. Pipe smoking certainly involves some increased health risk, but it has been greatly over exaggerated in the main stream health media, which tends to lump us all in with cigarette smokers. We have a slight increase risk for mouth and lip cancer, but that is very rare and to even slightly increase ones risk for them would involve smoking many more pipes per day than is typical of your average pipe smoker. Most pipe smokers do not inhale, which elevates nearly all the main risks associated with cigarette smoking. They also tend to smoke much less. <br />
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:::The WebMD article has one statement that is completely false and very misleading, "...research shows that cigar and pipe smoking is every bit as dangerous as cigarette smoking, and possibly even more dangerous". That is a ridiculous claim. They don't even attempt to back that up, or cite the research they refer to. Unless I am very much mistaken, there is no viable research that would even come close to supporting that statement. <br />
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:::I think it would be great to freshen up the Pipe Smoking Health area, but this is an issue that involves a great deal of misinformation from otherwise credible sources so it's going to be tough to pull off. For instance, there is a great deal of legitimate criticism with regards to the integrity of the research on the dangers associated with 2nd hand smoke, and that is seldom if ever reported in the main stream health media. BTW, none of that research differentiates between cigarettes and other forms of tobacco smoke, which typically contain much fewer chemical additives, burning paper, and other impurities associated with 2nd hand cigarette smoke.<br />
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:::I hope you will do some more research. You mentioned being surprised at the older pipe smokers that were cited in the Pipe Smoker of Year list. I've heard of one study that indicates moderate pipe smokers that do not inhale actually live slightly longer on average than non-smokers. I have not followed up on that to verify it yet, but that is certainly supported by my own anecdotal observations and pipe smoking can certainly reduce stress.<br />
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:::If in your research you would like to freshen up the Pipe Smoking Health article here on Pipedia, I would greatly appreciate it. It's even OK to link to articles such as the WebMD article you had linked too earlier, but it would be appropriate to point out any obvious flaws with the article if you do. Thanks again for your reply. I look forward to your contributions on this or other areas of Pipedia that may be of interest. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 22:33, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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::::Thanks, your response strikes me as very reasonable. By the way, would you happen to have a link on the information you mentioned about the longevity of pipe smokers? I'd be very interested in reading it. [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 08:15, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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:::::It apparently refers back to the original 1964 Surgeon General's report. Here is an interesting and fairly written [http://www.meerschaumstore.com/health.htm article by Mark Beale, MD] that mentions it as well as some other interesting and relevant information that rings credible to me, at least.<br />
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::::::Thanks [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 14:34, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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==New Question==<br />
What's the difference between an estate pipe and a conventional pipe? [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 12:34, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
:Nothing, really. Used or previously owned pipes have come to be known as Estate pipes. They can either be smoked or unsmoked and still qualify. They can be cheap or expensive, and still qualify, and they can come from an English Lord's estate, or picked up off of a dying bum on the street. It just sounds better. I guess like previously owned cars versus used cars ;) --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 12:41, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
::Thanks [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 14:34, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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== Tanzania/Tanganyika ==<br />
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Saw you're working on african meerschaum a bit, figured I'd throw what I could into the ring. <br />
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No expert, but I think the way it went on these is that Amboseli wasn't a pipe company, it's the name of one of the african meerschaum mines, the one that closed in Tanzania in 2006. I realize pipephil disagrees on that one. Tanganyika Meerchaum Corporation, LTD was founded in December 1955 in Kenya with nominal capital of 50,000 pounds. The internet will tell you they later moved from there to Arusha, Tanzania, which is both a city and also the region containing the Amboseli mines, when they trademarked their logo in September '68. That's actually wrong. The registered agent for TMC, Ltd. in 1955 wasn't in Kenya, it was in Tanga, Tanganyika. However, at the time, these were colonies, and joint ones. Stamps actually said "kenya, uganda, tanganyika" on them and were valid in all three. So they were always in Arusha. They owned Kilimanjaro and Kiko. Also Townsman, Countryman, a bunch of lines. However, as the mines are now closed, TMC, Ltd. is technically now owned by STAMICO, a wholly owned government enterprise under the tanzanian ministry of energy and minerals. <br />
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At some point the Tanzanian pipes were being listed in the Charles S. Loeb catalog, as Kikos and Kilimanjaros, not sure if they bought TMC, Ltd. or licensed the pipes from them. <br />
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The other mine that produced meerschaum was in Somalia, from Eilbur/El Burr, where somalis have made meerschaum incense burners for centuries. Apparently this block was cut into stummels and sold in its entirety to Laxey/Manx straight from Somalia, and is no longer available since Somalia fell apart. When you see a smooth african meerschaum, it's my understanding you're looking at somalian block.<br />
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Do with that what you will.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 20:59, 25 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
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:Wow, that's interesting, thanks, Chris! Kind of hard to know what to put where, but I'll take a stab at sorting that out when I get a chance... It's not unusual to have difficult to sort out histories in pipedom, along with the occasional controversy surrounding them ;) --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 19:52, 26 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
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No doubt. At least it doesn't take a flowchart like Comoy/GBD/Chacom and such.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 13:19, 28 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
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== Photo question ==<br />
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Was curious, and I probably missed it in the help, but is there a preferred size for photos? I need to get around to finally taking some, figured it couldn't hurt to grab some nomenclature snaps and such.<br />
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:Somewhere between 600 and 1000 pixels wide seems to be a good range. By using thumbnails and/or gallery spots in the articles we can accommodate a nice fit with the context while still allowing for full sized images when they're clicked on. Takes a while to get the hang of how that works, but I'll be happy to help if you hit any snags.<br />
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:It would be great to have more pics of nomenclature, and anything else you think relevant. It's great to see all your work in new and existing articles. Thanks very much for your help, Chris! Scott --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 15:42, 28 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
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Thanks, I'm learning a heck of a lot, too.<br />
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Changes do, indeed, look seamless. Everything seems to be working and displaying perfectly. How unusual, lol.<br />
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::Great! Yes, my son, John [[User talk:Gilrain]] has pretty amazing skills with the back end stuff! Even with that I was surprised he pulled off this transition seemingly without a hitch. Still, you never know! Please let us know if you happen into anything. And thanks as always for all your excellent work! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 06:51, 12 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Saw you had to revert some of the changes to the Turks, hope I hadn't crossed any wires. No changes but mine while you were gone.<br />
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::I accidentally reverted your changes somehow and than reverted them back! Not sure how that happened. Sorry for any confusion. If anything is still messed up please put it back to how you had it... Thanks for keeping such a good eye on things!--[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 19:08, 17 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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No worries. And I'm just in the habit of checking "recent changes" so I happened to notice it, lol. Glad to see you're back in the saddle.<br />
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== Glossary Addition? ==<br />
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What do you think about adding a glossary link to the main page. I'll get it started on the basics, and see if it grows. Nothing fancy, mostly to help new guys I'd suppose. <br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 09:44, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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:Yes!! That's a great idea, Chris!! We have a fast growing population of new pipe smokers using the site, and I think your glossary idea would be a fantastic resource to them! <br />
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:If you have something to work from already, or want to build it from scratch, that would be great, but if you want to save some development time we could build it from this one at smokingpipes: http://www.smokingpipes.com/smokingpipesblog/glossary.cfm and build our version out from there. If we use theirs to start we just need to make sure to credit them and link back to their version. Either way works great for me! Thanks for the fantastic idea and willingness to tackle it! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 10:03, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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I did one for Reddit at some point, I probably still have it around, and if not it goes pretty quick, but SP does have a good one, I'll check it out again. Threw up a blank page to start working on, I'll let it fill up a bit and then add a link.<br />
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:Perfect, thanks, Chris! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 10:39, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 10:13, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Grabow Shapes ==<br />
Hope it's kosher, working with RJ McKay to get a linkman's era grabow shape chart put together, you'll see the recent changes/uploads. he has an enormous amount of info that shouldn't go to waste. Still working on the glossary, but I do love my linkman's.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 16:06, 24 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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::Yes! The new shape chart stuff looks great! I love getting that kind of material included when we still have access to it! Lost a lot of great stuff from a very knowledgeable Kaywoodie collector a few years ago and have never let myself forget it. We've got to nail that stuff down while we still have the expertise available! Good work, Chris! Thanks! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 16:19, 24 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Didn't know that about Svend Hangaard, very cool!<br />
::I though so too! I'm having a lot of fun while recovering from surgery. Can't make pipes yet, but I can sure enjoy researching and working on Pipedia! Great work on the Glossary, btw! That is really coming together nicely! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 20:42, 2 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Thanks! Shouldn't be too long now. Hope the recovery goes well and quickly.<br />
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== Glossary ==<br />
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Still working on the glossary, but I think it's big enough to let people have at it. Where should I link it?<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 18:38, 4 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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:: Yes, it is looking great! Definitely ready to start linking it places. I need to spend a little time cleaning up some inathctive links on the left nav bar first, and then link it there. Also the mobile responsive version of that, which my son will have to do for us. I think also from the main page, which also needs some updating at this point. I'll get after the nav bar tomorrow morning. Do you have any other ideas? --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 22:22, 4 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Thanks, Scott, a few. I've been trying to learn about blending for a bit, and I've been thinking about some tools to help with that. If I knew how to make a flow chart I'd have done that already. Sort of a "you want to add sweet to a blend?" Then add this kind of thing. Either combined with or similar to some thoughts on tasting as well. And I've definitely been slacking on a bunch of meerschaum stuff. Like an "Is this pressed?" page with photos. I have a pressed meer around here somewhere I can show some differences with. I have a buddy who I think has written an estate pipe buyer's guide or started to, and if not I'll probably put together some kind of "things to look out for" page at some point. Also thought about talking some people into putting a topic of pipe pondering they're interested in down on paper. Like the Dutch Pipe Smoker, Arno, for example, his knowledge is pretty incredible. And of course there are still bunches of wanted pages and pipe mysteries to explore. Good thing I find all of this stuff so fascinating! Plus, I've been ogling a lot of new photos. Great stuff. Hope the recuperation goes well!<br />
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::Your Glossary is now linked from the nav bar, as well as the main page. This is great! It will be great to keep developing it, but it's already extremely helpful! Thanks very much for pulling that together. <br />
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::Blending information sounds like an excellent direction, and some kind of flow chart graphic or narrative on how to tweak flavor elements would be very helpful! Timely topic for me too. I have done a very limited amount of tweaking existing blends, and want to do more. In part, I have some tobacco growing. Too early to tell if it will make it all the way to harvest, but I'm growing Nadole (a variety of Kentucky Dark), and also some Burley (can't remember the variety). Incidentally, Kentucky Dark can be air cured, as well as fire cured. It is likely related to Burley, but is different than Burley. It's darker, and the leaves tend to be smaller, and it generally has a higher nicotine content. We live in the heart of the Black Patch region of Western KY, where Kentucky Dark is growing all around us here. Had to give it a try! If it makes it through the harvest and a bit of air curing process, I'll also try to fire some of it, but haven't figured out how to pull that off yet on a scale that will work for just a few plants. Build a very little barn of some kind, I guess!<br />
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::Have often wanted to see more on Meers! That would be great too, and an estate pipe buyers guide would be fantastic!<br />
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::Let me know if you see anywhere else to link the Glossary that might be helpful, or please feel free to link at will when you notice a good spot. Thanks so much for all your work and ideas. It's an amazing help and encouragement! <br />
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::Recovery is going better than I thought. And, it's great to have some time to play with Pipedia, which has also really helped me to keep from going crazy while I can't do much physically! Incidentally, recovering from a much more minor surgery is how I cam up with Pipedia in the first place! Thanks again, Chirs! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 07:48, 5 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Glad to hear it. And fascinated by the growing, that's my next leap, but I live on the surface of the sun apparently here in South Florida, so gardening has its own issues. For now I'll at least keep trying to catch when I run across a word that may need explaining and try to link from there, but not to the degree wikipedia does it. And I'll have to think about how to fire cure in miniature, but I bet you could flue cure the heck out of it with a barbecue smoker and a dog house with vents, lol. And I love doing this stuff, only in small part because of how much I learned here, but you're very welcome. There has never been a resource like this for smokers. Ever. <br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 09:25, 5 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Just noticed the banner ads on the complete corncob primer are blank. You're probably aware, but just in case.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 20:00, 8 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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::Interesting. I was not aware of that and just checked. They were showing up fine for me. And they showed up on my phone and tablet too. Had my wife check on her computer and they did not show! Turns out she uses an add blocker. When she switched it off, presto, there they were! Interesting in that it was only catching the Missouri Meerschaum ones and not ones for the other underwriters in terms of stuff in content, but all of them were blocked in the top and bottom positions that are part of the skin... So, my big question is, do you have add blocking enabled on your browser? Bet so...<br />
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::Pretty sure the reason the add blocker was catching the Missouri Meerschaum banners in content like that and not other underwriters was that the MM banners had "AD" in the file name, and the others did not. I changed the file names, but my wife's add blocker still caught them. I suspect the images themselves are now recognized by the add blocker independent of the file name. <br />
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::Thanks for the heads up on this, Chris! Very interesting! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 22:10, 8 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Just saw this. And yes, I have adblock enabled. Nice detective work, lol.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 06:54, 10 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Au Pacha ==<br />
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Lopes and The Pipe Companion book both have this one wrong. I'll change it later, just giving a heads up why, it's actually a tobacconist called Au Pacha de Nancy, they're actually still there, although it looks like a souvenir shop now. I have a picture of the Diana pipe somewhere. It's nuts. The steed is rearing because there's some kind of demonic hellhound trying to eat it, it's a pipe with a lot going on, lol.<br />
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::Thanks for letting me know! Yes, please do correct it! And it would be great to have that picture as part of it if you can find it...<br />
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::I've run into several inaccuracies with Lopes. It's a great book, and a huge blessing that he put it together, but you can't trust the entries without pulling up some additional corroborative sources. Thanks for keeping an eye out! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 20:01, 9 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Sure, just one I've ogled before. And it's confusing, there were like 11 Au Pachas, even the Europeans have it wrong. I put the picture up. She should probably find a different hunting spot. I didn't mention it, either, but the Nashville museum closed, Dr. Sarunas "Sharkey" Peckus is the last known owner of this one, along with an incredible number of historically important meerschaums I'd like to have. He co-wrote the Rappaport porcelain pipe book. Never met or met anyone who has met him, but his collection is ridiculous. Got the big award in Chicago in '09. <br />
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Have a great one! --[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 10:50, 10 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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::Fantastic to have that straightened out, along with the photo! Thanks! That's a good example of the crazy rats nest of information out there when it comes to pipes! I'm in Nashville a lot, and tried to track that museum down at one point when I found it had been closed down. Too bad. That's a great little book, though! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 11:02, 10 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Lopes ==--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 18:51, 27 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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I don't have the book myself, only bits and pieces, but if you have it scanned and want to send me a chunk I'll share the effort. <br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 10:21, 12 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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:That's a wonderful offer, Chris, thanks! Just sent you an E-mail... It's been interesting, but more than a bit daunting. Couple other similar projects to do at some point too, and they may prove even more challenging! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 12:52, 12 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Haven't disappeared, just swamped with work for the last couple of weeks, don't worry, lol. <br />
--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 18:51, 27 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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:Great to hear from you! No Problem! That's going to happen to me too come July... Hand in there! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 18:56, 27 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Mark Stewart ==<br />
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Hey, Scott, you may be in your crazy period, I'm just coming out of mine I think Monday. In the meantime, I sadly learned yesterday that Mark Stewart, who went by periqueguy on the forums, has passed away. I don't know if you and he were acquainted, I only knew him a very little from his posts myself. He doesn't have a page here, but I'm going to go ahead and add one, and note him as a broken pipe. Wanted to bring it to your attention in case there's a process to that I don't know, and just for the sad sake of it all.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 14:41, 17 July 2015 (CDT)<br />
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:Very sorry to hear about Mark. Yes, by all means, please add an article on him. Any information about him and his work would be great! I only knew him from the forum, but very sad to hear he is no longer with us...<br />
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:I'm on a trip now and will head into a very busy time at work when I get back... Was fun to have some focused time on Pipedia, and it kept me from going nuts during the early part of recovery! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 22:50, 17 July 2015 (CDT)i<br />
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Travel safe. Don't worry, I'll step up the effort now that you're back in fighting shape and under constant demand again, lol.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 05:25, 18 July 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Where does the time go... ==<br />
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Looks like you're dealing with some real fun lately, sorry I've been so absent. Still haven't quite wrapped my head around the best way to start attacking the PSE, but stop in now like daily to start before something catches fire at work. Figured I should at least let you know I'm alive, and empathizing.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 16:36, 16 August 2015 (CDT)<br />
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:Great to hear from you, Chris! Thanks for checking in... Yes, the idea of diving into to the PSE project is daunting!! No pressure on that or other work here! It's great to have your help, and I totally understand that other things must take priority. Speaking of that, I've been back to work at the university for 2 weeks. The semester starts Tuesday.. And I have also been trying to get some pipes made for an upcoming show in Columbus. I miss the more focused time with things here I had for a while, but still dip an oar in now and then, and generally keep an eye on things... It's great to know it's here waiting for us when we have time to do it! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 18:19, 16 August 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Weird dead link. ==<br />
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This page is impossible to link properly for some highly technical reason that's beyond me. Shows up blank when you link it anywhere. Shame, it's a good article.<br />
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http://pipedia.org/wiki/Good-Bye_Cigarettes,_Hello_Pipe!</div>Flatticushttps://pipedia.org/index.php?title=Sellars_Made_Briar_Pipes&diff=22843Sellars Made Briar Pipes2015-10-15T08:56:14Z<p>Flatticus: </p>
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<div>[[File:Tim and Dana Sellars.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Tim and Dana Sellars]] Sellars Made Briar Pipes is the company of Tim and Dana Sellars, a husband and wife team of pipe makers from Eastern Tennessee. Among other designs their work include the Cobra, Ballerina and Devil Anse shapes, and a finish called Smoky Mountain Red Oak. Tim focuses on carving and shaping the pipes while Dana concentrates on finishing. <br />
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<div>As per my other suggestion, perhaps it would be better to completely remove the Marks/Logo page altogether and just have a link at the bottom of each Brand/Maker's page to the Pipephil website for that particular Brand or Maker? --[[User:Frank|Frank]] - 3/26/09<br />
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: Sure, that would work fine too. The advantage of the Marks/Logo page, assuming it were to get flushed out eventually, is for situations where someone is trying to identify a pipe with some sort of logo without knowing the maker. Regardless, I think relevant off site links should be added at the bottom of each article directly. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 15:41, 26 March 2009 (CDT)<br />
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:: Lacking a Name Stamp, being able to identify a pipe from it's Logo alone would be useful. Pipephil does have a means of searching with criteria such as a Star or an Anchor or a Dot, etc., but it is lacking a couple of such criteria to search by, last I checked.--[[User:Frank|Frank]] - 3/26/09<br />
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Scott, Earlier on I checked on that item in Cyrillic that you deleted. I found a translation, and it is pipe related..--[[User:Frank|Frank]] - 4/13/09<br />
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:Thanks, Frank! I put it back. I wondered about that.. I was a little on the delete button ;) --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 21:18, 13 April 2009 (CDT)<br />
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== Notice for you ==<br />
This thing needs a bit of scouring just to make it palatable to educated folk! C'mon, this is just lazy. I say "c'mon" because this is the talk page. The entry itself ought to be perfectly written, not sounding like a letter to a dopey pal in Wisconsin!Thundersnow 00:08, 10 May 2010 (UTC)--A direct quote off the Tobacco page. It really needs work, that.[[User:Thundersnow|Thundersnow]] 00:10, 10 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== Bridge Too Far? ==<br />
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QUOTE FROM ME: "Hello Eric, Thanks for your work on the Tobacco article. Yes, it does need a lot of work! Also, it would be great if you can help with the Savinellis article. In short, whatever you have time for would be most welcome in deed--I really appreciate your help! All the best, --sethile 01:28, 11 May 2010 (UTC) [....]<br />
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Uhm, I do not know any Eric except an old colleague. And I must say that it is just plain wrong to try to do that to a contributor who wished to remain known by username. And by the way, I am Rev. Antonio Hernandez.Thundersnow 03:13, 12 May 2010 (UTC)"<br />
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Well, thanks a lot for this unwanted headache.[[User:Thundersnow|Thundersnow]] 03:15, 12 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:Since the email address (EricBlair@disciples.com), which you publicly posted, gave the name as Eric Blair, it was an understandable mistake on Scott's part, as he could hardly be aware that you use someone elses email address. I believe he was only trying to be friendly on a first name basis. Accusing him of "outing" you in such a heartless manner is a mean thing to do, since he obviously did not do it to deliberately "expose" you.<br />
:As you obviously aren't aware of the tremendous scope of this website, let me enlighten you of the fact that the vast majority of the design, information and contributions have been due to Scott's hard work. Furthermore, he is always extremely appreciative of corrections and contributions to the website.<br />
:Considering that you don't even know one iota about Scott, I find your jumping to conclusions about him offensive in the extreme. I also find your tone and attitude particularly rude and belligerent, especially as you claim to be a man of the cloth. - [[User:Frank|Frank]] 07:37, 12 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:: Thanks Frank! For what it's worth I apologized on his user talk, but apparently that was not what Thundersnow was after. He has elected to deprive us of his presence and help for the present. All the best, --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 23:17, 14 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== QuestyCaptcha not working? ==<br />
<br />
Hi,<br />
<br />
I operate a wiki and I was going to install QuestyCaptcha. Can I ask, does your Aug 14th note about spam mean your Apr 13th installation of QuestyCaptcha isn't working?<br />
<br />
Are the bots responding correctly to both questions or just one? (The "''What is this wiki's name?''" question is probably very common, so spambots might be configured to always stick in the wiki's name when confronted with QuestyCaptcha) If they're getting both questions right, then I guess a human actually took the time to note your questions and the correct answers, so adding a few dozen new questions is probably what's necessary.<br />
<br />
I'd be very interested to hear more about the problem. Thanks. [[User:Ciaran|Ciaran]] 15:51, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
<br />
: I'm not sure the bots responded to either question... It may just be my QuestyCaptcha configuration needs more tweaking. I installed it when I had a bunch of spam that appeared to use humans to make registered users in spite of using ReCaptcha (about 5 to 10 per day), and than that info seemed to be plugged into bots that used the registration information to spam. QuestyCaptcha shut that attack down. I had some new bot yesterday that was not spamming links, just junk. Looked like maybe it attempted to put in links and when it hit QuestyCaptcha it created new articles without links, or was deleting existing content and replacing it with a line like "Great post" or something similar. Apparently edits without links does not trigger QuestyCaptcha due to my settings.<br />
<br />
:It may be I can tighten up my QuestyCaptcha settings to catch this new stuff too. Haven't had time to play with it much. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 16:20, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
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::I've been reading the docs:<br />
::* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:QuestyCaptcha<br />
::* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit#QuestyCaptcha<br />
::* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ConfirmEdit_Test_Plan<br />
::... and the comments in the source code.<br />
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::If you want all edits to require passing a captcha, change "false" to "true" in this line of ''nameofwiki/extensions/ConfirmEdit/ConfirmEdit.php'':<br />
:: $wgCaptchaTriggers['edit'] = false; // Would check on every edit<br />
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::I haven't tried it out yet, but it seems you can exempt logged in users from the captchas by setting:<br />
::$wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['skipcaptcha'] = true;<br />
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::Or logged in users who've confirmed their email address by setting these to ''true'' in ConfirmEdit.php:<br />
:: $wgGroupPermissions['emailconfirmed']['skipcaptcha'] = true;<br />
:: $ceAllowConfirmedEmail = true;<br />
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::Thanks for the quick reply. I think I'll go ahead and install Questy for my wiki. [[User:Ciaran|Ciaran]] 16:59, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
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::: Thanks for the links! I've poored over those same docs too, but it's been a while. I changed the settings to allow anonymous edits again, but they will all trigger Questy while users will bypass it. To create an account triggers it though. That should take care of the bulk of the problems I've been having while still allowing anonymous edits. I guess we'll see! <br />
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:::How did your Questy install go? --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 21:03, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
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Hi. I only got it installed three days ago. (I don't have direct access to the server.)<br />
<br />
To my great surprise, I'm still getting two or three spam edits per day: [http://en.swpat.org/wiki?title=Special:RecentChanges&hidebots=0] !<br />
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I'm baffled. I've searched the Internet extensively and I can't find anyone else saying that spam gets past QuestyCaptcha. I think I'll mention this on the mediawiki.org site. [[User:Ciaran|Ciaran]] 17:48, 3 September 2011 (CDT)<br />
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:My situation here seems to have stabilized for the present, although I had a new user and subsequent spam hit yesterday, but only one, and that was the first since I tweaked my Questy settings. It was different than most of the ones I've had in the past. I think it was a human... Your experience and my recent hit may mean the humans that were hired to work ReCaptcha implementations are now working on Questy sites. That makes some sense. I don't think it's possible to set up a captcha of any kind that will defend against humans without also severely limiting your potential contributions ;(<br />
<br />
:BTW, I hope your efforts against the Patent Trolls and other insanity with software patents proves fruitful. I heard a very interesting piece on NPR a month or so ago. Sounds like a completely out of control mess! I had no idea... --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 21:07, 3 September 2011 (CDT)<br />
<br />
== Gloredo ==<br />
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Dear Sethile<br />
You recieved like me a mail from these "other Gloredo" people.<br />
In my opinion there is no serious evidence for their activity in pipe making. <br />
The so called "Trademark Registration Certificate" you certainely got too has no value for me. I have to do with Chinese students and I know their degree certificate or diplom are sometimes "home made". <br />
<br />
And for fun I made a little faux of this certificate changing "Gloredo" by "Dunhill"<br />
[http://www.pipephil.eu/pics/gloredo-pipephil.jpg see here]<br />
see also my comment in the gloredo's Talk.<br />
I think at least the two gloredos should appear on the GLOREDO page<br />
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: Yes, I agree, and I responded in the Gloredo's talk as well. Regardless of the current status of the brand there is no reason not to include its history, which is way it is relevant... --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 09:38, 11 December 2012 (CST)<br />
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:: But there are TWO gloredos apparently. I think this should be clear in the article, no ?<br />
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::: OK, yes, I think I've got it now... I thought it was a buyout of some kind at first. What a mess!<br />
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== Removal of Link==<br />
<br />
Why did you remove my link on the health effects of smoking cigars and pipes? It was a link to WebMD, a well respected source for medical info. [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 08:05, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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: Hello Laughing Buddha. Thanks for you input. While WebMD has a lot of good medical information, this particular article was typical of the medical literature that attempts to lump pipes and cigars in with cigarettes by establishing the idea that all forms of tobacco are evil. This article allowed for some minor differences, which is better than some articles, but there remains in it a number of well documented inaccuracies typical of the medical literature. If you are really interested in this subject you could read through some of the other material we have linked too. <br />
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:In return, I would like to ask you why you linked to the article. I note that it is your one and only contribution to Pipedia, made shortly after you registered. My guess is your not really interested in pipes, but are just against tobacco. This wiki is for those of us who are interested in pipes and pipe smoking. Our take of this issue is going to be more nuanced than one would typically expect of the general public. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 08:39, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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::I have mixed feelings about pipe smoking because I used smoke pipes on and off for 15 years. I have three Savinellis, two Nordings and one Dr. Grabow to prove it. Also, my favorite tobacco brand was Peter Stockkebye's. Unfortunately, I eventually became addicted and smoked so often that I was staining my teeth and burning my mouth. Also, my dentist repeatedly warned me of the dental problems associated with pipe smoking including mouth cancer, so I stopped, which was very difficult for me. (However, I recently noticed England's "Pipe Smoker of the Year" list on Wikipedia. Many of them lived past 70. I found this very confusing.)<br />
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::I noticed your section titled Pipe Smoking Health and perused through it. It seemed to lack emphasis on the health hazards of pipe smoking. I sincerely believe pipe smokers should smoke with their eyes wide open with respect to the information on the health hazards of smoking and for that reason I added the WebMD link. By the way, I was planning to make other contributions that had nothing to do with health-related issues but my conscience would have bothered me had I not added information to the health section first. <br />
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::Even though the health hazards of smoking scare the hell out of me, I still love admiring the craftsmanship and artistry of pipes themselves. I can't tell you how many hours I've spent looking at pics of pipes on the internet. It's like porn for me. [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 18:37, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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:::Thanks very much for your reply. I'm glad to hear you're not anti tobacco and are just genuinely concerned about the risks. Pipe smoking certainly involves some increased health risk, but it has been greatly over exaggerated in the main stream health media, which tends to lump us all in with cigarette smokers. We have a slight increase risk for mouth and lip cancer, but that is very rare and to even slightly increase ones risk for them would involve smoking many more pipes per day than is typical of your average pipe smoker. Most pipe smokers do not inhale, which elevates nearly all the main risks associated with cigarette smoking. They also tend to smoke much less. <br />
<br />
:::The WebMD article has one statement that is completely false and very misleading, "...research shows that cigar and pipe smoking is every bit as dangerous as cigarette smoking, and possibly even more dangerous". That is a ridiculous claim. They don't even attempt to back that up, or cite the research they refer to. Unless I am very much mistaken, there is no viable research that would even come close to supporting that statement. <br />
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:::I think it would be great to freshen up the Pipe Smoking Health area, but this is an issue that involves a great deal of misinformation from otherwise credible sources so it's going to be tough to pull off. For instance, there is a great deal of legitimate criticism with regards to the integrity of the research on the dangers associated with 2nd hand smoke, and that is seldom if ever reported in the main stream health media. BTW, none of that research differentiates between cigarettes and other forms of tobacco smoke, which typically contain much fewer chemical additives, burning paper, and other impurities associated with 2nd hand cigarette smoke.<br />
<br />
:::I hope you will do some more research. You mentioned being surprised at the older pipe smokers that were cited in the Pipe Smoker of Year list. I've heard of one study that indicates moderate pipe smokers that do not inhale actually live slightly longer on average than non-smokers. I have not followed up on that to verify it yet, but that is certainly supported by my own anecdotal observations and pipe smoking can certainly reduce stress.<br />
<br />
:::If in your research you would like to freshen up the Pipe Smoking Health article here on Pipedia, I would greatly appreciate it. It's even OK to link to articles such as the WebMD article you had linked too earlier, but it would be appropriate to point out any obvious flaws with the article if you do. Thanks again for your reply. I look forward to your contributions on this or other areas of Pipedia that may be of interest. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 22:33, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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::::Thanks, your response strikes me as very reasonable. By the way, would you happen to have a link on the information you mentioned about the longevity of pipe smokers? I'd be very interested in reading it. [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 08:15, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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:::::It apparently refers back to the original 1964 Surgeon General's report. Here is an interesting and fairly written [http://www.meerschaumstore.com/health.htm article by Mark Beale, MD] that mentions it as well as some other interesting and relevant information that rings credible to me, at least.<br />
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::::::Thanks [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 14:34, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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==New Question==<br />
What's the difference between an estate pipe and a conventional pipe? [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 12:34, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
:Nothing, really. Used or previously owned pipes have come to be known as Estate pipes. They can either be smoked or unsmoked and still qualify. They can be cheap or expensive, and still qualify, and they can come from an English Lord's estate, or picked up off of a dying bum on the street. It just sounds better. I guess like previously owned cars versus used cars ;) --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 12:41, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
::Thanks [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 14:34, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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== Tanzania/Tanganyika ==<br />
<br />
Saw you're working on african meerschaum a bit, figured I'd throw what I could into the ring. <br />
<br />
No expert, but I think the way it went on these is that Amboseli wasn't a pipe company, it's the name of one of the african meerschaum mines, the one that closed in Tanzania in 2006. I realize pipephil disagrees on that one. Tanganyika Meerchaum Corporation, LTD was founded in December 1955 in Kenya with nominal capital of 50,000 pounds. The internet will tell you they later moved from there to Arusha, Tanzania, which is both a city and also the region containing the Amboseli mines, when they trademarked their logo in September '68. That's actually wrong. The registered agent for TMC, Ltd. in 1955 wasn't in Kenya, it was in Tanga, Tanganyika. However, at the time, these were colonies, and joint ones. Stamps actually said "kenya, uganda, tanganyika" on them and were valid in all three. So they were always in Arusha. They owned Kilimanjaro and Kiko. Also Townsman, Countryman, a bunch of lines. However, as the mines are now closed, TMC, Ltd. is technically now owned by STAMICO, a wholly owned government enterprise under the tanzanian ministry of energy and minerals. <br />
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At some point the Tanzanian pipes were being listed in the Charles S. Loeb catalog, as Kikos and Kilimanjaros, not sure if they bought TMC, Ltd. or licensed the pipes from them. <br />
<br />
The other mine that produced meerschaum was in Somalia, from Eilbur/El Burr, where somalis have made meerschaum incense burners for centuries. Apparently this block was cut into stummels and sold in its entirety to Laxey/Manx straight from Somalia, and is no longer available since Somalia fell apart. When you see a smooth african meerschaum, it's my understanding you're looking at somalian block.<br />
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Do with that what you will.<br />
<br />
Chris<br />
--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 20:59, 25 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
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:Wow, that's interesting, thanks, Chris! Kind of hard to know what to put where, but I'll take a stab at sorting that out when I get a chance... It's not unusual to have difficult to sort out histories in pipedom, along with the occasional controversy surrounding them ;) --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 19:52, 26 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
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No doubt. At least it doesn't take a flowchart like Comoy/GBD/Chacom and such.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 13:19, 28 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Photo question ==<br />
<br />
Was curious, and I probably missed it in the help, but is there a preferred size for photos? I need to get around to finally taking some, figured it couldn't hurt to grab some nomenclature snaps and such.<br />
<br />
Chris<br />
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:Somewhere between 600 and 1000 pixels wide seems to be a good range. By using thumbnails and/or gallery spots in the articles we can accommodate a nice fit with the context while still allowing for full sized images when they're clicked on. Takes a while to get the hang of how that works, but I'll be happy to help if you hit any snags.<br />
<br />
:It would be great to have more pics of nomenclature, and anything else you think relevant. It's great to see all your work in new and existing articles. Thanks very much for your help, Chris! Scott --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 15:42, 28 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
<br />
Thanks, I'm learning a heck of a lot, too.<br />
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Chris<br />
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<br />
Changes do, indeed, look seamless. Everything seems to be working and displaying perfectly. How unusual, lol.<br />
<br />
Chris<br />
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::Great! Yes, my son, John [[User talk:Gilrain]] has pretty amazing skills with the back end stuff! Even with that I was surprised he pulled off this transition seemingly without a hitch. Still, you never know! Please let us know if you happen into anything. And thanks as always for all your excellent work! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 06:51, 12 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Saw you had to revert some of the changes to the Turks, hope I hadn't crossed any wires. No changes but mine while you were gone.<br />
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::I accidentally reverted your changes somehow and than reverted them back! Not sure how that happened. Sorry for any confusion. If anything is still messed up please put it back to how you had it... Thanks for keeping such a good eye on things!--[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 19:08, 17 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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No worries. And I'm just in the habit of checking "recent changes" so I happened to notice it, lol. Glad to see you're back in the saddle.<br />
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Chris --[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 19:13, 17 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
<br />
== Glossary Addition? ==<br />
<br />
What do you think about adding a glossary link to the main page. I'll get it started on the basics, and see if it grows. Nothing fancy, mostly to help new guys I'd suppose. <br />
<br />
--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 09:44, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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:Yes!! That's a great idea, Chris!! We have a fast growing population of new pipe smokers using the site, and I think your glossary idea would be a fantastic resource to them! <br />
<br />
:If you have something to work from already, or want to build it from scratch, that would be great, but if you want to save some development time we could build it from this one at smokingpipes: http://www.smokingpipes.com/smokingpipesblog/glossary.cfm and build our version out from there. If we use theirs to start we just need to make sure to credit them and link back to their version. Either way works great for me! Thanks for the fantastic idea and willingness to tackle it! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 10:03, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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I did one for Reddit at some point, I probably still have it around, and if not it goes pretty quick, but SP does have a good one, I'll check it out again. Threw up a blank page to start working on, I'll let it fill up a bit and then add a link.<br />
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:Perfect, thanks, Chris! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 10:39, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 10:13, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Grabow Shapes ==<br />
Hope it's kosher, working with RJ McKay to get a linkman's era grabow shape chart put together, you'll see the recent changes/uploads. he has an enormous amount of info that shouldn't go to waste. Still working on the glossary, but I do love my linkman's.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 16:06, 24 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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::Yes! The new shape chart stuff looks great! I love getting that kind of material included when we still have access to it! Lost a lot of great stuff from a very knowledgeable Kaywoodie collector a few years ago and have never let myself forget it. We've got to nail that stuff down while we still have the expertise available! Good work, Chris! Thanks! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 16:19, 24 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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<br />
Didn't know that about Svend Hangaard, very cool!<br />
::I though so too! I'm having a lot of fun while recovering from surgery. Can't make pipes yet, but I can sure enjoy researching and working on Pipedia! Great work on the Glossary, btw! That is really coming together nicely! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 20:42, 2 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
<br />
Thanks! Shouldn't be too long now. Hope the recovery goes well and quickly.<br />
<br />
== Glossary ==<br />
<br />
Still working on the glossary, but I think it's big enough to let people have at it. Where should I link it?<br />
<br />
--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 18:38, 4 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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:: Yes, it is looking great! Definitely ready to start linking it places. I need to spend a little time cleaning up some inathctive links on the left nav bar first, and then link it there. Also the mobile responsive version of that, which my son will have to do for us. I think also from the main page, which also needs some updating at this point. I'll get after the nav bar tomorrow morning. Do you have any other ideas? --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 22:22, 4 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
<br />
Thanks, Scott, a few. I've been trying to learn about blending for a bit, and I've been thinking about some tools to help with that. If I knew how to make a flow chart I'd have done that already. Sort of a "you want to add sweet to a blend?" Then add this kind of thing. Either combined with or similar to some thoughts on tasting as well. And I've definitely been slacking on a bunch of meerschaum stuff. Like an "Is this pressed?" page with photos. I have a pressed meer around here somewhere I can show some differences with. I have a buddy who I think has written an estate pipe buyer's guide or started to, and if not I'll probably put together some kind of "things to look out for" page at some point. Also thought about talking some people into putting a topic of pipe pondering they're interested in down on paper. Like the Dutch Pipe Smoker, Arno, for example, his knowledge is pretty incredible. And of course there are still bunches of wanted pages and pipe mysteries to explore. Good thing I find all of this stuff so fascinating! Plus, I've been ogling a lot of new photos. Great stuff. Hope the recuperation goes well!<br />
<br />
Chris<br />
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::Your Glossary is now linked from the nav bar, as well as the main page. This is great! It will be great to keep developing it, but it's already extremely helpful! Thanks very much for pulling that together. <br />
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::Blending information sounds like an excellent direction, and some kind of flow chart graphic or narrative on how to tweak flavor elements would be very helpful! Timely topic for me too. I have done a very limited amount of tweaking existing blends, and want to do more. In part, I have some tobacco growing. Too early to tell if it will make it all the way to harvest, but I'm growing Nadole (a variety of Kentucky Dark), and also some Burley (can't remember the variety). Incidentally, Kentucky Dark can be air cured, as well as fire cured. It is likely related to Burley, but is different than Burley. It's darker, and the leaves tend to be smaller, and it generally has a higher nicotine content. We live in the heart of the Black Patch region of Western KY, where Kentucky Dark is growing all around us here. Had to give it a try! If it makes it through the harvest and a bit of air curing process, I'll also try to fire some of it, but haven't figured out how to pull that off yet on a scale that will work for just a few plants. Build a very little barn of some kind, I guess!<br />
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::Have often wanted to see more on Meers! That would be great too, and an estate pipe buyers guide would be fantastic!<br />
<br />
::Let me know if you see anywhere else to link the Glossary that might be helpful, or please feel free to link at will when you notice a good spot. Thanks so much for all your work and ideas. It's an amazing help and encouragement! <br />
<br />
::Recovery is going better than I thought. And, it's great to have some time to play with Pipedia, which has also really helped me to keep from going crazy while I can't do much physically! Incidentally, recovering from a much more minor surgery is how I cam up with Pipedia in the first place! Thanks again, Chirs! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 07:48, 5 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Glad to hear it. And fascinated by the growing, that's my next leap, but I live on the surface of the sun apparently here in South Florida, so gardening has its own issues. For now I'll at least keep trying to catch when I run across a word that may need explaining and try to link from there, but not to the degree wikipedia does it. And I'll have to think about how to fire cure in miniature, but I bet you could flue cure the heck out of it with a barbecue smoker and a dog house with vents, lol. And I love doing this stuff, only in small part because of how much I learned here, but you're very welcome. There has never been a resource like this for smokers. Ever. <br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 09:25, 5 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Just noticed the banner ads on the complete corncob primer are blank. You're probably aware, but just in case.<br />
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cc<br />
--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 20:00, 8 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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::Interesting. I was not aware of that and just checked. They were showing up fine for me. And they showed up on my phone and tablet too. Had my wife check on her computer and they did not show! Turns out she uses an add blocker. When she switched it off, presto, there they were! Interesting in that it was only catching the Missouri Meerschaum ones and not ones for the other underwriters in terms of stuff in content, but all of them were blocked in the top and bottom positions that are part of the skin... So, my big question is, do you have add blocking enabled on your browser? Bet so...<br />
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::Pretty sure the reason the add blocker was catching the Missouri Meerschaum banners in content like that and not other underwriters was that the MM banners had "AD" in the file name, and the others did not. I changed the file names, but my wife's add blocker still caught them. I suspect the images themselves are now recognized by the add blocker independent of the file name. <br />
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::Thanks for the heads up on this, Chris! Very interesting! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 22:10, 8 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Just saw this. And yes, I have adblock enabled. Nice detective work, lol.<br />
<br />
--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 06:54, 10 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Au Pacha ==<br />
<br />
Lopes and The Pipe Companion book both have this one wrong. I'll change it later, just giving a heads up why, it's actually a tobacconist called Au Pacha de Nancy, they're actually still there, although it looks like a souvenir shop now. I have a picture of the Diana pipe somewhere. It's nuts. The steed is rearing because there's some kind of demonic hellhound trying to eat it, it's a pipe with a lot going on, lol.<br />
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::Thanks for letting me know! Yes, please do correct it! And it would be great to have that picture as part of it if you can find it...<br />
<br />
::I've run into several inaccuracies with Lopes. It's a great book, and a huge blessing that he put it together, but you can't trust the entries without pulling up some additional corroborative sources. Thanks for keeping an eye out! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 20:01, 9 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Sure, just one I've ogled before. And it's confusing, there were like 11 Au Pachas, even the Europeans have it wrong. I put the picture up. She should probably find a different hunting spot. I didn't mention it, either, but the Nashville museum closed, Dr. Sarunas "Sharkey" Peckus is the last known owner of this one, along with an incredible number of historically important meerschaums I'd like to have. He co-wrote the Rappaport porcelain pipe book. Never met or met anyone who has met him, but his collection is ridiculous. Got the big award in Chicago in '09. <br />
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Have a great one! --[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 10:50, 10 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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::Fantastic to have that straightened out, along with the photo! Thanks! That's a good example of the crazy rats nest of information out there when it comes to pipes! I'm in Nashville a lot, and tried to track that museum down at one point when I found it had been closed down. Too bad. That's a great little book, though! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 11:02, 10 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Lopes ==--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 18:51, 27 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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I don't have the book myself, only bits and pieces, but if you have it scanned and want to send me a chunk I'll share the effort. <br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 10:21, 12 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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:That's a wonderful offer, Chris, thanks! Just sent you an E-mail... It's been interesting, but more than a bit daunting. Couple other similar projects to do at some point too, and they may prove even more challenging! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 12:52, 12 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Haven't disappeared, just swamped with work for the last couple of weeks, don't worry, lol. <br />
--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 18:51, 27 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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:Great to hear from you! No Problem! That's going to happen to me too come July... Hand in there! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 18:56, 27 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
<br />
== Mark Stewart ==<br />
<br />
Hey, Scott, you may be in your crazy period, I'm just coming out of mine I think Monday. In the meantime, I sadly learned yesterday that Mark Stewart, who went by periqueguy on the forums, has passed away. I don't know if you and he were acquainted, I only knew him a very little from his posts myself. He doesn't have a page here, but I'm going to go ahead and add one, and note him as a broken pipe. Wanted to bring it to your attention in case there's a process to that I don't know, and just for the sad sake of it all.<br />
<br />
--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 14:41, 17 July 2015 (CDT)<br />
<br />
:Very sorry to hear about Mark. Yes, by all means, please add an article on him. Any information about him and his work would be great! I only knew him from the forum, but very sad to hear he is no longer with us...<br />
<br />
:I'm on a trip now and will head into a very busy time at work when I get back... Was fun to have some focused time on Pipedia, and it kept me from going nuts during the early part of recovery! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 22:50, 17 July 2015 (CDT)i<br />
<br />
Travel safe. Don't worry, I'll step up the effort now that you're back in fighting shape and under constant demand again, lol.<br />
<br />
--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 05:25, 18 July 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Where does the time go... ==<br />
<br />
Looks like you're dealing with some real fun lately, sorry I've been so absent. Still haven't quite wrapped my head around the best way to start attacking the PSE, but stop in now like daily to start before something catches fire at work. Figured I should at least let you know I'm alive, and empathizing.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 16:36, 16 August 2015 (CDT)</div>Flatticushttps://pipedia.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Sethile&diff=22588User talk:Sethile2015-07-18T10:25:14Z<p>Flatticus: /* Mark Stewart */</p>
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<div>As per my other suggestion, perhaps it would be better to completely remove the Marks/Logo page altogether and just have a link at the bottom of each Brand/Maker's page to the Pipephil website for that particular Brand or Maker? --[[User:Frank|Frank]] - 3/26/09<br />
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: Sure, that would work fine too. The advantage of the Marks/Logo page, assuming it were to get flushed out eventually, is for situations where someone is trying to identify a pipe with some sort of logo without knowing the maker. Regardless, I think relevant off site links should be added at the bottom of each article directly. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 15:41, 26 March 2009 (CDT)<br />
<br />
:: Lacking a Name Stamp, being able to identify a pipe from it's Logo alone would be useful. Pipephil does have a means of searching with criteria such as a Star or an Anchor or a Dot, etc., but it is lacking a couple of such criteria to search by, last I checked.--[[User:Frank|Frank]] - 3/26/09<br />
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Scott, Earlier on I checked on that item in Cyrillic that you deleted. I found a translation, and it is pipe related..--[[User:Frank|Frank]] - 4/13/09<br />
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:Thanks, Frank! I put it back. I wondered about that.. I was a little on the delete button ;) --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 21:18, 13 April 2009 (CDT)<br />
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== Notice for you ==<br />
This thing needs a bit of scouring just to make it palatable to educated folk! C'mon, this is just lazy. I say "c'mon" because this is the talk page. The entry itself ought to be perfectly written, not sounding like a letter to a dopey pal in Wisconsin!Thundersnow 00:08, 10 May 2010 (UTC)--A direct quote off the Tobacco page. It really needs work, that.[[User:Thundersnow|Thundersnow]] 00:10, 10 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== Bridge Too Far? ==<br />
<br />
QUOTE FROM ME: "Hello Eric, Thanks for your work on the Tobacco article. Yes, it does need a lot of work! Also, it would be great if you can help with the Savinellis article. In short, whatever you have time for would be most welcome in deed--I really appreciate your help! All the best, --sethile 01:28, 11 May 2010 (UTC) [....]<br />
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Uhm, I do not know any Eric except an old colleague. And I must say that it is just plain wrong to try to do that to a contributor who wished to remain known by username. And by the way, I am Rev. Antonio Hernandez.Thundersnow 03:13, 12 May 2010 (UTC)"<br />
<br />
Well, thanks a lot for this unwanted headache.[[User:Thundersnow|Thundersnow]] 03:15, 12 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
<br />
:Since the email address (EricBlair@disciples.com), which you publicly posted, gave the name as Eric Blair, it was an understandable mistake on Scott's part, as he could hardly be aware that you use someone elses email address. I believe he was only trying to be friendly on a first name basis. Accusing him of "outing" you in such a heartless manner is a mean thing to do, since he obviously did not do it to deliberately "expose" you.<br />
:As you obviously aren't aware of the tremendous scope of this website, let me enlighten you of the fact that the vast majority of the design, information and contributions have been due to Scott's hard work. Furthermore, he is always extremely appreciative of corrections and contributions to the website.<br />
:Considering that you don't even know one iota about Scott, I find your jumping to conclusions about him offensive in the extreme. I also find your tone and attitude particularly rude and belligerent, especially as you claim to be a man of the cloth. - [[User:Frank|Frank]] 07:37, 12 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:: Thanks Frank! For what it's worth I apologized on his user talk, but apparently that was not what Thundersnow was after. He has elected to deprive us of his presence and help for the present. All the best, --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 23:17, 14 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== QuestyCaptcha not working? ==<br />
<br />
Hi,<br />
<br />
I operate a wiki and I was going to install QuestyCaptcha. Can I ask, does your Aug 14th note about spam mean your Apr 13th installation of QuestyCaptcha isn't working?<br />
<br />
Are the bots responding correctly to both questions or just one? (The "''What is this wiki's name?''" question is probably very common, so spambots might be configured to always stick in the wiki's name when confronted with QuestyCaptcha) If they're getting both questions right, then I guess a human actually took the time to note your questions and the correct answers, so adding a few dozen new questions is probably what's necessary.<br />
<br />
I'd be very interested to hear more about the problem. Thanks. [[User:Ciaran|Ciaran]] 15:51, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
<br />
: I'm not sure the bots responded to either question... It may just be my QuestyCaptcha configuration needs more tweaking. I installed it when I had a bunch of spam that appeared to use humans to make registered users in spite of using ReCaptcha (about 5 to 10 per day), and than that info seemed to be plugged into bots that used the registration information to spam. QuestyCaptcha shut that attack down. I had some new bot yesterday that was not spamming links, just junk. Looked like maybe it attempted to put in links and when it hit QuestyCaptcha it created new articles without links, or was deleting existing content and replacing it with a line like "Great post" or something similar. Apparently edits without links does not trigger QuestyCaptcha due to my settings.<br />
<br />
:It may be I can tighten up my QuestyCaptcha settings to catch this new stuff too. Haven't had time to play with it much. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 16:20, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
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::I've been reading the docs:<br />
::* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:QuestyCaptcha<br />
::* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit#QuestyCaptcha<br />
::* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ConfirmEdit_Test_Plan<br />
::... and the comments in the source code.<br />
<br />
::If you want all edits to require passing a captcha, change "false" to "true" in this line of ''nameofwiki/extensions/ConfirmEdit/ConfirmEdit.php'':<br />
:: $wgCaptchaTriggers['edit'] = false; // Would check on every edit<br />
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::I haven't tried it out yet, but it seems you can exempt logged in users from the captchas by setting:<br />
::$wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['skipcaptcha'] = true;<br />
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::Or logged in users who've confirmed their email address by setting these to ''true'' in ConfirmEdit.php:<br />
:: $wgGroupPermissions['emailconfirmed']['skipcaptcha'] = true;<br />
:: $ceAllowConfirmedEmail = true;<br />
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::Thanks for the quick reply. I think I'll go ahead and install Questy for my wiki. [[User:Ciaran|Ciaran]] 16:59, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
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::: Thanks for the links! I've poored over those same docs too, but it's been a while. I changed the settings to allow anonymous edits again, but they will all trigger Questy while users will bypass it. To create an account triggers it though. That should take care of the bulk of the problems I've been having while still allowing anonymous edits. I guess we'll see! <br />
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:::How did your Questy install go? --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 21:03, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
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Hi. I only got it installed three days ago. (I don't have direct access to the server.)<br />
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To my great surprise, I'm still getting two or three spam edits per day: [http://en.swpat.org/wiki?title=Special:RecentChanges&hidebots=0] !<br />
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I'm baffled. I've searched the Internet extensively and I can't find anyone else saying that spam gets past QuestyCaptcha. I think I'll mention this on the mediawiki.org site. [[User:Ciaran|Ciaran]] 17:48, 3 September 2011 (CDT)<br />
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:My situation here seems to have stabilized for the present, although I had a new user and subsequent spam hit yesterday, but only one, and that was the first since I tweaked my Questy settings. It was different than most of the ones I've had in the past. I think it was a human... Your experience and my recent hit may mean the humans that were hired to work ReCaptcha implementations are now working on Questy sites. That makes some sense. I don't think it's possible to set up a captcha of any kind that will defend against humans without also severely limiting your potential contributions ;(<br />
<br />
:BTW, I hope your efforts against the Patent Trolls and other insanity with software patents proves fruitful. I heard a very interesting piece on NPR a month or so ago. Sounds like a completely out of control mess! I had no idea... --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 21:07, 3 September 2011 (CDT)<br />
<br />
== Gloredo ==<br />
<br />
Dear Sethile<br />
You recieved like me a mail from these "other Gloredo" people.<br />
In my opinion there is no serious evidence for their activity in pipe making. <br />
The so called "Trademark Registration Certificate" you certainely got too has no value for me. I have to do with Chinese students and I know their degree certificate or diplom are sometimes "home made". <br />
<br />
And for fun I made a little faux of this certificate changing "Gloredo" by "Dunhill"<br />
[http://www.pipephil.eu/pics/gloredo-pipephil.jpg see here]<br />
see also my comment in the gloredo's Talk.<br />
I think at least the two gloredos should appear on the GLOREDO page<br />
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: Yes, I agree, and I responded in the Gloredo's talk as well. Regardless of the current status of the brand there is no reason not to include its history, which is way it is relevant... --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 09:38, 11 December 2012 (CST)<br />
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:: But there are TWO gloredos apparently. I think this should be clear in the article, no ?<br />
<br />
::: OK, yes, I think I've got it now... I thought it was a buyout of some kind at first. What a mess!<br />
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== Removal of Link==<br />
<br />
Why did you remove my link on the health effects of smoking cigars and pipes? It was a link to WebMD, a well respected source for medical info. [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 08:05, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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: Hello Laughing Buddha. Thanks for you input. While WebMD has a lot of good medical information, this particular article was typical of the medical literature that attempts to lump pipes and cigars in with cigarettes by establishing the idea that all forms of tobacco are evil. This article allowed for some minor differences, which is better than some articles, but there remains in it a number of well documented inaccuracies typical of the medical literature. If you are really interested in this subject you could read through some of the other material we have linked too. <br />
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:In return, I would like to ask you why you linked to the article. I note that it is your one and only contribution to Pipedia, made shortly after you registered. My guess is your not really interested in pipes, but are just against tobacco. This wiki is for those of us who are interested in pipes and pipe smoking. Our take of this issue is going to be more nuanced than one would typically expect of the general public. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 08:39, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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::I have mixed feelings about pipe smoking because I used smoke pipes on and off for 15 years. I have three Savinellis, two Nordings and one Dr. Grabow to prove it. Also, my favorite tobacco brand was Peter Stockkebye's. Unfortunately, I eventually became addicted and smoked so often that I was staining my teeth and burning my mouth. Also, my dentist repeatedly warned me of the dental problems associated with pipe smoking including mouth cancer, so I stopped, which was very difficult for me. (However, I recently noticed England's "Pipe Smoker of the Year" list on Wikipedia. Many of them lived past 70. I found this very confusing.)<br />
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::I noticed your section titled Pipe Smoking Health and perused through it. It seemed to lack emphasis on the health hazards of pipe smoking. I sincerely believe pipe smokers should smoke with their eyes wide open with respect to the information on the health hazards of smoking and for that reason I added the WebMD link. By the way, I was planning to make other contributions that had nothing to do with health-related issues but my conscience would have bothered me had I not added information to the health section first. <br />
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::Even though the health hazards of smoking scare the hell out of me, I still love admiring the craftsmanship and artistry of pipes themselves. I can't tell you how many hours I've spent looking at pics of pipes on the internet. It's like porn for me. [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 18:37, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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:::Thanks very much for your reply. I'm glad to hear you're not anti tobacco and are just genuinely concerned about the risks. Pipe smoking certainly involves some increased health risk, but it has been greatly over exaggerated in the main stream health media, which tends to lump us all in with cigarette smokers. We have a slight increase risk for mouth and lip cancer, but that is very rare and to even slightly increase ones risk for them would involve smoking many more pipes per day than is typical of your average pipe smoker. Most pipe smokers do not inhale, which elevates nearly all the main risks associated with cigarette smoking. They also tend to smoke much less. <br />
<br />
:::The WebMD article has one statement that is completely false and very misleading, "...research shows that cigar and pipe smoking is every bit as dangerous as cigarette smoking, and possibly even more dangerous". That is a ridiculous claim. They don't even attempt to back that up, or cite the research they refer to. Unless I am very much mistaken, there is no viable research that would even come close to supporting that statement. <br />
<br />
:::I think it would be great to freshen up the Pipe Smoking Health area, but this is an issue that involves a great deal of misinformation from otherwise credible sources so it's going to be tough to pull off. For instance, there is a great deal of legitimate criticism with regards to the integrity of the research on the dangers associated with 2nd hand smoke, and that is seldom if ever reported in the main stream health media. BTW, none of that research differentiates between cigarettes and other forms of tobacco smoke, which typically contain much fewer chemical additives, burning paper, and other impurities associated with 2nd hand cigarette smoke.<br />
<br />
:::I hope you will do some more research. You mentioned being surprised at the older pipe smokers that were cited in the Pipe Smoker of Year list. I've heard of one study that indicates moderate pipe smokers that do not inhale actually live slightly longer on average than non-smokers. I have not followed up on that to verify it yet, but that is certainly supported by my own anecdotal observations and pipe smoking can certainly reduce stress.<br />
<br />
:::If in your research you would like to freshen up the Pipe Smoking Health article here on Pipedia, I would greatly appreciate it. It's even OK to link to articles such as the WebMD article you had linked too earlier, but it would be appropriate to point out any obvious flaws with the article if you do. Thanks again for your reply. I look forward to your contributions on this or other areas of Pipedia that may be of interest. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 22:33, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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::::Thanks, your response strikes me as very reasonable. By the way, would you happen to have a link on the information you mentioned about the longevity of pipe smokers? I'd be very interested in reading it. [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 08:15, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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:::::It apparently refers back to the original 1964 Surgeon General's report. Here is an interesting and fairly written [http://www.meerschaumstore.com/health.htm article by Mark Beale, MD] that mentions it as well as some other interesting and relevant information that rings credible to me, at least.<br />
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::::::Thanks [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 14:34, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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==New Question==<br />
What's the difference between an estate pipe and a conventional pipe? [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 12:34, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
:Nothing, really. Used or previously owned pipes have come to be known as Estate pipes. They can either be smoked or unsmoked and still qualify. They can be cheap or expensive, and still qualify, and they can come from an English Lord's estate, or picked up off of a dying bum on the street. It just sounds better. I guess like previously owned cars versus used cars ;) --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 12:41, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
::Thanks [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 14:34, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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== Tanzania/Tanganyika ==<br />
<br />
Saw you're working on african meerschaum a bit, figured I'd throw what I could into the ring. <br />
<br />
No expert, but I think the way it went on these is that Amboseli wasn't a pipe company, it's the name of one of the african meerschaum mines, the one that closed in Tanzania in 2006. I realize pipephil disagrees on that one. Tanganyika Meerchaum Corporation, LTD was founded in December 1955 in Kenya with nominal capital of 50,000 pounds. The internet will tell you they later moved from there to Arusha, Tanzania, which is both a city and also the region containing the Amboseli mines, when they trademarked their logo in September '68. That's actually wrong. The registered agent for TMC, Ltd. in 1955 wasn't in Kenya, it was in Tanga, Tanganyika. However, at the time, these were colonies, and joint ones. Stamps actually said "kenya, uganda, tanganyika" on them and were valid in all three. So they were always in Arusha. They owned Kilimanjaro and Kiko. Also Townsman, Countryman, a bunch of lines. However, as the mines are now closed, TMC, Ltd. is technically now owned by STAMICO, a wholly owned government enterprise under the tanzanian ministry of energy and minerals. <br />
<br />
At some point the Tanzanian pipes were being listed in the Charles S. Loeb catalog, as Kikos and Kilimanjaros, not sure if they bought TMC, Ltd. or licensed the pipes from them. <br />
<br />
The other mine that produced meerschaum was in Somalia, from Eilbur/El Burr, where somalis have made meerschaum incense burners for centuries. Apparently this block was cut into stummels and sold in its entirety to Laxey/Manx straight from Somalia, and is no longer available since Somalia fell apart. When you see a smooth african meerschaum, it's my understanding you're looking at somalian block.<br />
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Do with that what you will.<br />
<br />
Chris<br />
--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 20:59, 25 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
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:Wow, that's interesting, thanks, Chris! Kind of hard to know what to put where, but I'll take a stab at sorting that out when I get a chance... It's not unusual to have difficult to sort out histories in pipedom, along with the occasional controversy surrounding them ;) --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 19:52, 26 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
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No doubt. At least it doesn't take a flowchart like Comoy/GBD/Chacom and such.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 13:19, 28 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
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== Photo question ==<br />
<br />
Was curious, and I probably missed it in the help, but is there a preferred size for photos? I need to get around to finally taking some, figured it couldn't hurt to grab some nomenclature snaps and such.<br />
<br />
Chris<br />
<br />
:Somewhere between 600 and 1000 pixels wide seems to be a good range. By using thumbnails and/or gallery spots in the articles we can accommodate a nice fit with the context while still allowing for full sized images when they're clicked on. Takes a while to get the hang of how that works, but I'll be happy to help if you hit any snags.<br />
<br />
:It would be great to have more pics of nomenclature, and anything else you think relevant. It's great to see all your work in new and existing articles. Thanks very much for your help, Chris! Scott --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 15:42, 28 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
<br />
Thanks, I'm learning a heck of a lot, too.<br />
<br />
Chris<br />
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<br />
Changes do, indeed, look seamless. Everything seems to be working and displaying perfectly. How unusual, lol.<br />
<br />
Chris<br />
<br />
::Great! Yes, my son, John [[User talk:Gilrain]] has pretty amazing skills with the back end stuff! Even with that I was surprised he pulled off this transition seemingly without a hitch. Still, you never know! Please let us know if you happen into anything. And thanks as always for all your excellent work! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 06:51, 12 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Saw you had to revert some of the changes to the Turks, hope I hadn't crossed any wires. No changes but mine while you were gone.<br />
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::I accidentally reverted your changes somehow and than reverted them back! Not sure how that happened. Sorry for any confusion. If anything is still messed up please put it back to how you had it... Thanks for keeping such a good eye on things!--[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 19:08, 17 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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No worries. And I'm just in the habit of checking "recent changes" so I happened to notice it, lol. Glad to see you're back in the saddle.<br />
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Chris --[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 19:13, 17 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Glossary Addition? ==<br />
<br />
What do you think about adding a glossary link to the main page. I'll get it started on the basics, and see if it grows. Nothing fancy, mostly to help new guys I'd suppose. <br />
<br />
--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 09:44, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
<br />
:Yes!! That's a great idea, Chris!! We have a fast growing population of new pipe smokers using the site, and I think your glossary idea would be a fantastic resource to them! <br />
<br />
:If you have something to work from already, or want to build it from scratch, that would be great, but if you want to save some development time we could build it from this one at smokingpipes: http://www.smokingpipes.com/smokingpipesblog/glossary.cfm and build our version out from there. If we use theirs to start we just need to make sure to credit them and link back to their version. Either way works great for me! Thanks for the fantastic idea and willingness to tackle it! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 10:03, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
<br />
I did one for Reddit at some point, I probably still have it around, and if not it goes pretty quick, but SP does have a good one, I'll check it out again. Threw up a blank page to start working on, I'll let it fill up a bit and then add a link.<br />
<br />
:Perfect, thanks, Chris! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 10:39, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 10:13, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Grabow Shapes ==<br />
Hope it's kosher, working with RJ McKay to get a linkman's era grabow shape chart put together, you'll see the recent changes/uploads. he has an enormous amount of info that shouldn't go to waste. Still working on the glossary, but I do love my linkman's.<br />
<br />
--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 16:06, 24 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
<br />
::Yes! The new shape chart stuff looks great! I love getting that kind of material included when we still have access to it! Lost a lot of great stuff from a very knowledgeable Kaywoodie collector a few years ago and have never let myself forget it. We've got to nail that stuff down while we still have the expertise available! Good work, Chris! Thanks! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 16:19, 24 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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<br />
Didn't know that about Svend Hangaard, very cool!<br />
::I though so too! I'm having a lot of fun while recovering from surgery. Can't make pipes yet, but I can sure enjoy researching and working on Pipedia! Great work on the Glossary, btw! That is really coming together nicely! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 20:42, 2 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Thanks! Shouldn't be too long now. Hope the recovery goes well and quickly.<br />
<br />
== Glossary ==<br />
<br />
Still working on the glossary, but I think it's big enough to let people have at it. Where should I link it?<br />
<br />
--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 18:38, 4 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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:: Yes, it is looking great! Definitely ready to start linking it places. I need to spend a little time cleaning up some inathctive links on the left nav bar first, and then link it there. Also the mobile responsive version of that, which my son will have to do for us. I think also from the main page, which also needs some updating at this point. I'll get after the nav bar tomorrow morning. Do you have any other ideas? --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 22:22, 4 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Thanks, Scott, a few. I've been trying to learn about blending for a bit, and I've been thinking about some tools to help with that. If I knew how to make a flow chart I'd have done that already. Sort of a "you want to add sweet to a blend?" Then add this kind of thing. Either combined with or similar to some thoughts on tasting as well. And I've definitely been slacking on a bunch of meerschaum stuff. Like an "Is this pressed?" page with photos. I have a pressed meer around here somewhere I can show some differences with. I have a buddy who I think has written an estate pipe buyer's guide or started to, and if not I'll probably put together some kind of "things to look out for" page at some point. Also thought about talking some people into putting a topic of pipe pondering they're interested in down on paper. Like the Dutch Pipe Smoker, Arno, for example, his knowledge is pretty incredible. And of course there are still bunches of wanted pages and pipe mysteries to explore. Good thing I find all of this stuff so fascinating! Plus, I've been ogling a lot of new photos. Great stuff. Hope the recuperation goes well!<br />
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Chris<br />
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::Your Glossary is now linked from the nav bar, as well as the main page. This is great! It will be great to keep developing it, but it's already extremely helpful! Thanks very much for pulling that together. <br />
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::Blending information sounds like an excellent direction, and some kind of flow chart graphic or narrative on how to tweak flavor elements would be very helpful! Timely topic for me too. I have done a very limited amount of tweaking existing blends, and want to do more. In part, I have some tobacco growing. Too early to tell if it will make it all the way to harvest, but I'm growing Nadole (a variety of Kentucky Dark), and also some Burley (can't remember the variety). Incidentally, Kentucky Dark can be air cured, as well as fire cured. It is likely related to Burley, but is different than Burley. It's darker, and the leaves tend to be smaller, and it generally has a higher nicotine content. We live in the heart of the Black Patch region of Western KY, where Kentucky Dark is growing all around us here. Had to give it a try! If it makes it through the harvest and a bit of air curing process, I'll also try to fire some of it, but haven't figured out how to pull that off yet on a scale that will work for just a few plants. Build a very little barn of some kind, I guess!<br />
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::Have often wanted to see more on Meers! That would be great too, and an estate pipe buyers guide would be fantastic!<br />
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::Let me know if you see anywhere else to link the Glossary that might be helpful, or please feel free to link at will when you notice a good spot. Thanks so much for all your work and ideas. It's an amazing help and encouragement! <br />
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::Recovery is going better than I thought. And, it's great to have some time to play with Pipedia, which has also really helped me to keep from going crazy while I can't do much physically! Incidentally, recovering from a much more minor surgery is how I cam up with Pipedia in the first place! Thanks again, Chirs! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 07:48, 5 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Glad to hear it. And fascinated by the growing, that's my next leap, but I live on the surface of the sun apparently here in South Florida, so gardening has its own issues. For now I'll at least keep trying to catch when I run across a word that may need explaining and try to link from there, but not to the degree wikipedia does it. And I'll have to think about how to fire cure in miniature, but I bet you could flue cure the heck out of it with a barbecue smoker and a dog house with vents, lol. And I love doing this stuff, only in small part because of how much I learned here, but you're very welcome. There has never been a resource like this for smokers. Ever. <br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 09:25, 5 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Just noticed the banner ads on the complete corncob primer are blank. You're probably aware, but just in case.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 20:00, 8 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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::Interesting. I was not aware of that and just checked. They were showing up fine for me. And they showed up on my phone and tablet too. Had my wife check on her computer and they did not show! Turns out she uses an add blocker. When she switched it off, presto, there they were! Interesting in that it was only catching the Missouri Meerschaum ones and not ones for the other underwriters in terms of stuff in content, but all of them were blocked in the top and bottom positions that are part of the skin... So, my big question is, do you have add blocking enabled on your browser? Bet so...<br />
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::Pretty sure the reason the add blocker was catching the Missouri Meerschaum banners in content like that and not other underwriters was that the MM banners had "AD" in the file name, and the others did not. I changed the file names, but my wife's add blocker still caught them. I suspect the images themselves are now recognized by the add blocker independent of the file name. <br />
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::Thanks for the heads up on this, Chris! Very interesting! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 22:10, 8 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Just saw this. And yes, I have adblock enabled. Nice detective work, lol.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 06:54, 10 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Au Pacha ==<br />
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Lopes and The Pipe Companion book both have this one wrong. I'll change it later, just giving a heads up why, it's actually a tobacconist called Au Pacha de Nancy, they're actually still there, although it looks like a souvenir shop now. I have a picture of the Diana pipe somewhere. It's nuts. The steed is rearing because there's some kind of demonic hellhound trying to eat it, it's a pipe with a lot going on, lol.<br />
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::Thanks for letting me know! Yes, please do correct it! And it would be great to have that picture as part of it if you can find it...<br />
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::I've run into several inaccuracies with Lopes. It's a great book, and a huge blessing that he put it together, but you can't trust the entries without pulling up some additional corroborative sources. Thanks for keeping an eye out! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 20:01, 9 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Sure, just one I've ogled before. And it's confusing, there were like 11 Au Pachas, even the Europeans have it wrong. I put the picture up. She should probably find a different hunting spot. I didn't mention it, either, but the Nashville museum closed, Dr. Sarunas "Sharkey" Peckus is the last known owner of this one, along with an incredible number of historically important meerschaums I'd like to have. He co-wrote the Rappaport porcelain pipe book. Never met or met anyone who has met him, but his collection is ridiculous. Got the big award in Chicago in '09. <br />
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Have a great one! --[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 10:50, 10 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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::Fantastic to have that straightened out, along with the photo! Thanks! That's a good example of the crazy rats nest of information out there when it comes to pipes! I'm in Nashville a lot, and tried to track that museum down at one point when I found it had been closed down. Too bad. That's a great little book, though! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 11:02, 10 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Lopes ==--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 18:51, 27 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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I don't have the book myself, only bits and pieces, but if you have it scanned and want to send me a chunk I'll share the effort. <br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 10:21, 12 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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:That's a wonderful offer, Chris, thanks! Just sent you an E-mail... It's been interesting, but more than a bit daunting. Couple other similar projects to do at some point too, and they may prove even more challenging! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 12:52, 12 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Haven't disappeared, just swamped with work for the last couple of weeks, don't worry, lol. <br />
--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 18:51, 27 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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:Great to hear from you! No Problem! That's going to happen to me too come July... Hand in there! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 18:56, 27 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Mark Stewart ==<br />
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Hey, Scott, you may be in your crazy period, I'm just coming out of mine I think Monday. In the meantime, I sadly learned yesterday that Mark Stewart, who went by periqueguy on the forums, has passed away. I don't know if you and he were acquainted, I only knew him a very little from his posts myself. He doesn't have a page here, but I'm going to go ahead and add one, and note him as a broken pipe. Wanted to bring it to your attention in case there's a process to that I don't know, and just for the sad sake of it all.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 14:41, 17 July 2015 (CDT)<br />
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:Very sorry to hear about Mark. Yes, by all means, please add an article on him. Any information about him and his work would be great! I only knew him from the forum, but very sad to hear he is no longer with us...<br />
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:I'm on a trip now and will head into a very busy time at work when I get back... Was fun to have some focused time on Pipedia, and it kept me from going nuts during the early part of recovery! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 22:50, 17 July 2015 (CDT)i<br />
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Travel safe. Don't worry, I'll step up the effort now that you're back in fighting shape and under constant demand again, lol.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 05:25, 18 July 2015 (CDT)</div>Flatticushttps://pipedia.org/index.php?title=American_Pipe_Brands_%26_Makers_L_-_M&diff=22584American Pipe Brands & Makers L - M2015-07-17T20:01:24Z<p>Flatticus: </p>
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|'''[[Laird]]'''||Ted Laird; Brooklyn Park, MN<br />
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|'''[[Lakatosh]]'''||John Lakatosh; New Columbia, PA<br />
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|'''[[Lamb Pipes]]'''||Ken Lamb, amateur pipe maker, tooling, and cabinets; <br />
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|'''Lark'''||Brand from [[M. Linkman & Co.]], connected to [[Dr. Grabow]], from the same maker<br />
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|'''[[Larsen]]'''||Wally Larsen (†); St. Paul, MN. See '''[[Senlar]]'''.<br />
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|'''[[LaRue]]'''||Travor LaRue (†) & Chuck Whitmore; Langley (Whidbey Island), WA. See '''[[Whidbey Islander Pipes]]'''.<br />
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|'''[[Laughingmoon Pipes]]'''||Robert Vacher; Litchfield, CA.<br />
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|'''[[Layton Pipes]]'''||Clark Layton; Pennsylvania.<br />
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|'''[[Lazy S Pipes]]'''||'''[[R.C. Sands]]'''; Reynoldsburg, OH<br />
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|'''[[LDG]]'''||Larry D. '''[[Goff]]<br />
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|'''[[Learned]]'''||Samuel Learned; York, PA.<br />
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|'''[[Leedy]]'''||Tom Leedy; Clayton, OH. <br />
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|'''[[Lee]]'''||Lee; New York City. <br />
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|'''[[Leese]]'''||Jack Leese; New York City. See '''[[Air-Vent]]'''.<br />
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|'''[[Ledone]]'''||Lucille and Ralph Ledone; Appleton, WI<br />
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|'''Leonessa'''||Inexpensive brand by [[James Norman Ltd.]]<br />
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|'''[[LePeltier]]'''||LePeltier Pipes; East Fairfield, VT<br />
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|'''Levin, Barry'''||see [[LPI]]<br />
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|'''[[Lewis]]'''||Rich Lewis; Minneapolis, MN<br />
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|'''[[LHS]]'''||L. & H. Stern Pipe Making Company; Brooklyn, NY<br />
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|'''[[Ligne Bretagne]]'''||Brand of hand finished pipes by [[Trever Talbert]]<br />
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|'''[[Light]]'''||Dennis Light; Toledo, OH<br />
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|'''[[Lindner]]'''||Michael Lindner; Rochester Hills, MI<br />
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|'''[[M. Linkman & Co.|Linkman]]'''||'''[[M. Linkman & Co.]]''' (MLC); Chicago, IL.<br />
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|'''[[Lips Pipeworks]]'''||Thomas J. Lips; Portland, OR<br />
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|'''[[Steve Liskey]]'''||San Bernadino, CA<br />
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|'''[[LOG]]'''||???<br />
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|'''[[Longrie]]'''||Earl J. Longrie; Milwaukee, WI. 1930's<br />
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|'''[[Lord Davenport Pipes]]'''||Lord Davenport Pipes Ltd.; New York City. Known from the 1940's.<br />
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|'''[[Loscalzo Pipes]]'''||Craig A. Loscalzo; Lexington, KY.<br />
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|'''Lou, Don'''||See [[Don-Lou]]; Brooklyn, NY<br />
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|'''[[Lou's]]'''||'''[[Lou's Tobacco Bar]]''', Madison, WI.<br />
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|'''[[LPI]]'''||Barry Levin († 1994); ? VT<br />
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|'''[[Lucky H Pipes]]'''||Chris L. Hendrick; Pearland, TX.<br />
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|'''[[Luna Pipes]]'''||Tom Johnson, Bothell (Seattle), WA.<br />
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|'''[[Lynch]]'''||O.E. Lynch<br />
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|'''[[Lyon Pipe]]||Lyon, Chas. H., b.1862, d.1947 s.1920; Salt Lake City, UT<br />
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|'''[[M. Linkman & Co.]]'''||MLC; Chicago, IL<br />
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|'''[[M.E. Stone Pipes]]'''||M.E. Stone<br />
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|'''M&L'''||[[Moss & Lowenhaupt]]<br />
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|'''[[Mack]]'''||Tom Mack; pipes in oak, walnut, and cherry<br />
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|'''[[Malaga Pipe Company]]'''||Also mentioned as '''Malaga Briarworks'''. G. Khoubesser (1939), Emanual "Manny" Khoubesser. Royal Oak, MI.<br />
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|'''[[Manges]]'''||Rick Manges; Midland, MI<br />
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|'''[[Manhattan Briar Pipe Co.]]'''||See '''[[S.M. Frank]]'''.<br />
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|'''[[Marchetti Pipes]]'''||Phil DeFant; Brooklyn, MI.<br />
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|'''Margroum, Jim'''||'''see [[Mr. Groum]]'''; Hanover, PA<br />
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|'''[[Mariner]]'''||Joe Mariner (ret.); Napa, CA<br />
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|'''[[Mark Stewart]]'''||Mark Stewart († 2015); Brevard, North Carolina (www.pipecraft.org, now closed)<br />
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|'''[[Markle, Ernie]]'''||'''[[Ernie Markle Pipes]]'''; Scottsdale, AZ<br />
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|'''[[Marks]]'''||Andrew Marks; Middlebury, VT<br />
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|'''Maro'''||Brand of [[Hollco International]]<br />
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|'''Martin, Sam'''||'''see [[Sam Martin]]''' († 1992); Little Rock, AR<br />
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|'''Martin, Thomas'''||'''See [[TM Pipes]]'''; Beverly, MA.<br />
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|'''[[Martin Pipe Company]]'''||Hal Silverstein († 2003)<br />
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|'''[[Marxman]]'''||Robert L. Marx († 1992); New York City<br />
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|'''[[Masterbilt]]'''|| ?? e.g., rustic billiard ~Custombilt, supreme on stem<br />
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|'''[[Mastercraft]]'''||Robert L. Marx († 1992); New York City<br />
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|'''[[Matt Van Pipes]]'''||Matt Van; Chokoloskee, Florida<br />
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|'''[[Mayflower]]'''||'''[[National Briar Pipe Co.]]'''; Jersey City, NJ.<br />
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|'''[[McBride]]'''||Mac McBride (ret./† ?); ?, CA<br />
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|'''McArris'''||Brand made for [[McCranie's]] by [[Ashton]]<br />
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|'''[[McCranie's]]'''||Made by [[Ashton]]<br />
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|'''McCranie Pipes'''||Private label brand of [[McCranie's]]; Charlotte, NC. Made by Tonino [[Jacono]] and Bill [[Ashton]]-Taylor.<br />
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|'''[[McCravey]]'''||W.L. McCravey (ret./† ?); Sunnyside, WA<br />
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|'''[[McGuire]]'''||? McGuire (ret./† ?)<br />
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|'''[[Anima Pipes|McNulty, Brian]]'''||Brian McNulty; Culver City, CA., '''[[Anima Pipes]]'''<br />
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|'''[[Medico]]'''||'''[[S.M. Frank]]'''; Peekskill, NY<br />
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|'''[[Mehaffey]]'''||E.A. Mehaffey; Wheaton, MD<br />
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|'''[[MelloPure]]'''||Dr. Harry Paine<br />
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|'''Melrose'''||'''[[Kaufman Brothers & Bondy]]'''; New York City.<br />
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|'''[[Andre Mermet|Mermet]]'''||'''[[Andre Mermet]]'''; New York City, New York & San Francisco, CA<br />
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|'''[[Jimmy Mermet]]'''||San Francisco, CA<br />
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|'''[[Mesa Woodsman]]'''||Hugo Mesa (ret./† ?)<br />
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|'''[[Mickles]]'''||Clarence Mickles (†), Park Forest, IL<br />
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|'''[[Micoli]]'''||Robert Eugene "Mic" Burns (ret.), Long Beach, CA<br />
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|'''[[Milan Bros.]]'''||Roanoke, Virginia<br />
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|'''Milano'''||Brand from the 1930s belonging to [[William Demuth Company]] Possibly in partnership with [[Savinelli]]<br />
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|'''[[Milton]]'''||Herb Milton (ret./† ?); Margate, FL<br />
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|'''[[Mincer]]'''||Tracy Mincer († 1966). Custom-Bilt, The Doodler. Indianapolis, IN.<br />
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|'''[[Missouri Meerschaum]]'''||Missouri Meerschaum Company; Washington, MO<br />
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|'''[[Mission Briar]]'''||Brand created in 1941 using Manzanita wood, due to difficulty in getting briar.<br />
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|'''[[Mock]]'''||Don Mock (†)<br />
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|'''[[Monarch]]'''|| Monarch Pipe Co. Tulsa Ok.<br />
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|'''Monstrosity Pipes'''||See [[Olie Sylvester]]; Atlanta, GA <br />
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|'''[[Montgomery]] Handmade Pipes'''||Jeremiah W. Montgomery; Hollidaysburg, PA<br />
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|'''[[Moonshine Pipes]]'''||Jonathan Lavezzo; Charlottesville, Virginia<br />
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|'''[[Morgan Pipes]]'''||Chris Morgan; San Jose, CA<br />
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|'''[[Morrisette, Steve]]'''||Steve Morrisette; Nashville, Tennessee<br />
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|'''Moss & Lowenhaupt'''||Factory based in St. Louis, their machinery bought by Jack Hamburg Jr. of [[Jack's Handmade Pipes]]<br />
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|'''[[Mr. Groum]]'''||James H. Margroum (†); Hanover, PA<br />
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|'''[[Mr. Paul's Pipes]]'''||Paul Speaks (ret./† ?); Baltimore, MD. <br />
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|'''Mr. Paul's Pipes'''||Lopes states it is a division of Action Industries, Inc, and that Paul Gourley also signs his pipes Mr. Paul.<br />
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|'''[[Murado]]'''||John Murado<br />
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'''Back to''' [[American Pipe Brands & Makers I - K]] '''or continue to''' [[American Pipe Brands & Makers N - Q]] '''!'''</div>Flatticushttps://pipedia.org/index.php?title=American_Pipe_Brands_%26_Makers_R_-_S&diff=22583American Pipe Brands & Makers R - S2015-07-17T20:00:48Z<p>Flatticus: </p>
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|'''[[R. Quagliata Pipes]]'''||Ryan Quagliata; ?, TX<br />
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|'''[[R. Ubben Pipes]]'''||Randolph Ubben; New Milford, CT<br />
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|'''[[R.A. Ward Pipes]]'''||Robert A. Ward<br />
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|'''[[R.C. Sands]]'''||R. Chuck Sands, Reynoldsburg, OH<br />
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|'''[[R.G. Freehand Pipes]]'''||Robert Gebbie; Vancouver, WA.<br />
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|'''[[R.M. Perkins Pipes]]'''||Robert M. Perkins; Houston, TX<br />
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|'''[[Ram's Horn]]'''||Sidney P. Ram; Chicago, IL, and possibly CA<br />
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|'''[[Rampart]]'''||"Rampart by Dancol"<br />
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|'''[[Random's Pipes]]'''||"Random"; Wilmington, DE<br />
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|'''[[Rainey]]'''||Jim Rainey<br />
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|'''Rakowski'''||see [[Tom Rakowski]], used '''Giotto''' and known mostly for his tampers<br />
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|'''[[Random]]'''||Woodland Park, CO, active in 2002 - 2005<br />
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|'''[[Ray]]'''||Rob Ray (ret./† ?); Raleigh, NC<br />
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|'''[[Reco Manufacturing Co.]]'''||Reco Mfg. Co.; Chicago, IL<br />
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|'''Red Dot'''||North American brand from [[Whitehall]]<br />
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|'''[[Regal]]'''||Advertising pipes, made for Regal (pat. integral lighters)<br />
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|'''Regency'''||'''[[David Jones]]'''; Texarkana, TX<br />
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|'''[[Reiss-Premier Co.|Reiss-Premier Corporation]]'''||See also '''[[Kaufman Brothers & Bondy]]'''; New York City.<br />
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|'''Rembrandt'''||'''[[National Briar Pipe Co.]]'''; Jersey City, NJ.<br />
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|'''[[Remington Pipes]]'''||'''[[Adam Remington]]'''; Portland, OR.<br />
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|'''[[Renaissance Pipes]]'''||Thomas Bahder; Clarksville, MD<br />
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|'''Rettalb'''||Rettalb is a anagram of "Blatter" and hence Canadian! → '''[[Blatter & Blatter]]'''<br />
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|'''[[Rettke]]'''||J. Rettke, Washington MO, PAT. June 12 1962. The silver colored thumbscrew below the stem unscrews and is a 2⅜" corkscrew like device.<br />
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|'''[[Richard Hacker]]'''||Author and pipe collector, who designed pipes for some makers<br />
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|'''Ries'''||Brand produced by third parties for [[Iwan Ries & Co.]]<br />
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|'''Rinaldi'''||Jon Rinaldi; Sonoita, AZ. See '''[[J. Rinaldi Pipes]]'''.<br />
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|'''[[Rivendell Pipes]]'''||Levi Zurcher (ret./† ?); Flagstaff, AZ<br />
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|'''Robert Bannerman'''||Canadian artisan and former Clay Pipe factory (1875-84), located in New York state, USA<br />
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|'''[[Robertson]]'''||Thayne Robertson (ret./† ?); Boise, ID<br />
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|'''[[Rocky Briar]]'''||Rocky Briar, US Patent.<br />
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|'''[[Rodgers]]'''||Ben Rodgers - Pipe Shop; New York City<br />
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|'''[[Rodriguez]]'''||Tony Rodriguez<br />
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|'''[[Roger's Own]]'''||"Made in England" for '''London Pipe Shop'''; Los Angeles, CA.<br />
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|'''[[Rollar]]'''||Curt Rollar (ret. from pipemaking); Stroudsburg, PA<br />
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|'''Ronson'''||Brand of Ronson Corp., pipes with an aluminum shank<br />
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|'''Rosa, Rev. Raymond L.'''||[[Holy Smokes]]; Marlboro, MA<br />
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|'''[[Rose]]'''||Francis Rose; Culver City, CA<br />
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|'''[[Royal Meerschaum Pipe Co.]]'''||Meerschaum pipe company Started in 1970; Escondido, CA<br />
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|'''Roy Roger Webb'''||see [[Webb]]; Sevierville, TN<br />
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|'''Roughriders'''||See '''[[John Allen]]'''; Ipswich, MA.<br />
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|'''[[Roush]]'''||Larry Roush; Perrysburg, OH<br />
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|'''Royal Ascot'''||English brand of [[Duncan Briars]] sold in the US by [[Mastercraft]]<br />
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|'''[[Royal Court Pipes]]'''||Glen Court (ret./† ?); South Hadley, MA.<br />
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|'''Royal DeMuth'''||Brand of [[William Demuth Company]]<br />
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|'''Royal Duke'''||'''[[Continental Briar Pipe Co.]]'''; New York City. Also used in England by [[M. Linkman & Co.]], [[Comoy's]], and [[Hardcastle]]<br />
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|'''Royalton'''||Brand from [[M. Linkman & Co.]]<br />
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|'''[[Rudal]]'''||Trent Rudal; Danville, IL<br />
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|'''[[Russ Alan Pipes]]'''||Russ Alan; Greenville, RI<br />
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|'''[[Ruth]]'''||Dennis Ruth; Des Moines, IN<br />
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|'''Ruthenberg'''||Brian Ruthenberg; Fort Gratiot, MI. See '''[[Briar Art]]'''.<br />
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|'''RVW'''||Second brand of [[Randy Wiley]]<br />
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|'''[[Rylan Doyle Pipes]]'''||Rylan Doyle Bishop<br />
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|'''<font size="4">S</font>'''<br />
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|'''[[S&R Pipes]]'''||Stephen & Roswitha Anderson; Columbus, OH.<br />
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|'''[[S.E. Thile Pipes]]'''||Scott E. Thile; Murray, KY.<br />
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|'''[[S.M. Frank]]'''||S.M. Frank & Co. Inc.; Peekskill, NY.<br />
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|'''Samhara'''||[[Samhara Pipe Co.]], a 1940s brand<br />
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|'''Samson'''||'''[[Kaufman Brothers & Bondy]]'''; New York City.<br />
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|'''[[Sampson]]'''||Merrill G. Sampson (Aero-Kool, Spiral-Kool); Seattle, WA & Santa Monica, CA<br />
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|'''Sands'''||'''[[Jerry Sands]]'''; ?, NC<br />
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|'''Sands'''||'''[[R.C. Sands]]''' (Lazy S Pipes); Reynoldsburg, OH<br />
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|'''Sander'''||Sandor [[Herskovitz]]; Flushing, NY<br />
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|'''[[Saville]]'''||"Made in England" for G. A. '''[[Georgopulo]]'''; New York City.<br />
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|'''Schloemer'''||Mark „Evan“ Schloemer; Rozel, KS. See '''[[Evan Handmade Briars]]'''.<br />
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|'''[[Schoenleber]]'''||? Schoenleber; Newark, NJ<br />
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|'''[[Schoonmaker]]'''||Renny Schoonmaker; Clifton Park, NY.<br />
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|'''[[Schulte]]'''||Max Schulte (†); Springfield & Maplewood, NJ<br />
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|'''[[Scofield]]'''||Ben Scofield; Lancaster, PA<br />
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|'''Scott'''||Proprietary brand of H.R. Scott, a tobacconist formerly at 64 Exchange Place, New York City.<br />
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|'''[[Scottspipes]]'''||Scott Klein; Elk Grove Village, IL<br />
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|'''[[Seefeldt]]||Curt Seefeldt<br />
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|'''[[Sellars Made Briar Pipes]]'''||Tim Sellars; Tennessee<br />
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|'''[[Seman]]'''||Jim Seman; ?, OH<br />
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|'''[[Senlar]]'''||Wally Larsen (†); St. Paul, MN<br />
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|'''Seville'''||Brand of [[Mastercraft]], likely made in Italy<br />
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|'''[[Seymour]]'''||Major Allison J. Seymour; Valley City, ND<br />
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|'''[[Shalosky]]'''||Bill Shalosky; [http://www.smokershaven.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=640 Smoker’s Haven]; Columbus, OH<br />
|-<br />
|'''Shapiro'''||Joel Shapiro; Rancho Cordova, CA. See '''[[JS Pipes]]'''.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Sharp'''||Charles Sharp. See '''[[PipesMD Pipes]]'''.<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Shasteen]]'''||Jim Shasteen; TN<br />
|-<br />
|'''L.Shaw Pipes'''||Lehman Shaw; [http://lshawpipes.com]; Benton Harbor, MI<br />
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|'''[[Sheffield]]'''||Ed Sheffield<br />
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|'''[[Sherman]]'''||Martin Sherman; Little Silver, NJ.<br />
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|'''[[Shimon]]'''||Robert Shimon, amateur artisan who placed second in a Pipes & Tobacco Magazine contest<br />
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|'''[[ShureWood Pipes]]'''||Colin Rigsby; Arlington, TX.<br />
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|'''Silber'''||Art Silber - '''[[Cellini]]''' Pipe Shop; Chicago IL<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Silver Lining Briar]]'''||'''Silver Gray, Oregon<br />
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|'''Silver Mac Duff'''||'''[[Henry Leonard & Thomas Inc.]]''' for Penn Tobacco Co., Wilkes-Barre, PA<br />
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|'''Silverstein'''||Hal Silverstein († 2003). See '''[[Martin Pipe Company]]'''.<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Simmons]]'''||Scott Simmons<br />
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|'''Sir Charles'''||Charles Born of Bright Leaf Tobacconists; Wichita, KS<br />
|-<br />
|'''Sir Hubert'''||'''[[Weber Pipe Co.]]'''; Jersey City, NJ<br />
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|'''Sir John'''||Hargold Assoc., 1941<br />
|-<br />
|'''Sir Sheldon'''||'''[[National Briar Pipe Co.]]'''<br />
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|'''SK Pipes'''||Vic '''[[Steinhart]]''' & Mitch Kaufman; West Caldwell, NJ.<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Skoda Pipes]]'''||Joseph Skoda; Philmont, NY<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Smith, Dan]]'''||Dan Smith<br />
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|'''Smokestack'''||Brand by [[Altamira]]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Sohn, Hugo'''||Artisan who worked for [[Marxman]]<br />
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|'''Sovereign'''||Ron '''[[Pellegrini]]'''; Staten Island, NY.<br />
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|'''[[Sparta Industries]]'''||Makers of '''[[Dr. Grabow]]''' among others; Sparta, NC<br />
|-<br />
|'''Spell'''||Mark Spell. See '''[[Piedmont Briars]]'''.<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Spence Pipes]]'''||Taft Spence; Nashville, TN<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Souers]]'''||Dennys Souers; Columbus, OH<br />
|-<br />
|'''Southmont Pipe Company'''||Jeremiah W. '''[[Montgomery]]''', liquidated. Southmont (Johnstown), PA.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Spiral-Kool'''||Merrill G. '''[[Sampson]]'''; Seattle, WA & Santa Monica, CA<br />
|-<br />
|'''Squire'''||Brand by Alfred W. Brenninger in 1935, but made in Ireland by [[Peterson]]<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Stachowiak]]'''||Jerry Stachowiak (GJS); Buffalo, NY.<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Standing]]'''||???<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Stauffacher]]'''||Brad Stauffacher; Polo, IL<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Steinhart]]'''||Vic Steinhart; West Caldwell, NJ.<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Stephenson]]'''||Steve Stephenson, finalist in 2004 P&T Magazine Competition<br />
|-<br />
|'''Sterncrest'''||Inexpensive 1930s brand of [[LHS]]<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Steve Morrisette Pipes]]'''||Steve Morrisette; Nashville, Tennessee<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Stevenson, Alan]]'''||Alan Stevenson; Wausau, WI.<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Mark Stewart]]'''||Mark Stewart († 2015); Brevard, North Carolina (www.pipecraft.org, now closed)<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[STOA Briars]]'''||Todd M. Johnson; Nashville, TN.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Stone'''||'''[[M.E. Stone Pipes]]'''<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Storm]]'''||Frank R. Storm; Stacy, MN.<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Storm King]]'''||???<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Story]]'''||Robert Story († 1987); Cleveland, OH<br />
|-<br />
|'''Strano'''||'''[[Al Strano]]''' († 2000). Pipemaker of [[Wally Frank]] Ltd.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Strano'''|||'''[[Joe Strano]]''' (Northhampton Tobacconist); Ridgewood, NY.<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Straus]]'''||Straus Tobacconist; Cincinnati, OH<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Street Pipes]]'''||James Street; Englewood, CO.<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Strong]]'''||Jim Strong; Atlanta, GA.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Student Prince'''||Brand by [[Wally Frank]]<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Sturgill]]'''||Ken & Karen Sturgill (Ken's Wooden Wonders); Dayton, OH<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Stylebilt]]'''||??? e.g., Stylebilt 2 Dot Carved Oom Paul Estate Pipe rustic~Custombilt<br />
|-<br />
|'''Suffolk'''||Brand from [[Whitehall]] in England, and sold by Tyler & Co.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Sunday Cob'''||Sunday Cob Pipe Co., Washington, MO<br />
|-<br />
|'''Sven-Lar'''||Made by Michael V. '''[[Kabik]]'''.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Swanson'''||Bob Swanson; Fort Lauderdale, FL. See '''[[Perry White Pipes]]'''.<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Swift]]'''||Dick Swift; New York City<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Swinks]]'''||Swinks Smoke Shop; Franklin, OH.<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Olie Sylvester]]'''||Atlanta, GA<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
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'''Back to''' [[American Pipe Brands & Makers N - Q]] '''or continue to''' [[American Pipe Brands & Makers T - V]] '''!'''</div>Flatticushttps://pipedia.org/index.php?title=Mark_Stewart&diff=22582Mark Stewart2015-07-17T19:55:35Z<p>Flatticus: Created page with "Mark Stewart got his start in real estate in the Philadelphia area, financing, managing and developing substantial commercial real estate. During that time, he also launched..."</p>
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<div>Mark Stewart got his start in real estate in the Philadelphia area, financing, managing and developing substantial commercial real estate. During that time, he also launched Sports Management, Inc., through which he acted as a sports agent to some truly legendary names. After a his career, however, he retired to the mountains of Brevard, North Carolina and to a true passion of making and repairing pipes and being an active and much loved member of the pipe smoking community. Mr. Stewart blended Cornell & Diehl's ''Crooked Lane'' with the Tarlers, and repaired pipes for, among others, Bruce's Pipe Shop in Asheville, North Carolina. Mr. Stewart's history and skill is examined in the Spring, 2014 ''Pipes and Tobaccos'' Magazine in an article by Chuck Stanion titled "From high profile to high altitude" which may be read [http://pipesandtobaccosmagazine.com/2014/03/from-high-profile-to-high-altitude/ here.] Those who knew his pipes accepted no others.<br />
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Sadly Mark Stewart became a broken pipe on July 15, 2015, leaving behind a loving family and a community greatly feeling the loss. <br />
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[[Category: Pipe makers by nationality]]<br />
[[Category: United States]]</div>Flatticushttps://pipedia.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Sethile&diff=22581User talk:Sethile2015-07-17T19:41:04Z<p>Flatticus: /* Mark Stewart */ new section</p>
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<div>As per my other suggestion, perhaps it would be better to completely remove the Marks/Logo page altogether and just have a link at the bottom of each Brand/Maker's page to the Pipephil website for that particular Brand or Maker? --[[User:Frank|Frank]] - 3/26/09<br />
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: Sure, that would work fine too. The advantage of the Marks/Logo page, assuming it were to get flushed out eventually, is for situations where someone is trying to identify a pipe with some sort of logo without knowing the maker. Regardless, I think relevant off site links should be added at the bottom of each article directly. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 15:41, 26 March 2009 (CDT)<br />
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:: Lacking a Name Stamp, being able to identify a pipe from it's Logo alone would be useful. Pipephil does have a means of searching with criteria such as a Star or an Anchor or a Dot, etc., but it is lacking a couple of such criteria to search by, last I checked.--[[User:Frank|Frank]] - 3/26/09<br />
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Scott, Earlier on I checked on that item in Cyrillic that you deleted. I found a translation, and it is pipe related..--[[User:Frank|Frank]] - 4/13/09<br />
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:Thanks, Frank! I put it back. I wondered about that.. I was a little on the delete button ;) --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 21:18, 13 April 2009 (CDT)<br />
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== Notice for you ==<br />
This thing needs a bit of scouring just to make it palatable to educated folk! C'mon, this is just lazy. I say "c'mon" because this is the talk page. The entry itself ought to be perfectly written, not sounding like a letter to a dopey pal in Wisconsin!Thundersnow 00:08, 10 May 2010 (UTC)--A direct quote off the Tobacco page. It really needs work, that.[[User:Thundersnow|Thundersnow]] 00:10, 10 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== Bridge Too Far? ==<br />
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QUOTE FROM ME: "Hello Eric, Thanks for your work on the Tobacco article. Yes, it does need a lot of work! Also, it would be great if you can help with the Savinellis article. In short, whatever you have time for would be most welcome in deed--I really appreciate your help! All the best, --sethile 01:28, 11 May 2010 (UTC) [....]<br />
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Uhm, I do not know any Eric except an old colleague. And I must say that it is just plain wrong to try to do that to a contributor who wished to remain known by username. And by the way, I am Rev. Antonio Hernandez.Thundersnow 03:13, 12 May 2010 (UTC)"<br />
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Well, thanks a lot for this unwanted headache.[[User:Thundersnow|Thundersnow]] 03:15, 12 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:Since the email address (EricBlair@disciples.com), which you publicly posted, gave the name as Eric Blair, it was an understandable mistake on Scott's part, as he could hardly be aware that you use someone elses email address. I believe he was only trying to be friendly on a first name basis. Accusing him of "outing" you in such a heartless manner is a mean thing to do, since he obviously did not do it to deliberately "expose" you.<br />
:As you obviously aren't aware of the tremendous scope of this website, let me enlighten you of the fact that the vast majority of the design, information and contributions have been due to Scott's hard work. Furthermore, he is always extremely appreciative of corrections and contributions to the website.<br />
:Considering that you don't even know one iota about Scott, I find your jumping to conclusions about him offensive in the extreme. I also find your tone and attitude particularly rude and belligerent, especially as you claim to be a man of the cloth. - [[User:Frank|Frank]] 07:37, 12 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:: Thanks Frank! For what it's worth I apologized on his user talk, but apparently that was not what Thundersnow was after. He has elected to deprive us of his presence and help for the present. All the best, --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 23:17, 14 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== QuestyCaptcha not working? ==<br />
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Hi,<br />
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I operate a wiki and I was going to install QuestyCaptcha. Can I ask, does your Aug 14th note about spam mean your Apr 13th installation of QuestyCaptcha isn't working?<br />
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Are the bots responding correctly to both questions or just one? (The "''What is this wiki's name?''" question is probably very common, so spambots might be configured to always stick in the wiki's name when confronted with QuestyCaptcha) If they're getting both questions right, then I guess a human actually took the time to note your questions and the correct answers, so adding a few dozen new questions is probably what's necessary.<br />
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I'd be very interested to hear more about the problem. Thanks. [[User:Ciaran|Ciaran]] 15:51, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
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: I'm not sure the bots responded to either question... It may just be my QuestyCaptcha configuration needs more tweaking. I installed it when I had a bunch of spam that appeared to use humans to make registered users in spite of using ReCaptcha (about 5 to 10 per day), and than that info seemed to be plugged into bots that used the registration information to spam. QuestyCaptcha shut that attack down. I had some new bot yesterday that was not spamming links, just junk. Looked like maybe it attempted to put in links and when it hit QuestyCaptcha it created new articles without links, or was deleting existing content and replacing it with a line like "Great post" or something similar. Apparently edits without links does not trigger QuestyCaptcha due to my settings.<br />
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:It may be I can tighten up my QuestyCaptcha settings to catch this new stuff too. Haven't had time to play with it much. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 16:20, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
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::I've been reading the docs:<br />
::* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:QuestyCaptcha<br />
::* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit#QuestyCaptcha<br />
::* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ConfirmEdit_Test_Plan<br />
::... and the comments in the source code.<br />
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::If you want all edits to require passing a captcha, change "false" to "true" in this line of ''nameofwiki/extensions/ConfirmEdit/ConfirmEdit.php'':<br />
:: $wgCaptchaTriggers['edit'] = false; // Would check on every edit<br />
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::I haven't tried it out yet, but it seems you can exempt logged in users from the captchas by setting:<br />
::$wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['skipcaptcha'] = true;<br />
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::Or logged in users who've confirmed their email address by setting these to ''true'' in ConfirmEdit.php:<br />
:: $wgGroupPermissions['emailconfirmed']['skipcaptcha'] = true;<br />
:: $ceAllowConfirmedEmail = true;<br />
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::Thanks for the quick reply. I think I'll go ahead and install Questy for my wiki. [[User:Ciaran|Ciaran]] 16:59, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
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::: Thanks for the links! I've poored over those same docs too, but it's been a while. I changed the settings to allow anonymous edits again, but they will all trigger Questy while users will bypass it. To create an account triggers it though. That should take care of the bulk of the problems I've been having while still allowing anonymous edits. I guess we'll see! <br />
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:::How did your Questy install go? --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 21:03, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
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Hi. I only got it installed three days ago. (I don't have direct access to the server.)<br />
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To my great surprise, I'm still getting two or three spam edits per day: [http://en.swpat.org/wiki?title=Special:RecentChanges&hidebots=0] !<br />
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I'm baffled. I've searched the Internet extensively and I can't find anyone else saying that spam gets past QuestyCaptcha. I think I'll mention this on the mediawiki.org site. [[User:Ciaran|Ciaran]] 17:48, 3 September 2011 (CDT)<br />
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:My situation here seems to have stabilized for the present, although I had a new user and subsequent spam hit yesterday, but only one, and that was the first since I tweaked my Questy settings. It was different than most of the ones I've had in the past. I think it was a human... Your experience and my recent hit may mean the humans that were hired to work ReCaptcha implementations are now working on Questy sites. That makes some sense. I don't think it's possible to set up a captcha of any kind that will defend against humans without also severely limiting your potential contributions ;(<br />
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:BTW, I hope your efforts against the Patent Trolls and other insanity with software patents proves fruitful. I heard a very interesting piece on NPR a month or so ago. Sounds like a completely out of control mess! I had no idea... --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 21:07, 3 September 2011 (CDT)<br />
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== Gloredo ==<br />
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Dear Sethile<br />
You recieved like me a mail from these "other Gloredo" people.<br />
In my opinion there is no serious evidence for their activity in pipe making. <br />
The so called "Trademark Registration Certificate" you certainely got too has no value for me. I have to do with Chinese students and I know their degree certificate or diplom are sometimes "home made". <br />
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And for fun I made a little faux of this certificate changing "Gloredo" by "Dunhill"<br />
[http://www.pipephil.eu/pics/gloredo-pipephil.jpg see here]<br />
see also my comment in the gloredo's Talk.<br />
I think at least the two gloredos should appear on the GLOREDO page<br />
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: Yes, I agree, and I responded in the Gloredo's talk as well. Regardless of the current status of the brand there is no reason not to include its history, which is way it is relevant... --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 09:38, 11 December 2012 (CST)<br />
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:: But there are TWO gloredos apparently. I think this should be clear in the article, no ?<br />
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::: OK, yes, I think I've got it now... I thought it was a buyout of some kind at first. What a mess!<br />
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== Removal of Link==<br />
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Why did you remove my link on the health effects of smoking cigars and pipes? It was a link to WebMD, a well respected source for medical info. [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 08:05, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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: Hello Laughing Buddha. Thanks for you input. While WebMD has a lot of good medical information, this particular article was typical of the medical literature that attempts to lump pipes and cigars in with cigarettes by establishing the idea that all forms of tobacco are evil. This article allowed for some minor differences, which is better than some articles, but there remains in it a number of well documented inaccuracies typical of the medical literature. If you are really interested in this subject you could read through some of the other material we have linked too. <br />
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:In return, I would like to ask you why you linked to the article. I note that it is your one and only contribution to Pipedia, made shortly after you registered. My guess is your not really interested in pipes, but are just against tobacco. This wiki is for those of us who are interested in pipes and pipe smoking. Our take of this issue is going to be more nuanced than one would typically expect of the general public. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 08:39, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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::I have mixed feelings about pipe smoking because I used smoke pipes on and off for 15 years. I have three Savinellis, two Nordings and one Dr. Grabow to prove it. Also, my favorite tobacco brand was Peter Stockkebye's. Unfortunately, I eventually became addicted and smoked so often that I was staining my teeth and burning my mouth. Also, my dentist repeatedly warned me of the dental problems associated with pipe smoking including mouth cancer, so I stopped, which was very difficult for me. (However, I recently noticed England's "Pipe Smoker of the Year" list on Wikipedia. Many of them lived past 70. I found this very confusing.)<br />
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::I noticed your section titled Pipe Smoking Health and perused through it. It seemed to lack emphasis on the health hazards of pipe smoking. I sincerely believe pipe smokers should smoke with their eyes wide open with respect to the information on the health hazards of smoking and for that reason I added the WebMD link. By the way, I was planning to make other contributions that had nothing to do with health-related issues but my conscience would have bothered me had I not added information to the health section first. <br />
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::Even though the health hazards of smoking scare the hell out of me, I still love admiring the craftsmanship and artistry of pipes themselves. I can't tell you how many hours I've spent looking at pics of pipes on the internet. It's like porn for me. [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 18:37, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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:::Thanks very much for your reply. I'm glad to hear you're not anti tobacco and are just genuinely concerned about the risks. Pipe smoking certainly involves some increased health risk, but it has been greatly over exaggerated in the main stream health media, which tends to lump us all in with cigarette smokers. We have a slight increase risk for mouth and lip cancer, but that is very rare and to even slightly increase ones risk for them would involve smoking many more pipes per day than is typical of your average pipe smoker. Most pipe smokers do not inhale, which elevates nearly all the main risks associated with cigarette smoking. They also tend to smoke much less. <br />
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:::The WebMD article has one statement that is completely false and very misleading, "...research shows that cigar and pipe smoking is every bit as dangerous as cigarette smoking, and possibly even more dangerous". That is a ridiculous claim. They don't even attempt to back that up, or cite the research they refer to. Unless I am very much mistaken, there is no viable research that would even come close to supporting that statement. <br />
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:::I think it would be great to freshen up the Pipe Smoking Health area, but this is an issue that involves a great deal of misinformation from otherwise credible sources so it's going to be tough to pull off. For instance, there is a great deal of legitimate criticism with regards to the integrity of the research on the dangers associated with 2nd hand smoke, and that is seldom if ever reported in the main stream health media. BTW, none of that research differentiates between cigarettes and other forms of tobacco smoke, which typically contain much fewer chemical additives, burning paper, and other impurities associated with 2nd hand cigarette smoke.<br />
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:::I hope you will do some more research. You mentioned being surprised at the older pipe smokers that were cited in the Pipe Smoker of Year list. I've heard of one study that indicates moderate pipe smokers that do not inhale actually live slightly longer on average than non-smokers. I have not followed up on that to verify it yet, but that is certainly supported by my own anecdotal observations and pipe smoking can certainly reduce stress.<br />
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:::If in your research you would like to freshen up the Pipe Smoking Health article here on Pipedia, I would greatly appreciate it. It's even OK to link to articles such as the WebMD article you had linked too earlier, but it would be appropriate to point out any obvious flaws with the article if you do. Thanks again for your reply. I look forward to your contributions on this or other areas of Pipedia that may be of interest. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 22:33, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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::::Thanks, your response strikes me as very reasonable. By the way, would you happen to have a link on the information you mentioned about the longevity of pipe smokers? I'd be very interested in reading it. [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 08:15, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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:::::It apparently refers back to the original 1964 Surgeon General's report. Here is an interesting and fairly written [http://www.meerschaumstore.com/health.htm article by Mark Beale, MD] that mentions it as well as some other interesting and relevant information that rings credible to me, at least.<br />
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::::::Thanks [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 14:34, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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==New Question==<br />
What's the difference between an estate pipe and a conventional pipe? [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 12:34, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
:Nothing, really. Used or previously owned pipes have come to be known as Estate pipes. They can either be smoked or unsmoked and still qualify. They can be cheap or expensive, and still qualify, and they can come from an English Lord's estate, or picked up off of a dying bum on the street. It just sounds better. I guess like previously owned cars versus used cars ;) --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 12:41, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
::Thanks [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 14:34, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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== Tanzania/Tanganyika ==<br />
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Saw you're working on african meerschaum a bit, figured I'd throw what I could into the ring. <br />
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No expert, but I think the way it went on these is that Amboseli wasn't a pipe company, it's the name of one of the african meerschaum mines, the one that closed in Tanzania in 2006. I realize pipephil disagrees on that one. Tanganyika Meerchaum Corporation, LTD was founded in December 1955 in Kenya with nominal capital of 50,000 pounds. The internet will tell you they later moved from there to Arusha, Tanzania, which is both a city and also the region containing the Amboseli mines, when they trademarked their logo in September '68. That's actually wrong. The registered agent for TMC, Ltd. in 1955 wasn't in Kenya, it was in Tanga, Tanganyika. However, at the time, these were colonies, and joint ones. Stamps actually said "kenya, uganda, tanganyika" on them and were valid in all three. So they were always in Arusha. They owned Kilimanjaro and Kiko. Also Townsman, Countryman, a bunch of lines. However, as the mines are now closed, TMC, Ltd. is technically now owned by STAMICO, a wholly owned government enterprise under the tanzanian ministry of energy and minerals. <br />
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At some point the Tanzanian pipes were being listed in the Charles S. Loeb catalog, as Kikos and Kilimanjaros, not sure if they bought TMC, Ltd. or licensed the pipes from them. <br />
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The other mine that produced meerschaum was in Somalia, from Eilbur/El Burr, where somalis have made meerschaum incense burners for centuries. Apparently this block was cut into stummels and sold in its entirety to Laxey/Manx straight from Somalia, and is no longer available since Somalia fell apart. When you see a smooth african meerschaum, it's my understanding you're looking at somalian block.<br />
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Do with that what you will.<br />
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Chris<br />
--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 20:59, 25 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
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:Wow, that's interesting, thanks, Chris! Kind of hard to know what to put where, but I'll take a stab at sorting that out when I get a chance... It's not unusual to have difficult to sort out histories in pipedom, along with the occasional controversy surrounding them ;) --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 19:52, 26 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
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No doubt. At least it doesn't take a flowchart like Comoy/GBD/Chacom and such.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 13:19, 28 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
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== Photo question ==<br />
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Was curious, and I probably missed it in the help, but is there a preferred size for photos? I need to get around to finally taking some, figured it couldn't hurt to grab some nomenclature snaps and such.<br />
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Chris<br />
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:Somewhere between 600 and 1000 pixels wide seems to be a good range. By using thumbnails and/or gallery spots in the articles we can accommodate a nice fit with the context while still allowing for full sized images when they're clicked on. Takes a while to get the hang of how that works, but I'll be happy to help if you hit any snags.<br />
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:It would be great to have more pics of nomenclature, and anything else you think relevant. It's great to see all your work in new and existing articles. Thanks very much for your help, Chris! Scott --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 15:42, 28 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
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Thanks, I'm learning a heck of a lot, too.<br />
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Chris<br />
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Changes do, indeed, look seamless. Everything seems to be working and displaying perfectly. How unusual, lol.<br />
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Chris<br />
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::Great! Yes, my son, John [[User talk:Gilrain]] has pretty amazing skills with the back end stuff! Even with that I was surprised he pulled off this transition seemingly without a hitch. Still, you never know! Please let us know if you happen into anything. And thanks as always for all your excellent work! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 06:51, 12 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Saw you had to revert some of the changes to the Turks, hope I hadn't crossed any wires. No changes but mine while you were gone.<br />
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::I accidentally reverted your changes somehow and than reverted them back! Not sure how that happened. Sorry for any confusion. If anything is still messed up please put it back to how you had it... Thanks for keeping such a good eye on things!--[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 19:08, 17 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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No worries. And I'm just in the habit of checking "recent changes" so I happened to notice it, lol. Glad to see you're back in the saddle.<br />
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Chris --[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 19:13, 17 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Glossary Addition? ==<br />
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What do you think about adding a glossary link to the main page. I'll get it started on the basics, and see if it grows. Nothing fancy, mostly to help new guys I'd suppose. <br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 09:44, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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:Yes!! That's a great idea, Chris!! We have a fast growing population of new pipe smokers using the site, and I think your glossary idea would be a fantastic resource to them! <br />
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:If you have something to work from already, or want to build it from scratch, that would be great, but if you want to save some development time we could build it from this one at smokingpipes: http://www.smokingpipes.com/smokingpipesblog/glossary.cfm and build our version out from there. If we use theirs to start we just need to make sure to credit them and link back to their version. Either way works great for me! Thanks for the fantastic idea and willingness to tackle it! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 10:03, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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I did one for Reddit at some point, I probably still have it around, and if not it goes pretty quick, but SP does have a good one, I'll check it out again. Threw up a blank page to start working on, I'll let it fill up a bit and then add a link.<br />
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:Perfect, thanks, Chris! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 10:39, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 10:13, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Grabow Shapes ==<br />
Hope it's kosher, working with RJ McKay to get a linkman's era grabow shape chart put together, you'll see the recent changes/uploads. he has an enormous amount of info that shouldn't go to waste. Still working on the glossary, but I do love my linkman's.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 16:06, 24 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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::Yes! The new shape chart stuff looks great! I love getting that kind of material included when we still have access to it! Lost a lot of great stuff from a very knowledgeable Kaywoodie collector a few years ago and have never let myself forget it. We've got to nail that stuff down while we still have the expertise available! Good work, Chris! Thanks! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 16:19, 24 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Didn't know that about Svend Hangaard, very cool!<br />
::I though so too! I'm having a lot of fun while recovering from surgery. Can't make pipes yet, but I can sure enjoy researching and working on Pipedia! Great work on the Glossary, btw! That is really coming together nicely! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 20:42, 2 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Thanks! Shouldn't be too long now. Hope the recovery goes well and quickly.<br />
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== Glossary ==<br />
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Still working on the glossary, but I think it's big enough to let people have at it. Where should I link it?<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 18:38, 4 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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:: Yes, it is looking great! Definitely ready to start linking it places. I need to spend a little time cleaning up some inathctive links on the left nav bar first, and then link it there. Also the mobile responsive version of that, which my son will have to do for us. I think also from the main page, which also needs some updating at this point. I'll get after the nav bar tomorrow morning. Do you have any other ideas? --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 22:22, 4 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Thanks, Scott, a few. I've been trying to learn about blending for a bit, and I've been thinking about some tools to help with that. If I knew how to make a flow chart I'd have done that already. Sort of a "you want to add sweet to a blend?" Then add this kind of thing. Either combined with or similar to some thoughts on tasting as well. And I've definitely been slacking on a bunch of meerschaum stuff. Like an "Is this pressed?" page with photos. I have a pressed meer around here somewhere I can show some differences with. I have a buddy who I think has written an estate pipe buyer's guide or started to, and if not I'll probably put together some kind of "things to look out for" page at some point. Also thought about talking some people into putting a topic of pipe pondering they're interested in down on paper. Like the Dutch Pipe Smoker, Arno, for example, his knowledge is pretty incredible. And of course there are still bunches of wanted pages and pipe mysteries to explore. Good thing I find all of this stuff so fascinating! Plus, I've been ogling a lot of new photos. Great stuff. Hope the recuperation goes well!<br />
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Chris<br />
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::Your Glossary is now linked from the nav bar, as well as the main page. This is great! It will be great to keep developing it, but it's already extremely helpful! Thanks very much for pulling that together. <br />
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::Blending information sounds like an excellent direction, and some kind of flow chart graphic or narrative on how to tweak flavor elements would be very helpful! Timely topic for me too. I have done a very limited amount of tweaking existing blends, and want to do more. In part, I have some tobacco growing. Too early to tell if it will make it all the way to harvest, but I'm growing Nadole (a variety of Kentucky Dark), and also some Burley (can't remember the variety). Incidentally, Kentucky Dark can be air cured, as well as fire cured. It is likely related to Burley, but is different than Burley. It's darker, and the leaves tend to be smaller, and it generally has a higher nicotine content. We live in the heart of the Black Patch region of Western KY, where Kentucky Dark is growing all around us here. Had to give it a try! If it makes it through the harvest and a bit of air curing process, I'll also try to fire some of it, but haven't figured out how to pull that off yet on a scale that will work for just a few plants. Build a very little barn of some kind, I guess!<br />
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::Have often wanted to see more on Meers! That would be great too, and an estate pipe buyers guide would be fantastic!<br />
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::Let me know if you see anywhere else to link the Glossary that might be helpful, or please feel free to link at will when you notice a good spot. Thanks so much for all your work and ideas. It's an amazing help and encouragement! <br />
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::Recovery is going better than I thought. And, it's great to have some time to play with Pipedia, which has also really helped me to keep from going crazy while I can't do much physically! Incidentally, recovering from a much more minor surgery is how I cam up with Pipedia in the first place! Thanks again, Chirs! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 07:48, 5 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Glad to hear it. And fascinated by the growing, that's my next leap, but I live on the surface of the sun apparently here in South Florida, so gardening has its own issues. For now I'll at least keep trying to catch when I run across a word that may need explaining and try to link from there, but not to the degree wikipedia does it. And I'll have to think about how to fire cure in miniature, but I bet you could flue cure the heck out of it with a barbecue smoker and a dog house with vents, lol. And I love doing this stuff, only in small part because of how much I learned here, but you're very welcome. There has never been a resource like this for smokers. Ever. <br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 09:25, 5 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Just noticed the banner ads on the complete corncob primer are blank. You're probably aware, but just in case.<br />
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cc<br />
--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 20:00, 8 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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::Interesting. I was not aware of that and just checked. They were showing up fine for me. And they showed up on my phone and tablet too. Had my wife check on her computer and they did not show! Turns out she uses an add blocker. When she switched it off, presto, there they were! Interesting in that it was only catching the Missouri Meerschaum ones and not ones for the other underwriters in terms of stuff in content, but all of them were blocked in the top and bottom positions that are part of the skin... So, my big question is, do you have add blocking enabled on your browser? Bet so...<br />
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::Pretty sure the reason the add blocker was catching the Missouri Meerschaum banners in content like that and not other underwriters was that the MM banners had "AD" in the file name, and the others did not. I changed the file names, but my wife's add blocker still caught them. I suspect the images themselves are now recognized by the add blocker independent of the file name. <br />
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::Thanks for the heads up on this, Chris! Very interesting! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 22:10, 8 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Just saw this. And yes, I have adblock enabled. Nice detective work, lol.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 06:54, 10 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Au Pacha ==<br />
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Lopes and The Pipe Companion book both have this one wrong. I'll change it later, just giving a heads up why, it's actually a tobacconist called Au Pacha de Nancy, they're actually still there, although it looks like a souvenir shop now. I have a picture of the Diana pipe somewhere. It's nuts. The steed is rearing because there's some kind of demonic hellhound trying to eat it, it's a pipe with a lot going on, lol.<br />
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::Thanks for letting me know! Yes, please do correct it! And it would be great to have that picture as part of it if you can find it...<br />
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::I've run into several inaccuracies with Lopes. It's a great book, and a huge blessing that he put it together, but you can't trust the entries without pulling up some additional corroborative sources. Thanks for keeping an eye out! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 20:01, 9 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Sure, just one I've ogled before. And it's confusing, there were like 11 Au Pachas, even the Europeans have it wrong. I put the picture up. She should probably find a different hunting spot. I didn't mention it, either, but the Nashville museum closed, Dr. Sarunas "Sharkey" Peckus is the last known owner of this one, along with an incredible number of historically important meerschaums I'd like to have. He co-wrote the Rappaport porcelain pipe book. Never met or met anyone who has met him, but his collection is ridiculous. Got the big award in Chicago in '09. <br />
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Have a great one! --[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 10:50, 10 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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::Fantastic to have that straightened out, along with the photo! Thanks! That's a good example of the crazy rats nest of information out there when it comes to pipes! I'm in Nashville a lot, and tried to track that museum down at one point when I found it had been closed down. Too bad. That's a great little book, though! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 11:02, 10 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Lopes ==--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 18:51, 27 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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I don't have the book myself, only bits and pieces, but if you have it scanned and want to send me a chunk I'll share the effort. <br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 10:21, 12 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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:That's a wonderful offer, Chris, thanks! Just sent you an E-mail... It's been interesting, but more than a bit daunting. Couple other similar projects to do at some point too, and they may prove even more challenging! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 12:52, 12 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Haven't disappeared, just swamped with work for the last couple of weeks, don't worry, lol. <br />
--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 18:51, 27 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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:Great to hear from you! No Problem! That's going to happen to me too come July... Hand in there! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 18:56, 27 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Mark Stewart ==<br />
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Hey, Scott, you may be in your crazy period, I'm just coming out of mine I think Monday. In the meantime, I sadly learned yesterday that Mark Stewart, who went by periqueguy on the forums, has passed away. I don't know if you and he were acquainted, I only knew him a very little from his posts myself. He doesn't have a page here, but I'm going to go ahead and add one, and note him as a broken pipe. Wanted to bring it to your attention in case there's a process to that I don't know, and just for the sad sake of it all.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 14:41, 17 July 2015 (CDT)</div>Flatticushttps://pipedia.org/index.php?title=American_Pipe_Brands_%26_Makers_L_-_M&diff=22578American Pipe Brands & Makers L - M2015-07-16T13:24:53Z<p>Flatticus: Reverted edits by Flatticus (talk) to last revision by TobaccoPipes</p>
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|'''<font size="4">L</font>'''<br />
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|'''[[Laird]]'''||Ted Laird; Brooklyn Park, MN<br />
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|'''[[Lakatosh]]'''||John Lakatosh; New Columbia, PA<br />
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|'''[[Lamb Pipes]]'''||Ken Lamb, amateur pipe maker, tooling, and cabinets; <br />
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|'''Lark'''||Brand from [[M. Linkman & Co.]], connected to [[Dr. Grabow]], from the same maker<br />
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|'''[[Larsen]]'''||Wally Larsen (†); St. Paul, MN. See '''[[Senlar]]'''.<br />
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|'''[[LaRue]]'''||Travor LaRue (†) & Chuck Whitmore; Langley (Whidbey Island), WA. See '''[[Whidbey Islander Pipes]]'''.<br />
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|'''[[Laughingmoon Pipes]]'''||Robert Vacher; Litchfield, CA.<br />
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|'''[[Layton Pipes]]'''||Clark Layton; Pennsylvania.<br />
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|'''[[Lazy S Pipes]]'''||'''[[R.C. Sands]]'''; Reynoldsburg, OH<br />
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|'''[[LDG]]'''||Larry D. '''[[Goff]]<br />
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|'''[[Learned]]'''||Samuel Learned; York, PA.<br />
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|'''[[Leedy]]'''||Tom Leedy; Clayton, OH. <br />
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|'''[[Lee]]'''||Lee; New York City. <br />
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|'''[[Leese]]'''||Jack Leese; New York City. See '''[[Air-Vent]]'''.<br />
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|'''[[Ledone]]'''||Lucille and Ralph Ledone; Appleton, WI<br />
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|'''Leonessa'''||Inexpensive brand by [[James Norman Ltd.]]<br />
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|'''[[LePeltier]]'''||LePeltier Pipes; East Fairfield, VT<br />
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|'''Levin, Barry'''||see [[LPI]]<br />
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|'''[[Lewis]]'''||Rich Lewis; Minneapolis, MN<br />
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|'''[[LHS]]'''||L. & H. Stern Pipe Making Company; Brooklyn, NY<br />
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|'''[[Ligne Bretagne]]'''||Brand of hand finished pipes by [[Trever Talbert]]<br />
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|'''[[Light]]'''||Dennis Light; Toledo, OH<br />
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|'''[[Lindner]]'''||Michael Lindner; Rochester Hills, MI<br />
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|'''[[M. Linkman & Co.|Linkman]]'''||'''[[M. Linkman & Co.]]''' (MLC); Chicago, IL.<br />
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|'''[[Lips Pipeworks]]'''||Thomas J. Lips; Portland, OR<br />
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|'''[[Steve Liskey]]'''||San Bernadino, CA<br />
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|'''[[LOG]]'''||???<br />
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|'''[[Longrie]]'''||Earl J. Longrie; Milwaukee, WI. 1930's<br />
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|'''[[Lord Davenport Pipes]]'''||Lord Davenport Pipes Ltd.; New York City. Known from the 1940's.<br />
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|'''[[Loscalzo Pipes]]'''||Craig A. Loscalzo; Lexington, KY.<br />
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|'''Lou, Don'''||See [[Don-Lou]]; Brooklyn, NY<br />
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|'''[[Lou's]]'''||'''[[Lou's Tobacco Bar]]''', Madison, WI.<br />
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|'''[[LPI]]'''||Barry Levin († 1994); ? VT<br />
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|'''[[Lucky H Pipes]]'''||Chris L. Hendrick; Pearland, TX.<br />
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|'''[[Luna Pipes]]'''||Tom Johnson, Bothell (Seattle), WA.<br />
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|'''[[Lynch]]'''||O.E. Lynch<br />
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| ||[[Image:Lynch_1.jpg|50px]] | [[Image:Lynch_2.jpg|50px]] | [[Image:Lynch_3.jpg|50px]] | <br />
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|'''[[Lyon Pipe]]||Lyon, Chas. H., b.1862, d.1947 s.1920; Salt Lake City, UT<br />
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|'''<font size="4">M</font>'''<br />
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|'''[[M. Linkman & Co.]]'''||MLC; Chicago, IL<br />
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|'''[[M.E. Stone Pipes]]'''||M.E. Stone<br />
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|'''M&L'''||[[Moss & Lowenhaupt]]<br />
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|'''[[Mack]]'''||Tom Mack; pipes in oak, walnut, and cherry<br />
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|'''[[Malaga Pipe Company]]'''||Also mentioned as '''Malaga Briarworks'''. G. Khoubesser (1939), Emanual "Manny" Khoubesser. Royal Oak, MI.<br />
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|'''[[Manges]]'''||Rick Manges; Midland, MI<br />
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|'''[[Manhattan Briar Pipe Co.]]'''||See '''[[S.M. Frank]]'''.<br />
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|'''[[Marchetti Pipes]]'''||Phil DeFant; Brooklyn, MI.<br />
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|'''Margroum, Jim'''||'''see [[Mr. Groum]]'''; Hanover, PA<br />
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|'''[[Mariner]]'''||Joe Mariner (ret.); Napa, CA<br />
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|'''[[Markle, Ernie]]'''||'''[[Ernie Markle Pipes]]'''; Scottsdale, AZ<br />
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|'''[[Marks]]'''||Andrew Marks; Middlebury, VT<br />
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|'''Maro'''||Brand of [[Hollco International]]<br />
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|'''Martin, Sam'''||'''see [[Sam Martin]]''' († 1992); Little Rock, AR<br />
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| ||[[Image:MartinS_07.jpg|50px]] | [[Image:MartinS_08.jpg|50px]] | <br />
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|'''Martin, Thomas'''||'''See [[TM Pipes]]'''; Beverly, MA.<br />
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|'''[[Martin Pipe Company]]'''||Hal Silverstein († 2003)<br />
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|'''[[Marxman]]'''||Robert L. Marx († 1992); New York City<br />
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|'''[[Masterbilt]]'''|| ?? e.g., rustic billiard ~Custombilt, supreme on stem<br />
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|'''[[Mastercraft]]'''||Robert L. Marx († 1992); New York City<br />
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|'''[[Matt Van Pipes]]'''||Matt Van; Chokoloskee, Florida<br />
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|'''[[Mayflower]]'''||'''[[National Briar Pipe Co.]]'''; Jersey City, NJ.<br />
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|'''[[McBride]]'''||Mac McBride (ret./† ?); ?, CA<br />
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|'''McArris'''||Brand made for [[McCranie's]] by [[Ashton]]<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[McCranie's]]'''||Made by [[Ashton]]<br />
|-<br />
|'''McCranie Pipes'''||Private label brand of [[McCranie's]]; Charlotte, NC. Made by Tonino [[Jacono]] and Bill [[Ashton]]-Taylor.<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[McCravey]]'''||W.L. McCravey (ret./† ?); Sunnyside, WA<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[McGuire]]'''||? McGuire (ret./† ?)<br />
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|'''[[Anima Pipes|McNulty, Brian]]'''||Brian McNulty; Culver City, CA., '''[[Anima Pipes]]'''<br />
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|'''[[Medico]]'''||'''[[S.M. Frank]]'''; Peekskill, NY<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Mehaffey]]'''||E.A. Mehaffey; Wheaton, MD<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[MelloPure]]'''||Dr. Harry Paine<br />
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|'''Melrose'''||'''[[Kaufman Brothers & Bondy]]'''; New York City.<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Andre Mermet|Mermet]]'''||'''[[Andre Mermet]]'''; New York City, New York & San Francisco, CA<br />
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|'''[[Jimmy Mermet]]'''||San Francisco, CA<br />
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|'''[[Mesa Woodsman]]'''||Hugo Mesa (ret./† ?)<br />
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|'''[[Mickles]]'''||Clarence Mickles (†), Park Forest, IL<br />
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|'''[[Micoli]]'''||Robert Eugene "Mic" Burns (ret.), Long Beach, CA<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Milan Bros.]]'''||Roanoke, Virginia<br />
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|'''Milano'''||Brand from the 1930s belonging to [[William Demuth Company]] Possibly in partnership with [[Savinelli]]<br />
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|'''[[Milton]]'''||Herb Milton (ret./† ?); Margate, FL<br />
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|'''[[Mincer]]'''||Tracy Mincer († 1966). Custom-Bilt, The Doodler. Indianapolis, IN.<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Missouri Meerschaum]]'''||Missouri Meerschaum Company; Washington, MO<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Mission Briar]]'''||Brand created in 1941 using Manzanita wood, due to difficulty in getting briar.<br />
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|'''[[Mock]]'''||Don Mock (†)<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Monarch]]'''|| Monarch Pipe Co. Tulsa Ok.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Monstrosity Pipes'''||See [[Olie Sylvester]]; Atlanta, GA <br />
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|'''[[Montgomery]] Handmade Pipes'''||Jeremiah W. Montgomery; Hollidaysburg, PA<br />
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|'''[[Moonshine Pipes]]'''||Jonathan Lavezzo; Charlottesville, Virginia<br />
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|'''[[Morgan Pipes]]'''||Chris Morgan; San Jose, CA<br />
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|'''[[Morrisette, Steve]]'''||Steve Morrisette; Nashville, Tennessee<br />
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|'''Moss & Lowenhaupt'''||Factory based in St. Louis, their machinery bought by Jack Hamburg Jr. of [[Jack's Handmade Pipes]]<br />
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|'''[[Mr. Groum]]'''||James H. Margroum (†); Hanover, PA<br />
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|'''[[Mr. Paul's Pipes]]'''||Paul Speaks (ret./† ?); Baltimore, MD. <br />
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|'''Mr. Paul's Pipes'''||Lopes states it is a division of Action Industries, Inc, and that Paul Gourley also signs his pipes Mr. Paul.<br />
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|'''[[Murado]]'''||John Murado<br />
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|'''[[]]'''||<br />
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|'''[[Laird]]'''||Ted Laird; Brooklyn Park, MN<br />
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|'''[[Lakatosh]]'''||John Lakatosh; New Columbia, PA<br />
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|'''[[Lamb Pipes]]'''||Ken Lamb, amateur pipe maker, tooling, and cabinets; <br />
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|'''Lark'''||Brand from [[M. Linkman & Co.]], connected to [[Dr. Grabow]], from the same maker<br />
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|'''[[Larsen]]'''||Wally Larsen (†); St. Paul, MN. See '''[[Senlar]]'''.<br />
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|'''[[LaRue]]'''||Travor LaRue (†) & Chuck Whitmore; Langley (Whidbey Island), WA. See '''[[Whidbey Islander Pipes]]'''.<br />
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|'''[[Laughingmoon Pipes]]'''||Robert Vacher; Litchfield, CA.<br />
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|'''[[Layton Pipes]]'''||Clark Layton; Pennsylvania.<br />
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|'''[[Lazy S Pipes]]'''||'''[[R.C. Sands]]'''; Reynoldsburg, OH<br />
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|'''[[LDG]]'''||Larry D. '''[[Goff]]<br />
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|'''[[Learned]]'''||Samuel Learned; York, PA.<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Leedy]]'''||Tom Leedy; Clayton, OH. <br />
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|'''[[Lee]]'''||Lee; New York City. <br />
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|'''[[Leese]]'''||Jack Leese; New York City. See '''[[Air-Vent]]'''.<br />
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|'''[[Ledone]]'''||Lucille and Ralph Ledone; Appleton, WI<br />
|-<br />
|'''Leonessa'''||Inexpensive brand by [[James Norman Ltd.]]<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[LePeltier]]'''||LePeltier Pipes; East Fairfield, VT<br />
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|'''Levin, Barry'''||see [[LPI]]<br />
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|'''[[Lewis]]'''||Rich Lewis; Minneapolis, MN<br />
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|'''[[LHS]]'''||L. & H. Stern Pipe Making Company; Brooklyn, NY<br />
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|'''[[Ligne Bretagne]]'''||Brand of hand finished pipes by [[Trever Talbert]]<br />
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|'''[[Light]]'''||Dennis Light; Toledo, OH<br />
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|'''[[Lindner]]'''||Michael Lindner; Rochester Hills, MI<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[M. Linkman & Co.|Linkman]]'''||'''[[M. Linkman & Co.]]''' (MLC); Chicago, IL.<br />
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|'''[[Lips Pipeworks]]'''||Thomas J. Lips; Portland, OR<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Steve Liskey]]'''||San Bernadino, CA<br />
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|'''[[LOG]]'''||???<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Longrie]]'''||Earl J. Longrie; Milwaukee, WI. 1930's<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Lord Davenport Pipes]]'''||Lord Davenport Pipes Ltd.; New York City. Known from the 1940's.<br />
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|-<br />
|'''[[Loscalzo Pipes]]'''||Craig A. Loscalzo; Lexington, KY.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Lou, Don'''||See [[Don-Lou]]; Brooklyn, NY<br />
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|'''[[Lou's]]'''||'''[[Lou's Tobacco Bar]]''', Madison, WI.<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[LPI]]'''||Barry Levin († 1994); ? VT<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Lucky H Pipes]]'''||Chris L. Hendrick; Pearland, TX.<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Luna Pipes]]'''||Tom Johnson, Bothell (Seattle), WA.<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Lynch]]'''||O.E. Lynch<br />
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| ||[[Image:Lynch_1.jpg|50px]] | [[Image:Lynch_2.jpg|50px]] | [[Image:Lynch_3.jpg|50px]] | <br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Lyon Pipe]]||Lyon, Chas. H., b.1862, d.1947 s.1920; Salt Lake City, UT<br />
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|'''[[]]'''||<br />
|-<br />
|'''<font size="4">M</font>'''<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[M. Linkman & Co.]]'''||MLC; Chicago, IL<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[M.E. Stone Pipes]]'''||M.E. Stone<br />
|-<br />
|'''M&L'''||[[Moss & Lowenhaupt]]<br />
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|'''[[Mack]]'''||Tom Mack; pipes in oak, walnut, and cherry<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Malaga Pipe Company]]'''||Also mentioned as '''Malaga Briarworks'''. G. Khoubesser (1939), Emanual "Manny" Khoubesser. Royal Oak, MI.<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Manges]]'''||Rick Manges; Midland, MI<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Manhattan Briar Pipe Co.]]'''||See '''[[S.M. Frank]]'''.<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Marchetti Pipes]]'''||Phil DeFant; Brooklyn, MI.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Margroum, Jim'''||'''see [[Mr. Groum]]'''; Hanover, PA<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Mariner]]'''||Joe Mariner (ret.); Napa, CA<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Markle, Ernie]]'''||'''[[Ernie Markle Pipes]]'''; Scottsdale, AZ<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Marks]]'''||Andrew Marks; Middlebury, VT<br />
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|'''Maro'''||Brand of [[Hollco International]]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Martin, Sam'''||'''see [[Sam Martin]]''' († 1992); Little Rock, AR<br />
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| ||[[Image:MartinS_07.jpg|50px]] | [[Image:MartinS_08.jpg|50px]] | <br />
|-<br />
|'''Martin, Thomas'''||'''See [[TM Pipes]]'''; Beverly, MA.<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Martin Pipe Company]]'''||Hal Silverstein († 2003)<br />
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| ||[[Image:MartinPCo_1.jpg|50px]] | <br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Marxman]]'''||Robert L. Marx († 1992); New York City<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Masterbilt]]'''|| ?? e.g., rustic billiard ~Custombilt, supreme on stem<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Mastercraft]]'''||Robert L. Marx († 1992); New York City<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Mayflower]]'''||'''[[National Briar Pipe Co.]]'''; Jersey City, NJ.<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[McBride]]'''||Mac McBride (ret./† ?); ?, CA<br />
|-<br />
|'''McArris'''||Brand made for [[McCranie's]] by [[Ashton]]<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[McCranie's]]'''||Made by [[Ashton]]<br />
|-<br />
|'''McCranie Pipes'''||Private label brand of [[McCranie's]]; Charlotte, NC. Made by Tonino [[Jacono]] and Bill [[Ashton]]-Taylor.<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[McCravey]]'''||W.L. McCravey (ret./† ?); Sunnyside, WA<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[McGuire]]'''||? McGuire (ret./† ?)<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Anima Pipes|McNulty, Brian]]'''||Brian McNulty; Culver City, CA., '''[[Anima Pipes]]'''<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Medico]]'''||'''[[S.M. Frank]]'''; Peekskill, NY<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Mehaffey]]'''||E.A. Mehaffey; Wheaton, MD<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[MelloPure]]'''||Dr. Harry Paine<br />
|-<br />
|'''Melrose'''||'''[[Kaufman Brothers & Bondy]]'''; New York City.<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Andre Mermet|Mermet]]'''||'''[[Andre Mermet]]'''; New York City, New York & San Francisco, CA<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Jimmy Mermet]]'''||San Francisco, CA<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Mesa Woodsman]]'''||Hugo Mesa (ret./† ?)<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Mickles]]'''||Clarence Mickles (†), Park Forest, IL<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Micoli]]'''||Robert Eugene "Mic" Burns (ret.), Long Beach, CA<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Milan Bros.]]'''||Roanoke, Virginia<br />
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|'''Milano'''||Brand from the 1930s belonging to [[William Demuth Company]] Possibly in partnership with [[Savinelli]]<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Milton]]'''||Herb Milton (ret./† ?); Margate, FL<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Mincer]]'''||Tracy Mincer († 1966). Custom-Bilt, The Doodler. Indianapolis, IN.<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Missouri Meerschaum]]'''||Missouri Meerschaum Company; Washington, MO<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Mission Briar]]'''||Brand created in 1941 using Manzanita wood, due to difficulty in getting briar.<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Mock]]'''||Don Mock (†)<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Monarch]]'''|| Monarch Pipe Co. Tulsa Ok.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Monstrosity Pipes'''||See [[Olie Sylvester]]; Atlanta, GA <br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Montgomery]] Handmade Pipes'''||Jeremiah W. Montgomery; Hollidaysburg, PA<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Moonshine Pipes]]'''||Jonathan Lavezzo; Charlottesville, Virginia<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Morgan Pipes]]'''||Chris Morgan; San Jose, CA<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Morrisette, Steve]]'''||Steve Morrisette; Nashville, Tennessee<br />
|-<br />
|'''Moss & Lowenhaupt'''||Factory based in St. Louis, their machinery bought by Jack Hamburg Jr. of [[Jack's Handmade Pipes]]<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Mr. Groum]]'''||James H. Margroum (†); Hanover, PA<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Mr. Paul's Pipes]]'''||Paul Speaks (ret./† ?); Baltimore, MD. <br />
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|'''Mr. Paul's Pipes'''||Lopes states it is a division of Action Industries, Inc, and that Paul Gourley also signs his pipes Mr. Paul.<br />
|-<br />
|'''[[Murado]]'''||John Murado<br />
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|'''[[]]'''||<br />
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'''Back to''' [[American Pipe Brands & Makers I - K]] '''or continue to''' [[American Pipe Brands & Makers N - Q]] '''!'''</div>Flatticushttps://pipedia.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Sethile&diff=22139User talk:Sethile2015-06-27T23:51:12Z<p>Flatticus: /* Lopes */</p>
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<div>As per my other suggestion, perhaps it would be better to completely remove the Marks/Logo page altogether and just have a link at the bottom of each Brand/Maker's page to the Pipephil website for that particular Brand or Maker? --[[User:Frank|Frank]] - 3/26/09<br />
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: Sure, that would work fine too. The advantage of the Marks/Logo page, assuming it were to get flushed out eventually, is for situations where someone is trying to identify a pipe with some sort of logo without knowing the maker. Regardless, I think relevant off site links should be added at the bottom of each article directly. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 15:41, 26 March 2009 (CDT)<br />
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:: Lacking a Name Stamp, being able to identify a pipe from it's Logo alone would be useful. Pipephil does have a means of searching with criteria such as a Star or an Anchor or a Dot, etc., but it is lacking a couple of such criteria to search by, last I checked.--[[User:Frank|Frank]] - 3/26/09<br />
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Scott, Earlier on I checked on that item in Cyrillic that you deleted. I found a translation, and it is pipe related..--[[User:Frank|Frank]] - 4/13/09<br />
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:Thanks, Frank! I put it back. I wondered about that.. I was a little on the delete button ;) --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 21:18, 13 April 2009 (CDT)<br />
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== Notice for you ==<br />
This thing needs a bit of scouring just to make it palatable to educated folk! C'mon, this is just lazy. I say "c'mon" because this is the talk page. The entry itself ought to be perfectly written, not sounding like a letter to a dopey pal in Wisconsin!Thundersnow 00:08, 10 May 2010 (UTC)--A direct quote off the Tobacco page. It really needs work, that.[[User:Thundersnow|Thundersnow]] 00:10, 10 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== Bridge Too Far? ==<br />
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QUOTE FROM ME: "Hello Eric, Thanks for your work on the Tobacco article. Yes, it does need a lot of work! Also, it would be great if you can help with the Savinellis article. In short, whatever you have time for would be most welcome in deed--I really appreciate your help! All the best, --sethile 01:28, 11 May 2010 (UTC) [....]<br />
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Uhm, I do not know any Eric except an old colleague. And I must say that it is just plain wrong to try to do that to a contributor who wished to remain known by username. And by the way, I am Rev. Antonio Hernandez.Thundersnow 03:13, 12 May 2010 (UTC)"<br />
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Well, thanks a lot for this unwanted headache.[[User:Thundersnow|Thundersnow]] 03:15, 12 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:Since the email address (EricBlair@disciples.com), which you publicly posted, gave the name as Eric Blair, it was an understandable mistake on Scott's part, as he could hardly be aware that you use someone elses email address. I believe he was only trying to be friendly on a first name basis. Accusing him of "outing" you in such a heartless manner is a mean thing to do, since he obviously did not do it to deliberately "expose" you.<br />
:As you obviously aren't aware of the tremendous scope of this website, let me enlighten you of the fact that the vast majority of the design, information and contributions have been due to Scott's hard work. Furthermore, he is always extremely appreciative of corrections and contributions to the website.<br />
:Considering that you don't even know one iota about Scott, I find your jumping to conclusions about him offensive in the extreme. I also find your tone and attitude particularly rude and belligerent, especially as you claim to be a man of the cloth. - [[User:Frank|Frank]] 07:37, 12 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:: Thanks Frank! For what it's worth I apologized on his user talk, but apparently that was not what Thundersnow was after. He has elected to deprive us of his presence and help for the present. All the best, --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 23:17, 14 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== QuestyCaptcha not working? ==<br />
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Hi,<br />
<br />
I operate a wiki and I was going to install QuestyCaptcha. Can I ask, does your Aug 14th note about spam mean your Apr 13th installation of QuestyCaptcha isn't working?<br />
<br />
Are the bots responding correctly to both questions or just one? (The "''What is this wiki's name?''" question is probably very common, so spambots might be configured to always stick in the wiki's name when confronted with QuestyCaptcha) If they're getting both questions right, then I guess a human actually took the time to note your questions and the correct answers, so adding a few dozen new questions is probably what's necessary.<br />
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I'd be very interested to hear more about the problem. Thanks. [[User:Ciaran|Ciaran]] 15:51, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
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: I'm not sure the bots responded to either question... It may just be my QuestyCaptcha configuration needs more tweaking. I installed it when I had a bunch of spam that appeared to use humans to make registered users in spite of using ReCaptcha (about 5 to 10 per day), and than that info seemed to be plugged into bots that used the registration information to spam. QuestyCaptcha shut that attack down. I had some new bot yesterday that was not spamming links, just junk. Looked like maybe it attempted to put in links and when it hit QuestyCaptcha it created new articles without links, or was deleting existing content and replacing it with a line like "Great post" or something similar. Apparently edits without links does not trigger QuestyCaptcha due to my settings.<br />
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:It may be I can tighten up my QuestyCaptcha settings to catch this new stuff too. Haven't had time to play with it much. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 16:20, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
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::I've been reading the docs:<br />
::* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:QuestyCaptcha<br />
::* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit#QuestyCaptcha<br />
::* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ConfirmEdit_Test_Plan<br />
::... and the comments in the source code.<br />
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::If you want all edits to require passing a captcha, change "false" to "true" in this line of ''nameofwiki/extensions/ConfirmEdit/ConfirmEdit.php'':<br />
:: $wgCaptchaTriggers['edit'] = false; // Would check on every edit<br />
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::I haven't tried it out yet, but it seems you can exempt logged in users from the captchas by setting:<br />
::$wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['skipcaptcha'] = true;<br />
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::Or logged in users who've confirmed their email address by setting these to ''true'' in ConfirmEdit.php:<br />
:: $wgGroupPermissions['emailconfirmed']['skipcaptcha'] = true;<br />
:: $ceAllowConfirmedEmail = true;<br />
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::Thanks for the quick reply. I think I'll go ahead and install Questy for my wiki. [[User:Ciaran|Ciaran]] 16:59, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
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::: Thanks for the links! I've poored over those same docs too, but it's been a while. I changed the settings to allow anonymous edits again, but they will all trigger Questy while users will bypass it. To create an account triggers it though. That should take care of the bulk of the problems I've been having while still allowing anonymous edits. I guess we'll see! <br />
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:::How did your Questy install go? --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 21:03, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
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Hi. I only got it installed three days ago. (I don't have direct access to the server.)<br />
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To my great surprise, I'm still getting two or three spam edits per day: [http://en.swpat.org/wiki?title=Special:RecentChanges&hidebots=0] !<br />
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I'm baffled. I've searched the Internet extensively and I can't find anyone else saying that spam gets past QuestyCaptcha. I think I'll mention this on the mediawiki.org site. [[User:Ciaran|Ciaran]] 17:48, 3 September 2011 (CDT)<br />
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:My situation here seems to have stabilized for the present, although I had a new user and subsequent spam hit yesterday, but only one, and that was the first since I tweaked my Questy settings. It was different than most of the ones I've had in the past. I think it was a human... Your experience and my recent hit may mean the humans that were hired to work ReCaptcha implementations are now working on Questy sites. That makes some sense. I don't think it's possible to set up a captcha of any kind that will defend against humans without also severely limiting your potential contributions ;(<br />
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:BTW, I hope your efforts against the Patent Trolls and other insanity with software patents proves fruitful. I heard a very interesting piece on NPR a month or so ago. Sounds like a completely out of control mess! I had no idea... --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 21:07, 3 September 2011 (CDT)<br />
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== Gloredo ==<br />
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Dear Sethile<br />
You recieved like me a mail from these "other Gloredo" people.<br />
In my opinion there is no serious evidence for their activity in pipe making. <br />
The so called "Trademark Registration Certificate" you certainely got too has no value for me. I have to do with Chinese students and I know their degree certificate or diplom are sometimes "home made". <br />
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And for fun I made a little faux of this certificate changing "Gloredo" by "Dunhill"<br />
[http://www.pipephil.eu/pics/gloredo-pipephil.jpg see here]<br />
see also my comment in the gloredo's Talk.<br />
I think at least the two gloredos should appear on the GLOREDO page<br />
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: Yes, I agree, and I responded in the Gloredo's talk as well. Regardless of the current status of the brand there is no reason not to include its history, which is way it is relevant... --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 09:38, 11 December 2012 (CST)<br />
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:: But there are TWO gloredos apparently. I think this should be clear in the article, no ?<br />
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::: OK, yes, I think I've got it now... I thought it was a buyout of some kind at first. What a mess!<br />
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== Removal of Link==<br />
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Why did you remove my link on the health effects of smoking cigars and pipes? It was a link to WebMD, a well respected source for medical info. [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 08:05, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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: Hello Laughing Buddha. Thanks for you input. While WebMD has a lot of good medical information, this particular article was typical of the medical literature that attempts to lump pipes and cigars in with cigarettes by establishing the idea that all forms of tobacco are evil. This article allowed for some minor differences, which is better than some articles, but there remains in it a number of well documented inaccuracies typical of the medical literature. If you are really interested in this subject you could read through some of the other material we have linked too. <br />
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:In return, I would like to ask you why you linked to the article. I note that it is your one and only contribution to Pipedia, made shortly after you registered. My guess is your not really interested in pipes, but are just against tobacco. This wiki is for those of us who are interested in pipes and pipe smoking. Our take of this issue is going to be more nuanced than one would typically expect of the general public. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 08:39, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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::I have mixed feelings about pipe smoking because I used smoke pipes on and off for 15 years. I have three Savinellis, two Nordings and one Dr. Grabow to prove it. Also, my favorite tobacco brand was Peter Stockkebye's. Unfortunately, I eventually became addicted and smoked so often that I was staining my teeth and burning my mouth. Also, my dentist repeatedly warned me of the dental problems associated with pipe smoking including mouth cancer, so I stopped, which was very difficult for me. (However, I recently noticed England's "Pipe Smoker of the Year" list on Wikipedia. Many of them lived past 70. I found this very confusing.)<br />
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::I noticed your section titled Pipe Smoking Health and perused through it. It seemed to lack emphasis on the health hazards of pipe smoking. I sincerely believe pipe smokers should smoke with their eyes wide open with respect to the information on the health hazards of smoking and for that reason I added the WebMD link. By the way, I was planning to make other contributions that had nothing to do with health-related issues but my conscience would have bothered me had I not added information to the health section first. <br />
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::Even though the health hazards of smoking scare the hell out of me, I still love admiring the craftsmanship and artistry of pipes themselves. I can't tell you how many hours I've spent looking at pics of pipes on the internet. It's like porn for me. [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 18:37, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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:::Thanks very much for your reply. I'm glad to hear you're not anti tobacco and are just genuinely concerned about the risks. Pipe smoking certainly involves some increased health risk, but it has been greatly over exaggerated in the main stream health media, which tends to lump us all in with cigarette smokers. We have a slight increase risk for mouth and lip cancer, but that is very rare and to even slightly increase ones risk for them would involve smoking many more pipes per day than is typical of your average pipe smoker. Most pipe smokers do not inhale, which elevates nearly all the main risks associated with cigarette smoking. They also tend to smoke much less. <br />
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:::The WebMD article has one statement that is completely false and very misleading, "...research shows that cigar and pipe smoking is every bit as dangerous as cigarette smoking, and possibly even more dangerous". That is a ridiculous claim. They don't even attempt to back that up, or cite the research they refer to. Unless I am very much mistaken, there is no viable research that would even come close to supporting that statement. <br />
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:::I think it would be great to freshen up the Pipe Smoking Health area, but this is an issue that involves a great deal of misinformation from otherwise credible sources so it's going to be tough to pull off. For instance, there is a great deal of legitimate criticism with regards to the integrity of the research on the dangers associated with 2nd hand smoke, and that is seldom if ever reported in the main stream health media. BTW, none of that research differentiates between cigarettes and other forms of tobacco smoke, which typically contain much fewer chemical additives, burning paper, and other impurities associated with 2nd hand cigarette smoke.<br />
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:::I hope you will do some more research. You mentioned being surprised at the older pipe smokers that were cited in the Pipe Smoker of Year list. I've heard of one study that indicates moderate pipe smokers that do not inhale actually live slightly longer on average than non-smokers. I have not followed up on that to verify it yet, but that is certainly supported by my own anecdotal observations and pipe smoking can certainly reduce stress.<br />
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:::If in your research you would like to freshen up the Pipe Smoking Health article here on Pipedia, I would greatly appreciate it. It's even OK to link to articles such as the WebMD article you had linked too earlier, but it would be appropriate to point out any obvious flaws with the article if you do. Thanks again for your reply. I look forward to your contributions on this or other areas of Pipedia that may be of interest. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 22:33, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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::::Thanks, your response strikes me as very reasonable. By the way, would you happen to have a link on the information you mentioned about the longevity of pipe smokers? I'd be very interested in reading it. [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 08:15, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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:::::It apparently refers back to the original 1964 Surgeon General's report. Here is an interesting and fairly written [http://www.meerschaumstore.com/health.htm article by Mark Beale, MD] that mentions it as well as some other interesting and relevant information that rings credible to me, at least.<br />
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::::::Thanks [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 14:34, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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==New Question==<br />
What's the difference between an estate pipe and a conventional pipe? [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 12:34, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
:Nothing, really. Used or previously owned pipes have come to be known as Estate pipes. They can either be smoked or unsmoked and still qualify. They can be cheap or expensive, and still qualify, and they can come from an English Lord's estate, or picked up off of a dying bum on the street. It just sounds better. I guess like previously owned cars versus used cars ;) --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 12:41, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
::Thanks [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 14:34, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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== Tanzania/Tanganyika ==<br />
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Saw you're working on african meerschaum a bit, figured I'd throw what I could into the ring. <br />
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No expert, but I think the way it went on these is that Amboseli wasn't a pipe company, it's the name of one of the african meerschaum mines, the one that closed in Tanzania in 2006. I realize pipephil disagrees on that one. Tanganyika Meerchaum Corporation, LTD was founded in December 1955 in Kenya with nominal capital of 50,000 pounds. The internet will tell you they later moved from there to Arusha, Tanzania, which is both a city and also the region containing the Amboseli mines, when they trademarked their logo in September '68. That's actually wrong. The registered agent for TMC, Ltd. in 1955 wasn't in Kenya, it was in Tanga, Tanganyika. However, at the time, these were colonies, and joint ones. Stamps actually said "kenya, uganda, tanganyika" on them and were valid in all three. So they were always in Arusha. They owned Kilimanjaro and Kiko. Also Townsman, Countryman, a bunch of lines. However, as the mines are now closed, TMC, Ltd. is technically now owned by STAMICO, a wholly owned government enterprise under the tanzanian ministry of energy and minerals. <br />
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At some point the Tanzanian pipes were being listed in the Charles S. Loeb catalog, as Kikos and Kilimanjaros, not sure if they bought TMC, Ltd. or licensed the pipes from them. <br />
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The other mine that produced meerschaum was in Somalia, from Eilbur/El Burr, where somalis have made meerschaum incense burners for centuries. Apparently this block was cut into stummels and sold in its entirety to Laxey/Manx straight from Somalia, and is no longer available since Somalia fell apart. When you see a smooth african meerschaum, it's my understanding you're looking at somalian block.<br />
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Do with that what you will.<br />
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Chris<br />
--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 20:59, 25 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
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:Wow, that's interesting, thanks, Chris! Kind of hard to know what to put where, but I'll take a stab at sorting that out when I get a chance... It's not unusual to have difficult to sort out histories in pipedom, along with the occasional controversy surrounding them ;) --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 19:52, 26 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
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No doubt. At least it doesn't take a flowchart like Comoy/GBD/Chacom and such.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 13:19, 28 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
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== Photo question ==<br />
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Was curious, and I probably missed it in the help, but is there a preferred size for photos? I need to get around to finally taking some, figured it couldn't hurt to grab some nomenclature snaps and such.<br />
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Chris<br />
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:Somewhere between 600 and 1000 pixels wide seems to be a good range. By using thumbnails and/or gallery spots in the articles we can accommodate a nice fit with the context while still allowing for full sized images when they're clicked on. Takes a while to get the hang of how that works, but I'll be happy to help if you hit any snags.<br />
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:It would be great to have more pics of nomenclature, and anything else you think relevant. It's great to see all your work in new and existing articles. Thanks very much for your help, Chris! Scott --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 15:42, 28 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
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Thanks, I'm learning a heck of a lot, too.<br />
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Changes do, indeed, look seamless. Everything seems to be working and displaying perfectly. How unusual, lol.<br />
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Chris<br />
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::Great! Yes, my son, John [[User talk:Gilrain]] has pretty amazing skills with the back end stuff! Even with that I was surprised he pulled off this transition seemingly without a hitch. Still, you never know! Please let us know if you happen into anything. And thanks as always for all your excellent work! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 06:51, 12 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Saw you had to revert some of the changes to the Turks, hope I hadn't crossed any wires. No changes but mine while you were gone.<br />
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::I accidentally reverted your changes somehow and than reverted them back! Not sure how that happened. Sorry for any confusion. If anything is still messed up please put it back to how you had it... Thanks for keeping such a good eye on things!--[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 19:08, 17 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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No worries. And I'm just in the habit of checking "recent changes" so I happened to notice it, lol. Glad to see you're back in the saddle.<br />
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Chris --[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 19:13, 17 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Glossary Addition? ==<br />
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What do you think about adding a glossary link to the main page. I'll get it started on the basics, and see if it grows. Nothing fancy, mostly to help new guys I'd suppose. <br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 09:44, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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:Yes!! That's a great idea, Chris!! We have a fast growing population of new pipe smokers using the site, and I think your glossary idea would be a fantastic resource to them! <br />
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:If you have something to work from already, or want to build it from scratch, that would be great, but if you want to save some development time we could build it from this one at smokingpipes: http://www.smokingpipes.com/smokingpipesblog/glossary.cfm and build our version out from there. If we use theirs to start we just need to make sure to credit them and link back to their version. Either way works great for me! Thanks for the fantastic idea and willingness to tackle it! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 10:03, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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I did one for Reddit at some point, I probably still have it around, and if not it goes pretty quick, but SP does have a good one, I'll check it out again. Threw up a blank page to start working on, I'll let it fill up a bit and then add a link.<br />
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:Perfect, thanks, Chris! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 10:39, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 10:13, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Grabow Shapes ==<br />
Hope it's kosher, working with RJ McKay to get a linkman's era grabow shape chart put together, you'll see the recent changes/uploads. he has an enormous amount of info that shouldn't go to waste. Still working on the glossary, but I do love my linkman's.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 16:06, 24 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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::Yes! The new shape chart stuff looks great! I love getting that kind of material included when we still have access to it! Lost a lot of great stuff from a very knowledgeable Kaywoodie collector a few years ago and have never let myself forget it. We've got to nail that stuff down while we still have the expertise available! Good work, Chris! Thanks! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 16:19, 24 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Didn't know that about Svend Hangaard, very cool!<br />
::I though so too! I'm having a lot of fun while recovering from surgery. Can't make pipes yet, but I can sure enjoy researching and working on Pipedia! Great work on the Glossary, btw! That is really coming together nicely! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 20:42, 2 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Thanks! Shouldn't be too long now. Hope the recovery goes well and quickly.<br />
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== Glossary ==<br />
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Still working on the glossary, but I think it's big enough to let people have at it. Where should I link it?<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 18:38, 4 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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:: Yes, it is looking great! Definitely ready to start linking it places. I need to spend a little time cleaning up some inathctive links on the left nav bar first, and then link it there. Also the mobile responsive version of that, which my son will have to do for us. I think also from the main page, which also needs some updating at this point. I'll get after the nav bar tomorrow morning. Do you have any other ideas? --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 22:22, 4 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Thanks, Scott, a few. I've been trying to learn about blending for a bit, and I've been thinking about some tools to help with that. If I knew how to make a flow chart I'd have done that already. Sort of a "you want to add sweet to a blend?" Then add this kind of thing. Either combined with or similar to some thoughts on tasting as well. And I've definitely been slacking on a bunch of meerschaum stuff. Like an "Is this pressed?" page with photos. I have a pressed meer around here somewhere I can show some differences with. I have a buddy who I think has written an estate pipe buyer's guide or started to, and if not I'll probably put together some kind of "things to look out for" page at some point. Also thought about talking some people into putting a topic of pipe pondering they're interested in down on paper. Like the Dutch Pipe Smoker, Arno, for example, his knowledge is pretty incredible. And of course there are still bunches of wanted pages and pipe mysteries to explore. Good thing I find all of this stuff so fascinating! Plus, I've been ogling a lot of new photos. Great stuff. Hope the recuperation goes well!<br />
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Chris<br />
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::Your Glossary is now linked from the nav bar, as well as the main page. This is great! It will be great to keep developing it, but it's already extremely helpful! Thanks very much for pulling that together. <br />
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::Blending information sounds like an excellent direction, and some kind of flow chart graphic or narrative on how to tweak flavor elements would be very helpful! Timely topic for me too. I have done a very limited amount of tweaking existing blends, and want to do more. In part, I have some tobacco growing. Too early to tell if it will make it all the way to harvest, but I'm growing Nadole (a variety of Kentucky Dark), and also some Burley (can't remember the variety). Incidentally, Kentucky Dark can be air cured, as well as fire cured. It is likely related to Burley, but is different than Burley. It's darker, and the leaves tend to be smaller, and it generally has a higher nicotine content. We live in the heart of the Black Patch region of Western KY, where Kentucky Dark is growing all around us here. Had to give it a try! If it makes it through the harvest and a bit of air curing process, I'll also try to fire some of it, but haven't figured out how to pull that off yet on a scale that will work for just a few plants. Build a very little barn of some kind, I guess!<br />
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::Have often wanted to see more on Meers! That would be great too, and an estate pipe buyers guide would be fantastic!<br />
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::Let me know if you see anywhere else to link the Glossary that might be helpful, or please feel free to link at will when you notice a good spot. Thanks so much for all your work and ideas. It's an amazing help and encouragement! <br />
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::Recovery is going better than I thought. And, it's great to have some time to play with Pipedia, which has also really helped me to keep from going crazy while I can't do much physically! Incidentally, recovering from a much more minor surgery is how I cam up with Pipedia in the first place! Thanks again, Chirs! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 07:48, 5 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Glad to hear it. And fascinated by the growing, that's my next leap, but I live on the surface of the sun apparently here in South Florida, so gardening has its own issues. For now I'll at least keep trying to catch when I run across a word that may need explaining and try to link from there, but not to the degree wikipedia does it. And I'll have to think about how to fire cure in miniature, but I bet you could flue cure the heck out of it with a barbecue smoker and a dog house with vents, lol. And I love doing this stuff, only in small part because of how much I learned here, but you're very welcome. There has never been a resource like this for smokers. Ever. <br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 09:25, 5 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Just noticed the banner ads on the complete corncob primer are blank. You're probably aware, but just in case.<br />
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cc<br />
--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 20:00, 8 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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::Interesting. I was not aware of that and just checked. They were showing up fine for me. And they showed up on my phone and tablet too. Had my wife check on her computer and they did not show! Turns out she uses an add blocker. When she switched it off, presto, there they were! Interesting in that it was only catching the Missouri Meerschaum ones and not ones for the other underwriters in terms of stuff in content, but all of them were blocked in the top and bottom positions that are part of the skin... So, my big question is, do you have add blocking enabled on your browser? Bet so...<br />
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::Pretty sure the reason the add blocker was catching the Missouri Meerschaum banners in content like that and not other underwriters was that the MM banners had "AD" in the file name, and the others did not. I changed the file names, but my wife's add blocker still caught them. I suspect the images themselves are now recognized by the add blocker independent of the file name. <br />
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::Thanks for the heads up on this, Chris! Very interesting! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 22:10, 8 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Just saw this. And yes, I have adblock enabled. Nice detective work, lol.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 06:54, 10 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Au Pacha ==<br />
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Lopes and The Pipe Companion book both have this one wrong. I'll change it later, just giving a heads up why, it's actually a tobacconist called Au Pacha de Nancy, they're actually still there, although it looks like a souvenir shop now. I have a picture of the Diana pipe somewhere. It's nuts. The steed is rearing because there's some kind of demonic hellhound trying to eat it, it's a pipe with a lot going on, lol.<br />
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::Thanks for letting me know! Yes, please do correct it! And it would be great to have that picture as part of it if you can find it...<br />
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::I've run into several inaccuracies with Lopes. It's a great book, and a huge blessing that he put it together, but you can't trust the entries without pulling up some additional corroborative sources. Thanks for keeping an eye out! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 20:01, 9 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Sure, just one I've ogled before. And it's confusing, there were like 11 Au Pachas, even the Europeans have it wrong. I put the picture up. She should probably find a different hunting spot. I didn't mention it, either, but the Nashville museum closed, Dr. Sarunas "Sharkey" Peckus is the last known owner of this one, along with an incredible number of historically important meerschaums I'd like to have. He co-wrote the Rappaport porcelain pipe book. Never met or met anyone who has met him, but his collection is ridiculous. Got the big award in Chicago in '09. <br />
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Have a great one! --[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 10:50, 10 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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::Fantastic to have that straightened out, along with the photo! Thanks! That's a good example of the crazy rats nest of information out there when it comes to pipes! I'm in Nashville a lot, and tried to track that museum down at one point when I found it had been closed down. Too bad. That's a great little book, though! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 11:02, 10 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Lopes ==--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 18:51, 27 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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I don't have the book myself, only bits and pieces, but if you have it scanned and want to send me a chunk I'll share the effort. <br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 10:21, 12 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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:That's a wonderful offer, Chris, thanks! Just sent you an E-mail... It's been interesting, but more than a bit daunting. Couple other similar projects to do at some point too, and they may prove even more challenging! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 12:52, 12 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Haven't disappeared, just swamped with work for the last couple of weeks, don't worry, lol. <br />
--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 18:51, 27 June 2015 (CDT)</div>Flatticushttps://pipedia.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Sethile&diff=21088User talk:Sethile2015-06-12T15:21:10Z<p>Flatticus: /* Lopes */ new section</p>
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<div>As per my other suggestion, perhaps it would be better to completely remove the Marks/Logo page altogether and just have a link at the bottom of each Brand/Maker's page to the Pipephil website for that particular Brand or Maker? --[[User:Frank|Frank]] - 3/26/09<br />
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: Sure, that would work fine too. The advantage of the Marks/Logo page, assuming it were to get flushed out eventually, is for situations where someone is trying to identify a pipe with some sort of logo without knowing the maker. Regardless, I think relevant off site links should be added at the bottom of each article directly. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 15:41, 26 March 2009 (CDT)<br />
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:: Lacking a Name Stamp, being able to identify a pipe from it's Logo alone would be useful. Pipephil does have a means of searching with criteria such as a Star or an Anchor or a Dot, etc., but it is lacking a couple of such criteria to search by, last I checked.--[[User:Frank|Frank]] - 3/26/09<br />
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Scott, Earlier on I checked on that item in Cyrillic that you deleted. I found a translation, and it is pipe related..--[[User:Frank|Frank]] - 4/13/09<br />
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:Thanks, Frank! I put it back. I wondered about that.. I was a little on the delete button ;) --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 21:18, 13 April 2009 (CDT)<br />
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== Notice for you ==<br />
This thing needs a bit of scouring just to make it palatable to educated folk! C'mon, this is just lazy. I say "c'mon" because this is the talk page. The entry itself ought to be perfectly written, not sounding like a letter to a dopey pal in Wisconsin!Thundersnow 00:08, 10 May 2010 (UTC)--A direct quote off the Tobacco page. It really needs work, that.[[User:Thundersnow|Thundersnow]] 00:10, 10 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== Bridge Too Far? ==<br />
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QUOTE FROM ME: "Hello Eric, Thanks for your work on the Tobacco article. Yes, it does need a lot of work! Also, it would be great if you can help with the Savinellis article. In short, whatever you have time for would be most welcome in deed--I really appreciate your help! All the best, --sethile 01:28, 11 May 2010 (UTC) [....]<br />
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Uhm, I do not know any Eric except an old colleague. And I must say that it is just plain wrong to try to do that to a contributor who wished to remain known by username. And by the way, I am Rev. Antonio Hernandez.Thundersnow 03:13, 12 May 2010 (UTC)"<br />
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Well, thanks a lot for this unwanted headache.[[User:Thundersnow|Thundersnow]] 03:15, 12 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:Since the email address (EricBlair@disciples.com), which you publicly posted, gave the name as Eric Blair, it was an understandable mistake on Scott's part, as he could hardly be aware that you use someone elses email address. I believe he was only trying to be friendly on a first name basis. Accusing him of "outing" you in such a heartless manner is a mean thing to do, since he obviously did not do it to deliberately "expose" you.<br />
:As you obviously aren't aware of the tremendous scope of this website, let me enlighten you of the fact that the vast majority of the design, information and contributions have been due to Scott's hard work. Furthermore, he is always extremely appreciative of corrections and contributions to the website.<br />
:Considering that you don't even know one iota about Scott, I find your jumping to conclusions about him offensive in the extreme. I also find your tone and attitude particularly rude and belligerent, especially as you claim to be a man of the cloth. - [[User:Frank|Frank]] 07:37, 12 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:: Thanks Frank! For what it's worth I apologized on his user talk, but apparently that was not what Thundersnow was after. He has elected to deprive us of his presence and help for the present. All the best, --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 23:17, 14 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== QuestyCaptcha not working? ==<br />
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Hi,<br />
<br />
I operate a wiki and I was going to install QuestyCaptcha. Can I ask, does your Aug 14th note about spam mean your Apr 13th installation of QuestyCaptcha isn't working?<br />
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Are the bots responding correctly to both questions or just one? (The "''What is this wiki's name?''" question is probably very common, so spambots might be configured to always stick in the wiki's name when confronted with QuestyCaptcha) If they're getting both questions right, then I guess a human actually took the time to note your questions and the correct answers, so adding a few dozen new questions is probably what's necessary.<br />
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I'd be very interested to hear more about the problem. Thanks. [[User:Ciaran|Ciaran]] 15:51, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
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: I'm not sure the bots responded to either question... It may just be my QuestyCaptcha configuration needs more tweaking. I installed it when I had a bunch of spam that appeared to use humans to make registered users in spite of using ReCaptcha (about 5 to 10 per day), and than that info seemed to be plugged into bots that used the registration information to spam. QuestyCaptcha shut that attack down. I had some new bot yesterday that was not spamming links, just junk. Looked like maybe it attempted to put in links and when it hit QuestyCaptcha it created new articles without links, or was deleting existing content and replacing it with a line like "Great post" or something similar. Apparently edits without links does not trigger QuestyCaptcha due to my settings.<br />
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:It may be I can tighten up my QuestyCaptcha settings to catch this new stuff too. Haven't had time to play with it much. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 16:20, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
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::I've been reading the docs:<br />
::* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:QuestyCaptcha<br />
::* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit#QuestyCaptcha<br />
::* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ConfirmEdit_Test_Plan<br />
::... and the comments in the source code.<br />
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::If you want all edits to require passing a captcha, change "false" to "true" in this line of ''nameofwiki/extensions/ConfirmEdit/ConfirmEdit.php'':<br />
:: $wgCaptchaTriggers['edit'] = false; // Would check on every edit<br />
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::I haven't tried it out yet, but it seems you can exempt logged in users from the captchas by setting:<br />
::$wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['skipcaptcha'] = true;<br />
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::Or logged in users who've confirmed their email address by setting these to ''true'' in ConfirmEdit.php:<br />
:: $wgGroupPermissions['emailconfirmed']['skipcaptcha'] = true;<br />
:: $ceAllowConfirmedEmail = true;<br />
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::Thanks for the quick reply. I think I'll go ahead and install Questy for my wiki. [[User:Ciaran|Ciaran]] 16:59, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
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::: Thanks for the links! I've poored over those same docs too, but it's been a while. I changed the settings to allow anonymous edits again, but they will all trigger Questy while users will bypass it. To create an account triggers it though. That should take care of the bulk of the problems I've been having while still allowing anonymous edits. I guess we'll see! <br />
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:::How did your Questy install go? --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 21:03, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
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Hi. I only got it installed three days ago. (I don't have direct access to the server.)<br />
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To my great surprise, I'm still getting two or three spam edits per day: [http://en.swpat.org/wiki?title=Special:RecentChanges&hidebots=0] !<br />
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I'm baffled. I've searched the Internet extensively and I can't find anyone else saying that spam gets past QuestyCaptcha. I think I'll mention this on the mediawiki.org site. [[User:Ciaran|Ciaran]] 17:48, 3 September 2011 (CDT)<br />
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:My situation here seems to have stabilized for the present, although I had a new user and subsequent spam hit yesterday, but only one, and that was the first since I tweaked my Questy settings. It was different than most of the ones I've had in the past. I think it was a human... Your experience and my recent hit may mean the humans that were hired to work ReCaptcha implementations are now working on Questy sites. That makes some sense. I don't think it's possible to set up a captcha of any kind that will defend against humans without also severely limiting your potential contributions ;(<br />
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:BTW, I hope your efforts against the Patent Trolls and other insanity with software patents proves fruitful. I heard a very interesting piece on NPR a month or so ago. Sounds like a completely out of control mess! I had no idea... --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 21:07, 3 September 2011 (CDT)<br />
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== Gloredo ==<br />
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Dear Sethile<br />
You recieved like me a mail from these "other Gloredo" people.<br />
In my opinion there is no serious evidence for their activity in pipe making. <br />
The so called "Trademark Registration Certificate" you certainely got too has no value for me. I have to do with Chinese students and I know their degree certificate or diplom are sometimes "home made". <br />
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And for fun I made a little faux of this certificate changing "Gloredo" by "Dunhill"<br />
[http://www.pipephil.eu/pics/gloredo-pipephil.jpg see here]<br />
see also my comment in the gloredo's Talk.<br />
I think at least the two gloredos should appear on the GLOREDO page<br />
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: Yes, I agree, and I responded in the Gloredo's talk as well. Regardless of the current status of the brand there is no reason not to include its history, which is way it is relevant... --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 09:38, 11 December 2012 (CST)<br />
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:: But there are TWO gloredos apparently. I think this should be clear in the article, no ?<br />
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::: OK, yes, I think I've got it now... I thought it was a buyout of some kind at first. What a mess!<br />
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== Removal of Link==<br />
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Why did you remove my link on the health effects of smoking cigars and pipes? It was a link to WebMD, a well respected source for medical info. [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 08:05, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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: Hello Laughing Buddha. Thanks for you input. While WebMD has a lot of good medical information, this particular article was typical of the medical literature that attempts to lump pipes and cigars in with cigarettes by establishing the idea that all forms of tobacco are evil. This article allowed for some minor differences, which is better than some articles, but there remains in it a number of well documented inaccuracies typical of the medical literature. If you are really interested in this subject you could read through some of the other material we have linked too. <br />
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:In return, I would like to ask you why you linked to the article. I note that it is your one and only contribution to Pipedia, made shortly after you registered. My guess is your not really interested in pipes, but are just against tobacco. This wiki is for those of us who are interested in pipes and pipe smoking. Our take of this issue is going to be more nuanced than one would typically expect of the general public. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 08:39, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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::I have mixed feelings about pipe smoking because I used smoke pipes on and off for 15 years. I have three Savinellis, two Nordings and one Dr. Grabow to prove it. Also, my favorite tobacco brand was Peter Stockkebye's. Unfortunately, I eventually became addicted and smoked so often that I was staining my teeth and burning my mouth. Also, my dentist repeatedly warned me of the dental problems associated with pipe smoking including mouth cancer, so I stopped, which was very difficult for me. (However, I recently noticed England's "Pipe Smoker of the Year" list on Wikipedia. Many of them lived past 70. I found this very confusing.)<br />
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::I noticed your section titled Pipe Smoking Health and perused through it. It seemed to lack emphasis on the health hazards of pipe smoking. I sincerely believe pipe smokers should smoke with their eyes wide open with respect to the information on the health hazards of smoking and for that reason I added the WebMD link. By the way, I was planning to make other contributions that had nothing to do with health-related issues but my conscience would have bothered me had I not added information to the health section first. <br />
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::Even though the health hazards of smoking scare the hell out of me, I still love admiring the craftsmanship and artistry of pipes themselves. I can't tell you how many hours I've spent looking at pics of pipes on the internet. It's like porn for me. [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 18:37, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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:::Thanks very much for your reply. I'm glad to hear you're not anti tobacco and are just genuinely concerned about the risks. Pipe smoking certainly involves some increased health risk, but it has been greatly over exaggerated in the main stream health media, which tends to lump us all in with cigarette smokers. We have a slight increase risk for mouth and lip cancer, but that is very rare and to even slightly increase ones risk for them would involve smoking many more pipes per day than is typical of your average pipe smoker. Most pipe smokers do not inhale, which elevates nearly all the main risks associated with cigarette smoking. They also tend to smoke much less. <br />
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:::The WebMD article has one statement that is completely false and very misleading, "...research shows that cigar and pipe smoking is every bit as dangerous as cigarette smoking, and possibly even more dangerous". That is a ridiculous claim. They don't even attempt to back that up, or cite the research they refer to. Unless I am very much mistaken, there is no viable research that would even come close to supporting that statement. <br />
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:::I think it would be great to freshen up the Pipe Smoking Health area, but this is an issue that involves a great deal of misinformation from otherwise credible sources so it's going to be tough to pull off. For instance, there is a great deal of legitimate criticism with regards to the integrity of the research on the dangers associated with 2nd hand smoke, and that is seldom if ever reported in the main stream health media. BTW, none of that research differentiates between cigarettes and other forms of tobacco smoke, which typically contain much fewer chemical additives, burning paper, and other impurities associated with 2nd hand cigarette smoke.<br />
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:::I hope you will do some more research. You mentioned being surprised at the older pipe smokers that were cited in the Pipe Smoker of Year list. I've heard of one study that indicates moderate pipe smokers that do not inhale actually live slightly longer on average than non-smokers. I have not followed up on that to verify it yet, but that is certainly supported by my own anecdotal observations and pipe smoking can certainly reduce stress.<br />
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:::If in your research you would like to freshen up the Pipe Smoking Health article here on Pipedia, I would greatly appreciate it. It's even OK to link to articles such as the WebMD article you had linked too earlier, but it would be appropriate to point out any obvious flaws with the article if you do. Thanks again for your reply. I look forward to your contributions on this or other areas of Pipedia that may be of interest. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 22:33, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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::::Thanks, your response strikes me as very reasonable. By the way, would you happen to have a link on the information you mentioned about the longevity of pipe smokers? I'd be very interested in reading it. [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 08:15, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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:::::It apparently refers back to the original 1964 Surgeon General's report. Here is an interesting and fairly written [http://www.meerschaumstore.com/health.htm article by Mark Beale, MD] that mentions it as well as some other interesting and relevant information that rings credible to me, at least.<br />
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::::::Thanks [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 14:34, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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==New Question==<br />
What's the difference between an estate pipe and a conventional pipe? [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 12:34, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
:Nothing, really. Used or previously owned pipes have come to be known as Estate pipes. They can either be smoked or unsmoked and still qualify. They can be cheap or expensive, and still qualify, and they can come from an English Lord's estate, or picked up off of a dying bum on the street. It just sounds better. I guess like previously owned cars versus used cars ;) --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 12:41, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
::Thanks [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 14:34, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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== Tanzania/Tanganyika ==<br />
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Saw you're working on african meerschaum a bit, figured I'd throw what I could into the ring. <br />
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No expert, but I think the way it went on these is that Amboseli wasn't a pipe company, it's the name of one of the african meerschaum mines, the one that closed in Tanzania in 2006. I realize pipephil disagrees on that one. Tanganyika Meerchaum Corporation, LTD was founded in December 1955 in Kenya with nominal capital of 50,000 pounds. The internet will tell you they later moved from there to Arusha, Tanzania, which is both a city and also the region containing the Amboseli mines, when they trademarked their logo in September '68. That's actually wrong. The registered agent for TMC, Ltd. in 1955 wasn't in Kenya, it was in Tanga, Tanganyika. However, at the time, these were colonies, and joint ones. Stamps actually said "kenya, uganda, tanganyika" on them and were valid in all three. So they were always in Arusha. They owned Kilimanjaro and Kiko. Also Townsman, Countryman, a bunch of lines. However, as the mines are now closed, TMC, Ltd. is technically now owned by STAMICO, a wholly owned government enterprise under the tanzanian ministry of energy and minerals. <br />
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At some point the Tanzanian pipes were being listed in the Charles S. Loeb catalog, as Kikos and Kilimanjaros, not sure if they bought TMC, Ltd. or licensed the pipes from them. <br />
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The other mine that produced meerschaum was in Somalia, from Eilbur/El Burr, where somalis have made meerschaum incense burners for centuries. Apparently this block was cut into stummels and sold in its entirety to Laxey/Manx straight from Somalia, and is no longer available since Somalia fell apart. When you see a smooth african meerschaum, it's my understanding you're looking at somalian block.<br />
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Do with that what you will.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 20:59, 25 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
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:Wow, that's interesting, thanks, Chris! Kind of hard to know what to put where, but I'll take a stab at sorting that out when I get a chance... It's not unusual to have difficult to sort out histories in pipedom, along with the occasional controversy surrounding them ;) --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 19:52, 26 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
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No doubt. At least it doesn't take a flowchart like Comoy/GBD/Chacom and such.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 13:19, 28 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
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== Photo question ==<br />
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Was curious, and I probably missed it in the help, but is there a preferred size for photos? I need to get around to finally taking some, figured it couldn't hurt to grab some nomenclature snaps and such.<br />
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:Somewhere between 600 and 1000 pixels wide seems to be a good range. By using thumbnails and/or gallery spots in the articles we can accommodate a nice fit with the context while still allowing for full sized images when they're clicked on. Takes a while to get the hang of how that works, but I'll be happy to help if you hit any snags.<br />
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:It would be great to have more pics of nomenclature, and anything else you think relevant. It's great to see all your work in new and existing articles. Thanks very much for your help, Chris! Scott --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 15:42, 28 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
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Thanks, I'm learning a heck of a lot, too.<br />
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Changes do, indeed, look seamless. Everything seems to be working and displaying perfectly. How unusual, lol.<br />
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::Great! Yes, my son, John [[User talk:Gilrain]] has pretty amazing skills with the back end stuff! Even with that I was surprised he pulled off this transition seemingly without a hitch. Still, you never know! Please let us know if you happen into anything. And thanks as always for all your excellent work! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 06:51, 12 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Saw you had to revert some of the changes to the Turks, hope I hadn't crossed any wires. No changes but mine while you were gone.<br />
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::I accidentally reverted your changes somehow and than reverted them back! Not sure how that happened. Sorry for any confusion. If anything is still messed up please put it back to how you had it... Thanks for keeping such a good eye on things!--[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 19:08, 17 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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No worries. And I'm just in the habit of checking "recent changes" so I happened to notice it, lol. Glad to see you're back in the saddle.<br />
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Chris --[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 19:13, 17 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Glossary Addition? ==<br />
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What do you think about adding a glossary link to the main page. I'll get it started on the basics, and see if it grows. Nothing fancy, mostly to help new guys I'd suppose. <br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 09:44, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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:Yes!! That's a great idea, Chris!! We have a fast growing population of new pipe smokers using the site, and I think your glossary idea would be a fantastic resource to them! <br />
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:If you have something to work from already, or want to build it from scratch, that would be great, but if you want to save some development time we could build it from this one at smokingpipes: http://www.smokingpipes.com/smokingpipesblog/glossary.cfm and build our version out from there. If we use theirs to start we just need to make sure to credit them and link back to their version. Either way works great for me! Thanks for the fantastic idea and willingness to tackle it! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 10:03, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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I did one for Reddit at some point, I probably still have it around, and if not it goes pretty quick, but SP does have a good one, I'll check it out again. Threw up a blank page to start working on, I'll let it fill up a bit and then add a link.<br />
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:Perfect, thanks, Chris! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 10:39, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 10:13, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Grabow Shapes ==<br />
Hope it's kosher, working with RJ McKay to get a linkman's era grabow shape chart put together, you'll see the recent changes/uploads. he has an enormous amount of info that shouldn't go to waste. Still working on the glossary, but I do love my linkman's.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 16:06, 24 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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::Yes! The new shape chart stuff looks great! I love getting that kind of material included when we still have access to it! Lost a lot of great stuff from a very knowledgeable Kaywoodie collector a few years ago and have never let myself forget it. We've got to nail that stuff down while we still have the expertise available! Good work, Chris! Thanks! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 16:19, 24 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Didn't know that about Svend Hangaard, very cool!<br />
::I though so too! I'm having a lot of fun while recovering from surgery. Can't make pipes yet, but I can sure enjoy researching and working on Pipedia! Great work on the Glossary, btw! That is really coming together nicely! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 20:42, 2 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Thanks! Shouldn't be too long now. Hope the recovery goes well and quickly.<br />
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== Glossary ==<br />
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Still working on the glossary, but I think it's big enough to let people have at it. Where should I link it?<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 18:38, 4 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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:: Yes, it is looking great! Definitely ready to start linking it places. I need to spend a little time cleaning up some inathctive links on the left nav bar first, and then link it there. Also the mobile responsive version of that, which my son will have to do for us. I think also from the main page, which also needs some updating at this point. I'll get after the nav bar tomorrow morning. Do you have any other ideas? --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 22:22, 4 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Thanks, Scott, a few. I've been trying to learn about blending for a bit, and I've been thinking about some tools to help with that. If I knew how to make a flow chart I'd have done that already. Sort of a "you want to add sweet to a blend?" Then add this kind of thing. Either combined with or similar to some thoughts on tasting as well. And I've definitely been slacking on a bunch of meerschaum stuff. Like an "Is this pressed?" page with photos. I have a pressed meer around here somewhere I can show some differences with. I have a buddy who I think has written an estate pipe buyer's guide or started to, and if not I'll probably put together some kind of "things to look out for" page at some point. Also thought about talking some people into putting a topic of pipe pondering they're interested in down on paper. Like the Dutch Pipe Smoker, Arno, for example, his knowledge is pretty incredible. And of course there are still bunches of wanted pages and pipe mysteries to explore. Good thing I find all of this stuff so fascinating! Plus, I've been ogling a lot of new photos. Great stuff. Hope the recuperation goes well!<br />
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::Your Glossary is now linked from the nav bar, as well as the main page. This is great! It will be great to keep developing it, but it's already extremely helpful! Thanks very much for pulling that together. <br />
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::Blending information sounds like an excellent direction, and some kind of flow chart graphic or narrative on how to tweak flavor elements would be very helpful! Timely topic for me too. I have done a very limited amount of tweaking existing blends, and want to do more. In part, I have some tobacco growing. Too early to tell if it will make it all the way to harvest, but I'm growing Nadole (a variety of Kentucky Dark), and also some Burley (can't remember the variety). Incidentally, Kentucky Dark can be air cured, as well as fire cured. It is likely related to Burley, but is different than Burley. It's darker, and the leaves tend to be smaller, and it generally has a higher nicotine content. We live in the heart of the Black Patch region of Western KY, where Kentucky Dark is growing all around us here. Had to give it a try! If it makes it through the harvest and a bit of air curing process, I'll also try to fire some of it, but haven't figured out how to pull that off yet on a scale that will work for just a few plants. Build a very little barn of some kind, I guess!<br />
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::Have often wanted to see more on Meers! That would be great too, and an estate pipe buyers guide would be fantastic!<br />
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::Let me know if you see anywhere else to link the Glossary that might be helpful, or please feel free to link at will when you notice a good spot. Thanks so much for all your work and ideas. It's an amazing help and encouragement! <br />
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::Recovery is going better than I thought. And, it's great to have some time to play with Pipedia, which has also really helped me to keep from going crazy while I can't do much physically! Incidentally, recovering from a much more minor surgery is how I cam up with Pipedia in the first place! Thanks again, Chirs! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 07:48, 5 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Glad to hear it. And fascinated by the growing, that's my next leap, but I live on the surface of the sun apparently here in South Florida, so gardening has its own issues. For now I'll at least keep trying to catch when I run across a word that may need explaining and try to link from there, but not to the degree wikipedia does it. And I'll have to think about how to fire cure in miniature, but I bet you could flue cure the heck out of it with a barbecue smoker and a dog house with vents, lol. And I love doing this stuff, only in small part because of how much I learned here, but you're very welcome. There has never been a resource like this for smokers. Ever. <br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 09:25, 5 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Just noticed the banner ads on the complete corncob primer are blank. You're probably aware, but just in case.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 20:00, 8 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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::Interesting. I was not aware of that and just checked. They were showing up fine for me. And they showed up on my phone and tablet too. Had my wife check on her computer and they did not show! Turns out she uses an add blocker. When she switched it off, presto, there they were! Interesting in that it was only catching the Missouri Meerschaum ones and not ones for the other underwriters in terms of stuff in content, but all of them were blocked in the top and bottom positions that are part of the skin... So, my big question is, do you have add blocking enabled on your browser? Bet so...<br />
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::Pretty sure the reason the add blocker was catching the Missouri Meerschaum banners in content like that and not other underwriters was that the MM banners had "AD" in the file name, and the others did not. I changed the file names, but my wife's add blocker still caught them. I suspect the images themselves are now recognized by the add blocker independent of the file name. <br />
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::Thanks for the heads up on this, Chris! Very interesting! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 22:10, 8 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Just saw this. And yes, I have adblock enabled. Nice detective work, lol.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 06:54, 10 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Au Pacha ==<br />
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Lopes and The Pipe Companion book both have this one wrong. I'll change it later, just giving a heads up why, it's actually a tobacconist called Au Pacha de Nancy, they're actually still there, although it looks like a souvenir shop now. I have a picture of the Diana pipe somewhere. It's nuts. The steed is rearing because there's some kind of demonic hellhound trying to eat it, it's a pipe with a lot going on, lol.<br />
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::Thanks for letting me know! Yes, please do correct it! And it would be great to have that picture as part of it if you can find it...<br />
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::I've run into several inaccuracies with Lopes. It's a great book, and a huge blessing that he put it together, but you can't trust the entries without pulling up some additional corroborative sources. Thanks for keeping an eye out! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 20:01, 9 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Sure, just one I've ogled before. And it's confusing, there were like 11 Au Pachas, even the Europeans have it wrong. I put the picture up. She should probably find a different hunting spot. I didn't mention it, either, but the Nashville museum closed, Dr. Sarunas "Sharkey" Peckus is the last known owner of this one, along with an incredible number of historically important meerschaums I'd like to have. He co-wrote the Rappaport porcelain pipe book. Never met or met anyone who has met him, but his collection is ridiculous. Got the big award in Chicago in '09. <br />
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Have a great one! --[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 10:50, 10 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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::Fantastic to have that straightened out, along with the photo! Thanks! That's a good example of the crazy rats nest of information out there when it comes to pipes! I'm in Nashville a lot, and tried to track that museum down at one point when I found it had been closed down. Too bad. That's a great little book, though! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 11:02, 10 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Lopes ==<br />
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I don't have the book myself, only bits and pieces, but if you have it scanned and want to send me a chunk I'll share the effort. <br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 10:21, 12 June 2015 (CDT)</div>Flatticushttps://pipedia.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Sethile&diff=20902User talk:Sethile2015-06-10T15:50:53Z<p>Flatticus: /* Au Pacha */</p>
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<div>As per my other suggestion, perhaps it would be better to completely remove the Marks/Logo page altogether and just have a link at the bottom of each Brand/Maker's page to the Pipephil website for that particular Brand or Maker? --[[User:Frank|Frank]] - 3/26/09<br />
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: Sure, that would work fine too. The advantage of the Marks/Logo page, assuming it were to get flushed out eventually, is for situations where someone is trying to identify a pipe with some sort of logo without knowing the maker. Regardless, I think relevant off site links should be added at the bottom of each article directly. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 15:41, 26 March 2009 (CDT)<br />
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:: Lacking a Name Stamp, being able to identify a pipe from it's Logo alone would be useful. Pipephil does have a means of searching with criteria such as a Star or an Anchor or a Dot, etc., but it is lacking a couple of such criteria to search by, last I checked.--[[User:Frank|Frank]] - 3/26/09<br />
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Scott, Earlier on I checked on that item in Cyrillic that you deleted. I found a translation, and it is pipe related..--[[User:Frank|Frank]] - 4/13/09<br />
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:Thanks, Frank! I put it back. I wondered about that.. I was a little on the delete button ;) --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 21:18, 13 April 2009 (CDT)<br />
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== Notice for you ==<br />
This thing needs a bit of scouring just to make it palatable to educated folk! C'mon, this is just lazy. I say "c'mon" because this is the talk page. The entry itself ought to be perfectly written, not sounding like a letter to a dopey pal in Wisconsin!Thundersnow 00:08, 10 May 2010 (UTC)--A direct quote off the Tobacco page. It really needs work, that.[[User:Thundersnow|Thundersnow]] 00:10, 10 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== Bridge Too Far? ==<br />
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QUOTE FROM ME: "Hello Eric, Thanks for your work on the Tobacco article. Yes, it does need a lot of work! Also, it would be great if you can help with the Savinellis article. In short, whatever you have time for would be most welcome in deed--I really appreciate your help! All the best, --sethile 01:28, 11 May 2010 (UTC) [....]<br />
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Uhm, I do not know any Eric except an old colleague. And I must say that it is just plain wrong to try to do that to a contributor who wished to remain known by username. And by the way, I am Rev. Antonio Hernandez.Thundersnow 03:13, 12 May 2010 (UTC)"<br />
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Well, thanks a lot for this unwanted headache.[[User:Thundersnow|Thundersnow]] 03:15, 12 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:Since the email address (EricBlair@disciples.com), which you publicly posted, gave the name as Eric Blair, it was an understandable mistake on Scott's part, as he could hardly be aware that you use someone elses email address. I believe he was only trying to be friendly on a first name basis. Accusing him of "outing" you in such a heartless manner is a mean thing to do, since he obviously did not do it to deliberately "expose" you.<br />
:As you obviously aren't aware of the tremendous scope of this website, let me enlighten you of the fact that the vast majority of the design, information and contributions have been due to Scott's hard work. Furthermore, he is always extremely appreciative of corrections and contributions to the website.<br />
:Considering that you don't even know one iota about Scott, I find your jumping to conclusions about him offensive in the extreme. I also find your tone and attitude particularly rude and belligerent, especially as you claim to be a man of the cloth. - [[User:Frank|Frank]] 07:37, 12 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:: Thanks Frank! For what it's worth I apologized on his user talk, but apparently that was not what Thundersnow was after. He has elected to deprive us of his presence and help for the present. All the best, --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 23:17, 14 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== QuestyCaptcha not working? ==<br />
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Hi,<br />
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I operate a wiki and I was going to install QuestyCaptcha. Can I ask, does your Aug 14th note about spam mean your Apr 13th installation of QuestyCaptcha isn't working?<br />
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Are the bots responding correctly to both questions or just one? (The "''What is this wiki's name?''" question is probably very common, so spambots might be configured to always stick in the wiki's name when confronted with QuestyCaptcha) If they're getting both questions right, then I guess a human actually took the time to note your questions and the correct answers, so adding a few dozen new questions is probably what's necessary.<br />
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I'd be very interested to hear more about the problem. Thanks. [[User:Ciaran|Ciaran]] 15:51, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
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: I'm not sure the bots responded to either question... It may just be my QuestyCaptcha configuration needs more tweaking. I installed it when I had a bunch of spam that appeared to use humans to make registered users in spite of using ReCaptcha (about 5 to 10 per day), and than that info seemed to be plugged into bots that used the registration information to spam. QuestyCaptcha shut that attack down. I had some new bot yesterday that was not spamming links, just junk. Looked like maybe it attempted to put in links and when it hit QuestyCaptcha it created new articles without links, or was deleting existing content and replacing it with a line like "Great post" or something similar. Apparently edits without links does not trigger QuestyCaptcha due to my settings.<br />
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:It may be I can tighten up my QuestyCaptcha settings to catch this new stuff too. Haven't had time to play with it much. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 16:20, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
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::I've been reading the docs:<br />
::* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:QuestyCaptcha<br />
::* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit#QuestyCaptcha<br />
::* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ConfirmEdit_Test_Plan<br />
::... and the comments in the source code.<br />
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::If you want all edits to require passing a captcha, change "false" to "true" in this line of ''nameofwiki/extensions/ConfirmEdit/ConfirmEdit.php'':<br />
:: $wgCaptchaTriggers['edit'] = false; // Would check on every edit<br />
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::I haven't tried it out yet, but it seems you can exempt logged in users from the captchas by setting:<br />
::$wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['skipcaptcha'] = true;<br />
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::Or logged in users who've confirmed their email address by setting these to ''true'' in ConfirmEdit.php:<br />
:: $wgGroupPermissions['emailconfirmed']['skipcaptcha'] = true;<br />
:: $ceAllowConfirmedEmail = true;<br />
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::Thanks for the quick reply. I think I'll go ahead and install Questy for my wiki. [[User:Ciaran|Ciaran]] 16:59, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
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::: Thanks for the links! I've poored over those same docs too, but it's been a while. I changed the settings to allow anonymous edits again, but they will all trigger Questy while users will bypass it. To create an account triggers it though. That should take care of the bulk of the problems I've been having while still allowing anonymous edits. I guess we'll see! <br />
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:::How did your Questy install go? --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 21:03, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
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Hi. I only got it installed three days ago. (I don't have direct access to the server.)<br />
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To my great surprise, I'm still getting two or three spam edits per day: [http://en.swpat.org/wiki?title=Special:RecentChanges&hidebots=0] !<br />
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I'm baffled. I've searched the Internet extensively and I can't find anyone else saying that spam gets past QuestyCaptcha. I think I'll mention this on the mediawiki.org site. [[User:Ciaran|Ciaran]] 17:48, 3 September 2011 (CDT)<br />
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:My situation here seems to have stabilized for the present, although I had a new user and subsequent spam hit yesterday, but only one, and that was the first since I tweaked my Questy settings. It was different than most of the ones I've had in the past. I think it was a human... Your experience and my recent hit may mean the humans that were hired to work ReCaptcha implementations are now working on Questy sites. That makes some sense. I don't think it's possible to set up a captcha of any kind that will defend against humans without also severely limiting your potential contributions ;(<br />
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:BTW, I hope your efforts against the Patent Trolls and other insanity with software patents proves fruitful. I heard a very interesting piece on NPR a month or so ago. Sounds like a completely out of control mess! I had no idea... --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 21:07, 3 September 2011 (CDT)<br />
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== Gloredo ==<br />
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Dear Sethile<br />
You recieved like me a mail from these "other Gloredo" people.<br />
In my opinion there is no serious evidence for their activity in pipe making. <br />
The so called "Trademark Registration Certificate" you certainely got too has no value for me. I have to do with Chinese students and I know their degree certificate or diplom are sometimes "home made". <br />
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And for fun I made a little faux of this certificate changing "Gloredo" by "Dunhill"<br />
[http://www.pipephil.eu/pics/gloredo-pipephil.jpg see here]<br />
see also my comment in the gloredo's Talk.<br />
I think at least the two gloredos should appear on the GLOREDO page<br />
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: Yes, I agree, and I responded in the Gloredo's talk as well. Regardless of the current status of the brand there is no reason not to include its history, which is way it is relevant... --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 09:38, 11 December 2012 (CST)<br />
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:: But there are TWO gloredos apparently. I think this should be clear in the article, no ?<br />
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::: OK, yes, I think I've got it now... I thought it was a buyout of some kind at first. What a mess!<br />
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== Removal of Link==<br />
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Why did you remove my link on the health effects of smoking cigars and pipes? It was a link to WebMD, a well respected source for medical info. [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 08:05, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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: Hello Laughing Buddha. Thanks for you input. While WebMD has a lot of good medical information, this particular article was typical of the medical literature that attempts to lump pipes and cigars in with cigarettes by establishing the idea that all forms of tobacco are evil. This article allowed for some minor differences, which is better than some articles, but there remains in it a number of well documented inaccuracies typical of the medical literature. If you are really interested in this subject you could read through some of the other material we have linked too. <br />
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:In return, I would like to ask you why you linked to the article. I note that it is your one and only contribution to Pipedia, made shortly after you registered. My guess is your not really interested in pipes, but are just against tobacco. This wiki is for those of us who are interested in pipes and pipe smoking. Our take of this issue is going to be more nuanced than one would typically expect of the general public. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 08:39, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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::I have mixed feelings about pipe smoking because I used smoke pipes on and off for 15 years. I have three Savinellis, two Nordings and one Dr. Grabow to prove it. Also, my favorite tobacco brand was Peter Stockkebye's. Unfortunately, I eventually became addicted and smoked so often that I was staining my teeth and burning my mouth. Also, my dentist repeatedly warned me of the dental problems associated with pipe smoking including mouth cancer, so I stopped, which was very difficult for me. (However, I recently noticed England's "Pipe Smoker of the Year" list on Wikipedia. Many of them lived past 70. I found this very confusing.)<br />
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::I noticed your section titled Pipe Smoking Health and perused through it. It seemed to lack emphasis on the health hazards of pipe smoking. I sincerely believe pipe smokers should smoke with their eyes wide open with respect to the information on the health hazards of smoking and for that reason I added the WebMD link. By the way, I was planning to make other contributions that had nothing to do with health-related issues but my conscience would have bothered me had I not added information to the health section first. <br />
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::Even though the health hazards of smoking scare the hell out of me, I still love admiring the craftsmanship and artistry of pipes themselves. I can't tell you how many hours I've spent looking at pics of pipes on the internet. It's like porn for me. [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 18:37, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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:::Thanks very much for your reply. I'm glad to hear you're not anti tobacco and are just genuinely concerned about the risks. Pipe smoking certainly involves some increased health risk, but it has been greatly over exaggerated in the main stream health media, which tends to lump us all in with cigarette smokers. We have a slight increase risk for mouth and lip cancer, but that is very rare and to even slightly increase ones risk for them would involve smoking many more pipes per day than is typical of your average pipe smoker. Most pipe smokers do not inhale, which elevates nearly all the main risks associated with cigarette smoking. They also tend to smoke much less. <br />
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:::The WebMD article has one statement that is completely false and very misleading, "...research shows that cigar and pipe smoking is every bit as dangerous as cigarette smoking, and possibly even more dangerous". That is a ridiculous claim. They don't even attempt to back that up, or cite the research they refer to. Unless I am very much mistaken, there is no viable research that would even come close to supporting that statement. <br />
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:::I think it would be great to freshen up the Pipe Smoking Health area, but this is an issue that involves a great deal of misinformation from otherwise credible sources so it's going to be tough to pull off. For instance, there is a great deal of legitimate criticism with regards to the integrity of the research on the dangers associated with 2nd hand smoke, and that is seldom if ever reported in the main stream health media. BTW, none of that research differentiates between cigarettes and other forms of tobacco smoke, which typically contain much fewer chemical additives, burning paper, and other impurities associated with 2nd hand cigarette smoke.<br />
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:::I hope you will do some more research. You mentioned being surprised at the older pipe smokers that were cited in the Pipe Smoker of Year list. I've heard of one study that indicates moderate pipe smokers that do not inhale actually live slightly longer on average than non-smokers. I have not followed up on that to verify it yet, but that is certainly supported by my own anecdotal observations and pipe smoking can certainly reduce stress.<br />
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:::If in your research you would like to freshen up the Pipe Smoking Health article here on Pipedia, I would greatly appreciate it. It's even OK to link to articles such as the WebMD article you had linked too earlier, but it would be appropriate to point out any obvious flaws with the article if you do. Thanks again for your reply. I look forward to your contributions on this or other areas of Pipedia that may be of interest. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 22:33, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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::::Thanks, your response strikes me as very reasonable. By the way, would you happen to have a link on the information you mentioned about the longevity of pipe smokers? I'd be very interested in reading it. [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 08:15, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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:::::It apparently refers back to the original 1964 Surgeon General's report. Here is an interesting and fairly written [http://www.meerschaumstore.com/health.htm article by Mark Beale, MD] that mentions it as well as some other interesting and relevant information that rings credible to me, at least.<br />
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::::::Thanks [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 14:34, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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==New Question==<br />
What's the difference between an estate pipe and a conventional pipe? [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 12:34, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
:Nothing, really. Used or previously owned pipes have come to be known as Estate pipes. They can either be smoked or unsmoked and still qualify. They can be cheap or expensive, and still qualify, and they can come from an English Lord's estate, or picked up off of a dying bum on the street. It just sounds better. I guess like previously owned cars versus used cars ;) --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 12:41, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
::Thanks [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 14:34, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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== Tanzania/Tanganyika ==<br />
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Saw you're working on african meerschaum a bit, figured I'd throw what I could into the ring. <br />
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No expert, but I think the way it went on these is that Amboseli wasn't a pipe company, it's the name of one of the african meerschaum mines, the one that closed in Tanzania in 2006. I realize pipephil disagrees on that one. Tanganyika Meerchaum Corporation, LTD was founded in December 1955 in Kenya with nominal capital of 50,000 pounds. The internet will tell you they later moved from there to Arusha, Tanzania, which is both a city and also the region containing the Amboseli mines, when they trademarked their logo in September '68. That's actually wrong. The registered agent for TMC, Ltd. in 1955 wasn't in Kenya, it was in Tanga, Tanganyika. However, at the time, these were colonies, and joint ones. Stamps actually said "kenya, uganda, tanganyika" on them and were valid in all three. So they were always in Arusha. They owned Kilimanjaro and Kiko. Also Townsman, Countryman, a bunch of lines. However, as the mines are now closed, TMC, Ltd. is technically now owned by STAMICO, a wholly owned government enterprise under the tanzanian ministry of energy and minerals. <br />
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At some point the Tanzanian pipes were being listed in the Charles S. Loeb catalog, as Kikos and Kilimanjaros, not sure if they bought TMC, Ltd. or licensed the pipes from them. <br />
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The other mine that produced meerschaum was in Somalia, from Eilbur/El Burr, where somalis have made meerschaum incense burners for centuries. Apparently this block was cut into stummels and sold in its entirety to Laxey/Manx straight from Somalia, and is no longer available since Somalia fell apart. When you see a smooth african meerschaum, it's my understanding you're looking at somalian block.<br />
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Do with that what you will.<br />
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Chris<br />
--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 20:59, 25 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
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:Wow, that's interesting, thanks, Chris! Kind of hard to know what to put where, but I'll take a stab at sorting that out when I get a chance... It's not unusual to have difficult to sort out histories in pipedom, along with the occasional controversy surrounding them ;) --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 19:52, 26 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
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No doubt. At least it doesn't take a flowchart like Comoy/GBD/Chacom and such.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 13:19, 28 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
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== Photo question ==<br />
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Was curious, and I probably missed it in the help, but is there a preferred size for photos? I need to get around to finally taking some, figured it couldn't hurt to grab some nomenclature snaps and such.<br />
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Chris<br />
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:Somewhere between 600 and 1000 pixels wide seems to be a good range. By using thumbnails and/or gallery spots in the articles we can accommodate a nice fit with the context while still allowing for full sized images when they're clicked on. Takes a while to get the hang of how that works, but I'll be happy to help if you hit any snags.<br />
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:It would be great to have more pics of nomenclature, and anything else you think relevant. It's great to see all your work in new and existing articles. Thanks very much for your help, Chris! Scott --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 15:42, 28 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
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Thanks, I'm learning a heck of a lot, too.<br />
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Chris<br />
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Changes do, indeed, look seamless. Everything seems to be working and displaying perfectly. How unusual, lol.<br />
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Chris<br />
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::Great! Yes, my son, John [[User talk:Gilrain]] has pretty amazing skills with the back end stuff! Even with that I was surprised he pulled off this transition seemingly without a hitch. Still, you never know! Please let us know if you happen into anything. And thanks as always for all your excellent work! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 06:51, 12 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Saw you had to revert some of the changes to the Turks, hope I hadn't crossed any wires. No changes but mine while you were gone.<br />
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::I accidentally reverted your changes somehow and than reverted them back! Not sure how that happened. Sorry for any confusion. If anything is still messed up please put it back to how you had it... Thanks for keeping such a good eye on things!--[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 19:08, 17 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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No worries. And I'm just in the habit of checking "recent changes" so I happened to notice it, lol. Glad to see you're back in the saddle.<br />
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Chris --[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 19:13, 17 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Glossary Addition? ==<br />
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What do you think about adding a glossary link to the main page. I'll get it started on the basics, and see if it grows. Nothing fancy, mostly to help new guys I'd suppose. <br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 09:44, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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:Yes!! That's a great idea, Chris!! We have a fast growing population of new pipe smokers using the site, and I think your glossary idea would be a fantastic resource to them! <br />
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:If you have something to work from already, or want to build it from scratch, that would be great, but if you want to save some development time we could build it from this one at smokingpipes: http://www.smokingpipes.com/smokingpipesblog/glossary.cfm and build our version out from there. If we use theirs to start we just need to make sure to credit them and link back to their version. Either way works great for me! Thanks for the fantastic idea and willingness to tackle it! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 10:03, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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I did one for Reddit at some point, I probably still have it around, and if not it goes pretty quick, but SP does have a good one, I'll check it out again. Threw up a blank page to start working on, I'll let it fill up a bit and then add a link.<br />
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:Perfect, thanks, Chris! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 10:39, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 10:13, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Grabow Shapes ==<br />
Hope it's kosher, working with RJ McKay to get a linkman's era grabow shape chart put together, you'll see the recent changes/uploads. he has an enormous amount of info that shouldn't go to waste. Still working on the glossary, but I do love my linkman's.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 16:06, 24 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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::Yes! The new shape chart stuff looks great! I love getting that kind of material included when we still have access to it! Lost a lot of great stuff from a very knowledgeable Kaywoodie collector a few years ago and have never let myself forget it. We've got to nail that stuff down while we still have the expertise available! Good work, Chris! Thanks! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 16:19, 24 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Didn't know that about Svend Hangaard, very cool!<br />
::I though so too! I'm having a lot of fun while recovering from surgery. Can't make pipes yet, but I can sure enjoy researching and working on Pipedia! Great work on the Glossary, btw! That is really coming together nicely! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 20:42, 2 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Thanks! Shouldn't be too long now. Hope the recovery goes well and quickly.<br />
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== Glossary ==<br />
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Still working on the glossary, but I think it's big enough to let people have at it. Where should I link it?<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 18:38, 4 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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:: Yes, it is looking great! Definitely ready to start linking it places. I need to spend a little time cleaning up some inathctive links on the left nav bar first, and then link it there. Also the mobile responsive version of that, which my son will have to do for us. I think also from the main page, which also needs some updating at this point. I'll get after the nav bar tomorrow morning. Do you have any other ideas? --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 22:22, 4 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Thanks, Scott, a few. I've been trying to learn about blending for a bit, and I've been thinking about some tools to help with that. If I knew how to make a flow chart I'd have done that already. Sort of a "you want to add sweet to a blend?" Then add this kind of thing. Either combined with or similar to some thoughts on tasting as well. And I've definitely been slacking on a bunch of meerschaum stuff. Like an "Is this pressed?" page with photos. I have a pressed meer around here somewhere I can show some differences with. I have a buddy who I think has written an estate pipe buyer's guide or started to, and if not I'll probably put together some kind of "things to look out for" page at some point. Also thought about talking some people into putting a topic of pipe pondering they're interested in down on paper. Like the Dutch Pipe Smoker, Arno, for example, his knowledge is pretty incredible. And of course there are still bunches of wanted pages and pipe mysteries to explore. Good thing I find all of this stuff so fascinating! Plus, I've been ogling a lot of new photos. Great stuff. Hope the recuperation goes well!<br />
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Chris<br />
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::Your Glossary is now linked from the nav bar, as well as the main page. This is great! It will be great to keep developing it, but it's already extremely helpful! Thanks very much for pulling that together. <br />
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::Blending information sounds like an excellent direction, and some kind of flow chart graphic or narrative on how to tweak flavor elements would be very helpful! Timely topic for me too. I have done a very limited amount of tweaking existing blends, and want to do more. In part, I have some tobacco growing. Too early to tell if it will make it all the way to harvest, but I'm growing Nadole (a variety of Kentucky Dark), and also some Burley (can't remember the variety). Incidentally, Kentucky Dark can be air cured, as well as fire cured. It is likely related to Burley, but is different than Burley. It's darker, and the leaves tend to be smaller, and it generally has a higher nicotine content. We live in the heart of the Black Patch region of Western KY, where Kentucky Dark is growing all around us here. Had to give it a try! If it makes it through the harvest and a bit of air curing process, I'll also try to fire some of it, but haven't figured out how to pull that off yet on a scale that will work for just a few plants. Build a very little barn of some kind, I guess!<br />
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::Have often wanted to see more on Meers! That would be great too, and an estate pipe buyers guide would be fantastic!<br />
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::Let me know if you see anywhere else to link the Glossary that might be helpful, or please feel free to link at will when you notice a good spot. Thanks so much for all your work and ideas. It's an amazing help and encouragement! <br />
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::Recovery is going better than I thought. And, it's great to have some time to play with Pipedia, which has also really helped me to keep from going crazy while I can't do much physically! Incidentally, recovering from a much more minor surgery is how I cam up with Pipedia in the first place! Thanks again, Chirs! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 07:48, 5 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Glad to hear it. And fascinated by the growing, that's my next leap, but I live on the surface of the sun apparently here in South Florida, so gardening has its own issues. For now I'll at least keep trying to catch when I run across a word that may need explaining and try to link from there, but not to the degree wikipedia does it. And I'll have to think about how to fire cure in miniature, but I bet you could flue cure the heck out of it with a barbecue smoker and a dog house with vents, lol. And I love doing this stuff, only in small part because of how much I learned here, but you're very welcome. There has never been a resource like this for smokers. Ever. <br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 09:25, 5 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Just noticed the banner ads on the complete corncob primer are blank. You're probably aware, but just in case.<br />
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cc<br />
--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 20:00, 8 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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::Interesting. I was not aware of that and just checked. They were showing up fine for me. And they showed up on my phone and tablet too. Had my wife check on her computer and they did not show! Turns out she uses an add blocker. When she switched it off, presto, there they were! Interesting in that it was only catching the Missouri Meerschaum ones and not ones for the other underwriters in terms of stuff in content, but all of them were blocked in the top and bottom positions that are part of the skin... So, my big question is, do you have add blocking enabled on your browser? Bet so...<br />
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::Pretty sure the reason the add blocker was catching the Missouri Meerschaum banners in content like that and not other underwriters was that the MM banners had "AD" in the file name, and the others did not. I changed the file names, but my wife's add blocker still caught them. I suspect the images themselves are now recognized by the add blocker independent of the file name. <br />
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::Thanks for the heads up on this, Chris! Very interesting! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 22:10, 8 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Just saw this. And yes, I have adblock enabled. Nice detective work, lol.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 06:54, 10 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Au Pacha ==<br />
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Lopes and The Pipe Companion book both have this one wrong. I'll change it later, just giving a heads up why, it's actually a tobacconist called Au Pacha de Nancy, they're actually still there, although it looks like a souvenir shop now. I have a picture of the Diana pipe somewhere. It's nuts. The steed is rearing because there's some kind of demonic hellhound trying to eat it, it's a pipe with a lot going on, lol.<br />
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::Thanks for letting me know! Yes, please do correct it! And it would be great to have that picture as part of it if you can find it...<br />
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::I've run into several inaccuracies with Lopes. It's a great book, and a huge blessing that he put it together, but you can't trust the entries without pulling up some additional corroborative sources. Thanks for keeping an eye out! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 20:01, 9 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Sure, just one I've ogled before. And it's confusing, there were like 11 Au Pachas, even the Europeans have it wrong. I put the picture up. She should probably find a different hunting spot. I didn't mention it, either, but the Nashville museum closed, Dr. Sarunas "Sharkey" Peckus is the last known owner of this one, along with an incredible number of historically important meerschaums I'd like to have. He co-wrote the Rappaport porcelain pipe book. Never met or met anyone who has met him, but his collection is ridiculous. Got the big award in Chicago in '09. <br />
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Have a great one! --[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 10:50, 10 June 2015 (CDT)</div>Flatticushttps://pipedia.org/index.php?title=Au_Pacha&diff=20895Au Pacha2015-06-10T15:31:53Z<p>Flatticus: Redirected page to Au Pache</p>
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<div>#REDIRECT [[Au Pache]]</div>Flatticushttps://pipedia.org/index.php?title=Au_Pache_(Au_Pacha)&diff=20893Au Pache (Au Pacha)2015-06-10T15:31:03Z<p>Flatticus: </p>
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<div>Mistakenly referred to in multiple works as the name of a French meerschaum carver, Au Pache is actually a misspelling of Au Pacha de Nancy, a tobacconist founded in that French city long ago and still active. They are currently located at 11 Rue St. Dizier in Nancy. However, this is not the same "Au Pacha" famous for meerschaum in the mid 19th century and referred to by Jose Manuel Lopés below. Au Pacha was a name used by tobacconists in many French towns, and even in Geneva, Switzerland, but the "Au Pacha" known for meerschaum was located in Paris, on the Place de la Bourse. The atelier was founded in 1854 by Monsieur Lenouvel, in turn succeeded by Desbois and Cheville, later to become Desbois and Weber. The firm offered meerschaum pipes in many styles, including classic shapes with custom monograms and figural pipes of skulls, elephants, and many other traditional shapes. As Lopés points out below, however, their greatest fame came from the pipe "Diana on the Hunt", shown here. [[File:Diana on the Hunt.jpg]]<br />
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'''''From Pipes, Artisans and Trademarks, by Jose Manuel Lopés''''''<br />
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Famous French Meerschaum pipe carver, who lived in Nancy during the 19th century. His pieces are on show at museums, notably the Museum of Tobacco Art and History, in Nashville, TN (USA), where there is a pipe depicting the Roman goddess, Diana, mounted on a rearing steed, and which took Au Pache 15 years to carve (from 1854 to 1869). This pipe was to have been presented to the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph by Napolian III, but with the outbreak of the Franco-War, in 1870, the piece remained in France until 1945, when it was bought by an North American Soldier.<br />
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[[Category: France]]</div>Flatticushttps://pipedia.org/index.php?title=File:Diana_on_the_Hunt.jpg&diff=20892File:Diana on the Hunt.jpg2015-06-10T15:29:26Z<p>Flatticus: </p>
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<div>As per my other suggestion, perhaps it would be better to completely remove the Marks/Logo page altogether and just have a link at the bottom of each Brand/Maker's page to the Pipephil website for that particular Brand or Maker? --[[User:Frank|Frank]] - 3/26/09<br />
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: Sure, that would work fine too. The advantage of the Marks/Logo page, assuming it were to get flushed out eventually, is for situations where someone is trying to identify a pipe with some sort of logo without knowing the maker. Regardless, I think relevant off site links should be added at the bottom of each article directly. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 15:41, 26 March 2009 (CDT)<br />
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:: Lacking a Name Stamp, being able to identify a pipe from it's Logo alone would be useful. Pipephil does have a means of searching with criteria such as a Star or an Anchor or a Dot, etc., but it is lacking a couple of such criteria to search by, last I checked.--[[User:Frank|Frank]] - 3/26/09<br />
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Scott, Earlier on I checked on that item in Cyrillic that you deleted. I found a translation, and it is pipe related..--[[User:Frank|Frank]] - 4/13/09<br />
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:Thanks, Frank! I put it back. I wondered about that.. I was a little on the delete button ;) --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 21:18, 13 April 2009 (CDT)<br />
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== Notice for you ==<br />
This thing needs a bit of scouring just to make it palatable to educated folk! C'mon, this is just lazy. I say "c'mon" because this is the talk page. The entry itself ought to be perfectly written, not sounding like a letter to a dopey pal in Wisconsin!Thundersnow 00:08, 10 May 2010 (UTC)--A direct quote off the Tobacco page. It really needs work, that.[[User:Thundersnow|Thundersnow]] 00:10, 10 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== Bridge Too Far? ==<br />
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QUOTE FROM ME: "Hello Eric, Thanks for your work on the Tobacco article. Yes, it does need a lot of work! Also, it would be great if you can help with the Savinellis article. In short, whatever you have time for would be most welcome in deed--I really appreciate your help! All the best, --sethile 01:28, 11 May 2010 (UTC) [....]<br />
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Uhm, I do not know any Eric except an old colleague. And I must say that it is just plain wrong to try to do that to a contributor who wished to remain known by username. And by the way, I am Rev. Antonio Hernandez.Thundersnow 03:13, 12 May 2010 (UTC)"<br />
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Well, thanks a lot for this unwanted headache.[[User:Thundersnow|Thundersnow]] 03:15, 12 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:Since the email address (EricBlair@disciples.com), which you publicly posted, gave the name as Eric Blair, it was an understandable mistake on Scott's part, as he could hardly be aware that you use someone elses email address. I believe he was only trying to be friendly on a first name basis. Accusing him of "outing" you in such a heartless manner is a mean thing to do, since he obviously did not do it to deliberately "expose" you.<br />
:As you obviously aren't aware of the tremendous scope of this website, let me enlighten you of the fact that the vast majority of the design, information and contributions have been due to Scott's hard work. Furthermore, he is always extremely appreciative of corrections and contributions to the website.<br />
:Considering that you don't even know one iota about Scott, I find your jumping to conclusions about him offensive in the extreme. I also find your tone and attitude particularly rude and belligerent, especially as you claim to be a man of the cloth. - [[User:Frank|Frank]] 07:37, 12 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:: Thanks Frank! For what it's worth I apologized on his user talk, but apparently that was not what Thundersnow was after. He has elected to deprive us of his presence and help for the present. All the best, --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 23:17, 14 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== QuestyCaptcha not working? ==<br />
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Hi,<br />
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I operate a wiki and I was going to install QuestyCaptcha. Can I ask, does your Aug 14th note about spam mean your Apr 13th installation of QuestyCaptcha isn't working?<br />
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Are the bots responding correctly to both questions or just one? (The "''What is this wiki's name?''" question is probably very common, so spambots might be configured to always stick in the wiki's name when confronted with QuestyCaptcha) If they're getting both questions right, then I guess a human actually took the time to note your questions and the correct answers, so adding a few dozen new questions is probably what's necessary.<br />
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I'd be very interested to hear more about the problem. Thanks. [[User:Ciaran|Ciaran]] 15:51, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
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: I'm not sure the bots responded to either question... It may just be my QuestyCaptcha configuration needs more tweaking. I installed it when I had a bunch of spam that appeared to use humans to make registered users in spite of using ReCaptcha (about 5 to 10 per day), and than that info seemed to be plugged into bots that used the registration information to spam. QuestyCaptcha shut that attack down. I had some new bot yesterday that was not spamming links, just junk. Looked like maybe it attempted to put in links and when it hit QuestyCaptcha it created new articles without links, or was deleting existing content and replacing it with a line like "Great post" or something similar. Apparently edits without links does not trigger QuestyCaptcha due to my settings.<br />
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:It may be I can tighten up my QuestyCaptcha settings to catch this new stuff too. Haven't had time to play with it much. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 16:20, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
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::I've been reading the docs:<br />
::* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:QuestyCaptcha<br />
::* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit#QuestyCaptcha<br />
::* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ConfirmEdit_Test_Plan<br />
::... and the comments in the source code.<br />
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::If you want all edits to require passing a captcha, change "false" to "true" in this line of ''nameofwiki/extensions/ConfirmEdit/ConfirmEdit.php'':<br />
:: $wgCaptchaTriggers['edit'] = false; // Would check on every edit<br />
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::I haven't tried it out yet, but it seems you can exempt logged in users from the captchas by setting:<br />
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::Or logged in users who've confirmed their email address by setting these to ''true'' in ConfirmEdit.php:<br />
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::Thanks for the quick reply. I think I'll go ahead and install Questy for my wiki. [[User:Ciaran|Ciaran]] 16:59, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
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::: Thanks for the links! I've poored over those same docs too, but it's been a while. I changed the settings to allow anonymous edits again, but they will all trigger Questy while users will bypass it. To create an account triggers it though. That should take care of the bulk of the problems I've been having while still allowing anonymous edits. I guess we'll see! <br />
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:::How did your Questy install go? --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 21:03, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
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Hi. I only got it installed three days ago. (I don't have direct access to the server.)<br />
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To my great surprise, I'm still getting two or three spam edits per day: [http://en.swpat.org/wiki?title=Special:RecentChanges&hidebots=0] !<br />
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I'm baffled. I've searched the Internet extensively and I can't find anyone else saying that spam gets past QuestyCaptcha. I think I'll mention this on the mediawiki.org site. [[User:Ciaran|Ciaran]] 17:48, 3 September 2011 (CDT)<br />
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:My situation here seems to have stabilized for the present, although I had a new user and subsequent spam hit yesterday, but only one, and that was the first since I tweaked my Questy settings. It was different than most of the ones I've had in the past. I think it was a human... Your experience and my recent hit may mean the humans that were hired to work ReCaptcha implementations are now working on Questy sites. That makes some sense. I don't think it's possible to set up a captcha of any kind that will defend against humans without also severely limiting your potential contributions ;(<br />
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:BTW, I hope your efforts against the Patent Trolls and other insanity with software patents proves fruitful. I heard a very interesting piece on NPR a month or so ago. Sounds like a completely out of control mess! I had no idea... --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 21:07, 3 September 2011 (CDT)<br />
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== Gloredo ==<br />
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Dear Sethile<br />
You recieved like me a mail from these "other Gloredo" people.<br />
In my opinion there is no serious evidence for their activity in pipe making. <br />
The so called "Trademark Registration Certificate" you certainely got too has no value for me. I have to do with Chinese students and I know their degree certificate or diplom are sometimes "home made". <br />
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And for fun I made a little faux of this certificate changing "Gloredo" by "Dunhill"<br />
[http://www.pipephil.eu/pics/gloredo-pipephil.jpg see here]<br />
see also my comment in the gloredo's Talk.<br />
I think at least the two gloredos should appear on the GLOREDO page<br />
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: Yes, I agree, and I responded in the Gloredo's talk as well. Regardless of the current status of the brand there is no reason not to include its history, which is way it is relevant... --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 09:38, 11 December 2012 (CST)<br />
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:: But there are TWO gloredos apparently. I think this should be clear in the article, no ?<br />
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::: OK, yes, I think I've got it now... I thought it was a buyout of some kind at first. What a mess!<br />
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== Removal of Link==<br />
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Why did you remove my link on the health effects of smoking cigars and pipes? It was a link to WebMD, a well respected source for medical info. [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 08:05, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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: Hello Laughing Buddha. Thanks for you input. While WebMD has a lot of good medical information, this particular article was typical of the medical literature that attempts to lump pipes and cigars in with cigarettes by establishing the idea that all forms of tobacco are evil. This article allowed for some minor differences, which is better than some articles, but there remains in it a number of well documented inaccuracies typical of the medical literature. If you are really interested in this subject you could read through some of the other material we have linked too. <br />
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:In return, I would like to ask you why you linked to the article. I note that it is your one and only contribution to Pipedia, made shortly after you registered. My guess is your not really interested in pipes, but are just against tobacco. This wiki is for those of us who are interested in pipes and pipe smoking. Our take of this issue is going to be more nuanced than one would typically expect of the general public. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 08:39, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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::I have mixed feelings about pipe smoking because I used smoke pipes on and off for 15 years. I have three Savinellis, two Nordings and one Dr. Grabow to prove it. Also, my favorite tobacco brand was Peter Stockkebye's. Unfortunately, I eventually became addicted and smoked so often that I was staining my teeth and burning my mouth. Also, my dentist repeatedly warned me of the dental problems associated with pipe smoking including mouth cancer, so I stopped, which was very difficult for me. (However, I recently noticed England's "Pipe Smoker of the Year" list on Wikipedia. Many of them lived past 70. I found this very confusing.)<br />
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::I noticed your section titled Pipe Smoking Health and perused through it. It seemed to lack emphasis on the health hazards of pipe smoking. I sincerely believe pipe smokers should smoke with their eyes wide open with respect to the information on the health hazards of smoking and for that reason I added the WebMD link. By the way, I was planning to make other contributions that had nothing to do with health-related issues but my conscience would have bothered me had I not added information to the health section first. <br />
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::Even though the health hazards of smoking scare the hell out of me, I still love admiring the craftsmanship and artistry of pipes themselves. I can't tell you how many hours I've spent looking at pics of pipes on the internet. It's like porn for me. [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 18:37, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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:::Thanks very much for your reply. I'm glad to hear you're not anti tobacco and are just genuinely concerned about the risks. Pipe smoking certainly involves some increased health risk, but it has been greatly over exaggerated in the main stream health media, which tends to lump us all in with cigarette smokers. We have a slight increase risk for mouth and lip cancer, but that is very rare and to even slightly increase ones risk for them would involve smoking many more pipes per day than is typical of your average pipe smoker. Most pipe smokers do not inhale, which elevates nearly all the main risks associated with cigarette smoking. They also tend to smoke much less. <br />
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:::The WebMD article has one statement that is completely false and very misleading, "...research shows that cigar and pipe smoking is every bit as dangerous as cigarette smoking, and possibly even more dangerous". That is a ridiculous claim. They don't even attempt to back that up, or cite the research they refer to. Unless I am very much mistaken, there is no viable research that would even come close to supporting that statement. <br />
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:::I think it would be great to freshen up the Pipe Smoking Health area, but this is an issue that involves a great deal of misinformation from otherwise credible sources so it's going to be tough to pull off. For instance, there is a great deal of legitimate criticism with regards to the integrity of the research on the dangers associated with 2nd hand smoke, and that is seldom if ever reported in the main stream health media. BTW, none of that research differentiates between cigarettes and other forms of tobacco smoke, which typically contain much fewer chemical additives, burning paper, and other impurities associated with 2nd hand cigarette smoke.<br />
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:::I hope you will do some more research. You mentioned being surprised at the older pipe smokers that were cited in the Pipe Smoker of Year list. I've heard of one study that indicates moderate pipe smokers that do not inhale actually live slightly longer on average than non-smokers. I have not followed up on that to verify it yet, but that is certainly supported by my own anecdotal observations and pipe smoking can certainly reduce stress.<br />
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:::If in your research you would like to freshen up the Pipe Smoking Health article here on Pipedia, I would greatly appreciate it. It's even OK to link to articles such as the WebMD article you had linked too earlier, but it would be appropriate to point out any obvious flaws with the article if you do. Thanks again for your reply. I look forward to your contributions on this or other areas of Pipedia that may be of interest. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 22:33, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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::::Thanks, your response strikes me as very reasonable. By the way, would you happen to have a link on the information you mentioned about the longevity of pipe smokers? I'd be very interested in reading it. [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 08:15, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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:::::It apparently refers back to the original 1964 Surgeon General's report. Here is an interesting and fairly written [http://www.meerschaumstore.com/health.htm article by Mark Beale, MD] that mentions it as well as some other interesting and relevant information that rings credible to me, at least.<br />
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::::::Thanks [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 14:34, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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==New Question==<br />
What's the difference between an estate pipe and a conventional pipe? [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 12:34, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
:Nothing, really. Used or previously owned pipes have come to be known as Estate pipes. They can either be smoked or unsmoked and still qualify. They can be cheap or expensive, and still qualify, and they can come from an English Lord's estate, or picked up off of a dying bum on the street. It just sounds better. I guess like previously owned cars versus used cars ;) --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 12:41, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
::Thanks [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 14:34, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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== Tanzania/Tanganyika ==<br />
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Saw you're working on african meerschaum a bit, figured I'd throw what I could into the ring. <br />
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No expert, but I think the way it went on these is that Amboseli wasn't a pipe company, it's the name of one of the african meerschaum mines, the one that closed in Tanzania in 2006. I realize pipephil disagrees on that one. Tanganyika Meerchaum Corporation, LTD was founded in December 1955 in Kenya with nominal capital of 50,000 pounds. The internet will tell you they later moved from there to Arusha, Tanzania, which is both a city and also the region containing the Amboseli mines, when they trademarked their logo in September '68. That's actually wrong. The registered agent for TMC, Ltd. in 1955 wasn't in Kenya, it was in Tanga, Tanganyika. However, at the time, these were colonies, and joint ones. Stamps actually said "kenya, uganda, tanganyika" on them and were valid in all three. So they were always in Arusha. They owned Kilimanjaro and Kiko. Also Townsman, Countryman, a bunch of lines. However, as the mines are now closed, TMC, Ltd. is technically now owned by STAMICO, a wholly owned government enterprise under the tanzanian ministry of energy and minerals. <br />
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At some point the Tanzanian pipes were being listed in the Charles S. Loeb catalog, as Kikos and Kilimanjaros, not sure if they bought TMC, Ltd. or licensed the pipes from them. <br />
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The other mine that produced meerschaum was in Somalia, from Eilbur/El Burr, where somalis have made meerschaum incense burners for centuries. Apparently this block was cut into stummels and sold in its entirety to Laxey/Manx straight from Somalia, and is no longer available since Somalia fell apart. When you see a smooth african meerschaum, it's my understanding you're looking at somalian block.<br />
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Do with that what you will.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 20:59, 25 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
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:Wow, that's interesting, thanks, Chris! Kind of hard to know what to put where, but I'll take a stab at sorting that out when I get a chance... It's not unusual to have difficult to sort out histories in pipedom, along with the occasional controversy surrounding them ;) --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 19:52, 26 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
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No doubt. At least it doesn't take a flowchart like Comoy/GBD/Chacom and such.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 13:19, 28 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
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== Photo question ==<br />
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Was curious, and I probably missed it in the help, but is there a preferred size for photos? I need to get around to finally taking some, figured it couldn't hurt to grab some nomenclature snaps and such.<br />
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:Somewhere between 600 and 1000 pixels wide seems to be a good range. By using thumbnails and/or gallery spots in the articles we can accommodate a nice fit with the context while still allowing for full sized images when they're clicked on. Takes a while to get the hang of how that works, but I'll be happy to help if you hit any snags.<br />
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:It would be great to have more pics of nomenclature, and anything else you think relevant. It's great to see all your work in new and existing articles. Thanks very much for your help, Chris! Scott --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 15:42, 28 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
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Thanks, I'm learning a heck of a lot, too.<br />
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Changes do, indeed, look seamless. Everything seems to be working and displaying perfectly. How unusual, lol.<br />
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::Great! Yes, my son, John [[User talk:Gilrain]] has pretty amazing skills with the back end stuff! Even with that I was surprised he pulled off this transition seemingly without a hitch. Still, you never know! Please let us know if you happen into anything. And thanks as always for all your excellent work! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 06:51, 12 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Saw you had to revert some of the changes to the Turks, hope I hadn't crossed any wires. No changes but mine while you were gone.<br />
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::I accidentally reverted your changes somehow and than reverted them back! Not sure how that happened. Sorry for any confusion. If anything is still messed up please put it back to how you had it... Thanks for keeping such a good eye on things!--[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 19:08, 17 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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No worries. And I'm just in the habit of checking "recent changes" so I happened to notice it, lol. Glad to see you're back in the saddle.<br />
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Chris --[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 19:13, 17 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Glossary Addition? ==<br />
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What do you think about adding a glossary link to the main page. I'll get it started on the basics, and see if it grows. Nothing fancy, mostly to help new guys I'd suppose. <br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 09:44, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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:Yes!! That's a great idea, Chris!! We have a fast growing population of new pipe smokers using the site, and I think your glossary idea would be a fantastic resource to them! <br />
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:If you have something to work from already, or want to build it from scratch, that would be great, but if you want to save some development time we could build it from this one at smokingpipes: http://www.smokingpipes.com/smokingpipesblog/glossary.cfm and build our version out from there. If we use theirs to start we just need to make sure to credit them and link back to their version. Either way works great for me! Thanks for the fantastic idea and willingness to tackle it! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 10:03, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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I did one for Reddit at some point, I probably still have it around, and if not it goes pretty quick, but SP does have a good one, I'll check it out again. Threw up a blank page to start working on, I'll let it fill up a bit and then add a link.<br />
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:Perfect, thanks, Chris! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 10:39, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 10:13, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Grabow Shapes ==<br />
Hope it's kosher, working with RJ McKay to get a linkman's era grabow shape chart put together, you'll see the recent changes/uploads. he has an enormous amount of info that shouldn't go to waste. Still working on the glossary, but I do love my linkman's.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 16:06, 24 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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::Yes! The new shape chart stuff looks great! I love getting that kind of material included when we still have access to it! Lost a lot of great stuff from a very knowledgeable Kaywoodie collector a few years ago and have never let myself forget it. We've got to nail that stuff down while we still have the expertise available! Good work, Chris! Thanks! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 16:19, 24 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Didn't know that about Svend Hangaard, very cool!<br />
::I though so too! I'm having a lot of fun while recovering from surgery. Can't make pipes yet, but I can sure enjoy researching and working on Pipedia! Great work on the Glossary, btw! That is really coming together nicely! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 20:42, 2 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Thanks! Shouldn't be too long now. Hope the recovery goes well and quickly.<br />
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== Glossary ==<br />
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Still working on the glossary, but I think it's big enough to let people have at it. Where should I link it?<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 18:38, 4 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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:: Yes, it is looking great! Definitely ready to start linking it places. I need to spend a little time cleaning up some inathctive links on the left nav bar first, and then link it there. Also the mobile responsive version of that, which my son will have to do for us. I think also from the main page, which also needs some updating at this point. I'll get after the nav bar tomorrow morning. Do you have any other ideas? --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 22:22, 4 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Thanks, Scott, a few. I've been trying to learn about blending for a bit, and I've been thinking about some tools to help with that. If I knew how to make a flow chart I'd have done that already. Sort of a "you want to add sweet to a blend?" Then add this kind of thing. Either combined with or similar to some thoughts on tasting as well. And I've definitely been slacking on a bunch of meerschaum stuff. Like an "Is this pressed?" page with photos. I have a pressed meer around here somewhere I can show some differences with. I have a buddy who I think has written an estate pipe buyer's guide or started to, and if not I'll probably put together some kind of "things to look out for" page at some point. Also thought about talking some people into putting a topic of pipe pondering they're interested in down on paper. Like the Dutch Pipe Smoker, Arno, for example, his knowledge is pretty incredible. And of course there are still bunches of wanted pages and pipe mysteries to explore. Good thing I find all of this stuff so fascinating! Plus, I've been ogling a lot of new photos. Great stuff. Hope the recuperation goes well!<br />
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::Your Glossary is now linked from the nav bar, as well as the main page. This is great! It will be great to keep developing it, but it's already extremely helpful! Thanks very much for pulling that together. <br />
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::Blending information sounds like an excellent direction, and some kind of flow chart graphic or narrative on how to tweak flavor elements would be very helpful! Timely topic for me too. I have done a very limited amount of tweaking existing blends, and want to do more. In part, I have some tobacco growing. Too early to tell if it will make it all the way to harvest, but I'm growing Nadole (a variety of Kentucky Dark), and also some Burley (can't remember the variety). Incidentally, Kentucky Dark can be air cured, as well as fire cured. It is likely related to Burley, but is different than Burley. It's darker, and the leaves tend to be smaller, and it generally has a higher nicotine content. We live in the heart of the Black Patch region of Western KY, where Kentucky Dark is growing all around us here. Had to give it a try! If it makes it through the harvest and a bit of air curing process, I'll also try to fire some of it, but haven't figured out how to pull that off yet on a scale that will work for just a few plants. Build a very little barn of some kind, I guess!<br />
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::Have often wanted to see more on Meers! That would be great too, and an estate pipe buyers guide would be fantastic!<br />
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::Let me know if you see anywhere else to link the Glossary that might be helpful, or please feel free to link at will when you notice a good spot. Thanks so much for all your work and ideas. It's an amazing help and encouragement! <br />
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::Recovery is going better than I thought. And, it's great to have some time to play with Pipedia, which has also really helped me to keep from going crazy while I can't do much physically! Incidentally, recovering from a much more minor surgery is how I cam up with Pipedia in the first place! Thanks again, Chirs! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 07:48, 5 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Glad to hear it. And fascinated by the growing, that's my next leap, but I live on the surface of the sun apparently here in South Florida, so gardening has its own issues. For now I'll at least keep trying to catch when I run across a word that may need explaining and try to link from there, but not to the degree wikipedia does it. And I'll have to think about how to fire cure in miniature, but I bet you could flue cure the heck out of it with a barbecue smoker and a dog house with vents, lol. And I love doing this stuff, only in small part because of how much I learned here, but you're very welcome. There has never been a resource like this for smokers. Ever. <br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 09:25, 5 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Just noticed the banner ads on the complete corncob primer are blank. You're probably aware, but just in case.<br />
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cc<br />
--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 20:00, 8 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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::Interesting. I was not aware of that and just checked. They were showing up fine for me. And they showed up on my phone and tablet too. Had my wife check on her computer and they did not show! Turns out she uses an add blocker. When she switched it off, presto, there they were! Interesting in that it was only catching the Missouri Meerschaum ones and not ones for the other underwriters in terms of stuff in content, but all of them were blocked in the top and bottom positions that are part of the skin... So, my big question is, do you have add blocking enabled on your browser? Bet so...<br />
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::Pretty sure the reason the add blocker was catching the Missouri Meerschaum banners in content like that and not other underwriters was that the MM banners had "AD" in the file name, and the others did not. I changed the file names, but my wife's add blocker still caught them. I suspect the images themselves are now recognized by the add blocker independent of the file name. <br />
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::Thanks for the heads up on this, Chris! Very interesting! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 22:10, 8 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Just saw this. And yes, I have adblock enabled. Nice detective work, lol.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 06:54, 10 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Au Pacha ==<br />
<br />
Lopes and The Pipe Companion book both have this one wrong. I'll change it later, just giving a heads up why, it's actually a tobacconist called Au Pacha de Nancy, they're actually still there, although it looks like a souvenir shop now. I have a picture of the Diana pipe somewhere. It's nuts. The steed is rearing because there's some kind of demonic hellhound trying to eat it, it's a pipe with a lot going on, lol.<br />
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::Thanks for letting me know! Yes, please do correct it! And it would be great to have that picture as part of it if you can find it...<br />
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::I've run into several inaccuracies with Lopes. It's a great book, and a huge blessing that he put it together, but you can't trust the entries without pulling up some additional corroborative sources. Thanks for keeping an eye out! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 20:01, 9 June 2015 (CDT)</div>Flatticushttps://pipedia.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Sethile&diff=20879User talk:Sethile2015-06-09T18:09:02Z<p>Flatticus: /* Au Pacha */ new section</p>
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<div>As per my other suggestion, perhaps it would be better to completely remove the Marks/Logo page altogether and just have a link at the bottom of each Brand/Maker's page to the Pipephil website for that particular Brand or Maker? --[[User:Frank|Frank]] - 3/26/09<br />
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: Sure, that would work fine too. The advantage of the Marks/Logo page, assuming it were to get flushed out eventually, is for situations where someone is trying to identify a pipe with some sort of logo without knowing the maker. Regardless, I think relevant off site links should be added at the bottom of each article directly. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 15:41, 26 March 2009 (CDT)<br />
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:: Lacking a Name Stamp, being able to identify a pipe from it's Logo alone would be useful. Pipephil does have a means of searching with criteria such as a Star or an Anchor or a Dot, etc., but it is lacking a couple of such criteria to search by, last I checked.--[[User:Frank|Frank]] - 3/26/09<br />
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Scott, Earlier on I checked on that item in Cyrillic that you deleted. I found a translation, and it is pipe related..--[[User:Frank|Frank]] - 4/13/09<br />
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:Thanks, Frank! I put it back. I wondered about that.. I was a little on the delete button ;) --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 21:18, 13 April 2009 (CDT)<br />
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== Notice for you ==<br />
This thing needs a bit of scouring just to make it palatable to educated folk! C'mon, this is just lazy. I say "c'mon" because this is the talk page. The entry itself ought to be perfectly written, not sounding like a letter to a dopey pal in Wisconsin!Thundersnow 00:08, 10 May 2010 (UTC)--A direct quote off the Tobacco page. It really needs work, that.[[User:Thundersnow|Thundersnow]] 00:10, 10 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== Bridge Too Far? ==<br />
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QUOTE FROM ME: "Hello Eric, Thanks for your work on the Tobacco article. Yes, it does need a lot of work! Also, it would be great if you can help with the Savinellis article. In short, whatever you have time for would be most welcome in deed--I really appreciate your help! All the best, --sethile 01:28, 11 May 2010 (UTC) [....]<br />
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Uhm, I do not know any Eric except an old colleague. And I must say that it is just plain wrong to try to do that to a contributor who wished to remain known by username. And by the way, I am Rev. Antonio Hernandez.Thundersnow 03:13, 12 May 2010 (UTC)"<br />
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Well, thanks a lot for this unwanted headache.[[User:Thundersnow|Thundersnow]] 03:15, 12 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:Since the email address (EricBlair@disciples.com), which you publicly posted, gave the name as Eric Blair, it was an understandable mistake on Scott's part, as he could hardly be aware that you use someone elses email address. I believe he was only trying to be friendly on a first name basis. Accusing him of "outing" you in such a heartless manner is a mean thing to do, since he obviously did not do it to deliberately "expose" you.<br />
:As you obviously aren't aware of the tremendous scope of this website, let me enlighten you of the fact that the vast majority of the design, information and contributions have been due to Scott's hard work. Furthermore, he is always extremely appreciative of corrections and contributions to the website.<br />
:Considering that you don't even know one iota about Scott, I find your jumping to conclusions about him offensive in the extreme. I also find your tone and attitude particularly rude and belligerent, especially as you claim to be a man of the cloth. - [[User:Frank|Frank]] 07:37, 12 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:: Thanks Frank! For what it's worth I apologized on his user talk, but apparently that was not what Thundersnow was after. He has elected to deprive us of his presence and help for the present. All the best, --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 23:17, 14 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== QuestyCaptcha not working? ==<br />
<br />
Hi,<br />
<br />
I operate a wiki and I was going to install QuestyCaptcha. Can I ask, does your Aug 14th note about spam mean your Apr 13th installation of QuestyCaptcha isn't working?<br />
<br />
Are the bots responding correctly to both questions or just one? (The "''What is this wiki's name?''" question is probably very common, so spambots might be configured to always stick in the wiki's name when confronted with QuestyCaptcha) If they're getting both questions right, then I guess a human actually took the time to note your questions and the correct answers, so adding a few dozen new questions is probably what's necessary.<br />
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I'd be very interested to hear more about the problem. Thanks. [[User:Ciaran|Ciaran]] 15:51, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
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: I'm not sure the bots responded to either question... It may just be my QuestyCaptcha configuration needs more tweaking. I installed it when I had a bunch of spam that appeared to use humans to make registered users in spite of using ReCaptcha (about 5 to 10 per day), and than that info seemed to be plugged into bots that used the registration information to spam. QuestyCaptcha shut that attack down. I had some new bot yesterday that was not spamming links, just junk. Looked like maybe it attempted to put in links and when it hit QuestyCaptcha it created new articles without links, or was deleting existing content and replacing it with a line like "Great post" or something similar. Apparently edits without links does not trigger QuestyCaptcha due to my settings.<br />
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:It may be I can tighten up my QuestyCaptcha settings to catch this new stuff too. Haven't had time to play with it much. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 16:20, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
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::I've been reading the docs:<br />
::* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:QuestyCaptcha<br />
::* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit#QuestyCaptcha<br />
::* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ConfirmEdit_Test_Plan<br />
::... and the comments in the source code.<br />
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::If you want all edits to require passing a captcha, change "false" to "true" in this line of ''nameofwiki/extensions/ConfirmEdit/ConfirmEdit.php'':<br />
:: $wgCaptchaTriggers['edit'] = false; // Would check on every edit<br />
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::I haven't tried it out yet, but it seems you can exempt logged in users from the captchas by setting:<br />
::$wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['skipcaptcha'] = true;<br />
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::Or logged in users who've confirmed their email address by setting these to ''true'' in ConfirmEdit.php:<br />
:: $wgGroupPermissions['emailconfirmed']['skipcaptcha'] = true;<br />
:: $ceAllowConfirmedEmail = true;<br />
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::Thanks for the quick reply. I think I'll go ahead and install Questy for my wiki. [[User:Ciaran|Ciaran]] 16:59, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
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::: Thanks for the links! I've poored over those same docs too, but it's been a while. I changed the settings to allow anonymous edits again, but they will all trigger Questy while users will bypass it. To create an account triggers it though. That should take care of the bulk of the problems I've been having while still allowing anonymous edits. I guess we'll see! <br />
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:::How did your Questy install go? --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 21:03, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
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Hi. I only got it installed three days ago. (I don't have direct access to the server.)<br />
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To my great surprise, I'm still getting two or three spam edits per day: [http://en.swpat.org/wiki?title=Special:RecentChanges&hidebots=0] !<br />
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I'm baffled. I've searched the Internet extensively and I can't find anyone else saying that spam gets past QuestyCaptcha. I think I'll mention this on the mediawiki.org site. [[User:Ciaran|Ciaran]] 17:48, 3 September 2011 (CDT)<br />
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:My situation here seems to have stabilized for the present, although I had a new user and subsequent spam hit yesterday, but only one, and that was the first since I tweaked my Questy settings. It was different than most of the ones I've had in the past. I think it was a human... Your experience and my recent hit may mean the humans that were hired to work ReCaptcha implementations are now working on Questy sites. That makes some sense. I don't think it's possible to set up a captcha of any kind that will defend against humans without also severely limiting your potential contributions ;(<br />
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:BTW, I hope your efforts against the Patent Trolls and other insanity with software patents proves fruitful. I heard a very interesting piece on NPR a month or so ago. Sounds like a completely out of control mess! I had no idea... --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 21:07, 3 September 2011 (CDT)<br />
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== Gloredo ==<br />
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Dear Sethile<br />
You recieved like me a mail from these "other Gloredo" people.<br />
In my opinion there is no serious evidence for their activity in pipe making. <br />
The so called "Trademark Registration Certificate" you certainely got too has no value for me. I have to do with Chinese students and I know their degree certificate or diplom are sometimes "home made". <br />
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And for fun I made a little faux of this certificate changing "Gloredo" by "Dunhill"<br />
[http://www.pipephil.eu/pics/gloredo-pipephil.jpg see here]<br />
see also my comment in the gloredo's Talk.<br />
I think at least the two gloredos should appear on the GLOREDO page<br />
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: Yes, I agree, and I responded in the Gloredo's talk as well. Regardless of the current status of the brand there is no reason not to include its history, which is way it is relevant... --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 09:38, 11 December 2012 (CST)<br />
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:: But there are TWO gloredos apparently. I think this should be clear in the article, no ?<br />
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::: OK, yes, I think I've got it now... I thought it was a buyout of some kind at first. What a mess!<br />
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== Removal of Link==<br />
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Why did you remove my link on the health effects of smoking cigars and pipes? It was a link to WebMD, a well respected source for medical info. [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 08:05, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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: Hello Laughing Buddha. Thanks for you input. While WebMD has a lot of good medical information, this particular article was typical of the medical literature that attempts to lump pipes and cigars in with cigarettes by establishing the idea that all forms of tobacco are evil. This article allowed for some minor differences, which is better than some articles, but there remains in it a number of well documented inaccuracies typical of the medical literature. If you are really interested in this subject you could read through some of the other material we have linked too. <br />
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:In return, I would like to ask you why you linked to the article. I note that it is your one and only contribution to Pipedia, made shortly after you registered. My guess is your not really interested in pipes, but are just against tobacco. This wiki is for those of us who are interested in pipes and pipe smoking. Our take of this issue is going to be more nuanced than one would typically expect of the general public. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 08:39, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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::I have mixed feelings about pipe smoking because I used smoke pipes on and off for 15 years. I have three Savinellis, two Nordings and one Dr. Grabow to prove it. Also, my favorite tobacco brand was Peter Stockkebye's. Unfortunately, I eventually became addicted and smoked so often that I was staining my teeth and burning my mouth. Also, my dentist repeatedly warned me of the dental problems associated with pipe smoking including mouth cancer, so I stopped, which was very difficult for me. (However, I recently noticed England's "Pipe Smoker of the Year" list on Wikipedia. Many of them lived past 70. I found this very confusing.)<br />
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::I noticed your section titled Pipe Smoking Health and perused through it. It seemed to lack emphasis on the health hazards of pipe smoking. I sincerely believe pipe smokers should smoke with their eyes wide open with respect to the information on the health hazards of smoking and for that reason I added the WebMD link. By the way, I was planning to make other contributions that had nothing to do with health-related issues but my conscience would have bothered me had I not added information to the health section first. <br />
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::Even though the health hazards of smoking scare the hell out of me, I still love admiring the craftsmanship and artistry of pipes themselves. I can't tell you how many hours I've spent looking at pics of pipes on the internet. It's like porn for me. [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 18:37, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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:::Thanks very much for your reply. I'm glad to hear you're not anti tobacco and are just genuinely concerned about the risks. Pipe smoking certainly involves some increased health risk, but it has been greatly over exaggerated in the main stream health media, which tends to lump us all in with cigarette smokers. We have a slight increase risk for mouth and lip cancer, but that is very rare and to even slightly increase ones risk for them would involve smoking many more pipes per day than is typical of your average pipe smoker. Most pipe smokers do not inhale, which elevates nearly all the main risks associated with cigarette smoking. They also tend to smoke much less. <br />
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:::The WebMD article has one statement that is completely false and very misleading, "...research shows that cigar and pipe smoking is every bit as dangerous as cigarette smoking, and possibly even more dangerous". That is a ridiculous claim. They don't even attempt to back that up, or cite the research they refer to. Unless I am very much mistaken, there is no viable research that would even come close to supporting that statement. <br />
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:::I think it would be great to freshen up the Pipe Smoking Health area, but this is an issue that involves a great deal of misinformation from otherwise credible sources so it's going to be tough to pull off. For instance, there is a great deal of legitimate criticism with regards to the integrity of the research on the dangers associated with 2nd hand smoke, and that is seldom if ever reported in the main stream health media. BTW, none of that research differentiates between cigarettes and other forms of tobacco smoke, which typically contain much fewer chemical additives, burning paper, and other impurities associated with 2nd hand cigarette smoke.<br />
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:::I hope you will do some more research. You mentioned being surprised at the older pipe smokers that were cited in the Pipe Smoker of Year list. I've heard of one study that indicates moderate pipe smokers that do not inhale actually live slightly longer on average than non-smokers. I have not followed up on that to verify it yet, but that is certainly supported by my own anecdotal observations and pipe smoking can certainly reduce stress.<br />
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:::If in your research you would like to freshen up the Pipe Smoking Health article here on Pipedia, I would greatly appreciate it. It's even OK to link to articles such as the WebMD article you had linked too earlier, but it would be appropriate to point out any obvious flaws with the article if you do. Thanks again for your reply. I look forward to your contributions on this or other areas of Pipedia that may be of interest. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 22:33, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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::::Thanks, your response strikes me as very reasonable. By the way, would you happen to have a link on the information you mentioned about the longevity of pipe smokers? I'd be very interested in reading it. [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 08:15, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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:::::It apparently refers back to the original 1964 Surgeon General's report. Here is an interesting and fairly written [http://www.meerschaumstore.com/health.htm article by Mark Beale, MD] that mentions it as well as some other interesting and relevant information that rings credible to me, at least.<br />
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::::::Thanks [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 14:34, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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==New Question==<br />
What's the difference between an estate pipe and a conventional pipe? [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 12:34, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
:Nothing, really. Used or previously owned pipes have come to be known as Estate pipes. They can either be smoked or unsmoked and still qualify. They can be cheap or expensive, and still qualify, and they can come from an English Lord's estate, or picked up off of a dying bum on the street. It just sounds better. I guess like previously owned cars versus used cars ;) --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 12:41, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
::Thanks [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 14:34, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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== Tanzania/Tanganyika ==<br />
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Saw you're working on african meerschaum a bit, figured I'd throw what I could into the ring. <br />
<br />
No expert, but I think the way it went on these is that Amboseli wasn't a pipe company, it's the name of one of the african meerschaum mines, the one that closed in Tanzania in 2006. I realize pipephil disagrees on that one. Tanganyika Meerchaum Corporation, LTD was founded in December 1955 in Kenya with nominal capital of 50,000 pounds. The internet will tell you they later moved from there to Arusha, Tanzania, which is both a city and also the region containing the Amboseli mines, when they trademarked their logo in September '68. That's actually wrong. The registered agent for TMC, Ltd. in 1955 wasn't in Kenya, it was in Tanga, Tanganyika. However, at the time, these were colonies, and joint ones. Stamps actually said "kenya, uganda, tanganyika" on them and were valid in all three. So they were always in Arusha. They owned Kilimanjaro and Kiko. Also Townsman, Countryman, a bunch of lines. However, as the mines are now closed, TMC, Ltd. is technically now owned by STAMICO, a wholly owned government enterprise under the tanzanian ministry of energy and minerals. <br />
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At some point the Tanzanian pipes were being listed in the Charles S. Loeb catalog, as Kikos and Kilimanjaros, not sure if they bought TMC, Ltd. or licensed the pipes from them. <br />
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The other mine that produced meerschaum was in Somalia, from Eilbur/El Burr, where somalis have made meerschaum incense burners for centuries. Apparently this block was cut into stummels and sold in its entirety to Laxey/Manx straight from Somalia, and is no longer available since Somalia fell apart. When you see a smooth african meerschaum, it's my understanding you're looking at somalian block.<br />
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Do with that what you will.<br />
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Chris<br />
--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 20:59, 25 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
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:Wow, that's interesting, thanks, Chris! Kind of hard to know what to put where, but I'll take a stab at sorting that out when I get a chance... It's not unusual to have difficult to sort out histories in pipedom, along with the occasional controversy surrounding them ;) --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 19:52, 26 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
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No doubt. At least it doesn't take a flowchart like Comoy/GBD/Chacom and such.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 13:19, 28 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
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== Photo question ==<br />
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Was curious, and I probably missed it in the help, but is there a preferred size for photos? I need to get around to finally taking some, figured it couldn't hurt to grab some nomenclature snaps and such.<br />
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Chris<br />
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:Somewhere between 600 and 1000 pixels wide seems to be a good range. By using thumbnails and/or gallery spots in the articles we can accommodate a nice fit with the context while still allowing for full sized images when they're clicked on. Takes a while to get the hang of how that works, but I'll be happy to help if you hit any snags.<br />
<br />
:It would be great to have more pics of nomenclature, and anything else you think relevant. It's great to see all your work in new and existing articles. Thanks very much for your help, Chris! Scott --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 15:42, 28 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
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Thanks, I'm learning a heck of a lot, too.<br />
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Chris<br />
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Changes do, indeed, look seamless. Everything seems to be working and displaying perfectly. How unusual, lol.<br />
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Chris<br />
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::Great! Yes, my son, John [[User talk:Gilrain]] has pretty amazing skills with the back end stuff! Even with that I was surprised he pulled off this transition seemingly without a hitch. Still, you never know! Please let us know if you happen into anything. And thanks as always for all your excellent work! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 06:51, 12 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Saw you had to revert some of the changes to the Turks, hope I hadn't crossed any wires. No changes but mine while you were gone.<br />
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::I accidentally reverted your changes somehow and than reverted them back! Not sure how that happened. Sorry for any confusion. If anything is still messed up please put it back to how you had it... Thanks for keeping such a good eye on things!--[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 19:08, 17 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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No worries. And I'm just in the habit of checking "recent changes" so I happened to notice it, lol. Glad to see you're back in the saddle.<br />
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Chris --[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 19:13, 17 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Glossary Addition? ==<br />
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What do you think about adding a glossary link to the main page. I'll get it started on the basics, and see if it grows. Nothing fancy, mostly to help new guys I'd suppose. <br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 09:44, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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:Yes!! That's a great idea, Chris!! We have a fast growing population of new pipe smokers using the site, and I think your glossary idea would be a fantastic resource to them! <br />
<br />
:If you have something to work from already, or want to build it from scratch, that would be great, but if you want to save some development time we could build it from this one at smokingpipes: http://www.smokingpipes.com/smokingpipesblog/glossary.cfm and build our version out from there. If we use theirs to start we just need to make sure to credit them and link back to their version. Either way works great for me! Thanks for the fantastic idea and willingness to tackle it! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 10:03, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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I did one for Reddit at some point, I probably still have it around, and if not it goes pretty quick, but SP does have a good one, I'll check it out again. Threw up a blank page to start working on, I'll let it fill up a bit and then add a link.<br />
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:Perfect, thanks, Chris! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 10:39, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 10:13, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Grabow Shapes ==<br />
Hope it's kosher, working with RJ McKay to get a linkman's era grabow shape chart put together, you'll see the recent changes/uploads. he has an enormous amount of info that shouldn't go to waste. Still working on the glossary, but I do love my linkman's.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 16:06, 24 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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::Yes! The new shape chart stuff looks great! I love getting that kind of material included when we still have access to it! Lost a lot of great stuff from a very knowledgeable Kaywoodie collector a few years ago and have never let myself forget it. We've got to nail that stuff down while we still have the expertise available! Good work, Chris! Thanks! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 16:19, 24 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Didn't know that about Svend Hangaard, very cool!<br />
::I though so too! I'm having a lot of fun while recovering from surgery. Can't make pipes yet, but I can sure enjoy researching and working on Pipedia! Great work on the Glossary, btw! That is really coming together nicely! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 20:42, 2 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Thanks! Shouldn't be too long now. Hope the recovery goes well and quickly.<br />
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== Glossary ==<br />
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Still working on the glossary, but I think it's big enough to let people have at it. Where should I link it?<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 18:38, 4 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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:: Yes, it is looking great! Definitely ready to start linking it places. I need to spend a little time cleaning up some inathctive links on the left nav bar first, and then link it there. Also the mobile responsive version of that, which my son will have to do for us. I think also from the main page, which also needs some updating at this point. I'll get after the nav bar tomorrow morning. Do you have any other ideas? --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 22:22, 4 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Thanks, Scott, a few. I've been trying to learn about blending for a bit, and I've been thinking about some tools to help with that. If I knew how to make a flow chart I'd have done that already. Sort of a "you want to add sweet to a blend?" Then add this kind of thing. Either combined with or similar to some thoughts on tasting as well. And I've definitely been slacking on a bunch of meerschaum stuff. Like an "Is this pressed?" page with photos. I have a pressed meer around here somewhere I can show some differences with. I have a buddy who I think has written an estate pipe buyer's guide or started to, and if not I'll probably put together some kind of "things to look out for" page at some point. Also thought about talking some people into putting a topic of pipe pondering they're interested in down on paper. Like the Dutch Pipe Smoker, Arno, for example, his knowledge is pretty incredible. And of course there are still bunches of wanted pages and pipe mysteries to explore. Good thing I find all of this stuff so fascinating! Plus, I've been ogling a lot of new photos. Great stuff. Hope the recuperation goes well!<br />
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::Your Glossary is now linked from the nav bar, as well as the main page. This is great! It will be great to keep developing it, but it's already extremely helpful! Thanks very much for pulling that together. <br />
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::Blending information sounds like an excellent direction, and some kind of flow chart graphic or narrative on how to tweak flavor elements would be very helpful! Timely topic for me too. I have done a very limited amount of tweaking existing blends, and want to do more. In part, I have some tobacco growing. Too early to tell if it will make it all the way to harvest, but I'm growing Nadole (a variety of Kentucky Dark), and also some Burley (can't remember the variety). Incidentally, Kentucky Dark can be air cured, as well as fire cured. It is likely related to Burley, but is different than Burley. It's darker, and the leaves tend to be smaller, and it generally has a higher nicotine content. We live in the heart of the Black Patch region of Western KY, where Kentucky Dark is growing all around us here. Had to give it a try! If it makes it through the harvest and a bit of air curing process, I'll also try to fire some of it, but haven't figured out how to pull that off yet on a scale that will work for just a few plants. Build a very little barn of some kind, I guess!<br />
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::Have often wanted to see more on Meers! That would be great too, and an estate pipe buyers guide would be fantastic!<br />
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::Let me know if you see anywhere else to link the Glossary that might be helpful, or please feel free to link at will when you notice a good spot. Thanks so much for all your work and ideas. It's an amazing help and encouragement! <br />
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::Recovery is going better than I thought. And, it's great to have some time to play with Pipedia, which has also really helped me to keep from going crazy while I can't do much physically! Incidentally, recovering from a much more minor surgery is how I cam up with Pipedia in the first place! Thanks again, Chirs! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 07:48, 5 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Glad to hear it. And fascinated by the growing, that's my next leap, but I live on the surface of the sun apparently here in South Florida, so gardening has its own issues. For now I'll at least keep trying to catch when I run across a word that may need explaining and try to link from there, but not to the degree wikipedia does it. And I'll have to think about how to fire cure in miniature, but I bet you could flue cure the heck out of it with a barbecue smoker and a dog house with vents, lol. And I love doing this stuff, only in small part because of how much I learned here, but you're very welcome. There has never been a resource like this for smokers. Ever. <br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 09:25, 5 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Just noticed the banner ads on the complete corncob primer are blank. You're probably aware, but just in case.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 20:00, 8 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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::Interesting. I was not aware of that and just checked. They were showing up fine for me. And they showed up on my phone and tablet too. Had my wife check on her computer and they did not show! Turns out she uses an add blocker. When she switched it off, presto, there they were! Interesting in that it was only catching the Missouri Meerschaum ones and not ones for the other underwriters in terms of stuff in content, but all of them were blocked in the top and bottom positions that are part of the skin... So, my big question is, do you have add blocking enabled on your browser? Bet so...<br />
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::Pretty sure the reason the add blocker was catching the Missouri Meerschaum banners in content like that and not other underwriters was that the MM banners had "AD" in the file name, and the others did not. I changed the file names, but my wife's add blocker still caught them. I suspect the images themselves are now recognized by the add blocker independent of the file name. <br />
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::Thanks for the heads up on this, Chris! Very interesting! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 22:10, 8 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Au Pacha ==<br />
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Lopes and The Pipe Companion book both have this one wrong. I'll change it later, just giving a heads up why, it's actually a tobacconist called Au Pacha de Nancy, they're actually still there, although it looks like a souvenir shop now. I have a picture of the Diana pipe somewhere. It's nuts. The steed is rearing because there's some kind of demonic hellhound trying to eat it, it's a pipe with a lot going on, lol.</div>Flatticushttps://pipedia.org/index.php?title=Pipe_care/cleaning&diff=20861Pipe care/cleaning2015-06-09T16:15:02Z<p>Flatticus: Should really make these alphabetical, I'll get around to that.</p>
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<div>The articles presented here were originally started with permission from the excellent FAQ from the Alt.Smokers.Pipes FAQ[http://www.aspipes.org/faq/faq/official.html]<br />
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== Maintenance ==<br />
Not handy with tools, yet want to restore an old pipe? Rich Esserman wrote an excellent article that may be just the thing: [[Try this at Home]]<br />
=== Reaming ===<br />
After a pipe has been smoked for a long time its cake may become so thick that it significantly reduces the capacity of the bowl. In very extreme cases, an overly thick cake may actually crack the bowl due to differential expansion. Ideally, the cake should not exceed one-sixteenth of an inch (about 1.5 mm) or so. When the cake exceeds this thickness, it should be carefully reamed. Some pipe tools have a blunt-pointed (to prevent gouging of the bowl bottom) knife blade for this purpose. While these will work, it is very easy to trim the cake unevenly or even inadvertently dig into bare wood. Numerous adjustable, multibladed reamers are available commercially, and these will do a much neater job. A favored tool for this task--suggested by pipe maker extraordinaire JT Cooke--is nothing more than a series of short wooden dowels of varying diameters that are wrapped with fine grit emery cloth or sandpaper. Whatever device you choose to use, work slowly and carefully so as not to damage your pipe. The idea is to gradually shave the cake down to the proper thickness, not scrape it out in chunks. If you have more than the usual number of thumbs, you might want to take the pipe to your tobacconist, who will usually perform this task for a nominal fee.<br />
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=== What can I do when my pipe "turns sour"? ===<br />
A pipe, properly cared for, will probably outlast its owner. Occasionally, however, a pipe may begin to taste bitter or "sour." Sometimes this is caused by not allowing the pipe sufficient time to "rest" between smokes; other times, no cause can be determined with certainty. In any event, such a pipe can usually be rejuvenated by applying the "Professor's Pipe-Sweetening Treatment," publicized by Dennis Congos.<br />
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First, find some salt (non-iodized is preferred, but not essential), some alcohol (preferably "Everclear," or some other form of near-pure, non-denatured ethanol), and a place to rest your pipe in a semi-upright position. Insert a pipe cleaner into the stem of the pipe so that it extends into the shank. Fill the bowl to the rim with salt and drip or carefully pour alcohol into the bowl until the salt is just saturated. Try not to get any alcohol on the pipe's exterior, as this may damage the finish; any spills should be wiped up immediately. Leave the pipe alone for a day or two. After this time the salt will have turned brown from the absorption of "tars" from the bowl. Thoroughly clean all salt from the bowl and set the pipe aside overnight to dry completely. Your pipe will now be revitalized, and all traces of bitterness should be gone.<br />
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WARNING: Many people swear by this process, but the procedure is not risk-free. Some people have had pipes crack after this treatment, particularly when they allowed the salt and alcohol mixture to enter the pipe's shank and/or when they left the mixture in the pipe for several days. Any pipe with significant monetary or sentimental value should be sent to a professional pipe repair person.<br />
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You might also want to give the stem draft-hole a thorough cleaning by periodically cleaning it with a scrubbing bristle pipecleaner dipped in alcohol or a "pipe sweetener".<br />
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G.L. Pease also offers a more effective method:<br />
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"I reamed the pipe almost back to bare wood, pre-heated my electric oven to 220°F, and turned it off. After removing the pipe's stem, I filled the bowl with activated charcoal pellets purchased from the local aquarium supply shop. Placing the pipe on a soft towel in the oven, I left it to sit while the oven cooled - about an hour... No perceptible difference was detected.<br />
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A couple of conversations with Trever Talbert, friend, pipesmith extraordinaire, and constant experimenter with briar, provided an important piece of information; briar heats very slowly. He explained that it could take several hours for a piece of briar's temperature gradient to reach equilibrium with the ambient temperature. Clearly, my pipe's short stint in the Sauna was insufficient to do the job.<br />
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I reheated the oven, this time setting the thermostat to 180°F, knowing from my tests that the temperature in my empty oven would vary between about 180°F and a bit over 200°F, well below the temperature at which the briar would scorch. Stemless and empty, I placed the bowl on its towel in the oven, on the upper rack, far away from the source of radiant heat, where it would be left to sit for three hours.<br />
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After removing the now hot pipe, I filled the bowl with the activated charcoal, and placed it back in the oven for an additional three hours. When the pipe was finally removed, and emptied of the charcoal, there was absolutely no trace of its prior scent ... After allowing the pipe to cool overnight, the stem was refitted, the bowl filled with a favored blend, delicate enough to allow any vestigial flavors from the pipe to come through clearly. I sat down to experience the fruits of my labors. Success! Only at the very bottom of the bowl was a slight hint of the previous aroma, and this disappeared completely after a couple of smokes."<br />
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=== Polishing stems ===<br />
Vulcanite stems can oxidize, turning a disgusting brownish green color caused by a reaction between sunlight and the sulfur in the rubber. This is one case where "an ounce of prevention" definitely pays off. Avoid exposing vulcanite stems to direct sunlight whenever possible, and wipe off your stems after each use. Products such as Obsidian Oil also claim to stave off the development of oxidation. When oxidation does begin to form, it can often be removed with a mild abrasive, such as baking soda or toothpaste. If the oxidation is too severe for this treatment, jeweler's rouge or an automobile rubbing compound will often do the trick. For truly stubborn stems more drastic measures may be required. An overnight soak in household bleach will turn your stems black again, but you should be careful to cover any stem logos with a blob of petroleum jelly to protect them prior to soaking, and you should be prepared to apply some elbow grease to polish the stem surface, which will be roughened by this treatment.<br />
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The method now commonly preferred to a bleach soak is to soak the stem for up to an hour in a solution of warm water and oxygenated bleach such as Oxyclean, then rinse and scrub thoroughly with melamine foam such as a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser. While the method will remove paint from a stamped stem logo, it will not damage metal fittings. However, the stem will often be in need of either buffing or sanding with micromesh sanding pads to return it to its original shiny condition.<br />
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Professionals (and "serious amateurs") remove oxidation with a buffing wheel loaded with Tripoli or some similar abrasive and then apply carnuba wax to protect the stem and bring out a high shine. If you wish to use a buffing rig, consult with someone experienced in such matters. It's all too easy to burn a stem on a buffing wheel running at excessively high speed or, for that matter, to catapult a briar into your face. Extremely deep oxidation is almost certain to require sanding to remove, and may only be visible under angled light in a dark room. An oxygenated bleach soak can help in bringing deep oxidation to the surface, but will not eliminate the problem completely if the oxidation is severe.<br />
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=== Care for meerschaum pipes ===<br />
First, and most importantly, don't drop it. Meerschaum is fragile, and it is very unlikely that your pipe will survive a dive to the kitchen floor. Second, do not allow a cake to build in the bowl. The forming of cake can be slowed considerably by, after letting the pipe cool and holding it with a cloth, removing loose dottle from the bowl with a pipe cleaner and "reaming" the bowl out with a twisted paper towel. This does not eliminate the formation of cake, however. If your pipe does start to build a cake, do not use a standard pipe reamer. The appropriate method instead is to use a sharp knife with a rounded tip and to carefully scrape the cake off the block, keeping the blade perpendicular to the surface at all times.<br />
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Meerschaum experts often warn about extremes in temperature, and caution against taking a hot pipe into cold weather or putting it down on a cold surface. The best manner to rest a hot meerschaum in any case is with a pipe holder that holds the pipe by the stem, and not the bowl. For a cold meerschaum, the pipe should be returned to its case, but only after it is fully cool and dry. <br />
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Most modern meerschaums have a two part connection between the stem and shank, originally invented by Andreas Bauer of Vienna. Because the mortise insert unscrews counter-clockwise, it is important to remove the stem by turning it clockwise only. The mortise insert should only be removed when it is damaged or otherwise in need of replacement, and if either part of the "push-pull" tenon and mortise is removed the other part should be replaced as well. The tenon should be regularly unscrewed from the stem in order to permit cleaning behind it, as tar can collect in this space and affect the pipe's performance. Meerschaum is a very absorbent, inorganic material, and does not require the same "rest period" that briars do. Still, I would at least allow the pipe to cool and dry completely before loading up and smoking it again.<br />
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Many meerschaum aficionados claim that to ensure proper "coloring" of the bowl you should never hold the bowl with your bare hands while smoking, and continuous holding of a hot meerschaum pipe can go so far as to embed fingerprints into the pipe itself. Many choose to take the chance given the convenience of holding the pipe like any other, but holding by the stem will ensure that wax is not removed and dirt is not deposited on the pipe.<br />
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Meerschaum colors because of its thin coating of pure beeswax, which assists nicotine and tobacco oils in migrating in and out of the block of the pipe. If it is smoked too hot, or handled too much, the wax coating will be removed and the color will stop migrating. Should the pipe begin to look dry or chalky in spots, pure beeswax can be melted with a hair dryer on low heat and applied directly to the pipe while smoking, using a cotton swab to leave an even coat. After the pipe has cooled it can be buffed with a cotton cloth to remove any excess wax and return the shine to the block.<br />
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=== Should I store my pipe with a cleaner in the stem? ===<br />
There are three schools of thought on this issue:<br />
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1) Those who do not leave a pipe cleaner in their pipe between smokes. These people believe that doing so prevent their pipe from drying quickly and or doing so properly.<br />
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2) Those who do leave a pipe cleaner in their pipe between smokes. These people believe that doing so assists in the absorption of nasty stuff.<br />
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3) Those who compromise by leaving a pipe cleaner in their pipe for a short period (usually overnight), then removing it to allow the pipe to dry completely.<br />
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Personally, I belong to group #1 a about half the time. The rest of the time I'm a #3, unless I forget to remove the pipe cleaner, in which case I'm an accidental #2. Bottom line: It really doesn't matter. Whatever works for you is fine.<br />
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=== Breaking In a New Pipe ===<br />
See a great article by Fred Hanna called [[The Mysteries of the Briar Break-in Process]].<br />
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== Basic Repairs ==<br />
=== Airflow ===<br />
Airflow issues are not exactly a repair, per se, but could perhaps be contributing to a pipe that is simply not smoking up to its potential. Rick Newcomb suggests that pipes with an open air flow smoke better. It is controversial, but bears exploration, as many pipe smokers are now sold on this concept. With it working for so many, it might just work for you and that problem pipe. Ken Campbell wrote an interesting article for The Pipe Collector called [[Airflow: The Key to Smoking Pleasure]].<br />
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=== Fixing a loose stem ===<br />
Even if you're careful to never remove the stem from a hot pipe, you may occasionally be faced with a loose stem. Often this problem will fix itself with time, but if the stem is so loose that it is in danger of falling out, then something must be done. The safest bet is to take the pipe to a tobacconist or send it to a repairperson. These people will have a great deal of practice performing this task, and they will do it for a very modest fee. It is remarkably easy for an amateur to crack a shank while attempting this repair, as many of us can sadly attest.<br />
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Nevertheless, if you are determined to do this yourself, you must first determine what sort of stem you have. If the stem is lucite, the easiest fix is to apply a very thin layer of clear nail polish to the tenon, allow this to dry *completely*, and then carefully sand the tenon to fit. A vulcanite stem, on the other hand, is a bit more complicated, as you will need to heat the tenon and expand it in some way. There are a number of variations to this procedure, but the most common one is described below.<br />
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First, remove the stem from the pipe and insert a pipe cleaner into the stem so that it just reaches the end of the tenon (this is to ensure that you don't collapse the air hole). Next, carefully heat the tenon over a match for about five seconds (the intent is to soften the vulcanite, not melt it). Then gently press the end of the tenon against a flat surface, keeping the tenon as perpendicular to the surface as possible, taking care not bend the tenon to one side or the other. After the stem has cooled, test fit it. If the stem is still too loose, repeat this procedure. If it is now too tight, then see "What should I do with a stem that's too tight?" below. NOTE: It is *very* easy to ruin a perfectly good pipe with this technique, and I feel I should reiterate my earlier statement that this job is best undertaken by a "professional."<br />
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A variation on the above that has less chance of bending or ruining the tenon is the following: Insert a tapered mandrel into the tenon. Apply heat to the mandrel (an alcohol flame is recommended). As the heat from the mandrel transfers to the tenon and softens it, move the mandrel further into the tenon. Repeat as necessary to get the desired expansion. Remove the mandrel and place tenon in cold water to set. Note that [http://pimopipecraft.com/tools.html PIMO]makes a 'Stem Tightening Kit' that uses this principle.<br />
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A less radical (and *much* safer) procedure that has been recommended to me by several people is to simply rub the stem's tenon against a block of beeswax until the tenon is well coated. Once this is complete, reinsert the stem. I am told that the joint will tighten after a smoke or two.<br />
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Another less radical approach to try if the beeswax method doesn't work, is to simply heat the tenon and then allow it to cool. Very often the tenon will have expanded just enough to make a decent fit. Rather than an open flame, I suggest carefully using a heat gun, or a handheld hairdryer on high heat aimed at the tenon.<br />
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=== Fixing a stem that's too tight ===<br />
If the stem is still inserted in the pipe and is so difficult to remove that you fear your pipe may be damaged, then place the pipe in the freezer for several minutes. This works the vast majority of the time; however, if the stem still proves too difficult to remove, smoke the pipe, allow it to cool, and try to remove the stem again. If neither of these techniques work, then send the pipe to a reputable repairperson.<br />
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If you do manage to remove the stem, place some sort of dry lubricant, such as graphite (from a soft pencil) or wax, on the tenon and attempt to reinsert the stem. If this does not provide satisfactory results, you will need to remove a small amount of material from the tenon. Wrap some very fine (400 grit or so) sandpaper or some "O" or finer grade steel wool around the tenon and twist the stem gently. Work very slowly and carefully, and check the fit frequently until it is satisfactory.<br />
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== Professional repair shops ==<br />
===Iran===<br />
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Repair pipes. Representative to sale Brebbia Pipes, Gasparini Pipe, Sahin Pipo, mastro de Paja and many others in Iran. Also we can repair steams.<br />
Call us: +98 21 77 6 22 460 -1 or +98 912 892 0 390<br />
Managed by Mr. Artin Abrahamian<br />
see us: www.pipe.cafeartin.com<br />
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===U.S.===<br />
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'''Raphael Estate Restoration''', owned by Raphael Fiedler, offering repair and restoration of all manner of pipes. On facebook at Raphael Estate Restoration, by email to damnedatom@gmail.com, via mail to 125 Fort Charles Drive, Supply, North Carolina 28462, or by telephone to (631) 816-5886. <br />
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'''Starfire Pipe Works''' owned by '''Howard Rasmussen''' Where repairing is a Craft. Repairs all types of pipes. Visit our website for more complete info and testimonials. Home based at 5304 W Sunnyside Drive, Glendale, AZ 85304. Call first if bringing pipes in person. 623-703-6068 E-mail mailto:info@starfirepipeworks.com . [http://www.starfirepipeworks.com website].<br><br />
'''***CLOSED*** STARFIRE PIPE WORKS IS CLOSED! ALL WORK ON HAND WILL BE FINISHED AS AGREED AND UNSOLICITED WORK AFTER JANUARY 1, 2015 WILL BE RETURNED.''' <br />
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'''Schulte's Pipe Repair''' is the best around!<br />
They are the only authorized repair shop in the U.S. for Dunhill pipes. <br />
Contact Howard Schulte at (772) 564-0079. 678 Old Dixie Highway, Vero Beach, Florida 32962. <br />
All work is done by mail order, but call first. Your pipe will be like new!<br />
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'''Jo Barnfield''', manager of '''Monarch Pipe Company''' has been in operation since the 1930s. Monarch has made over 300,000 [http://eacarey.com/aerospheres.html Aerosphere] and [http://eacarey.com/careyclassics.html Magic Inch] Pipes, of every material size and shape. Jo can repair your pipe or completely recondition it. A complete menu of repair services is available. Contact information: Monarch Pipe Company, 115 East Second Street, Bristow, OK 74010. [http://eacarey.com/piperepair.html Pipe Repair Page]<br />
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'''[[Ronni Bikacsan]]''' does excellent pipe repairs and alterations. Contact information: NightOwl Pipe Works, E-mail: mailto:rbpipeworks@gmail.com<br />
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'''Mary Ann Keller''', owner of the '''American Smoking Pipe Repair Company''' has been in operation for over 14 years as a full-service repair company, offering Lucite and vulcanite stems, logos, bands, and reconditioning. Her turnaround time is 7-10 days. Contact information: American Smoking Pipe Repair Co., PO Box 153, Pocono Lake, PA 18347; E-mail mailto:prepair@localnet.com . [http://www.smokingpiperepairs.com website].<br><br />
'''***Apparently CLOSED*** Site no longer operational'''. Please update with any additional information.<br />
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'''Randy Krempp''' does repairs and refurbishing. He can duplicate just about any stem and can repair even the ugliest breaks in a pipe bowl or shank. Contact information: Randy Krempp, 3717 Manor, Waco, TX 76706; 254-662-0562 (evening) and 254-399-2220 (day).<br />
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'''Frank Storm''' of '''Restoration Pipe Repair''', P.O. Box 3, Stacy, MN 55079; 651-462-0187; E-ma.il mailto:frsams@frontiernet.net . Frank writes that he started to learn pipe repair in 1970 by working part time repairing pipes for the local Edwards pipe shop and other Edwards stores. In 1976, he purchased a tobacco store that was about to close down that contained the equipment that he had learned on, and he started doing his customers' pipes. He currently has one national account, Savinelli, for whom he has been doing repairs for 20 years, 75-80 shops coast to coast that he repairs for, and another 80-plus individuals.<br />
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'''[[Tim West]]''' owner of '''J.H.Lowe''', has been a Briar Pipemaker and a Pipe Repairman since 1975. Address - 1588 Grayling Ct., Columbus, OH 43235-5950; 614-761-3465; E-mail mailto:info@jhlowe.com . [http://www.jhlowe.com/ J.H.Lowe Main Website] [http://www.jhlowe.com/tobacco_pipe_repairs.htm Repairs Page]<br />
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'''George Dibos''' has collected, refurbished, and repaired briar pipes for over 30 years, and scaled up operations in 2007 to open '''Precision Smoking Pipe Rejuvenation and Repair,''' an all-new, full service, commercial-grade shop. Contact information: Precision Smoking Pipe R&R, 3941 Wyoming Street, Kansas City, MO 64111; E-mail mailto:precisionpiperepair@gmail.com . [http://www.precisionpiperepair.com/ Precision Smoking Pipe R&R Website]. While the website has not been updated since his move to Kansas City, George is still actively repairing and restoring pipes.<br />
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'''James Connelly''' owner of '''Stem & Briar LLC.''', operates a small estate pipe shop, and restoration business. Offers several estate pipes, racks and accessories for sale as well as pipe repair and rejuvenation services. Address - 9211 S. Nicholson Rd., Oak Creek, WI 53154; Phone: 414-949-7473; E-mail: stemandbriar@gmail.com . [http://www.stemandbriar.com Website] <br />
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'''Baard Hansen''' Tabago Pipemaker of Bergen Norway. Repair and restoration [http://www.pipe-maker.com/pipe-repair.htm] Mail box: Tabago pipemaker, PO Box 18, Birkebeinersenteret, N-5831 Bergen.Phone: +47 41 02 08 80<br />
[mailto:tabago@pipe-maker.com E-mail] [http://www.pipe-maker.com Website]<br />
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'''Smokers' Haven''', 2106 N. High St., Columbus, OH (614-299-2442) [http://www.smokershaven.com/ Website]<br />
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'''Wall's Pipe Repair''', 12 S. Main St., Mansfield, OH (419-522-6218)<br />
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'''E Pipe Repairs''', 144 Linebrook Road, Ipswich, Ma. 01938. [mailto:johnips@comcast.net E-mail], [http://www.epiperepairs.com/ Website]<br />
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'''Norwood's Pipe Repair''', 1160 Norwood Lane, Clifton, Tennessee 38425, (731) 925-1836. [mailto:flnpipes@yahoo.com E-mail], [http://www.norwoodspiperepair.com/ Website] Floyd Norwood is the repairman of choice for numerous pipe and tobacco shops throughout the U.S. and is known for his quality work, fast turn around time and prices that are often 1/3 that of his competitors. Floyd also crafts quality freehand pipes as a hobby which can be purchased at his website.<br />
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'''Scott Bundy''', [mailto:scott@piperestore.com E-mail], [http://www.piperestore.com/ Website]<br><br />
'''***Apparently CLOSED*** Site no longer operational'''. Please update with any additional information.<br />
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'''Walker Pipe Repair, LLC''', 1210 Franklin Blvd., Ann Arbor, MI 48103. Telephone: 734-945-1691. Dave Wolff restored and repaired pipes for more than 40 years before turning the business over to Mike Myers, who now owns and operates the business. He sells a Vulcanite Stem Restoration Kit (which works)on his website, and Walker Briar Works, the other side of the business, carries hand finished Lucite and Vulcanite 'Forever' Stems for Corn Cob Pipes. [mailto:mike@walkerpiperepair.com E-mail], [http://www.walkerpiperepair.com/ Website]<br />
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'''Before-n-After-Pipes''', Pipe repairs and services,1178 phillips suite 420,Montreal,Quebec 514-554-1756<br />
[mailto:michael@evokedistribution.com E-mail]<br />
[http://www.bnapipes.com/pages/contact.html Website]<br><br />
'''***Apparently CLOSED*** Site no longer operational'''. Please update with any additional information.<br />
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'''Shane Slayton''' - 73 Hill Top Church Rd. Glenwood, AR 71943 - Repairs broken tenons at a ridiculously low price. For the most part a hobbyist, who learned out of necessity, his work is a great alternative to replacement stems. Usually around 5 bucks. scorpio2billion@yahoo.com<br />
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===Canada===<br />
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'''Acorn''': A pipe shape characterized by a conical shape sometimes extending to a point or near point below the shank or else with a bent shank flowing into the "point" of the acorn shape. Distinguishable from a dublin by a wider and more rounded rim in most cases. <br />
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'''Acrylic''': In pipe parlance, acrylic stems are those made of polymers of acrylic acid or acrylates, most often polymethyl methacrylate, also called acrylic glass. Some prefer this material for pipe stems due to the lack of oxidation, while others prefer a traditional vulcanite stem due to softness.<br />
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'''Aging''': The term used to describe the tendency of pipe tobacco to improve over time through either aerobic or anaerobic fermentation. The term is used interchangeably to describe increased sweetness on the part of Virginias, mellowing on the part of Latakia, or a generally more complete melding of the blend. The effect is often simulated through the use of heat or pressure.<br />
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'''Agonya''': A type of Turkish tobacco of a kabakolak leaf type, meaning it has distinct stems with "wings" on the leaf stems, Agonya was originally grown in the foothills below Xanthi, but is now grown south of the Sea of Marmara, in the region east of Kanakhale, Turkey.<br />
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'''Air-cured''': Air-cured tobacco is hung in well-ventilated barns immediately after plants are cut or leaves pulled from the field and allowed to dry for a period of one to two months. During this process the yellow colors of the leaf turn to varying shades of brown, until they are ready to be fermented and processed. Burley is an air-cured tobacco.<br />
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'''Amber''': Prior to the wide adoption of vulcanite, first invented in 1844 by Charles Goodyear, as a substance for pipe stem making, by far the most common form of pipe stem was one carved from amber. The stems were carved by hand from fossilized tree resin, at which point they could be bent only after heating in oil and over an alcohol flame. While amber is a beautiful natural material which comes in a large variety of colors, the stems are exceedingly brittle and hard on the teeth. Amber stems are still made only in very rare cases.<br />
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'''Apple''': According to the [[Apple|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the classic apple shape is a rounded version of the billiard, and may be had in either bent or straight shanked and tapered and saddle stemmed versions. Popular variations of this shape include the Prince and Author.<br />
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'''Aromatic''': A type of tobacco which is either cased or top flavored in order to produce a taste and room note other than the tobacco's natural smell, whether simply sugar or molasses, whiskey or other alcohols, or many other flavorings. Used as a major category for pipe tobaccos, along with non-aromatic and latakia based blends.<br />
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'''Army Mount''': Also called a "military bit", a pipe with an army mount stem is designed to permit the stem to be removed from the pipe while hot by inclusion of a shank cap, often made of silver, to reinforce the briar. A more elaborate variation of the army mount is the spigot. According to most likely mythological history, the first army mount was invented when a World War One soldier fixed a broken pipe shank by inserting a spent rifle casing into it and piercing a hole for the stem. <br />
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[[File:Kaldenberg Army Mount.jpg|thumb|center|100px|An Army Mount Pipe]] <br />
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'''Author''': According to the [[Author|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the Author is a beefed-up prince, featuring a flattened ball-shaped bowl and a heavy 1/8 to 1/4 bent stem.<br />
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== B ==<br />
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'''Bafra''': Bafra is a district and village in the Samsun province of Turkey, and the name sometimes given to the Samsun-Maden strain of tobacco, which is a smaller basibali Turkish varietal with low nicotine and a rich flavor.<br />
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'''Ball''': The ball shape, also referred to as a tomato, is described by the [[Author|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], is very similar to an author but with a spherical bowl and thinner shank. According to Mr. Burney the ball generally features a tapered stem with a 1/4 to 1/2 bent.<br />
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'''Ballerina''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and resembling a ballet dancer's foot while en pointe, curving from the heel at the front of the bowl to the toe at the meeting of bowl and shank, itself characterized by a full enough bend to permit the pipe to stand on its own. <br />
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[[File:Nordh Ballerina.jpg|thumb|center|100px|A Bo Nordh Ballerina]]<br />
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'''Bakelite''': A trade name for Polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride. Harder than vulcanite and softer than acrylic, bakelite stems do not oxidize. Largely seen in shades of white and amber yellow.<br />
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'''Basma''': 1. The group of Turkish small-leaf varietals in which the stem of the leaf does not extend beyond the leaf at the main stalk 2. The larger leaves primed from the middle of any variety of Turkish tobacco plant 3. A long, rectangular bale-style of packing cured Turkish leaf, approximately 50-60 pounds, of any variety.<br />
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'''Bead''': Now generally represented by two straight lines around the bowl of a bulldog or rhodesian, a bead is one of only three shapes which can be produced on a lathe, along with a flat and a cove. A bead is a rounded projection from the wood, and in the case of pipes today most beads are cut as inset beads, in that the surrounding wood is level with the top of the bead. Older pipes occasionally featured intricately carved beads. Today, however, rather than cutting a true bead the projection is left flat and only signified by the lines around it.<br />
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'''Bent Pipe''': A generic term used to refer to any pipe where the shank is not a straight horizontal line, regardless of the nature or amount of the shank bend.<br />
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'''Billiard''': The [[Billiard|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] describe a billiard as a pipe shape having a cylindrical bowl and tobacco chamber with a shank about the same length as the height of the bowl. Variations on the billiard shape include the pot and chimney.<br />
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'''Basibali''': A family of Turkish tobaccos characterized by a distinct stem separating the leaf from the stalk. Sometimes referred to as Bashi Bagli.<br />
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'''Bit''': A less than precise term, usually used to refer to the entirety of the stem or mouthpiece on a pipe, but occasionally also used to refer to the bite zone.<br />
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'''Bite Zone''': The last approximately three quarters of an inch of the mouthpiece or stem of a tobacco pipe, including the button.<br />
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'''Bloom''': Also referred to as plume, bloom is a fine white powder which appears on well aged tobacco on occasion, and despite the tendency to confuse it with mold is actually a good sign that the leaf is maturing well. Bloom is caused by the crystallization of sugars on the surface of the tobacco leaf. <br />
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'''Blowfish''': Per the [[Blowfish|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the blowfish is a pipe shape characterized by an asymmetrical flattened ball for a bowl, a bent stem blending into the body, and a combination of birdseye grain on the large panels and straight grain between.<br />
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'''Brandy''': Also referred to as a bent brandy or brandyglass, a pipe shape which resembles the glassware for which it is named. According to the [[Brandy|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pipe is characterized by a rounded base tapering up to a smaller rim, often in a 1/4 bent pipe.<br />
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'''Briar''': Actually a mistranslation of the French bruyère, briar among pipe smokers refers to the wood of the ''erica arborea'', a species of flowering plant in the heather family. After 30 to 60 years of growing time, the football sized plants are harvested, cooked, dried for several months, and further processed before they are made into pipes. <br />
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'''Bullcap''': According to the [[Bullcap|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the bullcap is a squat straight rhodesian with a large bowl diameter.<br />
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'''Bulldog''': According to the [[Bulldog|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the classic bulldog has a tapered stem, diamond shank and slightly forward canted bowl shaped someone like two cones joined at the bases with the top cone cut off. The pipe is traditionally adorned with a bead around the bowl. <br />
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'''Bullmoose''': According to the [[Bullcap|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a bullmoose is a squat rhodesian with a very heavy 1/4 bent stem.<br />
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'''Burley''': A tobacco of light-colored variety grown primarily in Kentucky and Tennessee, the bulk of burley tobacco produced in the United States is used for cigarette production. All burley today is of the white burley variety, and is often sweetened due to the low natural sugars present in the leaf. Most aromatics use a base of burley due to its ready ability to absorb flavors. While some claim burley does not age, it does improve with time. However, this takes time measured in the several decades at least.<br />
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'''Burnout''': A term used to refer to a possible condition in estate pipes which, short of extraordinary effort on the part of a capable restorer, generally means the death of a particular pipe. A burnout is a spot where char has actually penetrated or begun to penetrate the outer layer of the bowl. Usually caused by hot smoking, although some claim burnout is always the fault of an unseen flaw in the briar. Uneven packing can also result in one spot suffering more damage than others. While most smokers stop smoking a particular pipe when burnout begins to appear, some continue smoking until they have burned straight through a wall or the foot of the pipe.<br />
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'''Button''': The button is the raised portion at the end of a pipe mouthpiece or stem intended to permit the teeth purchase to hold the pipe.<br />
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== C ==<br />
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'''Cake''': Cake refers to the buildup of residual carbon that forms in the bowl of a pipe. Most recommend trimming back the buildup to keep it at roughly the width of a dime in a briar pipe in order to create a protective layer which cools the pipe and reduces moisture. Cake is frowned upon in meerschaums, and the subject of much debate among corn cob pipe smokers.<br />
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'''Calabash''': According to the [[Calabash|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the calabash is a solid wood interpretation of the gourd calabash with a tapered bowl flared at the rim and a dome shaped top. The tobacco chamber is usually tapered and the pipe 3/4 bent, but there are variations.<br />
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'''Canadian''': According to the [[Canadian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the canadian is a long-shanked billiard with an oval shank and a tapered bit. The shank is roughly twice as long as the height of the bowl. Variations on this shape include the lumbermand, lovat and liverpool.<br />
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'''Casing''': Whether sprayed with or soaked in a sauce, casing refers to the addition of flavoring, sugar or the like prior to the finishing of the tobacco, as opposed to top-flavouring, which is added by spraying the finished blend with scents and flavours.<br />
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'''Cavendish''': There are two forms of Cavendish, which is more a process of curing and a method of cutting tobacco than a type of it. Common cavendish is made when tobacco leaves are pressed into a cake about an inch thick and heated before being allowed to ferment, resulting in a mild and sweet tobacco. Flavoring is often added before the leaves are pressed. English Cavendish uses a dark flue or fire cured Virginia , which is steamed and then stored under pressure to permit it to cure and ferment for several days or weeks.<br />
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'''Char''': Used to refer to wood that has actually begun to burn, usually at the start of a burnout in a bowl or, far more likely and most often due to lighter abuse, at the rim. <br />
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'''Cherrywood''': According to the [[Cherrywood|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a cherrywood is a bent poker. The name cherrywood derives from the pipe shape's origin as a copy of the cherry wood pipes made by Eugène-Léon Ropp and others in mid-19th century France.<br />
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'''Churchwarden''': According to the [[Churchwarden|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the churchwarden is the only pipe defined by the shape of its stem, rather than its bowl. Whether bent or straight, the stem on a churchwarden is 9 to 18 inches long, but not so long as to make lighting the pipe while holding it in the mouth impossible.<br />
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'''Cigar Leaf''': A generic term used to describe a great many different types of leaf primarily used in cigars which are also included in pipe tobacco. Connecticut Broadleaf and Cuban-Seed Varietals are frequently used among others to add flavor to a blend.<br />
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'''Cob''': The common parlance for a corn cob pipe, which in its loosest definition is simply any pipe with a bowl made from a dried and drilled corncob. Traditionally fitted with river cane stems, most modern cobs have wood shanks and plastic bits. <br />
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'''Coin''': A term used to refer to a single slice of tobacco cut from a rope or twist, and resembling a flake, except that it is round and often thinner.<br />
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'''Cumberland''': Called brindle by Dunhill and others, cumberland is a form of vulcanite made with brown and red pigment added to the rubber to give it a marble like appearance.<br />
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'''Curly Cut''': A term used to refer to tobacco which has been sliced from rope or twist tobacco into thin "coins", similar to flakes excepting that they are thinner and round.<br />
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'''Cut''': Pipe tobacco may be cut as shag, ribbon, flake, plug, rope, discs, coins, or in other forms. These terms simply refer to the manner in which the finished product is reduced into a small enough size to consume. The most common cut is ribbon cut.<br />
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'''Cutty''': According to the [[Cutty|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a cutty has a very canted tulip shaped bowl and a slightly bent stem with a tapered bit. The word cutty simply means "cut shorter". Cutty pipes occasionally and traditionally sport a "spur", or a small foot protruding from the base of the bowl.<br />
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'''Czech Tool''': Also called a 3-way pipe tool, a combined tamper, shank clearing tool and dottle spoon on a single rotating rivet. Called a Czech tool for the original country of manufacture of most of the tools, they are largely Chinese made today.<br />
[[File:Czech Tool.jpg|center|thumb|A Czech Tool.]]<br />
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== D ==<br />
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'''Delayed Gratification Technique''': Or DGT, the habit of some pipe smokers to light a pipe and leave it to sit for hours or even days before completing the smoke. Many blends gain a far different taste profile from this technique which some find pleasant.<br />
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'''Delphin''': A variation on the Ulmer pipe where the shank runs directly up the back of the bowl and there is no gap between the bowl and the shank.<br />
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'''Delrin''': A brand name for polyoxymethylne or POM, also called acetal, polyacetal, or polyformaldehyde, delrin is a thermoplastic used by pipe makers as a material for non-integral stem tenons, and for screw-in tenons for meerschaum push/pull connections. Delrin is appreciated as a "self-lubricating" material, meaning that it has a low drag coefficient to interfere with the smooth passage of smoke, and for the ease of reliance on separate stems and tenons.<br />
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'''Devil Anse''': The name of a notorious West Virginia Confederate veteran suspected of murdering Asa McCoy after the war ended and starting the infamous Hatfield/McCoy feud. Devil Anse Hatfield was portrayed in a recent television series by Kevin Costner, who, despite the lack of any historical support, smoked a nosewarmer cutty in the role, now popular and given the name of the character. <br />
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'''Diplomat''': According to the [[Diplomat|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a diplomat is a pipe shape similar to a prince but a bit larger generally and with an oval shank and stem.<br />
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'''Djebel''': Sometimes referred to as Xanthi-Djebel, Dejebel tobacco is grown closer to the ridge, or djebel, of the Rhodope mountains above Xanthi. While the leaf is probably of the same strain as Yaka leaf, it is much less highly regarded.<br />
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'''Don''': A pipe shape, according to the [[Duke/Don|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], similar to a Duke but with a rudimentary shank and a vulcanite bit. Sometimes, such as by [[Peterson]], called a tankard.<br />
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'''Doppelpfeife''': A variation on the Ulmer shape hallmarked by two separate bowls, evidently intended to permit a smoker to mingle the tastes of two different tobaccos.<br />
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'''Dottle''': The leftover plug of unburnt tobacco and ash left in the heel of a pipe bowl after smoking. Dottle is avoided by smokers as a waste of tobacco and occasionally souring of the bowl, but is sometimes unavoidable.<br />
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'''Drama''': A sweet type of tobacco with a natural olive oil fragrance grown on the Southern slopes and foothills of the Rhodope Mountains in Greek Eastern Macedonia, and taking its name from the town of the same name. A kabakolak variety, meaning that the leaf has a distinct separate stem similar to basibali, but with "wings" on its leaf stems.<br />
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'''Draught Hole''': Also Draft Hole, the point at which the airway enters the bowl of the pipe, preferably in the center back of the heel to avoid leaving excessive dottle.<br />
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'''Dubec''': 1. The smaller leaves from the upper portion of any variety of Turkish tobacco plant 2. A round package of cured Turkish leaf of any variety, approximately 25-30 pounds in weight.<br />
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'''Dublin''': According to the [[Dublin|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the dublin is a pipe shape with the same proportions as a billiard but with a conical bowl and tapered combustion chamber.<br />
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'''Duke''': A [[Dunhill]] pipe shape that features a cylindrical bowl with no shank, a bone or vulcanite stem and a poker-type canted bottom, according to the [[Duke/Don|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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== E ==<br />
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'''Ebonite''': The brand name for a very hard rubber first created by Charles Goodyear by vulcanizing rubber for prolonged periods, Ebonite was named for its intended purpose, a replacment for ebony. Commonly referred to as vulcanite in pipe parlance, vulcanite is with acrylic one of the two most popular materials from which stems are made.<br />
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'''Egg''': According to the [[Egg|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the egg is usually but not always a bent pipe with a bowl shaped like an egg, which can be thought of as an elongated apple shape.<br />
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'''Elephant's Foot''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and characterized by straight grained side panels and wide front and back domed surfaces on the bowl exhibiting birdseye. <br />
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'''English''': Aside from the obvious geographical uses, the word "English" is often used among pipe smokers to refer to blends with latakia in them. In reality, however, the term only developed to differentiate blends made in the United Kingdom, especially in the days of the now defunct Tobacco Purity Laws, which prohibited humectants and most flavorings from being added to the tobacco. A more precise term is "latakia based".<br />
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'''English Cavendish''': The name commonly used to refer to dark flue-cured or fire-cured Virginia tobacco which is steamed and then pressed over a period of several days to weeks. It is not flavored as other forms of Cavendish generally are. Rattray's ''Dark Fragrant'' is one example of an available English Cavendish blend. <br />
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'''Eskimo''': According to the [[Ukulele|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a pipe shape by Tom Eltang created as a variation on Ed Burak's bulldog design and sporting a smooth, flat stem and shank with a canted, domed bowl.<br />
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'''Estate Pipe''': A previously owned pipe, whether smoked or un-smoked.<br />
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== F ==<br />
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'''Fill''': A void, pit or flaw in the briar which is made level with the surface of the pipe with either putty or a mix of briar dust and cyanoacrylate glue and which, despite staining, is often visible on close inspection.<br />
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'''Fire Cured''': Unlike flue cured tobacco, which is cured by indirect heat without smoke, fire cured tobacco is cured with smoke, in the tobacco equivalent of barbecuing. Dark Fired Kentucky and Latakia are both fire cured, and the process results in lower sugars and higher nicotine in the leaf.<br />
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'''Flake''': Flake tobacco is made by slicing thin sheets off of a cube, which in turn is formed by pressing whole tobacco leaves into a compressed form, usually under significant pressure for long periods of time. Flake tobacco may be sold in slices, or fully or partially broken or rubbed out.<br />
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'''Flue Cured''': Flue cured tobacco is cured by heat without smoke, generally by being hung from sticks in a barn exposed to heat from external fires through flues. Traditionally the method for curing brightleaf tobacco, this method results in sweeter leaf with lower nicotine.<br />
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'''Foot''': The bottom of the outside of the bowl, as opposed to the heel, which is the bottom of the inside of the bowl.<br />
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'''Freehand''': Not to be confused with the fixed freehand shapes made by some companies, a true freehand shape is defined by the pipemaker's choice to let the grain of the briar shape the pipe, rather than forcing the pipe into a predetermined shape, according to the [[Freehand|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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== G ==<br />
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'''Gesteckpfeife''': Literally "pipe in parts", a traditional European pipe made up of several interconnecting parts, usually held together with cork tenons. Bowls can be meerschaum, briar, or porcelain, commonly.<br />
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'''Ghost''': A ghost is the taste or smell of a previously smoked tobacco remaining in a pipe and coloring the taste of a different blend smoked in the same pipe. Generally the cause of tar in the shank, but usually blamed on cake.<br />
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'''Gourd Calabash''': According to the [[Gourd Calabash|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a gourd calabash is a pipe made from a calabash gourd which is dried and the seeds removed, and then fitted with a stem and meerschaum bowl cap. The driest and smoothest of all pipes.<br />
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'''Gravity Fill Method''': Also called the Three Step Method, this is the method of packing a pipe most often taught to new smokers, and involves drizzling enough tobacco into the bowl to cover the heel, tamping very lightly, followed by drizzling tobacco to the rim twice and tamping after each time, with more pressure the on the last.<br />
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'''Hand''': A hand is a bundle of tobacco tied at the end and hung from the knot for curing purposes.<br />
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'''Hawkbill''': According to the [[Hawkbill|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the hawkbill is a pipe shape characterized by an enlarged ball or tomato style with a long, tapering bent shank. The premiere example is the Castello 84.j<br />
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'''Heel''': The heel is the bottom of the combustion chamber, the inside of the bowl.<br />
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'''Horn''': According to the [[Horn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the horn is a graceful freehand shape varying from a straight tapering tube to a more standard bent pipe, but in all cases with a smooth tapering from bowl to shank and no abrupt transitions.<br />
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[[File:Horn2.gif|thumb|center|100px|The Horn Shape]]<br />
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'''Hungarian''': More commonly referred to as an Oom Paul, the Hungarian is a fully bent billiard named for former South African President Paulus Kruger, according to the [[Oom Paul/Hungarian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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== I ==<br />
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'''Intricate Curve''': In pipemaking, a term sometimes used to describe the transition from the rear wall of the bowl to the top of the shank.<br />
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'''Izmir''': A type of Turkish tobacco with rich flavor, low nicotine, and cool smoke. It has a very aromatic nature and is often blended with Latakia to somewhat subdue this property. Primarily used as a condiment with pipe tobacco, but occasionally offered by itself. Also called Smyrna.<br />
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'''Jar''': Tobacco jars have been used for nearly three hundred years as the predominant method for storage of pipe tobacco, whether made from tin, wood, pewter, porcelain, majolica or bisque. By far the most common choice is the simple Ball jar or Mason jar.<br />
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'''Jatim''': A form of Indonesian tobacco and the abbreviated name of the province of East Java (Jawa Timur), where the tobacco is grown.<br />
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'''Kabakolak''': A family of Turkish tobacco strains similar to Basibali, but with wings on their leaf stems in addition to distinct stems.<br />
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'''Kalmasch''': A traditional German pipe shape, primarily seen in meerschaum, hallmarked by a bowl and shank of nearly the same, large diameter with a slightly bent shank, and often a very long stem made of cherry wood, flexible tubing, and various other materials.<br />
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[[File:Barling Full 1850.jpg|thumb|center|100px|A Kalmasch Pipe]]<br />
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'''Katerini''': A Turkish varietal of the Samsun basibali type, with a milder, sweeter leaf. Grown southwest of Thessaloniki in the Greek province of Macedonia.<br />
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'''Kentucky''': Dark-Fired Kentucky is a type of pipe tobacco made from burley which is cured over a fire and flavored by its smoke.<br />
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'''Latakia''': Named for the principal port city of Syria, latakia is not a specific plant varietal, but rather one of a number of Turkish varietals which are fire cured over a stone pine or oak wood fire, giving it a smoky flavor. Most latakia, despite the name, is now grown in Cyprus, not Syria, and camel dung has nothing to do with the process of its creation.<br />
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'''Lovat''': A pipe shape, according to the [[Lovat|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], which is essentially a Canadian but with a round shank instead of oval and a saddle stem.<br />
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'''Lucite''': Lucite is a trade name for acrylic, or polyacrylate, which is derived from natural gas. It is a composition of Methyl Methacrylate and Poly Methyl Methacrylate resin. Lucite is used for pipe stems due to its lack of oxidation, but is criticized for a harder feel on the teeth.<br />
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'''Lületaşi''': A Turkish word literally meaning sea foam and used to refer to meerschaum in that country.<br />
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'''Macedonia''': 1. A province of north-central Greece, west of Thrace, which includes the sea port of Thessaloniki (Salonika) and the Katerini tobacco region 2. A recently independent republic, formerly part of Soviet Yugoslavia, located immediately north of the Greek province of Macedonia, and the source of Prilep tobacco.<br />
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'''Mahale''': A Turkish tobacco with a basma leaf type grown downslope from Xanthi.<br />
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'''Maryland''': An extremely mild tobacco used in a number of American tobacco blends, especially to add a nutty flavor to Burley. Sadly the state of Maryland now pays farmers not to grow tobacco.<br />
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'''Meerschaum''': A mineral hydrous magnesium silicate called sepiolite, primarily found in Turkey near Eskisehr, which is used in the making of tobacco pipes. The word means "seafoam".<br />
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'''Melding''': The term used to refer to a tobacco blend's property to acquire a single homogeneous taste over time, as a result of aging in an airtight container.<br />
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'''Mellowing''': Particularly used in referring to Latakia's tendency to be less overpowering after some aging, the term is sometimes used to refer to a general tendency of tobacco to become more smooth with age.<br />
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'''Morta''': Also known as bog-wood or abonos, morta is a material cut from trees which have been buried in peat bogs and near-petrified by the acidic and anaerobic conditions of the bog for a period sometimes hundreds or even thousands of years long. It is valued for its very high mineral content and resulting resistance to fire.<br />
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'''Mortise''': A mortise is at its most basic a hole cut or drilled to accept a smaller tenon and make a joint. The joint has been used in woodworking for thousands of years, and in pipe construction generally appears as a hole drilled larger than the airway and at the same depth as the stem tenon. Variations, however, are unlimited.<br />
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'''Mouthpiece''': A term used interchangeably with stem and to a lesser degree bit, the mouthpiece is the portion of the pipe meant to be placed in the smoker's mouth, and includes the entire pipe from the end of the shank to the slot. Often made from vulcanite or lucite/acrylic.<br />
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'''Nautilus''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and named for its obvious resemblance to the shell of a nautilus, resulting in an airway passing through a shank curved in a loop and pierced in the center to suggest the closed portion of the shell, a bowl shaped like the long open mouth of the shell, and a foot curving in a near half circle beneath.<br />
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'''Nail''': The simplest form of pipe tool is the venerable Pipe Nail, which generally looks much like its namesake, one end flat to tamp with and another coming to a point or spoon for clearing ash and tar.<br />
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'''Nomenclature''': A general term used to refer to the stamping on a pipe in its entirety, including brand names, models, year and shape codes and the like.<br />
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'''Oliphant''': A traditional name for a hunter's horn made from an elephant tusk, the oliphant shape was first designed by [[Sixten Ivarsson]] for the [[Pibe-Dan]] shop in the late 1950s. According to the [[Horn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]]The shape is a variation of the horn meant to resemble the tusk of an elephant, and with a flat curve and even and gradual tapering throughout.<br />
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'''Oom Paul''': A shape name which actually means Uncle Paul in Dutch, Oom Paul pipes are full bent billiards, according to the [[Oom Paul/Hungarian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]]. The name comes from the nickname for Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, president of the South African Republic from 1883 to 1900 and the face of the Boer cause against Britain during the Second Boer War of 1899 to 1902. Also called a Hungarian.<br />
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'''Opera Pipe''': A shape which the [[Oval|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] refer to as an "Oval" or Pocket pipe, the opera pipe is a billiard with a bowl "squashed" into an oval, with the long side of the oval parallel with the shank and stem. In fact, "opera" pipe is a misnomer. The original name of the pipe was the au pair pipe, as it gained popularity with domestic workers unable to smoke around children.<br />
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'''Oriental''': Used interchangeably with "Turkish" to refer to sun cured condimental tobaccos grown in the Eastern Mediterranean. This category of tobaccos includes Yenidje, Smyrna, Samsun, Izmir, Drama, Xanthe, and often Basma, which is not a particular leaf but a generic Turkish blend, and all that pipe tobacco blenders are often able to find due to the purchase of most oriental varietals by cigarette manufacturers.<br />
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'''Panel Billiard''': According to the [[Panel Billiard|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the Panelled Billiard, also called a foursquare, is a basic billiard shape with flat, or panelled, sides. The classic panel has four flat sides and a round shank.<br />
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'''Pear''': More commonly called an acorn today, according to the [[Pear/Accorn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] the pear is a sort of softened dublin shape, with a conical bowl and tobacco chamber but with all sharp edges rounded.<br />
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'''Perique''': Mistakenly believed to be a nickname for Pierre Chenet and actually a French mispronunciation of an American slang word for a part of the anatomy, perique is a type of tobacco grown only in St. James Parish, Louisiana, sauced and kept under massive pressure in barrels until it turns nearly black. Perique has flavors of spice and plum, and is prized as the truffle of pipe tobaccos.<br />
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'''Pickaxe''': According to the [[Pickaxe|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pickaxe is a freehand style of pipe characterized by a paneled, triangular bowl.<br />
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'''Pipe''': A tube with a small bowl at one end used for the smoking of tobacco.<br />
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'''Pit''': Briar grows underground and as such is prone to picking up bits of sand which create a void in the block, sometimes not noticeable until the pipe is nearly finished. Traditionally pits, or sand pits, would simply be filled with putty and stained over for a value priced pipe.<br />
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'''P-Lip''': A type of pipe mouthpiece invented by Peterson of Dublin and relying on a small hole on the top of a stem rather than a hole at its end. Meant to reduce tongue bite by directing the flow of smoke away from the tongue.<br />
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'''Plug''': Whole leaf, pressed with moisture, becomes a plug, from which flakes can be sliced. Plug tobacco is prepared by slicing off and then rubbing out pieces of the block of tobacco.<br />
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'''Poker''': According to the [[Poker|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the poker is a straight pipe with a cylindrical, flat bottomed bowl designed so that the pipe will stand on its own.<br />
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'''Pot''': According to the [[Pot|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pot is a billiard with a shorter bowl, but not a shorter shank than a standard billiard.<br />
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'''Prilep''': A Sirdily variety of Turkish tobacco commonly grown in the region of the town of Prilep, which is located in the Independent Republic of Macedonia.<br />
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'''Prince''': According to the [[Prince|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the prince is a pipe shape characterized by a squat rounded bowl and along, usually slightly bent stem with a short shank. The pipe was named after Prince Albert, later King Edward VII, the Prince of Wales.<br />
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'''Push/Pull''': The term generally used to describe a two part mortise and tenon system used in meerschaum pipes and developed by Andreas Bauer originally. A push/pull consists of a threaded Delrin tenon and a separate threaded plastic mortise. The preferred method of connecting stem and shank in meerschaum pipes, which lack the durability for long term use of a standard mortise/tenon connection.<br />
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'''Quaint''': A pipe shape hallmarked, generally, by more than four panels, especially with a paneled shank as well.<br />
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'''Ramses''': A pipe shape created by Bo [[Nordh]] and later named by a visiting customer for its resemblance to the statue of Ramses II in Abu Simbel, Egypt. Characterized by a long, wide sloping shank which also serves as the foot of the pipe and a long, tapered bowl which rests almost vertically on the shank. Stems are generally partially bent.<br />
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[[File:Bo Nordh Ramses01.jpg|thumb|center|100px|A Nordh Ramses]]<br />
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'''Reaming''': Trimming back cake from the bowl of a tobacco pipe.<br />
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'''Reamer''': A tool used to trim pipe cake back to an acceptable level. These have been made in countless different forms, adjustable and non-adjustable, for well over a century. Some simply use a pipe knife or sandpaper to accomplish the same task.<br />
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'''Rhodesian''': A subject of great dispute. Unlikely to have been named for Cecil Rhodes, and more likely to have taken its name from Rhodesian tobacco, a Rhodesian is considered by some to be any bent bulldog, by others to be any bulldog with a round shank, and by others any bulldog shape with a greater bowl width than height. For each accepted definition of the word there is a pipe sold which contradicts it, and no consensus is likely.<br />
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'''Room Note''': The smell of a particular tobacco as it is being smoked. Easier to detect by those not smoking the blend, and a key component to the choice of a pipe tobacco blend especially for those who smoke in public environments. Simply put, how pleasing the smoke would be to a bystander.<br />
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'''Samsun''': A Turkish tobacco of the basibali variety with a heart-shaped leaf, grown near the town of Samsun, Turkey on the shores of the Black Sea. Low nicotine tobacco, but with strong flavor and dark color.<br />
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'''Samsun-Maden''': Also called Bafra for the village near Samsun, Samsun-Maden is a basibali Turkish tobacco characterized by leaves which are are small sized and ovalThe leaf faces are red to bright red. This strain can be smoked without blending. Nicotine content is often lower than 1% and sugar content is 9-12%. <br />
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'''Shank''': The portion of a stummel between the bowl and mouthpiece, and generally containing the mortise. The length of the pipe shank is one of the key variables in the shape of a pipe, as is it's shape, whether square, diamond, oval or round.<br />
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'''Shirazi''': Named for the ancient city of Shiraz in south-western Iran and claimed to be native to that country, Shirazi tobacco is thought to have reached Iran from the Americas in the mid 1500s. Once called ''Nicotiana Persica''.<br />
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'''Sirdily''': A category of Turkish basma subvarietals characterized by small, narrow, acutely pointed leaves.<br />
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'''Slot''': A slot is the wide opening at the end of the mouthpiece tapering into the airway of the pipe. Generally seen only on vulcanite and acrylic stems from the last century, the slot is funneled both to make the insertion of a pipe cleaner easier and to make for a smoother flow for the smoke.<br />
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'''Smyrna''': A type of Turkish tobacco with rich flavor, low nicotine, and cool smoke. It has a very aromatic nature and is often blended with Latakia to somewhat subdue this property. Primarily used as a condiment with pipe tobacco, but occasionally offered by itself. Also called Izmir.<br />
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'''Sokhoum''': A type of Turkish varietal of the Samsun basibali type which is deeply fermented. Grown in the mountains above the town of Sokhoum Kale (Sokhumi) in the Republic of Georgia.<br />
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'''Soppeng''': A type of Indonesian tobacco prepared much like a traditional cavendish but using palm sugar as the sweetener, and then fired. Primarily smoked in cigarettes but enjoyed as pipe tobacco also, Soppeng is sometimes flavored with cinnamon or other tastes during preparation.<br />
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'''Sphinx''': A shape created by Bo [[Nordh]] and characterized by a wide domed bowl front cut so as to show birdseye at the center with straight grain radiating out from that point, giving a sunburst pattern. A similar shape, the Mounted Sphinx, was created by [[Geiger Pipes|Love and Sara Geiger]], but was not created as a variation on the shape.<br />
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'''Spiderwebbing''': A term used to describe a possible condition of estate pipes, spiderwebbing is the result of oversmoking but, rather than showing in a single spot like char in the bowl or a burnout, is characterized by a pattern of char lines, which look like shallow cracks and are actually burnt into the wood of the bowl. Can be concealed by any amount of cake or even a bowl coating, and so it is usually only evident in a bowl which has been sanded back to bare wood.<br />
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'''Spur''': A small protrusion at the bottom of traditional clay pipes to ensure a hot bowl does not burn the table. Frequently included in cutty pipes made even in briar and meerschaum in later decades as an ornamental element of the cutty shape. Seen only occasionally today.<br />
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[[File:Spur.jpg|thumb|center|100px|Clay Pipe Resting on Spur]]<br />
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'''Srintil''': A type of heavily fermented, air cured Indonesian tobacco grown in the Java region in the Temangung valley which grows at the top of a plant and by abnormality produces an extreme amount of resin, making it highly potent. Fermentation details are thought to be similar to perique, and in 1983 approximately 3 tons a year of Srintil were grown worldwide. Sometimes extracted in an aqueous solution for use as a flavoring agent.<br />
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'''Stinger''': Sometimes referred to as a "metal filter", "cleaner", or "condenser", a stinger is a metal protrusion containing the last portion of the airway in many pipes, primarily of the mid-20th century. A stinger extends from the tenon on a stem into the shank of the pipe, generally in turn drilled with a deeper mortise to allow space. Stingers were used commonly in non-filtered pipes for the majority of the twentieth century, but are no longer seen.<br />
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[[File:8.jpg|thumb|center|100px|Pipe stem with Stinger]]<br />
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'''Stummel''': German for stump, the stummel is a complete pipe minus only a stem and any final adornments, including the bowl, shank, and transition between the two.<br />
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'''Tambolaka''': An Indonesian tobacco grown in limestone heavy soil and after harvesting rolled into long sticks which are bound and stored for five years. Sold both as pipe tobacco and as a component of Indonesian cigars. Very high in nicotine with a tin note best described as pungent. <br />
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'''Tamp''': Using a tool or finger to compress the contents of the pipe bowl so as to bring unburnt tobacco into contact with the ember.<br />
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'''Tamper''': A tool used to tamp a pipe, generally with a flat end designed for that purpose and a handle. A tamper can be as simple as a piece of dowel or as ornate as the buyer may wish. While it seems inconsequential, tamping is important both for the care of the pipe and the coolness of the smoke.<br />
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'''Tenon''': The tenon is the smaller diameter protrusion at the end of a pipe stem which holds the stem to the stummel. It takes its name from one of the oldest joints in woodworking, the mortise and tenon joint. Over the last two centuries tenons have been made separately with bone screws, cut integrally into a vulcanite stem to fit a cut mortise in the stummel, made from threaded aluminum or plastic, made from aluminum to fit a pre-drilled mortise so as to hold a filter, made from delrin and placed into a drilled hole in the stem, and in other fashions as well. <br />
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'''Tin Note''': As opposed to the aroma of burning tobacco, the tin note is the scent which can be smelled from the unsmoked tobacco when opened, and is considered a good way to begin to understand a new blend and determine to some degree its components and their relative strength.<br />
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'''Trebizond''': No known as Trabzon, Trebizond is grown in Turkey at the southeast shores of the Black Sea. A basibali varietal resembling Samsun, but coarser and stronger.<br />
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'''Turkish''': A term used to refer not only to tobaccos grown in modern day Turkey, but rather to any tobacco grown under the Ottoman Empire, particularly at the height of its power under Suleiman the Magnificent. As a result, while the town of Yenidje, for example, would today be in Greece, yenidje tobacco is still classified as Turkish.<br />
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'''Twist''': A form of tobacco, also known as rope tobacco, which is spun into a roll, largely by hand, rather than being pressed into flakes. One of the oldest forms of smoking tobacco.<br />
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'''Ukulele''': A pipe shape first designed by [[Sixten Ivarsson]] for the [[Pibe-Dan]] shop in the 1950s and named ukulele, some credit Ed [[Burak]] for the design which he considered a bulldog. A ukulele is characterized by a domed, wide bowl and a wide oval shank with a flat bowl bottom, according to the [[Ukulele|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''Ulmer''': A pipe shape which took its name from the city of Ulm, Germany, and originally attributed to Johann Jakob Glöckle in the early 18th century, the ulmer is a full bent pipe in a "U" shape with a wider portion at the base. <br />
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[[File:Ulmer.JPG|thumb|center|100px|An Ulmer pipe]]<br />
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'''VaPer''': A portmanteau of Virginia and Perique, vaper is simply the contraction used to refer to blends primarily composed of these two types of tobacco. <br />
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'''Vestpocket''': A pipe characterized by its ability to fit in a vest pocket, notable for its stem, which swivels over the bowl for carrying and swings out for use, according to the [[Vestpocket|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts]]. Generally all corners on the pipe are rounded to make it easier to remove from a pocket.<br />
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'''Virginia''': More appropriately called Brightleaf tobacco, Virginia is used to refer to milder tobacco leaf, lighter in color, which is grown in infertile, sandy soil, largely in North Carolina and Virginia, and which was first grown in approximately 1839. <br />
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'''Volcano''': A pipe shape characterized by a conical bowl narrowing towards the top, usually with a rounded base and a bent shank and saddle stem, according to the [[Volcano|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts]].<br />
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'''Vulcanite''': Hard black vulcanized rubber used for making pipe stems. Made from rubber containing up to 30% sulfur, vulcanite is soft on the teeth but prone to turning brownish yellow and taking on a sulfur smell on exposure to sunlight. This process is called oxidation.<br />
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'''White Burley''': First grown in Brown County, Ohio in 1865 by George Webb, White Burley is the result of planting Red Burley seeds purchased from Kentucky in the different soil of Ohio, which resulted in a mutation of whitish, sickly looking plants. White Burley soon became the chief ingredient in chewing tobacco, American pipe tobacco, and American-style cigarettes. As Red Burley no longer exists, White Burley is simply referred to as Burley today.<br />
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'''Xanthi''': Sometimes spelled Xanthe, this grade of Basma tobacco is named for a city in the Thrace region of northeastern Greece, first led into prosperity around 1715 due to the quality of its highly aromatic tobacco. The scientific name of the leaf is ''Nicotiana tabacum'' L. cv Xanthi.<br />
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'''Yacht''': Another name for the Zulu pipe shape, with a canted dublin bowl, oval shank and 1/8 bent stem. Among others, Kaywoodie used the term Yacht for pipes of this shape.<br />
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'''Yenidje''': Named for the town of Yenidje, Thrace, today called Genisea, Greece, Yenidje is also called Yenice, Jenidze, Yenidge, and Yeniji, and is a variety of Yaka tobacco, the best regarded form of Xanthi. Yenidje was an Ottoman tobacco production center until 1843 when the town burned and the growers moved up the slopes of the Rhodope Mountain range. Those slopes, called the Yaka, were made of a red clay loam mixed with small flint stones giving rise to short, low-yielding plants of the basma type, meaning (in this usage) that the leaves are small, almost round and with no free stem. The leaf burns badly on its own and was traditionally mixed with Bafra to cure this issue.<br />
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'''Zulu''': A shape of smoking pipe hallmarked by a canted dublin style bowl, an oval shank and a 1/8th bent stem. Also referred to as a Woodstock or a Yacht.<br />
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'''Zeppelin''': A name often used to refer to a cigar-shaped pipe of briar with a separate mouthpiece often of vulcanite, usually with a metal cap at the end to hold in the tobacco. Also called a Torpedo.<br />
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'''Acorn''': A pipe shape characterized by a conical shape sometimes extending to a point or near point below the shank or else with a bent shank flowing into the "point" of the acorn shape. Distinguishable from a dublin by a wider and more rounded rim in most cases. <br />
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'''Acrylic''': In pipe parlance, acrylic stems are those made of polymers of acrylic acid or acrylates, most often polymethyl methacrylate, also called acrylic glass. Some prefer this material for pipe stems due to the lack of oxidation, while others prefer a traditional vulcanite stem due to softness.<br />
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'''Aging''': The term used to describe the tendency of pipe tobacco to improve over time through either aerobic or anaerobic fermentation. The term is used interchangeably to describe increased sweetness on the part of Virginias, mellowing on the part of Latakia, or a generally more complete melding of the blend. The effect is often simulated through the use of heat or pressure.<br />
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'''Agonya''': A type of Turkish tobacco of a kabakolak leaf type, meaning it has distinct stems with "wings" on the leaf stems, Agonya was originally grown in the foothills below Xanthi, but is now grown south of the Sea of Marmara, in the region east of Kanakhale, Turkey.<br />
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'''Air-cured''': Air-cured tobacco is hung in well-ventilated barns immediately after plants are cut or leaves pulled from the field and allowed to dry for a period of one to two months. During this process the yellow colors of the leaf turn to varying shades of brown, until they are ready to be fermented and processed. Burley is an air-cured tobacco.<br />
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'''Amber''': Prior to the wide adoption of vulcanite, first invented in 1844 by Charles Goodyear, as a substance for pipe stem making, by far the most common form of pipe stem was one carved from amber. The stems were carved by hand from fossilized tree resin, at which point they could be bent only after heating in oil and over an alcohol flame. While amber is a beautiful natural material which comes in a large variety of colors, the stems are exceedingly brittle and hard on the teeth. Amber stems are still made only in very rare cases.<br />
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'''Apple''': According to the [[Apple|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the classic apple shape is a rounded version of the billiard, and may be had in either bent or straight shanked and tapered and saddle stemmed versions. Popular variations of this shape include the Prince and Author.<br />
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'''Aromatic''': A type of tobacco which is either cased or top flavored in order to produce a taste and room note other than the tobacco's natural smell, whether simply sugar or molasses, whiskey or other alcohols, or many other flavorings. Used as a major category for pipe tobaccos, along with non-aromatic and latakia based blends.<br />
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'''Army Mount''': Also called a "military bit", a pipe with an army mount stem is designed to permit the stem to be removed from the pipe while hot by inclusion of a shank cap, often made of silver, to reinforce the briar. A more elaborate variation of the army mount is the spigot. According to most likely mythological history, the first army mount was invented when a World War One soldier fixed a broken pipe shank by inserting a spent rifle casing into it and piercing a hole for the stem. <br />
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[[File:Kaldenberg Army Mount.jpg|thumb|center|100px|An Army Mount Pipe]] <br />
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'''Author''': According to the [[Author|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the Author is a beefed-up prince, featuring a flattened ball-shaped bowl and a heavy 1/8 to 1/4 bent stem.<br />
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'''Bafra''': Bafra is a district and village in the Samsun province of Turkey, and the name sometimes given to the Samsun-Maden strain of tobacco, which is a smaller basibali Turkish varietal with low nicotine and a rich flavor.<br />
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'''Ball''': The ball shape, also referred to as a tomato, is described by the [[Author|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], is very similar to an author but with a spherical bowl and thinner shank. According to Mr. Burney the ball generally features a tapered stem with a 1/4 to 1/2 bent.<br />
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'''Ballerina''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and resembling a ballet dancer's foot while en pointe, curving from the heel at the front of the bowl to the toe at the meeting of bowl and shank, itself characterized by a full enough bend to permit the pipe to stand on its own. <br />
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[[File:Nordh Ballerina.jpg|thumb|center|100px|A Bo Nordh Ballerina]]<br />
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'''Bakelite''': A trade name for Polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride. Harder than vulcanite and softer than acrylic, bakelite stems do not oxidize. Largely seen in shades of white and amber yellow.<br />
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'''Basma''': 1. The group of Turkish small-leaf varietals in which the stem of the leaf does not extend beyond the leaf at the main stalk 2. The larger leaves primed from the middle of any variety of Turkish tobacco plant 3. A long, rectangular bale-style of packing cured Turkish leaf, approximately 50-60 pounds, of any variety.<br />
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'''Bead''': Now generally represented by two straight lines around the bowl of a bulldog or rhodesian, a bead is one of only three shapes which can be produced on a lathe, along with a flat and a cove. A bead is a rounded projection from the wood, and in the case of pipes today most beads are cut as inset beads, in that the surrounding wood is level with the top of the bead. Older pipes occasionally featured intricately carved beads. Today, however, rather than cutting a true bead the projection is left flat and only signified by the lines around it.<br />
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'''Bent Pipe''': A generic term used to refer to any pipe where the shank is not a straight horizontal line, regardless of the nature or amount of the shank bend.<br />
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'''Billiard''': The [[Billiard|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] describe a billiard as a pipe shape having a cylindrical bowl and tobacco chamber with a shank about the same length as the height of the bowl. Variations on the billiard shape include the pot and chimney.<br />
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'''Basibali''': A family of Turkish tobaccos characterized by a distinct stem separating the leaf from the stalk. Sometimes referred to as Bashi Bagli.<br />
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'''Bit''': A less than precise term, usually used to refer to the entirety of the stem or mouthpiece on a pipe, but occasionally also used to refer to the bite zone.<br />
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'''Bite Zone''': The last approximately three quarters of an inch of the mouthpiece or stem of a tobacco pipe, including the button.<br />
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'''Bloom''': Also referred to as plume, bloom is a fine white powder which appears on well aged tobacco on occasion, and despite the tendency to confuse it with mold is actually a good sign that the leaf is maturing well. Bloom is caused by the crystallization of sugars on the surface of the tobacco leaf. <br />
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'''Blowfish''': Per the [[Blowfish|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the blowfish is a pipe shape characterized by an asymmetrical flattened ball for a bowl, a bent stem blending into the body, and a combination of birdseye grain on the large panels and straight grain between.<br />
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'''Brandy''': Also referred to as a bent brandy or brandyglass, a pipe shape which resembles the glassware for which it is named. According to the [[Brandy|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pipe is characterized by a rounded base tapering up to a smaller rim, often in a 1/4 bent pipe.<br />
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'''Briar''': Actually a mistranslation of the French bruyère, briar among pipe smokers refers to the wood of the ''erica arborea'', a species of flowering plant in the heather family. After 30 to 60 years of growing time, the football sized plants are harvested, cooked, dried for several months, and further processed before they are made into pipes. <br />
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'''Bullcap''': According to the [[Bullcap|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the bullcap is a squat straight rhodesian with a large bowl diameter.<br />
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'''Bulldog''': According to the [[Bulldog|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the classic bulldog has a tapered stem, diamond shank and slightly forward canted bowl shaped someone like two cones joined at the bases with the top cone cut off. The pipe is traditionally adorned with a bead around the bowl. <br />
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'''Bullmoose''': According to the [[Bullcap|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a bullmoose is a squat rhodesian with a very heavy 1/4 bent stem.<br />
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'''Burley''': A tobacco of light-colored variety grown primarily in Kentucky and Tennessee, the bulk of burley tobacco produced in the United States is used for cigarette production. All burley today is of the white burley variety, and is often sweetened due to the low natural sugars present in the leaf. Most aromatics use a base of burley due to its ready ability to absorb flavors. While some claim burley does not age, it does improve with time. However, this takes time measured in the several decades at least.<br />
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'''Burnout''': A term used to refer to a possible condition in estate pipes which, short of extraordinary effort on the part of a capable restorer, generally means the death of a particular pipe. A burnout is a spot where char has actually penetrated or begun to penetrate the outer layer of the bowl. Usually caused by hot smoking, although some claim burnout is always the fault of an unseen flaw in the briar. Uneven packing can also result in one spot suffering more damage than others. While most smokers stop smoking a particular pipe when burnout begins to appear, some continue smoking until they have burned straight through a wall or the foot of the pipe.<br />
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'''Button''': The button is the raised portion at the end of a pipe mouthpiece or stem intended to permit the teeth purchase to hold the pipe.<br />
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'''Cake''': Cake refers to the buildup of residual carbon that forms in the bowl of a pipe. Most recommend trimming back the buildup to keep it at roughly the width of a dime in a briar pipe in order to create a protective layer which cools the pipe and reduces moisture. Cake is frowned upon in meerschaums, and the subject of much debate among corn cob pipe smokers.<br />
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'''Calabash''': According to the [[Calabash|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the calabash is a solid wood interpretation of the gourd calabash with a tapered bowl flared at the rim and a dome shaped top. The tobacco chamber is usually tapered and the pipe 3/4 bent, but there are variations.<br />
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'''Canadian''': According to the [[Canadian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the canadian is a long-shanked billiard with an oval shank and a tapered bit. The shank is roughly twice as long as the height of the bowl. Variations on this shape include the lumbermand, lovat and liverpool.<br />
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'''Casing''': Whether sprayed with or soaked in a sauce, casing refers to the addition of flavoring, sugar or the like prior to the finishing of the tobacco, as opposed to top-flavouring, which is added by spraying the finished blend with scents and flavours.<br />
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'''Cavendish''': There are two forms of Cavendish, which is more a process of curing and a method of cutting tobacco than a type of it. Common cavendish is made when tobacco leaves are pressed into a cake about an inch thick and heated before being allowed to ferment, resulting in a mild and sweet tobacco. Flavoring is often added before the leaves are pressed. English Cavendish uses a dark flue or fire cured Virginia , which is steamed and then stored under pressure to permit it to cure and ferment for several days or weeks.<br />
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'''Char''': Used to refer to wood that has actually begun to burn, usually at the start of a burnout in a bowl or, far more likely and most often due to lighter abuse, at the rim. <br />
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'''Cherrywood''': According to the [[Cherrywood|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a cherrywood is a bent poker. The name cherrywood derives from the pipe shape's origin as a copy of the cherry wood pipes made by Eugène-Léon Ropp and others in mid-19th century France.<br />
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'''Churchwarden''': According to the [[Churchwarden|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the churchwarden is the only pipe defined by the shape of its stem, rather than its bowl. Whether bent or straight, the stem on a churchwarden is 9 to 18 inches long, but not so long as to make lighting the pipe while holding it in the mouth impossible.<br />
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'''Cigar Leaf''': A generic term used to describe a great many different types of leaf primarily used in cigars which are also included in pipe tobacco. Connecticut Broadleaf and Cuban-Seed Varietals are frequently used among others to add flavor to a blend.<br />
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'''Cob''': The common parlance for a corn cob pipe, which in its loosest definition is simply any pipe with a bowl made from a dried and drilled corncob. Traditionally fitted with river cane stems, most modern cobs have wood shanks and plastic bits. <br />
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'''Coin''': A term used to refer to a single slice of tobacco cut from a rope or twist, and resembling a flake, except that it is round and often thinner.<br />
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'''Cumberland''': Called brindle by Dunhill and others, cumberland is a form of vulcanite made with brown and red pigment added to the rubber to give it a marble like appearance.<br />
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'''Curly Cut''': A term used to refer to tobacco which has been sliced from rope or twist tobacco into thin "coins", similar to flakes excepting that they are thinner and round.<br />
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'''Cut''': Pipe tobacco may be cut as shag, ribbon, flake, plug, rope, discs, coins, or in other forms. These terms simply refer to the manner in which the finished product is reduced into a small enough size to consume. The most common cut is ribbon cut.<br />
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'''Cutty''': According to the [[Cutty|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a cutty has a very canted tulip shaped bowl and a slightly bent stem with a tapered bit. The word cutty simply means "cut shorter". Cutty pipes occasionally and traditionally sport a "spur", or a small foot protruding from the base of the bowl.<br />
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'''Czech Tool''': Also called a 3-way pipe tool, a combined tamper, shank clearing tool and dottle spoon on a single rotating rivet. Called a Czech tool for the original country of manufacture of most of the tools, they are largely Chinese made today.<br />
[[File:Czech Tool.jpg|center|thumb|A Czech Tool.]]<br />
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== D ==<br />
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'''Delayed Gratification Technique''': Or DGT, the habit of some pipe smokers to light a pipe and leave it to sit for hours or even days before completing the smoke. Many blends gain a far different taste profile from this technique which some find pleasant.<br />
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'''Delrin''': A brand name for polyoxymethylne or POM, also called acetal, polyacetal, or polyformaldehyde, delrin is a thermoplastic used by pipe makers as a material for non-integral stem tenons, and for screw-in tenons for meerschaum push/pull connections. Delrin is appreciated as a "self-lubricating" material, meaning that it has a low drag coefficient to interfere with the smooth passage of smoke, and for the ease of reliance on separate stems and tenons.<br />
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'''Devil Anse''': The name of a notorious West Virginia Confederate veteran suspected of murdering Asa McCoy after the war ended and starting the infamous Hatfield/McCoy feud. Devil Anse Hatfield was portrayed in a recent television series by Kevin Costner, who, despite the lack of any historical support, smoked a nosewarmer cutty in the role, now popular and given the name of the character. <br />
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'''Diplomat''': According to the [[Diplomat|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a diplomat is a pipe shape similar to a prince but a bit larger generally and with an oval shank and stem.<br />
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'''Djebel''': Sometimes referred to as Xanthi-Djebel, Dejebel tobacco is grown closer to the ridge, or djebel, of the Rhodope mountains above Xanthi. While the leaf is probably of the same strain as Yaka leaf, it is much less highly regarded.<br />
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'''Don''': A pipe shape, according to the [[Duke/Don|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], similar to a Duke but with a rudimentary shank and a vulcanite bit. Sometimes, such as by [[Peterson]], called a tankard.<br />
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'''Dottle''': The leftover plug of unburnt tobacco and ash left in the heel of a pipe bowl after smoking. Dottle is avoided by smokers as a waste of tobacco and occasionally souring of the bowl, but is sometimes unavoidable.<br />
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'''Drama''': A sweet type of tobacco with a natural olive oil fragrance grown on the Southern slopes and foothills of the Rhodope Mountains in Greek Eastern Macedonia, and taking its name from the town of the same name. A kabakolak variety, meaning that the leaf has a distinct separate stem similar to basibali, but with "wings" on its leaf stems.<br />
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'''Draught Hole''': Also Draft Hole, the point at which the airway enters the bowl of the pipe, preferably in the center back of the heel to avoid leaving excessive dottle.<br />
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'''Dubec''': 1. The smaller leaves from the upper portion of any variety of Turkish tobacco plant 2. A round package of cured Turkish leaf of any variety, approximately 25-30 pounds in weight.<br />
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'''Dublin''': According to the [[Dublin|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the dublin is a pipe shape with the same proportions as a billiard but with a conical bowl and tapered combustion chamber.<br />
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'''Duke''': A [[Dunhill]] pipe shape that features a cylindrical bowl with no shank, a bone or vulcanite stem and a poker-type canted bottom, according to the [[Duke/Don|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''Ebonite''': The brand name for a very hard rubber first created by Charles Goodyear by vulcanizing rubber for prolonged periods, Ebonite was named for its intended purpose, a replacment for ebony. Commonly referred to as vulcanite in pipe parlance, vulcanite is with acrylic one of the two most popular materials from which stems are made.<br />
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'''Egg''': According to the [[Egg|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the egg is usually but not always a bent pipe with a bowl shaped like an egg, which can be thought of as an elongated apple shape.<br />
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'''Elephant's Foot''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and characterized by straight grained side panels and wide front and back domed surfaces on the bowl exhibiting birdseye. <br />
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'''English''': Aside from the obvious geographical uses, the word "English" is often used among pipe smokers to refer to blends with latakia in them. In reality, however, the term only developed to differentiate blends made in the United Kingdom, especially in the days of the now defunct Tobacco Purity Laws, which prohibited humectants and most flavorings from being added to the tobacco. A more precise term is "latakia based".<br />
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'''English Cavendish''': The name commonly used to refer to dark flue-cured or fire-cured Virginia tobacco which is steamed and then pressed over a period of several days to weeks. It is not flavored as other forms of Cavendish generally are. Rattray's ''Dark Fragrant'' is one example of an available English Cavendish blend. <br />
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'''Eskimo''': According to the [[Ukulele|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a pipe shape by Tom Eltang created as a variation on Ed Burak's bulldog design and sporting a smooth, flat stem and shank with a canted, domed bowl.<br />
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'''Estate Pipe''': A previously owned pipe, whether smoked or un-smoked.<br />
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== F ==<br />
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'''Fill''': A void, pit or flaw in the briar which is made level with the surface of the pipe with either putty or a mix of briar dust and cyanoacrylate glue and which, despite staining, is often visible on close inspection.<br />
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'''Fire Cured''': Unlike flue cured tobacco, which is cured by indirect heat without smoke, fire cured tobacco is cured with smoke, in the tobacco equivalent of barbecuing. Dark Fired Kentucky and Latakia are both fire cured, and the process results in lower sugars and higher nicotine in the leaf.<br />
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'''Flake''': Flake tobacco is made by slicing thin sheets off of a cube, which in turn is formed by pressing whole tobacco leaves into a compressed form, usually under significant pressure for long periods of time. Flake tobacco may be sold in slices, or fully or partially broken or rubbed out.<br />
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'''Flue Cured''': Flue cured tobacco is cured by heat without smoke, generally by being hung from sticks in a barn exposed to heat from external fires through flues. Traditionally the method for curing brightleaf tobacco, this method results in sweeter leaf with lower nicotine.<br />
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'''Foot''': The bottom of the outside of the bowl, as opposed to the heel, which is the bottom of the inside of the bowl.<br />
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'''Freehand''': Not to be confused with the fixed freehand shapes made by some companies, a true freehand shape is defined by the pipemaker's choice to let the grain of the briar shape the pipe, rather than forcing the pipe into a predetermined shape, according to the [[Freehand|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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== G ==<br />
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'''Gesteckpfeife''': Literally "pipe in parts", a traditional European pipe made up of several interconnecting parts, usually held together with cork tenons. Bowls can be meerschaum, briar, or porcelain, commonly.<br />
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'''Ghost''': A ghost is the taste or smell of a previously smoked tobacco remaining in a pipe and coloring the taste of a different blend smoked in the same pipe. Generally the cause of tar in the shank, but usually blamed on cake.<br />
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'''Gourd Calabash''': According to the [[Gourd Calabash|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a gourd calabash is a pipe made from a calabash gourd which is dried and the seeds removed, and then fitted with a stem and meerschaum bowl cap. The driest and smoothest of all pipes.<br />
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'''Gravity Fill Method''': Also called the Three Step Method, this is the method of packing a pipe most often taught to new smokers, and involves drizzling enough tobacco into the bowl to cover the heel, tamping very lightly, followed by drizzling tobacco to the rim twice and tamping after each time, with more pressure the on the last.<br />
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'''Hand''': A hand is a bundle of tobacco tied at the end and hung from the knot for curing purposes.<br />
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'''Hawkbill''': According to the [[Hawkbill|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the hawkbill is a pipe shape characterized by an enlarged ball or tomato style with a long, tapering bent shank. The premiere example is the Castello 84.j<br />
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'''Heel''': The heel is the bottom of the combustion chamber, the inside of the bowl.<br />
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'''Horn''': According to the [[Horn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the horn is a graceful freehand shape varying from a straight tapering tube to a more standard bent pipe, but in all cases with a smooth tapering from bowl to shank and no abrupt transitions.<br />
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[[File:Horn2.gif|thumb|center|100px|The Horn Shape]]<br />
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'''Hungarian''': More commonly referred to as an Oom Paul, the Hungarian is a fully bent billiard named for former South African President Paulus Kruger, according to the [[Oom Paul/Hungarian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''Intricate Curve''': In pipemaking, a term sometimes used to describe the transition from the rear wall of the bowl to the top of the shank.<br />
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'''Izmir''': A type of Turkish tobacco with rich flavor, low nicotine, and cool smoke. It has a very aromatic nature and is often blended with Latakia to somewhat subdue this property. Primarily used as a condiment with pipe tobacco, but occasionally offered by itself. Also called Smyrna.<br />
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'''Jar''': Tobacco jars have been used for nearly three hundred years as the predominant method for storage of pipe tobacco, whether made from tin, wood, pewter, porcelain, majolica or bisque. By far the most common choice is the simple Ball jar or Mason jar.<br />
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'''Jatim''': A form of Indonesian tobacco and the abbreviated name of the province of East Java (Jawa Timur), where the tobacco is grown.<br />
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'''Kabakolak''': A family of Turkish tobacco strains similar to Basibali, but with wings on their leaf stems in addition to distinct stems.<br />
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'''Kalmasch''': A traditional German pipe shape, primarily seen in meerschaum, hallmarked by a bowl and shank of nearly the same, large diameter with a slightly bent shank, and often a very long stem made of cherry wood, flexible tubing, and various other materials.<br />
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[[File:Barling Full 1850.jpg|thumb|center|100px|A Kalmasch Pipe]]<br />
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'''Katerini''': A Turkish varietal of the Samsun basibali type, with a milder, sweeter leaf. Grown southwest of Thessaloniki in the Greek province of Macedonia.<br />
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'''Kentucky''': Dark-Fired Kentucky is a type of pipe tobacco made from burley which is cured over a fire and flavored by its smoke.<br />
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'''Latakia''': Named for the principal port city of Syria, latakia is not a specific plant varietal, but rather one of a number of Turkish varietals which are fire cured over a stone pine or oak wood fire, giving it a smoky flavor. Most latakia, despite the name, is now grown in Cyprus, not Syria, and camel dung has nothing to do with the process of its creation.<br />
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'''Lovat''': A pipe shape, according to the [[Lovat|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], which is essentially a Canadian but with a round shank instead of oval and a saddle stem.<br />
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'''Lucite''': Lucite is a trade name for acrylic, or polyacrylate, which is derived from natural gas. It is a composition of Methyl Methacrylate and Poly Methyl Methacrylate resin. Lucite is used for pipe stems due to its lack of oxidation, but is criticized for a harder feel on the teeth.<br />
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'''Lületaşi''': A Turkish word literally meaning sea foam and used to refer to meerschaum in that country.<br />
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'''Macedonia''': 1. A province of north-central Greece, west of Thrace, which includes the sea port of Thessaloniki (Salonika) and the Katerini tobacco region 2. A recently independent republic, formerly part of Soviet Yugoslavia, located immediately north of the Greek province of Macedonia, and the source of Prilep tobacco.<br />
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'''Mahale''': A Turkish tobacco with a basma leaf type grown downslope from Xanthi.<br />
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'''Maryland''': An extremely mild tobacco used in a number of American tobacco blends, especially to add a nutty flavor to Burley. Sadly the state of Maryland now pays farmers not to grow tobacco.<br />
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'''Meerschaum''': A mineral hydrous magnesium silicate called sepiolite, primarily found in Turkey near Eskisehr, which is used in the making of tobacco pipes. The word means "seafoam".<br />
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'''Melding''': The term used to refer to a tobacco blend's property to acquire a single homogeneous taste over time, as a result of aging in an airtight container.<br />
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'''Mellowing''': Particularly used in referring to Latakia's tendency to be less overpowering after some aging, the term is sometimes used to refer to a general tendency of tobacco to become more smooth with age.<br />
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'''Morta''': Also known as bog-wood or abonos, morta is a material cut from trees which have been buried in peat bogs and near-petrified by the acidic and anaerobic conditions of the bog for a period sometimes hundreds or even thousands of years long. It is valued for its very high mineral content and resulting resistance to fire.<br />
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'''Mortise''': A mortise is at its most basic a hole cut or drilled to accept a smaller tenon and make a joint. The joint has been used in woodworking for thousands of years, and in pipe construction generally appears as a hole drilled larger than the airway and at the same depth as the stem tenon. Variations, however, are unlimited.<br />
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'''Mouthpiece''': A term used interchangeably with stem and to a lesser degree bit, the mouthpiece is the portion of the pipe meant to be placed in the smoker's mouth, and includes the entire pipe from the end of the shank to the slot. Often made from vulcanite or lucite/acrylic.<br />
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'''Nautilus''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and named for its obvious resemblance to the shell of a nautilus, resulting in an airway passing through a shank curved in a loop and pierced in the center to suggest the closed portion of the shell, a bowl shaped like the long open mouth of the shell, and a foot curving in a near half circle beneath.<br />
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'''Nail''': The simplest form of pipe tool is the venerable Pipe Nail, which generally looks much like its namesake, one end flat to tamp with and another coming to a point or spoon for clearing ash and tar.<br />
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'''Nomenclature''': A general term used to refer to the stamping on a pipe in its entirety, including brand names, models, year and shape codes and the like.<br />
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== O ==<br />
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'''Oliphant''': A traditional name for a hunter's horn made from an elephant tusk, the oliphant shape was first designed by [[Sixten Ivarsson]] for the [[Pibe-Dan]] shop in the late 1950s. According to the [[Horn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]]The shape is a variation of the horn meant to resemble the tusk of an elephant, and with a flat curve and even and gradual tapering throughout.<br />
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'''Oom Paul''': A shape name which actually means Uncle Paul in Dutch, Oom Paul pipes are full bent billiards, according to the [[Oom Paul/Hungarian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]]. The name comes from the nickname for Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, president of the South African Republic from 1883 to 1900 and the face of the Boer cause against Britain during the Second Boer War of 1899 to 1902. Also called a Hungarian.<br />
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'''Opera Pipe''': A shape which the [[Oval|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] refer to as an "Oval" or Pocket pipe, the opera pipe is a billiard with a bowl "squashed" into an oval, with the long side of the oval parallel with the shank and stem. In fact, "opera" pipe is a misnomer. The original name of the pipe was the au pair pipe, as it gained popularity with domestic workers unable to smoke around children.<br />
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'''Oriental''': Used interchangeably with "Turkish" to refer to sun cured condimental tobaccos grown in the Eastern Mediterranean. This category of tobaccos includes Yenidje, Smyrna, Samsun, Izmir, Drama, Xanthe, and often Basma, which is not a particular leaf but a generic Turkish blend, and all that pipe tobacco blenders are often able to find due to the purchase of most oriental varietals by cigarette manufacturers.<br />
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'''Panel Billiard''': According to the [[Panel Billiard|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the Panelled Billiard, also called a foursquare, is a basic billiard shape with flat, or panelled, sides. The classic panel has four flat sides and a round shank.<br />
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'''Pear''': More commonly called an acorn today, according to the [[Pear/Accorn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] the pear is a sort of softened dublin shape, with a conical bowl and tobacco chamber but with all sharp edges rounded.<br />
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'''Perique''': Mistakenly believed to be a nickname for Pierre Chenet and actually a French mispronunciation of an American slang word for a part of the anatomy, perique is a type of tobacco grown only in St. James Parish, Louisiana, sauced and kept under massive pressure in barrels until it turns nearly black. Perique has flavors of spice and plum, and is prized as the truffle of pipe tobaccos.<br />
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'''Pickaxe''': According to the [[Pickaxe|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pickaxe is a freehand style of pipe characterized by a paneled, triangular bowl.<br />
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'''Pipe''': A tube with a small bowl at one end used for the smoking of tobacco.<br />
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'''Pit''': Briar grows underground and as such is prone to picking up bits of sand which create a void in the block, sometimes not noticeable until the pipe is nearly finished. Traditionally pits, or sand pits, would simply be filled with putty and stained over for a value priced pipe.<br />
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'''P-Lip''': A type of pipe mouthpiece invented by Peterson of Dublin and relying on a small hole on the top of a stem rather than a hole at its end. Meant to reduce tongue bite by directing the flow of smoke away from the tongue.<br />
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'''Plug''': Whole leaf, pressed with moisture, becomes a plug, from which flakes can be sliced. Plug tobacco is prepared by slicing off and then rubbing out pieces of the block of tobacco.<br />
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'''Poker''': According to the [[Poker|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the poker is a straight pipe with a cylindrical, flat bottomed bowl designed so that the pipe will stand on its own.<br />
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'''Pot''': According to the [[Pot|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pot is a billiard with a shorter bowl, but not a shorter shank than a standard billiard.<br />
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'''Prilep''': A Sirdily variety of Turkish tobacco commonly grown in the region of the town of Prilep, which is located in the Independent Republic of Macedonia.<br />
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'''Prince''': According to the [[Prince|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the prince is a pipe shape characterized by a squat rounded bowl and along, usually slightly bent stem with a short shank. The pipe was named after Prince Albert, later King Edward VII, the Prince of Wales.<br />
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'''Push/Pull''': The term generally used to describe a two part mortise and tenon system used in meerschaum pipes and developed by Andreas Bauer originally. A push/pull consists of a threaded Delrin tenon and a separate threaded plastic mortise. The preferred method of connecting stem and shank in meerschaum pipes, which lack the durability for long term use of a standard mortise/tenon connection.<br />
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'''Quaint''': A pipe shape hallmarked, generally, by more than four panels, especially with a paneled shank as well.<br />
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'''Ramses''': A pipe shape created by Bo [[Nordh]] and later named by a visiting customer for its resemblance to the statue of Ramses II in Abu Simbel, Egypt. Characterized by a long, wide sloping shank which also serves as the foot of the pipe and a long, tapered bowl which rests almost vertically on the shank. Stems are generally partially bent.<br />
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[[File:Bo Nordh Ramses01.jpg|thumb|center|100px|A Nordh Ramses]]<br />
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'''Reaming''': Trimming back cake from the bowl of a tobacco pipe.<br />
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'''Reamer''': A tool used to trim pipe cake back to an acceptable level. These have been made in countless different forms, adjustable and non-adjustable, for well over a century. Some simply use a pipe knife or sandpaper to accomplish the same task.<br />
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'''Rhodesian''': A subject of great dispute. Unlikely to have been named for Cecil Rhodes, and more likely to have taken its name from Rhodesian tobacco, a Rhodesian is considered by some to be any bent bulldog, by others to be any bulldog with a round shank, and by others any bulldog shape with a greater bowl width than height. For each accepted definition of the word there is a pipe sold which contradicts it, and no consensus is likely.<br />
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'''Room Note''': The smell of a particular tobacco as it is being smoked. Easier to detect by those not smoking the blend, and a key component to the choice of a pipe tobacco blend especially for those who smoke in public environments. Simply put, how pleasing the smoke would be to a bystander.<br />
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'''Samsun''': A Turkish tobacco of the basibali variety with a heart-shaped leaf, grown near the town of Samsun, Turkey on the shores of the Black Sea. Low nicotine tobacco, but with strong flavor and dark color.<br />
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'''Samsun-Maden''': Also called Bafra for the village near Samsun, Samsun-Maden is a basibali Turkish tobacco characterized by leaves which are are small sized and ovalThe leaf faces are red to bright red. This strain can be smoked without blending. Nicotine content is often lower than 1% and sugar content is 9-12%. <br />
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'''Shank''': The portion of a stummel between the bowl and mouthpiece, and generally containing the mortise. The length of the pipe shank is one of the key variables in the shape of a pipe, as is it's shape, whether square, diamond, oval or round.<br />
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'''Shirazi''': Named for the ancient city of Shiraz in south-western Iran and claimed to be native to that country, Shirazi tobacco is thought to have reached Iran from the Americas in the mid 1500s. Once called ''Nicotiana Persica''.<br />
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'''Sirdily''': A category of Turkish basma subvarietals characterized by small, narrow, acutely pointed leaves.<br />
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'''Slot''': A slot is the wide opening at the end of the mouthpiece tapering into the airway of the pipe. Generally seen only on vulcanite and acrylic stems from the last century, the slot is funneled both to make the insertion of a pipe cleaner easier and to make for a smoother flow for the smoke.<br />
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'''Smyrna''': A type of Turkish tobacco with rich flavor, low nicotine, and cool smoke. It has a very aromatic nature and is often blended with Latakia to somewhat subdue this property. Primarily used as a condiment with pipe tobacco, but occasionally offered by itself. Also called Izmir.<br />
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'''Sokhoum''': A type of Turkish varietal of the Samsun basibali type which is deeply fermented. Grown in the mountains above the town of Sokhoum Kale (Sokhumi) in the Republic of Georgia.<br />
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'''Soppeng''': A type of Indonesian tobacco prepared much like a traditional cavendish but using palm sugar as the sweetener, and then fired. Primarily smoked in cigarettes but enjoyed as pipe tobacco also, Soppeng is sometimes flavored with cinnamon or other tastes during preparation.<br />
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'''Sphinx''': A shape created by Bo [[Nordh]] and characterized by a wide domed bowl front cut so as to show birdseye at the center with straight grain radiating out from that point, giving a sunburst pattern. A similar shape, the Mounted Sphinx, was created by [[Geiger Pipes|Love and Sara Geiger]], but was not created as a variation on the shape.<br />
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'''Spiderwebbing''': A term used to describe a possible condition of estate pipes, spiderwebbing is the result of oversmoking but, rather than showing in a single spot like char in the bowl or a burnout, is characterized by a pattern of char lines, which look like shallow cracks and are actually burnt into the wood of the bowl. Can be concealed by any amount of cake or even a bowl coating, and so it is usually only evident in a bowl which has been sanded back to bare wood.<br />
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'''Spur''': A small protrusion at the bottom of traditional clay pipes to ensure a hot bowl does not burn the table. Frequently included in cutty pipes made even in briar and meerschaum in later decades as an ornamental element of the cutty shape. Seen only occasionally today.<br />
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[[File:Spur.jpg|thumb|center|100px|Clay Pipe Resting on Spur]]<br />
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'''Srintil''': A type of heavily fermented, air cured Indonesian tobacco grown in the Java region in the Temangung valley which grows at the top of a plant and by abnormality produces an extreme amount of resin, making it highly potent. Fermentation details are thought to be similar to perique, and in 1983 approximately 3 tons a year of Srintil were grown worldwide. Sometimes extracted in an aqueous solution for use as a flavoring agent.<br />
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'''Stinger''': Sometimes referred to as a "metal filter", "cleaner", or "condenser", a stinger is a metal protrusion containing the last portion of the airway in many pipes, primarily of the mid-20th century. A stinger extends from the tenon on a stem into the shank of the pipe, generally in turn drilled with a deeper mortise to allow space. Stingers were used commonly in non-filtered pipes for the majority of the twentieth century, but are no longer seen.<br />
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[[File:8.jpg|thumb|center|100px|Pipe stem with Stinger]]<br />
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'''Stummel''': German for stump, the stummel is a complete pipe minus only a stem and any final adornments, including the bowl, shank, and transition between the two.<br />
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== T ==<br />
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'''Tambolaka''': An Indonesian tobacco grown in limestone heavy soil and after harvesting rolled into long sticks which are bound and stored for five years. Sold both as pipe tobacco and as a component of Indonesian cigars. Very high in nicotine with a tin note best described as pungent. <br />
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'''Tamp''': Using a tool or finger to compress the contents of the pipe bowl so as to bring unburnt tobacco into contact with the ember.<br />
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'''Tamper''': A tool used to tamp a pipe, generally with a flat end designed for that purpose and a handle. A tamper can be as simple as a piece of dowel or as ornate as the buyer may wish. While it seems inconsequential, tamping is important both for the care of the pipe and the coolness of the smoke.<br />
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'''Tenon''': The tenon is the smaller diameter protrusion at the end of a pipe stem which holds the stem to the stummel. It takes its name from one of the oldest joints in woodworking, the mortise and tenon joint. Over the last two centuries tenons have been made separately with bone screws, cut integrally into a vulcanite stem to fit a cut mortise in the stummel, made from threaded aluminum or plastic, made from aluminum to fit a pre-drilled mortise so as to hold a filter, made from delrin and placed into a drilled hole in the stem, and in other fashions as well. <br />
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'''Tin Note''': As opposed to the aroma of burning tobacco, the tin note is the scent which can be smelled from the unsmoked tobacco when opened, and is considered a good way to begin to understand a new blend and determine to some degree its components and their relative strength.<br />
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'''Trebizond''': No known as Trabzon, Trebizond is grown in Turkey at the southeast shores of the Black Sea. A basibali varietal resembling Samsun, but coarser and stronger.<br />
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'''Turkish''': A term used to refer not only to tobaccos grown in modern day Turkey, but rather to any tobacco grown under the Ottoman Empire, particularly at the height of its power under Suleiman the Magnificent. As a result, while the town of Yenidje, for example, would today be in Greece, yenidje tobacco is still classified as Turkish.<br />
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'''Twist''': A form of tobacco, also known as rope tobacco, which is spun into a roll, largely by hand, rather than being pressed into flakes. One of the oldest forms of smoking tobacco.<br />
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== U ==<br />
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'''Ukulele''': A pipe shape first designed by [[Sixten Ivarsson]] for the [[Pibe-Dan]] shop in the 1950s and named ukulele, some credit Ed [[Burak]] for the design which he considered a bulldog. A ukulele is characterized by a domed, wide bowl and a wide oval shank with a flat bowl bottom, according to the [[Ukulele|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''Ulmer''': A pipe shape which took its name from the city of Ulm, Germany, and originally attributed to Johann Jakob Glöckle in the early 18th century, the ulmer is a full bent pipe in a "U" shape with a wider portion at the base. <br />
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[[File:Ulmer.JPG|thumb|center|100px|An Ulmer pipe]]<br />
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== V ==<br />
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'''VaPer''': A portmanteau of Virginia and Perique, vaper is simply the contraction used to refer to blends primarily composed of these two types of tobacco. <br />
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'''Vestpocket''': A pipe characterized by its ability to fit in a vest pocket, notable for its stem, which swivels over the bowl for carrying and swings out for use, according to the [[Vestpocket|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts]]. Generally all corners on the pipe are rounded to make it easier to remove from a pocket.<br />
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'''Virginia''': More appropriately called Brightleaf tobacco, Virginia is used to refer to milder tobacco leaf, lighter in color, which is grown in infertile, sandy soil, largely in North Carolina and Virginia, and which was first grown in approximately 1839. <br />
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'''Volcano''': A pipe shape characterized by a conical bowl narrowing towards the top, usually with a rounded base and a bent shank and saddle stem, according to the [[Volcano|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts]].<br />
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'''Vulcanite''': Hard black vulcanized rubber used for making pipe stems. Made from rubber containing up to 30% sulfur, vulcanite is soft on the teeth but prone to turning brownish yellow and taking on a sulfur smell on exposure to sunlight. This process is called oxidation.<br />
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== W ==<br />
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'''White Burley''': First grown in Brown County, Ohio in 1865 by George Webb, White Burley is the result of planting Red Burley seeds purchased from Kentucky in the different soil of Ohio, which resulted in a mutation of whitish, sickly looking plants. White Burley soon became the chief ingredient in chewing tobacco, American pipe tobacco, and American-style cigarettes. As Red Burley no longer exists, White Burley is simply referred to as Burley today.<br />
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== X ==<br />
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'''Xanthi''': Sometimes spelled Xanthe, this grade of Basma tobacco is named for a city in the Thrace region of northeastern Greece, first led into prosperity around 1715 due to the quality of its highly aromatic tobacco. The scientific name of the leaf is ''Nicotiana tabacum'' L. cv Xanthi.<br />
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== Y ==<br />
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'''Yacht''': Another name for the Zulu pipe shape, with a canted dublin bowl, oval shank and 1/8 bent stem. Among others, Kaywoodie used the term Yacht for pipes of this shape.<br />
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'''Yenidje''': Named for the town of Yenidje, Thrace, today called Genisea, Greece, Yenidje is also called Yenice, Jenidze, Yenidge, and Yeniji, and is a variety of Yaka tobacco, the best regarded form of Xanthi. Yenidje was an Ottoman tobacco production center until 1843 when the town burned and the growers moved up the slopes of the Rhodope Mountain range. Those slopes, called the Yaka, were made of a red clay loam mixed with small flint stones giving rise to short, low-yielding plants of the basma type, meaning (in this usage) that the leaves are small, almost round and with no free stem. The leaf burns badly on its own and was traditionally mixed with Bafra to cure this issue.<br />
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== Z ==<br />
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'''Zulu''': A shape of smoking pipe hallmarked by a canted dublin style bowl, an oval shank and a 1/8th bent stem. Also referred to as a Woodstock or a Yacht.<br />
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'''Zeppelin''': A name often used to refer to a cigar-shaped pipe of briar with a separate mouthpiece often of vulcanite, usually with a metal cap at the end to hold in the tobacco. Also called a Torpedo.<br />
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[[File:Zeppelin.jpg|thumb|center|100px|A Zeppelin Pipe]]</div>Flatticushttps://pipedia.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Sethile&diff=20841User talk:Sethile2015-06-09T01:00:20Z<p>Flatticus: /* Glossary */</p>
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<div>As per my other suggestion, perhaps it would be better to completely remove the Marks/Logo page altogether and just have a link at the bottom of each Brand/Maker's page to the Pipephil website for that particular Brand or Maker? --[[User:Frank|Frank]] - 3/26/09<br />
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: Sure, that would work fine too. The advantage of the Marks/Logo page, assuming it were to get flushed out eventually, is for situations where someone is trying to identify a pipe with some sort of logo without knowing the maker. Regardless, I think relevant off site links should be added at the bottom of each article directly. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 15:41, 26 March 2009 (CDT)<br />
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:: Lacking a Name Stamp, being able to identify a pipe from it's Logo alone would be useful. Pipephil does have a means of searching with criteria such as a Star or an Anchor or a Dot, etc., but it is lacking a couple of such criteria to search by, last I checked.--[[User:Frank|Frank]] - 3/26/09<br />
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Scott, Earlier on I checked on that item in Cyrillic that you deleted. I found a translation, and it is pipe related..--[[User:Frank|Frank]] - 4/13/09<br />
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:Thanks, Frank! I put it back. I wondered about that.. I was a little on the delete button ;) --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 21:18, 13 April 2009 (CDT)<br />
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== Notice for you ==<br />
This thing needs a bit of scouring just to make it palatable to educated folk! C'mon, this is just lazy. I say "c'mon" because this is the talk page. The entry itself ought to be perfectly written, not sounding like a letter to a dopey pal in Wisconsin!Thundersnow 00:08, 10 May 2010 (UTC)--A direct quote off the Tobacco page. It really needs work, that.[[User:Thundersnow|Thundersnow]] 00:10, 10 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== Bridge Too Far? ==<br />
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QUOTE FROM ME: "Hello Eric, Thanks for your work on the Tobacco article. Yes, it does need a lot of work! Also, it would be great if you can help with the Savinellis article. In short, whatever you have time for would be most welcome in deed--I really appreciate your help! All the best, --sethile 01:28, 11 May 2010 (UTC) [....]<br />
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Uhm, I do not know any Eric except an old colleague. And I must say that it is just plain wrong to try to do that to a contributor who wished to remain known by username. And by the way, I am Rev. Antonio Hernandez.Thundersnow 03:13, 12 May 2010 (UTC)"<br />
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Well, thanks a lot for this unwanted headache.[[User:Thundersnow|Thundersnow]] 03:15, 12 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:Since the email address (EricBlair@disciples.com), which you publicly posted, gave the name as Eric Blair, it was an understandable mistake on Scott's part, as he could hardly be aware that you use someone elses email address. I believe he was only trying to be friendly on a first name basis. Accusing him of "outing" you in such a heartless manner is a mean thing to do, since he obviously did not do it to deliberately "expose" you.<br />
:As you obviously aren't aware of the tremendous scope of this website, let me enlighten you of the fact that the vast majority of the design, information and contributions have been due to Scott's hard work. Furthermore, he is always extremely appreciative of corrections and contributions to the website.<br />
:Considering that you don't even know one iota about Scott, I find your jumping to conclusions about him offensive in the extreme. I also find your tone and attitude particularly rude and belligerent, especially as you claim to be a man of the cloth. - [[User:Frank|Frank]] 07:37, 12 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:: Thanks Frank! For what it's worth I apologized on his user talk, but apparently that was not what Thundersnow was after. He has elected to deprive us of his presence and help for the present. All the best, --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 23:17, 14 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== QuestyCaptcha not working? ==<br />
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Hi,<br />
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I operate a wiki and I was going to install QuestyCaptcha. Can I ask, does your Aug 14th note about spam mean your Apr 13th installation of QuestyCaptcha isn't working?<br />
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Are the bots responding correctly to both questions or just one? (The "''What is this wiki's name?''" question is probably very common, so spambots might be configured to always stick in the wiki's name when confronted with QuestyCaptcha) If they're getting both questions right, then I guess a human actually took the time to note your questions and the correct answers, so adding a few dozen new questions is probably what's necessary.<br />
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I'd be very interested to hear more about the problem. Thanks. [[User:Ciaran|Ciaran]] 15:51, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
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: I'm not sure the bots responded to either question... It may just be my QuestyCaptcha configuration needs more tweaking. I installed it when I had a bunch of spam that appeared to use humans to make registered users in spite of using ReCaptcha (about 5 to 10 per day), and than that info seemed to be plugged into bots that used the registration information to spam. QuestyCaptcha shut that attack down. I had some new bot yesterday that was not spamming links, just junk. Looked like maybe it attempted to put in links and when it hit QuestyCaptcha it created new articles without links, or was deleting existing content and replacing it with a line like "Great post" or something similar. Apparently edits without links does not trigger QuestyCaptcha due to my settings.<br />
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:It may be I can tighten up my QuestyCaptcha settings to catch this new stuff too. Haven't had time to play with it much. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 16:20, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
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::I've been reading the docs:<br />
::* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:QuestyCaptcha<br />
::* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit#QuestyCaptcha<br />
::* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ConfirmEdit_Test_Plan<br />
::... and the comments in the source code.<br />
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::If you want all edits to require passing a captcha, change "false" to "true" in this line of ''nameofwiki/extensions/ConfirmEdit/ConfirmEdit.php'':<br />
:: $wgCaptchaTriggers['edit'] = false; // Would check on every edit<br />
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::I haven't tried it out yet, but it seems you can exempt logged in users from the captchas by setting:<br />
::$wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['skipcaptcha'] = true;<br />
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::Or logged in users who've confirmed their email address by setting these to ''true'' in ConfirmEdit.php:<br />
:: $wgGroupPermissions['emailconfirmed']['skipcaptcha'] = true;<br />
:: $ceAllowConfirmedEmail = true;<br />
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::Thanks for the quick reply. I think I'll go ahead and install Questy for my wiki. [[User:Ciaran|Ciaran]] 16:59, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
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::: Thanks for the links! I've poored over those same docs too, but it's been a while. I changed the settings to allow anonymous edits again, but they will all trigger Questy while users will bypass it. To create an account triggers it though. That should take care of the bulk of the problems I've been having while still allowing anonymous edits. I guess we'll see! <br />
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:::How did your Questy install go? --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 21:03, 16 August 2011 (CDT)<br />
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Hi. I only got it installed three days ago. (I don't have direct access to the server.)<br />
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To my great surprise, I'm still getting two or three spam edits per day: [http://en.swpat.org/wiki?title=Special:RecentChanges&hidebots=0] !<br />
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I'm baffled. I've searched the Internet extensively and I can't find anyone else saying that spam gets past QuestyCaptcha. I think I'll mention this on the mediawiki.org site. [[User:Ciaran|Ciaran]] 17:48, 3 September 2011 (CDT)<br />
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:My situation here seems to have stabilized for the present, although I had a new user and subsequent spam hit yesterday, but only one, and that was the first since I tweaked my Questy settings. It was different than most of the ones I've had in the past. I think it was a human... Your experience and my recent hit may mean the humans that were hired to work ReCaptcha implementations are now working on Questy sites. That makes some sense. I don't think it's possible to set up a captcha of any kind that will defend against humans without also severely limiting your potential contributions ;(<br />
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:BTW, I hope your efforts against the Patent Trolls and other insanity with software patents proves fruitful. I heard a very interesting piece on NPR a month or so ago. Sounds like a completely out of control mess! I had no idea... --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 21:07, 3 September 2011 (CDT)<br />
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== Gloredo ==<br />
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Dear Sethile<br />
You recieved like me a mail from these "other Gloredo" people.<br />
In my opinion there is no serious evidence for their activity in pipe making. <br />
The so called "Trademark Registration Certificate" you certainely got too has no value for me. I have to do with Chinese students and I know their degree certificate or diplom are sometimes "home made". <br />
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And for fun I made a little faux of this certificate changing "Gloredo" by "Dunhill"<br />
[http://www.pipephil.eu/pics/gloredo-pipephil.jpg see here]<br />
see also my comment in the gloredo's Talk.<br />
I think at least the two gloredos should appear on the GLOREDO page<br />
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: Yes, I agree, and I responded in the Gloredo's talk as well. Regardless of the current status of the brand there is no reason not to include its history, which is way it is relevant... --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 09:38, 11 December 2012 (CST)<br />
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:: But there are TWO gloredos apparently. I think this should be clear in the article, no ?<br />
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::: OK, yes, I think I've got it now... I thought it was a buyout of some kind at first. What a mess!<br />
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== Removal of Link==<br />
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Why did you remove my link on the health effects of smoking cigars and pipes? It was a link to WebMD, a well respected source for medical info. [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 08:05, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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: Hello Laughing Buddha. Thanks for you input. While WebMD has a lot of good medical information, this particular article was typical of the medical literature that attempts to lump pipes and cigars in with cigarettes by establishing the idea that all forms of tobacco are evil. This article allowed for some minor differences, which is better than some articles, but there remains in it a number of well documented inaccuracies typical of the medical literature. If you are really interested in this subject you could read through some of the other material we have linked too. <br />
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:In return, I would like to ask you why you linked to the article. I note that it is your one and only contribution to Pipedia, made shortly after you registered. My guess is your not really interested in pipes, but are just against tobacco. This wiki is for those of us who are interested in pipes and pipe smoking. Our take of this issue is going to be more nuanced than one would typically expect of the general public. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 08:39, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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::I have mixed feelings about pipe smoking because I used smoke pipes on and off for 15 years. I have three Savinellis, two Nordings and one Dr. Grabow to prove it. Also, my favorite tobacco brand was Peter Stockkebye's. Unfortunately, I eventually became addicted and smoked so often that I was staining my teeth and burning my mouth. Also, my dentist repeatedly warned me of the dental problems associated with pipe smoking including mouth cancer, so I stopped, which was very difficult for me. (However, I recently noticed England's "Pipe Smoker of the Year" list on Wikipedia. Many of them lived past 70. I found this very confusing.)<br />
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::I noticed your section titled Pipe Smoking Health and perused through it. It seemed to lack emphasis on the health hazards of pipe smoking. I sincerely believe pipe smokers should smoke with their eyes wide open with respect to the information on the health hazards of smoking and for that reason I added the WebMD link. By the way, I was planning to make other contributions that had nothing to do with health-related issues but my conscience would have bothered me had I not added information to the health section first. <br />
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::Even though the health hazards of smoking scare the hell out of me, I still love admiring the craftsmanship and artistry of pipes themselves. I can't tell you how many hours I've spent looking at pics of pipes on the internet. It's like porn for me. [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 18:37, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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:::Thanks very much for your reply. I'm glad to hear you're not anti tobacco and are just genuinely concerned about the risks. Pipe smoking certainly involves some increased health risk, but it has been greatly over exaggerated in the main stream health media, which tends to lump us all in with cigarette smokers. We have a slight increase risk for mouth and lip cancer, but that is very rare and to even slightly increase ones risk for them would involve smoking many more pipes per day than is typical of your average pipe smoker. Most pipe smokers do not inhale, which elevates nearly all the main risks associated with cigarette smoking. They also tend to smoke much less. <br />
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:::The WebMD article has one statement that is completely false and very misleading, "...research shows that cigar and pipe smoking is every bit as dangerous as cigarette smoking, and possibly even more dangerous". That is a ridiculous claim. They don't even attempt to back that up, or cite the research they refer to. Unless I am very much mistaken, there is no viable research that would even come close to supporting that statement. <br />
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:::I think it would be great to freshen up the Pipe Smoking Health area, but this is an issue that involves a great deal of misinformation from otherwise credible sources so it's going to be tough to pull off. For instance, there is a great deal of legitimate criticism with regards to the integrity of the research on the dangers associated with 2nd hand smoke, and that is seldom if ever reported in the main stream health media. BTW, none of that research differentiates between cigarettes and other forms of tobacco smoke, which typically contain much fewer chemical additives, burning paper, and other impurities associated with 2nd hand cigarette smoke.<br />
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:::I hope you will do some more research. You mentioned being surprised at the older pipe smokers that were cited in the Pipe Smoker of Year list. I've heard of one study that indicates moderate pipe smokers that do not inhale actually live slightly longer on average than non-smokers. I have not followed up on that to verify it yet, but that is certainly supported by my own anecdotal observations and pipe smoking can certainly reduce stress.<br />
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:::If in your research you would like to freshen up the Pipe Smoking Health article here on Pipedia, I would greatly appreciate it. It's even OK to link to articles such as the WebMD article you had linked too earlier, but it would be appropriate to point out any obvious flaws with the article if you do. Thanks again for your reply. I look forward to your contributions on this or other areas of Pipedia that may be of interest. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 22:33, 10 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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::::Thanks, your response strikes me as very reasonable. By the way, would you happen to have a link on the information you mentioned about the longevity of pipe smokers? I'd be very interested in reading it. [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 08:15, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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:::::It apparently refers back to the original 1964 Surgeon General's report. Here is an interesting and fairly written [http://www.meerschaumstore.com/health.htm article by Mark Beale, MD] that mentions it as well as some other interesting and relevant information that rings credible to me, at least.<br />
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::::::Thanks [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 14:34, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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==New Question==<br />
What's the difference between an estate pipe and a conventional pipe? [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 12:34, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
:Nothing, really. Used or previously owned pipes have come to be known as Estate pipes. They can either be smoked or unsmoked and still qualify. They can be cheap or expensive, and still qualify, and they can come from an English Lord's estate, or picked up off of a dying bum on the street. It just sounds better. I guess like previously owned cars versus used cars ;) --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 12:41, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
::Thanks [[User:LaughingBuddha|LaughingBuddha]] ([[User talk:LaughingBuddha|talk]]) 14:34, 11 January 2013 (CST)<br />
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== Tanzania/Tanganyika ==<br />
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Saw you're working on african meerschaum a bit, figured I'd throw what I could into the ring. <br />
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No expert, but I think the way it went on these is that Amboseli wasn't a pipe company, it's the name of one of the african meerschaum mines, the one that closed in Tanzania in 2006. I realize pipephil disagrees on that one. Tanganyika Meerchaum Corporation, LTD was founded in December 1955 in Kenya with nominal capital of 50,000 pounds. The internet will tell you they later moved from there to Arusha, Tanzania, which is both a city and also the region containing the Amboseli mines, when they trademarked their logo in September '68. That's actually wrong. The registered agent for TMC, Ltd. in 1955 wasn't in Kenya, it was in Tanga, Tanganyika. However, at the time, these were colonies, and joint ones. Stamps actually said "kenya, uganda, tanganyika" on them and were valid in all three. So they were always in Arusha. They owned Kilimanjaro and Kiko. Also Townsman, Countryman, a bunch of lines. However, as the mines are now closed, TMC, Ltd. is technically now owned by STAMICO, a wholly owned government enterprise under the tanzanian ministry of energy and minerals. <br />
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At some point the Tanzanian pipes were being listed in the Charles S. Loeb catalog, as Kikos and Kilimanjaros, not sure if they bought TMC, Ltd. or licensed the pipes from them. <br />
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The other mine that produced meerschaum was in Somalia, from Eilbur/El Burr, where somalis have made meerschaum incense burners for centuries. Apparently this block was cut into stummels and sold in its entirety to Laxey/Manx straight from Somalia, and is no longer available since Somalia fell apart. When you see a smooth african meerschaum, it's my understanding you're looking at somalian block.<br />
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Do with that what you will.<br />
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Chris<br />
--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 20:59, 25 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
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:Wow, that's interesting, thanks, Chris! Kind of hard to know what to put where, but I'll take a stab at sorting that out when I get a chance... It's not unusual to have difficult to sort out histories in pipedom, along with the occasional controversy surrounding them ;) --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 19:52, 26 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
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No doubt. At least it doesn't take a flowchart like Comoy/GBD/Chacom and such.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 13:19, 28 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
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== Photo question ==<br />
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Was curious, and I probably missed it in the help, but is there a preferred size for photos? I need to get around to finally taking some, figured it couldn't hurt to grab some nomenclature snaps and such.<br />
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Chris<br />
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:Somewhere between 600 and 1000 pixels wide seems to be a good range. By using thumbnails and/or gallery spots in the articles we can accommodate a nice fit with the context while still allowing for full sized images when they're clicked on. Takes a while to get the hang of how that works, but I'll be happy to help if you hit any snags.<br />
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:It would be great to have more pics of nomenclature, and anything else you think relevant. It's great to see all your work in new and existing articles. Thanks very much for your help, Chris! Scott --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 15:42, 28 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
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Thanks, I'm learning a heck of a lot, too.<br />
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Chris<br />
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Changes do, indeed, look seamless. Everything seems to be working and displaying perfectly. How unusual, lol.<br />
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Chris<br />
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::Great! Yes, my son, John [[User talk:Gilrain]] has pretty amazing skills with the back end stuff! Even with that I was surprised he pulled off this transition seemingly without a hitch. Still, you never know! Please let us know if you happen into anything. And thanks as always for all your excellent work! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 06:51, 12 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Saw you had to revert some of the changes to the Turks, hope I hadn't crossed any wires. No changes but mine while you were gone.<br />
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::I accidentally reverted your changes somehow and than reverted them back! Not sure how that happened. Sorry for any confusion. If anything is still messed up please put it back to how you had it... Thanks for keeping such a good eye on things!--[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 19:08, 17 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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No worries. And I'm just in the habit of checking "recent changes" so I happened to notice it, lol. Glad to see you're back in the saddle.<br />
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Chris --[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 19:13, 17 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Glossary Addition? ==<br />
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What do you think about adding a glossary link to the main page. I'll get it started on the basics, and see if it grows. Nothing fancy, mostly to help new guys I'd suppose. <br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 09:44, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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:Yes!! That's a great idea, Chris!! We have a fast growing population of new pipe smokers using the site, and I think your glossary idea would be a fantastic resource to them! <br />
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:If you have something to work from already, or want to build it from scratch, that would be great, but if you want to save some development time we could build it from this one at smokingpipes: http://www.smokingpipes.com/smokingpipesblog/glossary.cfm and build our version out from there. If we use theirs to start we just need to make sure to credit them and link back to their version. Either way works great for me! Thanks for the fantastic idea and willingness to tackle it! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 10:03, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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I did one for Reddit at some point, I probably still have it around, and if not it goes pretty quick, but SP does have a good one, I'll check it out again. Threw up a blank page to start working on, I'll let it fill up a bit and then add a link.<br />
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:Perfect, thanks, Chris! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 10:39, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 10:13, 21 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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== Grabow Shapes ==<br />
Hope it's kosher, working with RJ McKay to get a linkman's era grabow shape chart put together, you'll see the recent changes/uploads. he has an enormous amount of info that shouldn't go to waste. Still working on the glossary, but I do love my linkman's.<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 16:06, 24 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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::Yes! The new shape chart stuff looks great! I love getting that kind of material included when we still have access to it! Lost a lot of great stuff from a very knowledgeable Kaywoodie collector a few years ago and have never let myself forget it. We've got to nail that stuff down while we still have the expertise available! Good work, Chris! Thanks! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 16:19, 24 May 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Didn't know that about Svend Hangaard, very cool!<br />
::I though so too! I'm having a lot of fun while recovering from surgery. Can't make pipes yet, but I can sure enjoy researching and working on Pipedia! Great work on the Glossary, btw! That is really coming together nicely! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 20:42, 2 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Thanks! Shouldn't be too long now. Hope the recovery goes well and quickly.<br />
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== Glossary ==<br />
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Still working on the glossary, but I think it's big enough to let people have at it. Where should I link it?<br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 18:38, 4 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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:: Yes, it is looking great! Definitely ready to start linking it places. I need to spend a little time cleaning up some inathctive links on the left nav bar first, and then link it there. Also the mobile responsive version of that, which my son will have to do for us. I think also from the main page, which also needs some updating at this point. I'll get after the nav bar tomorrow morning. Do you have any other ideas? --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 22:22, 4 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Thanks, Scott, a few. I've been trying to learn about blending for a bit, and I've been thinking about some tools to help with that. If I knew how to make a flow chart I'd have done that already. Sort of a "you want to add sweet to a blend?" Then add this kind of thing. Either combined with or similar to some thoughts on tasting as well. And I've definitely been slacking on a bunch of meerschaum stuff. Like an "Is this pressed?" page with photos. I have a pressed meer around here somewhere I can show some differences with. I have a buddy who I think has written an estate pipe buyer's guide or started to, and if not I'll probably put together some kind of "things to look out for" page at some point. Also thought about talking some people into putting a topic of pipe pondering they're interested in down on paper. Like the Dutch Pipe Smoker, Arno, for example, his knowledge is pretty incredible. And of course there are still bunches of wanted pages and pipe mysteries to explore. Good thing I find all of this stuff so fascinating! Plus, I've been ogling a lot of new photos. Great stuff. Hope the recuperation goes well!<br />
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::Your Glossary is now linked from the nav bar, as well as the main page. This is great! It will be great to keep developing it, but it's already extremely helpful! Thanks very much for pulling that together. <br />
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::Blending information sounds like an excellent direction, and some kind of flow chart graphic or narrative on how to tweak flavor elements would be very helpful! Timely topic for me too. I have done a very limited amount of tweaking existing blends, and want to do more. In part, I have some tobacco growing. Too early to tell if it will make it all the way to harvest, but I'm growing Nadole (a variety of Kentucky Dark), and also some Burley (can't remember the variety). Incidentally, Kentucky Dark can be air cured, as well as fire cured. It is likely related to Burley, but is different than Burley. It's darker, and the leaves tend to be smaller, and it generally has a higher nicotine content. We live in the heart of the Black Patch region of Western KY, where Kentucky Dark is growing all around us here. Had to give it a try! If it makes it through the harvest and a bit of air curing process, I'll also try to fire some of it, but haven't figured out how to pull that off yet on a scale that will work for just a few plants. Build a very little barn of some kind, I guess!<br />
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::Have often wanted to see more on Meers! That would be great too, and an estate pipe buyers guide would be fantastic!<br />
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::Let me know if you see anywhere else to link the Glossary that might be helpful, or please feel free to link at will when you notice a good spot. Thanks so much for all your work and ideas. It's an amazing help and encouragement! <br />
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::Recovery is going better than I thought. And, it's great to have some time to play with Pipedia, which has also really helped me to keep from going crazy while I can't do much physically! Incidentally, recovering from a much more minor surgery is how I cam up with Pipedia in the first place! Thanks again, Chirs! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 07:48, 5 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Glad to hear it. And fascinated by the growing, that's my next leap, but I live on the surface of the sun apparently here in South Florida, so gardening has its own issues. For now I'll at least keep trying to catch when I run across a word that may need explaining and try to link from there, but not to the degree wikipedia does it. And I'll have to think about how to fire cure in miniature, but I bet you could flue cure the heck out of it with a barbecue smoker and a dog house with vents, lol. And I love doing this stuff, only in small part because of how much I learned here, but you're very welcome. There has never been a resource like this for smokers. Ever. <br />
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--[[User:Flatticus|Flatticus]] ([[User talk:Flatticus|talk]]) 09:25, 5 June 2015 (CDT)<br />
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Just noticed the banner ads on the complete corncob primer are blank. You're probably aware, but just in case.<br />
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'''Acorn''': A pipe shape characterized by a conical shape sometimes extending to a point or near point below the shank or else with a bent shank flowing into the "point" of the acorn shape. Distinguishable from a dublin by a wider and more rounded rim in most cases. <br />
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'''Acrylic''': In pipe parlance, acrylic stems are those made of polymers of acrylic acid or acrylates, most often polymethyl methacrylate, also called acrylic glass. Some prefer this material for pipe stems due to the lack of oxidation, while others prefer a traditional vulcanite stem due to softness.<br />
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'''Aging''': The term used to describe the tendency of pipe tobacco to improve over time through either aerobic or anaerobic fermentation. The term is used interchangeably to describe increased sweetness on the part of Virginias, mellowing on the part of Latakia, or a generally more complete melding of the blend. The effect is often simulated through the use of heat or pressure.<br />
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'''Agonya''': A type of Turkish tobacco of a kabakolak leaf type, meaning it has distinct stems with "wings" on the leaf stems, Agonya was originally grown in the foothills below Xanthi, but is now grown south of the Sea of Marmara, in the region east of Kanakhale, Turkey.<br />
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'''Air-cured''': Air-cured tobacco is hung in well-ventilated barns immediately after plants are cut or leaves pulled from the field and allowed to dry for a period of one to two months. During this process the yellow colors of the leaf turn to varying shades of brown, until they are ready to be fermented and processed. Burley is an air-cured tobacco.<br />
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'''Amber''': Prior to the wide adoption of vulcanite, first invented in 1844 by Charles Goodyear, as a substance for pipe stem making, by far the most common form of pipe stem was one carved from amber. The stems were carved by hand from fossilized tree resin, at which point they could be bent only after heating in oil and over an alcohol flame. While amber is a beautiful natural material which comes in a large variety of colors, the stems are exceedingly brittle and hard on the teeth. Amber stems are still made only in very rare cases.<br />
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'''Apple''': According to the [[Apple|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the classic apple shape is a rounded version of the billiard, and may be had in either bent or straight shanked and tapered and saddle stemmed versions. Popular variations of this shape include the Prince and Author.<br />
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'''Aromatic''': A type of tobacco which is either cased or top flavored in order to produce a taste and room note other than the tobacco's natural smell, whether simply sugar or molasses, whiskey or other alcohols, or many other flavorings. Used as a major category for pipe tobaccos, along with non-aromatic and latakia based blends.<br />
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'''Army Mount''': Also called a "military bit", a pipe with an army mount stem is designed to permit the stem to be removed from the pipe while hot by inclusion of a shank cap, often made of silver, to reinforce the briar. A more elaborate variation of the army mount is the spigot. According to most likely mythological history, the first army mount was invented when a World War One soldier fixed a broken pipe shank by inserting a spent rifle casing into it and piercing a hole for the stem. <br />
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[[File:Kaldenberg Army Mount.jpg|thumb|center|100px|An Army Mount Pipe]] <br />
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'''Author''': According to the [[Author|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the Author is a beefed-up prince, featuring a flattened ball-shaped bowl and a heavy 1/8 to 1/4 bent stem.<br />
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'''Bafra''': Bafra is a district and village in the Samsun province of Turkey, and the name sometimes given to the Samsun-Maden strain of tobacco, which is a smaller basibali Turkish varietal with low nicotine and a rich flavor.<br />
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'''Ball''': The ball shape, also referred to as a tomato, is described by the [[Author|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], is very similar to an author but with a spherical bowl and thinner shank. According to Mr. Burney the ball generally features a tapered stem with a 1/4 to 1/2 bent.<br />
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'''Ballerina''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and resembling a ballet dancer's foot while en pointe, curving from the heel at the front of the bowl to the toe at the meeting of bowl and shank, itself characterized by a full enough bend to permit the pipe to stand on its own. <br />
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[[File:Nordh Ballerina.jpg|thumb|center|100px|A Bo Nordh Ballerina]]<br />
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'''Bakelite''': A trade name for Polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride. Harder than vulcanite and softer than acrylic, bakelite stems do not oxidize. Largely seen in shades of white and amber yellow.<br />
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'''Basma''': 1. The group of Turkish small-leaf varietals in which the stem of the leaf does not extend beyond the leaf at the main stalk 2. The larger leaves primed from the middle of any variety of Turkish tobacco plant 3. A long, rectangular bale-style of packing cured Turkish leaf, approximately 50-60 pounds, of any variety.<br />
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'''Bead''': Now generally represented by two straight lines around the bowl of a bulldog or rhodesian, a bead is one of only three shapes which can be produced on a lathe, along with a flat and a cove. A bead is a rounded projection from the wood, and in the case of pipes today most beads are cut as inset beads, in that the surrounding wood is level with the top of the bead. Older pipes occasionally featured intricately carved beads. Today, however, rather than cutting a true bead the projection is left flat and only signified by the lines around it.<br />
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'''Bent Pipe''': A generic term used to refer to any pipe where the shank is not a straight horizontal line, regardless of the nature or amount of the shank bend.<br />
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'''Billiard''': The [[Billiard|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] describe a billiard as a pipe shape having a cylindrical bowl and tobacco chamber with a shank about the same length as the height of the bowl. Variations on the billiard shape include the pot and chimney.<br />
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'''Basibali''': A family of Turkish tobaccos characterized by a distinct stem separating the leaf from the stalk. Sometimes referred to as Bashi Bagli.<br />
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'''Bit''': A less than precise term, usually used to refer to the entirety of the stem or mouthpiece on a pipe, but occasionally also used to refer to the bite zone.<br />
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'''Bite Zone''': The last approximately three quarters of an inch of the mouthpiece or stem of a tobacco pipe, including the button.<br />
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'''Bloom''': Also referred to as plume, bloom is a fine white powder which appears on well aged tobacco on occasion, and despite the tendency to confuse it with mold is actually a good sign that the leaf is maturing well. Bloom is caused by the crystallization of sugars on the surface of the tobacco leaf. <br />
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'''Blowfish''': Per the [[Blowfish|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the blowfish is a pipe shape characterized by an asymmetrical flattened ball for a bowl, a bent stem blending into the body, and a combination of birdseye grain on the large panels and straight grain between.<br />
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'''Brandy''': Also referred to as a bent brandy or brandyglass, a pipe shape which resembles the glassware for which it is named. According to the [[Brandy|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pipe is characterized by a rounded base tapering up to a smaller rim, often in a 1/4 bent pipe.<br />
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'''Briar''': Actually a mistranslation of the French bruyère, briar among pipe smokers refers to the wood of the ''erica arborea'', a species of flowering plant in the heather family. After 30 to 60 years of growing time, the football sized plants are harvested, cooked, dried for several months, and further processed before they are made into pipes. <br />
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'''Bullcap''': According to the [[Bullcap|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the bullcap is a squat straight rhodesian with a large bowl diameter.<br />
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'''Bulldog''': According to the [[Bulldog|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the classic bulldog has a tapered stem, diamond shank and slightly forward canted bowl shaped someone like two cones joined at the bases with the top cone cut off. The pipe is traditionally adorned with a bead around the bowl. <br />
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'''Bullmoose''': According to the [[Bullcap|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a bullmoose is a squat rhodesian with a very heavy 1/4 bent stem.<br />
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'''Burley''': A tobacco of light-colored variety grown primarily in Kentucky and Tennessee, the bulk of burley tobacco produced in the United States is used for cigarette production. All burley today is of the white burley variety, and is often sweetened due to the low natural sugars present in the leaf. Most aromatics use a base of burley due to its ready ability to absorb flavors. While some claim burley does not age, it does improve with time. However, this takes time measured in the several decades at least.<br />
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'''Burnout''': A term used to refer to a possible condition in estate pipes which, short of extraordinary effort on the part of a capable restorer, generally means the death of a particular pipe. A burnout is a spot where char has actually penetrated or begun to penetrate the outer layer of the bowl. Usually caused by hot smoking, although some claim burnout is always the fault of an unseen flaw in the briar. Uneven packing can also result in one spot suffering more damage than others. While most smokers stop smoking a particular pipe when burnout begins to appear, some continue smoking until they have burned straight through a wall or the foot of the pipe.<br />
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'''Button''': The button is the raised portion at the end of a pipe mouthpiece or stem intended to permit the teeth purchase to hold the pipe.<br />
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'''Cake''': Cake refers to the buildup of residual carbon that forms in the bowl of a pipe. Most recommend trimming back the buildup to keep it at roughly the width of a dime in a briar pipe in order to create a protective layer which cools the pipe and reduces moisture. Cake is frowned upon in meerschaums, and the subject of much debate among corn cob pipe smokers.<br />
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'''Calabash''': According to the [[Calabash|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the calabash is a solid wood interpretation of the gourd calabash with a tapered bowl flared at the rim and a dome shaped top. The tobacco chamber is usually tapered and the pipe 3/4 bent, but there are variations.<br />
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'''Canadian''': According to the [[Canadian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the canadian is a long-shanked billiard with an oval shank and a tapered bit. The shank is roughly twice as long as the height of the bowl. Variations on this shape include the lumbermand, lovat and liverpool.<br />
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'''Casing''': Whether sprayed with or soaked in a sauce, casing refers to the addition of flavoring, sugar or the like prior to the finishing of the tobacco, as opposed to top-flavouring, which is added by spraying the finished blend with scents and flavours.<br />
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'''Cavendish''': There are two forms of Cavendish, which is more a process of curing and a method of cutting tobacco than a type of it. Common cavendish is made when tobacco leaves are pressed into a cake about an inch thick and heated before being allowed to ferment, resulting in a mild and sweet tobacco. Flavoring is often added before the leaves are pressed. English Cavendish uses a dark flue or fire cured Virginia , which is steamed and then stored under pressure to permit it to cure and ferment for several days or weeks.<br />
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'''Char''': Used to refer to wood that has actually begun to burn, usually at the start of a burnout in a bowl or, far more likely and most often due to lighter abuse, at the rim. <br />
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'''Cherrywood''': According to the [[Cherrywood|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a cherrywood is a bent poker. The name cherrywood derives from the pipe shape's origin as a copy of the cherry wood pipes made by Eugène-Léon Ropp and others in mid-19th century France.<br />
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'''Churchwarden''': According to the [[Churchwarden|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the churchwarden is the only pipe defined by the shape of its stem, rather than its bowl. Whether bent or straight, the stem on a churchwarden is 9 to 18 inches long, but not so long as to make lighting the pipe while holding it in the mouth impossible.<br />
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'''Cigar Leaf''': A generic term used to describe a great many different types of leaf primarily used in cigars which are also included in pipe tobacco. Connecticut Broadleaf and Cuban-Seed Varietals are frequently used among others to add flavor to a blend.<br />
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'''Cob''': The common parlance for a corn cob pipe, which in its loosest definition is simply any pipe with a bowl made from a dried and drilled corncob. Traditionally fitted with river cane stems, most modern cobs have wood shanks and plastic bits. <br />
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'''Coin''': A term used to refer to a single slice of tobacco cut from a rope or twist, and resembling a flake, except that it is round and often thinner.<br />
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'''Cumberland''': Called brindle by Dunhill and others, cumberland is a form of vulcanite made with brown and red pigment added to the rubber to give it a marble like appearance.<br />
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'''Curly Cut''': A term used to refer to tobacco which has been sliced from rope or twist tobacco into thin "coins", similar to flakes excepting that they are thinner and round.<br />
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'''Cut''': Pipe tobacco may be cut as shag, ribbon, flake, plug, rope, discs, coins, or in other forms. These terms simply refer to the manner in which the finished product is reduced into a small enough size to consume. The most common cut is ribbon cut.<br />
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'''Cutty''': According to the [[Cutty|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a cutty has a very canted tulip shaped bowl and a slightly bent stem with a tapered bit. The word cutty simply means "cut shorter". Cutty pipes occasionally and traditionally sport a "spur", or a small foot protruding from the base of the bowl.<br />
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'''Czech Tool''': Also called a 3-way pipe tool, a combined tamper, shank clearing tool and dottle spoon on a single rotating rivet. Called a Czech tool for the original country of manufacture of most of the tools, they are largely Chinese made today.<br />
[[File:Czech Tool.jpg|center|thumb|A Czech Tool.]]<br />
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'''Delayed Gratification Technique''': Or DGT, the habit of some pipe smokers to light a pipe and leave it to sit for hours or even days before completing the smoke. Many blends gain a far different taste profile from this technique which some find pleasant.<br />
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'''Delrin''': A brand name for polyoxymethylne or POM, also called acetal, polyacetal, or polyformaldehyde, delrin is a thermoplastic used by pipe makers as a material for non-integral stem tenons, and for screw-in tenons for meerschaum push/pull connections. Delrin is appreciated as a "self-lubricating" material, meaning that it has a low drag coefficient to interfere with the smooth passage of smoke, and for the ease of reliance on separate stems and tenons.<br />
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'''Devil Anse''': The name of a notorious West Virginia Confederate veteran suspected of murdering Asa McCoy after the war ended and starting the infamous Hatfield/McCoy feud. Devil Anse Hatfield was portrayed in a recent television series by Kevin Costner, who, despite the lack of any historical support, smoked a nosewarmer cutty in the role, now popular and given the name of the character. <br />
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'''Diplomat''': According to the [[Diplomat|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a diplomat is a pipe shape similar to a prince but a bit larger generally and with an oval shank and stem.<br />
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'''Djebel''': Sometimes referred to as Xanthi-Djebel, Dejebel tobacco is grown closer to the ridge, or djebel, of the Rhodope mountains above Xanthi. While the leaf is probably of the same strain as Yaka leaf, it is much less highly regarded.<br />
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'''Don''': A pipe shape, according to the [[Duke/Don|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], similar to a Duke but with a rudimentary shank and a vulcanite bit. Sometimes, such as by [[Peterson]], called a tankard.<br />
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'''Dottle''': The leftover plug of unburnt tobacco and ash left in the heel of a pipe bowl after smoking. Dottle is avoided by smokers as a waste of tobacco and occasionally souring of the bowl, but is sometimes unavoidable.<br />
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'''Drama''': A sweet type of tobacco with a natural olive oil fragrance grown on the Southern slopes and foothills of the Rhodope Mountains in Greek Eastern Macedonia, and taking its name from the town of the same name. A kabakolak variety, meaning that the leaf has a distinct separate stem similar to basibali, but with "wings" on its leaf stems.<br />
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'''Draught Hole''': Also Draft Hole, the point at which the airway enters the bowl of the pipe, preferably in the center back of the heel to avoid leaving excessive dottle.<br />
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'''Dubec''': 1. The smaller leaves from the upper portion of any variety of Turkish tobacco plant 2. A round package of cured Turkish leaf of any variety, approximately 25-30 pounds in weight.<br />
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'''Dublin''': According to the [[Dublin|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the dublin is a pipe shape with the same proportions as a billiard but with a conical bowl and tapered combustion chamber.<br />
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'''Duke''': A [[Dunhill]] pipe shape that features a cylindrical bowl with no shank, a bone or vulcanite stem and a poker-type canted bottom, according to the [[Duke/Don|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''Ebonite''': The brand name for a very hard rubber first created by Charles Goodyear by vulcanizing rubber for prolonged periods, Ebonite was named for its intended purpose, a replacment for ebony. Commonly referred to as vulcanite in pipe parlance, vulcanite is with acrylic one of the two most popular materials from which stems are made.<br />
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'''Egg''': According to the [[Egg|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the egg is usually but not always a bent pipe with a bowl shaped like an egg, which can be thought of as an elongated apple shape.<br />
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'''Elephant's Foot''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and characterized by straight grained side panels and wide front and back domed surfaces on the bowl exhibiting birdseye. <br />
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'''English''': Aside from the obvious geographical uses, the word "English" is often used among pipe smokers to refer to blends with latakia in them. In reality, however, the term only developed to differentiate blends made in the United Kingdom, especially in the days of the now defunct Tobacco Purity Laws, which prohibited humectants and most flavorings from being added to the tobacco. A more precise term is "latakia based".<br />
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'''English Cavendish''': The name commonly used to refer to dark flue-cured or fire-cured Virginia tobacco which is steamed and then pressed over a period of several days to weeks. It is not flavored as other forms of Cavendish generally are. Rattray's ''Dark Fragrant'' is one example of an available English Cavendish blend. <br />
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'''Eskimo''': According to the [[Ukulele|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a pipe shape by Tom Eltang created as a variation on Ed Burak's bulldog design and sporting a smooth, flat stem and shank with a canted, domed bowl.<br />
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'''Estate Pipe''': A previously owned pipe, whether smoked or un-smoked.<br />
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'''Fill''': A void, pit or flaw in the briar which is made level with the surface of the pipe with either putty or a mix of briar dust and cyanoacrylate glue and which, despite staining, is often visible on close inspection.<br />
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'''Fire Cured''': Unlike flue cured tobacco, which is cured by indirect heat without smoke, fire cured tobacco is cured with smoke, in the tobacco equivalent of barbecuing. Dark Fired Kentucky and Latakia are both fire cured, and the process results in lower sugars and higher nicotine in the leaf.<br />
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'''Flake''': Flake tobacco is made by slicing thin sheets off of a cube, which in turn is formed by pressing whole tobacco leaves into a compressed form, usually under significant pressure for long periods of time. Flake tobacco may be sold in slices, or fully or partially broken or rubbed out.<br />
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'''Flue Cured''': Flue cured tobacco is cured by heat without smoke, generally by being hung from sticks in a barn exposed to heat from external fires through flues. Traditionally the method for curing brightleaf tobacco, this method results in sweeter leaf with lower nicotine.<br />
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'''Foot''': The bottom of the outside of the bowl, as opposed to the heel, which is the bottom of the inside of the bowl.<br />
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'''Freehand''': Not to be confused with the fixed freehand shapes made by some companies, a true freehand shape is defined by the pipemaker's choice to let the grain of the briar shape the pipe, rather than forcing the pipe into a predetermined shape, according to the [[Freehand|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''Gesteckpfeife''': Literally "pipe in parts", a traditional European pipe made up of several interconnecting parts, usually held together with cork tenons. Bowls can be meerschaum, briar, or porcelain, commonly.<br />
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'''Ghost''': A ghost is the taste or smell of a previously smoked tobacco remaining in a pipe and coloring the taste of a different blend smoked in the same pipe. Generally the cause of tar in the shank, but usually blamed on cake.<br />
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'''Gourd Calabash''': According to the [[Gourd Calabash|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a gourd calabash is a pipe made from a calabash gourd which is dried and the seeds removed, and then fitted with a stem and meerschaum bowl cap. The driest and smoothest of all pipes.<br />
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'''Gravity Fill Method''': Also called the Three Step Method, this is the method of packing a pipe most often taught to new smokers, and involves drizzling enough tobacco into the bowl to cover the heel, tamping very lightly, followed by drizzling tobacco to the rim twice and tamping after each time, with more pressure the on the last.<br />
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'''Hand''': A hand is a bundle of tobacco tied at the end and hung from the knot for curing purposes.<br />
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'''Hawkbill''': According to the [[Hawkbill|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the hawkbill is a pipe shape characterized by an enlarged ball or tomato style with a long, tapering bent shank. The premiere example is the Castello 84.j<br />
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'''Heel''': The heel is the bottom of the combustion chamber, the inside of the bowl.<br />
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'''Horn''': According to the [[Horn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the horn is a graceful freehand shape varying from a straight tapering tube to a more standard bent pipe, but in all cases with a smooth tapering from bowl to shank and no abrupt transitions.<br />
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[[File:Horn2.gif|thumb|center|100px|The Horn Shape]]<br />
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'''Hungarian''': More commonly referred to as an Oom Paul, the Hungarian is a fully bent billiard named for former South African President Paulus Kruger, according to the [[Oom Paul/Hungarian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''Intricate Curve''': In pipemaking, a term sometimes used to describe the transition from the rear wall of the bowl to the top of the shank.<br />
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'''Izmir''': A type of Turkish tobacco with rich flavor, low nicotine, and cool smoke. It has a very aromatic nature and is often blended with Latakia to somewhat subdue this property. Primarily used as a condiment with pipe tobacco, but occasionally offered by itself. Also called Smyrna.<br />
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'''Jar''': Tobacco jars have been used for nearly three hundred years as the predominant method for storage of pipe tobacco, whether made from tin, wood, pewter, porcelain, majolica or bisque. By far the most common choice is the simple Ball jar or Mason jar.<br />
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'''Jatim''': A form of Indonesian tobacco and the abbreviated name of the province of East Java (Jawa Timur), where the tobacco is grown.<br />
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== K ==<br />
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'''Kabakolak''': A family of Turkish tobacco strains similar to Basibali, but with wings on their leaf stems in addition to distinct stems.<br />
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'''Katerini''': A Turkish varietal of the Samsun basibali type, with a milder, sweeter leaf. Grown southwest of Thessaloniki in the Greek province of Macedonia.<br />
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'''Kentucky''': Dark-Fired Kentucky is a type of pipe tobacco made from burley which is cured over a fire and flavored by its smoke.<br />
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'''Latakia''': Named for the principal port city of Syria, latakia is not a specific plant varietal, but rather one of a number of Turkish varietals which are fire cured over a stone pine or oak wood fire, giving it a smoky flavor. Most latakia, despite the name, is now grown in Cyprus, not Syria, and camel dung has nothing to do with the process of its creation.<br />
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'''Lovat''': A pipe shape, according to the [[Lovat|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], which is essentially a Canadian but with a round shank instead of oval and a saddle stem.<br />
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'''Lucite''': Lucite is a trade name for acrylic, or polyacrylate, which is derived from natural gas. It is a composition of Methyl Methacrylate and Poly Methyl Methacrylate resin. Lucite is used for pipe stems due to its lack of oxidation, but is criticized for a harder feel on the teeth.<br />
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'''Lületaşi''': A Turkish word literally meaning sea foam and used to refer to meerschaum in that country.<br />
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'''Macedonia''': 1. A province of north-central Greece, west of Thrace, which includes the sea port of Thessaloniki (Salonika) and the Katerini tobacco region 2. A recently independent republic, formerly part of Soviet Yugoslavia, located immediately north of the Greek province of Macedonia, and the source of Prilep tobacco.<br />
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'''Mahale''': A Turkish tobacco with a basma leaf type grown downslope from Xanthi.<br />
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'''Maryland''': An extremely mild tobacco used in a number of American tobacco blends, especially to add a nutty flavor to Burley. Sadly the state of Maryland now pays farmers not to grow tobacco.<br />
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'''Meerschaum''': A mineral hydrous magnesium silicate called sepiolite, primarily found in Turkey near Eskisehr, which is used in the making of tobacco pipes. The word means "seafoam".<br />
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'''Melding''': The term used to refer to a tobacco blend's property to acquire a single homogeneous taste over time, as a result of aging in an airtight container.<br />
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'''Mellowing''': Particularly used in referring to Latakia's tendency to be less overpowering after some aging, the term is sometimes used to refer to a general tendency of tobacco to become more smooth with age.<br />
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'''Morta''': Also known as bog-wood or abonos, morta is a material cut from trees which have been buried in peat bogs and near-petrified by the acidic and anaerobic conditions of the bog for a period sometimes hundreds or even thousands of years long. It is valued for its very high mineral content and resulting resistance to fire.<br />
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'''Mortise''': A mortise is at its most basic a hole cut or drilled to accept a smaller tenon and make a joint. The joint has been used in woodworking for thousands of years, and in pipe construction generally appears as a hole drilled larger than the airway and at the same depth as the stem tenon. Variations, however, are unlimited.<br />
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'''Mouthpiece''': A term used interchangeably with stem and to a lesser degree bit, the mouthpiece is the portion of the pipe meant to be placed in the smoker's mouth, and includes the entire pipe from the end of the shank to the slot. Often made from vulcanite or lucite/acrylic.<br />
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'''Nautilus''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and named for its obvious resemblance to the shell of a nautilus, resulting in an airway passing through a shank curved in a loop and pierced in the center to suggest the closed portion of the shell, a bowl shaped like the long open mouth of the shell, and a foot curving in a near half circle beneath.<br />
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'''Nail''': The simplest form of pipe tool is the venerable Pipe Nail, which generally looks much like its namesake, one end flat to tamp with and another coming to a point or spoon for clearing ash and tar.<br />
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'''Nomenclature''': A general term used to refer to the stamping on a pipe in its entirety, including brand names, models, year and shape codes and the like.<br />
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'''Oliphant''': A traditional name for a hunter's horn made from an elephant tusk, the oliphant shape was first designed by [[Sixten Ivarsson]] for the [[Pibe-Dan]] shop in the late 1950s. According to the [[Horn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]]The shape is a variation of the horn meant to resemble the tusk of an elephant, and with a flat curve and even and gradual tapering throughout.<br />
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'''Oom Paul''': A shape name which actually means Uncle Paul in Dutch, Oom Paul pipes are full bent billiards, according to the [[Oom Paul/Hungarian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]]. The name comes from the nickname for Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, president of the South African Republic from 1883 to 1900 and the face of the Boer cause against Britain during the Second Boer War of 1899 to 1902. Also called a Hungarian.<br />
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'''Opera Pipe''': A shape which the [[Oval|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] refer to as an "Oval" or Pocket pipe, the opera pipe is a billiard with a bowl "squashed" into an oval, with the long side of the oval parallel with the shank and stem. In fact, "opera" pipe is a misnomer. The original name of the pipe was the au pair pipe, as it gained popularity with domestic workers unable to smoke around children.<br />
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'''Oriental''': Used interchangeably with "Turkish" to refer to sun cured condimental tobaccos grown in the Eastern Mediterranean. This category of tobaccos includes Yenidje, Smyrna, Samsun, Izmir, Drama, Xanthe, and often Basma, which is not a particular leaf but a generic Turkish blend, and all that pipe tobacco blenders are often able to find due to the purchase of most oriental varietals by cigarette manufacturers.<br />
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'''Panel Billiard''': According to the [[Panel Billiard|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the Panelled Billiard, also called a foursquare, is a basic billiard shape with flat, or panelled, sides. The classic panel has four flat sides and a round shank.<br />
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'''Pear''': More commonly called an acorn today, according to the [[Pear/Accorn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] the pear is a sort of softened dublin shape, with a conical bowl and tobacco chamber but with all sharp edges rounded.<br />
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'''Perique''': Mistakenly believed to be a nickname for Pierre Chenet and actually a French mispronunciation of an American slang word for a part of the anatomy, perique is a type of tobacco grown only in St. James Parish, Louisiana, sauced and kept under massive pressure in barrels until it turns nearly black. Perique has flavors of spice and plum, and is prized as the truffle of pipe tobaccos.<br />
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'''Pickaxe''': According to the [[Pickaxe|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pickaxe is a freehand style of pipe characterized by a paneled, triangular bowl.<br />
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'''Pipe''': A tube with a small bowl at one end used for the smoking of tobacco.<br />
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'''Pit''': Briar grows underground and as such is prone to picking up bits of sand which create a void in the block, sometimes not noticeable until the pipe is nearly finished. Traditionally pits, or sand pits, would simply be filled with putty and stained over for a value priced pipe.<br />
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'''P-Lip''': A type of pipe mouthpiece invented by Peterson of Dublin and relying on a small hole on the top of a stem rather than a hole at its end. Meant to reduce tongue bite by directing the flow of smoke away from the tongue.<br />
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'''Plug''': Whole leaf, pressed with moisture, becomes a plug, from which flakes can be sliced. Plug tobacco is prepared by slicing off and then rubbing out pieces of the block of tobacco.<br />
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'''Poker''': According to the [[Poker|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the poker is a straight pipe with a cylindrical, flat bottomed bowl designed so that the pipe will stand on its own.<br />
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'''Pot''': According to the [[Pot|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pot is a billiard with a shorter bowl, but not a shorter shank than a standard billiard.<br />
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'''Prilep''': A Sirdily variety of Turkish tobacco commonly grown in the region of the town of Prilep, which is located in the Independent Republic of Macedonia.<br />
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'''Prince''': According to the [[Prince|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the prince is a pipe shape characterized by a squat rounded bowl and along, usually slightly bent stem with a short shank. The pipe was named after Prince Albert, later King Edward VII, the Prince of Wales.<br />
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'''Push/Pull''': The term generally used to describe a two part mortise and tenon system used in meerschaum pipes and developed by Andreas Bauer originally. A push/pull consists of a threaded Delrin tenon and a separate threaded plastic mortise. The preferred method of connecting stem and shank in meerschaum pipes, which lack the durability for long term use of a standard mortise/tenon connection.<br />
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'''Quaint''': A pipe shape hallmarked, generally, by more than four panels, especially with a paneled shank as well.<br />
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'''Ramses''': A pipe shape created by Bo [[Nordh]] and later named by a visiting customer for its resemblance to the statue of Ramses II in Abu Simbel, Egypt. Characterized by a long, wide sloping shank which also serves as the foot of the pipe and a long, tapered bowl which rests almost vertically on the shank. Stems are generally partially bent.<br />
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[[File:Bo Nordh Ramses01.jpg|thumb|center|100px|A Nordh Ramses]]<br />
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'''Reaming''': Trimming back cake from the bowl of a tobacco pipe.<br />
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'''Reamer''': A tool used to trim pipe cake back to an acceptable level. These have been made in countless different forms, adjustable and non-adjustable, for well over a century. Some simply use a pipe knife or sandpaper to accomplish the same task.<br />
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'''Rhodesian''': A subject of great dispute. Unlikely to have been named for Cecil Rhodes, and more likely to have taken its name from Rhodesian tobacco, a Rhodesian is considered by some to be any bent bulldog, by others to be any bulldog with a round shank, and by others any bulldog shape with a greater bowl width than height. For each accepted definition of the word there is a pipe sold which contradicts it, and no consensus is likely.<br />
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'''Room Note''': The smell of a particular tobacco as it is being smoked. Easier to detect by those not smoking the blend, and a key component to the choice of a pipe tobacco blend especially for those who smoke in public environments. Simply put, how pleasing the smoke would be to a bystander.<br />
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'''Samsun''': A Turkish tobacco of the basibali variety with a heart-shaped leaf, grown near the town of Samsun, Turkey on the shores of the Black Sea. Low nicotine tobacco, but with strong flavor and dark color.<br />
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'''Samsun-Maden''': Also called Bafra for the village near Samsun, Samsun-Maden is a basibali Turkish tobacco characterized by leaves which are are small sized and ovalThe leaf faces are red to bright red. This strain can be smoked without blending. Nicotine content is often lower than 1% and sugar content is 9-12%. <br />
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'''Shank''': The portion of a stummel between the bowl and mouthpiece, and generally containing the mortise. The length of the pipe shank is one of the key variables in the shape of a pipe, as is it's shape, whether square, diamond, oval or round.<br />
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'''Shirazi''': Named for the ancient city of Shiraz in south-western Iran and claimed to be native to that country, Shirazi tobacco is thought to have reached Iran from the Americas in the mid 1500s. Once called ''Nicotiana Persica''.<br />
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'''Sirdily''': A category of Turkish basma subvarietals characterized by small, narrow, acutely pointed leaves.<br />
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'''Slot''': A slot is the wide opening at the end of the mouthpiece tapering into the airway of the pipe. Generally seen only on vulcanite and acrylic stems from the last century, the slot is funneled both to make the insertion of a pipe cleaner easier and to make for a smoother flow for the smoke.<br />
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'''Smyrna''': A type of Turkish tobacco with rich flavor, low nicotine, and cool smoke. It has a very aromatic nature and is often blended with Latakia to somewhat subdue this property. Primarily used as a condiment with pipe tobacco, but occasionally offered by itself. Also called Izmir.<br />
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'''Sokhoum''': A type of Turkish varietal of the Samsun basibali type which is deeply fermented. Grown in the mountains above the town of Sokhoum Kale (Sokhumi) in the Republic of Georgia.<br />
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'''Soppeng''': A type of Indonesian tobacco prepared much like a traditional cavendish but using palm sugar as the sweetener, and then fired. Primarily smoked in cigarettes but enjoyed as pipe tobacco also, Soppeng is sometimes flavored with cinnamon or other tastes during preparation.<br />
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'''Sphinx''': A shape created by Bo [[Nordh]] and characterized by a wide domed bowl front cut so as to show birdseye at the center with straight grain radiating out from that point, giving a sunburst pattern. A similar shape, the Mounted Sphinx, was created by [[Geiger Pipes|Love and Sara Geiger]], but was not created as a variation on the shape.<br />
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'''Spiderwebbing''': A term used to describe a possible condition of estate pipes, spiderwebbing is the result of oversmoking but, rather than showing in a single spot like char in the bowl or a burnout, is characterized by a pattern of char lines, which look like shallow cracks and are actually burnt into the wood of the bowl. Can be concealed by any amount of cake or even a bowl coating, and so it is usually only evident in a bowl which has been sanded back to bare wood.<br />
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'''Spur''': A small protrusion at the bottom of traditional clay pipes to ensure a hot bowl does not burn the table. Frequently included in cutty pipes made even in briar and meerschaum in later decades as an ornamental element of the cutty shape. Seen only occasionally today.<br />
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[[File:Spur.jpg|thumb|center|100px|Clay Pipe Resting on Spur]]<br />
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'''Srintil''': A type of heavily fermented, air cured Indonesian tobacco grown in the Java region in the Temangung valley which grows at the top of a plant and by abnormality produces an extreme amount of resin, making it highly potent. Fermentation details are thought to be similar to perique, and in 1983 approximately 3 tons a year of Srintil were grown worldwide. Sometimes extracted in an aqueous solution for use as a flavoring agent.<br />
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'''Stinger''': Sometimes referred to as a "metal filter", "cleaner", or "condenser", a stinger is a metal protrusion containing the last portion of the airway in many pipes, primarily of the mid-20th century. A stinger extends from the tenon on a stem into the shank of the pipe, generally in turn drilled with a deeper mortise to allow space. Stingers were used commonly in non-filtered pipes for the majority of the twentieth century, but are no longer seen.<br />
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[[File:8.jpg|thumb|center|100px|Pipe stem with Stinger]]<br />
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'''Stummel''': German for stump, the stummel is a complete pipe minus only a stem and any final adornments, including the bowl, shank, and transition between the two.<br />
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'''Tambolaka''': An Indonesian tobacco grown in limestone heavy soil and after harvesting rolled into long sticks which are bound and stored for five years. Sold both as pipe tobacco and as a component of Indonesian cigars. Very high in nicotine with a tin note best described as pungent. <br />
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'''Tamp''': Using a tool or finger to compress the contents of the pipe bowl so as to bring unburnt tobacco into contact with the ember.<br />
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'''Tamper''': A tool used to tamp a pipe, generally with a flat end designed for that purpose and a handle. A tamper can be as simple as a piece of dowel or as ornate as the buyer may wish. While it seems inconsequential, tamping is important both for the care of the pipe and the coolness of the smoke.<br />
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'''Tenon''': The tenon is the smaller diameter protrusion at the end of a pipe stem which holds the stem to the stummel. It takes its name from one of the oldest joints in woodworking, the mortise and tenon joint. Over the last two centuries tenons have been made separately with bone screws, cut integrally into a vulcanite stem to fit a cut mortise in the stummel, made from threaded aluminum or plastic, made from aluminum to fit a pre-drilled mortise so as to hold a filter, made from delrin and placed into a drilled hole in the stem, and in other fashions as well. <br />
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'''Tin Note''': As opposed to the aroma of burning tobacco, the tin note is the scent which can be smelled from the unsmoked tobacco when opened, and is considered a good way to begin to understand a new blend and determine to some degree its components and their relative strength.<br />
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'''Trebizond''': No known as Trabzon, Trebizond is grown in Turkey at the southeast shores of the Black Sea. A basibali varietal resembling Samsun, but coarser and stronger.<br />
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'''Turkish''': A term used to refer not only to tobaccos grown in modern day Turkey, but rather to any tobacco grown under the Ottoman Empire, particularly at the height of its power under Suleiman the Magnificent. As a result, while the town of Yenidje, for example, would today be in Greece, yenidje tobacco is still classified as Turkish.<br />
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'''Twist''': A form of tobacco, also known as rope tobacco, which is spun into a roll, largely by hand, rather than being pressed into flakes. One of the oldest forms of smoking tobacco.<br />
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'''Ukulele''': A pipe shape first designed by [[Sixten Ivarsson]] for the [[Pibe-Dan]] shop in the 1950s and named ukulele, some credit Ed [[Burak]] for the design which he considered a bulldog. A ukulele is characterized by a domed, wide bowl and a wide oval shank with a flat bowl bottom, according to the [[Ukulele|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''Ulmer''': A pipe shape which took its name from the city of Ulm, Germany, and originally attributed to Johann Jakob Glöckle in the early 18th century, the ulmer is a full bent pipe in a "U" shape with a wider portion at the base. <br />
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[[File:Ulmer.JPG|thumb|center|100px|An Ulmer pipe]]<br />
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'''VaPer''': A portmanteau of Virginia and Perique, vaper is simply the contraction used to refer to blends primarily composed of these two types of tobacco. <br />
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'''Vestpocket''': A pipe characterized by its ability to fit in a vest pocket, notable for its stem, which swivels over the bowl for carrying and swings out for use, according to the [[Vestpocket|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts]]. Generally all corners on the pipe are rounded to make it easier to remove from a pocket.<br />
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'''Virginia''': More appropriately called Brightleaf tobacco, Virginia is used to refer to milder tobacco leaf, lighter in color, which is grown in infertile, sandy soil, largely in North Carolina and Virginia, and which was first grown in approximately 1839. <br />
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'''Volcano''': A pipe shape characterized by a conical bowl narrowing towards the top, usually with a rounded base and a bent shank and saddle stem, according to the [[Volcano|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts]].<br />
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'''Vulcanite''': Hard black vulcanized rubber used for making pipe stems. Made from rubber containing up to 30% sulfur, vulcanite is soft on the teeth but prone to turning brownish yellow and taking on a sulfur smell on exposure to sunlight. This process is called oxidation.<br />
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'''White Burley''': First grown in Brown County, Ohio in 1865 by George Webb, White Burley is the result of planting Red Burley seeds purchased from Kentucky in the different soil of Ohio, which resulted in a mutation of whitish, sickly looking plants. White Burley soon became the chief ingredient in chewing tobacco, American pipe tobacco, and American-style cigarettes. As Red Burley no longer exists, White Burley is simply referred to as Burley today.<br />
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'''Xanthi''': Sometimes spelled Xanthe, this grade of Basma tobacco is named for a city in the Thrace region of northeastern Greece, first led into prosperity around 1715 due to the quality of its highly aromatic tobacco. The scientific name of the leaf is ''Nicotiana tabacum'' L. cv Xanthi.<br />
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'''Yacht''': Another name for the Zulu pipe shape, with a canted dublin bowl, oval shank and 1/8 bent stem. Among others, Kaywoodie used the term Yacht for pipes of this shape.<br />
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'''Yenidje''': Named for the town of Yenidje, Thrace, today called Genisea, Greece, Yenidje is also called Yenice, Jenidze, Yenidge, and Yeniji, and is a variety of Yaka tobacco, the best regarded form of Xanthi. Yenidje was an Ottoman tobacco production center until 1843 when the town burned and the growers moved up the slopes of the Rhodope Mountain range. Those slopes, called the Yaka, were made of a red clay loam mixed with small flint stones giving rise to short, low-yielding plants of the basma type, meaning (in this usage) that the leaves are small, almost round and with no free stem. The leaf burns badly on its own and was traditionally mixed with Bafra to cure this issue.<br />
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'''Zulu''': A shape of smoking pipe hallmarked by a canted dublin style bowl, an oval shank and a 1/8th bent stem. Also referred to as a Woodstock or a Yacht.<br />
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'''Zeppelin''': A name often used to refer to a cigar-shaped pipe of briar with a separate mouthpiece often of vulcanite, usually with a metal cap at the end to hold in the tobacco. Also called a Torpedo.<br />
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'''Acorn''': A pipe shape characterized by a conical shape sometimes extending to a point or near point below the shank or else with a bent shank flowing into the "point" of the acorn shape. Distinguishable from a dublin by a wider and more rounded rim in most cases. <br />
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'''Acrylic''': In pipe parlance, acrylic stems are those made of polymers of acrylic acid or acrylates, most often polymethyl methacrylate, also called acrylic glass. Some prefer this material for pipe stems due to the lack of oxidation, while others prefer a traditional vulcanite stem due to softness.<br />
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'''Aging''': The term used to describe the tendency of pipe tobacco to improve over time through either aerobic or anaerobic fermentation. The term is used interchangeably to describe increased sweetness on the part of Virginias, mellowing on the part of Latakia, or a generally more complete melding of the blend. The effect is often simulated through the use of heat or pressure.<br />
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'''Agonya''': A type of Turkish tobacco of a kabakolak leaf type, meaning it has distinct stems with "wings" on the leaf stems, Agonya was originally grown in the foothills below Xanthi, but is now grown south of the Sea of Marmara, in the region east of Kanakhale, Turkey.<br />
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'''Air-cured''': Air-cured tobacco is hung in well-ventilated barns immediately after plants are cut or leaves pulled from the field and allowed to dry for a period of one to two months. During this process the yellow colors of the leaf turn to varying shades of brown, until they are ready to be fermented and processed. Burley is an air-cured tobacco.<br />
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'''Amber''': Prior to the wide adoption of vulcanite, first invented in 1844 by Charles Goodyear, as a substance for pipe stem making, by far the most common form of pipe stem was one carved from amber. The stems were carved by hand from fossilized tree resin, at which point they could be bent only after heating in oil and over an alcohol flame. While amber is a beautiful natural material which comes in a large variety of colors, the stems are exceedingly brittle and hard on the teeth. Amber stems are still made only in very rare cases.<br />
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'''Apple''': According to the [[Apple|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the classic apple shape is a rounded version of the billiard, and may be had in either bent or straight shanked and tapered and saddle stemmed versions. Popular variations of this shape include the Prince and Author.<br />
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'''Aromatic''': A type of tobacco which is either cased or top flavored in order to produce a taste and room note other than the tobacco's natural smell, whether simply sugar or molasses, whiskey or other alcohols, or many other flavorings. Used as a major category for pipe tobaccos, along with non-aromatic and latakia based blends.<br />
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'''Army Mount''': Also called a "military bit", a pipe with an army mount stem is designed to permit the stem to be removed from the pipe while hot by inclusion of a shank cap, often made of silver, to reinforce the briar. A more elaborate variation of the army mount is the spigot. According to most likely mythological history, the first army mount was invented when a World War One soldier fixed a broken pipe shank by inserting a spent rifle casing into it and piercing a hole for the stem. <br />
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[[File:Kaldenberg Army Mount.jpg|thumb|center|100px|An Army Mount Pipe]] <br />
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'''Author''': According to the [[Author|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the Author is a beefed-up prince, featuring a flattened ball-shaped bowl and a heavy 1/8 to 1/4 bent stem.<br />
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'''Bafra''': Bafra is a district and village in the Samsun province of Turkey, and the name sometimes given to the Samsun-Maden strain of tobacco, which is a smaller basibali Turkish varietal with low nicotine and a rich flavor.<br />
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'''Ball''': The ball shape, also referred to as a tomato, is described by the [[Author|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], is very similar to an author but with a spherical bowl and thinner shank. According to Mr. Burney the ball generally features a tapered stem with a 1/4 to 1/2 bent.<br />
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'''Ballerina''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and resembling a ballet dancer's foot while en pointe, curving from the heel at the front of the bowl to the toe at the meeting of bowl and shank, itself characterized by a full enough bend to permit the pipe to stand on its own. <br />
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[[File:Nordh Ballerina.jpg|thumb|center|100px|A Bo Nordh Ballerina]]<br />
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'''Bakelite''': A trade name for Polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride. Harder than vulcanite and softer than acrylic, bakelite stems do not oxidize. Largely seen in shades of white and amber yellow.<br />
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'''Basma''': 1. The group of Turkish small-leaf varietals in which the stem of the leaf does not extend beyond the leaf at the main stalk 2. The larger leaves primed from the middle of any variety of Turkish tobacco plant 3. A long, rectangular bale-style of packing cured Turkish leaf, approximately 50-60 pounds, of any variety.<br />
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'''Bead''': Now generally represented by two straight lines around the bowl of a bulldog or rhodesian, a bead is one of only three shapes which can be produced on a lathe, along with a flat and a cove. A bead is a rounded projection from the wood, and in the case of pipes today most beads are cut as inset beads, in that the surrounding wood is level with the top of the bead. Older pipes occasionally featured intricately carved beads. Today, however, rather than cutting a true bead the projection is left flat and only signified by the lines around it.<br />
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'''Bent Pipe''': A generic term used to refer to any pipe where the shank is not a straight horizontal line, regardless of the nature or amount of the shank bend.<br />
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'''Billiard''': The [[Billiard|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] describe a billiard as a pipe shape having a cylindrical bowl and tobacco chamber with a shank about the same length as the height of the bowl. Variations on the billiard shape include the pot and chimney.<br />
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'''Basibali''': A family of Turkish tobaccos characterized by a distinct stem separating the leaf from the stalk. Sometimes referred to as Bashi Bagli.<br />
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'''Bit''': A less than precise term, usually used to refer to the entirety of the stem or mouthpiece on a pipe, but occasionally also used to refer to the bite zone.<br />
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'''Bite Zone''': The last approximately three quarters of an inch of the mouthpiece or stem of a tobacco pipe, including the button.<br />
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'''Bloom''': Also referred to as plume, bloom is a fine white powder which appears on well aged tobacco on occasion, and despite the tendency to confuse it with mold is actually a good sign that the leaf is maturing well. Bloom is caused by the crystallization of sugars on the surface of the tobacco leaf. <br />
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'''Blowfish''': Per the [[Blowfish|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the blowfish is a pipe shape characterized by an asymmetrical flattened ball for a bowl, a bent stem blending into the body, and a combination of birdseye grain on the large panels and straight grain between.<br />
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'''Brandy''': Also referred to as a bent brandy or brandyglass, a pipe shape which resembles the glassware for which it is named. According to the [[Brandy|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pipe is characterized by a rounded base tapering up to a smaller rim, often in a 1/4 bent pipe.<br />
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'''Briar''': Actually a mistranslation of the French bruyère, briar among pipe smokers refers to the wood of the ''erica arborea'', a species of flowering plant in the heather family. After 30 to 60 years of growing time, the football sized plants are harvested, cooked, dried for several months, and further processed before they are made into pipes. <br />
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'''Bullcap''': According to the [[Bullcap|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the bullcap is a squat straight rhodesian with a large bowl diameter.<br />
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'''Bulldog''': According to the [[Bulldog|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the classic bulldog has a tapered stem, diamond shank and slightly forward canted bowl shaped someone like two cones joined at the bases with the top cone cut off. The pipe is traditionally adorned with a bead around the bowl. <br />
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'''Bullmoose''': According to the [[Bullcap|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a bullmoose is a squat rhodesian with a very heavy 1/4 bent stem.<br />
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'''Burley''': A tobacco of light-colored variety grown primarily in Kentucky and Tennessee, the bulk of burley tobacco produced in the United States is used for cigarette production. All burley today is of the white burley variety, and is often sweetened due to the low natural sugars present in the leaf. Most aromatics use a base of burley due to its ready ability to absorb flavors. While some claim burley does not age, it does improve with time. However, this takes time measured in the several decades at least.<br />
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'''Burnout''': A term used to refer to a possible condition in estate pipes which, short of extraordinary effort on the part of a capable restorer, generally means the death of a particular pipe. A burnout is a spot where char has actually penetrated or begun to penetrate the outer layer of the bowl. Usually caused by hot smoking, although some claim burnout is always the fault of an unseen flaw in the briar. Uneven packing can also result in one spot suffering more damage than others. While most smokers stop smoking a particular pipe when burnout begins to appear, some continue smoking until they have burned straight through a wall or the foot of the pipe.<br />
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'''Button''': The button is the raised portion at the end of a pipe mouthpiece or stem intended to permit the teeth purchase to hold the pipe.<br />
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== C ==<br />
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'''Cake''': Cake refers to the buildup of residual carbon that forms in the bowl of a pipe. Most recommend trimming back the buildup to keep it at roughly the width of a dime in a briar pipe in order to create a protective layer which cools the pipe and reduces moisture. Cake is frowned upon in meerschaums, and the subject of much debate among corn cob pipe smokers.<br />
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'''Calabash''': According to the [[Calabash|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the calabash is a solid wood interpretation of the gourd calabash with a tapered bowl flared at the rim and a dome shaped top. The tobacco chamber is usually tapered and the pipe 3/4 bent, but there are variations.<br />
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'''Canadian''': According to the [[Canadian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the canadian is a long-shanked billiard with an oval shank and a tapered bit. The shank is roughly twice as long as the height of the bowl. Variations on this shape include the lumbermand, lovat and liverpool.<br />
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'''Casing''': Whether sprayed with or soaked in a sauce, casing refers to the addition of flavoring, sugar or the like prior to the finishing of the tobacco, as opposed to top-flavouring, which is added by spraying the finished blend with scents and flavours.<br />
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'''Cavendish''': There are two forms of Cavendish, which is more a process of curing and a method of cutting tobacco than a type of it. Common cavendish is made when tobacco leaves are pressed into a cake about an inch thick and heated before being allowed to ferment, resulting in a mild and sweet tobacco. Flavoring is often added before the leaves are pressed. English Cavendish uses a dark flue or fire cured Virginia , which is steamed and then stored under pressure to permit it to cure and ferment for several days or weeks.<br />
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'''Char''': Used to refer to wood that has actually begun to burn, usually at the start of a burnout in a bowl or, far more likely and most often due to lighter abuse, at the rim. <br />
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'''Cherrywood''': According to the [[Cherrywood|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a cherrywood is a bent poker. The name cherrywood derives from the pipe shape's origin as a copy of the cherry wood pipes made by Eugène-Léon Ropp and others in mid-19th century France.<br />
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'''Churchwarden''': According to the [[Churchwarden|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the churchwarden is the only pipe defined by the shape of its stem, rather than its bowl. Whether bent or straight, the stem on a churchwarden is 9 to 18 inches long, but not so long as to make lighting the pipe while holding it in the mouth impossible.<br />
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'''Cigar Leaf''': A generic term used to describe a great many different types of leaf primarily used in cigars which are also included in pipe tobacco. Connecticut Broadleaf and Cuban-Seed Varietals are frequently used among others to add flavor to a blend.<br />
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'''Cob''': The common parlance for a corn cob pipe, which in its loosest definition is simply any pipe with a bowl made from a dried and drilled corncob. Traditionally fitted with river cane stems, most modern cobs have wood shanks and plastic bits. <br />
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'''Coin''': A term used to refer to a single slice of tobacco cut from a rope or twist, and resembling a flake, except that it is round and often thinner.<br />
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'''Cumberland''': Called brindle by Dunhill and others, cumberland is a form of vulcanite made with brown and red pigment added to the rubber to give it a marble like appearance.<br />
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'''Curly Cut''': A term used to refer to tobacco which has been sliced from rope or twist tobacco into thin "coins", similar to flakes excepting that they are thinner and round.<br />
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'''Cut''': Pipe tobacco may be cut as shag, ribbon, flake, plug, rope, discs, coins, or in other forms. These terms simply refer to the manner in which the finished product is reduced into a small enough size to consume. The most common cut is ribbon cut.<br />
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'''Cutty''': According to the [[Cutty|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a cutty has a very canted tulip shaped bowl and a slightly bent stem with a tapered bit. The word cutty simply means "cut shorter". Cutty pipes occasionally and traditionally sport a "spur", or a small foot protruding from the base of the bowl.<br />
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'''Czech Tool''': Also called a 3-way pipe tool, a combined tamper, shank clearing tool and dottle spoon on a single rotating rivet. Called a Czech tool for the original country of manufacture of most of the tools, they are largely Chinese made today.<br />
[[File:Czech Tool.jpg|center|thumb|A Czech Tool.]]<br />
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== D ==<br />
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'''Delayed Gratification Technique''': Or DGT, the habit of some pipe smokers to light a pipe and leave it to sit for hours or even days before completing the smoke. Many blends gain a far different taste profile from this technique which some find pleasant.<br />
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'''Delrin''': A brand name for polyoxymethylne or POM, also called acetal, polyacetal, or polyformaldehyde, delrin is a thermoplastic used by pipe makers as a material for non-integral stem tenons, and for screw-in tenons for meerschaum push/pull connections. Delrin is appreciated as a "self-lubricating" material, meaning that it has a low drag coefficient to interfere with the smooth passage of smoke, and for the ease of reliance on separate stems and tenons.<br />
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'''Devil Anse''': The name of a notorious West Virginia Confederate veteran suspected of murdering Asa McCoy after the war ended and starting the infamous Hatfield/McCoy feud. Devil Anse Hatfield was portrayed in a recent television series by Kevin Costner, who, despite the lack of any historical support, smoked a nosewarmer cutty in the role, now popular and given the name of the character. <br />
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'''Diplomat''': According to the [[Diplomat|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a diplomat is a pipe shape similar to a prince but a bit larger generally and with an oval shank and stem.<br />
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'''Djebel''': Sometimes referred to as Xanthi-Djebel, Dejebel tobacco is grown closer to the ridge, or djebel, of the Rhodope mountains above Xanthi. While the leaf is probably of the same strain as Yaka leaf, it is much less highly regarded.<br />
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'''Don''': A pipe shape, according to the [[Duke/Don|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], similar to a Duke but with a rudimentary shank and a vulcanite bit. Sometimes, such as by [[Peterson]], called a tankard.<br />
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'''Dottle''': The leftover plug of unburnt tobacco and ash left in the heel of a pipe bowl after smoking. Dottle is avoided by smokers as a waste of tobacco and occasionally souring of the bowl, but is sometimes unavoidable.<br />
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'''Drama''': A sweet type of tobacco with a natural olive oil fragrance grown on the Southern slopes and foothills of the Rhodope Mountains in Greek Eastern Macedonia, and taking its name from the town of the same name. A kabakolak variety, meaning that the leaf has a distinct separate stem similar to basibali, but with "wings" on its leaf stems.<br />
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'''Draught Hole''': Also Draft Hole, the point at which the airway enters the bowl of the pipe, preferably in the center back of the heel to avoid leaving excessive dottle.<br />
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'''Dubec''': 1. The smaller leaves from the upper portion of any variety of Turkish tobacco plant 2. A round package of cured Turkish leaf of any variety, approximately 25-30 pounds in weight.<br />
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'''Dublin''': According to the [[Dublin|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the dublin is a pipe shape with the same proportions as a billiard but with a conical bowl and tapered combustion chamber.<br />
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'''Duke''': A [[Dunhill]] pipe shape that features a cylindrical bowl with no shank, a bone or vulcanite stem and a poker-type canted bottom, according to the [[Duke/Don|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''Ebonite''': The brand name for a very hard rubber first created by Charles Goodyear by vulcanizing rubber for prolonged periods, Ebonite was named for its intended purpose, a replacment for ebony. Commonly referred to as vulcanite in pipe parlance, vulcanite is with acrylic one of the two most popular materials from which stems are made.<br />
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'''Egg''': According to the [[Egg|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the egg is usually but not always a bent pipe with a bowl shaped like an egg, which can be thought of as an elongated apple shape.<br />
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'''Elephant's Foot''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and characterized by straight grained side panels and wide front and back domed surfaces on the bowl exhibiting birdseye. <br />
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'''English''': Aside from the obvious geographical uses, the word "English" is often used among pipe smokers to refer to blends with latakia in them. In reality, however, the term only developed to differentiate blends made in the United Kingdom, especially in the days of the now defunct Tobacco Purity Laws, which prohibited humectants and most flavorings from being added to the tobacco. A more precise term is "latakia based".<br />
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'''English Cavendish''': The name commonly used to refer to dark flue-cured or fire-cured Virginia tobacco which is steamed and then pressed over a period of several days to weeks. It is not flavored as other forms of Cavendish generally are. Rattray's ''Dark Fragrant'' is one example of an available English Cavendish blend. <br />
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'''Eskimo''': According to the [[Ukulele|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a pipe shape by Tom Eltang created as a variation on Ed Burak's bulldog design and sporting a smooth, flat stem and shank with a canted, domed bowl.<br />
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'''Estate Pipe''': A previously owned pipe, whether smoked or un-smoked.<br />
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== F ==<br />
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'''Fill''': A void, pit or flaw in the briar which is made level with the surface of the pipe with either putty or a mix of briar dust and cyanoacrylate glue and which, despite staining, is often visible on close inspection.<br />
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'''Fire Cured''': Unlike flue cured tobacco, which is cured by indirect heat without smoke, fire cured tobacco is cured with smoke, in the tobacco equivalent of barbecuing. Dark Fired Kentucky and Latakia are both fire cured, and the process results in lower sugars and higher nicotine in the leaf.<br />
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'''Flake''': Flake tobacco is made by slicing thin sheets off of a cube, which in turn is formed by pressing whole tobacco leaves into a compressed form, usually under significant pressure for long periods of time. Flake tobacco may be sold in slices, or fully or partially broken or rubbed out.<br />
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'''Flue Cured''': Flue cured tobacco is cured by heat without smoke, generally by being hung from sticks in a barn exposed to heat from external fires through flues. Traditionally the method for curing brightleaf tobacco, this method results in sweeter leaf with lower nicotine.<br />
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'''Foot''': The bottom of the outside of the bowl, as opposed to the heel, which is the bottom of the inside of the bowl.<br />
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'''Freehand''': Not to be confused with the fixed freehand shapes made by some companies, a true freehand shape is defined by the pipemaker's choice to let the grain of the briar shape the pipe, rather than forcing the pipe into a predetermined shape, according to the [[Freehand|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''Gesteckpfeife''': Literally "pipe in parts", a traditional European pipe made up of several interconnecting parts, usually held together with cork tenons. Bowls can be meerschaum, briar, or porcelain, commonly.<br />
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'''Ghost''': A ghost is the taste or smell of a previously smoked tobacco remaining in a pipe and coloring the taste of a different blend smoked in the same pipe. Generally the cause of tar in the shank, but usually blamed on cake.<br />
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'''Gourd Calabash''': According to the [[Gourd Calabash|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a gourd calabash is a pipe made from a calabash gourd which is dried and the seeds removed, and then fitted with a stem and meerschaum bowl cap. The driest and smoothest of all pipes.<br />
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'''Gravity Fill Method''': Also called the Three Step Method, this is the method of packing a pipe most often taught to new smokers, and involves drizzling enough tobacco into the bowl to cover the heel, tamping very lightly, followed by drizzling tobacco to the rim twice and tamping after each time, with more pressure the on the last.<br />
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'''Hand''': A hand is a bundle of tobacco tied at the end and hung from the knot for curing purposes.<br />
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'''Hawkbill''': According to the [[Hawkbill|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the hawkbill is a pipe shape characterized by an enlarged ball or tomato style with a long, tapering bent shank. The premiere example is the Castello 84.j<br />
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'''Heel''': The heel is the bottom of the combustion chamber, the inside of the bowl.<br />
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'''Horn''': According to the [[Horn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the horn is a graceful freehand shape varying from a straight tapering tube to a more standard bent pipe, but in all cases with a smooth tapering from bowl to shank and no abrupt transitions.<br />
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[[File:Horn2.gif|thumb|center|100px|The Horn Shape]]<br />
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'''Hungarian''': More commonly referred to as an Oom Paul, the Hungarian is a fully bent billiard named for former South African President Paulus Kruger, according to the [[Oom Paul/Hungarian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''Intricate Curve''': In pipemaking, a term sometimes used to describe the transition from the rear wall of the bowl to the top of the shank.<br />
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'''Izmir''': A type of Turkish tobacco with rich flavor, low nicotine, and cool smoke. It has a very aromatic nature and is often blended with Latakia to somewhat subdue this property. Primarily used as a condiment with pipe tobacco, but occasionally offered by itself. Also called Smyrna.<br />
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'''Jar''': Tobacco jars have been used for nearly three hundred years as the predominant method for storage of pipe tobacco, whether made from tin, wood, pewter, porcelain, majolica or bisque. By far the most common choice is the simple Ball jar or Mason jar.<br />
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'''Jatim''': A form of Indonesian tobacco and the abbreviated name of the province of East Java (Jawa Timur), where the tobacco is grown.<br />
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'''Kabakolak''': A family of Turkish tobacco strains similar to Basibali, but with wings on their leaf stems in addition to distinct stems.<br />
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'''Katerini''': A Turkish varietal of the Samsun basibali type, with a milder, sweeter leaf. Grown southwest of Thessaloniki in the Greek province of Macedonia.<br />
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'''Kentucky''': Dark-Fired Kentucky is a type of pipe tobacco made from burley which is cured over a fire and flavored by its smoke.<br />
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'''Latakia''': Named for the principal port city of Syria, latakia is not a specific plant varietal, but rather one of a number of Turkish varietals which are fire cured over a stone pine or oak wood fire, giving it a smoky flavor. Most latakia, despite the name, is now grown in Cyprus, not Syria, and camel dung has nothing to do with the process of its creation.<br />
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'''Lovat''': A pipe shape, according to the [[Lovat|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], which is essentially a Canadian but with a round shank instead of oval and a saddle stem.<br />
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'''Lucite''': Lucite is a trade name for acrylic, or polyacrylate, which is derived from natural gas. It is a composition of Methyl Methacrylate and Poly Methyl Methacrylate resin. Lucite is used for pipe stems due to its lack of oxidation, but is criticized for a harder feel on the teeth.<br />
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'''Lületaşi''': A Turkish word literally meaning sea foam and used to refer to meerschaum in that country.<br />
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'''Macedonia''': 1. A province of north-central Greece, west of Thrace, which includes the sea port of Thessaloniki (Salonika) and the Katerini tobacco region 2. A recently independent republic, formerly part of Soviet Yugoslavia, located immediately north of the Greek province of Macedonia, and the source of Prilep tobacco.<br />
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'''Mahale''': A Turkish tobacco with a basma leaf type grown downslope from Xanthi.<br />
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'''Maryland''': An extremely mild tobacco used in a number of American tobacco blends, especially to add a nutty flavor to Burley. Sadly the state of Maryland now pays farmers not to grow tobacco.<br />
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'''Meerschaum''': A mineral hydrous magnesium silicate called sepiolite, primarily found in Turkey near Eskisehr, which is used in the making of tobacco pipes. The word means "seafoam".<br />
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'''Melding''': The term used to refer to a tobacco blend's property to acquire a single homogeneous taste over time, as a result of aging in an airtight container.<br />
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'''Mellowing''': Particularly used in referring to Latakia's tendency to be less overpowering after some aging, the term is sometimes used to refer to a general tendency of tobacco to become more smooth with age.<br />
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'''Morta''': Also known as bog-wood or abonos, morta is a material cut from trees which have been buried in peat bogs and near-petrified by the acidic and anaerobic conditions of the bog for a period sometimes hundreds or even thousands of years long. It is valued for its very high mineral content and resulting resistance to fire.<br />
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'''Mortise''': A mortise is at its most basic a hole cut or drilled to accept a smaller tenon and make a joint. The joint has been used in woodworking for thousands of years, and in pipe construction generally appears as a hole drilled larger than the airway and at the same depth as the stem tenon. Variations, however, are unlimited.<br />
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'''Mouthpiece''': A term used interchangeably with stem and to a lesser degree bit, the mouthpiece is the portion of the pipe meant to be placed in the smoker's mouth, and includes the entire pipe from the end of the shank to the slot. Often made from vulcanite or lucite/acrylic.<br />
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'''Nautilus''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and named for its obvious resemblance to the shell of a nautilus, resulting in an airway passing through a shank curved in a loop and pierced in the center to suggest the closed portion of the shell, a bowl shaped like the long open mouth of the shell, and a foot curving in a near half circle beneath.<br />
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'''Nail''': The simplest form of pipe tool is the venerable Pipe Nail, which generally looks much like its namesake, one end flat to tamp with and another coming to a point or spoon for clearing ash and tar.<br />
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'''Nomenclature''': A general term used to refer to the stamping on a pipe in its entirety, including brand names, models, year and shape codes and the like.<br />
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'''Oliphant''': A traditional name for a hunter's horn made from an elephant tusk, the oliphant shape was first designed by [[Sixten Ivarsson]] for the [[Pibe-Dan]] shop in the late 1950s. According to the [[Horn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]]The shape is a variation of the horn meant to resemble the tusk of an elephant, and with a flat curve and even and gradual tapering throughout.<br />
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'''Oom Paul''': A shape name which actually means Uncle Paul in Dutch, Oom Paul pipes are full bent billiards, according to the [[Oom Paul/Hungarian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]]. The name comes from the nickname for Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, president of the South African Republic from 1883 to 1900 and the face of the Boer cause against Britain during the Second Boer War of 1899 to 1902. Also called a Hungarian.<br />
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'''Opera Pipe''': A shape which the [[Oval|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] refer to as an "Oval" or Pocket pipe, the opera pipe is a billiard with a bowl "squashed" into an oval, with the long side of the oval parallel with the shank and stem. In fact, "opera" pipe is a misnomer. The original name of the pipe was the au pair pipe, as it gained popularity with domestic workers unable to smoke around children.<br />
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'''Oriental''': Used interchangeably with "Turkish" to refer to sun cured condimental tobaccos grown in the Eastern Mediterranean. This category of tobaccos includes Yenidje, Smyrna, Samsun, Izmir, Drama, Xanthe, and often Basma, which is not a particular leaf but a generic Turkish blend, and all that pipe tobacco blenders are often able to find due to the purchase of most oriental varietals by cigarette manufacturers.<br />
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'''Panel Billiard''': According to the [[Panel Billiard|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the Panelled Billiard, also called a foursquare, is a basic billiard shape with flat, or panelled, sides. The classic panel has four flat sides and a round shank.<br />
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'''Pear''': More commonly called an acorn today, according to the [[Pear/Accorn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] the pear is a sort of softened dublin shape, with a conical bowl and tobacco chamber but with all sharp edges rounded.<br />
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'''Perique''': Mistakenly believed to be a nickname for Pierre Chenet and actually a French mispronunciation of an American slang word for a part of the anatomy, perique is a type of tobacco grown only in St. James Parish, Louisiana, sauced and kept under massive pressure in barrels until it turns nearly black. Perique has flavors of spice and plum, and is prized as the truffle of pipe tobaccos.<br />
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'''Pickaxe''': According to the [[Pickaxe|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pickaxe is a freehand style of pipe characterized by a paneled, triangular bowl.<br />
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'''Pipe''': A tube with a small bowl at one end used for the smoking of tobacco.<br />
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'''Pit''': Briar grows underground and as such is prone to picking up bits of sand which create a void in the block, sometimes not noticeable until the pipe is nearly finished. Traditionally pits, or sand pits, would simply be filled with putty and stained over for a value priced pipe.<br />
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'''P-Lip''': A type of pipe mouthpiece invented by Peterson of Dublin and relying on a small hole on the top of a stem rather than a hole at its end. Meant to reduce tongue bite by directing the flow of smoke away from the tongue.<br />
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'''Plug''': Whole leaf, pressed with moisture, becomes a plug, from which flakes can be sliced. Plug tobacco is prepared by slicing off and then rubbing out pieces of the block of tobacco.<br />
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'''Poker''': According to the [[Poker|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the poker is a straight pipe with a cylindrical, flat bottomed bowl designed so that the pipe will stand on its own.<br />
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'''Pot''': According to the [[Pot|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pot is a billiard with a shorter bowl, but not a shorter shank than a standard billiard.<br />
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'''Prilep''': A Sirdily variety of Turkish tobacco commonly grown in the region of the town of Prilep, which is located in the Independent Republic of Macedonia.<br />
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'''Prince''': According to the [[Prince|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the prince is a pipe shape characterized by a squat rounded bowl and along, usually slightly bent stem with a short shank. The pipe was named after Prince Albert, later King Edward VII, the Prince of Wales.<br />
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'''Push/Pull''': The term generally used to describe a two part mortise and tenon system used in meerschaum pipes and developed by Andreas Bauer originally. A push/pull consists of a threaded Delrin tenon and a separate threaded plastic mortise. The preferred method of connecting stem and shank in meerschaum pipes, which lack the durability for long term use of a standard mortise/tenon connection.<br />
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'''Quaint''': A pipe shape hallmarked, generally, by more than four panels, especially with a paneled shank as well.<br />
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'''Ramses''': A pipe shape created by Bo [[Nordh]] and later named by a visiting customer for its resemblance to the statue of Ramses II in Abu Simbel, Egypt. Characterized by a long, wide sloping shank which also serves as the foot of the pipe and a long, tapered bowl which rests almost vertically on the shank. Stems are generally partially bent.<br />
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[[File:Bo Nordh Ramses01.jpg|thumb|center|100px|A Nordh Ramses]]<br />
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'''Reaming''': Trimming back cake from the bowl of a tobacco pipe.<br />
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'''Reamer''': A tool used to trim pipe cake back to an acceptable level. These have been made in countless different forms, adjustable and non-adjustable, for well over a century. Some simply use a pipe knife or sandpaper to accomplish the same task.<br />
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'''Rhodesian''': A subject of great dispute. Unlikely to have been named for Cecil Rhodes, and more likely to have taken its name from Rhodesian tobacco, a Rhodesian is considered by some to be any bent bulldog, by others to be any bulldog with a round shank, and by others any bulldog shape with a greater bowl width than height. For each accepted definition of the word there is a pipe sold which contradicts it, and no consensus is likely.<br />
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'''Room Note''': The smell of a particular tobacco as it is being smoked. Easier to detect by those not smoking the blend, and a key component to the choice of a pipe tobacco blend especially for those who smoke in public environments. Simply put, how pleasing the smoke would be to a bystander.<br />
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'''Samsun''': A Turkish tobacco of the basibali variety with a heart-shaped leaf, grown near the town of Samsun, Turkey on the shores of the Black Sea. Low nicotine tobacco, but with strong flavor and dark color.<br />
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'''Samsun-Maden''': Also called Bafra for the village near Samsun, Samsun-Maden is a basibali Turkish tobacco characterized by leaves which are are small sized and ovalThe leaf faces are red to bright red. This strain can be smoked without blending. Nicotine content is often lower than 1% and sugar content is 9-12%. <br />
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'''Shank''': The portion of a stummel between the bowl and mouthpiece, and generally containing the mortise. The length of the pipe shank is one of the key variables in the shape of a pipe, as is it's shape, whether square, diamond, oval or round.<br />
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'''Shirazi''': Named for the ancient city of Shiraz in south-western Iran and claimed to be native to that country, Shirazi tobacco is thought to have reached Iran from the Americas in the mid 1500s. Once called ''Nicotiana Persica''.<br />
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'''Sirdily''': A category of Turkish basma subvarietals characterized by small, narrow, acutely pointed leaves.<br />
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'''Slot''': A slot is the wide opening at the end of the mouthpiece tapering into the airway of the pipe. Generally seen only on vulcanite and acrylic stems from the last century, the slot is funneled both to make the insertion of a pipe cleaner easier and to make for a smoother flow for the smoke.<br />
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'''Smyrna''': A type of Turkish tobacco with rich flavor, low nicotine, and cool smoke. It has a very aromatic nature and is often blended with Latakia to somewhat subdue this property. Primarily used as a condiment with pipe tobacco, but occasionally offered by itself. Also called Izmir.<br />
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'''Sokhoum''': A type of Turkish varietal of the Samsun basibali type which is deeply fermented. Grown in the mountains above the town of Sokhoum Kale (Sokhumi) in the Republic of Georgia.<br />
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'''Soppeng''': A type of Indonesian tobacco prepared much like a traditional cavendish but using palm sugar as the sweetener, and then fired. Primarily smoked in cigarettes but enjoyed as pipe tobacco also, Soppeng is sometimes flavored with cinnamon or other tastes during preparation.<br />
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'''Sphinx''': A shape created by Bo [[Nordh]] and characterized by a wide domed bowl front cut so as to show birdseye at the center with straight grain radiating out from that point, giving a sunburst pattern. A similar shape, the Mounted Sphinx, was created by [[Geiger Pipes|Love and Sara Geiger]], but was not created as a variation on the shape.<br />
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'''Spiderwebbing''': A term used to describe a possible condition of estate pipes, spiderwebbing is the result of oversmoking but, rather than showing in a single spot like char in the bowl or a burnout, is characterized by a pattern of char lines, which look like shallow cracks and are actually burnt into the wood of the bowl. Can be concealed by any amount of cake or even a bowl coating, and so it is usually only evident in a bowl which has been sanded back to bare wood.<br />
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'''Spur''': A small protrusion at the bottom of traditional clay pipes to ensure a hot bowl does not burn the table. Frequently included in cutty pipes made even in briar and meerschaum in later decades as an ornamental element of the cutty shape. Seen only occasionally today.<br />
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[[File:Spur.jpg|thumb|center|100px|Clay Pipe Resting on Spur]]<br />
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'''Srintil''': A type of heavily fermented, air cured Indonesian tobacco grown in the Java region in the Temangung valley which grows at the top of a plant and by abnormality produces an extreme amount of resin, making it highly potent. Fermentation details are thought to be similar to perique, and in 1983 approximately 3 tons a year of Srintil were grown worldwide. Sometimes extracted in an aqueous solution for use as a flavoring agent.<br />
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'''Stinger''': Sometimes referred to as a "metal filter", "cleaner", or "condenser", a stinger is a metal protrusion containing the last portion of the airway in many pipes, primarily of the mid-20th century. A stinger extends from the tenon on a stem into the shank of the pipe, generally in turn drilled with a deeper mortise to allow space. Stingers were used commonly in non-filtered pipes for the majority of the twentieth century, but are no longer seen.<br />
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[[File:8.jpg|thumb|center|100px|Pipe stem with Stinger]]<br />
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'''Stummel''': German for stump, the stummel is a complete pipe minus only a stem and any final adornments, including the bowl, shank, and transition between the two.<br />
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'''Tambolaka''': An Indonesian tobacco grown in limestone heavy soil and after harvesting rolled into long sticks which are bound and stored for five years. Sold both as pipe tobacco and as a component of Indonesian cigars. Very high in nicotine with a tin note best described as pungent. <br />
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'''Tamp''': Using a tool or finger to compress the contents of the pipe bowl so as to bring unburnt tobacco into contact with the ember.<br />
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'''Tamper''': A tool used to tamp a pipe, generally with a flat end designed for that purpose and a handle. A tamper can be as simple as a piece of dowel or as ornate as the buyer may wish. While it seems inconsequential, tamping is important both for the care of the pipe and the coolness of the smoke.<br />
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'''Tenon''': The tenon is the smaller diameter protrusion at the end of a pipe stem which holds the stem to the stummel. It takes its name from one of the oldest joints in woodworking, the mortise and tenon joint. Over the last two centuries tenons have been made separately with bone screws, cut integrally into a vulcanite stem to fit a cut mortise in the stummel, made from threaded aluminum or plastic, made from aluminum to fit a pre-drilled mortise so as to hold a filter, made from delrin and placed into a drilled hole in the stem, and in other fashions as well. <br />
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'''Tin Note''': As opposed to the aroma of burning tobacco, the tin note is the scent which can be smelled from the unsmoked tobacco when opened, and is considered a good way to begin to understand a new blend and determine to some degree its components and their relative strength.<br />
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'''Trebizond''': No known as Trabzon, Trebizond is grown in Turkey at the southeast shores of the Black Sea. A basibali varietal resembling Samsun, but coarser and stronger.<br />
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'''Turkish''': A term used to refer not only to tobaccos grown in modern day Turkey, but rather to any tobacco grown under the Ottoman Empire, particularly at the height of its power under Suleiman the Magnificent. As a result, while the town of Yenidje, for example, would today be in Greece, yenidje tobacco is still classified as Turkish.<br />
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'''Twist''': A form of tobacco, also known as rope tobacco, which is spun into a roll, largely by hand, rather than being pressed into flakes. One of the oldest forms of smoking tobacco.<br />
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'''Ukulele''': A pipe shape first designed by [[Sixten Ivarsson]] for the [[Pibe-Dan]] shop in the 1950s and named ukulele, some credit Ed [[Burak]] for the design which he considered a bulldog. A ukulele is characterized by a domed, wide bowl and a wide oval shank with a flat bowl bottom, according to the [[Ukulele|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''VaPer''': A portmanteau of Virginia and Perique, vaper is simply the contraction used to refer to blends primarily composed of these two types of tobacco. <br />
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'''Vestpocket''': A pipe characterized by its ability to fit in a vest pocket, notable for its stem, which swivels over the bowl for carrying and swings out for use, according to the [[Vestpocket|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts]]. Generally all corners on the pipe are rounded to make it easier to remove from a pocket.<br />
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'''Virginia''': More appropriately called Brightleaf tobacco, Virginia is used to refer to milder tobacco leaf, lighter in color, which is grown in infertile, sandy soil, largely in North Carolina and Virginia, and which was first grown in approximately 1839. <br />
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'''Volcano''': A pipe shape characterized by a conical bowl narrowing towards the top, usually with a rounded base and a bent shank and saddle stem, according to the [[Volcano|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts]].<br />
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'''Vulcanite''': Hard black vulcanized rubber used for making pipe stems. Made from rubber containing up to 30% sulfur, vulcanite is soft on the teeth but prone to turning brownish yellow and taking on a sulfur smell on exposure to sunlight. This process is called oxidation.<br />
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'''White Burley''': First grown in Brown County, Ohio in 1865 by George Webb, White Burley is the result of planting Red Burley seeds purchased from Kentucky in the different soil of Ohio, which resulted in a mutation of whitish, sickly looking plants. White Burley soon became the chief ingredient in chewing tobacco, American pipe tobacco, and American-style cigarettes. As Red Burley no longer exists, White Burley is simply referred to as Burley today.<br />
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'''Xanthi''': Sometimes spelled Xanthe, this grade of Basma tobacco is named for a city in the Thrace region of northeastern Greece, first led into prosperity around 1715 due to the quality of its highly aromatic tobacco. The scientific name of the leaf is ''Nicotiana tabacum'' L. cv Xanthi.<br />
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'''Yacht''': Another name for the Zulu pipe shape, with a canted dublin bowl, oval shank and 1/8 bent stem. Among others, Kaywoodie used the term Yacht for pipes of this shape.<br />
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'''Yenidje''': Named for the town of Yenidje, Thrace, today called Genisea, Greece, Yenidje is also called Yenice, Jenidze, Yenidge, and Yeniji, and is a variety of Yaka tobacco, the best regarded form of Xanthi. Yenidje was an Ottoman tobacco production center until 1843 when the town burned and the growers moved up the slopes of the Rhodope Mountain range. Those slopes, called the Yaka, were made of a red clay loam mixed with small flint stones giving rise to short, low-yielding plants of the basma type, meaning (in this usage) that the leaves are small, almost round and with no free stem. The leaf burns badly on its own and was traditionally mixed with Bafra to cure this issue.<br />
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'''Zulu''': A shape of smoking pipe hallmarked by a canted dublin style bowl, an oval shank and a 1/8th bent stem. Also referred to as a Woodstock or a Yacht.<br />
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'''Zeppelin''': A name often used to refer to a cigar-shaped pipe of briar with a separate mouthpiece often of vulcanite, usually with a metal cap at the end to hold in the tobacco. Also called a Torpedo.<br />
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'''Acorn''': A pipe shape characterized by a conical shape sometimes extending to a point or near point below the shank or else with a bent shank flowing into the "point" of the acorn shape. Distinguishable from a dublin by a wider and more rounded rim in most cases. <br />
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'''Acrylic''': In pipe parlance, acrylic stems are those made of polymers of acrylic acid or acrylates, most often polymethyl methacrylate, also called acrylic glass. Some prefer this material for pipe stems due to the lack of oxidation, while others prefer a traditional vulcanite stem due to softness.<br />
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'''Aging''': The term used to describe the tendency of pipe tobacco to improve over time through either aerobic or anaerobic fermentation. The term is used interchangeably to describe increased sweetness on the part of Virginias, mellowing on the part of Latakia, or a generally more complete melding of the blend. The effect is often simulated through the use of heat or pressure.<br />
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'''Agonya''': A type of Turkish tobacco of a kabakolak leaf type, meaning it has distinct stems with "wings" on the leaf stems, Agonya was originally grown in the foothills below Xanthi, but is now grown south of the Sea of Marmara, in the region east of Kanakhale, Turkey.<br />
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'''Air-cured''': Air-cured tobacco is hung in well-ventilated barns immediately after plants are cut or leaves pulled from the field and allowed to dry for a period of one to two months. During this process the yellow colors of the leaf turn to varying shades of brown, until they are ready to be fermented and processed. Burley is an air-cured tobacco.<br />
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'''Amber''': Prior to the wide adoption of vulcanite, first invented in 1844 by Charles Goodyear, as a substance for pipe stem making, by far the most common form of pipe stem was one carved from amber. The stems were carved by hand from fossilized tree resin, at which point they could be bent only after heating in oil and over an alcohol flame. While amber is a beautiful natural material which comes in a large variety of colors, the stems are exceedingly brittle and hard on the teeth. Amber stems are still made only in very rare cases.<br />
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'''Apple''': According to the [[Apple|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the classic apple shape is a rounded version of the billiard, and may be had in either bent or straight shanked and tapered and saddle stemmed versions. Popular variations of this shape include the Prince and Author.<br />
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'''Aromatic''': A type of tobacco which is either cased or top flavored in order to produce a taste and room note other than the tobacco's natural smell, whether simply sugar or molasses, whiskey or other alcohols, or many other flavorings. Used as a major category for pipe tobaccos, along with non-aromatic and latakia based blends.<br />
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'''Army Mount''': Also called a "military bit", a pipe with an army mount stem is designed to permit the stem to be removed from the pipe while hot by inclusion of a shank cap, often made of silver, to reinforce the briar. A more elaborate variation of the army mount is the spigot. According to most likely mythological history, the first army mount was invented when a World War One soldier fixed a broken pipe shank by inserting a spent rifle casing into it and piercing a hole for the stem. <br />
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[[File:Kaldenberg Army Mount.jpg|thumb|center|100px|An Army Mount Pipe]] <br />
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'''Author''': According to the [[Author|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the Author is a beefed-up prince, featuring a flattened ball-shaped bowl and a heavy 1/8 to 1/4 bent stem.<br />
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'''Bafra''': Bafra is a district and village in the Samsun province of Turkey, and the name sometimes given to the Samsun-Maden strain of tobacco, which is a smaller basibali Turkish varietal with low nicotine and a rich flavor.<br />
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'''Ball''': The ball shape, also referred to as a tomato, is described by the [[Author|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], is very similar to an author but with a spherical bowl and thinner shank. According to Mr. Burney the ball generally features a tapered stem with a 1/4 to 1/2 bent.<br />
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'''Ballerina''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and resembling a ballet dancer's foot while en pointe, curving from the heel at the front of the bowl to the toe at the meeting of bowl and shank, itself characterized by a full enough bend to permit the pipe to stand on its own. <br />
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[[File:Nordh Ballerina.jpg|thumb|center|100px|A Bo Nordh Ballerina]]<br />
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'''Bakelite''': A trade name for Polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride. Harder than vulcanite and softer than acrylic, bakelite stems do not oxidize. Largely seen in shades of white and amber yellow.<br />
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'''Basma''': 1. The group of Turkish small-leaf varietals in which the stem of the leaf does not extend beyond the leaf at the main stalk 2. The larger leaves primed from the middle of any variety of Turkish tobacco plant 3. A long, rectangular bale-style of packing cured Turkish leaf, approximately 50-60 pounds, of any variety.<br />
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'''Bead''': Now generally represented by two straight lines around the bowl of a bulldog or rhodesian, a bead is one of only three shapes which can be produced on a lathe, along with a flat and a cove. A bead is a rounded projection from the wood, and in the case of pipes today most beads are cut as inset beads, in that the surrounding wood is level with the top of the bead. Older pipes occasionally featured intricately carved beads. Today, however, rather than cutting a true bead the projection is left flat and only signified by the lines around it.<br />
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'''Bent Pipe''': A generic term used to refer to any pipe where the shank is not a straight horizontal line, regardless of the nature or amount of the shank bend.<br />
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'''Billiard''': The [[Billiard|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] describe a billiard as a pipe shape having a cylindrical bowl and tobacco chamber with a shank about the same length as the height of the bowl. Variations on the billiard shape include the pot and chimney.<br />
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'''Basibali''': A family of Turkish tobaccos characterized by a distinct stem separating the leaf from the stalk. Sometimes referred to as Bashi Bagli.<br />
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'''Bit''': A less than precise term, usually used to refer to the entirety of the stem or mouthpiece on a pipe, but occasionally also used to refer to the bite zone.<br />
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'''Bite Zone''': The last approximately three quarters of an inch of the mouthpiece or stem of a tobacco pipe, including the button.<br />
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'''Bloom''': Also referred to as plume, bloom is a fine white powder which appears on well aged tobacco on occasion, and despite the tendency to confuse it with mold is actually a good sign that the leaf is maturing well. Bloom is caused by the crystallization of sugars on the surface of the tobacco leaf. <br />
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'''Blowfish''': Per the [[Blowfish|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the blowfish is a pipe shape characterized by an asymmetrical flattened ball for a bowl, a bent stem blending into the body, and a combination of birdseye grain on the large panels and straight grain between.<br />
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'''Brandy''': Also referred to as a bent brandy or brandyglass, a pipe shape which resembles the glassware for which it is named. According to the [[Brandy|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pipe is characterized by a rounded base tapering up to a smaller rim, often in a 1/4 bent pipe.<br />
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'''Briar''': Actually a mistranslation of the French bruyère, briar among pipe smokers refers to the wood of the ''erica arborea'', a species of flowering plant in the heather family. After 30 to 60 years of growing time, the football sized plants are harvested, cooked, dried for several months, and further processed before they are made into pipes. <br />
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'''Bullcap''': According to the [[Bullcap|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the bullcap is a squat straight rhodesian with a large bowl diameter.<br />
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'''Bulldog''': According to the [[Bulldog|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the classic bulldog has a tapered stem, diamond shank and slightly forward canted bowl shaped someone like two cones joined at the bases with the top cone cut off. The pipe is traditionally adorned with a bead around the bowl. <br />
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'''Bullmoose''': According to the [[Bullcap|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a bullmoose is a squat rhodesian with a very heavy 1/4 bent stem.<br />
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'''Burley''': A tobacco of light-colored variety grown primarily in Kentucky and Tennessee, the bulk of burley tobacco produced in the United States is used for cigarette production. All burley today is of the white burley variety, and is often sweetened due to the low natural sugars present in the leaf. Most aromatics use a base of burley due to its ready ability to absorb flavors. While some claim burley does not age, it does improve with time. However, this takes time measured in the several decades at least.<br />
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'''Burnout''': A term used to refer to a possible condition in estate pipes which, short of extraordinary effort on the part of a capable restorer, generally means the death of a particular pipe. A burnout is a spot where char has actually penetrated or begun to penetrate the outer layer of the bowl. Usually caused by hot smoking, although some claim burnout is always the fault of an unseen flaw in the briar. Uneven packing can also result in one spot suffering more damage than others. While most smokers stop smoking a particular pipe when burnout begins to appear, some continue smoking until they have burned straight through a wall or the foot of the pipe.<br />
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'''Button''': The button is the raised portion at the end of a pipe mouthpiece or stem intended to permit the teeth purchase to hold the pipe.<br />
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'''Cake''': Cake refers to the buildup of residual carbon that forms in the bowl of a pipe. Most recommend trimming back the buildup to keep it at roughly the width of a dime in a briar pipe in order to create a protective layer which cools the pipe and reduces moisture. Cake is frowned upon in meerschaums, and the subject of much debate among corn cob pipe smokers.<br />
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'''Calabash''': According to the [[Calabash|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the calabash is a solid wood interpretation of the gourd calabash with a tapered bowl flared at the rim and a dome shaped top. The tobacco chamber is usually tapered and the pipe 3/4 bent, but there are variations.<br />
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'''Canadian''': According to the [[Canadian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the canadian is a long-shanked billiard with an oval shank and a tapered bit. The shank is roughly twice as long as the height of the bowl. Variations on this shape include the lumbermand, lovat and liverpool.<br />
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'''Casing''': Whether sprayed with or soaked in a sauce, casing refers to the addition of flavoring, sugar or the like prior to the finishing of the tobacco, as opposed to top-flavouring, which is added by spraying the finished blend with scents and flavours.<br />
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'''Cavendish''': There are two forms of Cavendish, which is more a process of curing and a method of cutting tobacco than a type of it. Common cavendish is made when tobacco leaves are pressed into a cake about an inch thick and heated before being allowed to ferment, resulting in a mild and sweet tobacco. Flavoring is often added before the leaves are pressed. English Cavendish uses a dark flue or fire cured Virginia , which is steamed and then stored under pressure to permit it to cure and ferment for several days or weeks.<br />
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'''Char''': Used to refer to wood that has actually begun to burn, usually at the start of a burnout in a bowl or, far more likely and most often due to lighter abuse, at the rim. <br />
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'''Cherrywood''': According to the [[Cherrywood|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a cherrywood is a bent poker. The name cherrywood derives from the pipe shape's origin as a copy of the cherry wood pipes made by Eugène-Léon Ropp and others in mid-19th century France.<br />
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'''Churchwarden''': According to the [[Churchwarden|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the churchwarden is the only pipe defined by the shape of its stem, rather than its bowl. Whether bent or straight, the stem on a churchwarden is 9 to 18 inches long, but not so long as to make lighting the pipe while holding it in the mouth impossible.<br />
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'''Cigar Leaf''': A generic term used to describe a great many different types of leaf primarily used in cigars which are also included in pipe tobacco. Connecticut Broadleaf and Cuban-Seed Varietals are frequently used among others to add flavor to a blend.<br />
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'''Cob''': The common parlance for a corn cob pipe, which in its loosest definition is simply any pipe with a bowl made from a dried and drilled corncob. Traditionally fitted with river cane stems, most modern cobs have wood shanks and plastic bits. <br />
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'''Coin''': A term used to refer to a single slice of tobacco cut from a rope or twist, and resembling a flake, except that it is round and often thinner.<br />
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'''Cumberland''': Called brindle by Dunhill and others, cumberland is a form of vulcanite made with brown and red pigment added to the rubber to give it a marble like appearance.<br />
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'''Curly Cut''': A term used to refer to tobacco which has been sliced from rope or twist tobacco into thin "coins", similar to flakes excepting that they are thinner and round.<br />
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'''Cut''': Pipe tobacco may be cut as shag, ribbon, flake, plug, rope, discs, coins, or in other forms. These terms simply refer to the manner in which the finished product is reduced into a small enough size to consume. The most common cut is ribbon cut.<br />
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'''Cutty''': According to the [[Cutty|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a cutty has a very canted tulip shaped bowl and a slightly bent stem with a tapered bit. The word cutty simply means "cut shorter". Cutty pipes occasionally and traditionally sport a "spur", or a small foot protruding from the base of the bowl.<br />
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'''Czech Tool''': Also called a 3-way pipe tool, a combined tamper, shank clearing tool and dottle spoon on a single rotating rivet. Called a Czech tool for the original country of manufacture of most of the tools, they are largely Chinese made today.<br />
[[File:Czech Tool.jpg|center|thumb|A Czech Tool.]]<br />
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'''Delayed Gratification Technique''': Or DGT, the habit of some pipe smokers to light a pipe and leave it to sit for hours or even days before completing the smoke. Many blends gain a far different taste profile from this technique which some find pleasant.<br />
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'''Delrin''': A brand name for polyoxymethylne or POM, also called acetal, polyacetal, or polyformaldehyde, delrin is a thermoplastic used by pipe makers as a material for non-integral stem tenons, and for screw-in tenons for meerschaum push/pull connections. Delrin is appreciated as a "self-lubricating" material, meaning that it has a low drag coefficient to interfere with the smooth passage of smoke, and for the ease of reliance on separate stems and tenons.<br />
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'''Devil Anse''': The name of a notorious West Virginia Confederate veteran suspected of murdering Asa McCoy after the war ended and starting the infamous Hatfield/McCoy feud. Devil Anse Hatfield was portrayed in a recent television series by Kevin Costner, who, despite the lack of any historical support, smoked a nosewarmer cutty in the role, now popular and given the name of the character. <br />
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'''Diplomat''': According to the [[Diplomat|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a diplomat is a pipe shape similar to a prince but a bit larger generally and with an oval shank and stem.<br />
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'''Djebel''': Sometimes referred to as Xanthi-Djebel, Dejebel tobacco is grown closer to the ridge, or djebel, of the Rhodope mountains above Xanthi. While the leaf is probably of the same strain as Yaka leaf, it is much less highly regarded.<br />
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'''Don''': A pipe shape, according to the [[Duke/Don|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], similar to a Duke but with a rudimentary shank and a vulcanite bit. Sometimes, such as by [[Peterson]], called a tankard.<br />
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'''Dottle''': The leftover plug of unburnt tobacco and ash left in the heel of a pipe bowl after smoking. Dottle is avoided by smokers as a waste of tobacco and occasionally souring of the bowl, but is sometimes unavoidable.<br />
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'''Drama''': A sweet type of tobacco with a natural olive oil fragrance grown on the Southern slopes and foothills of the Rhodope Mountains in Greek Eastern Macedonia, and taking its name from the town of the same name. A kabakolak variety, meaning that the leaf has a distinct separate stem similar to basibali, but with "wings" on its leaf stems.<br />
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'''Draught Hole''': Also Draft Hole, the point at which the airway enters the bowl of the pipe, preferably in the center back of the heel to avoid leaving excessive dottle.<br />
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'''Dubec''': 1. The smaller leaves from the upper portion of any variety of Turkish tobacco plant 2. A round package of cured Turkish leaf of any variety, approximately 25-30 pounds in weight.<br />
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'''Dublin''': According to the [[Dublin|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the dublin is a pipe shape with the same proportions as a billiard but with a conical bowl and tapered combustion chamber.<br />
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'''Duke''': A [[Dunhill]] pipe shape that features a cylindrical bowl with no shank, a bone or vulcanite stem and a poker-type canted bottom, according to the [[Duke/Don|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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== E ==<br />
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'''Ebonite''': The brand name for a very hard rubber first created by Charles Goodyear by vulcanizing rubber for prolonged periods, Ebonite was named for its intended purpose, a replacment for ebony. Commonly referred to as vulcanite in pipe parlance, vulcanite is with acrylic one of the two most popular materials from which stems are made.<br />
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'''Egg''': According to the [[Egg|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the egg is usually but not always a bent pipe with a bowl shaped like an egg, which can be thought of as an elongated apple shape.<br />
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'''Elephant's Foot''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and characterized by straight grained side panels and wide front and back domed surfaces on the bowl exhibiting birdseye. <br />
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'''English''': Aside from the obvious geographical uses, the word "English" is often used among pipe smokers to refer to blends with latakia in them. In reality, however, the term only developed to differentiate blends made in the United Kingdom, especially in the days of the now defunct Tobacco Purity Laws, which prohibited humectants and most flavorings from being added to the tobacco. A more precise term is "latakia based".<br />
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'''English Cavendish''': The name commonly used to refer to dark flue-cured or fire-cured Virginia tobacco which is steamed and then pressed over a period of several days to weeks. It is not flavored as other forms of Cavendish generally are. Rattray's ''Dark Fragrant'' is one example of an available English Cavendish blend. <br />
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'''Eskimo''': According to the [[Ukulele|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a pipe shape by Tom Eltang created as a variation on Ed Burak's bulldog design and sporting a smooth, flat stem and shank with a canted, domed bowl.<br />
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'''Estate Pipe''': A previously owned pipe, whether smoked or un-smoked.<br />
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== F ==<br />
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'''Fill''': A void, pit or flaw in the briar which is made level with the surface of the pipe with either putty or a mix of briar dust and cyanoacrylate glue and which, despite staining, is often visible on close inspection.<br />
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'''Fire Cured''': Unlike flue cured tobacco, which is cured by indirect heat without smoke, fire cured tobacco is cured with smoke, in the tobacco equivalent of barbecuing. Dark Fired Kentucky and Latakia are both fire cured, and the process results in lower sugars and higher nicotine in the leaf.<br />
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'''Flake''': Flake tobacco is made by slicing thin sheets off of a cube, which in turn is formed by pressing whole tobacco leaves into a compressed form, usually under significant pressure for long periods of time. Flake tobacco may be sold in slices, or fully or partially broken or rubbed out.<br />
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'''Flue Cured''': Flue cured tobacco is cured by heat without smoke, generally by being hung from sticks in a barn exposed to heat from external fires through flues. Traditionally the method for curing brightleaf tobacco, this method results in sweeter leaf with lower nicotine.<br />
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'''Foot''': The bottom of the outside of the bowl, as opposed to the heel, which is the bottom of the inside of the bowl.<br />
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'''Freehand''': Not to be confused with the fixed freehand shapes made by some companies, a true freehand shape is defined by the pipemaker's choice to let the grain of the briar shape the pipe, rather than forcing the pipe into a predetermined shape, according to the [[Freehand|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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== G ==<br />
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'''Gesteckpfeife''': Literally "pipe in parts", a traditional European pipe made up of several interconnecting parts, usually held together with cork tenons. Bowls can be meerschaum, briar, or porcelain, commonly.<br />
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'''Ghost''': A ghost is the taste or smell of a previously smoked tobacco remaining in a pipe and coloring the taste of a different blend smoked in the same pipe. Generally the cause of tar in the shank, but usually blamed on cake.<br />
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'''Gourd Calabash''': According to the [[Gourd Calabash|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a gourd calabash is a pipe made from a calabash gourd which is dried and the seeds removed, and then fitted with a stem and meerschaum bowl cap. The driest and smoothest of all pipes.<br />
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== H ==<br />
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'''Hand''': A hand is a bundle of tobacco tied at the end and hung from the knot for curing purposes.<br />
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'''Hawkbill''': According to the [[Hawkbill|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the hawkbill is a pipe shape characterized by an enlarged ball or tomato style with a long, tapering bent shank. The premiere example is the Castello 84.j<br />
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'''Heel''': The heel is the bottom of the combustion chamber, the inside of the bowl.<br />
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'''Horn''': According to the [[Horn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the horn is a graceful freehand shape varying from a straight tapering tube to a more standard bent pipe, but in all cases with a smooth tapering from bowl to shank and no abrupt transitions.<br />
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[[File:Horn2.gif|thumb|center|100px|The Horn Shape]]<br />
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'''Hungarian''': More commonly referred to as an Oom Paul, the Hungarian is a fully bent billiard named for former South African President Paulus Kruger, according to the [[Oom Paul/Hungarian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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== I ==<br />
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'''Intricate Curve''': In pipemaking, a term sometimes used to describe the transition from the rear wall of the bowl to the top of the shank.<br />
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'''Izmir''': A type of Turkish tobacco with rich flavor, low nicotine, and cool smoke. It has a very aromatic nature and is often blended with Latakia to somewhat subdue this property. Primarily used as a condiment with pipe tobacco, but occasionally offered by itself. Also called Smyrna.<br />
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== J ==<br />
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'''Jar''': Tobacco jars have been used for nearly three hundred years as the predominant method for storage of pipe tobacco, whether made from tin, wood, pewter, porcelain, majolica or bisque. By far the most common choice is the simple Ball jar or Mason jar.<br />
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'''Jatim''': A form of Indonesian tobacco and the abbreviated name of the province of East Java (Jawa Timur), where the tobacco is grown.<br />
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== K ==<br />
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'''Kabakolak''': A family of Turkish tobacco strains similar to Basibali, but with wings on their leaf stems in addition to distinct stems.<br />
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'''Katerini''': A Turkish varietal of the Samsun basibali type, with a milder, sweeter leaf. Grown southwest of Thessaloniki in the Greek province of Macedonia.<br />
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'''Kentucky''': Dark-Fired Kentucky is a type of pipe tobacco made from burley which is cured over a fire and flavored by its smoke.<br />
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== L ==<br />
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'''Latakia''': Named for the principal port city of Syria, latakia is not a specific plant varietal, but rather one of a number of Turkish varietals which are fire cured over a stone pine or oak wood fire, giving it a smoky flavor. Most latakia, despite the name, is now grown in Cyprus, not Syria, and camel dung has nothing to do with the process of its creation.<br />
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'''Lovat''': A pipe shape, according to the [[Lovat|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], which is essentially a Canadian but with a round shank instead of oval and a saddle stem.<br />
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'''Lucite''': Lucite is a trade name for acrylic, or polyacrylate, which is derived from natural gas. It is a composition of Methyl Methacrylate and Poly Methyl Methacrylate resin. Lucite is used for pipe stems due to its lack of oxidation, but is criticized for a harder feel on the teeth.<br />
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'''Lületaşi''': A Turkish word literally meaning sea foam and used to refer to meerschaum in that country.<br />
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== M ==<br />
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'''Macedonia''': 1. A province of north-central Greece, west of Thrace, which includes the sea port of Thessaloniki (Salonika) and the Katerini tobacco region 2. A recently independent republic, formerly part of Soviet Yugoslavia, located immediately north of the Greek province of Macedonia, and the source of Prilep tobacco.<br />
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'''Mahale''': A Turkish tobacco with a basma leaf type grown downslope from Xanthi.<br />
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'''Maryland''': An extremely mild tobacco used in a number of American tobacco blends, especially to add a nutty flavor to Burley. Sadly the state of Maryland now pays farmers not to grow tobacco.<br />
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'''Meerschaum''': A mineral hydrous magnesium silicate called sepiolite, primarily found in Turkey near Eskisehr, which is used in the making of tobacco pipes. The word means "seafoam".<br />
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'''Melding''': The term used to refer to a tobacco blend's property to acquire a single homogeneous taste over time, as a result of aging in an airtight container.<br />
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'''Mellowing''': Particularly used in referring to Latakia's tendency to be less overpowering after some aging, the term is sometimes used to refer to a general tendency of tobacco to become more smooth with age.<br />
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'''Morta''': Also known as bog-wood or abonos, morta is a material cut from trees which have been buried in peat bogs and near-petrified by the acidic and anaerobic conditions of the bog for a period sometimes hundreds or even thousands of years long. It is valued for its very high mineral content and resulting resistance to fire.<br />
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'''Mortise''': A mortise is at its most basic a hole cut or drilled to accept a smaller tenon and make a joint. The joint has been used in woodworking for thousands of years, and in pipe construction generally appears as a hole drilled larger than the airway and at the same depth as the stem tenon. Variations, however, are unlimited.<br />
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'''Mouthpiece''': A term used interchangeably with stem and to a lesser degree bit, the mouthpiece is the portion of the pipe meant to be placed in the smoker's mouth, and includes the entire pipe from the end of the shank to the slot. Often made from vulcanite or lucite/acrylic.<br />
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== N ==<br />
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'''Nautilus''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and named for its obvious resemblance to the shell of a nautilus, resulting in an airway passing through a shank curved in a loop and pierced in the center to suggest the closed portion of the shell, a bowl shaped like the long open mouth of the shell, and a foot curving in a near half circle beneath.<br />
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'''Nail''': The simplest form of pipe tool is the venerable Pipe Nail, which generally looks much like its namesake, one end flat to tamp with and another coming to a point or spoon for clearing ash and tar.<br />
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'''Nomenclature''': A general term used to refer to the stamping on a pipe in its entirety, including brand names, models, year and shape codes and the like.<br />
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== O ==<br />
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'''Oliphant''': A traditional name for a hunter's horn made from an elephant tusk, the oliphant shape was first designed by [[Sixten Ivarsson]] for the [[Pibe-Dan]] shop in the late 1950s. According to the [[Horn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]]The shape is a variation of the horn meant to resemble the tusk of an elephant, and with a flat curve and even and gradual tapering throughout.<br />
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'''Oom Paul''': A shape name which actually means Uncle Paul in Dutch, Oom Paul pipes are full bent billiards, according to the [[Oom Paul/Hungarian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]]. The name comes from the nickname for Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, president of the South African Republic from 1883 to 1900 and the face of the Boer cause against Britain during the Second Boer War of 1899 to 1902. Also called a Hungarian.<br />
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'''Opera Pipe''': A shape which the [[Oval|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] refer to as an "Oval" or Pocket pipe, the opera pipe is a billiard with a bowl "squashed" into an oval, with the long side of the oval parallel with the shank and stem. In fact, "opera" pipe is a misnomer. The original name of the pipe was the au pair pipe, as it gained popularity with domestic workers unable to smoke around children.<br />
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'''Oriental''': Used interchangeably with "Turkish" to refer to sun cured condimental tobaccos grown in the Eastern Mediterranean. This category of tobaccos includes Yenidje, Smyrna, Samsun, Izmir, Drama, Xanthe, and often Basma, which is not a particular leaf but a generic Turkish blend, and all that pipe tobacco blenders are often able to find due to the purchase of most oriental varietals by cigarette manufacturers.<br />
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== P ==<br />
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'''Panel Billiard''': According to the [[Panel Billiard|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the Panelled Billiard, also called a foursquare, is a basic billiard shape with flat, or panelled, sides. The classic panel has four flat sides and a round shank.<br />
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'''Pear''': More commonly called an acorn today, according to the [[Pear/Accorn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] the pear is a sort of softened dublin shape, with a conical bowl and tobacco chamber but with all sharp edges rounded.<br />
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'''Perique''': Mistakenly believed to be a nickname for Pierre Chenet and actually a French mispronunciation of an American slang word for a part of the anatomy, perique is a type of tobacco grown only in St. James Parish, Louisiana, sauced and kept under massive pressure in barrels until it turns nearly black. Perique has flavors of spice and plum, and is prized as the truffle of pipe tobaccos.<br />
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'''Pickaxe''': According to the [[Pickaxe|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pickaxe is a freehand style of pipe characterized by a paneled, triangular bowl.<br />
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'''Pipe''': A tube with a small bowl at one end used for the smoking of tobacco.<br />
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'''Pit''': Briar grows underground and as such is prone to picking up bits of sand which create a void in the block, sometimes not noticeable until the pipe is nearly finished. Traditionally pits, or sand pits, would simply be filled with putty and stained over for a value priced pipe.<br />
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'''P-Lip''': A type of pipe mouthpiece invented by Peterson of Dublin and relying on a small hole on the top of a stem rather than a hole at its end. Meant to reduce tongue bite by directing the flow of smoke away from the tongue.<br />
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'''Plug''': Whole leaf, pressed with moisture, becomes a plug, from which flakes can be sliced. Plug tobacco is prepared by slicing off and then rubbing out pieces of the block of tobacco.<br />
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'''Poker''': According to the [[Poker|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the poker is a straight pipe with a cylindrical, flat bottomed bowl designed so that the pipe will stand on its own.<br />
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'''Pot''': According to the [[Pot|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pot is a billiard with a shorter bowl, but not a shorter shank than a standard billiard.<br />
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'''Prilep''': A Sirdily variety of Turkish tobacco commonly grown in the region of the town of Prilep, which is located in the Independent Republic of Macedonia.<br />
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'''Prince''': According to the [[Prince|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the prince is a pipe shape characterized by a squat rounded bowl and along, usually slightly bent stem with a short shank. The pipe was named after Prince Albert, later King Edward VII, the Prince of Wales.<br />
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'''Push/Pull''': The term generally used to describe a two part mortise and tenon system used in meerschaum pipes and developed by Andreas Bauer originally. A push/pull consists of a threaded Delrin tenon and a separate threaded plastic mortise. The preferred method of connecting stem and shank in meerschaum pipes, which lack the durability for long term use of a standard mortise/tenon connection.<br />
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'''Quaint''': A pipe shape hallmarked, generally, by more than four panels, especially with a paneled shank as well.<br />
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'''Ramses''': A pipe shape created by Bo [[Nordh]] and later named by a visiting customer for its resemblance to the statue of Ramses II in Abu Simbel, Egypt. Characterized by a long, wide sloping shank which also serves as the foot of the pipe and a long, tapered bowl which rests almost vertically on the shank. Stems are generally partially bent.<br />
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[[File:Bo Nordh Ramses01.jpg|thumb|center|100px|A Nordh Ramses]]<br />
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'''Reaming''': Trimming back cake from the bowl of a tobacco pipe.<br />
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'''Reamer''': A tool used to trim pipe cake back to an acceptable level. These have been made in countless different forms, adjustable and non-adjustable, for well over a century. Some simply use a pipe knife or sandpaper to accomplish the same task.<br />
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'''Rhodesian''': A subject of great dispute. Unlikely to have been named for Cecil Rhodes, and more likely to have taken its name from Rhodesian tobacco, a Rhodesian is considered by some to be any bent bulldog, by others to be any bulldog with a round shank, and by others any bulldog shape with a greater bowl width than height. For each accepted definition of the word there is a pipe sold which contradicts it, and no consensus is likely.<br />
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'''Room Note''': The smell of a particular tobacco as it is being smoked. Easier to detect by those not smoking the blend, and a key component to the choice of a pipe tobacco blend especially for those who smoke in public environments. Simply put, how pleasing the smoke would be to a bystander.<br />
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'''Samsun''': A Turkish tobacco of the basibali variety with a heart-shaped leaf, grown near the town of Samsun, Turkey on the shores of the Black Sea. Low nicotine tobacco, but with strong flavor and dark color.<br />
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'''Samsun-Maden''': Also called Bafra for the village near Samsun, Samsun-Maden is a basibali Turkish tobacco characterized by leaves which are are small sized and ovalThe leaf faces are red to bright red. This strain can be smoked without blending. Nicotine content is often lower than 1% and sugar content is 9-12%. <br />
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'''Shank''': The portion of a stummel between the bowl and mouthpiece, and generally containing the mortise. The length of the pipe shank is one of the key variables in the shape of a pipe, as is it's shape, whether square, diamond, oval or round.<br />
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'''Shirazi''': Named for the ancient city of Shiraz in south-western Iran and claimed to be native to that country, Shirazi tobacco is thought to have reached Iran from the Americas in the mid 1500s. Once called ''Nicotiana Persica''.<br />
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'''Sirdily''': A category of Turkish basma subvarietals characterized by small, narrow, acutely pointed leaves.<br />
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'''Slot''': A slot is the wide opening at the end of the mouthpiece tapering into the airway of the pipe. Generally seen only on vulcanite and acrylic stems from the last century, the slot is funneled both to make the insertion of a pipe cleaner easier and to make for a smoother flow for the smoke.<br />
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'''Smyrna''': A type of Turkish tobacco with rich flavor, low nicotine, and cool smoke. It has a very aromatic nature and is often blended with Latakia to somewhat subdue this property. Primarily used as a condiment with pipe tobacco, but occasionally offered by itself. Also called Izmir.<br />
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'''Sokhoum''': A type of Turkish varietal of the Samsun basibali type which is deeply fermented. Grown in the mountains above the town of Sokhoum Kale (Sokhumi) in the Republic of Georgia.<br />
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'''Soppeng''': A type of Indonesian tobacco prepared much like a traditional cavendish but using palm sugar as the sweetener, and then fired. Primarily smoked in cigarettes but enjoyed as pipe tobacco also, Soppeng is sometimes flavored with cinnamon or other tastes during preparation.<br />
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'''Sphinx''': A shape created by Bo [[Nordh]] and characterized by a wide domed bowl front cut so as to show birdseye at the center with straight grain radiating out from that point, giving a sunburst pattern. A similar shape, the Mounted Sphinx, was created by [[Geiger Pipes|Love and Sara Geiger]], but was not created as a variation on the shape.<br />
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'''Spiderwebbing''': A term used to describe a possible condition of estate pipes, spiderwebbing is the result of oversmoking but, rather than showing in a single spot like char in the bowl or a burnout, is characterized by a pattern of char lines, which look like shallow cracks and are actually burnt into the wood of the bowl. Can be concealed by any amount of cake or even a bowl coating, and so it is usually only evident in a bowl which has been sanded back to bare wood.<br />
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'''Spur''': A small protrusion at the bottom of traditional clay pipes to ensure a hot bowl does not burn the table. Frequently included in cutty pipes made even in briar and meerschaum in later decades as an ornamental element of the cutty shape. Seen only occasionally today.<br />
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[[File:Spur.jpg|thumb|center|100px|Clay Pipe Resting on Spur]]<br />
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'''Srintil''': A type of heavily fermented, air cured Indonesian tobacco grown in the Java region in the Temangung valley which grows at the top of a plant and by abnormality produces an extreme amount of resin, making it highly potent. Fermentation details are thought to be similar to perique, and in 1983 approximately 3 tons a year of Srintil were grown worldwide. Sometimes extracted in an aqueous solution for use as a flavoring agent.<br />
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'''Stinger''': Sometimes referred to as a "metal filter", "cleaner", or "condenser", a stinger is a metal protrusion containing the last portion of the airway in many pipes, primarily of the mid-20th century. A stinger extends from the tenon on a stem into the shank of the pipe, generally in turn drilled with a deeper mortise to allow space. Stingers were used commonly in non-filtered pipes for the majority of the twentieth century, but are no longer seen.<br />
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[[File:8.jpg|thumb|center|100px|Pipe stem with Stinger]]<br />
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'''Stummel''': German for stump, the stummel is a complete pipe minus only a stem and any final adornments, including the bowl, shank, and transition between the two.<br />
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'''Tambolaka''': An Indonesian tobacco grown in limestone heavy soil and after harvesting rolled into long sticks which are bound and stored for five years. Sold both as pipe tobacco and as a component of Indonesian cigars. Very high in nicotine with a tin note best described as pungent. <br />
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'''Tamp''': Using a tool or finger to compress the contents of the pipe bowl so as to bring unburnt tobacco into contact with the ember.<br />
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'''Tamper''': A tool used to tamp a pipe, generally with a flat end designed for that purpose and a handle. A tamper can be as simple as a piece of dowel or as ornate as the buyer may wish. While it seems inconsequential, tamping is important both for the care of the pipe and the coolness of the smoke.<br />
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'''Tenon''': The tenon is the smaller diameter protrusion at the end of a pipe stem which holds the stem to the stummel. It takes its name from one of the oldest joints in woodworking, the mortise and tenon joint. Over the last two centuries tenons have been made separately with bone screws, cut integrally into a vulcanite stem to fit a cut mortise in the stummel, made from threaded aluminum or plastic, made from aluminum to fit a pre-drilled mortise so as to hold a filter, made from delrin and placed into a drilled hole in the stem, and in other fashions as well. <br />
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'''Tin Note''': As opposed to the aroma of burning tobacco, the tin note is the scent which can be smelled from the unsmoked tobacco when opened, and is considered a good way to begin to understand a new blend and determine to some degree its components and their relative strength.<br />
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'''Trebizond''': No known as Trabzon, Trebizond is grown in Turkey at the southeast shores of the Black Sea. A basibali varietal resembling Samsun, but coarser and stronger.<br />
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'''Turkish''': A term used to refer not only to tobaccos grown in modern day Turkey, but rather to any tobacco grown under the Ottoman Empire, particularly at the height of its power under Suleiman the Magnificent. As a result, while the town of Yenidje, for example, would today be in Greece, yenidje tobacco is still classified as Turkish.<br />
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'''Twist''': A form of tobacco, also known as rope tobacco, which is spun into a roll, largely by hand, rather than being pressed into flakes. One of the oldest forms of smoking tobacco.<br />
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'''Ukulele''': A pipe shape first designed by [[Sixten Ivarsson]] for the [[Pibe-Dan]] shop in the 1950s and named ukulele, some credit Ed [[Burak]] for the design which he considered a bulldog. A ukulele is characterized by a domed, wide bowl and a wide oval shank with a flat bowl bottom, according to the [[Ukulele|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''VaPer''': A portmanteau of Virginia and Perique, vaper is simply the contraction used to refer to blends primarily composed of these two types of tobacco. <br />
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'''Vestpocket''': A pipe characterized by its ability to fit in a vest pocket, notable for its stem, which swivels over the bowl for carrying and swings out for use, according to the [[Vestpocket|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts]]. Generally all corners on the pipe are rounded to make it easier to remove from a pocket.<br />
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'''Virginia''': More appropriately called Brightleaf tobacco, Virginia is used to refer to milder tobacco leaf, lighter in color, which is grown in infertile, sandy soil, largely in North Carolina and Virginia, and which was first grown in approximately 1839. <br />
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'''Volcano''': A pipe shape characterized by a conical bowl narrowing towards the top, usually with a rounded base and a bent shank and saddle stem, according to the [[Volcano|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts]].<br />
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'''Vulcanite''': Hard black vulcanized rubber used for making pipe stems. Made from rubber containing up to 30% sulfur, vulcanite is soft on the teeth but prone to turning brownish yellow and taking on a sulfur smell on exposure to sunlight. This process is called oxidation.<br />
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'''White Burley''': First grown in Brown County, Ohio in 1865 by George Webb, White Burley is the result of planting Red Burley seeds purchased from Kentucky in the different soil of Ohio, which resulted in a mutation of whitish, sickly looking plants. White Burley soon became the chief ingredient in chewing tobacco, American pipe tobacco, and American-style cigarettes. As Red Burley no longer exists, White Burley is simply referred to as Burley today.<br />
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'''Xanthi''': Sometimes spelled Xanthe, this grade of Basma tobacco is named for a city in the Thrace region of northeastern Greece, first led into prosperity around 1715 due to the quality of its highly aromatic tobacco. The scientific name of the leaf is ''Nicotiana tabacum'' L. cv Xanthi.<br />
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== Y ==<br />
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'''Yacht''': Another name for the Zulu pipe shape, with a canted dublin bowl, oval shank and 1/8 bent stem. Among others, Kaywoodie used the term Yacht for pipes of this shape.<br />
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'''Yenidje''': Named for the town of Yenidje, Thrace, today called Genisea, Greece, Yenidje is also called Yenice, Jenidze, Yenidge, and Yeniji, and is a variety of Yaka tobacco, the best regarded form of Xanthi. Yenidje was an Ottoman tobacco production center until 1843 when the town burned and the growers moved up the slopes of the Rhodope Mountain range. Those slopes, called the Yaka, were made of a red clay loam mixed with small flint stones giving rise to short, low-yielding plants of the basma type, meaning (in this usage) that the leaves are small, almost round and with no free stem. The leaf burns badly on its own and was traditionally mixed with Bafra to cure this issue.<br />
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'''Zulu''': A shape of smoking pipe hallmarked by a canted dublin style bowl, an oval shank and a 1/8th bent stem. Also referred to as a Woodstock or a Yacht.<br />
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'''Zeppelin''': A name often used to refer to a cigar-shaped pipe of briar with a separate mouthpiece often of vulcanite, usually with a metal cap at the end to hold in the tobacco. Also called a Torpedo.<br />
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'''Acorn''': A pipe shape characterized by a conical shape sometimes extending to a point or near point below the shank or else with a bent shank flowing into the "point" of the acorn shape. Distinguishable from a dublin by a wider and more rounded rim in most cases. <br />
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'''Acrylic''': In pipe parlance, acrylic stems are those made of polymers of acrylic acid or acrylates, most often polymethyl methacrylate, also called acrylic glass. Some prefer this material for pipe stems due to the lack of oxidation, while others prefer a traditional vulcanite stem due to softness.<br />
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'''Aging''': The term used to describe the tendency of pipe tobacco to improve over time through either aerobic or anaerobic fermentation. The term is used interchangeably to describe increased sweetness on the part of Virginias, mellowing on the part of Latakia, or a generally more complete melding of the blend. The effect is often simulated through the use of heat or pressure.<br />
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'''Agonya''': A type of Turkish tobacco of a kabakolak leaf type, meaning it has distinct stems with "wings" on the leaf stems, Agonya was originally grown in the foothills below Xanthi, but is now grown south of the Sea of Marmara, in the region east of Kanakhale, Turkey.<br />
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'''Air-cured''': Air-cured tobacco is hung in well-ventilated barns immediately after plants are cut or leaves pulled from the field and allowed to dry for a period of one to two months. During this process the yellow colors of the leaf turn to varying shades of brown, until they are ready to be fermented and processed. Burley is an air-cured tobacco.<br />
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'''Amber''': Prior to the wide adoption of vulcanite, first invented in 1844 by Charles Goodyear, as a substance for pipe stem making, by far the most common form of pipe stem was one carved from amber. The stems were carved by hand from fossilized tree resin, at which point they could be bent only after heating in oil and over an alcohol flame. While amber is a beautiful natural material which comes in a large variety of colors, the stems are exceedingly brittle and hard on the teeth. Amber stems are still made only in very rare cases.<br />
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'''Apple''': According to the [[Apple|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the classic apple shape is a rounded version of the billiard, and may be had in either bent or straight shanked and tapered and saddle stemmed versions. Popular variations of this shape include the Prince and Author.<br />
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'''Aromatic''': A type of tobacco which is either cased or top flavored in order to produce a taste and room note other than the tobacco's natural smell, whether simply sugar or molasses, whiskey or other alcohols, or many other flavorings. Used as a major category for pipe tobaccos, along with non-aromatic and latakia based blends.<br />
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'''Army Mount''': Also called a "military bit", a pipe with an army mount stem is designed to permit the stem to be removed from the pipe while hot by inclusion of a shank cap, often made of silver, to reinforce the briar. A more elaborate variation of the army mount is the spigot. According to most likely mythological history, the first army mount was invented when a World War One soldier fixed a broken pipe shank by inserting a spent rifle casing into it and piercing a hole for the stem. <br />
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'''Author''': According to the [[Author|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the Author is a beefed-up prince, featuring a flattened ball-shaped bowl and a heavy 1/8 to 1/4 bent stem.<br />
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'''Bafra''': Bafra is a district and village in the Samsun province of Turkey, and the name sometimes given to the Samsun-Maden strain of tobacco, which is a smaller basibali Turkish varietal with low nicotine and a rich flavor.<br />
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'''Ball''': The ball shape, also referred to as a tomato, is described by the [[Author|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], is very similar to an author but with a spherical bowl and thinner shank. According to Mr. Burney the ball generally features a tapered stem with a 1/4 to 1/2 bent.<br />
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'''Ballerina''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and resembling a ballet dancer's foot while en pointe, curving from the heel at the front of the bowl to the toe at the meeting of bowl and shank, itself characterized by a full enough bend to permit the pipe to stand on its own. <br />
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[[File:Nordh Ballerina.jpg|thumb|center|100px|A Bo Nordh Ballerina]]<br />
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'''Bakelite''': A trade name for Polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride. Harder than vulcanite and softer than acrylic, bakelite stems do not oxidize. Largely seen in shades of white and amber yellow.<br />
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'''Basma''': 1. The group of Turkish small-leaf varietals in which the stem of the leaf does not extend beyond the leaf at the main stalk 2. The larger leaves primed from the middle of any variety of Turkish tobacco plant 3. A long, rectangular bale-style of packing cured Turkish leaf, approximately 50-60 pounds, of any variety.<br />
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'''Bead''': Now generally represented by two straight lines around the bowl of a bulldog or rhodesian, a bead is one of only three shapes which can be produced on a lathe, along with a flat and a cove. A bead is a rounded projection from the wood, and in the case of pipes today most beads are cut as inset beads, in that the surrounding wood is level with the top of the bead. Older pipes occasionally featured intricately carved beads. Today, however, rather than cutting a true bead the projection is left flat and only signified by the lines around it.<br />
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'''Bent Pipe''': A generic term used to refer to any pipe where the shank is not a straight horizontal line, regardless of the nature or amount of the shank bend.<br />
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'''Billiard''': The [[Billiard|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] describe a billiard as a pipe shape having a cylindrical bowl and tobacco chamber with a shank about the same length as the height of the bowl. Variations on the billiard shape include the pot and chimney.<br />
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'''Basibali''': A family of Turkish tobaccos characterized by a distinct stem separating the leaf from the stalk. Sometimes referred to as Bashi Bagli.<br />
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'''Bit''': A less than precise term, usually used to refer to the entirety of the stem or mouthpiece on a pipe, but occasionally also used to refer to the bite zone.<br />
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'''Bite Zone''': The last approximately three quarters of an inch of the mouthpiece or stem of a tobacco pipe, including the button.<br />
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'''Bloom''': Also referred to as plume, bloom is a fine white powder which appears on well aged tobacco on occasion, and despite the tendency to confuse it with mold is actually a good sign that the leaf is maturing well. Bloom is caused by the crystallization of sugars on the surface of the tobacco leaf. <br />
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'''Blowfish''': Per the [[Blowfish|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the blowfish is a pipe shape characterized by an asymmetrical flattened ball for a bowl, a bent stem blending into the body, and a combination of birdseye grain on the large panels and straight grain between.<br />
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'''Brandy''': Also referred to as a bent brandy or brandyglass, a pipe shape which resembles the glassware for which it is named. According to the [[Brandy|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pipe is characterized by a rounded base tapering up to a smaller rim, often in a 1/4 bent pipe.<br />
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'''Briar''': Actually a mistranslation of the French bruyère, briar among pipe smokers refers to the wood of the ''erica arborea'', a species of flowering plant in the heather family. After 30 to 60 years of growing time, the football sized plants are harvested, cooked, dried for several months, and further processed before they are made into pipes. <br />
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'''Bullcap''': According to the [[Bullcap|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the bullcap is a squat straight rhodesian with a large bowl diameter.<br />
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'''Bulldog''': According to the [[Bulldog|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the classic bulldog has a tapered stem, diamond shank and slightly forward canted bowl shaped someone like two cones joined at the bases with the top cone cut off. The pipe is traditionally adorned with a bead around the bowl. <br />
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'''Bullmoose''': According to the [[Bullcap|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a bullmoose is a squat rhodesian with a very heavy 1/4 bent stem.<br />
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'''Burley''': A tobacco of light-colored variety grown primarily in Kentucky and Tennessee, the bulk of burley tobacco produced in the United States is used for cigarette production. All burley today is of the white burley variety, and is often sweetened due to the low natural sugars present in the leaf. Most aromatics use a base of burley due to its ready ability to absorb flavors. While some claim burley does not age, it does improve with time. However, this takes time measured in the several decades at least.<br />
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'''Burnout''': A term used to refer to a possible condition in estate pipes which, short of extraordinary effort on the part of a capable restorer, generally means the death of a particular pipe. A burnout is a spot where char has actually penetrated or begun to penetrate the outer layer of the bowl. Usually caused by hot smoking, although some claim burnout is always the fault of an unseen flaw in the briar. Uneven packing can also result in one spot suffering more damage than others. While most smokers stop smoking a particular pipe when burnout begins to appear, some continue smoking until they have burned straight through a wall or the foot of the pipe.<br />
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'''Button''': The button is the raised portion at the end of a pipe mouthpiece or stem intended to permit the teeth purchase to hold the pipe.<br />
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'''Cake''': Cake refers to the buildup of residual carbon that forms in the bowl of a pipe. Most recommend trimming back the buildup to keep it at roughly the width of a dime in a briar pipe in order to create a protective layer which cools the pipe and reduces moisture. Cake is frowned upon in meerschaums, and the subject of much debate among corn cob pipe smokers.<br />
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'''Calabash''': According to the [[Calabash|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the calabash is a solid wood interpretation of the gourd calabash with a tapered bowl flared at the rim and a dome shaped top. The tobacco chamber is usually tapered and the pipe 3/4 bent, but there are variations.<br />
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'''Canadian''': According to the [[Canadian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the canadian is a long-shanked billiard with an oval shank and a tapered bit. The shank is roughly twice as long as the height of the bowl. Variations on this shape include the lumbermand, lovat and liverpool.<br />
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'''Casing''': Whether sprayed with or soaked in a sauce, casing refers to the addition of flavoring, sugar or the like prior to the finishing of the tobacco, as opposed to top-flavouring, which is added by spraying the finished blend with scents and flavours.<br />
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'''Cavendish''': There are two forms of Cavendish, which is more a process of curing and a method of cutting tobacco than a type of it. Common cavendish is made when tobacco leaves are pressed into a cake about an inch thick and heated before being allowed to ferment, resulting in a mild and sweet tobacco. Flavoring is often added before the leaves are pressed. English Cavendish uses a dark flue or fire cured Virginia , which is steamed and then stored under pressure to permit it to cure and ferment for several days or weeks.<br />
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'''Char''': Used to refer to wood that has actually begun to burn, usually at the start of a burnout in a bowl or, far more likely and most often due to lighter abuse, at the rim. <br />
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'''Cherrywood''': According to the [[Cherrywood|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a cherrywood is a bent poker. The name cherrywood derives from the pipe shape's origin as a copy of the cherry wood pipes made by Eugène-Léon Ropp and others in mid-19th century France.<br />
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'''Churchwarden''': According to the [[Churchwarden|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the churchwarden is the only pipe defined by the shape of its stem, rather than its bowl. Whether bent or straight, the stem on a churchwarden is 9 to 18 inches long, but not so long as to make lighting the pipe while holding it in the mouth impossible.<br />
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'''Cigar Leaf''': A generic term used to describe a great many different types of leaf primarily used in cigars which are also included in pipe tobacco. Connecticut Broadleaf and Cuban-Seed Varietals are frequently used among others to add flavor to a blend.<br />
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'''Cob''': The common parlance for a corn cob pipe, which in its loosest definition is simply any pipe with a bowl made from a dried and drilled corncob. Traditionally fitted with river cane stems, most modern cobs have wood shanks and plastic bits. <br />
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'''Coin''': A term used to refer to a single slice of tobacco cut from a rope or twist, and resembling a flake, except that it is round and often thinner.<br />
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'''Cumberland''': Called brindle by Dunhill and others, cumberland is a form of vulcanite made with brown and red pigment added to the rubber to give it a marble like appearance.<br />
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'''Curly Cut''': A term used to refer to tobacco which has been sliced from rope or twist tobacco into thin "coins", similar to flakes excepting that they are thinner and round.<br />
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'''Cut''': Pipe tobacco may be cut as shag, ribbon, flake, plug, rope, discs, coins, or in other forms. These terms simply refer to the manner in which the finished product is reduced into a small enough size to consume. The most common cut is ribbon cut.<br />
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'''Cutty''': According to the [[Cutty|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a cutty has a very canted tulip shaped bowl and a slightly bent stem with a tapered bit. The word cutty simply means "cut shorter". Cutty pipes occasionally and traditionally sport a "spur", or a small foot protruding from the base of the bowl.<br />
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'''Czech Tool''': Also called a 3-way pipe tool, a combined tamper, shank clearing tool and dottle spoon on a single rotating rivet. Called a Czech tool for the original country of manufacture of most of the tools, they are largely Chinese made today.<br />
[[File:Czech Tool.jpg|center|thumb|A Czech Tool.]]<br />
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'''Delayed Gratification Technique''': Or DGT, the habit of some pipe smokers to light a pipe and leave it to sit for hours or even days before completing the smoke. Many blends gain a far different taste profile from this technique which some find pleasant.<br />
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'''Delrin''': A brand name for polyoxymethylne or POM, also called acetal, polyacetal, or polyformaldehyde, delrin is a thermoplastic used by pipe makers as a material for non-integral stem tenons, and for screw-in tenons for meerschaum push/pull connections. Delrin is appreciated as a "self-lubricating" material, meaning that it has a low drag coefficient to interfere with the smooth passage of smoke, and for the ease of reliance on separate stems and tenons.<br />
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'''Devil Anse''': The name of a notorious West Virginia Confederate veteran suspected of murdering Asa McCoy after the war ended and starting the infamous Hatfield/McCoy feud. Devil Anse Hatfield was portrayed in a recent television series by Kevin Costner, who, despite the lack of any historical support, smoked a nosewarmer cutty in the role, now popular and given the name of the character. <br />
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'''Diplomat''': According to the [[Diplomat|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a diplomat is a pipe shape similar to a prince but a bit larger generally and with an oval shank and stem.<br />
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'''Djebel''': Sometimes referred to as Xanthi-Djebel, Dejebel tobacco is grown closer to the ridge, or djebel, of the Rhodope mountains above Xanthi. While the leaf is probably of the same strain as Yaka leaf, it is much less highly regarded.<br />
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'''Don''': A pipe shape, according to the [[Duke/Don|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], similar to a Duke but with a rudimentary shank and a vulcanite bit. Sometimes, such as by [[Peterson]], called a tankard.<br />
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'''Dottle''': The leftover plug of unburnt tobacco and ash left in the heel of a pipe bowl after smoking. Dottle is avoided by smokers as a waste of tobacco and occasionally souring of the bowl, but is sometimes unavoidable.<br />
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'''Drama''': A sweet type of tobacco with a natural olive oil fragrance grown on the Southern slopes and foothills of the Rhodope Mountains in Greek Eastern Macedonia, and taking its name from the town of the same name. A kabakolak variety, meaning that the leaf has a distinct separate stem similar to basibali, but with "wings" on its leaf stems.<br />
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'''Draught Hole''': Also Draft Hole, the point at which the airway enters the bowl of the pipe, preferably in the center back of the heel to avoid leaving excessive dottle.<br />
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'''Dubec''': 1. The smaller leaves from the upper portion of any variety of Turkish tobacco plant 2. A round package of cured Turkish leaf of any variety, approximately 25-30 pounds in weight.<br />
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'''Dublin''': According to the [[Dublin|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the dublin is a pipe shape with the same proportions as a billiard but with a conical bowl and tapered combustion chamber.<br />
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'''Duke''': A [[Dunhill]] pipe shape that features a cylindrical bowl with no shank, a bone or vulcanite stem and a poker-type canted bottom, according to the [[Duke/Don|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''Ebonite''': The brand name for a very hard rubber first created by Charles Goodyear by vulcanizing rubber for prolonged periods, Ebonite was named for its intended purpose, a replacment for ebony. Commonly referred to as vulcanite in pipe parlance, vulcanite is with acrylic one of the two most popular materials from which stems are made.<br />
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'''Egg''': According to the [[Egg|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the egg is usually but not always a bent pipe with a bowl shaped like an egg, which can be thought of as an elongated apple shape.<br />
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'''Elephant's Foot''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and characterized by straight grained side panels and wide front and back domed surfaces on the bowl exhibiting birdseye. <br />
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'''English''': Aside from the obvious geographical uses, the word "English" is often used among pipe smokers to refer to blends with latakia in them. In reality, however, the term only developed to differentiate blends made in the United Kingdom, especially in the days of the now defunct Tobacco Purity Laws, which prohibited humectants and most flavorings from being added to the tobacco. A more precise term is "latakia based".<br />
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'''English Cavendish''': The name commonly used to refer to dark flue-cured or fire-cured Virginia tobacco which is steamed and then pressed over a period of several days to weeks. It is not flavored as other forms of Cavendish generally are. Rattray's ''Dark Fragrant'' is one example of an available English Cavendish blend. <br />
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'''Eskimo''': According to the [[Ukulele|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a pipe shape by Tom Eltang created as a variation on Ed Burak's bulldog design and sporting a smooth, flat stem and shank with a canted, domed bowl.<br />
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'''Estate Pipe''': A previously owned pipe, whether smoked or un-smoked.<br />
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== F ==<br />
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'''Fill''': A void, pit or flaw in the briar which is made level with the surface of the pipe with either putty or a mix of briar dust and cyanoacrylate glue and which, despite staining, is often visible on close inspection.<br />
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'''Fire Cured''': Unlike flue cured tobacco, which is cured by indirect heat without smoke, fire cured tobacco is cured with smoke, in the tobacco equivalent of barbecuing. Dark Fired Kentucky and Latakia are both fire cured, and the process results in lower sugars and higher nicotine in the leaf.<br />
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'''Flake''': Flake tobacco is made by slicing thin sheets off of a cube, which in turn is formed by pressing whole tobacco leaves into a compressed form, usually under significant pressure for long periods of time. Flake tobacco may be sold in slices, or fully or partially broken or rubbed out.<br />
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'''Flue Cured''': Flue cured tobacco is cured by heat without smoke, generally by being hung from sticks in a barn exposed to heat from external fires through flues. Traditionally the method for curing brightleaf tobacco, this method results in sweeter leaf with lower nicotine.<br />
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'''Foot''': The bottom of the outside of the bowl, as opposed to the heel, which is the bottom of the inside of the bowl.<br />
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'''Freehand''': Not to be confused with the fixed freehand shapes made by some companies, a true freehand shape is defined by the pipemaker's choice to let the grain of the briar shape the pipe, rather than forcing the pipe into a predetermined shape, according to the [[Freehand|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''Gesteckpfeife''': Literally "pipe in parts", a traditional European pipe made up of several interconnecting parts, usually held together with cork tenons. Bowls can be meerschaum, briar, or porcelain, commonly.<br />
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'''Ghost''': A ghost is the taste or smell of a previously smoked tobacco remaining in a pipe and coloring the taste of a different blend smoked in the same pipe. Generally the cause of tar in the shank, but usually blamed on cake.<br />
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'''Gourd Calabash''': According to the [[Gourd Calabash|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a gourd calabash is a pipe made from a calabash gourd which is dried and the seeds removed, and then fitted with a stem and meerschaum bowl cap. The driest and smoothest of all pipes.<br />
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'''Hand''': A hand is a bundle of tobacco tied at the end and hung from the knot for curing purposes.<br />
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'''Hawkbill''': According to the [[Hawkbill|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the hawkbill is a pipe shape characterized by an enlarged ball or tomato style with a long, tapering bent shank. The premiere example is the Castello 84.j<br />
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'''Heel''': The heel is the bottom of the combustion chamber, the inside of the bowl.<br />
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'''Horn''': According to the [[Horn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the horn is a graceful freehand shape varying from a straight tapering tube to a more standard bent pipe, but in all cases with a smooth tapering from bowl to shank and no abrupt transitions.<br />
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[[File:Horn2.gif|thumb|center|100px|The Horn Shape]]<br />
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'''Hungarian''': More commonly referred to as an Oom Paul, the Hungarian is a fully bent billiard named for former South African President Paulus Kruger, according to the [[Oom Paul/Hungarian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''Intricate Curve''': In pipemaking, a term sometimes used to describe the transition from the rear wall of the bowl to the top of the shank.<br />
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'''Izmir''': A type of Turkish tobacco with rich flavor, low nicotine, and cool smoke. It has a very aromatic nature and is often blended with Latakia to somewhat subdue this property. Primarily used as a condiment with pipe tobacco, but occasionally offered by itself. Also called Smyrna.<br />
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'''Jar''': Tobacco jars have been used for nearly three hundred years as the predominant method for storage of pipe tobacco, whether made from tin, wood, pewter, porcelain, majolica or bisque. By far the most common choice is the simple Ball jar or Mason jar.<br />
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'''Jatim''': A form of Indonesian tobacco and the abbreviated name of the province of East Java (Jawa Timur), where the tobacco is grown.<br />
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'''Kabakolak''': A family of Turkish tobacco strains similar to Basibali, but with wings on their leaf stems in addition to distinct stems.<br />
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'''Katerini''': A Turkish varietal of the Samsun basibali type, with a milder, sweeter leaf. Grown southwest of Thessaloniki in the Greek province of Macedonia.<br />
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'''Kentucky''': Dark-Fired Kentucky is a type of pipe tobacco made from burley which is cured over a fire and flavored by its smoke.<br />
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'''Latakia''': Named for the principal port city of Syria, latakia is not a specific plant varietal, but rather one of a number of Turkish varietals which are fire cured over a stone pine or oak wood fire, giving it a smoky flavor. Most latakia, despite the name, is now grown in Cyprus, not Syria, and camel dung has nothing to do with the process of its creation.<br />
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'''Lovat''': A pipe shape, according to the [[Lovat|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], which is essentially a Canadian but with a round shank instead of oval and a saddle stem.<br />
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'''Lucite''': Lucite is a trade name for acrylic, or polyacrylate, which is derived from natural gas. It is a composition of Methyl Methacrylate and Poly Methyl Methacrylate resin. Lucite is used for pipe stems due to its lack of oxidation, but is criticized for a harder feel on the teeth.<br />
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'''Lületaşi''': A Turkish word literally meaning sea foam and used to refer to meerschaum in that country.<br />
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'''Macedonia''': 1. A province of north-central Greece, west of Thrace, which includes the sea port of Thessaloniki (Salonika) and the Katerini tobacco region 2. A recently independent republic, formerly part of Soviet Yugoslavia, located immediately north of the Greek province of Macedonia, and the source of Prilep tobacco.<br />
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'''Mahale''': A Turkish tobacco with a basma leaf type grown downslope from Xanthi.<br />
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'''Maryland''': An extremely mild tobacco used in a number of American tobacco blends, especially to add a nutty flavor to Burley. Sadly the state of Maryland now pays farmers not to grow tobacco.<br />
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'''Meerschaum''': A mineral hydrous magnesium silicate called sepiolite, primarily found in Turkey near Eskisehr, which is used in the making of tobacco pipes. The word means "seafoam".<br />
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'''Melding''': The term used to refer to a tobacco blend's property to acquire a single homogeneous taste over time, as a result of aging in an airtight container.<br />
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'''Mellowing''': Particularly used in referring to Latakia's tendency to be less overpowering after some aging, the term is sometimes used to refer to a general tendency of tobacco to become more smooth with age.<br />
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'''Morta''': Also known as bog-wood or abonos, morta is a material cut from trees which have been buried in peat bogs and near-petrified by the acidic and anaerobic conditions of the bog for a period sometimes hundreds or even thousands of years long. It is valued for its very high mineral content and resulting resistance to fire.<br />
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'''Mortise''': A mortise is at its most basic a hole cut or drilled to accept a smaller tenon and make a joint. The joint has been used in woodworking for thousands of years, and in pipe construction generally appears as a hole drilled larger than the airway and at the same depth as the stem tenon. Variations, however, are unlimited.<br />
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'''Mouthpiece''': A term used interchangeably with stem and to a lesser degree bit, the mouthpiece is the portion of the pipe meant to be placed in the smoker's mouth, and includes the entire pipe from the end of the shank to the slot. Often made from vulcanite or lucite/acrylic.<br />
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'''Nautilus''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and named for its obvious resemblance to the shell of a nautilus, resulting in an airway passing through a shank curved in a loop and pierced in the center to suggest the closed portion of the shell, a bowl shaped like the long open mouth of the shell, and a foot curving in a near half circle beneath.<br />
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'''Nail''': The simplest form of pipe tool is the venerable Pipe Nail, which generally looks much like its namesake, one end flat to tamp with and another coming to a point or spoon for clearing ash and tar.<br />
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'''Nomenclature''': A general term used to refer to the stamping on a pipe in its entirety, including brand names, models, year and shape codes and the like.<br />
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'''Oliphant''': A traditional name for a hunter's horn made from an elephant tusk, the oliphant shape was first designed by [[Sixten Ivarsson]] for the [[Pibe-Dan]] shop in the late 1950s. According to the [[Horn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]]The shape is a variation of the horn meant to resemble the tusk of an elephant, and with a flat curve and even and gradual tapering throughout.<br />
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'''Oom Paul''': A shape name which actually means Uncle Paul in Dutch, Oom Paul pipes are full bent billiards, according to the [[Oom Paul/Hungarian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]]. The name comes from the nickname for Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, president of the South African Republic from 1883 to 1900 and the face of the Boer cause against Britain during the Second Boer War of 1899 to 1902. Also called a Hungarian.<br />
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'''Opera Pipe''': A shape which the [[Oval|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] refer to as an "Oval" or Pocket pipe, the opera pipe is a billiard with a bowl "squashed" into an oval, with the long side of the oval parallel with the shank and stem. In fact, "opera" pipe is a misnomer. The original name of the pipe was the au pair pipe, as it gained popularity with domestic workers unable to smoke around children.<br />
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'''Oriental''': Used interchangeably with "Turkish" to refer to sun cured condimental tobaccos grown in the Eastern Mediterranean. This category of tobaccos includes Yenidje, Smyrna, Samsun, Izmir, Drama, Xanthe, and often Basma, which is not a particular leaf but a generic Turkish blend, and all that pipe tobacco blenders are often able to find due to the purchase of most oriental varietals by cigarette manufacturers.<br />
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'''Panel Billiard''': According to the [[Panel Billiard|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the Panelled Billiard, also called a foursquare, is a basic billiard shape with flat, or panelled, sides. The classic panel has four flat sides and a round shank.<br />
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'''Pear''': More commonly called an acorn today, according to the [[Pear/Accorn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] the pear is a sort of softened dublin shape, with a conical bowl and tobacco chamber but with all sharp edges rounded.<br />
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'''Perique''': Mistakenly believed to be a nickname for Pierre Chenet and actually a French mispronunciation of an American slang word for a part of the anatomy, perique is a type of tobacco grown only in St. James Parish, Louisiana, sauced and kept under massive pressure in barrels until it turns nearly black. Perique has flavors of spice and plum, and is prized as the truffle of pipe tobaccos.<br />
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'''Pickaxe''': According to the [[Pickaxe|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pickaxe is a freehand style of pipe characterized by a paneled, triangular bowl.<br />
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'''Pipe''': A tube with a small bowl at one end used for the smoking of tobacco.<br />
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'''Pit''': Briar grows underground and as such is prone to picking up bits of sand which create a void in the block, sometimes not noticeable until the pipe is nearly finished. Traditionally pits, or sand pits, would simply be filled with putty and stained over for a value priced pipe.<br />
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'''P-Lip''': A type of pipe mouthpiece invented by Peterson of Dublin and relying on a small hole on the top of a stem rather than a hole at its end. Meant to reduce tongue bite by directing the flow of smoke away from the tongue.<br />
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'''Plug''': Whole leaf, pressed with moisture, becomes a plug, from which flakes can be sliced. Plug tobacco is prepared by slicing off and then rubbing out pieces of the block of tobacco.<br />
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'''Poker''': According to the [[Poker|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the poker is a straight pipe with a cylindrical, flat bottomed bowl designed so that the pipe will stand on its own.<br />
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'''Pot''': According to the [[Pot|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pot is a billiard with a shorter bowl, but not a shorter shank than a standard billiard.<br />
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'''Prilep''': A Sirdily variety of Turkish tobacco commonly grown in the region of the town of Prilep, which is located in the Independent Republic of Macedonia.<br />
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'''Prince''': According to the [[Prince|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the prince is a pipe shape characterized by a squat rounded bowl and along, usually slightly bent stem with a short shank. The pipe was named after Prince Albert, later King Edward VII, the Prince of Wales.<br />
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'''Push/Pull''': The term generally used to describe a two part mortise and tenon system used in meerschaum pipes and developed by Andreas Bauer originally. A push/pull consists of a threaded Delrin tenon and a separate threaded plastic mortise. The preferred method of connecting stem and shank in meerschaum pipes, which lack the durability for long term use of a standard mortise/tenon connection.<br />
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'''Quaint''': A pipe shape hallmarked, generally, by more than four panels, especially with a paneled shank as well.<br />
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'''Ramses''': A pipe shape created by Bo [[Nordh]] and later named by a visiting customer for its resemblance to the statue of Ramses II in Abu Simbel, Egypt. Characterized by a long, wide sloping shank which also serves as the foot of the pipe and a long, tapered bowl which rests almost vertically on the shank. Stems are generally partially bent.<br />
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[[File:Bo Nordh Ramses01.jpg|thumb|center|100px|A Nordh Ramses]]<br />
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'''Reaming''': Trimming back cake from the bowl of a tobacco pipe.<br />
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'''Reamer''': A tool used to trim pipe cake back to an acceptable level. These have been made in countless different forms, adjustable and non-adjustable, for well over a century. Some simply use a pipe knife or sandpaper to accomplish the same task.<br />
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'''Rhodesian''': A subject of great dispute. Unlikely to have been named for Cecil Rhodes, and more likely to have taken its name from Rhodesian tobacco, a Rhodesian is considered by some to be any bent bulldog, by others to be any bulldog with a round shank, and by others any bulldog shape with a greater bowl width than height. For each accepted definition of the word there is a pipe sold which contradicts it, and no consensus is likely.<br />
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'''Room Note''': The smell of a particular tobacco as it is being smoked. Easier to detect by those not smoking the blend, and a key component to the choice of a pipe tobacco blend especially for those who smoke in public environments. Simply put, how pleasing the smoke would be to a bystander.<br />
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'''Samsun''': A Turkish tobacco of the basibali variety with a heart-shaped leaf, grown near the town of Samsun, Turkey on the shores of the Black Sea. Low nicotine tobacco, but with strong flavor and dark color.<br />
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'''Samsun-Maden''': Also called Bafra for the village near Samsun, Samsun-Maden is a basibali Turkish tobacco characterized by leaves which are are small sized and ovalThe leaf faces are red to bright red. This strain can be smoked without blending. Nicotine content is often lower than 1% and sugar content is 9-12%. <br />
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'''Shank''': The portion of a stummel between the bowl and mouthpiece, and generally containing the mortise. The length of the pipe shank is one of the key variables in the shape of a pipe, as is it's shape, whether square, diamond, oval or round.<br />
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'''Shirazi''': Named for the ancient city of Shiraz in south-western Iran and claimed to be native to that country, Shirazi tobacco is thought to have reached Iran from the Americas in the mid 1500s. Once called ''Nicotiana Persica''.<br />
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'''Sirdily''': A category of Turkish basma subvarietals characterized by small, narrow, acutely pointed leaves.<br />
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'''Slot''': A slot is the wide opening at the end of the mouthpiece tapering into the airway of the pipe. Generally seen only on vulcanite and acrylic stems from the last century, the slot is funneled both to make the insertion of a pipe cleaner easier and to make for a smoother flow for the smoke.<br />
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'''Smyrna''': A type of Turkish tobacco with rich flavor, low nicotine, and cool smoke. It has a very aromatic nature and is often blended with Latakia to somewhat subdue this property. Primarily used as a condiment with pipe tobacco, but occasionally offered by itself. Also called Izmir.<br />
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'''Sokhoum''': A type of Turkish varietal of the Samsun basibali type which is deeply fermented. Grown in the mountains above the town of Sokhoum Kale (Sokhumi) in the Republic of Georgia.<br />
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'''Soppeng''': A type of Indonesian tobacco prepared much like a traditional cavendish but using palm sugar as the sweetener, and then fired. Primarily smoked in cigarettes but enjoyed as pipe tobacco also, Soppeng is sometimes flavored with cinnamon or other tastes during preparation.<br />
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'''Sphinx''': A shape created by Bo [[Nordh]] and characterized by a wide domed bowl front cut so as to show birdseye at the center with straight grain radiating out from that point, giving a sunburst pattern. A similar shape, the Mounted Sphinx, was created by [[Geiger Pipes|Love and Sara Geiger]], but was not created as a variation on the shape.<br />
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'''Spiderwebbing''': A term used to describe a possible condition of estate pipes, spiderwebbing is the result of oversmoking but, rather than showing in a single spot like char in the bowl or a burnout, is characterized by a pattern of char lines, which look like shallow cracks and are actually burnt into the wood of the bowl. Can be concealed by any amount of cake or even a bowl coating, and so it is usually only evident in a bowl which has been sanded back to bare wood.<br />
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'''Spur''': A small protrusion at the bottom of traditional clay pipes to ensure a hot bowl does not burn the table. Frequently included in cutty pipes made even in briar and meerschaum in later decades as an ornamental element of the cutty shape. Seen only occasionally today.<br />
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[[File:Spur.jpg|thumb|center|100px|Clay Pipe Resting on Spur]]<br />
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'''Srintil''': A type of heavily fermented, air cured Indonesian tobacco grown in the Java region in the Temangung valley which grows at the top of a plant and by abnormality produces an extreme amount of resin, making it highly potent. Fermentation details are thought to be similar to perique, and in 1983 approximately 3 tons a year of Srintil were grown worldwide. Sometimes extracted in an aqueous solution for use as a flavoring agent.<br />
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'''Stinger''': Sometimes referred to as a "metal filter", "cleaner", or "condenser", a stinger is a metal protrusion containing the last portion of the airway in many pipes, primarily of the mid-20th century. A stinger extends from the tenon on a stem into the shank of the pipe, generally in turn drilled with a deeper mortise to allow space. Stingers were used commonly in non-filtered pipes for the majority of the twentieth century, but are no longer seen.<br />
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[[File:8.jpg|thumb|center|100px|Pipe stem with Stinger]]<br />
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'''Stummel''': German for stump, the stummel is a complete pipe minus only a stem and any final adornments, including the bowl, shank, and transition between the two.<br />
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'''Tambolaka''': An Indonesian tobacco grown in limestone heavy soil and after harvesting rolled into long sticks which are bound and stored for five years. Sold both as pipe tobacco and as a component of Indonesian cigars. Very high in nicotine with a tin note best described as pungent. <br />
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'''Tamp''': Using a tool or finger to compress the contents of the pipe bowl so as to bring unburnt tobacco into contact with the ember.<br />
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'''Tamper''': A tool used to tamp a pipe, generally with a flat end designed for that purpose and a handle. A tamper can be as simple as a piece of dowel or as ornate as the buyer may wish. While it seems inconsequential, tamping is important both for the care of the pipe and the coolness of the smoke.<br />
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'''Tenon''': The tenon is the smaller diameter protrusion at the end of a pipe stem which holds the stem to the stummel. It takes its name from one of the oldest joints in woodworking, the mortise and tenon joint. Over the last two centuries tenons have been made separately with bone screws, cut integrally into a vulcanite stem to fit a cut mortise in the stummel, made from threaded aluminum or plastic, made from aluminum to fit a pre-drilled mortise so as to hold a filter, made from delrin and placed into a drilled hole in the stem, and in other fashions as well. <br />
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'''Tin Note''': As opposed to the aroma of burning tobacco, the tin note is the scent which can be smelled from the unsmoked tobacco when opened, and is considered a good way to begin to understand a new blend and determine to some degree its components and their relative strength.<br />
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'''Trebizond''': No known as Trabzon, Trebizond is grown in Turkey at the southeast shores of the Black Sea. A basibali varietal resembling Samsun, but coarser and stronger.<br />
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'''Turkish''': A term used to refer not only to tobaccos grown in modern day Turkey, but rather to any tobacco grown under the Ottoman Empire, particularly at the height of its power under Suleiman the Magnificent. As a result, while the town of Yenidje, for example, would today be in Greece, yenidje tobacco is still classified as Turkish.<br />
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'''Twist''': A form of tobacco, also known as rope tobacco, which is spun into a roll, largely by hand, rather than being pressed into flakes. One of the oldest forms of smoking tobacco.<br />
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'''Ukulele''': A pipe shape first designed by [[Sixten Ivarsson]] for the [[Pibe-Dan]] shop in the 1950s and named ukulele, some credit Ed [[Burak]] for the design which he considered a bulldog. A ukulele is characterized by a domed, wide bowl and a wide oval shank with a flat bowl bottom, according to the [[Ukulele|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''VaPer''': A portmanteau of Virginia and Perique, vaper is simply the contraction used to refer to blends primarily composed of these two types of tobacco. <br />
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'''Vestpocket''': A pipe characterized by its ability to fit in a vest pocket, notable for its stem, which swivels over the bowl for carrying and swings out for use, according to the [[Vestpocket|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts]]. Generally all corners on the pipe are rounded to make it easier to remove from a pocket.<br />
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'''Virginia''': More appropriately called Brightleaf tobacco, Virginia is used to refer to milder tobacco leaf, lighter in color, which is grown in infertile, sandy soil, largely in North Carolina and Virginia, and which was first grown in approximately 1839. <br />
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'''Volcano''': A pipe shape characterized by a conical bowl narrowing towards the top, usually with a rounded base and a bent shank and saddle stem, according to the [[Volcano|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts]].<br />
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'''Vulcanite''': Hard black vulcanized rubber used for making pipe stems. Made from rubber containing up to 30% sulfur, vulcanite is soft on the teeth but prone to turning brownish yellow and taking on a sulfur smell on exposure to sunlight. This process is called oxidation.<br />
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'''White Burley''': First grown in Brown County, Ohio in 1865 by George Webb, White Burley is the result of planting Red Burley seeds purchased from Kentucky in the different soil of Ohio, which resulted in a mutation of whitish, sickly looking plants. White Burley soon became the chief ingredient in chewing tobacco, American pipe tobacco, and American-style cigarettes. As Red Burley no longer exists, White Burley is simply referred to as Burley today.<br />
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'''Xanthi''': Sometimes spelled Xanthe, this grade of Basma tobacco is named for a city in the Thrace region of northeastern Greece, first led into prosperity around 1715 due to the quality of its highly aromatic tobacco. The scientific name of the leaf is ''Nicotiana tabacum'' L. cv Xanthi.<br />
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'''Yacht''': Another name for the Zulu pipe shape, with a canted dublin bowl, oval shank and 1/8 bent stem. Among others, Kaywoodie used the term Yacht for pipes of this shape.<br />
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'''Yenidje''': Named for the town of Yenidje, Thrace, today called Genisea, Greece, Yenidje is also called Yenice, Jenidze, Yenidge, and Yeniji, and is a variety of Yaka tobacco, the best regarded form of Xanthi. Yenidje was an Ottoman tobacco production center until 1843 when the town burned and the growers moved up the slopes of the Rhodope Mountain range. Those slopes, called the Yaka, were made of a red clay loam mixed with small flint stones giving rise to short, low-yielding plants of the basma type, meaning (in this usage) that the leaves are small, almost round and with no free stem. The leaf burns badly on its own and was traditionally mixed with Bafra to cure this issue.<br />
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'''Zulu''': A shape of smoking pipe hallmarked by a canted dublin style bowl, an oval shank and a 1/8th bent stem. Also referred to as a Woodstock or a Yacht.<br />
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'''Zeppelin''': A name often used to refer to a cigar-shaped pipe of briar with a separate mouthpiece often of vulcanite, usually with a metal cap at the end to hold in the tobacco. Also called a Torpedo.<br />
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'''Acorn''': A pipe shape characterized by a conical shape sometimes extending to a point or near point below the shank or else with a bent shank flowing into the "point" of the acorn shape. Distinguishable from a dublin by a wider and more rounded rim in most cases. <br />
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'''Acrylic''': In pipe parlance, acrylic stems are those made of polymers of acrylic acid or acrylates, most often polymethyl methacrylate, also called acrylic glass. Some prefer this material for pipe stems due to the lack of oxidation, while others prefer a traditional vulcanite stem due to softness.<br />
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'''Aging''': The term used to describe the tendency of pipe tobacco to improve over time through either aerobic or anaerobic fermentation. The term is used interchangeably to describe increased sweetness on the part of Virginias, mellowing on the part of Latakia, or a generally more complete melding of the blend. The effect is often simulated through the use of heat or pressure.<br />
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'''Agonya''': A type of Turkish tobacco of a kabakolak leaf type, meaning it has distinct stems with "wings" on the leaf stems, Agonya was originally grown in the foothills below Xanthi, but is now grown south of the Sea of Marmara, in the region east of Kanakhale, Turkey.<br />
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'''Air-cured''': Air-cured tobacco is hung in well-ventilated barns immediately after plants are cut or leaves pulled from the field and allowed to dry for a period of one to two months. During this process the yellow colors of the leaf turn to varying shades of brown, until they are ready to be fermented and processed. Burley is an air-cured tobacco.<br />
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'''Amber''': Prior to the wide adoption of vulcanite, first invented in 1844 by Charles Goodyear, as a substance for pipe stem making, by far the most common form of pipe stem was one carved from amber. The stems were carved by hand from fossilized tree resin, at which point they could be bent only after heating in oil and over an alcohol flame. While amber is a beautiful natural material which comes in a large variety of colors, the stems are exceedingly brittle and hard on the teeth. Amber stems are still made only in very rare cases.<br />
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'''Apple''': According to the [[Apple|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the classic apple shape is a rounded version of the billiard, and may be had in either bent or straight shanked and tapered and saddle stemmed versions. Popular variations of this shape include the Prince and Author.<br />
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'''Aromatic''': A type of tobacco which is either cased or top flavored in order to produce a taste and room note other than the tobacco's natural smell, whether simply sugar or molasses, whiskey or other alcohols, or many other flavorings. Used as a major category for pipe tobaccos, along with non-aromatic and latakia based blends.<br />
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'''Army Mount''': Also called a "military bit", a pipe with an army mount stem is designed to permit the stem to be removed from the pipe while hot by inclusion of a shank cap, often made of silver, to reinforce the briar. A more elaborate variation of the army mount is the spigot. According to most likely mythological history, the first army mount was invented when a World War One soldier fixed a broken pipe shank by inserting a spent rifle casing into it and piercing a hole for the stem. <br />
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'''Author''': According to the [[Author|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the Author is a beefed-up prince, featuring a flattened ball-shaped bowl and a heavy 1/8 to 1/4 bent stem.<br />
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'''Bafra''': Bafra is a district and village in the Samsun province of Turkey, and the name sometimes given to the Samsun-Maden strain of tobacco, which is a smaller basibali Turkish varietal with low nicotine and a rich flavor.<br />
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'''Ball''': The ball shape, also referred to as a tomato, is described by the [[Author|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], is very similar to an author but with a spherical bowl and thinner shank. According to Mr. Burney the ball generally features a tapered stem with a 1/4 to 1/2 bent.<br />
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'''Ballerina''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and resembling a ballet dancer's foot while en pointe, curving from the heel at the front of the bowl to the toe at the meeting of bowl and shank, itself characterized by a full enough bend to permit the pipe to stand on its own. <br />
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[[File:Nordh Ballerina.jpg|thumb|center|100px|A Bo Nordh Ballerina]]<br />
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'''Bakelite''': A trade name for Polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride. Harder than vulcanite and softer than acrylic, bakelite stems do not oxidize. Largely seen in shades of white and amber yellow.<br />
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'''Basma''': 1. The group of Turkish small-leaf varietals in which the stem of the leaf does not extend beyond the leaf at the main stalk 2. The larger leaves primed from the middle of any variety of Turkish tobacco plant 3. A long, rectangular bale-style of packing cured Turkish leaf, approximately 50-60 pounds, of any variety.<br />
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'''Bead''': Now generally represented by two straight lines around the bowl of a bulldog or rhodesian, a bead is one of only three shapes which can be produced on a lathe, along with a flat and a cove. A bead is a rounded projection from the wood, and in the case of pipes today most beads are cut as inset beads, in that the surrounding wood is level with the top of the bead. Older pipes occasionally featured intricately carved beads. Today, however, rather than cutting a true bead the projection is left flat and only signified by the lines around it.<br />
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'''Bent Pipe''': A generic term used to refer to any pipe where the shank is not a straight horizontal line, regardless of the nature or amount of the shank bend.<br />
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'''Billiard''': The [[Billiard|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] describe a billiard as a pipe shape having a cylindrical bowl and tobacco chamber with a shank about the same length as the height of the bowl. Variations on the billiard shape include the pot and chimney.<br />
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'''Basibali''': A family of Turkish tobaccos characterized by a distinct stem separating the leaf from the stalk. Sometimes referred to as Bashi Bagli.<br />
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'''Bit''': A less than precise term, usually used to refer to the entirety of the stem or mouthpiece on a pipe, but occasionally also used to refer to the bite zone.<br />
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'''Bite Zone''': The last approximately three quarters of an inch of the mouthpiece or stem of a tobacco pipe, including the button.<br />
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'''Bloom''': Also referred to as plume, bloom is a fine white powder which appears on well aged tobacco on occasion, and despite the tendency to confuse it with mold is actually a good sign that the leaf is maturing well. Bloom is caused by the crystallization of sugars on the surface of the tobacco leaf. <br />
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'''Blowfish''': Per the [[Blowfish|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the blowfish is a pipe shape characterized by an asymmetrical flattened ball for a bowl, a bent stem blending into the body, and a combination of birdseye grain on the large panels and straight grain between.<br />
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'''Brandy''': Also referred to as a bent brandy or brandyglass, a pipe shape which resembles the glassware for which it is named. According to the [[Brandy|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pipe is characterized by a rounded base tapering up to a smaller rim, often in a 1/4 bent pipe.<br />
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'''Briar''': Actually a mistranslation of the French bruyère, briar among pipe smokers refers to the wood of the ''erica arborea'', a species of flowering plant in the heather family. After 30 to 60 years of growing time, the football sized plants are harvested, cooked, dried for several months, and further processed before they are made into pipes. <br />
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'''Bullcap''': According to the [[Bullcap|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the bullcap is a squat straight rhodesian with a large bowl diameter.<br />
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'''Bulldog''': According to the [[Bulldog|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the classic bulldog has a tapered stem, diamond shank and slightly forward canted bowl shaped someone like two cones joined at the bases with the top cone cut off. The pipe is traditionally adorned with a bead around the bowl. <br />
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'''Bullmoose''': According to the [[Bullcap|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a bullmoose is a squat rhodesian with a very heavy 1/4 bent stem.<br />
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'''Burley''': A tobacco of light-colored variety grown primarily in Kentucky and Tennessee, the bulk of burley tobacco produced in the United States is used for cigarette production. All burley today is of the white burley variety, and is often sweetened due to the low natural sugars present in the leaf. Most aromatics use a base of burley due to its ready ability to absorb flavors. While some claim burley does not age, it does improve with time. However, this takes time measured in the several decades at least.<br />
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'''Burnout''': A term used to refer to a possible condition in estate pipes which, short of extraordinary effort on the part of a capable restorer, generally means the death of a particular pipe. A burnout is a spot where char has actually penetrated or begun to penetrate the outer layer of the bowl. Usually caused by hot smoking, although some claim burnout is always the fault of an unseen flaw in the briar. Uneven packing can also result in one spot suffering more damage than others. While most smokers stop smoking a particular pipe when burnout begins to appear, some continue smoking until they have burned straight through a wall or the foot of the pipe.<br />
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'''Button''': The button is the raised portion at the end of a pipe mouthpiece or stem intended to permit the teeth purchase to hold the pipe.<br />
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'''Cake''': Cake refers to the buildup of residual carbon that forms in the bowl of a pipe. Most recommend trimming back the buildup to keep it at roughly the width of a dime in a briar pipe in order to create a protective layer which cools the pipe and reduces moisture. Cake is frowned upon in meerschaums, and the subject of much debate among corn cob pipe smokers.<br />
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'''Calabash''': According to the [[Calabash|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the calabash is a solid wood interpretation of the gourd calabash with a tapered bowl flared at the rim and a dome shaped top. The tobacco chamber is usually tapered and the pipe 3/4 bent, but there are variations.<br />
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'''Canadian''': According to the [[Canadian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the canadian is a long-shanked billiard with an oval shank and a tapered bit. The shank is roughly twice as long as the height of the bowl. Variations on this shape include the lumbermand, lovat and liverpool.<br />
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'''Casing''': Whether sprayed with or soaked in a sauce, casing refers to the addition of flavoring, sugar or the like prior to the finishing of the tobacco, as opposed to top-flavouring, which is added by spraying the finished blend with scents and flavours.<br />
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'''Cavendish''': There are two forms of Cavendish, which is more a process of curing and a method of cutting tobacco than a type of it. Common cavendish is made when tobacco leaves are pressed into a cake about an inch thick and heated before being allowed to ferment, resulting in a mild and sweet tobacco. Flavoring is often added before the leaves are pressed. English Cavendish uses a dark flue or fire cured Virginia , which is steamed and then stored under pressure to permit it to cure and ferment for several days or weeks.<br />
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'''Char''': Used to refer to wood that has actually begun to burn, usually at the start of a burnout in a bowl or, far more likely and most often due to lighter abuse, at the rim. <br />
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'''Cherrywood''': According to the [[Cherrywood|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a cherrywood is a bent poker. The name cherrywood derives from the pipe shape's origin as a copy of the cherry wood pipes made by Eugène-Léon Ropp and others in mid-19th century France.<br />
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'''Churchwarden''': According to the [[Churchwarden|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the churchwarden is the only pipe defined by the shape of its stem, rather than its bowl. Whether bent or straight, the stem on a churchwarden is 9 to 18 inches long, but not so long as to make lighting the pipe while holding it in the mouth impossible.<br />
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'''Cigar Leaf''': A generic term used to describe a great many different types of leaf primarily used in cigars which are also included in pipe tobacco. Connecticut Broadleaf and Cuban-Seed Varietals are frequently used among others to add flavor to a blend.<br />
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'''Cob''': The common parlance for a corn cob pipe, which in its loosest definition is simply any pipe with a bowl made from a dried and drilled corncob. Traditionally fitted with river cane stems, most modern cobs have wood shanks and plastic bits. <br />
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'''Coin''': A term used to refer to a single slice of tobacco cut from a rope or twist, and resembling a flake, except that it is round and often thinner.<br />
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'''Cumberland''': Called brindle by Dunhill and others, cumberland is a form of vulcanite made with brown and red pigment added to the rubber to give it a marble like appearance.<br />
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'''Curly Cut''': A term used to refer to tobacco which has been sliced from rope or twist tobacco into thin "coins", similar to flakes excepting that they are thinner and round.<br />
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'''Cut''': Pipe tobacco may be cut as shag, ribbon, flake, plug, rope, discs, coins, or in other forms. These terms simply refer to the manner in which the finished product is reduced into a small enough size to consume. The most common cut is ribbon cut.<br />
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'''Cutty''': According to the [[Cutty|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a cutty has a very canted tulip shaped bowl and a slightly bent stem with a tapered bit. The word cutty simply means "cut shorter". Cutty pipes occasionally and traditionally sport a "spur", or a small foot protruding from the base of the bowl.<br />
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'''Czech Tool''': Also called a 3-way pipe tool, a combined tamper, shank clearing tool and dottle spoon on a single rotating rivet. Called a Czech tool for the original country of manufacture of most of the tools, they are largely Chinese made today.<br />
[[File:Czech Tool.jpg|center|thumb|A Czech Tool.]]<br />
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== D ==<br />
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'''Delayed Gratification Technique''': Or DGT, the habit of some pipe smokers to light a pipe and leave it to sit for hours or even days before completing the smoke. Many blends gain a far different taste profile from this technique which some find pleasant.<br />
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'''Delrin''': A brand name for polyoxymethylne or POM, also called acetal, polyacetal, or polyformaldehyde, delrin is a thermoplastic used by pipe makers as a material for non-integral stem tenons, and for screw-in tenons for meerschaum push/pull connections. Delrin is appreciated as a "self-lubricating" material, meaning that it has a low drag coefficient to interfere with the smooth passage of smoke, and for the ease of reliance on separate stems and tenons.<br />
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'''Devil Anse''': The name of a notorious West Virginia Confederate veteran suspected of murdering Asa McCoy after the war ended and starting the infamous Hatfield/McCoy feud. Devil Anse Hatfield was portrayed in a recent television series by Kevin Costner, who, despite the lack of any historical support, smoked a nosewarmer cutty in the role, now popular and given the name of the character. <br />
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'''Diplomat''': According to the [[Diplomat|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a diplomat is a pipe shape similar to a prince but a bit larger generally and with an oval shank and stem.<br />
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'''Djebel''': Sometimes referred to as Xanthi-Djebel, Dejebel tobacco is grown closer to the ridge, or djebel, of the Rhodope mountains above Xanthi. While the leaf is probably of the same strain as Yaka leaf, it is much less highly regarded.<br />
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'''Don''': A pipe shape, according to the [[Duke/Don|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], similar to a Duke but with a rudimentary shank and a vulcanite bit. Sometimes, such as by [[Peterson]], called a tankard.<br />
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'''Dottle''': The leftover plug of unburnt tobacco and ash left in the heel of a pipe bowl after smoking. Dottle is avoided by smokers as a waste of tobacco and occasionally souring of the bowl, but is sometimes unavoidable.<br />
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'''Drama''': A sweet type of tobacco with a natural olive oil fragrance grown on the Southern slopes and foothills of the Rhodope Mountains in Greek Eastern Macedonia, and taking its name from the town of the same name. A kabakolak variety, meaning that the leaf has a distinct separate stem similar to basibali, but with "wings" on its leaf stems.<br />
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'''Draught Hole''': Also Draft Hole, the point at which the airway enters the bowl of the pipe, preferably in the center back of the heel to avoid leaving excessive dottle.<br />
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'''Dubec''': 1. The smaller leaves from the upper portion of any variety of Turkish tobacco plant 2. A round package of cured Turkish leaf of any variety, approximately 25-30 pounds in weight.<br />
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'''Dublin''': According to the [[Dublin|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the dublin is a pipe shape with the same proportions as a billiard but with a conical bowl and tapered combustion chamber.<br />
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'''Duke''': A [[Dunhill]] pipe shape that features a cylindrical bowl with no shank, a bone or vulcanite stem and a poker-type canted bottom, according to the [[Duke/Don|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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== E ==<br />
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'''Ebonite''': The brand name for a very hard rubber first created by Charles Goodyear by vulcanizing rubber for prolonged periods, Ebonite was named for its intended purpose, a replacment for ebony. Commonly referred to as vulcanite in pipe parlance, vulcanite is with acrylic one of the two most popular materials from which stems are made.<br />
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'''Egg''': According to the [[Egg|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the egg is usually but not always a bent pipe with a bowl shaped like an egg, which can be thought of as an elongated apple shape.<br />
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'''Elephant's Foot''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and characterized by straight grained side panels and wide front and back domed surfaces on the bowl exhibiting birdseye. <br />
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'''English''': Aside from the obvious geographical uses, the word "English" is often used among pipe smokers to refer to blends with latakia in them. In reality, however, the term only developed to differentiate blends made in the United Kingdom, especially in the days of the now defunct Tobacco Purity Laws, which prohibited humectants and most flavorings from being added to the tobacco. A more precise term is "latakia based".<br />
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'''English Cavendish''': The name commonly used to refer to dark flue-cured or fire-cured Virginia tobacco which is steamed and then pressed over a period of several days to weeks. It is not flavored as other forms of Cavendish generally are. Rattray's ''Dark Fragrant'' is one example of an available English Cavendish blend. <br />
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'''Eskimo''': According to the [[Ukulele|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a pipe shape by Tom Eltang created as a variation on Ed Burak's bulldog design and sporting a smooth, flat stem and shank with a canted, domed bowl.<br />
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'''Estate Pipe''': A previously owned pipe, whether smoked or un-smoked.<br />
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== F ==<br />
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'''Fill''': A void, pit or flaw in the briar which is made level with the surface of the pipe with either putty or a mix of briar dust and cyanoacrylate glue and which, despite staining, is often visible on close inspection.<br />
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'''Fire Cured''': Unlike flue cured tobacco, which is cured by indirect heat without smoke, fire cured tobacco is cured with smoke, in the tobacco equivalent of barbecuing. Dark Fired Kentucky and Latakia are both fire cured, and the process results in lower sugars and higher nicotine in the leaf.<br />
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'''Flake''': Flake tobacco is made by slicing thin sheets off of a cube, which in turn is formed by pressing whole tobacco leaves into a compressed form, usually under significant pressure for long periods of time. Flake tobacco may be sold in slices, or fully or partially broken or rubbed out.<br />
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'''Flue Cured''': Flue cured tobacco is cured by heat without smoke, generally by being hung from sticks in a barn exposed to heat from external fires through flues. Traditionally the method for curing brightleaf tobacco, this method results in sweeter leaf with lower nicotine.<br />
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'''Foot''': The bottom of the outside of the bowl, as opposed to the heel, which is the bottom of the inside of the bowl.<br />
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'''Freehand''': Not to be confused with the fixed freehand shapes made by some companies, a true freehand shape is defined by the pipemaker's choice to let the grain of the briar shape the pipe, rather than forcing the pipe into a predetermined shape, according to the [[Freehand|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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== G ==<br />
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'''Gesteckpfeife''': Literally "pipe in parts", a traditional European pipe made up of several interconnecting parts, usually held together with cork tenons. Bowls can be meerschaum, briar, or porcelain, commonly.<br />
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'''Ghost''': A ghost is the taste or smell of a previously smoked tobacco remaining in a pipe and coloring the taste of a different blend smoked in the same pipe. Generally the cause of tar in the shank, but usually blamed on cake.<br />
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'''Gourd Calabash''': According to the [[Gourd Calabash|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a gourd calabash is a pipe made from a calabash gourd which is dried and the seeds removed, and then fitted with a stem and meerschaum bowl cap. The driest and smoothest of all pipes.<br />
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'''Hand''': A hand is a bundle of tobacco tied at the end and hung from the knot for curing purposes.<br />
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'''Hawkbill''': According to the [[Hawkbill|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the hawkbill is a pipe shape characterized by an enlarged ball or tomato style with a long, tapering bent shank. The premiere example is the Castello 84.j<br />
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'''Heel''': The heel is the bottom of the combustion chamber, the inside of the bowl.<br />
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'''Horn''': According to the [[Horn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the horn is a graceful freehand shape varying from a straight tapering tube to a more standard bent pipe, but in all cases with a smooth tapering from bowl to shank and no abrupt transitions.<br />
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[[File:Horn2.gif|thumb|center|100px|The Horn Shape]]<br />
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'''Hungarian''': More commonly referred to as an Oom Paul, the Hungarian is a fully bent billiard named for former South African President Paulus Kruger, according to the [[Oom Paul/Hungarian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''Intricate Curve''': In pipemaking, a term sometimes used to describe the transition from the rear wall of the bowl to the top of the shank.<br />
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'''Izmir''': A type of Turkish tobacco with rich flavor, low nicotine, and cool smoke. It has a very aromatic nature and is often blended with Latakia to somewhat subdue this property. Primarily used as a condiment with pipe tobacco, but occasionally offered by itself. Also called Smyrna.<br />
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'''Jar''': Tobacco jars have been used for nearly three hundred years as the predominant method for storage of pipe tobacco, whether made from tin, wood, pewter, porcelain, majolica or bisque. By far the most common choice is the simple Ball jar or Mason jar.<br />
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'''Jatim''': A form of Indonesian tobacco and the abbreviated name of the province of East Java (Jawa Timur), where the tobacco is grown.<br />
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== K ==<br />
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'''Kabakolak''': A family of Turkish tobacco strains similar to Basibali, but with wings on their leaf stems in addition to distinct stems.<br />
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'''Katerini''': A Turkish varietal of the Samsun basibali type, with a milder, sweeter leaf. Grown southwest of Thessaloniki in the Greek province of Macedonia.<br />
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'''Kentucky''': Dark-Fired Kentucky is a type of pipe tobacco made from burley which is cured over a fire and flavored by its smoke.<br />
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'''Latakia''': Named for the principal port city of Syria, latakia is not a specific plant varietal, but rather one of a number of Turkish varietals which are fire cured over a stone pine or oak wood fire, giving it a smoky flavor. Most latakia, despite the name, is now grown in Cyprus, not Syria, and camel dung has nothing to do with the process of its creation.<br />
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'''Lovat''': A pipe shape, according to the [[Lovat|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], which is essentially a Canadian but with a round shank instead of oval and a saddle stem.<br />
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'''Lucite''': Lucite is a trade name for acrylic, or polyacrylate, which is derived from natural gas. It is a composition of Methyl Methacrylate and Poly Methyl Methacrylate resin. Lucite is used for pipe stems due to its lack of oxidation, but is criticized for a harder feel on the teeth.<br />
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'''Lületaşi''': A Turkish word literally meaning sea foam and used to refer to meerschaum in that country.<br />
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'''Macedonia''': 1. A province of north-central Greece, west of Thrace, which includes the sea port of Thessaloniki (Salonika) and the Katerini tobacco region 2. A recently independent republic, formerly part of Soviet Yugoslavia, located immediately north of the Greek province of Macedonia, and the source of Prilep tobacco.<br />
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'''Mahale''': A Turkish tobacco with a basma leaf type grown downslope from Xanthi.<br />
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'''Maryland''': An extremely mild tobacco used in a number of American tobacco blends, especially to add a nutty flavor to Burley. Sadly the state of Maryland now pays farmers not to grow tobacco.<br />
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'''Meerschaum''': A mineral hydrous magnesium silicate called sepiolite, primarily found in Turkey near Eskisehr, which is used in the making of tobacco pipes. The word means "seafoam".<br />
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'''Melding''': The term used to refer to a tobacco blend's property to acquire a single homogeneous taste over time, as a result of aging in an airtight container.<br />
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'''Mellowing''': Particularly used in referring to Latakia's tendency to be less overpowering after some aging, the term is sometimes used to refer to a general tendency of tobacco to become more smooth with age.<br />
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'''Mortise''': A mortise is at its most basic a hole cut or drilled to accept a smaller tenon and make a joint. The joint has been used in woodworking for thousands of years, and in pipe construction generally appears as a hole drilled larger than the airway and at the same depth as the stem tenon. Variations, however, are unlimited.<br />
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'''Mouthpiece''': A term used interchangeably with stem and to a lesser degree bit, the mouthpiece is the portion of the pipe meant to be placed in the smoker's mouth, and includes the entire pipe from the end of the shank to the slot. Often made from vulcanite or lucite/acrylic.<br />
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'''Nautilus''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and named for its obvious resemblance to the shell of a nautilus, resulting in an airway passing through a shank curved in a loop and pierced in the center to suggest the closed portion of the shell, a bowl shaped like the long open mouth of the shell, and a foot curving in a near half circle beneath.<br />
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'''Nail''': The simplest form of pipe tool is the venerable Pipe Nail, which generally looks much like its namesake, one end flat to tamp with and another coming to a point or spoon for clearing ash and tar.<br />
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'''Nomenclature''': A general term used to refer to the stamping on a pipe in its entirety, including brand names, models, year and shape codes and the like.<br />
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'''Oliphant''': A traditional name for a hunter's horn made from an elephant tusk, the oliphant shape was first designed by [[Sixten Ivarsson]] for the [[Pibe-Dan]] shop in the late 1950s. According to the [[Horn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]]The shape is a variation of the horn meant to resemble the tusk of an elephant, and with a flat curve and even and gradual tapering throughout.<br />
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'''Oom Paul''': A shape name which actually means Uncle Paul in Dutch, Oom Paul pipes are full bent billiards, according to the [[Oom Paul/Hungarian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]]. The name comes from the nickname for Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, president of the South African Republic from 1883 to 1900 and the face of the Boer cause against Britain during the Second Boer War of 1899 to 1902. Also called a Hungarian.<br />
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'''Opera Pipe''': A shape which the [[Oval|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] refer to as an "Oval" or Pocket pipe, the opera pipe is a billiard with a bowl "squashed" into an oval, with the long side of the oval parallel with the shank and stem. In fact, "opera" pipe is a misnomer. The original name of the pipe was the au pair pipe, as it gained popularity with domestic workers unable to smoke around children.<br />
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'''Oriental''': Used interchangeably with "Turkish" to refer to sun cured condimental tobaccos grown in the Eastern Mediterranean. This category of tobaccos includes Yenidje, Smyrna, Samsun, Izmir, Drama, Xanthe, and often Basma, which is not a particular leaf but a generic Turkish blend, and all that pipe tobacco blenders are often able to find due to the purchase of most oriental varietals by cigarette manufacturers.<br />
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'''Panel Billiard''': According to the [[Panel Billiard|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the Panelled Billiard, also called a foursquare, is a basic billiard shape with flat, or panelled, sides. The classic panel has four flat sides and a round shank.<br />
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'''Pear''': More commonly called an acorn today, according to the [[Pear/Accorn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] the pear is a sort of softened dublin shape, with a conical bowl and tobacco chamber but with all sharp edges rounded.<br />
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'''Perique''': Mistakenly believed to be a nickname for Pierre Chenet and actually a French mispronunciation of an American slang word for a part of the anatomy, perique is a type of tobacco grown only in St. James Parish, Louisiana, sauced and kept under massive pressure in barrels until it turns nearly black. Perique has flavors of spice and plum, and is prized as the truffle of pipe tobaccos.<br />
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'''Pickaxe''': According to the [[Pickaxe|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pickaxe is a freehand style of pipe characterized by a paneled, triangular bowl.<br />
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'''Pipe''': A tube with a small bowl at one end used for the smoking of tobacco.<br />
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'''Pit''': Briar grows underground and as such is prone to picking up bits of sand which create a void in the block, sometimes not noticeable until the pipe is nearly finished. Traditionally pits, or sand pits, would simply be filled with putty and stained over for a value priced pipe.<br />
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'''P-Lip''': A type of pipe mouthpiece invented by Peterson of Dublin and relying on a small hole on the top of a stem rather than a hole at its end. Meant to reduce tongue bite by directing the flow of smoke away from the tongue.<br />
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'''Plug''': Whole leaf, pressed with moisture, becomes a plug, from which flakes can be sliced. Plug tobacco is prepared by slicing off and then rubbing out pieces of the block of tobacco.<br />
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'''Poker''': According to the [[Poker|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the poker is a straight pipe with a cylindrical, flat bottomed bowl designed so that the pipe will stand on its own.<br />
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'''Pot''': According to the [[Pot|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pot is a billiard with a shorter bowl, but not a shorter shank than a standard billiard.<br />
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'''Prilep''': A Sirdily variety of Turkish tobacco commonly grown in the region of the town of Prilep, which is located in the Independent Republic of Macedonia.<br />
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'''Prince''': According to the [[Prince|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the prince is a pipe shape characterized by a squat rounded bowl and along, usually slightly bent stem with a short shank. The pipe was named after Prince Albert, later King Edward VII, the Prince of Wales.<br />
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'''Push/Pull''': The term generally used to describe a two part mortise and tenon system used in meerschaum pipes and developed by Andreas Bauer originally. A push/pull consists of a threaded Delrin tenon and a separate threaded plastic mortise. The preferred method of connecting stem and shank in meerschaum pipes, which lack the durability for long term use of a standard mortise/tenon connection.<br />
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'''Quaint''': A pipe shape hallmarked, generally, by more than four panels, especially with a paneled shank as well.<br />
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'''Ramses''': A pipe shape created by Bo [[Nordh]] and later named by a visiting customer for its resemblance to the statue of Ramses II in Abu Simbel, Egypt. Characterized by a long, wide sloping shank which also serves as the foot of the pipe and a long, tapered bowl which rests almost vertically on the shank. Stems are generally partially bent.<br />
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[[File:Bo Nordh Ramses01.jpg|thumb|center|100px|A Nordh Ramses]]<br />
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'''Reaming''': Trimming back cake from the bowl of a tobacco pipe.<br />
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'''Reamer''': A tool used to trim pipe cake back to an acceptable level. These have been made in countless different forms, adjustable and non-adjustable, for well over a century. Some simply use a pipe knife or sandpaper to accomplish the same task.<br />
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'''Rhodesian''': A subject of great dispute. Unlikely to have been named for Cecil Rhodes, and more likely to have taken its name from Rhodesian tobacco, a Rhodesian is considered by some to be any bent bulldog, by others to be any bulldog with a round shank, and by others any bulldog shape with a greater bowl width than height. For each accepted definition of the word there is a pipe sold which contradicts it, and no consensus is likely.<br />
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'''Room Note''': The smell of a particular tobacco as it is being smoked. Easier to detect by those not smoking the blend, and a key component to the choice of a pipe tobacco blend especially for those who smoke in public environments. Simply put, how pleasing the smoke would be to a bystander.<br />
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'''Samsun''': A Turkish tobacco of the basibali variety with a heart-shaped leaf, grown near the town of Samsun, Turkey on the shores of the Black Sea. Low nicotine tobacco, but with strong flavor and dark color.<br />
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'''Samsun-Maden''': Also called Bafra for the village near Samsun, Samsun-Maden is a basibali Turkish tobacco characterized by leaves which are are small sized and ovalThe leaf faces are red to bright red. This strain can be smoked without blending. Nicotine content is often lower than 1% and sugar content is 9-12%. <br />
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'''Shank''': The portion of a stummel between the bowl and mouthpiece, and generally containing the mortise. The length of the pipe shank is one of the key variables in the shape of a pipe, as is it's shape, whether square, diamond, oval or round.<br />
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'''Shirazi''': Named for the ancient city of Shiraz in south-western Iran and claimed to be native to that country, Shirazi tobacco is thought to have reached Iran from the Americas in the mid 1500s. Once called ''Nicotiana Persica''.<br />
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'''Sirdily''': A category of Turkish basma subvarietals characterized by small, narrow, acutely pointed leaves.<br />
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'''Slot''': A slot is the wide opening at the end of the mouthpiece tapering into the airway of the pipe. Generally seen only on vulcanite and acrylic stems from the last century, the slot is funneled both to make the insertion of a pipe cleaner easier and to make for a smoother flow for the smoke.<br />
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'''Smyrna''': A type of Turkish tobacco with rich flavor, low nicotine, and cool smoke. It has a very aromatic nature and is often blended with Latakia to somewhat subdue this property. Primarily used as a condiment with pipe tobacco, but occasionally offered by itself. Also called Izmir.<br />
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'''Sokhoum''': A type of Turkish varietal of the Samsun basibali type which is deeply fermented. Grown in the mountains above the town of Sokhoum Kale (Sokhumi) in the Republic of Georgia.<br />
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'''Soppeng''': A type of Indonesian tobacco prepared much like a traditional cavendish but using palm sugar as the sweetener, and then fired. Primarily smoked in cigarettes but enjoyed as pipe tobacco also, Soppeng is sometimes flavored with cinnamon or other tastes during preparation.<br />
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'''Sphinx''': A shape created by Bo [[Nordh]] and characterized by a wide domed bowl front cut so as to show birdseye at the center with straight grain radiating out from that point, giving a sunburst pattern. A similar shape, the Mounted Sphinx, was created by [[Geiger Pipes|Love and Sara Geiger]], but was not created as a variation on the shape.<br />
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'''Spiderwebbing''': A term used to describe a possible condition of estate pipes, spiderwebbing is the result of oversmoking but, rather than showing in a single spot like char in the bowl or a burnout, is characterized by a pattern of char lines, which look like shallow cracks and are actually burnt into the wood of the bowl. Can be concealed by any amount of cake or even a bowl coating, and so it is usually only evident in a bowl which has been sanded back to bare wood.<br />
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'''Spur''': A small protrusion at the bottom of traditional clay pipes to ensure a hot bowl does not burn the table. Frequently included in cutty pipes made even in briar and meerschaum in later decades as an ornamental element of the cutty shape. Seen only occasionally today.<br />
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[[File:Spur.jpg|thumb|center|100px|Clay Pipe Resting on Spur]]<br />
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'''Srintil''': A type of heavily fermented, air cured Indonesian tobacco grown in the Java region in the Temangung valley which grows at the top of a plant and by abnormality produces an extreme amount of resin, making it highly potent. Fermentation details are thought to be similar to perique, and in 1983 approximately 3 tons a year of Srintil were grown worldwide. Sometimes extracted in an aqueous solution for use as a flavoring agent.<br />
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'''Stinger''': Sometimes referred to as a "metal filter", "cleaner", or "condenser", a stinger is a metal protrusion containing the last portion of the airway in many pipes, primarily of the mid-20th century. A stinger extends from the tenon on a stem into the shank of the pipe, generally in turn drilled with a deeper mortise to allow space. Stingers were used commonly in non-filtered pipes for the majority of the twentieth century, but are no longer seen.<br />
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[[File:8.jpg|thumb|center|100px|Pipe stem with Stinger]]<br />
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'''Stummel''': German for stump, the stummel is a complete pipe minus only a stem and any final adornments, including the bowl, shank, and transition between the two.<br />
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'''Tambolaka''': An Indonesian tobacco grown in limestone heavy soil and after harvesting rolled into long sticks which are bound and stored for five years. Sold both as pipe tobacco and as a component of Indonesian cigars. Very high in nicotine with a tin note best described as pungent. <br />
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'''Tamp''': Using a tool or finger to compress the contents of the pipe bowl so as to bring unburnt tobacco into contact with the ember.<br />
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'''Tamper''': A tool used to tamp a pipe, generally with a flat end designed for that purpose and a handle. A tamper can be as simple as a piece of dowel or as ornate as the buyer may wish. While it seems inconsequential, tamping is important both for the care of the pipe and the coolness of the smoke.<br />
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'''Tenon''': The tenon is the smaller diameter protrusion at the end of a pipe stem which holds the stem to the stummel. It takes its name from one of the oldest joints in woodworking, the mortise and tenon joint. Over the last two centuries tenons have been made separately with bone screws, cut integrally into a vulcanite stem to fit a cut mortise in the stummel, made from threaded aluminum or plastic, made from aluminum to fit a pre-drilled mortise so as to hold a filter, made from delrin and placed into a drilled hole in the stem, and in other fashions as well. <br />
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'''Tin Note''': As opposed to the aroma of burning tobacco, the tin note is the scent which can be smelled from the unsmoked tobacco when opened, and is considered a good way to begin to understand a new blend and determine to some degree its components and their relative strength.<br />
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'''Trebizond''': No known as Trabzon, Trebizond is grown in Turkey at the southeast shores of the Black Sea. A basibali varietal resembling Samsun, but coarser and stronger.<br />
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'''Turkish''': A term used to refer not only to tobaccos grown in modern day Turkey, but rather to any tobacco grown under the Ottoman Empire, particularly at the height of its power under Suleiman the Magnificent. As a result, while the town of Yenidje, for example, would today be in Greece, yenidje tobacco is still classified as Turkish.<br />
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'''Twist''': A form of tobacco, also known as rope tobacco, which is spun into a roll, largely by hand, rather than being pressed into flakes. One of the oldest forms of smoking tobacco.<br />
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'''Ukulele''': A pipe shape first designed by [[Sixten Ivarsson]] for the [[Pibe-Dan]] shop in the 1950s and named ukulele, some credit Ed [[Burak]] for the design which he considered a bulldog. A ukulele is characterized by a domed, wide bowl and a wide oval shank with a flat bowl bottom, according to the [[Ukulele|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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== V ==<br />
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'''VaPer''': A portmanteau of Virginia and Perique, vaper is simply the contraction used to refer to blends primarily composed of these two types of tobacco. <br />
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'''Vestpocket''': A pipe characterized by its ability to fit in a vest pocket, notable for its stem, which swivels over the bowl for carrying and swings out for use, according to the [[Vestpocket|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts]]. Generally all corners on the pipe are rounded to make it easier to remove from a pocket.<br />
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'''Virginia''': More appropriately called Brightleaf tobacco, Virginia is used to refer to milder tobacco leaf, lighter in color, which is grown in infertile, sandy soil, largely in North Carolina and Virginia, and which was first grown in approximately 1839. <br />
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'''Volcano''': A pipe shape characterized by a conical bowl narrowing towards the top, usually with a rounded base and a bent shank and saddle stem, according to the [[Volcano|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts]].<br />
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'''Vulcanite''': Hard black vulcanized rubber used for making pipe stems. Made from rubber containing up to 30% sulfur, vulcanite is soft on the teeth but prone to turning brownish yellow and taking on a sulfur smell on exposure to sunlight. This process is called oxidation.<br />
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== W ==<br />
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'''White Burley''': First grown in Brown County, Ohio in 1865 by George Webb, White Burley is the result of planting Red Burley seeds purchased from Kentucky in the different soil of Ohio, which resulted in a mutation of whitish, sickly looking plants. White Burley soon became the chief ingredient in chewing tobacco, American pipe tobacco, and American-style cigarettes. As Red Burley no longer exists, White Burley is simply referred to as Burley today.<br />
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== X ==<br />
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'''Xanthi''': Sometimes spelled Xanthe, this grade of Basma tobacco is named for a city in the Thrace region of northeastern Greece, first led into prosperity around 1715 due to the quality of its highly aromatic tobacco. The scientific name of the leaf is ''Nicotiana tabacum'' L. cv Xanthi.<br />
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== Y ==<br />
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'''Yacht''': Another name for the Zulu pipe shape, with a canted dublin bowl, oval shank and 1/8 bent stem. Among others, Kaywoodie used the term Yacht for pipes of this shape.<br />
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'''Yenidje''': Named for the town of Yenidje, Thrace, today called Genisea, Greece, Yenidje is also called Yenice, Jenidze, Yenidge, and Yeniji, and is a variety of Yaka tobacco, the best regarded form of Xanthi. Yenidje was an Ottoman tobacco production center until 1843 when the town burned and the growers moved up the slopes of the Rhodope Mountain range. Those slopes, called the Yaka, were made of a red clay loam mixed with small flint stones giving rise to short, low-yielding plants of the basma type, meaning (in this usage) that the leaves are small, almost round and with no free stem. The leaf burns badly on its own and was traditionally mixed with Bafra to cure this issue.<br />
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== Z ==<br />
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'''Zulu''': A shape of smoking pipe hallmarked by a canted dublin style bowl, an oval shank and a 1/8th bent stem. Also referred to as a Woodstock or a Yacht.<br />
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'''Zeppelin''': A name often used to refer to a cigar-shaped pipe of briar with a separate mouthpiece often of vulcanite, usually with a metal cap at the end to hold in the tobacco. Also called a Torpedo.<br />
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'''Acorn''': A pipe shape characterized by a conical shape sometimes extending to a point or near point below the shank or else with a bent shank flowing into the "point" of the acorn shape. Distinguishable from a dublin by a wider and more rounded rim in most cases. <br />
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'''Acrylic''': In pipe parlance, acrylic stems are those made of polymers of acrylic acid or acrylates, most often polymethyl methacrylate, also called acrylic glass. Some prefer this material for pipe stems due to the lack of oxidation, while others prefer a traditional vulcanite stem due to softness.<br />
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'''Aging''': The term used to describe the tendency of pipe tobacco to improve over time through either aerobic or anaerobic fermentation. The term is used interchangeably to describe increased sweetness on the part of Virginias, mellowing on the part of Latakia, or a generally more complete melding of the blend. The effect is often simulated through the use of heat or pressure.<br />
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'''Agonya''': A type of Turkish tobacco of a kabakolak leaf type, meaning it has distinct stems with "wings" on the leaf stems, Agonya was originally grown in the foothills below Xanthi, but is now grown south of the Sea of Marmara, in the region east of Kanakhale, Turkey.<br />
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'''Air-cured''': Air-cured tobacco is hung in well-ventilated barns immediately after plants are cut or leaves pulled from the field and allowed to dry for a period of one to two months. During this process the yellow colors of the leaf turn to varying shades of brown, until they are ready to be fermented and processed. Burley is an air-cured tobacco.<br />
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'''Amber''': Prior to the wide adoption of vulcanite, first invented in 1844 by Charles Goodyear, as a substance for pipe stem making, by far the most common form of pipe stem was one carved from amber. The stems were carved by hand from fossilized tree resin, at which point they could be bent only after heating in oil and over an alcohol flame. While amber is a beautiful natural material which comes in a large variety of colors, the stems are exceedingly brittle and hard on the teeth. Amber stems are still made only in very rare cases.<br />
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'''Apple''': According to the [[Apple|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the classic apple shape is a rounded version of the billiard, and may be had in either bent or straight shanked and tapered and saddle stemmed versions. Popular variations of this shape include the Prince and Author.<br />
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'''Aromatic''': A type of tobacco which is either cased or top flavored in order to produce a taste and room note other than the tobacco's natural smell, whether simply sugar or molasses, whiskey or other alcohols, or many other flavorings. Used as a major category for pipe tobaccos, along with non-aromatic and latakia based blends.<br />
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'''Army Mount''': Also called a "military bit", a pipe with an army mount stem is designed to permit the stem to be removed from the pipe while hot by inclusion of a shank cap, often made of silver, to reinforce the briar. A more elaborate variation of the army mount is the spigot. According to most likely mythological history, the first army mount was invented when a World War One soldier fixed a broken pipe shank by inserting a spent rifle casing into it and piercing a hole for the stem. <br />
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'''Author''': According to the [[Author|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the Author is a beefed-up prince, featuring a flattened ball-shaped bowl and a heavy 1/8 to 1/4 bent stem.<br />
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'''Bafra''': Bafra is a district and village in the Samsun province of Turkey, and the name sometimes given to the Samsun-Maden strain of tobacco, which is a smaller basibali Turkish varietal with low nicotine and a rich flavor.<br />
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'''Ball''': The ball shape, also referred to as a tomato, is described by the [[Author|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], is very similar to an author but with a spherical bowl and thinner shank. According to Mr. Burney the ball generally features a tapered stem with a 1/4 to 1/2 bent.<br />
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'''Ballerina''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and resembling a ballet dancer's foot while en pointe, curving from the heel at the front of the bowl to the toe at the meeting of bowl and shank, itself characterized by a full enough bend to permit the pipe to stand on its own. <br />
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[[File:Nordh Ballerina.jpg|thumb|center|100px|A Bo Nordh Ballerina]]<br />
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'''Bakelite''': A trade name for Polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride. Harder than vulcanite and softer than acrylic, bakelite stems do not oxidize. Largely seen in shades of white and amber yellow.<br />
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'''Basma''': 1. The group of Turkish small-leaf varietals in which the stem of the leaf does not extend beyond the leaf at the main stalk 2. The larger leaves primed from the middle of any variety of Turkish tobacco plant 3. A long, rectangular bale-style of packing cured Turkish leaf, approximately 50-60 pounds, of any variety.<br />
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'''Bead''': Now generally represented by two straight lines around the bowl of a bulldog or rhodesian, a bead is one of only three shapes which can be produced on a lathe, along with a flat and a cove. A bead is a rounded projection from the wood, and in the case of pipes today most beads are cut as inset beads, in that the surrounding wood is level with the top of the bead. Older pipes occasionally featured intricately carved beads. Today, however, rather than cutting a true bead the projection is left flat and only signified by the lines around it.<br />
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'''Bent Pipe''': A generic term used to refer to any pipe where the shank is not a straight horizontal line, regardless of the nature or amount of the shank bend.<br />
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'''Billiard''': The [[Billiard|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] describe a billiard as a pipe shape having a cylindrical bowl and tobacco chamber with a shank about the same length as the height of the bowl. Variations on the billiard shape include the pot and chimney.<br />
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'''Basibali''': A family of Turkish tobaccos characterized by a distinct stem separating the leaf from the stalk. Sometimes referred to as Bashi Bagli.<br />
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'''Bit''': A less than precise term, usually used to refer to the entirety of the stem or mouthpiece on a pipe, but occasionally also used to refer to the bite zone.<br />
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'''Bite Zone''': The last approximately three quarters of an inch of the mouthpiece or stem of a tobacco pipe, including the button.<br />
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'''Bloom''': Also referred to as plume, bloom is a fine white powder which appears on well aged tobacco on occasion, and despite the tendency to confuse it with mold is actually a good sign that the leaf is maturing well. Bloom is caused by the crystallization of sugars on the surface of the tobacco leaf. <br />
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'''Blowfish''': Per the [[Blowfish|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the blowfish is a pipe shape characterized by an asymmetrical flattened ball for a bowl, a bent stem blending into the body, and a combination of birdseye grain on the large panels and straight grain between.<br />
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'''Brandy''': Also referred to as a bent brandy or brandyglass, a pipe shape which resembles the glassware for which it is named. According to the [[Brandy|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pipe is characterized by a rounded base tapering up to a smaller rim, often in a 1/4 bent pipe.<br />
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'''Briar''': Actually a mistranslation of the French bruyère, briar among pipe smokers refers to the wood of the ''erica arborea'', a species of flowering plant in the heather family. After 30 to 60 years of growing time, the football sized plants are harvested, cooked, dried for several months, and further processed before they are made into pipes. <br />
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'''Bullcap''': According to the [[Bullcap|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the bullcap is a squat straight rhodesian with a large bowl diameter.<br />
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'''Bulldog''': According to the [[Bulldog|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the classic bulldog has a tapered stem, diamond shank and slightly forward canted bowl shaped someone like two cones joined at the bases with the top cone cut off. The pipe is traditionally adorned with a bead around the bowl. <br />
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'''Bullmoose''': According to the [[Bullcap|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a bullmoose is a squat rhodesian with a very heavy 1/4 bent stem.<br />
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'''Burley''': A tobacco of light-colored variety grown primarily in Kentucky and Tennessee, the bulk of burley tobacco produced in the United States is used for cigarette production. All burley today is of the white burley variety, and is often sweetened due to the low natural sugars present in the leaf. Most aromatics use a base of burley due to its ready ability to absorb flavors. While some claim burley does not age, it does improve with time. However, this takes time measured in the several decades at least.<br />
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'''Burnout''': A term used to refer to a possible condition in estate pipes which, short of extraordinary effort on the part of a capable restorer, generally means the death of a particular pipe. A burnout is a spot where char has actually penetrated or begun to penetrate the outer layer of the bowl. Usually caused by hot smoking, although some claim burnout is always the fault of an unseen flaw in the briar. Uneven packing can also result in one spot suffering more damage than others. While most smokers stop smoking a particular pipe when burnout begins to appear, some continue smoking until they have burned straight through a wall or the foot of the pipe.<br />
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'''Button''': The button is the raised portion at the end of a pipe mouthpiece or stem intended to permit the teeth purchase to hold the pipe.<br />
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== C ==<br />
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'''Cake''': Cake refers to the buildup of residual carbon that forms in the bowl of a pipe. Most recommend trimming back the buildup to keep it at roughly the width of a dime in a briar pipe in order to create a protective layer which cools the pipe and reduces moisture. Cake is frowned upon in meerschaums, and the subject of much debate among corn cob pipe smokers.<br />
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'''Calabash''': According to the [[Calabash|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the calabash is a solid wood interpretation of the gourd calabash with a tapered bowl flared at the rim and a dome shaped top. The tobacco chamber is usually tapered and the pipe 3/4 bent, but there are variations.<br />
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'''Canadian''': According to the [[Canadian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the canadian is a long-shanked billiard with an oval shank and a tapered bit. The shank is roughly twice as long as the height of the bowl. Variations on this shape include the lumbermand, lovat and liverpool.<br />
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'''Casing''': Whether sprayed with or soaked in a sauce, casing refers to the addition of flavoring, sugar or the like prior to the finishing of the tobacco, as opposed to top-flavouring, which is added by spraying the finished blend with scents and flavours.<br />
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'''Cavendish''': There are two forms of Cavendish, which is more a process of curing and a method of cutting tobacco than a type of it. Common cavendish is made when tobacco leaves are pressed into a cake about an inch thick and heated before being allowed to ferment, resulting in a mild and sweet tobacco. Flavoring is often added before the leaves are pressed. English Cavendish uses a dark flue or fire cured Virginia , which is steamed and then stored under pressure to permit it to cure and ferment for several days or weeks.<br />
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'''Char''': Used to refer to wood that has actually begun to burn, usually at the start of a burnout in a bowl or, far more likely and most often due to lighter abuse, at the rim. <br />
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'''Cherrywood''': According to the [[Cherrywood|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a cherrywood is a bent poker. The name cherrywood derives from the pipe shape's origin as a copy of the cherry wood pipes made by Eugène-Léon Ropp and others in mid-19th century France.<br />
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'''Churchwarden''': According to the [[Churchwarden|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the churchwarden is the only pipe defined by the shape of its stem, rather than its bowl. Whether bent or straight, the stem on a churchwarden is 9 to 18 inches long, but not so long as to make lighting the pipe while holding it in the mouth impossible.<br />
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'''Cigar Leaf''': A generic term used to describe a great many different types of leaf primarily used in cigars which are also included in pipe tobacco. Connecticut Broadleaf and Cuban-Seed Varietals are frequently used among others to add flavor to a blend.<br />
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'''Cob''': The common parlance for a corn cob pipe, which in its loosest definition is simply any pipe with a bowl made from a dried and drilled corncob. Traditionally fitted with river cane stems, most modern cobs have wood shanks and plastic bits. <br />
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'''Coin''': A term used to refer to a single slice of tobacco cut from a rope or twist, and resembling a flake, except that it is round and often thinner.<br />
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'''Cumberland''': Called brindle by Dunhill and others, cumberland is a form of vulcanite made with brown and red pigment added to the rubber to give it a marble like appearance.<br />
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'''Curly Cut''': A term used to refer to tobacco which has been sliced from rope or twist tobacco into thin "coins", similar to flakes excepting that they are thinner and round.<br />
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'''Cut''': Pipe tobacco may be cut as shag, ribbon, flake, plug, rope, discs, coins, or in other forms. These terms simply refer to the manner in which the finished product is reduced into a small enough size to consume. The most common cut is ribbon cut.<br />
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'''Cutty''': According to the [[Cutty|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a cutty has a very canted tulip shaped bowl and a slightly bent stem with a tapered bit. The word cutty simply means "cut shorter". Cutty pipes occasionally and traditionally sport a "spur", or a small foot protruding from the base of the bowl.<br />
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'''Czech Tool''': Also called a 3-way pipe tool, a combined tamper, shank clearing tool and dottle spoon on a single rotating rivet. Called a Czech tool for the original country of manufacture of most of the tools, they are largely Chinese made today.<br />
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'''Delayed Gratification Technique''': Or DGT, the habit of some pipe smokers to light a pipe and leave it to sit for hours or even days before completing the smoke. Many blends gain a far different taste profile from this technique which some find pleasant.<br />
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'''Delrin''': A brand name for polyoxymethylne or POM, also called acetal, polyacetal, or polyformaldehyde, delrin is a thermoplastic used by pipe makers as a material for non-integral stem tenons, and for screw-in tenons for meerschaum push/pull connections. Delrin is appreciated as a "self-lubricating" material, meaning that it has a low drag coefficient to interfere with the smooth passage of smoke, and for the ease of reliance on separate stems and tenons.<br />
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'''Devil Anse''': The name of a notorious West Virginia Confederate veteran suspected of murdering Asa McCoy after the war ended and starting the infamous Hatfield/McCoy feud. Devil Anse Hatfield was portrayed in a recent television series by Kevin Costner, who, despite the lack of any historical support, smoked a nosewarmer cutty in the role, now popular and given the name of the character. <br />
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'''Diplomat''': According to the [[Diplomat|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a diplomat is a pipe shape similar to a prince but a bit larger generally and with an oval shank and stem.<br />
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'''Djebel''': Sometimes referred to as Xanthi-Djebel, Dejebel tobacco is grown closer to the ridge, or djebel, of the Rhodope mountains above Xanthi. While the leaf is probably of the same strain as Yaka leaf, it is much less highly regarded.<br />
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'''Don''': A pipe shape, according to the [[Duke/Don|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], similar to a Duke but with a rudimentary shank and a vulcanite bit. Sometimes, such as by [[Peterson]], called a tankard.<br />
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'''Dottle''': The leftover plug of unburnt tobacco and ash left in the heel of a pipe bowl after smoking. Dottle is avoided by smokers as a waste of tobacco and occasionally souring of the bowl, but is sometimes unavoidable.<br />
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'''Drama''': A sweet type of tobacco with a natural olive oil fragrance grown on the Southern slopes and foothills of the Rhodope Mountains in Greek Eastern Macedonia, and taking its name from the town of the same name. A kabakolak variety, meaning that the leaf has a distinct separate stem similar to basibali, but with "wings" on its leaf stems.<br />
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'''Draught Hole''': Also Draft Hole, the point at which the airway enters the bowl of the pipe, preferably in the center back of the heel to avoid leaving excessive dottle.<br />
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'''Dubec''': 1. The smaller leaves from the upper portion of any variety of Turkish tobacco plant 2. A round package of cured Turkish leaf of any variety, approximately 25-30 pounds in weight.<br />
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'''Dublin''': According to the [[Dublin|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the dublin is a pipe shape with the same proportions as a billiard but with a conical bowl and tapered combustion chamber.<br />
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'''Duke''': A [[Dunhill]] pipe shape that features a cylindrical bowl with no shank, a bone or vulcanite stem and a poker-type canted bottom, according to the [[Duke/Don|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''Ebonite''': The brand name for a very hard rubber first created by Charles Goodyear by vulcanizing rubber for prolonged periods, Ebonite was named for its intended purpose, a replacment for ebony. Commonly referred to as vulcanite in pipe parlance, vulcanite is with acrylic one of the two most popular materials from which stems are made.<br />
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'''Egg''': According to the [[Egg|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the egg is usually but not always a bent pipe with a bowl shaped like an egg, which can be thought of as an elongated apple shape.<br />
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'''Elephant's Foot''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and characterized by straight grained side panels and wide front and back domed surfaces on the bowl exhibiting birdseye. <br />
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'''English''': Aside from the obvious geographical uses, the word "English" is often used among pipe smokers to refer to blends with latakia in them. In reality, however, the term only developed to differentiate blends made in the United Kingdom, especially in the days of the now defunct Tobacco Purity Laws, which prohibited humectants and most flavorings from being added to the tobacco. A more precise term is "latakia based".<br />
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'''English Cavendish''': The name commonly used to refer to dark flue-cured or fire-cured Virginia tobacco which is steamed and then pressed over a period of several days to weeks. It is not flavored as other forms of Cavendish generally are. Rattray's ''Dark Fragrant'' is one example of an available English Cavendish blend. <br />
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'''Eskimo''': According to the [[Ukulele|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a pipe shape by Tom Eltang created as a variation on Ed Burak's bulldog design and sporting a smooth, flat stem and shank with a canted, domed bowl.<br />
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'''Estate Pipe''': A previously owned pipe, whether smoked or un-smoked.<br />
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'''Fire Cured''': Unlike flue cured tobacco, which is cured by indirect heat without smoke, fire cured tobacco is cured with smoke, in the tobacco equivalent of barbecuing. Dark Fired Kentucky and Latakia are both fire cured, and the process results in lower sugars and higher nicotine in the leaf.<br />
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'''Flake''': Flake tobacco is made by slicing thin sheets off of a cube, which in turn is formed by pressing whole tobacco leaves into a compressed form, usually under significant pressure for long periods of time. Flake tobacco may be sold in slices, or fully or partially broken or rubbed out.<br />
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'''Flue Cured''': Flue cured tobacco is cured by heat without smoke, generally by being hung from sticks in a barn exposed to heat from external fires through flues. Traditionally the method for curing brightleaf tobacco, this method results in sweeter leaf with lower nicotine.<br />
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'''Foot''': The bottom of the outside of the bowl, as opposed to the heel, which is the bottom of the inside of the bowl.<br />
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'''Freehand''': Not to be confused with the fixed freehand shapes made by some companies, a true freehand shape is defined by the pipemaker's choice to let the grain of the briar shape the pipe, rather than forcing the pipe into a predetermined shape, according to the [[Freehand|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''Gesteckpfeife''': Literally "pipe in parts", a traditional European pipe made up of several interconnecting parts, usually held together with cork tenons. Bowls can be meerschaum, briar, or porcelain, commonly.<br />
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'''Ghost''': A ghost is the taste or smell of a previously smoked tobacco remaining in a pipe and coloring the taste of a different blend smoked in the same pipe. Generally the cause of tar in the shank, but usually blamed on cake.<br />
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'''Gourd Calabash''': According to the [[Gourd Calabash|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a gourd calabash is a pipe made from a calabash gourd which is dried and the seeds removed, and then fitted with a stem and meerschaum bowl cap. The driest and smoothest of all pipes.<br />
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'''Hand''': A hand is a bundle of tobacco tied at the end and hung from the knot for curing purposes.<br />
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'''Hawkbill''': According to the [[Hawkbill|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the hawkbill is a pipe shape characterized by an enlarged ball or tomato style with a long, tapering bent shank. The premiere example is the Castello 84.j<br />
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'''Heel''': The heel is the bottom of the combustion chamber, the inside of the bowl.<br />
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'''Horn''': According to the [[Horn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the horn is a graceful freehand shape varying from a straight tapering tube to a more standard bent pipe, but in all cases with a smooth tapering from bowl to shank and no abrupt transitions.<br />
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[[File:Horn2.gif|thumb|center|100px|The Horn Shape]]<br />
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'''Hungarian''': More commonly referred to as an Oom Paul, the Hungarian is a fully bent billiard named for former South African President Paulus Kruger, according to the [[Oom Paul/Hungarian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''Intricate Curve''': In pipemaking, a term sometimes used to describe the transition from the rear wall of the bowl to the top of the shank.<br />
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'''Izmir''': A type of Turkish tobacco with rich flavor, low nicotine, and cool smoke. It has a very aromatic nature and is often blended with Latakia to somewhat subdue this property. Primarily used as a condiment with pipe tobacco, but occasionally offered by itself. Also called Smyrna.<br />
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'''Jar''': Tobacco jars have been used for nearly three hundred years as the predominant method for storage of pipe tobacco, whether made from tin, wood, pewter, porcelain, majolica or bisque. By far the most common choice is the simple Ball jar or Mason jar.<br />
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'''Jatim''': A form of Indonesian tobacco and the abbreviated name of the province of East Java (Jawa Timur), where the tobacco is grown.<br />
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'''Kabakolak''': A family of Turkish tobacco strains similar to Basibali, but with wings on their leaf stems in addition to distinct stems.<br />
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'''Katerini''': A Turkish varietal of the Samsun basibali type, with a milder, sweeter leaf. Grown southwest of Thessaloniki in the Greek province of Macedonia.<br />
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'''Kentucky''': Dark-Fired Kentucky is a type of pipe tobacco made from burley which is cured over a fire and flavored by its smoke.<br />
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'''Latakia''': Named for the principal port city of Syria, latakia is not a specific plant varietal, but rather one of a number of Turkish varietals which are fire cured over a stone pine or oak wood fire, giving it a smoky flavor. Most latakia, despite the name, is now grown in Cyprus, not Syria, and camel dung has nothing to do with the process of its creation.<br />
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'''Lovat''': A pipe shape, according to the [[Lovat|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], which is essentially a Canadian but with a round shank instead of oval and a saddle stem.<br />
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'''Lucite''': Lucite is a trade name for acrylic, or polyacrylate, which is derived from natural gas. It is a composition of Methyl Methacrylate and Poly Methyl Methacrylate resin. Lucite is used for pipe stems due to its lack of oxidation, but is criticized for a harder feel on the teeth.<br />
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'''Lületaşi''': A Turkish word literally meaning sea foam and used to refer to meerschaum in that country.<br />
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'''Macedonia''': 1. A province of north-central Greece, west of Thrace, which includes the sea port of Thessaloniki (Salonika) and the Katerini tobacco region 2. A recently independent republic, formerly part of Soviet Yugoslavia, located immediately north of the Greek province of Macedonia, and the source of Prilep tobacco.<br />
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'''Mahale''': A Turkish tobacco with a basma leaf type grown downslope from Xanthi.<br />
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'''Maryland''': An extremely mild tobacco used in a number of American tobacco blends, especially to add a nutty flavor to Burley. Sadly the state of Maryland now pays farmers not to grow tobacco.<br />
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'''Meerschaum''': A mineral hydrous magnesium silicate called sepiolite, primarily found in Turkey near Eskisehr, which is used in the making of tobacco pipes. The word means "seafoam".<br />
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'''Melding''': The term used to refer to a tobacco blend's property to acquire a single homogeneous taste over time, as a result of aging in an airtight container.<br />
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'''Mellowing''': Particularly used in referring to Latakia's tendency to be less overpowering after some aging, the term is sometimes used to refer to a general tendency of tobacco to become more smooth with age.<br />
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'''Mortise''': A mortise is at its most basic a hole cut or drilled to accept a smaller tenon and make a joint. The joint has been used in woodworking for thousands of years, and in pipe construction generally appears as a hole drilled larger than the airway and at the same depth as the stem tenon. Variations, however, are unlimited.<br />
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'''Mouthpiece''': A term used interchangeably with stem and to a lesser degree bit, the mouthpiece is the portion of the pipe meant to be placed in the smoker's mouth, and includes the entire pipe from the end of the shank to the slot. Often made from vulcanite or lucite/acrylic.<br />
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'''Nautilus''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and named for its obvious resemblance to the shell of a nautilus, resulting in an airway passing through a shank curved in a loop and pierced in the center to suggest the closed portion of the shell, a bowl shaped like the long open mouth of the shell, and a foot curving in a near half circle beneath.<br />
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'''Nail''': The simplest form of pipe tool is the venerable Pipe Nail, which generally looks much like its namesake, one end flat to tamp with and another coming to a point or spoon for clearing ash and tar.<br />
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'''Nomenclature''': A general term used to refer to the stamping on a pipe in its entirety, including brand names, models, year and shape codes and the like.<br />
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'''Oliphant''': A traditional name for a hunter's horn made from an elephant tusk, the oliphant shape was first designed by [[Sixten Ivarsson]] for the [[Pibe-Dan]] shop in the late 1950s. According to the [[Horn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]]The shape is a variation of the horn meant to resemble the tusk of an elephant, and with a flat curve and even and gradual tapering throughout.<br />
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'''Oom Paul''': A shape name which actually means Uncle Paul in Dutch, Oom Paul pipes are full bent billiards, according to the [[Oom Paul/Hungarian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]]. The name comes from the nickname for Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, president of the South African Republic from 1883 to 1900 and the face of the Boer cause against Britain during the Second Boer War of 1899 to 1902. Also called a Hungarian.<br />
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'''Opera Pipe''': A shape which the [[Oval|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] refer to as an "Oval" or Pocket pipe, the opera pipe is a billiard with a bowl "squashed" into an oval, with the long side of the oval parallel with the shank and stem. In fact, "opera" pipe is a misnomer. The original name of the pipe was the au pair pipe, as it gained popularity with domestic workers unable to smoke around children.<br />
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'''Oriental''': Used interchangeably with "Turkish" to refer to sun cured condimental tobaccos grown in the Eastern Mediterranean. This category of tobaccos includes Yenidje, Smyrna, Samsun, Izmir, Drama, Xanthe, and often Basma, which is not a particular leaf but a generic Turkish blend, and all that pipe tobacco blenders are often able to find due to the purchase of most oriental varietals by cigarette manufacturers.<br />
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'''Panel Billiard''': According to the [[Panel Billiard|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the Panelled Billiard, also called a foursquare, is a basic billiard shape with flat, or panelled, sides. The classic panel has four flat sides and a round shank.<br />
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'''Pear''': More commonly called an acorn today, according to the [[Pear/Accorn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] the pear is a sort of softened dublin shape, with a conical bowl and tobacco chamber but with all sharp edges rounded.<br />
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'''Perique''': Mistakenly believed to be a nickname for Pierre Chenet and actually a French mispronunciation of an American slang word for a part of the anatomy, perique is a type of tobacco grown only in St. James Parish, Louisiana, sauced and kept under massive pressure in barrels until it turns nearly black. Perique has flavors of spice and plum, and is prized as the truffle of pipe tobaccos.<br />
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'''Pickaxe''': According to the [[Pickaxe|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pickaxe is a freehand style of pipe characterized by a paneled, triangular bowl.<br />
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'''Pipe''': A tube with a small bowl at one end used for the smoking of tobacco.<br />
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'''Pit''': Briar grows underground and as such is prone to picking up bits of sand which create a void in the block, sometimes not noticeable until the pipe is nearly finished. Traditionally pits, or sand pits, would simply be filled with putty and stained over for a value priced pipe.<br />
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'''P-Lip''': A type of pipe mouthpiece invented by Peterson of Dublin and relying on a small hole on the top of a stem rather than a hole at its end. Meant to reduce tongue bite by directing the flow of smoke away from the tongue.<br />
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'''Plug''': Whole leaf, pressed with moisture, becomes a plug, from which flakes can be sliced. Plug tobacco is prepared by slicing off and then rubbing out pieces of the block of tobacco.<br />
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'''Poker''': According to the [[Poker|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the poker is a straight pipe with a cylindrical, flat bottomed bowl designed so that the pipe will stand on its own.<br />
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'''Pot''': According to the [[Pot|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pot is a billiard with a shorter bowl, but not a shorter shank than a standard billiard.<br />
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'''Prilep''': A Sirdily variety of Turkish tobacco commonly grown in the region of the town of Prilep, which is located in the Independent Republic of Macedonia.<br />
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'''Prince''': According to the [[Prince|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the prince is a pipe shape characterized by a squat rounded bowl and along, usually slightly bent stem with a short shank. The pipe was named after Prince Albert, later King Edward VII, the Prince of Wales.<br />
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'''Push/Pull''': The term generally used to describe a two part mortise and tenon system used in meerschaum pipes and developed by Andreas Bauer originally. A push/pull consists of a threaded Delrin tenon and a separate threaded plastic mortise. The preferred method of connecting stem and shank in meerschaum pipes, which lack the durability for long term use of a standard mortise/tenon connection.<br />
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'''Quaint''': A pipe shape hallmarked, generally, by more than four panels, especially with a paneled shank as well.<br />
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'''Ramses''': A pipe shape created by Bo [[Nordh]] and later named by a visiting customer for its resemblance to the statue of Ramses II in Abu Simbel, Egypt. Characterized by a long, wide sloping shank which also serves as the foot of the pipe and a long, tapered bowl which rests almost vertically on the shank. Stems are generally partially bent.<br />
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[[File:Bo Nordh Ramses01.jpg|thumb|center|100px|A Nordh Ramses]]<br />
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'''Reaming''': Trimming back cake from the bowl of a tobacco pipe.<br />
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'''Reamer''': A tool used to trim pipe cake back to an acceptable level. These have been made in countless different forms, adjustable and non-adjustable, for well over a century. Some simply use a pipe knife or sandpaper to accomplish the same task.<br />
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'''Rhodesian''': A subject of great dispute. Unlikely to have been named for Cecil Rhodes, and more likely to have taken its name from Rhodesian tobacco, a Rhodesian is considered by some to be any bent bulldog, by others to be any bulldog with a round shank, and by others any bulldog shape with a greater bowl width than height. For each accepted definition of the word there is a pipe sold which contradicts it, and no consensus is likely.<br />
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'''Room Note''': The smell of a particular tobacco as it is being smoked. Easier to detect by those not smoking the blend, and a key component to the choice of a pipe tobacco blend especially for those who smoke in public environments. Simply put, how pleasing the smoke would be to a bystander.<br />
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'''Samsun''': A Turkish tobacco of the basibali variety with a heart-shaped leaf, grown near the town of Samsun, Turkey on the shores of the Black Sea. Low nicotine tobacco, but with strong flavor and dark color.<br />
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'''Samsun-Maden''': Also called Bafra for the village near Samsun, Samsun-Maden is a basibali Turkish tobacco characterized by leaves which are are small sized and ovalThe leaf faces are red to bright red. This strain can be smoked without blending. Nicotine content is often lower than 1% and sugar content is 9-12%. <br />
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'''Shank''': The portion of a stummel between the bowl and mouthpiece, and generally containing the mortise. The length of the pipe shank is one of the key variables in the shape of a pipe, as is it's shape, whether square, diamond, oval or round.<br />
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'''Shirazi''': Named for the ancient city of Shiraz in south-western Iran and claimed to be native to that country, Shirazi tobacco is thought to have reached Iran from the Americas in the mid 1500s. Once called ''Nicotiana Persica''.<br />
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'''Sirdily''': A category of Turkish basma subvarietals characterized by small, narrow, acutely pointed leaves.<br />
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'''Slot''': A slot is the wide opening at the end of the mouthpiece tapering into the airway of the pipe. Generally seen only on vulcanite and acrylic stems from the last century, the slot is funneled both to make the insertion of a pipe cleaner easier and to make for a smoother flow for the smoke.<br />
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'''Smyrna''': A type of Turkish tobacco with rich flavor, low nicotine, and cool smoke. It has a very aromatic nature and is often blended with Latakia to somewhat subdue this property. Primarily used as a condiment with pipe tobacco, but occasionally offered by itself. Also called Izmir.<br />
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'''Sokhoum''': A type of Turkish varietal of the Samsun basibali type which is deeply fermented. Grown in the mountains above the town of Sokhoum Kale (Sokhumi) in the Republic of Georgia.<br />
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'''Soppeng''': A type of Indonesian tobacco prepared much like a traditional cavendish but using palm sugar as the sweetener, and then fired. Primarily smoked in cigarettes but enjoyed as pipe tobacco also, Soppeng is sometimes flavored with cinnamon or other tastes during preparation.<br />
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'''Sphinx''': A shape created by Bo [[Nordh]] and characterized by a wide domed bowl front cut so as to show birdseye at the center with straight grain radiating out from that point, giving a sunburst pattern. A similar shape, the Mounted Sphinx, was created by [[Geiger Pipes|Love and Sara Geiger]], but was not created as a variation on the shape.<br />
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'''Spiderwebbing''': A term used to describe a possible condition of estate pipes, spiderwebbing is the result of oversmoking but, rather than showing in a single spot like char in the bowl or a burnout, is characterized by a pattern of char lines, which look like shallow cracks and are actually burnt into the wood of the bowl. Can be concealed by any amount of cake or even a bowl coating, and so it is usually only evident in a bowl which has been sanded back to bare wood.<br />
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'''Spur''': A small protrusion at the bottom of traditional clay pipes to ensure a hot bowl does not burn the table. Frequently included in cutty pipes made even in briar and meerschaum in later decades as an ornamental element of the cutty shape. Seen only occasionally today.<br />
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[[File:Spur.jpg|thumb|center|100px|Clay Pipe Resting on Spur]]<br />
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'''Srintil''': A type of heavily fermented, air cured Indonesian tobacco grown in the Java region in the Temangung valley which grows at the top of a plant and by abnormality produces an extreme amount of resin, making it highly potent. Fermentation details are thought to be similar to perique, and in 1983 approximately 3 tons a year of Srintil were grown worldwide. Sometimes extracted in an aqueous solution for use as a flavoring agent.<br />
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'''Stinger''': Sometimes referred to as a "metal filter", "cleaner", or "condenser", a stinger is a metal protrusion containing the last portion of the airway in many pipes, primarily of the mid-20th century. A stinger extends from the tenon on a stem into the shank of the pipe, generally in turn drilled with a deeper mortise to allow space. Stingers were used commonly in non-filtered pipes for the majority of the twentieth century, but are no longer seen.<br />
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[[File:8.jpg|thumb|center|100px|Pipe stem with Stinger]]<br />
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'''Stummel''': German for stump, the stummel is a complete pipe minus only a stem and any final adornments, including the bowl, shank, and transition between the two.<br />
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'''Tambolaka''': An Indonesian tobacco grown in limestone heavy soil and after harvesting rolled into long sticks which are bound and stored for five years. Sold both as pipe tobacco and as a component of Indonesian cigars. Very high in nicotine with a tin note best described as pungent. <br />
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'''Tamp''': Using a tool or finger to compress the contents of the pipe bowl so as to bring unburnt tobacco into contact with the ember.<br />
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'''Tamper''': A tool used to tamp a pipe, generally with a flat end designed for that purpose and a handle. A tamper can be as simple as a piece of dowel or as ornate as the buyer may wish. While it seems inconsequential, tamping is important both for the care of the pipe and the coolness of the smoke.<br />
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'''Tenon''': The tenon is the smaller diameter protrusion at the end of a pipe stem which holds the stem to the stummel. It takes its name from one of the oldest joints in woodworking, the mortise and tenon joint. Over the last two centuries tenons have been made separately with bone screws, cut integrally into a vulcanite stem to fit a cut mortise in the stummel, made from threaded aluminum or plastic, made from aluminum to fit a pre-drilled mortise so as to hold a filter, made from delrin and placed into a drilled hole in the stem, and in other fashions as well. <br />
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'''Tin Note''': As opposed to the aroma of burning tobacco, the tin note is the scent which can be smelled from the unsmoked tobacco when opened, and is considered a good way to begin to understand a new blend and determine to some degree its components and their relative strength.<br />
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'''Trebizond''': No known as Trabzon, Trebizond is grown in Turkey at the southeast shores of the Black Sea. A basibali varietal resembling Samsun, but coarser and stronger.<br />
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'''Turkish''': A term used to refer not only to tobaccos grown in modern day Turkey, but rather to any tobacco grown under the Ottoman Empire, particularly at the height of its power under Suleiman the Magnificent. As a result, while the town of Yenidje, for example, would today be in Greece, yenidje tobacco is still classified as Turkish.<br />
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'''Twist''': A form of tobacco, also known as rope tobacco, which is spun into a roll, largely by hand, rather than being pressed into flakes. One of the oldest forms of smoking tobacco.<br />
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'''Ukulele''': A pipe shape first designed by [[Sixten Ivarsson]] for the [[Pibe-Dan]] shop in the 1950s and named ukulele, some credit Ed [[Burak]] for the design which he considered a bulldog. A ukulele is characterized by a domed, wide bowl and a wide oval shank with a flat bowl bottom, according to the [[Ukulele|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''VaPer''': A portmanteau of Virginia and Perique, vaper is simply the contraction used to refer to blends primarily composed of these two types of tobacco. <br />
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'''Vestpocket''': A pipe characterized by its ability to fit in a vest pocket, notable for its stem, which swivels over the bowl for carrying and swings out for use, according to the [[Vestpocket|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts]]. Generally all corners on the pipe are rounded to make it easier to remove from a pocket.<br />
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'''Virginia''': More appropriately called Brightleaf tobacco, Virginia is used to refer to milder tobacco leaf, lighter in color, which is grown in infertile, sandy soil, largely in North Carolina and Virginia, and which was first grown in approximately 1839. <br />
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'''Volcano''': A pipe shape characterized by a conical bowl narrowing towards the top, usually with a rounded base and a bent shank and saddle stem, according to the [[Volcano|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts]].<br />
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'''Vulcanite''': Hard black vulcanized rubber used for making pipe stems. Made from rubber containing up to 30% sulfur, vulcanite is soft on the teeth but prone to turning brownish yellow and taking on a sulfur smell on exposure to sunlight. This process is called oxidation.<br />
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'''White Burley''': First grown in Brown County, Ohio in 1865 by George Webb, White Burley is the result of planting Red Burley seeds purchased from Kentucky in the different soil of Ohio, which resulted in a mutation of whitish, sickly looking plants. White Burley soon became the chief ingredient in chewing tobacco, American pipe tobacco, and American-style cigarettes. As Red Burley no longer exists, White Burley is simply referred to as Burley today.<br />
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'''Xanthi''': Sometimes spelled Xanthe, this grade of Basma tobacco is named for a city in the Thrace region of northeastern Greece, first led into prosperity around 1715 due to the quality of its highly aromatic tobacco. The scientific name of the leaf is ''Nicotiana tabacum'' L. cv Xanthi.<br />
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'''Yacht''': Another name for the Zulu pipe shape, with a canted dublin bowl, oval shank and 1/8 bent stem. Among others, Kaywoodie used the term Yacht for pipes of this shape.<br />
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'''Yenidje''': Named for the town of Yenidje, Thrace, today called Genisea, Greece, Yenidje is also called Yenice, Jenidze, Yenidge, and Yeniji, and is a variety of Yaka tobacco, the best regarded form of Xanthi. Yenidje was an Ottoman tobacco production center until 1843 when the town burned and the growers moved up the slopes of the Rhodope Mountain range. Those slopes, called the Yaka, were made of a red clay loam mixed with small flint stones giving rise to short, low-yielding plants of the basma type, meaning (in this usage) that the leaves are small, almost round and with no free stem. The leaf burns badly on its own and was traditionally mixed with Bafra to cure this issue.<br />
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'''Zulu''': A shape of smoking pipe hallmarked by a canted dublin style bowl, an oval shank and a 1/8th bent stem. Also referred to as a Woodstock or a Yacht.<br />
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'''Zeppelin''': A name often used to refer to a cigar-shaped pipe of briar with a separate mouthpiece often of vulcanite, usually with a metal cap at the end to hold in the tobacco. Also called a Torpedo.<br />
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'''Acorn''': A pipe shape characterized by a conical shape sometimes extending to a point or near point below the shank or else with a bent shank flowing into the "point" of the acorn shape. Distinguishable from a dublin by a wider and more rounded rim in most cases. <br />
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'''Acrylic''': In pipe parlance, acrylic stems are those made of polymers of acrylic acid or acrylates, most often polymethyl methacrylate, also called acrylic glass. Some prefer this material for pipe stems due to the lack of oxidation, while others prefer a traditional vulcanite stem due to softness.<br />
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'''Aging''': The term used to describe the tendency of pipe tobacco to improve over time through either aerobic or anaerobic fermentation. The term is used interchangeably to describe increased sweetness on the part of Virginias, mellowing on the part of Latakia, or a generally more complete melding of the blend. The effect is often simulated through the use of heat or pressure.<br />
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'''Agonya''': A type of Turkish tobacco of a kabakolak leaf type, meaning it has distinct stems with "wings" on the leaf stems, Agonya was originally grown in the foothills below Xanthi, but is now grown south of the Sea of Marmara, in the region east of Kanakhale, Turkey.<br />
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'''Air-cured''': Air-cured tobacco is hung in well-ventilated barns immediately after plants are cut or leaves pulled from the field and allowed to dry for a period of one to two months. During this process the yellow colors of the leaf turn to varying shades of brown, until they are ready to be fermented and processed. Burley is an air-cured tobacco.<br />
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'''Amber''': Prior to the wide adoption of vulcanite, first invented in 1844 by Charles Goodyear, as a substance for pipe stem making, by far the most common form of pipe stem was one carved from amber. The stems were carved by hand from fossilized tree resin, at which point they could be bent only after heating in oil and over an alcohol flame. While amber is a beautiful natural material which comes in a large variety of colors, the stems are exceedingly brittle and hard on the teeth. Amber stems are still made only in very rare cases.<br />
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'''Apple''': According to the [[Apple|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the classic apple shape is a rounded version of the billiard, and may be had in either bent or straight shanked and tapered and saddle stemmed versions. Popular variations of this shape include the Prince and Author.<br />
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'''Aromatic''': A type of tobacco which is either cased or top flavored in order to produce a taste and room note other than the tobacco's natural smell, whether simply sugar or molasses, whiskey or other alcohols, or many other flavorings. Used as a major category for pipe tobaccos, along with non-aromatic and latakia based blends.<br />
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'''Army Mount''': Also called a "military bit", a pipe with an army mount stem is designed to permit the stem to be removed from the pipe while hot by inclusion of a shank cap, often made of silver, to reinforce the briar. A more elaborate variation of the army mount is the spigot. According to most likely mythological history, the first army mount was invented when a World War One soldier fixed a broken pipe shank by inserting a spent rifle casing into it and piercing a hole for the stem. <br />
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'''Author''': According to the [[Author|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the Author is a beefed-up prince, featuring a flattened ball-shaped bowl and a heavy 1/8 to 1/4 bent stem.<br />
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'''Bafra''': Bafra is a district and village in the Samsun province of Turkey, and the name sometimes given to the Samsun-Maden strain of tobacco, which is a smaller basibali Turkish varietal with low nicotine and a rich flavor.<br />
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'''Ball''': The ball shape, also referred to as a tomato, is described by the [[Author|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], is very similar to an author but with a spherical bowl and thinner shank. According to Mr. Burney the ball generally features a tapered stem with a 1/4 to 1/2 bent.<br />
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'''Ballerina''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and resembling a ballet dancer's foot while en pointe, curving from the heel at the front of the bowl to the toe at the meeting of bowl and shank, itself characterized by a full enough bend to permit the pipe to stand on its own. <br />
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[[File:Nordh Ballerina.jpg|thumb|center|100px|A Bo Nordh Ballerina]]<br />
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'''Bakelite''': A trade name for Polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride. Harder than vulcanite and softer than acrylic, bakelite stems do not oxidize. Largely seen in shades of white and amber yellow.<br />
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'''Basma''': 1. The group of Turkish small-leaf varietals in which the stem of the leaf does not extend beyond the leaf at the main stalk 2. The larger leaves primed from the middle of any variety of Turkish tobacco plant 3. A long, rectangular bale-style of packing cured Turkish leaf, approximately 50-60 pounds, of any variety.<br />
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'''Bead''': Now generally represented by two straight lines around the bowl of a bulldog or rhodesian, a bead is one of only three shapes which can be produced on a lathe, along with a flat and a cove. A bead is a rounded projection from the wood, and in the case of pipes today most beads are cut as inset beads, in that the surrounding wood is level with the top of the bead. Older pipes occasionally featured intricately carved beads. Today, however, rather than cutting a true bead the projection is left flat and only signified by the lines around it.<br />
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'''Bent Pipe''': A generic term used to refer to any pipe where the shank is not a straight horizontal line, regardless of the nature or amount of the shank bend.<br />
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'''Billiard''': The [[Billiard|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] describe a billiard as a pipe shape having a cylindrical bowl and tobacco chamber with a shank about the same length as the height of the bowl. Variations on the billiard shape include the pot and chimney.<br />
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'''Basibali''': A family of Turkish tobaccos characterized by a distinct stem separating the leaf from the stalk. Sometimes referred to as Bashi Bagli.<br />
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'''Bit''': A less than precise term, usually used to refer to the entirety of the stem or mouthpiece on a pipe, but occasionally also used to refer to the bite zone.<br />
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'''Bite Zone''': The last approximately three quarters of an inch of the mouthpiece or stem of a tobacco pipe, including the button.<br />
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'''Bloom''': Also referred to as plume, bloom is a fine white powder which appears on well aged tobacco on occasion, and despite the tendency to confuse it with mold is actually a good sign that the leaf is maturing well. Bloom is caused by the crystallization of sugars on the surface of the tobacco leaf. <br />
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'''Blowfish''': Per the [[Blowfish|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the blowfish is a pipe shape characterized by an asymmetrical flattened ball for a bowl, a bent stem blending into the body, and a combination of birdseye grain on the large panels and straight grain between.<br />
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'''Brandy''': Also referred to as a bent brandy or brandyglass, a pipe shape which resembles the glassware for which it is named. According to the [[Brandy|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pipe is characterized by a rounded base tapering up to a smaller rim, often in a 1/4 bent pipe.<br />
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'''Briar''': Actually a mistranslation of the French bruyère, briar among pipe smokers refers to the wood of the ''erica arborea'', a species of flowering plant in the heather family. After 30 to 60 years of growing time, the football sized plants are harvested, cooked, dried for several months, and further processed before they are made into pipes. <br />
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'''Bullcap''': According to the [[Bullcap|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the bullcap is a squat straight rhodesian with a large bowl diameter.<br />
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'''Bulldog''': According to the [[Bulldog|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the classic bulldog has a tapered stem, diamond shank and slightly forward canted bowl shaped someone like two cones joined at the bases with the top cone cut off. The pipe is traditionally adorned with a bead around the bowl. <br />
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'''Bullmoose''': According to the [[Bullcap|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a bullmoose is a squat rhodesian with a very heavy 1/4 bent stem.<br />
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'''Burley''': A tobacco of light-colored variety grown primarily in Kentucky and Tennessee, the bulk of burley tobacco produced in the United States is used for cigarette production. All burley today is of the white burley variety, and is often sweetened due to the low natural sugars present in the leaf. Most aromatics use a base of burley due to its ready ability to absorb flavors. While some claim burley does not age, it does improve with time. However, this takes time measured in the several decades at least.<br />
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'''Burnout''': A term used to refer to a possible condition in estate pipes which, short of extraordinary effort on the part of a capable restorer, generally means the death of a particular pipe. A burnout is a spot where char has actually penetrated or begun to penetrate the outer layer of the bowl. Usually caused by hot smoking, although some claim burnout is always the fault of an unseen flaw in the briar. Uneven packing can also result in one spot suffering more damage than others. While most smokers stop smoking a particular pipe when burnout begins to appear, some continue smoking until they have burned straight through a wall or the foot of the pipe.<br />
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'''Button''': The button is the raised portion at the end of a pipe mouthpiece or stem intended to permit the teeth purchase to hold the pipe.<br />
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'''Cake''': Cake refers to the buildup of residual carbon that forms in the bowl of a pipe. Most recommend trimming back the buildup to keep it at roughly the width of a dime in a briar pipe in order to create a protective layer which cools the pipe and reduces moisture. Cake is frowned upon in meerschaums, and the subject of much debate among corn cob pipe smokers.<br />
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'''Calabash''': According to the [[Calabash|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the calabash is a solid wood interpretation of the gourd calabash with a tapered bowl flared at the rim and a dome shaped top. The tobacco chamber is usually tapered and the pipe 3/4 bent, but there are variations.<br />
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'''Canadian''': According to the [[Canadian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the canadian is a long-shanked billiard with an oval shank and a tapered bit. The shank is roughly twice as long as the height of the bowl. Variations on this shape include the lumbermand, lovat and liverpool.<br />
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'''Casing''': Whether sprayed with or soaked in a sauce, casing refers to the addition of flavoring, sugar or the like prior to the finishing of the tobacco, as opposed to top-flavouring, which is added by spraying the finished blend with scents and flavours.<br />
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'''Cavendish''': There are two forms of Cavendish, which is more a process of curing and a method of cutting tobacco than a type of it. Common cavendish is made when tobacco leaves are pressed into a cake about an inch thick and heated before being allowed to ferment, resulting in a mild and sweet tobacco. Flavoring is often added before the leaves are pressed. English Cavendish uses a dark flue or fire cured Virginia , which is steamed and then stored under pressure to permit it to cure and ferment for several days or weeks.<br />
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'''Char''': Used to refer to wood that has actually begun to burn, usually at the start of a burnout in a bowl or, far more likely and most often due to lighter abuse, at the rim. <br />
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'''Cherrywood''': According to the [[Cherrywood|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a cherrywood is a bent poker. The name cherrywood derives from the pipe shape's origin as a copy of the cherry wood pipes made by Eugène-Léon Ropp and others in mid-19th century France.<br />
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'''Churchwarden''': According to the [[Churchwarden|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the churchwarden is the only pipe defined by the shape of its stem, rather than its bowl. Whether bent or straight, the stem on a churchwarden is 9 to 18 inches long, but not so long as to make lighting the pipe while holding it in the mouth impossible.<br />
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'''Cigar Leaf''': A generic term used to describe a great many different types of leaf primarily used in cigars which are also included in pipe tobacco. Connecticut Broadleaf and Cuban-Seed Varietals are frequently used among others to add flavor to a blend.<br />
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'''Cob''': The common parlance for a corn cob pipe, which in its loosest definition is simply any pipe with a bowl made from a dried and drilled corncob. Traditionally fitted with river cane stems, most modern cobs have wood shanks and plastic bits. <br />
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'''Coin''': A term used to refer to a single slice of tobacco cut from a rope or twist, and resembling a flake, except that it is round and often thinner.<br />
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'''Cumberland''': Called brindle by Dunhill and others, cumberland is a form of vulcanite made with brown and red pigment added to the rubber to give it a marble like appearance.<br />
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'''Curly Cut''': A term used to refer to tobacco which has been sliced from rope or twist tobacco into thin "coins", similar to flakes excepting that they are thinner and round.<br />
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'''Cut''': Pipe tobacco may be cut as shag, ribbon, flake, plug, rope, discs, coins, or in other forms. These terms simply refer to the manner in which the finished product is reduced into a small enough size to consume. The most common cut is ribbon cut.<br />
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'''Cutty''': According to the [[Cutty|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a cutty has a very canted tulip shaped bowl and a slightly bent stem with a tapered bit. The word cutty simply means "cut shorter". Cutty pipes occasionally and traditionally sport a "spur", or a small foot protruding from the base of the bowl.<br />
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'''Czech Tool''': Also called a 3-way pipe tool, a combined tamper, shank clearing tool and dottle spoon on a single rotating rivet. Called a Czech tool for the original country of manufacture of most of the tools, they are largely Chinese made today.<br />
[[File:Czech Tool.jpg|center|thumb|A Czech Tool.]]<br />
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== D ==<br />
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'''Delayed Gratification Technique''': Or DGT, the habit of some pipe smokers to light a pipe and leave it to sit for hours or even days before completing the smoke. Many blends gain a far different taste profile from this technique which some find pleasant.<br />
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'''Delrin''': A brand name for polyoxymethylne or POM, also called acetal, polyacetal, or polyformaldehyde, delrin is a thermoplastic used by pipe makers as a material for non-integral stem tenons, and for screw-in tenons for meerschaum push/pull connections. Delrin is appreciated as a "self-lubricating" material, meaning that it has a low drag coefficient to interfere with the smooth passage of smoke, and for the ease of reliance on separate stems and tenons.<br />
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'''Devil Anse''': The name of a notorious West Virginia Confederate veteran suspected of murdering Asa McCoy after the war ended and starting the infamous Hatfield/McCoy feud. Devil Anse Hatfield was portrayed in a recent television series by Kevin Costner, who, despite the lack of any historical support, smoked a nosewarmer cutty in the role, now popular and given the name of the character. <br />
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'''Diplomat''': According to the [[Diplomat|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a diplomat is a pipe shape similar to a prince but a bit larger generally and with an oval shank and stem.<br />
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'''Djebel''': Sometimes referred to as Xanthi-Djebel, Dejebel tobacco is grown closer to the ridge, or djebel, of the Rhodope mountains above Xanthi. While the leaf is probably of the same strain as Yaka leaf, it is much less highly regarded.<br />
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'''Don''': A pipe shape, according to the [[Duke/Don|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], similar to a Duke but with a rudimentary shank and a vulcanite bit. Sometimes, such as by [[Peterson]], called a tankard.<br />
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'''Dottle''': The leftover plug of unburnt tobacco and ash left in the heel of a pipe bowl after smoking. Dottle is avoided by smokers as a waste of tobacco and occasionally souring of the bowl, but is sometimes unavoidable.<br />
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'''Drama''': A sweet type of tobacco with a natural olive oil fragrance grown on the Southern slopes and foothills of the Rhodope Mountains in Greek Eastern Macedonia, and taking its name from the town of the same name. A kabakolak variety, meaning that the leaf has a distinct separate stem similar to basibali, but with "wings" on its leaf stems.<br />
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'''Draught Hole''': Also Draft Hole, the point at which the airway enters the bowl of the pipe, preferably in the center back of the heel to avoid leaving excessive dottle.<br />
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'''Dubec''': 1. The smaller leaves from the upper portion of any variety of Turkish tobacco plant 2. A round package of cured Turkish leaf of any variety, approximately 25-30 pounds in weight.<br />
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'''Dublin''': According to the [[Dublin|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the dublin is a pipe shape with the same proportions as a billiard but with a conical bowl and tapered combustion chamber.<br />
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'''Duke''': A [[Dunhill]] pipe shape that features a cylindrical bowl with no shank, a bone or vulcanite stem and a poker-type canted bottom, according to the [[Duke/Don|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''Ebonite''': The brand name for a very hard rubber first created by Charles Goodyear by vulcanizing rubber for prolonged periods, Ebonite was named for its intended purpose, a replacment for ebony. Commonly referred to as vulcanite in pipe parlance, vulcanite is with acrylic one of the two most popular materials from which stems are made.<br />
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'''Egg''': According to the [[Egg|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the egg is usually but not always a bent pipe with a bowl shaped like an egg, which can be thought of as an elongated apple shape.<br />
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'''Elephant's Foot''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and characterized by straight grained side panels and wide front and back domed surfaces on the bowl exhibiting birdseye. <br />
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'''English''': Aside from the obvious geographical uses, the word "English" is often used among pipe smokers to refer to blends with latakia in them. In reality, however, the term only developed to differentiate blends made in the United Kingdom, especially in the days of the now defunct Tobacco Purity Laws, which prohibited humectants and most flavorings from being added to the tobacco. A more precise term is "latakia based".<br />
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'''English Cavendish''': The name commonly used to refer to dark flue-cured or fire-cured Virginia tobacco which is steamed and then pressed over a period of several days to weeks. It is not flavored as other forms of Cavendish generally are. Rattray's ''Dark Fragrant'' is one example of an available English Cavendish blend. <br />
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'''Eskimo''': According to the [[Ukulele|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a pipe shape by Tom Eltang created as a variation on Ed Burak's bulldog design and sporting a smooth, flat stem and shank with a canted, domed bowl.<br />
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'''Estate Pipe''': A previously owned pipe, whether smoked or un-smoked.<br />
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== F ==<br />
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'''Fire Cured''': Unlike flue cured tobacco, which is cured by indirect heat without smoke, fire cured tobacco is cured with smoke, in the tobacco equivalent of barbecuing. Dark Fired Kentucky and Latakia are both fire cured, and the process results in lower sugars and higher nicotine in the leaf.<br />
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'''Flake''': Flake tobacco is made by slicing thin sheets off of a cube, which in turn is formed by pressing whole tobacco leaves into a compressed form, usually under significant pressure for long periods of time. Flake tobacco may be sold in slices, or fully or partially broken or rubbed out.<br />
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'''Flue Cured''': Flue cured tobacco is cured by heat without smoke, generally by being hung from sticks in a barn exposed to heat from external fires through flues. Traditionally the method for curing brightleaf tobacco, this method results in sweeter leaf with lower nicotine.<br />
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'''Foot''': The bottom of the outside of the bowl, as opposed to the heel, which is the bottom of the inside of the bowl.<br />
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'''Freehand''': Not to be confused with the fixed freehand shapes made by some companies, a true freehand shape is defined by the pipemaker's choice to let the grain of the briar shape the pipe, rather than forcing the pipe into a predetermined shape, according to the [[Freehand|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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== G ==<br />
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'''Gesteckpfeife''': Literally "pipe in parts", a traditional European pipe made up of several interconnecting parts, usually held together with cork tenons. Bowls can be meerschaum, briar, or porcelain, commonly.<br />
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'''Ghost''': A ghost is the taste or smell of a previously smoked tobacco remaining in a pipe and coloring the taste of a different blend smoked in the same pipe. Generally the cause of tar in the shank, but usually blamed on cake.<br />
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'''Gourd Calabash''': According to the [[Gourd Calabash|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a gourd calabash is a pipe made from a calabash gourd which is dried and the seeds removed, and then fitted with a stem and meerschaum bowl cap. The driest and smoothest of all pipes.<br />
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'''Hand''': A hand is a bundle of tobacco tied at the end and hung from the knot for curing purposes.<br />
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'''Hawkbill''': According to the [[Hawkbill|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the hawkbill is a pipe shape characterized by an enlarged ball or tomato style with a long, tapering bent shank. The premiere example is the Castello 84.j<br />
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'''Heel''': The heel is the bottom of the combustion chamber, the inside of the bowl.<br />
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'''Horn''': According to the [[Horn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the horn is a graceful freehand shape varying from a straight tapering tube to a more standard bent pipe, but in all cases with a smooth tapering from bowl to shank and no abrupt transitions.<br />
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[[File:Horn2.gif|thumb|center|100px|The Horn Shape]]<br />
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'''Hungarian''': More commonly referred to as an Oom Paul, the Hungarian is a fully bent billiard named for former South African President Paulus Kruger, according to the [[Oom Paul/Hungarian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''Intricate Curve''': In pipemaking, a term sometimes used to describe the transition from the rear wall of the bowl to the top of the shank.<br />
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'''Izmir''': A type of Turkish tobacco with rich flavor, low nicotine, and cool smoke. It has a very aromatic nature and is often blended with Latakia to somewhat subdue this property. Primarily used as a condiment with pipe tobacco, but occasionally offered by itself. Also called Smyrna.<br />
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'''Jar''': Tobacco jars have been used for nearly three hundred years as the predominant method for storage of pipe tobacco, whether made from tin, wood, pewter, porcelain, majolica or bisque. By far the most common choice is the simple Ball jar or Mason jar.<br />
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'''Jatim''': A form of Indonesian tobacco and the abbreviated name of the province of East Java (Jawa Timur), where the tobacco is grown.<br />
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'''Kabakolak''': A family of Turkish tobacco strains similar to Basibali, but with wings on their leaf stems in addition to distinct stems.<br />
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'''Katerini''': A Turkish varietal of the Samsun basibali type, with a milder, sweeter leaf. Grown southwest of Thessaloniki in the Greek province of Macedonia.<br />
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'''Kentucky''': Dark-Fired Kentucky is a type of pipe tobacco made from burley which is cured over a fire and flavored by its smoke.<br />
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'''Latakia''': Named for the principal port city of Syria, latakia is not a specific plant varietal, but rather one of a number of Turkish varietals which are fire cured over a stone pine or oak wood fire, giving it a smoky flavor. Most latakia, despite the name, is now grown in Cyprus, not Syria, and camel dung has nothing to do with the process of its creation.<br />
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'''Lovat''': A pipe shape, according to the [[Lovat|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], which is essentially a Canadian but with a round shank instead of oval and a saddle stem.<br />
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'''Lucite''': Lucite is a trade name for acrylic, or polyacrylate, which is derived from natural gas. It is a composition of Methyl Methacrylate and Poly Methyl Methacrylate resin. Lucite is used for pipe stems due to its lack of oxidation, but is criticized for a harder feel on the teeth.<br />
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'''Lületaşi''': A Turkish word literally meaning sea foam and used to refer to meerschaum in that country.<br />
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'''Macedonia''': 1. A province of north-central Greece, west of Thrace, which includes the sea port of Thessaloniki (Salonika) and the Katerini tobacco region 2. A recently independent republic, formerly part of Soviet Yugoslavia, located immediately north of the Greek province of Macedonia, and the source of Prilep tobacco.<br />
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'''Mahale''': A Turkish tobacco with a basma leaf type grown downslope from Xanthi.<br />
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'''Maryland''': An extremely mild tobacco used in a number of American tobacco blends, especially to add a nutty flavor to Burley. Sadly the state of Maryland now pays farmers not to grow tobacco.<br />
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'''Meerschaum''': A mineral hydrous magnesium silicate called sepiolite, primarily found in Turkey near Eskisehr, which is used in the making of tobacco pipes. The word means "seafoam".<br />
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'''Melding''': The term used to refer to a tobacco blend's property to acquire a single homogeneous taste over time, as a result of aging in an airtight container.<br />
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'''Mellowing''': Particularly used in referring to Latakia's tendency to be less overpowering after some aging, the term is sometimes used to refer to a general tendency of tobacco to become more smooth with age.<br />
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'''Mortise''': A mortise is at its most basic a hole cut or drilled to accept a smaller tenon and make a joint. The joint has been used in woodworking for thousands of years, and in pipe construction generally appears as a hole drilled larger than the airway and at the same depth as the stem tenon. Variations, however, are unlimited.<br />
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'''Mouthpiece''': A term used interchangeably with stem and to a lesser degree bit, the mouthpiece is the portion of the pipe meant to be placed in the smoker's mouth, and includes the entire pipe from the end of the shank to the slot. Often made from vulcanite or lucite/acrylic.<br />
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'''Nautilus''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and named for its obvious resemblance to the shell of a nautilus, resulting in an airway passing through a shank curved in a loop and pierced in the center to suggest the closed portion of the shell, a bowl shaped like the long open mouth of the shell, and a foot curving in a near half circle beneath.<br />
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'''Nail''': The simplest form of pipe tool is the venerable Pipe Nail, which generally looks much like its namesake, one end flat to tamp with and another coming to a point or spoon for clearing ash and tar.<br />
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'''Nomenclature''': A general term used to refer to the stamping on a pipe in its entirety, including brand names, models, year and shape codes and the like.<br />
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== O ==<br />
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'''Oliphant''': A traditional name for a hunter's horn made from an elephant tusk, the oliphant shape was first designed by [[Sixten Ivarsson]] for the [[Pibe-Dan]] shop in the late 1950s. According to the [[Horn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]]The shape is a variation of the horn meant to resemble the tusk of an elephant, and with a flat curve and even and gradual tapering throughout.<br />
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'''Oom Paul''': A shape name which actually means Uncle Paul in Dutch, Oom Paul pipes are full bent billiards, according to the [[Oom Paul/Hungarian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]]. The name comes from the nickname for Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, president of the South African Republic from 1883 to 1900 and the face of the Boer cause against Britain during the Second Boer War of 1899 to 1902. Also called a Hungarian.<br />
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'''Opera Pipe''': A shape which the [[Oval|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] refer to as an "Oval" or Pocket pipe, the opera pipe is a billiard with a bowl "squashed" into an oval, with the long side of the oval parallel with the shank and stem. In fact, "opera" pipe is a misnomer. The original name of the pipe was the au pair pipe, as it gained popularity with domestic workers unable to smoke around children.<br />
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'''Oriental''': Used interchangeably with "Turkish" to refer to sun cured condimental tobaccos grown in the Eastern Mediterranean. This category of tobaccos includes Yenidje, Smyrna, Samsun, Izmir, Drama, Xanthe, and often Basma, which is not a particular leaf but a generic Turkish blend, and all that pipe tobacco blenders are often able to find due to the purchase of most oriental varietals by cigarette manufacturers.<br />
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== P ==<br />
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'''Panel Billiard''': According to the [[Panel Billiard|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the Panelled Billiard, also called a foursquare, is a basic billiard shape with flat, or panelled, sides. The classic panel has four flat sides and a round shank.<br />
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'''Pear''': More commonly called an acorn today, according to the [[Pear/Accorn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] the pear is a sort of softened dublin shape, with a conical bowl and tobacco chamber but with all sharp edges rounded.<br />
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'''Perique''': Mistakenly believed to be a nickname for Pierre Chenet and actually a French mispronunciation of an American slang word for a part of the anatomy, perique is a type of tobacco grown only in St. James Parish, Louisiana, sauced and kept under massive pressure in barrels until it turns nearly black. Perique has flavors of spice and plum, and is prized as the truffle of pipe tobaccos.<br />
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'''Pickaxe''': According to the [[Pickaxe|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pickaxe is a freehand style of pipe characterized by a paneled, triangular bowl.<br />
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'''Pipe''': A tube with a small bowl at one end used for the smoking of tobacco.<br />
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'''P-Lip''': A type of pipe mouthpiece invented by Peterson of Dublin and relying on a small hole on the top of a stem rather than a hole at its end. Meant to reduce tongue bite by directing the flow of smoke away from the tongue.<br />
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'''Plug''': Whole leaf, pressed with moisture, becomes a plug, from which flakes can be sliced. Plug tobacco is prepared by slicing off and then rubbing out pieces of the block of tobacco.<br />
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'''Poker''': According to the [[Poker|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the poker is a straight pipe with a cylindrical, flat bottomed bowl designed so that the pipe will stand on its own.<br />
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'''Pot''': According to the [[Pot|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pot is a billiard with a shorter bowl, but not a shorter shank than a standard billiard.<br />
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'''Prilep''': A Sirdily variety of Turkish tobacco commonly grown in the region of the town of Prilep, which is located in the Independent Republic of Macedonia.<br />
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'''Prince''': According to the [[Prince|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the prince is a pipe shape characterized by a squat rounded bowl and along, usually slightly bent stem with a short shank. The pipe was named after Prince Albert, later King Edward VII, the Prince of Wales.<br />
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'''Push/Pull''': The term generally used to describe a two part mortise and tenon system used in meerschaum pipes and developed by Andreas Bauer originally. A push/pull consists of a threaded Delrin tenon and a separate threaded plastic mortise. The preferred method of connecting stem and shank in meerschaum pipes, which lack the durability for long term use of a standard mortise/tenon connection.<br />
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'''Quaint''': A pipe shape hallmarked, generally, by more than four panels, especially with a paneled shank as well.<br />
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'''Ramses''': A pipe shape created by Bo [[Nordh]] and later named by a visiting customer for its resemblance to the statue of Ramses II in Abu Simbel, Egypt. Characterized by a long, wide sloping shank which also serves as the foot of the pipe and a long, tapered bowl which rests almost vertically on the shank. Stems are generally partially bent.<br />
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[[File:Bo Nordh Ramses01.jpg|thumb|center|100px|A Nordh Ramses]]<br />
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'''Reaming''': Trimming back cake from the bowl of a tobacco pipe.<br />
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'''Reamer''': A tool used to trim pipe cake back to an acceptable level. These have been made in countless different forms, adjustable and non-adjustable, for well over a century. Some simply use a pipe knife or sandpaper to accomplish the same task.<br />
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'''Rhodesian''': A subject of great dispute. Unlikely to have been named for Cecil Rhodes, and more likely to have taken its name from Rhodesian tobacco, a Rhodesian is considered by some to be any bent bulldog, by others to be any bulldog with a round shank, and by others any bulldog shape with a greater bowl width than height. For each accepted definition of the word there is a pipe sold which contradicts it, and no consensus is likely.<br />
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'''Room Note''': The smell of a particular tobacco as it is being smoked. Easier to detect by those not smoking the blend, and a key component to the choice of a pipe tobacco blend especially for those who smoke in public environments. Simply put, how pleasing the smoke would be to a bystander.<br />
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'''Samsun''': A Turkish tobacco of the basibali variety with a heart-shaped leaf, grown near the town of Samsun, Turkey on the shores of the Black Sea. Low nicotine tobacco, but with strong flavor and dark color.<br />
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'''Samsun-Maden''': Also called Bafra for the village near Samsun, Samsun-Maden is a basibali Turkish tobacco characterized by leaves which are are small sized and ovalThe leaf faces are red to bright red. This strain can be smoked without blending. Nicotine content is often lower than 1% and sugar content is 9-12%. <br />
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'''Shank''': The portion of a stummel between the bowl and mouthpiece, and generally containing the mortise. The length of the pipe shank is one of the key variables in the shape of a pipe, as is it's shape, whether square, diamond, oval or round.<br />
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'''Shirazi''': Named for the ancient city of Shiraz in south-western Iran and claimed to be native to that country, Shirazi tobacco is thought to have reached Iran from the Americas in the mid 1500s. Once called ''Nicotiana Persica''.<br />
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'''Sirdily''': A category of Turkish basma subvarietals characterized by small, narrow, acutely pointed leaves.<br />
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'''Slot''': A slot is the wide opening at the end of the mouthpiece tapering into the airway of the pipe. Generally seen only on vulcanite and acrylic stems from the last century, the slot is funneled both to make the insertion of a pipe cleaner easier and to make for a smoother flow for the smoke.<br />
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'''Smyrna''': A type of Turkish tobacco with rich flavor, low nicotine, and cool smoke. It has a very aromatic nature and is often blended with Latakia to somewhat subdue this property. Primarily used as a condiment with pipe tobacco, but occasionally offered by itself. Also called Izmir.<br />
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'''Sokhoum''': A type of Turkish varietal of the Samsun basibali type which is deeply fermented. Grown in the mountains above the town of Sokhoum Kale (Sokhumi) in the Republic of Georgia.<br />
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'''Soppeng''': A type of Indonesian tobacco prepared much like a traditional cavendish but using palm sugar as the sweetener, and then fired. Primarily smoked in cigarettes but enjoyed as pipe tobacco also, Soppeng is sometimes flavored with cinnamon or other tastes during preparation.<br />
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'''Sphinx''': A shape created by Bo [[Nordh]] and characterized by a wide domed bowl front cut so as to show birdseye at the center with straight grain radiating out from that point, giving a sunburst pattern. A similar shape, the Mounted Sphinx, was created by [[Geiger Pipes|Love and Sara Geiger]], but was not created as a variation on the shape.<br />
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'''Spiderwebbing''': A term used to describe a possible condition of estate pipes, spiderwebbing is the result of oversmoking but, rather than showing in a single spot like char in the bowl or a burnout, is characterized by a pattern of char lines, which look like shallow cracks and are actually burnt into the wood of the bowl. Can be concealed by any amount of cake or even a bowl coating, and so it is usually only evident in a bowl which has been sanded back to bare wood.<br />
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'''Spur''': A small protrusion at the bottom of traditional clay pipes to ensure a hot bowl does not burn the table. Frequently included in cutty pipes made even in briar and meerschaum in later decades as an ornamental element of the cutty shape. Seen only occasionally today.<br />
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[[File:Spur.jpg|thumb|center|100px|Clay Pipe Resting on Spur]]<br />
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'''Srintil''': A type of heavily fermented, air cured Indonesian tobacco grown in the Java region in the Temangung valley which grows at the top of a plant and by abnormality produces an extreme amount of resin, making it highly potent. Fermentation details are thought to be similar to perique, and in 1983 approximately 3 tons a year of Srintil were grown worldwide. Sometimes extracted in an aqueous solution for use as a flavoring agent.<br />
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'''Stinger''': Sometimes referred to as a "metal filter", "cleaner", or "condenser", a stinger is a metal protrusion containing the last portion of the airway in many pipes, primarily of the mid-20th century. A stinger extends from the tenon on a stem into the shank of the pipe, generally in turn drilled with a deeper mortise to allow space. Stingers were used commonly in non-filtered pipes for the majority of the twentieth century, but are no longer seen.<br />
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[[File:8.jpg|thumb|center|100px|Pipe stem with Stinger]]<br />
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'''Stummel''': German for stump, the stummel is a complete pipe minus only a stem and any final adornments, including the bowl, shank, and transition between the two.<br />
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'''Tambolaka''': An Indonesian tobacco grown in limestone heavy soil and after harvesting rolled into long sticks which are bound and stored for five years. Sold both as pipe tobacco and as a component of Indonesian cigars. Very high in nicotine with a tin note best described as pungent. <br />
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'''Tamp''': Using a tool or finger to compress the contents of the pipe bowl so as to bring unburnt tobacco into contact with the ember.<br />
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'''Tamper''': A tool used to tamp a pipe, generally with a flat end designed for that purpose and a handle. A tamper can be as simple as a piece of dowel or as ornate as the buyer may wish. While it seems inconsequential, tamping is important both for the care of the pipe and the coolness of the smoke.<br />
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'''Tenon''': The tenon is the smaller diameter protrusion at the end of a pipe stem which holds the stem to the stummel. It takes its name from one of the oldest joints in woodworking, the mortise and tenon joint. Over the last two centuries tenons have been made separately with bone screws, cut integrally into a vulcanite stem to fit a cut mortise in the stummel, made from threaded aluminum or plastic, made from aluminum to fit a pre-drilled mortise so as to hold a filter, made from delrin and placed into a drilled hole in the stem, and in other fashions as well. <br />
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'''Tin Note''': As opposed to the aroma of burning tobacco, the tin note is the scent which can be smelled from the unsmoked tobacco when opened, and is considered a good way to begin to understand a new blend and determine to some degree its components and their relative strength.<br />
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'''Trebizond''': No known as Trabzon, Trebizond is grown in Turkey at the southeast shores of the Black Sea. A basibali varietal resembling Samsun, but coarser and stronger.<br />
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'''Turkish''': A term used to refer not only to tobaccos grown in modern day Turkey, but rather to any tobacco grown under the Ottoman Empire, particularly at the height of its power under Suleiman the Magnificent. As a result, while the town of Yenidje, for example, would today be in Greece, yenidje tobacco is still classified as Turkish.<br />
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'''Twist''': A form of tobacco, also known as rope tobacco, which is spun into a roll, largely by hand, rather than being pressed into flakes. One of the oldest forms of smoking tobacco.<br />
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'''Ukulele''': A pipe shape first designed by [[Sixten Ivarsson]] for the [[Pibe-Dan]] shop in the 1950s and named ukulele, some credit Ed [[Burak]] for the design which he considered a bulldog. A ukulele is characterized by a domed, wide bowl and a wide oval shank with a flat bowl bottom, according to the [[Ukulele|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''VaPer''': A portmanteau of Virginia and Perique, vaper is simply the contraction used to refer to blends primarily composed of these two types of tobacco. <br />
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'''Vestpocket''': A pipe characterized by its ability to fit in a vest pocket, notable for its stem, which swivels over the bowl for carrying and swings out for use, according to the [[Vestpocket|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts]]. Generally all corners on the pipe are rounded to make it easier to remove from a pocket.<br />
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'''Virginia''': More appropriately called Brightleaf tobacco, Virginia is used to refer to milder tobacco leaf, lighter in color, which is grown in infertile, sandy soil, largely in North Carolina and Virginia, and which was first grown in approximately 1839. <br />
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'''Volcano''': A pipe shape characterized by a conical bowl narrowing towards the top, usually with a rounded base and a bent shank and saddle stem, according to the [[Volcano|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts]].<br />
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'''Vulcanite''': Hard black vulcanized rubber used for making pipe stems. Made from rubber containing up to 30% sulfur, vulcanite is soft on the teeth but prone to turning brownish yellow and taking on a sulfur smell on exposure to sunlight. This process is called oxidation.<br />
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'''White Burley''': First grown in Brown County, Ohio in 1865 by George Webb, White Burley is the result of planting Red Burley seeds purchased from Kentucky in the different soil of Ohio, which resulted in a mutation of whitish, sickly looking plants. White Burley soon became the chief ingredient in chewing tobacco, American pipe tobacco, and American-style cigarettes. As Red Burley no longer exists, White Burley is simply referred to as Burley today.<br />
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'''Xanthi''': Sometimes spelled Xanthe, this grade of Basma tobacco is named for a city in the Thrace region of northeastern Greece, first led into prosperity around 1715 due to the quality of its highly aromatic tobacco. The scientific name of the leaf is ''Nicotiana tabacum'' L. cv Xanthi.<br />
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== Y ==<br />
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'''Yacht''': Another name for the Zulu pipe shape, with a canted dublin bowl, oval shank and 1/8 bent stem. Among others, Kaywoodie used the term Yacht for pipes of this shape.<br />
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'''Yenidje''': Named for the town of Yenidje, Thrace, today called Genisea, Greece, Yenidje is also called Yenice, Jenidze, Yenidge, and Yeniji, and is a variety of Yaka tobacco, the best regarded form of Xanthi. Yenidje was an Ottoman tobacco production center until 1843 when the town burned and the growers moved up the slopes of the Rhodope Mountain range. Those slopes, called the Yaka, were made of a red clay loam mixed with small flint stones giving rise to short, low-yielding plants of the basma type, meaning (in this usage) that the leaves are small, almost round and with no free stem. The leaf burns badly on its own and was traditionally mixed with Bafra to cure this issue.<br />
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'''Zulu''': A shape of smoking pipe hallmarked by a canted dublin style bowl, an oval shank and a 1/8th bent stem. Also referred to as a Woodstock or a Yacht.<br />
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'''Zeppelin''': A name often used to refer to a cigar-shaped pipe of briar with a separate mouthpiece often of vulcanite, usually with a metal cap at the end to hold in the tobacco. Also called a Torpedo.<br />
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'''Acorn''': A pipe shape characterized by a conical shape sometimes extending to a point or near point below the shank or else with a bent shank flowing into the "point" of the acorn shape. Distinguishable from a dublin by a wider and more rounded rim in most cases. <br />
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'''Acrylic''': In pipe parlance, acrylic stems are those made of polymers of acrylic acid or acrylates, most often polymethyl methacrylate, also called acrylic glass. Some prefer this material for pipe stems due to the lack of oxidation, while others prefer a traditional vulcanite stem due to softness.<br />
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'''Aging''': The term used to describe the tendency of pipe tobacco to improve over time through either aerobic or anaerobic fermentation. The term is used interchangeably to describe increased sweetness on the part of Virginias, mellowing on the part of Latakia, or a generally more complete melding of the blend. The effect is often simulated through the use of heat or pressure.<br />
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'''Agonya''': A type of Turkish tobacco of a kabakolak leaf type, meaning it has distinct stems with "wings" on the leaf stems, Agonya was originally grown in the foothills below Xanthi, but is now grown south of the Sea of Marmara, in the region east of Kanakhale, Turkey.<br />
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'''Air-cured''': Air-cured tobacco is hung in well-ventilated barns immediately after plants are cut or leaves pulled from the field and allowed to dry for a period of one to two months. During this process the yellow colors of the leaf turn to varying shades of brown, until they are ready to be fermented and processed. Burley is an air-cured tobacco.<br />
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'''Amber''': Prior to the wide adoption of vulcanite, first invented in 1844 by Charles Goodyear, as a substance for pipe stem making, by far the most common form of pipe stem was one carved from amber. The stems were carved by hand from fossilized tree resin, at which point they could be bent only after heating in oil and over an alcohol flame. While amber is a beautiful natural material which comes in a large variety of colors, the stems are exceedingly brittle and hard on the teeth. Amber stems are still made only in very rare cases.<br />
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'''Apple''': According to the [[Apple|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the classic apple shape is a rounded version of the billiard, and may be had in either bent or straight shanked and tapered and saddle stemmed versions. Popular variations of this shape include the Prince and Author.<br />
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'''Aromatic''': A type of tobacco which is either cased or top flavored in order to produce a taste and room note other than the tobacco's natural smell, whether simply sugar or molasses, whiskey or other alcohols, or many other flavorings. Used as a major category for pipe tobaccos, along with non-aromatic and latakia based blends.<br />
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'''Army Mount''': Also called a "military bit", a pipe with an army mount stem is designed to permit the stem to be removed from the pipe while hot by inclusion of a shank cap, often made of silver, to reinforce the briar. A more elaborate variation of the army mount is the spigot. According to most likely mythological history, the first army mount was invented when a World War One soldier fixed a broken pipe shank by inserting a spent rifle casing into it and piercing a hole for the stem. <br />
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'''Author''': According to the [[Author|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the Author is a beefed-up prince, featuring a flattened ball-shaped bowl and a heavy 1/8 to 1/4 bent stem.<br />
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'''Bafra''': Bafra is a district and village in the Samsun province of Turkey, and the name sometimes given to the Samsun-Maden strain of tobacco, which is a smaller basibali Turkish varietal with low nicotine and a rich flavor.<br />
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'''Ball''': The ball shape, also referred to as a tomato, is described by the [[Author|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], is very similar to an author but with a spherical bowl and thinner shank. According to Mr. Burney the ball generally features a tapered stem with a 1/4 to 1/2 bent.<br />
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'''Ballerina''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and resembling a ballet dancer's foot while en pointe, curving from the heel at the front of the bowl to the toe at the meeting of bowl and shank, itself characterized by a full enough bend to permit the pipe to stand on its own. <br />
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[[File:Nordh Ballerina.jpg|thumb|center|100px|A Bo Nordh Ballerina]]<br />
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'''Bakelite''': A trade name for Polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride. Harder than vulcanite and softer than acrylic, bakelite stems do not oxidize. Largely seen in shades of white and amber yellow.<br />
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'''Basma''': 1. The group of Turkish small-leaf varietals in which the stem of the leaf does not extend beyond the leaf at the main stalk 2. The larger leaves primed from the middle of any variety of Turkish tobacco plant 3. A long, rectangular bale-style of packing cured Turkish leaf, approximately 50-60 pounds, of any variety.<br />
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'''Bead''': Now generally represented by two straight lines around the bowl of a bulldog or rhodesian, a bead is one of only three shapes which can be produced on a lathe, along with a flat and a cove. A bead is a rounded projection from the wood, and in the case of pipes today most beads are cut as inset beads, in that the surrounding wood is level with the top of the bead. Older pipes occasionally featured intricately carved beads. Today, however, rather than cutting a true bead the projection is left flat and only signified by the lines around it.<br />
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'''Bent Pipe''': A generic term used to refer to any pipe where the shank is not a straight horizontal line, regardless of the nature or amount of the shank bend.<br />
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'''Billiard''': The [[Billiard|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] describe a billiard as a pipe shape having a cylindrical bowl and tobacco chamber with a shank about the same length as the height of the bowl. Variations on the billiard shape include the pot and chimney.<br />
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'''Basibali''': A family of Turkish tobaccos characterized by a distinct stem separating the leaf from the stalk. Sometimes referred to as Bashi Bagli.<br />
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'''Bit''': A less than precise term, usually used to refer to the entirety of the stem or mouthpiece on a pipe, but occasionally also used to refer to the bite zone.<br />
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'''Bite Zone''': The last approximately three quarters of an inch of the mouthpiece or stem of a tobacco pipe, including the button.<br />
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'''Bloom''': Also referred to as plume, bloom is a fine white powder which appears on well aged tobacco on occasion, and despite the tendency to confuse it with mold is actually a good sign that the leaf is maturing well. Bloom is caused by the crystallization of sugars on the surface of the tobacco leaf. <br />
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'''Blowfish''': Per the [[Blowfish|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the blowfish is a pipe shape characterized by an asymmetrical flattened ball for a bowl, a bent stem blending into the body, and a combination of birdseye grain on the large panels and straight grain between.<br />
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'''Brandy''': Also referred to as a bent brandy or brandyglass, a pipe shape which resembles the glassware for which it is named. According to the [[Brandy|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pipe is characterized by a rounded base tapering up to a smaller rim, often in a 1/4 bent pipe.<br />
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'''Briar''': Actually a mistranslation of the French bruyère, briar among pipe smokers refers to the wood of the ''erica arborea'', a species of flowering plant in the heather family. After 30 to 60 years of growing time, the football sized plants are harvested, cooked, dried for several months, and further processed before they are made into pipes. <br />
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'''Bullcap''': According to the [[Bullcap|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the bullcap is a squat straight rhodesian with a large bowl diameter.<br />
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'''Bulldog''': According to the [[Bulldog|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the classic bulldog has a tapered stem, diamond shank and slightly forward canted bowl shaped someone like two cones joined at the bases with the top cone cut off. The pipe is traditionally adorned with a bead around the bowl. <br />
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'''Bullmoose''': According to the [[Bullcap|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a bullmoose is a squat rhodesian with a very heavy 1/4 bent stem.<br />
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'''Burley''': A tobacco of light-colored variety grown primarily in Kentucky and Tennessee, the bulk of burley tobacco produced in the United States is used for cigarette production. All burley today is of the white burley variety, and is often sweetened due to the low natural sugars present in the leaf. Most aromatics use a base of burley due to its ready ability to absorb flavors. While some claim burley does not age, it does improve with time. However, this takes time measured in the several decades at least.<br />
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'''Burnout''': A term used to refer to a possible condition in estate pipes which, short of extraordinary effort on the part of a capable restorer, generally means the death of a particular pipe. A burnout is a spot where char has actually penetrated or begun to penetrate the outer layer of the bowl. Usually caused by hot smoking, although some claim burnout is always the fault of an unseen flaw in the briar. Uneven packing can also result in one spot suffering more damage than others. While most smokers stop smoking a particular pipe when burnout begins to appear, some continue smoking until they have burned straight through a wall or the foot of the pipe.<br />
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'''Button''': The button is the raised portion at the end of a pipe mouthpiece or stem intended to permit the teeth purchase to hold the pipe.<br />
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'''Cake''': Cake refers to the buildup of residual carbon that forms in the bowl of a pipe. Most recommend trimming back the buildup to keep it at roughly the width of a dime in a briar pipe in order to create a protective layer which cools the pipe and reduces moisture. Cake is frowned upon in meerschaums, and the subject of much debate among corn cob pipe smokers.<br />
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'''Calabash''': According to the [[Calabash|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the calabash is a solid wood interpretation of the gourd calabash with a tapered bowl flared at the rim and a dome shaped top. The tobacco chamber is usually tapered and the pipe 3/4 bent, but there are variations.<br />
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'''Canadian''': According to the [[Canadian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the canadian is a long-shanked billiard with an oval shank and a tapered bit. The shank is roughly twice as long as the height of the bowl. Variations on this shape include the lumbermand, lovat and liverpool.<br />
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'''Casing''': Whether sprayed with or soaked in a sauce, casing refers to the addition of flavoring, sugar or the like prior to the finishing of the tobacco, as opposed to top-flavouring, which is added by spraying the finished blend with scents and flavours.<br />
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'''Cavendish''': There are two forms of Cavendish, which is more a process of curing and a method of cutting tobacco than a type of it. Common cavendish is made when tobacco leaves are pressed into a cake about an inch thick and heated before being allowed to ferment, resulting in a mild and sweet tobacco. Flavoring is often added before the leaves are pressed. English Cavendish uses a dark flue or fire cured Virginia , which is steamed and then stored under pressure to permit it to cure and ferment for several days or weeks.<br />
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'''Char''': Used to refer to wood that has actually begun to burn, usually at the start of a burnout in a bowl or, far more likely and most often due to lighter abuse, at the rim. <br />
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'''Cherrywood''': According to the [[Cherrywood|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a cherrywood is a bent poker. The name cherrywood derives from the pipe shape's origin as a copy of the cherry wood pipes made by Eugène-Léon Ropp and others in mid-19th century France.<br />
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'''Churchwarden''': According to the [[Churchwarden|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the churchwarden is the only pipe defined by the shape of its stem, rather than its bowl. Whether bent or straight, the stem on a churchwarden is 9 to 18 inches long, but not so long as to make lighting the pipe while holding it in the mouth impossible.<br />
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'''Cigar Leaf''': A generic term used to describe a great many different types of leaf primarily used in cigars which are also included in pipe tobacco. Connecticut Broadleaf and Cuban-Seed Varietals are frequently used among others to add flavor to a blend.<br />
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'''Cob''': The common parlance for a corn cob pipe, which in its loosest definition is simply any pipe with a bowl made from a dried and drilled corncob. Traditionally fitted with river cane stems, most modern cobs have wood shanks and plastic bits. <br />
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'''Coin''': A term used to refer to a single slice of tobacco cut from a rope or twist, and resembling a flake, except that it is round and often thinner.<br />
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'''Cumberland''': Called brindle by Dunhill and others, cumberland is a form of vulcanite made with brown and red pigment added to the rubber to give it a marble like appearance.<br />
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'''Curly Cut''': A term used to refer to tobacco which has been sliced from rope or twist tobacco into thin "coins", similar to flakes excepting that they are thinner and round.<br />
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'''Cut''': Pipe tobacco may be cut as shag, ribbon, flake, plug, rope, discs, coins, or in other forms. These terms simply refer to the manner in which the finished product is reduced into a small enough size to consume. The most common cut is ribbon cut.<br />
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'''Cutty''': According to the [[Cutty|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a cutty has a very canted tulip shaped bowl and a slightly bent stem with a tapered bit. The word cutty simply means "cut shorter". Cutty pipes occasionally and traditionally sport a "spur", or a small foot protruding from the base of the bowl.<br />
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'''Czech Tool''': Also called a 3-way pipe tool, a combined tamper, shank clearing tool and dottle spoon on a single rotating rivet. Called a Czech tool for the original country of manufacture of most of the tools, they are largely Chinese made today.<br />
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'''Delayed Gratification Technique''': Or DGT, the habit of some pipe smokers to light a pipe and leave it to sit for hours or even days before completing the smoke. Many blends gain a far different taste profile from this technique which some find pleasant.<br />
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'''Delrin''': A brand name for polyoxymethylne or POM, also called acetal, polyacetal, or polyformaldehyde, delrin is a thermoplastic used by pipe makers as a material for non-integral stem tenons, and for screw-in tenons for meerschaum push/pull connections. Delrin is appreciated as a "self-lubricating" material, meaning that it has a low drag coefficient to interfere with the smooth passage of smoke, and for the ease of reliance on separate stems and tenons.<br />
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'''Devil Anse''': The name of a notorious West Virginia Confederate veteran suspected of murdering Asa McCoy after the war ended and starting the infamous Hatfield/McCoy feud. Devil Anse Hatfield was portrayed in a recent television series by Kevin Costner, who, despite the lack of any historical support, smoked a nosewarmer cutty in the role, now popular and given the name of the character. <br />
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'''Diplomat''': According to the [[Diplomat|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a diplomat is a pipe shape similar to a prince but a bit larger generally and with an oval shank and stem.<br />
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'''Djebel''': Sometimes referred to as Xanthi-Djebel, Dejebel tobacco is grown closer to the ridge, or djebel, of the Rhodope mountains above Xanthi. While the leaf is probably of the same strain as Yaka leaf, it is much less highly regarded.<br />
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'''Don''': A pipe shape, according to the [[Duke/Don|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], similar to a Duke but with a rudimentary shank and a vulcanite bit. Sometimes, such as by [[Peterson]], called a tankard.<br />
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'''Dottle''': The leftover plug of unburnt tobacco and ash left in the heel of a pipe bowl after smoking. Dottle is avoided by smokers as a waste of tobacco and occasionally souring of the bowl, but is sometimes unavoidable.<br />
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'''Drama''': A sweet type of tobacco with a natural olive oil fragrance grown on the Southern slopes and foothills of the Rhodope Mountains in Greek Eastern Macedonia, and taking its name from the town of the same name. A kabakolak variety, meaning that the leaf has a distinct separate stem similar to basibali, but with "wings" on its leaf stems.<br />
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'''Draught Hole''': Also Draft Hole, the point at which the airway enters the bowl of the pipe, preferably in the center back of the heel to avoid leaving excessive dottle.<br />
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'''Dubec''': 1. The smaller leaves from the upper portion of any variety of Turkish tobacco plant 2. A round package of cured Turkish leaf of any variety, approximately 25-30 pounds in weight.<br />
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'''Dublin''': According to the [[Dublin|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the dublin is a pipe shape with the same proportions as a billiard but with a conical bowl and tapered combustion chamber.<br />
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'''Duke''': A [[Dunhill]] pipe shape that features a cylindrical bowl with no shank, a bone or vulcanite stem and a poker-type canted bottom, according to the [[Duke/Don|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''Ebonite''': The brand name for a very hard rubber first created by Charles Goodyear by vulcanizing rubber for prolonged periods, Ebonite was named for its intended purpose, a replacment for ebony. Commonly referred to as vulcanite in pipe parlance, vulcanite is with acrylic one of the two most popular materials from which stems are made.<br />
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'''Egg''': According to the [[Egg|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the egg is usually but not always a bent pipe with a bowl shaped like an egg, which can be thought of as an elongated apple shape.<br />
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'''Elephant's Foot''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and characterized by straight grained side panels and wide front and back domed surfaces on the bowl exhibiting birdseye. <br />
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'''English''': Aside from the obvious geographical uses, the word "English" is often used among pipe smokers to refer to blends with latakia in them. In reality, however, the term only developed to differentiate blends made in the United Kingdom, especially in the days of the now defunct Tobacco Purity Laws, which prohibited humectants and most flavorings from being added to the tobacco. A more precise term is "latakia based".<br />
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'''English Cavendish''': The name commonly used to refer to dark flue-cured or fire-cured Virginia tobacco which is steamed and then pressed over a period of several days to weeks. It is not flavored as other forms of Cavendish generally are. Rattray's ''Dark Fragrant'' is one example of an available English Cavendish blend. <br />
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'''Eskimo''': According to the [[Ukulele|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a pipe shape by Tom Eltang created as a variation on Ed Burak's bulldog design and sporting a smooth, flat stem and shank with a canted, domed bowl.<br />
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'''Estate Pipe''': A previously owned pipe, whether smoked or un-smoked.<br />
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'''Fire Cured''': Unlike flue cured tobacco, which is cured by indirect heat without smoke, fire cured tobacco is cured with smoke, in the tobacco equivalent of barbecuing. Dark Fired Kentucky and Latakia are both fire cured, and the process results in lower sugars and higher nicotine in the leaf.<br />
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'''Flake''': Flake tobacco is made by slicing thin sheets off of a cube, which in turn is formed by pressing whole tobacco leaves into a compressed form, usually under significant pressure for long periods of time. Flake tobacco may be sold in slices, or fully or partially broken or rubbed out.<br />
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'''Flue Cured''': Flue cured tobacco is cured by heat without smoke, generally by being hung from sticks in a barn exposed to heat from external fires through flues. Traditionally the method for curing brightleaf tobacco, this method results in sweeter leaf with lower nicotine.<br />
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'''Foot''': The bottom of the outside of the bowl, as opposed to the heel, which is the bottom of the inside of the bowl.<br />
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'''Freehand''': Not to be confused with the fixed freehand shapes made by some companies, a true freehand shape is defined by the pipemaker's choice to let the grain of the briar shape the pipe, rather than forcing the pipe into a predetermined shape, according to the [[Freehand|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''Gesteckpfeife''': Literally "pipe in parts", a traditional European pipe made up of several interconnecting parts, usually held together with cork tenons. Bowls can be meerschaum, briar, or porcelain, commonly.<br />
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'''Ghost''': A ghost is the taste or smell of a previously smoked tobacco remaining in a pipe and coloring the taste of a different blend smoked in the same pipe. Generally the cause of tar in the shank, but usually blamed on cake.<br />
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'''Gourd Calabash''': According to the [[Gourd Calabash|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a gourd calabash is a pipe made from a calabash gourd which is dried and the seeds removed, and then fitted with a stem and meerschaum bowl cap. The driest and smoothest of all pipes.<br />
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'''Hand''': A hand is a bundle of tobacco tied at the end and hung from the knot for curing purposes.<br />
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'''Hawkbill''': According to the [[Hawkbill|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the hawkbill is a pipe shape characterized by an enlarged ball or tomato style with a long, tapering bent shank. The premiere example is the Castello 84.j<br />
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'''Heel''': The heel is the bottom of the combustion chamber, the inside of the bowl.<br />
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'''Horn''': According to the [[Horn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the horn is a graceful freehand shape varying from a straight tapering tube to a more standard bent pipe, but in all cases with a smooth tapering from bowl to shank and no abrupt transitions.<br />
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'''Hungarian''': More commonly referred to as an Oom Paul, the Hungarian is a fully bent billiard named for former South African President Paulus Kruger, according to the [[Oom Paul/Hungarian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''Intricate Curve''': In pipemaking, a term sometimes used to describe the transition from the rear wall of the bowl to the top of the shank.<br />
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'''Izmir''': A type of Turkish tobacco with rich flavor, low nicotine, and cool smoke. It has a very aromatic nature and is often blended with Latakia to somewhat subdue this property. Primarily used as a condiment with pipe tobacco, but occasionally offered by itself. Also called Smyrna.<br />
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'''Jar''': Tobacco jars have been used for nearly three hundred years as the predominant method for storage of pipe tobacco, whether made from tin, wood, pewter, porcelain, majolica or bisque. By far the most common choice is the simple Ball jar or Mason jar.<br />
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'''Jatim''': A form of Indonesian tobacco and the abbreviated name of the province of East Java (Jawa Timur), where the tobacco is grown.<br />
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'''Kabakolak''': A family of Turkish tobacco strains similar to Basibali, but with wings on their leaf stems in addition to distinct stems.<br />
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'''Katerini''': A Turkish varietal of the Samsun basibali type, with a milder, sweeter leaf. Grown southwest of Thessaloniki in the Greek province of Macedonia.<br />
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'''Kentucky''': Dark-Fired Kentucky is a type of pipe tobacco made from burley which is cured over a fire and flavored by its smoke.<br />
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'''Latakia''': Named for the principal port city of Syria, latakia is not a specific plant varietal, but rather one of a number of Turkish varietals which are fire cured over a stone pine or oak wood fire, giving it a smoky flavor. Most latakia, despite the name, is now grown in Cyprus, not Syria, and camel dung has nothing to do with the process of its creation.<br />
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'''Lovat''': A pipe shape, according to the [[Lovat|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], which is essentially a Canadian but with a round shank instead of oval and a saddle stem.<br />
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'''Lucite''': Lucite is a trade name for acrylic, or polyacrylate, which is derived from natural gas. It is a composition of Methyl Methacrylate and Poly Methyl Methacrylate resin. Lucite is used for pipe stems due to its lack of oxidation, but is criticized for a harder feel on the teeth.<br />
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'''Lületaşi''': A Turkish word literally meaning sea foam and used to refer to meerschaum in that country.<br />
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'''Macedonia''': 1. A province of north-central Greece, west of Thrace, which includes the sea port of Thessaloniki (Salonika) and the Katerini tobacco region 2. A recently independent republic, formerly part of Soviet Yugoslavia, located immediately north of the Greek province of Macedonia, and the source of Prilep tobacco.<br />
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'''Mahale''': A Turkish tobacco with a basma leaf type grown downslope from Xanthi.<br />
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'''Maryland''': An extremely mild tobacco used in a number of American tobacco blends, especially to add a nutty flavor to Burley. Sadly the state of Maryland now pays farmers not to grow tobacco.<br />
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'''Meerschaum''': A mineral hydrous magnesium silicate called sepiolite, primarily found in Turkey near Eskisehr, which is used in the making of tobacco pipes. The word means "seafoam".<br />
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'''Melding''': The term used to refer to a tobacco blend's property to acquire a single homogeneous taste over time, as a result of aging in an airtight container.<br />
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'''Mellowing''': Particularly used in referring to Latakia's tendency to be less overpowering after some aging, the term is sometimes used to refer to a general tendency of tobacco to become more smooth with age.<br />
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'''Mortise''': A mortise is at its most basic a hole cut or drilled to accept a smaller tenon and make a joint. The joint has been used in woodworking for thousands of years, and in pipe construction generally appears as a hole drilled larger than the airway and at the same depth as the stem tenon. Variations, however, are unlimited.<br />
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'''Mouthpiece''': A term used interchangeably with stem and to a lesser degree bit, the mouthpiece is the portion of the pipe meant to be placed in the smoker's mouth, and includes the entire pipe from the end of the shank to the slot. Often made from vulcanite or lucite/acrylic.<br />
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'''Nautilus''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and named for its obvious resemblance to the shell of a nautilus, resulting in an airway passing through a shank curved in a loop and pierced in the center to suggest the closed portion of the shell, a bowl shaped like the long open mouth of the shell, and a foot curving in a near half circle beneath.<br />
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'''Nail''': The simplest form of pipe tool is the venerable Pipe Nail, which generally looks much like its namesake, one end flat to tamp with and another coming to a point or spoon for clearing ash and tar.<br />
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'''Nomenclature''': A general term used to refer to the stamping on a pipe in its entirety, including brand names, models, year and shape codes and the like.<br />
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'''Oliphant''': A traditional name for a hunter's horn made from an elephant tusk, the oliphant shape was first designed by [[Sixten Ivarsson]] for the [[Pibe-Dan]] shop in the late 1950s. According to the [[Horn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]]The shape is a variation of the horn meant to resemble the tusk of an elephant, and with a flat curve and even and gradual tapering throughout.<br />
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'''Oom Paul''': A shape name which actually means Uncle Paul in Dutch, Oom Paul pipes are full bent billiards, according to the [[Oom Paul/Hungarian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]]. The name comes from the nickname for Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, president of the South African Republic from 1883 to 1900 and the face of the Boer cause against Britain during the Second Boer War of 1899 to 1902. Also called a Hungarian.<br />
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'''Opera Pipe''': A shape which the [[Oval|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] refer to as an "Oval" or Pocket pipe, the opera pipe is a billiard with a bowl "squashed" into an oval, with the long side of the oval parallel with the shank and stem. In fact, "opera" pipe is a misnomer. The original name of the pipe was the au pair pipe, as it gained popularity with domestic workers unable to smoke around children.<br />
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'''Oriental''': Used interchangeably with "Turkish" to refer to sun cured condimental tobaccos grown in the Eastern Mediterranean. This category of tobaccos includes Yenidje, Smyrna, Samsun, Izmir, Drama, Xanthe, and often Basma, which is not a particular leaf but a generic Turkish blend, and all that pipe tobacco blenders are often able to find due to the purchase of most oriental varietals by cigarette manufacturers.<br />
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'''Panel Billiard''': According to the [[Panel Billiard|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the Panelled Billiard, also called a foursquare, is a basic billiard shape with flat, or panelled, sides. The classic panel has four flat sides and a round shank.<br />
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'''Pear''': More commonly called an acorn today, according to the [[Pear/Accorn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] the pear is a sort of softened dublin shape, with a conical bowl and tobacco chamber but with all sharp edges rounded.<br />
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'''Perique''': Mistakenly believed to be a nickname for Pierre Chenet and actually a French mispronunciation of an American slang word for a part of the anatomy, perique is a type of tobacco grown only in St. James Parish, Louisiana, sauced and kept under massive pressure in barrels until it turns nearly black. Perique has flavors of spice and plum, and is prized as the truffle of pipe tobaccos.<br />
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'''Pickaxe''': According to the [[Pickaxe|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pickaxe is a freehand style of pipe characterized by a paneled, triangular bowl.<br />
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'''Pipe''': A tube with a small bowl at one end used for the smoking of tobacco.<br />
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'''P-Lip''': A type of pipe mouthpiece invented by Peterson of Dublin and relying on a small hole on the top of a stem rather than a hole at its end. Meant to reduce tongue bite by directing the flow of smoke away from the tongue.<br />
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'''Plug''': Whole leaf, pressed with moisture, becomes a plug, from which flakes can be sliced. Plug tobacco is prepared by slicing off and then rubbing out pieces of the block of tobacco.<br />
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'''Poker''': According to the [[Poker|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the poker is a straight pipe with a cylindrical, flat bottomed bowl designed so that the pipe will stand on its own.<br />
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'''Pot''': According to the [[Pot|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pot is a billiard with a shorter bowl, but not a shorter shank than a standard billiard.<br />
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'''Prilep''': A Sirdily variety of Turkish tobacco commonly grown in the region of the town of Prilep, which is located in the Independent Republic of Macedonia.<br />
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'''Prince''': According to the [[Prince|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the prince is a pipe shape characterized by a squat rounded bowl and along, usually slightly bent stem with a short shank. The pipe was named after Prince Albert, later King Edward VII, the Prince of Wales.<br />
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'''Push/Pull''': The term generally used to describe a two part mortise and tenon system used in meerschaum pipes and developed by Andreas Bauer originally. A push/pull consists of a threaded Delrin tenon and a separate threaded plastic mortise. The preferred method of connecting stem and shank in meerschaum pipes, which lack the durability for long term use of a standard mortise/tenon connection.<br />
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'''Quaint''': A pipe shape hallmarked, generally, by more than four panels, especially with a paneled shank as well.<br />
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'''Ramses''': A pipe shape created by Bo [[Nordh]] and later named by a visiting customer for its resemblance to the statue of Ramses II in Abu Simbel, Egypt. Characterized by a long, wide sloping shank which also serves as the foot of the pipe and a long, tapered bowl which rests almost vertically on the shank. Stems are generally partially bent.<br />
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[[File:Bo Nordh Ramses01.jpg|thumb|center|100px|A Nordh Ramses]]<br />
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'''Reaming''': Trimming back cake from the bowl of a tobacco pipe.<br />
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'''Reamer''': A tool used to trim pipe cake back to an acceptable level. These have been made in countless different forms, adjustable and non-adjustable, for well over a century. Some simply use a pipe knife or sandpaper to accomplish the same task.<br />
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'''Rhodesian''': A subject of great dispute. Unlikely to have been named for Cecil Rhodes, and more likely to have taken its name from Rhodesian tobacco, a Rhodesian is considered by some to be any bent bulldog, by others to be any bulldog with a round shank, and by others any bulldog shape with a greater bowl width than height. For each accepted definition of the word there is a pipe sold which contradicts it, and no consensus is likely.<br />
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'''Room Note''': The smell of a particular tobacco as it is being smoked. Easier to detect by those not smoking the blend, and a key component to the choice of a pipe tobacco blend especially for those who smoke in public environments. Simply put, how pleasing the smoke would be to a bystander.<br />
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'''Samsun''': A Turkish tobacco of the basibali variety with a heart-shaped leaf, grown near the town of Samsun, Turkey on the shores of the Black Sea. Low nicotine tobacco, but with strong flavor and dark color.<br />
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'''Samsun-Maden''': Also called Bafra for the village near Samsun, Samsun-Maden is a basibali Turkish tobacco characterized by leaves which are are small sized and ovalThe leaf faces are red to bright red. This strain can be smoked without blending. Nicotine content is often lower than 1% and sugar content is 9-12%. <br />
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'''Shank''': The portion of a stummel between the bowl and mouthpiece, and generally containing the mortise. The length of the pipe shank is one of the key variables in the shape of a pipe, as is it's shape, whether square, diamond, oval or round.<br />
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'''Shirazi''': Named for the ancient city of Shiraz in south-western Iran and claimed to be native to that country, Shirazi tobacco is thought to have reached Iran from the Americas in the mid 1500s. Once called ''Nicotiana Persica''.<br />
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'''Sirdily''': A category of Turkish basma subvarietals characterized by small, narrow, acutely pointed leaves.<br />
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'''Slot''': A slot is the wide opening at the end of the mouthpiece tapering into the airway of the pipe. Generally seen only on vulcanite and acrylic stems from the last century, the slot is funneled both to make the insertion of a pipe cleaner easier and to make for a smoother flow for the smoke.<br />
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'''Smyrna''': A type of Turkish tobacco with rich flavor, low nicotine, and cool smoke. It has a very aromatic nature and is often blended with Latakia to somewhat subdue this property. Primarily used as a condiment with pipe tobacco, but occasionally offered by itself. Also called Izmir.<br />
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'''Sokhoum''': A type of Turkish varietal of the Samsun basibali type which is deeply fermented. Grown in the mountains above the town of Sokhoum Kale (Sokhumi) in the Republic of Georgia.<br />
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'''Soppeng''': A type of Indonesian tobacco prepared much like a traditional cavendish but using palm sugar as the sweetener, and then fired. Primarily smoked in cigarettes but enjoyed as pipe tobacco also, Soppeng is sometimes flavored with cinnamon or other tastes during preparation.<br />
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'''Sphinx''': A shape created by Bo [[Nordh]] and characterized by a wide domed bowl front cut so as to show birdseye at the center with straight grain radiating out from that point, giving a sunburst pattern. A similar shape, the Mounted Sphinx, was created by [[Geiger Pipes|Love and Sara Geiger]], but was not created as a variation on the shape.<br />
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'''Spiderwebbing''': A term used to describe a possible condition of estate pipes, spiderwebbing is the result of oversmoking but, rather than showing in a single spot like char in the bowl or a burnout, is characterized by a pattern of char lines, which look like shallow cracks and are actually burnt into the wood of the bowl. Can be concealed by any amount of cake or even a bowl coating, and so it is usually only evident in a bowl which has been sanded back to bare wood.<br />
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'''Spur''': A small protrusion at the bottom of traditional clay pipes to ensure a hot bowl does not burn the table. Frequently included in cutty pipes made even in briar and meerschaum in later decades as an ornamental element of the cutty shape. Seen only occasionally today.<br />
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[[File:Spur.jpg|thumb|center|100px|Clay Pipe Resting on Spur]]<br />
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'''Srintil''': A type of heavily fermented, air cured Indonesian tobacco grown in the Java region in the Temangung valley which grows at the top of a plant and by abnormality produces an extreme amount of resin, making it highly potent. Fermentation details are thought to be similar to perique, and in 1983 approximately 3 tons a year of Srintil were grown worldwide. Sometimes extracted in an aqueous solution for use as a flavoring agent.<br />
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'''Stinger''': Sometimes referred to as a "metal filter", "cleaner", or "condenser", a stinger is a metal protrusion containing the last portion of the airway in many pipes, primarily of the mid-20th century. A stinger extends from the tenon on a stem into the shank of the pipe, generally in turn drilled with a deeper mortise to allow space. Stingers were used commonly in non-filtered pipes for the majority of the twentieth century, but are no longer seen.<br />
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[[File:8.jpg|thumb|center|100px|Pipe stem with Stinger]]<br />
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'''Stummel''': German for stump, the stummel is a complete pipe minus only a stem and any final adornments, including the bowl, shank, and transition between the two.<br />
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'''Tambolaka''': An Indonesian tobacco grown in limestone heavy soil and after harvesting rolled into long sticks which are bound and stored for five years. Sold both as pipe tobacco and as a component of Indonesian cigars. Very high in nicotine with a tin note best described as pungent. <br />
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'''Tamp''': Using a tool or finger to compress the contents of the pipe bowl so as to bring unburnt tobacco into contact with the ember.<br />
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'''Tamper''': A tool used to tamp a pipe, generally with a flat end designed for that purpose and a handle. A tamper can be as simple as a piece of dowel or as ornate as the buyer may wish. While it seems inconsequential, tamping is important both for the care of the pipe and the coolness of the smoke.<br />
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'''Tenon''': The tenon is the smaller diameter protrusion at the end of a pipe stem which holds the stem to the stummel. It takes its name from one of the oldest joints in woodworking, the mortise and tenon joint. Over the last two centuries tenons have been made separately with bone screws, cut integrally into a vulcanite stem to fit a cut mortise in the stummel, made from threaded aluminum or plastic, made from aluminum to fit a pre-drilled mortise so as to hold a filter, made from delrin and placed into a drilled hole in the stem, and in other fashions as well. <br />
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'''Tin Note''': As opposed to the aroma of burning tobacco, the tin note is the scent which can be smelled from the unsmoked tobacco when opened, and is considered a good way to begin to understand a new blend and determine to some degree its components and their relative strength.<br />
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'''Trebizond''': No known as Trabzon, Trebizond is grown in Turkey at the southeast shores of the Black Sea. A basibali varietal resembling Samsun, but coarser and stronger.<br />
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'''Turkish''': A term used to refer not only to tobaccos grown in modern day Turkey, but rather to any tobacco grown under the Ottoman Empire, particularly at the height of its power under Suleiman the Magnificent. As a result, while the town of Yenidje, for example, would today be in Greece, yenidje tobacco is still classified as Turkish.<br />
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'''Twist''': A form of tobacco, also known as rope tobacco, which is spun into a roll, largely by hand, rather than being pressed into flakes. One of the oldest forms of smoking tobacco.<br />
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'''Ukulele''': A pipe shape first designed by [[Sixten Ivarsson]] for the [[Pibe-Dan]] shop in the 1950s and named ukulele, some credit Ed [[Burak]] for the design which he considered a bulldog. A ukulele is characterized by a domed, wide bowl and a wide oval shank with a flat bowl bottom, according to the [[Ukulele|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''VaPer''': A portmanteau of Virginia and Perique, vaper is simply the contraction used to refer to blends primarily composed of these two types of tobacco. <br />
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'''Vestpocket''': A pipe characterized by its ability to fit in a vest pocket, notable for its stem, which swivels over the bowl for carrying and swings out for use, according to the [[Vestpocket|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts]]. Generally all corners on the pipe are rounded to make it easier to remove from a pocket.<br />
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'''Virginia''': More appropriately called Brightleaf tobacco, Virginia is used to refer to milder tobacco leaf, lighter in color, which is grown in infertile, sandy soil, largely in North Carolina and Virginia, and which was first grown in approximately 1839. <br />
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'''Volcano''': A pipe shape characterized by a conical bowl narrowing towards the top, usually with a rounded base and a bent shank and saddle stem, according to the [[Volcano|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts]].<br />
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'''Vulcanite''': Hard black vulcanized rubber used for making pipe stems. Made from rubber containing up to 30% sulfur, vulcanite is soft on the teeth but prone to turning brownish yellow and taking on a sulfur smell on exposure to sunlight. This process is called oxidation.<br />
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'''White Burley''': First grown in Brown County, Ohio in 1865 by George Webb, White Burley is the result of planting Red Burley seeds purchased from Kentucky in the different soil of Ohio, which resulted in a mutation of whitish, sickly looking plants. White Burley soon became the chief ingredient in chewing tobacco, American pipe tobacco, and American-style cigarettes. As Red Burley no longer exists, White Burley is simply referred to as Burley today.<br />
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'''Xanthi''': Sometimes spelled Xanthe, this grade of Basma tobacco is named for a city in the Thrace region of northeastern Greece, first led into prosperity around 1715 due to the quality of its highly aromatic tobacco. The scientific name of the leaf is ''Nicotiana tabacum'' L. cv Xanthi.<br />
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'''Yacht''': Another name for the Zulu pipe shape, with a canted dublin bowl, oval shank and 1/8 bent stem. Among others, Kaywoodie used the term Yacht for pipes of this shape.<br />
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'''Yenidje''': Named for the town of Yenidje, Thrace, today called Genisea, Greece, Yenidje is also called Yenice, Jenidze, Yenidge, and Yeniji, and is a variety of Yaka tobacco, the best regarded form of Xanthi. Yenidje was an Ottoman tobacco production center until 1843 when the town burned and the growers moved up the slopes of the Rhodope Mountain range. Those slopes, called the Yaka, were made of a red clay loam mixed with small flint stones giving rise to short, low-yielding plants of the basma type, meaning (in this usage) that the leaves are small, almost round and with no free stem. The leaf burns badly on its own and was traditionally mixed with Bafra to cure this issue.<br />
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'''Zulu''': A shape of smoking pipe hallmarked by a canted dublin style bowl, an oval shank and a 1/8th bent stem. Also referred to as a Woodstock or a Yacht.<br />
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'''Zeppelin''': A name often used to refer to a cigar-shaped pipe of briar with a separate mouthpiece often of vulcanite, usually with a metal cap at the end to hold in the tobacco. Also called a Torpedo.<br />
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'''Acorn''': A pipe shape characterized by a conical shape sometimes extending to a point or near point below the shank or else with a bent shank flowing into the "point" of the acorn shape. Distinguishable from a dublin by a wider and more rounded rim in most cases. <br />
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'''Acrylic''': In pipe parlance, acrylic stems are those made of polymers of acrylic acid or acrylates, most often polymethyl methacrylate, also called acrylic glass. Some prefer this material for pipe stems due to the lack of oxidation, while others prefer a traditional vulcanite stem due to softness.<br />
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'''Aging''': The term used to describe the tendency of pipe tobacco to improve over time through either aerobic or anaerobic fermentation. The term is used interchangeably to describe increased sweetness on the part of Virginias, mellowing on the part of Latakia, or a generally more complete melding of the blend. The effect is often simulated through the use of heat or pressure.<br />
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'''Agonya''': A type of Turkish tobacco of a kabakolak leaf type, meaning it has distinct stems with "wings" on the leaf stems, Agonya was originally grown in the foothills below Xanthi, but is now grown south of the Sea of Marmara, in the region east of Kanakhale, Turkey.<br />
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'''Air-cured''': Air-cured tobacco is hung in well-ventilated barns immediately after plants are cut or leaves pulled from the field and allowed to dry for a period of one to two months. During this process the yellow colors of the leaf turn to varying shades of brown, until they are ready to be fermented and processed. Burley is an air-cured tobacco.<br />
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'''Amber''': Prior to the wide adoption of vulcanite, first invented in 1844 by Charles Goodyear, as a substance for pipe stem making, by far the most common form of pipe stem was one carved from amber. The stems were carved by hand from fossilized tree resin, at which point they could be bent only after heating in oil and over an alcohol flame. While amber is a beautiful natural material which comes in a large variety of colors, the stems are exceedingly brittle and hard on the teeth. Amber stems are still made only in very rare cases.<br />
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'''Apple''': According to the [[Apple|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the classic apple shape is a rounded version of the billiard, and may be had in either bent or straight shanked and tapered and saddle stemmed versions. Popular variations of this shape include the Prince and Author.<br />
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'''Aromatic''': A type of tobacco which is either cased or top flavored in order to produce a taste and room note other than the tobacco's natural smell, whether simply sugar or molasses, whiskey or other alcohols, or many other flavorings. Used as a major category for pipe tobaccos, along with non-aromatic and latakia based blends.<br />
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'''Army Mount''': Also called a "military bit", a pipe with an army mount stem is designed to permit the stem to be removed from the pipe while hot by inclusion of a shank cap, often made of silver, to reinforce the briar. A more elaborate variation of the army mount is the spigot. According to most likely mythological history, the first army mount was invented when a World War One soldier fixed a broken pipe shank by inserting a spent rifle casing into it and piercing a hole for the stem. <br />
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'''Author''': According to the [[Author|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the Author is a beefed-up prince, featuring a flattened ball-shaped bowl and a heavy 1/8 to 1/4 bent stem.<br />
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'''Bafra''': Bafra is a district and village in the Samsun province of Turkey, and the name sometimes given to the Samsun-Maden strain of tobacco, which is a smaller basibali Turkish varietal with low nicotine and a rich flavor.<br />
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'''Ball''': The ball shape, also referred to as a tomato, is described by the [[Author|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], is very similar to an author but with a spherical bowl and thinner shank. According to Mr. Burney the ball generally features a tapered stem with a 1/4 to 1/2 bent.<br />
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'''Ballerina''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and resembling a ballet dancer's foot while en pointe, curving from the heel at the front of the bowl to the toe at the meeting of bowl and shank, itself characterized by a full enough bend to permit the pipe to stand on its own. <br />
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[[File:Nordh Ballerina.jpg|thumb|center|100px|A Bo Nordh Ballerina]]<br />
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'''Bakelite''': A trade name for Polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride. Harder than vulcanite and softer than acrylic, bakelite stems do not oxidize. Largely seen in shades of white and amber yellow.<br />
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'''Basma''': 1. The group of Turkish small-leaf varietals in which the stem of the leaf does not extend beyond the leaf at the main stalk 2. The larger leaves primed from the middle of any variety of Turkish tobacco plant 3. A long, rectangular bale-style of packing cured Turkish leaf, approximately 50-60 pounds, of any variety.<br />
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'''Bead''': Now generally represented by two straight lines around the bowl of a bulldog or rhodesian, a bead is one of only three shapes which can be produced on a lathe, along with a flat and a cove. A bead is a rounded projection from the wood, and in the case of pipes today most beads are cut as inset beads, in that the surrounding wood is level with the top of the bead. Older pipes occasionally featured intricately carved beads. Today, however, rather than cutting a true bead the projection is left flat and only signified by the lines around it.<br />
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'''Bent Pipe''': A generic term used to refer to any pipe where the shank is not a straight horizontal line, regardless of the nature or amount of the shank bend.<br />
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'''Billiard''': The [[Billiard|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] describe a billiard as a pipe shape having a cylindrical bowl and tobacco chamber with a shank about the same length as the height of the bowl. Variations on the billiard shape include the pot and chimney.<br />
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'''Basibali''': A family of Turkish tobaccos characterized by a distinct stem separating the leaf from the stalk. Sometimes referred to as Bashi Bagli.<br />
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'''Bit''': A less than precise term, usually used to refer to the entirety of the stem or mouthpiece on a pipe, but occasionally also used to refer to the bite zone.<br />
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'''Bite Zone''': The last approximately three quarters of an inch of the mouthpiece or stem of a tobacco pipe, including the button.<br />
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'''Bloom''': Also referred to as plume, bloom is a fine white powder which appears on well aged tobacco on occasion, and despite the tendency to confuse it with mold is actually a good sign that the leaf is maturing well. Bloom is caused by the crystallization of sugars on the surface of the tobacco leaf. <br />
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'''Blowfish''': Per the [[Blowfish|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the blowfish is a pipe shape characterized by an asymmetrical flattened ball for a bowl, a bent stem blending into the body, and a combination of birdseye grain on the large panels and straight grain between.<br />
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'''Brandy''': Also referred to as a bent brandy or brandyglass, a pipe shape which resembles the glassware for which it is named. According to the [[Brandy|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pipe is characterized by a rounded base tapering up to a smaller rim, often in a 1/4 bent pipe.<br />
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'''Briar''': Actually a mistranslation of the French bruyère, briar among pipe smokers refers to the wood of the ''erica arborea'', a species of flowering plant in the heather family. After 30 to 60 years of growing time, the football sized plants are harvested, cooked, dried for several months, and further processed before they are made into pipes. <br />
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'''Bullcap''': According to the [[Bullcap|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the bullcap is a squat straight rhodesian with a large bowl diameter.<br />
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'''Bulldog''': According to the [[Bulldog|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the classic bulldog has a tapered stem, diamond shank and slightly forward canted bowl shaped someone like two cones joined at the bases with the top cone cut off. The pipe is traditionally adorned with a bead around the bowl. <br />
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'''Bullmoose''': According to the [[Bullcap|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a bullmoose is a squat rhodesian with a very heavy 1/4 bent stem.<br />
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'''Burley''': A tobacco of light-colored variety grown primarily in Kentucky and Tennessee, the bulk of burley tobacco produced in the United States is used for cigarette production. All burley today is of the white burley variety, and is often sweetened due to the low natural sugars present in the leaf. Most aromatics use a base of burley due to its ready ability to absorb flavors. While some claim burley does not age, it does improve with time. However, this takes time measured in the several decades at least.<br />
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'''Burnout''': A term used to refer to a possible condition in estate pipes which, short of extraordinary effort on the part of a capable restorer, generally means the death of a particular pipe. A burnout is a spot where char has actually penetrated or begun to penetrate the outer layer of the bowl. Usually caused by hot smoking, although some claim burnout is always the fault of an unseen flaw in the briar. Uneven packing can also result in one spot suffering more damage than others. While most smokers stop smoking a particular pipe when burnout begins to appear, some continue smoking until they have burned straight through a wall or the foot of the pipe.<br />
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'''Button''': The button is the raised portion at the end of a pipe mouthpiece or stem intended to permit the teeth purchase to hold the pipe.<br />
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== C ==<br />
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'''Cake''': Cake refers to the buildup of residual carbon that forms in the bowl of a pipe. Most recommend trimming back the buildup to keep it at roughly the width of a dime in a briar pipe in order to create a protective layer which cools the pipe and reduces moisture. Cake is frowned upon in meerschaums, and the subject of much debate among corn cob pipe smokers.<br />
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'''Calabash''': According to the [[Calabash|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the calabash is a solid wood interpretation of the gourd calabash with a tapered bowl flared at the rim and a dome shaped top. The tobacco chamber is usually tapered and the pipe 3/4 bent, but there are variations.<br />
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'''Canadian''': According to the [[Canadian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the canadian is a long-shanked billiard with an oval shank and a tapered bit. The shank is roughly twice as long as the height of the bowl. Variations on this shape include the lumbermand, lovat and liverpool.<br />
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'''Casing''': Whether sprayed with or soaked in a sauce, casing refers to the addition of flavoring, sugar or the like prior to the finishing of the tobacco, as opposed to top-flavouring, which is added by spraying the finished blend with scents and flavours.<br />
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'''Cavendish''': There are two forms of Cavendish, which is more a process of curing and a method of cutting tobacco than a type of it. Common cavendish is made when tobacco leaves are pressed into a cake about an inch thick and heated before being allowed to ferment, resulting in a mild and sweet tobacco. Flavoring is often added before the leaves are pressed. English Cavendish uses a dark flue or fire cured Virginia , which is steamed and then stored under pressure to permit it to cure and ferment for several days or weeks.<br />
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'''Char''': Used to refer to wood that has actually begun to burn, usually at the start of a burnout in a bowl or, far more likely and most often due to lighter abuse, at the rim. <br />
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'''Cherrywood''': According to the [[Cherrywood|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a cherrywood is a bent poker. The name cherrywood derives from the pipe shape's origin as a copy of the cherry wood pipes made by Eugène-Léon Ropp and others in mid-19th century France.<br />
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'''Churchwarden''': According to the [[Churchwarden|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the churchwarden is the only pipe defined by the shape of its stem, rather than its bowl. Whether bent or straight, the stem on a churchwarden is 9 to 18 inches long, but not so long as to make lighting the pipe while holding it in the mouth impossible.<br />
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'''Cigar Leaf''': A generic term used to describe a great many different types of leaf primarily used in cigars which are also included in pipe tobacco. Connecticut Broadleaf and Cuban-Seed Varietals are frequently used among others to add flavor to a blend.<br />
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'''Cob''': The common parlance for a corn cob pipe, which in its loosest definition is simply any pipe with a bowl made from a dried and drilled corncob. Traditionally fitted with river cane stems, most modern cobs have wood shanks and plastic bits. <br />
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'''Coin''': A term used to refer to a single slice of tobacco cut from a rope or twist, and resembling a flake, except that it is round and often thinner.<br />
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'''Cumberland''': Called brindle by Dunhill and others, cumberland is a form of vulcanite made with brown and red pigment added to the rubber to give it a marble like appearance.<br />
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'''Curly Cut''': A term used to refer to tobacco which has been sliced from rope or twist tobacco into thin "coins", similar to flakes excepting that they are thinner and round.<br />
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'''Cut''': Pipe tobacco may be cut as shag, ribbon, flake, plug, rope, discs, coins, or in other forms. These terms simply refer to the manner in which the finished product is reduced into a small enough size to consume. The most common cut is ribbon cut.<br />
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'''Cutty''': According to the [[Cutty|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a cutty has a very canted tulip shaped bowl and a slightly bent stem with a tapered bit. The word cutty simply means "cut shorter". Cutty pipes occasionally and traditionally sport a "spur", or a small foot protruding from the base of the bowl.<br />
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'''Czech Tool''': Also called a 3-way pipe tool, a combined tamper, shank clearing tool and dottle spoon on a single rotating rivet. Called a Czech tool for the original country of manufacture of most of the tools, they are largely Chinese made today.<br />
[[File:Czech Tool.jpg|center|thumb|A Czech Tool.]]<br />
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== D ==<br />
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'''Delayed Gratification Technique''': Or DGT, the habit of some pipe smokers to light a pipe and leave it to sit for hours or even days before completing the smoke. Many blends gain a far different taste profile from this technique which some find pleasant.<br />
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'''Delrin''': A brand name for polyoxymethylne or POM, also called acetal, polyacetal, or polyformaldehyde, delrin is a thermoplastic used by pipe makers as a material for non-integral stem tenons, and for screw-in tenons for meerschaum push/pull connections. Delrin is appreciated as a "self-lubricating" material, meaning that it has a low drag coefficient to interfere with the smooth passage of smoke, and for the ease of reliance on separate stems and tenons.<br />
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'''Devil Anse''': The name of a notorious West Virginia Confederate veteran suspected of murdering Asa McCoy after the war ended and starting the infamous Hatfield/McCoy feud. Devil Anse Hatfield was portrayed in a recent television series by Kevin Costner, who, despite the lack of any historical support, smoked a nosewarmer cutty in the role, now popular and given the name of the character. <br />
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'''Diplomat''': According to the [[Diplomat|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a diplomat is a pipe shape similar to a prince but a bit larger generally and with an oval shank and stem.<br />
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'''Djebel''': Sometimes referred to as Xanthi-Djebel, Dejebel tobacco is grown closer to the ridge, or djebel, of the Rhodope mountains above Xanthi. While the leaf is probably of the same strain as Yaka leaf, it is much less highly regarded.<br />
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'''Don''': A pipe shape, according to the [[Duke/Don|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], similar to a Duke but with a rudimentary shank and a vulcanite bit. Sometimes, such as by [[Peterson]], called a tankard.<br />
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'''Dottle''': The leftover plug of unburnt tobacco and ash left in the heel of a pipe bowl after smoking. Dottle is avoided by smokers as a waste of tobacco and occasionally souring of the bowl, but is sometimes unavoidable.<br />
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'''Drama''': A sweet type of tobacco with a natural olive oil fragrance grown on the Southern slopes and foothills of the Rhodope Mountains in Greek Eastern Macedonia, and taking its name from the town of the same name. A kabakolak variety, meaning that the leaf has a distinct separate stem similar to basibali, but with "wings" on its leaf stems.<br />
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'''Draught Hole''': Also Draft Hole, the point at which the airway enters the bowl of the pipe, preferably in the center back of the heel to avoid leaving excessive dottle.<br />
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'''Dubec''': 1. The smaller leaves from the upper portion of any variety of Turkish tobacco plant 2. A round package of cured Turkish leaf of any variety, approximately 25-30 pounds in weight.<br />
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'''Dublin''': According to the [[Dublin|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the dublin is a pipe shape with the same proportions as a billiard but with a conical bowl and tapered combustion chamber.<br />
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'''Duke''': A [[Dunhill]] pipe shape that features a cylindrical bowl with no shank, a bone or vulcanite stem and a poker-type canted bottom, according to the [[Duke/Don|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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== E ==<br />
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'''Ebonite''': The brand name for a very hard rubber first created by Charles Goodyear by vulcanizing rubber for prolonged periods, Ebonite was named for its intended purpose, a replacment for ebony. Commonly referred to as vulcanite in pipe parlance, vulcanite is with acrylic one of the two most popular materials from which stems are made.<br />
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'''Egg''': According to the [[Egg|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the egg is usually but not always a bent pipe with a bowl shaped like an egg, which can be thought of as an elongated apple shape.<br />
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'''Elephant's Foot''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and characterized by straight grained side panels and wide front and back domed surfaces on the bowl exhibiting birdseye. <br />
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'''English''': Aside from the obvious geographical uses, the word "English" is often used among pipe smokers to refer to blends with latakia in them. In reality, however, the term only developed to differentiate blends made in the United Kingdom, especially in the days of the now defunct Tobacco Purity Laws, which prohibited humectants and most flavorings from being added to the tobacco. A more precise term is "latakia based".<br />
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'''English Cavendish''': The name commonly used to refer to dark flue-cured or fire-cured Virginia tobacco which is steamed and then pressed over a period of several days to weeks. It is not flavored as other forms of Cavendish generally are. Rattray's ''Dark Fragrant'' is one example of an available English Cavendish blend. <br />
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'''Eskimo''': According to the [[Ukulele|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a pipe shape by Tom Eltang created as a variation on Ed Burak's bulldog design and sporting a smooth, flat stem and shank with a canted, domed bowl.<br />
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'''Estate Pipe''': A previously owned pipe, whether smoked or un-smoked.<br />
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'''Fire Cured''': Unlike flue cured tobacco, which is cured by indirect heat without smoke, fire cured tobacco is cured with smoke, in the tobacco equivalent of barbecuing. Dark Fired Kentucky and Latakia are both fire cured, and the process results in lower sugars and higher nicotine in the leaf.<br />
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'''Flake''': Flake tobacco is made by slicing thin sheets off of a cube, which in turn is formed by pressing whole tobacco leaves into a compressed form, usually under significant pressure for long periods of time. Flake tobacco may be sold in slices, or fully or partially broken or rubbed out.<br />
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'''Flue Cured''': Flue cured tobacco is cured by heat without smoke, generally by being hung from sticks in a barn exposed to heat from external fires through flues. Traditionally the method for curing brightleaf tobacco, this method results in sweeter leaf with lower nicotine.<br />
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'''Foot''': The bottom of the outside of the bowl, as opposed to the heel, which is the bottom of the inside of the bowl.<br />
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'''Freehand''': Not to be confused with the fixed freehand shapes made by some companies, a true freehand shape is defined by the pipemaker's choice to let the grain of the briar shape the pipe, rather than forcing the pipe into a predetermined shape, according to the [[Freehand|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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== G ==<br />
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'''Gesteckpfeife''': Literally "pipe in parts", a traditional European pipe made up of several interconnecting parts, usually held together with cork tenons. Bowls can be meerschaum, briar, or porcelain, commonly.<br />
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'''Ghost''': A ghost is the taste or smell of a previously smoked tobacco remaining in a pipe and coloring the taste of a different blend smoked in the same pipe. Generally the cause of tar in the shank, but usually blamed on cake.<br />
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'''Gourd Calabash''': According to the [[Gourd Calabash|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a gourd calabash is a pipe made from a calabash gourd which is dried and the seeds removed, and then fitted with a stem and meerschaum bowl cap. The driest and smoothest of all pipes.<br />
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'''Hand''': A hand is a bundle of tobacco tied at the end and hung from the knot for curing purposes.<br />
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'''Hawkbill''': According to the [[Hawkbill|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the hawkbill is a pipe shape characterized by an enlarged ball or tomato style with a long, tapering bent shank. The premiere example is the Castello 84.j<br />
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'''Heel''': The heel is the bottom of the combustion chamber, the inside of the bowl.<br />
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'''Horn''': According to the [[Horn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the horn is a graceful freehand shape varying from a straight tapering tube to a more standard bent pipe, but in all cases with a smooth tapering from bowl to shank and no abrupt transitions.<br />
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'''Hungarian''': More commonly referred to as an Oom Paul, the Hungarian is a fully bent billiard named for former South African President Paulus Kruger, according to the [[Oom Paul/Hungarian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''Intricate Curve''': In pipemaking, a term sometimes used to describe the transition from the rear wall of the bowl to the top of the shank.<br />
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'''Izmir''': A type of Turkish tobacco with rich flavor, low nicotine, and cool smoke. It has a very aromatic nature and is often blended with Latakia to somewhat subdue this property. Primarily used as a condiment with pipe tobacco, but occasionally offered by itself. Also called Smyrna.<br />
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'''Jar''': Tobacco jars have been used for nearly three hundred years as the predominant method for storage of pipe tobacco, whether made from tin, wood, pewter, porcelain, majolica or bisque. By far the most common choice is the simple Ball jar or Mason jar.<br />
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'''Jatim''': A form of Indonesian tobacco and the abbreviated name of the province of East Java (Jawa Timur), where the tobacco is grown.<br />
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== K ==<br />
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'''Kabakolak''': A family of Turkish tobacco strains similar to Basibali, but with wings on their leaf stems in addition to distinct stems.<br />
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'''Katerini''': A Turkish varietal of the Samsun basibali type, with a milder, sweeter leaf. Grown southwest of Thessaloniki in the Greek province of Macedonia.<br />
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'''Kentucky''': Dark-Fired Kentucky is a type of pipe tobacco made from burley which is cured over a fire and flavored by its smoke.<br />
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'''Latakia''': Named for the principal port city of Syria, latakia is not a specific plant varietal, but rather one of a number of Turkish varietals which are fire cured over a stone pine or oak wood fire, giving it a smoky flavor. Most latakia, despite the name, is now grown in Cyprus, not Syria, and camel dung has nothing to do with the process of its creation.<br />
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'''Lovat''': A pipe shape, according to the [[Lovat|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], which is essentially a Canadian but with a round shank instead of oval and a saddle stem.<br />
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'''Lucite''': Lucite is a trade name for acrylic, or polyacrylate, which is derived from natural gas. It is a composition of Methyl Methacrylate and Poly Methyl Methacrylate resin. Lucite is used for pipe stems due to its lack of oxidation, but is criticized for a harder feel on the teeth.<br />
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'''Lületaşi''': A Turkish word literally meaning sea foam and used to refer to meerschaum in that country.<br />
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'''Macedonia''': 1. A province of north-central Greece, west of Thrace, which includes the sea port of Thessaloniki (Salonika) and the Katerini tobacco region 2. A recently independent republic, formerly part of Soviet Yugoslavia, located immediately north of the Greek province of Macedonia, and the source of Prilep tobacco.<br />
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'''Mahale''': A Turkish tobacco with a basma leaf type grown downslope from Xanthi.<br />
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'''Maryland''': An extremely mild tobacco used in a number of American tobacco blends, especially to add a nutty flavor to Burley. Sadly the state of Maryland now pays farmers not to grow tobacco.<br />
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'''Meerschaum''': A mineral hydrous magnesium silicate called sepiolite, primarily found in Turkey near Eskisehr, which is used in the making of tobacco pipes. The word means "seafoam".<br />
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'''Melding''': The term used to refer to a tobacco blend's property to acquire a single homogeneous taste over time, as a result of aging in an airtight container.<br />
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'''Mellowing''': Particularly used in referring to Latakia's tendency to be less overpowering after some aging, the term is sometimes used to refer to a general tendency of tobacco to become more smooth with age.<br />
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'''Mortise''': A mortise is at its most basic a hole cut or drilled to accept a smaller tenon and make a joint. The joint has been used in woodworking for thousands of years, and in pipe construction generally appears as a hole drilled larger than the airway and at the same depth as the stem tenon. Variations, however, are unlimited.<br />
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'''Mouthpiece''': A term used interchangeably with stem and to a lesser degree bit, the mouthpiece is the portion of the pipe meant to be placed in the smoker's mouth, and includes the entire pipe from the end of the shank to the slot. Often made from vulcanite or lucite/acrylic.<br />
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'''Nautilus''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and named for its obvious resemblance to the shell of a nautilus, resulting in an airway passing through a shank curved in a loop and pierced in the center to suggest the closed portion of the shell, a bowl shaped like the long open mouth of the shell, and a foot curving in a near half circle beneath.<br />
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'''Nail''': The simplest form of pipe tool is the venerable Pipe Nail, which generally looks much like its namesake, one end flat to tamp with and another coming to a point or spoon for clearing ash and tar.<br />
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'''Nomenclature''': A general term used to refer to the stamping on a pipe in its entirety, including brand names, models, year and shape codes and the like.<br />
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== O ==<br />
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'''Oliphant''': A traditional name for a hunter's horn made from an elephant tusk, the oliphant shape was first designed by [[Sixten Ivarsson]] for the [[Pibe-Dan]] shop in the late 1950s. According to the [[Horn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]]The shape is a variation of the horn meant to resemble the tusk of an elephant, and with a flat curve and even and gradual tapering throughout.<br />
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'''Oom Paul''': A shape name which actually means Uncle Paul in Dutch, Oom Paul pipes are full bent billiards, according to the [[Oom Paul/Hungarian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]]. The name comes from the nickname for Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, president of the South African Republic from 1883 to 1900 and the face of the Boer cause against Britain during the Second Boer War of 1899 to 1902. Also called a Hungarian.<br />
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'''Opera Pipe''': A shape which the [[Oval|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] refer to as an "Oval" or Pocket pipe, the opera pipe is a billiard with a bowl "squashed" into an oval, with the long side of the oval parallel with the shank and stem. In fact, "opera" pipe is a misnomer. The original name of the pipe was the au pair pipe, as it gained popularity with domestic workers unable to smoke around children.<br />
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'''Oriental''': Used interchangeably with "Turkish" to refer to sun cured condimental tobaccos grown in the Eastern Mediterranean. This category of tobaccos includes Yenidje, Smyrna, Samsun, Izmir, Drama, Xanthe, and often Basma, which is not a particular leaf but a generic Turkish blend, and all that pipe tobacco blenders are often able to find due to the purchase of most oriental varietals by cigarette manufacturers.<br />
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'''Panel Billiard''': According to the [[Panel Billiard|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the Panelled Billiard, also called a foursquare, is a basic billiard shape with flat, or panelled, sides. The classic panel has four flat sides and a round shank.<br />
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'''Pear''': More commonly called an acorn today, according to the [[Pear/Accorn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] the pear is a sort of softened dublin shape, with a conical bowl and tobacco chamber but with all sharp edges rounded.<br />
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'''Perique''': Mistakenly believed to be a nickname for Pierre Chenet and actually a French mispronunciation of an American slang word for a part of the anatomy, perique is a type of tobacco grown only in St. James Parish, Louisiana, sauced and kept under massive pressure in barrels until it turns nearly black. Perique has flavors of spice and plum, and is prized as the truffle of pipe tobaccos.<br />
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'''Pickaxe''': According to the [[Pickaxe|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pickaxe is a freehand style of pipe characterized by a paneled, triangular bowl.<br />
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'''Pipe''': A tube with a small bowl at one end used for the smoking of tobacco.<br />
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'''P-Lip''': A type of pipe mouthpiece invented by Peterson of Dublin and relying on a small hole on the top of a stem rather than a hole at its end. Meant to reduce tongue bite by directing the flow of smoke away from the tongue.<br />
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'''Plug''': Whole leaf, pressed with moisture, becomes a plug, from which flakes can be sliced. Plug tobacco is prepared by slicing off and then rubbing out pieces of the block of tobacco.<br />
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'''Poker''': According to the [[Poker|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the poker is a straight pipe with a cylindrical, flat bottomed bowl designed so that the pipe will stand on its own.<br />
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'''Pot''': According to the [[Pot|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pot is a billiard with a shorter bowl, but not a shorter shank than a standard billiard.<br />
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'''Prilep''': A Sirdily variety of Turkish tobacco commonly grown in the region of the town of Prilep, which is located in the Independent Republic of Macedonia.<br />
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'''Prince''': According to the [[Prince|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the prince is a pipe shape characterized by a squat rounded bowl and along, usually slightly bent stem with a short shank. The pipe was named after Prince Albert, later King Edward VII, the Prince of Wales.<br />
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'''Push/Pull''': The term generally used to describe a two part mortise and tenon system used in meerschaum pipes and developed by Andreas Bauer originally. A push/pull consists of a threaded Delrin tenon and a separate threaded plastic mortise. The preferred method of connecting stem and shank in meerschaum pipes, which lack the durability for long term use of a standard mortise/tenon connection.<br />
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'''Quaint''': A pipe shape hallmarked, generally, by more than four panels, especially with a paneled shank as well.<br />
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'''Ramses''': A pipe shape created by Bo [[Nordh]] and later named by a visiting customer for its resemblance to the statue of Ramses II in Abu Simbel, Egypt. Characterized by a long, wide sloping shank which also serves as the foot of the pipe and a long, tapered bowl which rests almost vertically on the shank. Stems are generally partially bent.<br />
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[[File:Bo Nordh Ramses01.jpg|thumb|center|100px|A Nordh Ramses]]<br />
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'''Reaming''': Trimming back cake from the bowl of a tobacco pipe.<br />
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'''Reamer''': A tool used to trim pipe cake back to an acceptable level. These have been made in countless different forms, adjustable and non-adjustable, for well over a century. Some simply use a pipe knife or sandpaper to accomplish the same task.<br />
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'''Rhodesian''': A subject of great dispute. Unlikely to have been named for Cecil Rhodes, and more likely to have taken its name from Rhodesian tobacco, a Rhodesian is considered by some to be any bent bulldog, by others to be any bulldog with a round shank, and by others any bulldog shape with a greater bowl width than height. For each accepted definition of the word there is a pipe sold which contradicts it, and no consensus is likely.<br />
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'''Room Note''': The smell of a particular tobacco as it is being smoked. Easier to detect by those not smoking the blend, and a key component to the choice of a pipe tobacco blend especially for those who smoke in public environments. Simply put, how pleasing the smoke would be to a bystander.<br />
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'''Samsun''': A Turkish tobacco of the basibali variety with a heart-shaped leaf, grown near the town of Samsun, Turkey on the shores of the Black Sea. Low nicotine tobacco, but with strong flavor and dark color.<br />
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'''Samsun-Maden''': Also called Bafra for the village near Samsun, Samsun-Maden is a basibali Turkish tobacco characterized by leaves which are are small sized and ovalThe leaf faces are red to bright red. This strain can be smoked without blending. Nicotine content is often lower than 1% and sugar content is 9-12%. <br />
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'''Shank''': The portion of a stummel between the bowl and mouthpiece, and generally containing the mortise. The length of the pipe shank is one of the key variables in the shape of a pipe, as is it's shape, whether square, diamond, oval or round.<br />
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'''Shirazi''': Named for the ancient city of Shiraz in south-western Iran and claimed to be native to that country, Shirazi tobacco is thought to have reached Iran from the Americas in the mid 1500s. Once called ''Nicotiana Persica''.<br />
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'''Sirdily''': A category of Turkish basma subvarietals characterized by small, narrow, acutely pointed leaves.<br />
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'''Slot''': A slot is the wide opening at the end of the mouthpiece tapering into the airway of the pipe. Generally seen only on vulcanite and acrylic stems from the last century, the slot is funneled both to make the insertion of a pipe cleaner easier and to make for a smoother flow for the smoke.<br />
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'''Smyrna''': A type of Turkish tobacco with rich flavor, low nicotine, and cool smoke. It has a very aromatic nature and is often blended with Latakia to somewhat subdue this property. Primarily used as a condiment with pipe tobacco, but occasionally offered by itself. Also called Izmir.<br />
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'''Sokhoum''': A type of Turkish varietal of the Samsun basibali type which is deeply fermented. Grown in the mountains above the town of Sokhoum Kale (Sokhumi) in the Republic of Georgia.<br />
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'''Soppeng''': A type of Indonesian tobacco prepared much like a traditional cavendish but using palm sugar as the sweetener, and then fired. Primarily smoked in cigarettes but enjoyed as pipe tobacco also, Soppeng is sometimes flavored with cinnamon or other tastes during preparation.<br />
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'''Sphinx''': A shape created by Bo [[Nordh]] and characterized by a wide domed bowl front cut so as to show birdseye at the center with straight grain radiating out from that point, giving a sunburst pattern. A similar shape, the Mounted Sphinx, was created by [[Geiger Pipes|Love and Sara Geiger]], but was not created as a variation on the shape.<br />
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'''Spiderwebbing''': A term used to describe a possible condition of estate pipes, spiderwebbing is the result of oversmoking but, rather than showing in a single spot like char in the bowl or a burnout, is characterized by a pattern of char lines, which look like shallow cracks and are actually burnt into the wood of the bowl. Can be concealed by any amount of cake or even a bowl coating, and so it is usually only evident in a bowl which has been sanded back to bare wood.<br />
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'''Spur''': A small protrusion at the bottom of traditional clay pipes to ensure a hot bowl does not burn the table. Frequently included in cutty pipes made even in briar and meerschaum in later decades as an ornamental element of the cutty shape. Seen only occasionally today.<br />
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[[File:Spur.jpg|thumb|center|100px|Clay Pipe Resting on Spur]]<br />
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'''Srintil''': A type of heavily fermented, air cured Indonesian tobacco grown in the Java region in the Temangung valley which grows at the top of a plant and by abnormality produces an extreme amount of resin, making it highly potent. Fermentation details are thought to be similar to perique, and in 1983 approximately 3 tons a year of Srintil were grown worldwide. Sometimes extracted in an aqueous solution for use as a flavoring agent.<br />
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'''Stummel''': German for stump, the stummel is a complete pipe minus only a stem and any final adornments, including the bowl, shank, and transition between the two.<br />
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'''Tambolaka''': An Indonesian tobacco grown in limestone heavy soil and after harvesting rolled into long sticks which are bound and stored for five years. Sold both as pipe tobacco and as a component of Indonesian cigars. Very high in nicotine with a tin note best described as pungent. <br />
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'''Tamp''': Using a tool or finger to compress the contents of the pipe bowl so as to bring unburnt tobacco into contact with the ember.<br />
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'''Tamper''': A tool used to tamp a pipe, generally with a flat end designed for that purpose and a handle. A tamper can be as simple as a piece of dowel or as ornate as the buyer may wish. While it seems inconsequential, tamping is important both for the care of the pipe and the coolness of the smoke.<br />
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'''Tenon''': The tenon is the smaller diameter protrusion at the end of a pipe stem which holds the stem to the stummel. It takes its name from one of the oldest joints in woodworking, the mortise and tenon joint. Over the last two centuries tenons have been made separately with bone screws, cut integrally into a vulcanite stem to fit a cut mortise in the stummel, made from threaded aluminum or plastic, made from aluminum to fit a pre-drilled mortise so as to hold a filter, made from delrin and placed into a drilled hole in the stem, and in other fashions as well. <br />
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'''Tin Note''': As opposed to the aroma of burning tobacco, the tin note is the scent which can be smelled from the unsmoked tobacco when opened, and is considered a good way to begin to understand a new blend and determine to some degree its components and their relative strength.<br />
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'''Trebizond''': No known as Trabzon, Trebizond is grown in Turkey at the southeast shores of the Black Sea. A basibali varietal resembling Samsun, but coarser and stronger.<br />
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'''Turkish''': A term used to refer not only to tobaccos grown in modern day Turkey, but rather to any tobacco grown under the Ottoman Empire, particularly at the height of its power under Suleiman the Magnificent. As a result, while the town of Yenidje, for example, would today be in Greece, yenidje tobacco is still classified as Turkish.<br />
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'''Twist''': A form of tobacco, also known as rope tobacco, which is spun into a roll, largely by hand, rather than being pressed into flakes. One of the oldest forms of smoking tobacco.<br />
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'''Ukulele''': A pipe shape first designed by [[Sixten Ivarsson]] for the [[Pibe-Dan]] shop in the 1950s and named ukulele, some credit Ed [[Burak]] for the design which he considered a bulldog. A ukulele is characterized by a domed, wide bowl and a wide oval shank with a flat bowl bottom, according to the [[Ukulele|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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== V ==<br />
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'''VaPer''': A portmanteau of Virginia and Perique, vaper is simply the contraction used to refer to blends primarily composed of these two types of tobacco. <br />
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'''Vestpocket''': A pipe characterized by its ability to fit in a vest pocket, notable for its stem, which swivels over the bowl for carrying and swings out for use, according to the [[Vestpocket|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts]]. Generally all corners on the pipe are rounded to make it easier to remove from a pocket.<br />
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'''Virginia''': More appropriately called Brightleaf tobacco, Virginia is used to refer to milder tobacco leaf, lighter in color, which is grown in infertile, sandy soil, largely in North Carolina and Virginia, and which was first grown in approximately 1839. <br />
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'''Volcano''': A pipe shape characterized by a conical bowl narrowing towards the top, usually with a rounded base and a bent shank and saddle stem, according to the [[Volcano|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts]].<br />
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'''Vulcanite''': Hard black vulcanized rubber used for making pipe stems. Made from rubber containing up to 30% sulfur, vulcanite is soft on the teeth but prone to turning brownish yellow and taking on a sulfur smell on exposure to sunlight. This process is called oxidation.<br />
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'''White Burley''': First grown in Brown County, Ohio in 1865 by George Webb, White Burley is the result of planting Red Burley seeds purchased from Kentucky in the different soil of Ohio, which resulted in a mutation of whitish, sickly looking plants. White Burley soon became the chief ingredient in chewing tobacco, American pipe tobacco, and American-style cigarettes. As Red Burley no longer exists, White Burley is simply referred to as Burley today.<br />
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'''Xanthi''': Sometimes spelled Xanthe, this grade of Basma tobacco is named for a city in the Thrace region of northeastern Greece, first led into prosperity around 1715 due to the quality of its highly aromatic tobacco. The scientific name of the leaf is ''Nicotiana tabacum'' L. cv Xanthi.<br />
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== Y ==<br />
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'''Yacht''': Another name for the Zulu pipe shape, with a canted dublin bowl, oval shank and 1/8 bent stem. Among others, Kaywoodie used the term Yacht for pipes of this shape.<br />
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'''Yenidje''': Named for the town of Yenidje, Thrace, today called Genisea, Greece, Yenidje is also called Yenice, Jenidze, Yenidge, and Yeniji, and is a variety of Yaka tobacco, the best regarded form of Xanthi. Yenidje was an Ottoman tobacco production center until 1843 when the town burned and the growers moved up the slopes of the Rhodope Mountain range. Those slopes, called the Yaka, were made of a red clay loam mixed with small flint stones giving rise to short, low-yielding plants of the basma type, meaning (in this usage) that the leaves are small, almost round and with no free stem. The leaf burns badly on its own and was traditionally mixed with Bafra to cure this issue.<br />
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'''Zulu''': A shape of smoking pipe hallmarked by a canted dublin style bowl, an oval shank and a 1/8th bent stem. Also referred to as a Woodstock or a Yacht.<br />
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'''Zeppelin''': A name often used to refer to a cigar-shaped pipe of briar with a separate mouthpiece often of vulcanite, usually with a metal cap at the end to hold in the tobacco. Also called a Torpedo.<br />
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'''Acorn''': A pipe shape characterized by a conical shape sometimes extending to a point or near point below the shank or else with a bent shank flowing into the "point" of the acorn shape. Distinguishable from a dublin by a wider and more rounded rim in most cases. <br />
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'''Acrylic''': In pipe parlance, acrylic stems are those made of polymers of acrylic acid or acrylates, most often polymethyl methacrylate, also called acrylic glass. Some prefer this material for pipe stems due to the lack of oxidation, while others prefer a traditional vulcanite stem due to softness.<br />
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'''Aging''': The term used to describe the tendency of pipe tobacco to improve over time through either aerobic or anaerobic fermentation. The term is used interchangeably to describe increased sweetness on the part of Virginias, mellowing on the part of Latakia, or a generally more complete melding of the blend. The effect is often simulated through the use of heat or pressure.<br />
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'''Agonya''': A type of Turkish tobacco of a kabakolak leaf type, meaning it has distinct stems with "wings" on the leaf stems, Agonya was originally grown in the foothills below Xanthi, but is now grown south of the Sea of Marmara, in the region east of Kanakhale, Turkey.<br />
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'''Air-cured''': Air-cured tobacco is hung in well-ventilated barns immediately after plants are cut or leaves pulled from the field and allowed to dry for a period of one to two months. During this process the yellow colors of the leaf turn to varying shades of brown, until they are ready to be fermented and processed. Burley is an air-cured tobacco.<br />
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'''Amber''': Prior to the wide adoption of vulcanite, first invented in 1844 by Charles Goodyear, as a substance for pipe stem making, by far the most common form of pipe stem was one carved from amber. The stems were carved by hand from fossilized tree resin, at which point they could be bent only after heating in oil and over an alcohol flame. While amber is a beautiful natural material which comes in a large variety of colors, the stems are exceedingly brittle and hard on the teeth. Amber stems are still made only in very rare cases.<br />
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'''Apple''': According to the [[Apple|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the classic apple shape is a rounded version of the billiard, and may be had in either bent or straight shanked and tapered and saddle stemmed versions. Popular variations of this shape include the Prince and Author.<br />
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'''Aromatic''': A type of tobacco which is either cased or top flavored in order to produce a taste and room note other than the tobacco's natural smell, whether simply sugar or molasses, whiskey or other alcohols, or many other flavorings. Used as a major category for pipe tobaccos, along with non-aromatic and latakia based blends.<br />
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'''Army Mount''': Also called a "military bit", a pipe with an army mount stem is designed to permit the stem to be removed from the pipe while hot by inclusion of a shank cap, often made of silver, to reinforce the briar. A more elaborate variation of the army mount is the spigot. According to most likely mythological history, the first army mount was invented when a World War One soldier fixed a broken pipe shank by inserting a spent rifle casing into it and piercing a hole for the stem. <br />
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'''Author''': According to the [[Author|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the Author is a beefed-up prince, featuring a flattened ball-shaped bowl and a heavy 1/8 to 1/4 bent stem.<br />
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'''Bafra''': Bafra is a district and village in the Samsun province of Turkey, and the name sometimes given to the Samsun-Maden strain of tobacco, which is a smaller basibali Turkish varietal with low nicotine and a rich flavor.<br />
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'''Ball''': The ball shape, also referred to as a tomato, is described by the [[Author|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], is very similar to an author but with a spherical bowl and thinner shank. According to Mr. Burney the ball generally features a tapered stem with a 1/4 to 1/2 bent.<br />
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'''Ballerina''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and resembling a ballet dancer's foot while en pointe, curving from the heel at the front of the bowl to the toe at the meeting of bowl and shank, itself characterized by a full enough bend to permit the pipe to stand on its own. <br />
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[[File:Nordh Ballerina.jpg|thumb|center|100px|A Bo Nordh Ballerina]]<br />
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'''Bakelite''': A trade name for Polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride. Harder than vulcanite and softer than acrylic, bakelite stems do not oxidize. Largely seen in shades of white and amber yellow.<br />
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'''Basma''': 1. The group of Turkish small-leaf varietals in which the stem of the leaf does not extend beyond the leaf at the main stalk 2. The larger leaves primed from the middle of any variety of Turkish tobacco plant 3. A long, rectangular bale-style of packing cured Turkish leaf, approximately 50-60 pounds, of any variety.<br />
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'''Bead''': Now generally represented by two straight lines around the bowl of a bulldog or rhodesian, a bead is one of only three shapes which can be produced on a lathe, along with a flat and a cove. A bead is a rounded projection from the wood, and in the case of pipes today most beads are cut as inset beads, in that the surrounding wood is level with the top of the bead. Older pipes occasionally featured intricately carved beads. Today, however, rather than cutting a true bead the projection is left flat and only signified by the lines around it.<br />
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'''Bent Pipe''': A generic term used to refer to any pipe where the shank is not a straight horizontal line, regardless of the nature or amount of the shank bend.<br />
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'''Billiard''': The [[Billiard|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] describe a billiard as a pipe shape having a cylindrical bowl and tobacco chamber with a shank about the same length as the height of the bowl. Variations on the billiard shape include the pot and chimney.<br />
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'''Basibali''': A family of Turkish tobaccos characterized by a distinct stem separating the leaf from the stalk. Sometimes referred to as Bashi Bagli.<br />
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'''Bit''': A less than precise term, usually used to refer to the entirety of the stem or mouthpiece on a pipe, but occasionally also used to refer to the bite zone.<br />
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'''Bite Zone''': The last approximately three quarters of an inch of the mouthpiece or stem of a tobacco pipe, including the button.<br />
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'''Bloom''': Also referred to as plume, bloom is a fine white powder which appears on well aged tobacco on occasion, and despite the tendency to confuse it with mold is actually a good sign that the leaf is maturing well. Bloom is caused by the crystallization of sugars on the surface of the tobacco leaf. <br />
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'''Blowfish''': Per the [[Blowfish|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the blowfish is a pipe shape characterized by an asymmetrical flattened ball for a bowl, a bent stem blending into the body, and a combination of birdseye grain on the large panels and straight grain between.<br />
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'''Brandy''': Also referred to as a bent brandy or brandyglass, a pipe shape which resembles the glassware for which it is named. According to the [[Brandy|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pipe is characterized by a rounded base tapering up to a smaller rim, often in a 1/4 bent pipe.<br />
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'''Briar''': Actually a mistranslation of the French bruyère, briar among pipe smokers refers to the wood of the ''erica arborea'', a species of flowering plant in the heather family. After 30 to 60 years of growing time, the football sized plants are harvested, cooked, dried for several months, and further processed before they are made into pipes. <br />
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'''Bullcap''': According to the [[Bullcap|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the bullcap is a squat straight rhodesian with a large bowl diameter.<br />
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'''Bulldog''': According to the [[Bulldog|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the classic bulldog has a tapered stem, diamond shank and slightly forward canted bowl shaped someone like two cones joined at the bases with the top cone cut off. The pipe is traditionally adorned with a bead around the bowl. <br />
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'''Bullmoose''': According to the [[Bullcap|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a bullmoose is a squat rhodesian with a very heavy 1/4 bent stem.<br />
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'''Burley''': A tobacco of light-colored variety grown primarily in Kentucky and Tennessee, the bulk of burley tobacco produced in the United States is used for cigarette production. All burley today is of the white burley variety, and is often sweetened due to the low natural sugars present in the leaf. Most aromatics use a base of burley due to its ready ability to absorb flavors. While some claim burley does not age, it does improve with time. However, this takes time measured in the several decades at least.<br />
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'''Burnout''': A term used to refer to a possible condition in estate pipes which, short of extraordinary effort on the part of a capable restorer, generally means the death of a particular pipe. A burnout is a spot where char has actually penetrated or begun to penetrate the outer layer of the bowl. Usually caused by hot smoking, although some claim burnout is always the fault of an unseen flaw in the briar. Uneven packing can also result in one spot suffering more damage than others. While most smokers stop smoking a particular pipe when burnout begins to appear, some continue smoking until they have burned straight through a wall or the foot of the pipe.<br />
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'''Button''': The button is the raised portion at the end of a pipe mouthpiece or stem intended to permit the teeth purchase to hold the pipe.<br />
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'''Cake''': Cake refers to the buildup of residual carbon that forms in the bowl of a pipe. Most recommend trimming back the buildup to keep it at roughly the width of a dime in a briar pipe in order to create a protective layer which cools the pipe and reduces moisture. Cake is frowned upon in meerschaums, and the subject of much debate among corn cob pipe smokers.<br />
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'''Calabash''': According to the [[Calabash|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the calabash is a solid wood interpretation of the gourd calabash with a tapered bowl flared at the rim and a dome shaped top. The tobacco chamber is usually tapered and the pipe 3/4 bent, but there are variations.<br />
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'''Canadian''': According to the [[Canadian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the canadian is a long-shanked billiard with an oval shank and a tapered bit. The shank is roughly twice as long as the height of the bowl. Variations on this shape include the lumbermand, lovat and liverpool.<br />
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'''Casing''': Whether sprayed with or soaked in a sauce, casing refers to the addition of flavoring, sugar or the like prior to the finishing of the tobacco, as opposed to top-flavouring, which is added by spraying the finished blend with scents and flavours.<br />
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'''Cavendish''': There are two forms of Cavendish, which is more a process of curing and a method of cutting tobacco than a type of it. Common cavendish is made when tobacco leaves are pressed into a cake about an inch thick and heated before being allowed to ferment, resulting in a mild and sweet tobacco. Flavoring is often added before the leaves are pressed. English Cavendish uses a dark flue or fire cured Virginia , which is steamed and then stored under pressure to permit it to cure and ferment for several days or weeks.<br />
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'''Char''': Used to refer to wood that has actually begun to burn, usually at the start of a burnout in a bowl or, far more likely and most often due to lighter abuse, at the rim. <br />
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'''Cherrywood''': According to the [[Cherrywood|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a cherrywood is a bent poker. The name cherrywood derives from the pipe shape's origin as a copy of the cherry wood pipes made by Eugène-Léon Ropp and others in mid-19th century France.<br />
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'''Churchwarden''': According to the [[Churchwarden|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the churchwarden is the only pipe defined by the shape of its stem, rather than its bowl. Whether bent or straight, the stem on a churchwarden is 9 to 18 inches long, but not so long as to make lighting the pipe while holding it in the mouth impossible.<br />
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'''Cigar Leaf''': A generic term used to describe a great many different types of leaf primarily used in cigars which are also included in pipe tobacco. Connecticut Broadleaf and Cuban-Seed Varietals are frequently used among others to add flavor to a blend.<br />
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'''Cob''': The common parlance for a corn cob pipe, which in its loosest definition is simply any pipe with a bowl made from a dried and drilled corncob. Traditionally fitted with river cane stems, most modern cobs have wood shanks and plastic bits. <br />
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'''Cumberland''': Called brindle by Dunhill and others, cumberland is a form of vulcanite made with brown and red pigment added to the rubber to give it a marble like appearance.<br />
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'''Cut''': Pipe tobacco may be cut as shag, ribbon, flake, plug, rope, discs, coins, or in other forms. These terms simply refer to the manner in which the finished product is reduced into a small enough size to consume. The most common cut is ribbon cut.<br />
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'''Cutty''': According to the [[Cutty|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a cutty has a very canted tulip shaped bowl and a slightly bent stem with a tapered bit. The word cutty simply means "cut shorter". Cutty pipes occasionally and traditionally sport a "spur", or a small foot protruding from the base of the bowl.<br />
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'''Czech Tool''': Also called a 3-way pipe tool, a combined tamper, shank clearing tool and dottle spoon on a single rotating rivet. Called a Czech tool for the original country of manufacture of most of the tools, they are largely Chinese made today.<br />
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'''Delayed Gratification Technique''': Or DGT, the habit of some pipe smokers to light a pipe and leave it to sit for hours or even days before completing the smoke. Many blends gain a far different taste profile from this technique which some find pleasant.<br />
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'''Delrin''': A brand name for polyoxymethylne or POM, also called acetal, polyacetal, or polyformaldehyde, delrin is a thermoplastic used by pipe makers as a material for non-integral stem tenons, and for screw-in tenons for meerschaum push/pull connections. Delrin is appreciated as a "self-lubricating" material, meaning that it has a low drag coefficient to interfere with the smooth passage of smoke, and for the ease of reliance on separate stems and tenons.<br />
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'''Devil Anse''': The name of a notorious West Virginia Confederate veteran suspected of murdering Asa McCoy after the war ended and starting the infamous Hatfield/McCoy feud. Devil Anse Hatfield was portrayed in a recent television series by Kevin Costner, who, despite the lack of any historical support, smoked a nosewarmer cutty in the role, now popular and given the name of the character. <br />
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'''Diplomat''': According to the [[Diplomat|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a diplomat is a pipe shape similar to a prince but a bit larger generally and with an oval shank and stem.<br />
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'''Djebel''': Sometimes referred to as Xanthi-Djebel, Dejebel tobacco is grown closer to the ridge, or djebel, of the Rhodope mountains above Xanthi. While the leaf is probably of the same strain as Yaka leaf, it is much less highly regarded.<br />
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'''Don''': A pipe shape, according to the [[Duke/Don|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], similar to a Duke but with a rudimentary shank and a vulcanite bit. Sometimes, such as by [[Peterson]], called a tankard.<br />
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'''Dottle''': The leftover plug of unburnt tobacco and ash left in the heel of a pipe bowl after smoking. Dottle is avoided by smokers as a waste of tobacco and occasionally souring of the bowl, but is sometimes unavoidable.<br />
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'''Drama''': A sweet type of tobacco with a natural olive oil fragrance grown on the Southern slopes and foothills of the Rhodope Mountains in Greek Eastern Macedonia, and taking its name from the town of the same name. A kabakolak variety, meaning that the leaf has a distinct separate stem similar to basibali, but with "wings" on its leaf stems.<br />
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'''Draught Hole''': Also Draft Hole, the point at which the airway enters the bowl of the pipe, preferably in the center back of the heel to avoid leaving excessive dottle.<br />
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'''Dubec''': 1. The smaller leaves from the upper portion of any variety of Turkish tobacco plant 2. A round package of cured Turkish leaf of any variety, approximately 25-30 pounds in weight.<br />
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'''Dublin''': According to the [[Dublin|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the dublin is a pipe shape with the same proportions as a billiard but with a conical bowl and tapered combustion chamber.<br />
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'''Duke''': A [[Dunhill]] pipe shape that features a cylindrical bowl with no shank, a bone or vulcanite stem and a poker-type canted bottom, according to the [[Duke/Don|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''Ebonite''': The brand name for a very hard rubber first created by Charles Goodyear by vulcanizing rubber for prolonged periods, Ebonite was named for its intended purpose, a replacment for ebony. Commonly referred to as vulcanite in pipe parlance, vulcanite is with acrylic one of the two most popular materials from which stems are made.<br />
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'''Egg''': According to the [[Egg|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the egg is usually but not always a bent pipe with a bowl shaped like an egg, which can be thought of as an elongated apple shape.<br />
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'''Elephant's Foot''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and characterized by straight grained side panels and wide front and back domed surfaces on the bowl exhibiting birdseye. <br />
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'''English''': Aside from the obvious geographical uses, the word "English" is often used among pipe smokers to refer to blends with latakia in them. In reality, however, the term only developed to differentiate blends made in the United Kingdom, especially in the days of the now defunct Tobacco Purity Laws, which prohibited humectants and most flavorings from being added to the tobacco. A more precise term is "latakia based".<br />
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'''English Cavendish''': The name commonly used to refer to dark flue-cured or fire-cured Virginia tobacco which is steamed and then pressed over a period of several days to weeks. It is not flavored as other forms of Cavendish generally are. Rattray's ''Dark Fragrant'' is one example of an available English Cavendish blend. <br />
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'''Eskimo''': According to the [[Ukulele|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a pipe shape by Tom Eltang created as a variation on Ed Burak's bulldog design and sporting a smooth, flat stem and shank with a canted, domed bowl.<br />
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'''Estate Pipe''': A previously owned pipe, whether smoked or un-smoked.<br />
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'''Fire Cured''': Unlike flue cured tobacco, which is cured by indirect heat without smoke, fire cured tobacco is cured with smoke, in the tobacco equivalent of barbecuing. Dark Fired Kentucky and Latakia are both fire cured, and the process results in lower sugars and higher nicotine in the leaf.<br />
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'''Flake''': Flake tobacco is made by slicing thin sheets off of a cube, which in turn is formed by pressing whole tobacco leaves into a compressed form, usually under significant pressure for long periods of time. Flake tobacco may be sold in slices, or fully or partially broken or rubbed out.<br />
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'''Flue Cured''': Flue cured tobacco is cured by heat without smoke, generally by being hung from sticks in a barn exposed to heat from external fires through flues. Traditionally the method for curing brightleaf tobacco, this method results in sweeter leaf with lower nicotine.<br />
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'''Foot''': The bottom of the outside of the bowl, as opposed to the heel, which is the bottom of the inside of the bowl.<br />
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'''Freehand''': Not to be confused with the fixed freehand shapes made by some companies, a true freehand shape is defined by the pipemaker's choice to let the grain of the briar shape the pipe, rather than forcing the pipe into a predetermined shape, according to the [[Freehand|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''Gesteckpfeife''': Literally "pipe in parts", a traditional European pipe made up of several interconnecting parts, usually held together with cork tenons. Bowls can be meerschaum, briar, or porcelain, commonly.<br />
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'''Ghost''': A ghost is the taste or smell of a previously smoked tobacco remaining in a pipe and coloring the taste of a different blend smoked in the same pipe. Generally the cause of tar in the shank, but usually blamed on cake.<br />
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'''Gourd Calabash''': According to the [[Gourd Calabash|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a gourd calabash is a pipe made from a calabash gourd which is dried and the seeds removed, and then fitted with a stem and meerschaum bowl cap. The driest and smoothest of all pipes.<br />
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'''Hand''': A hand is a bundle of tobacco tied at the end and hung from the knot for curing purposes.<br />
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'''Hawkbill''': According to the [[Hawkbill|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the hawkbill is a pipe shape characterized by an enlarged ball or tomato style with a long, tapering bent shank. The premiere example is the Castello 84.j<br />
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'''Heel''': The heel is the bottom of the combustion chamber, the inside of the bowl.<br />
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'''Horn''': According to the [[Horn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the horn is a graceful freehand shape varying from a straight tapering tube to a more standard bent pipe, but in all cases with a smooth tapering from bowl to shank and no abrupt transitions.<br />
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'''Hungarian''': More commonly referred to as an Oom Paul, the Hungarian is a fully bent billiard named for former South African President Paulus Kruger, according to the [[Oom Paul/Hungarian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''Intricate Curve''': In pipemaking, a term sometimes used to describe the transition from the rear wall of the bowl to the top of the shank.<br />
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'''Izmir''': A type of Turkish tobacco with rich flavor, low nicotine, and cool smoke. It has a very aromatic nature and is often blended with Latakia to somewhat subdue this property. Primarily used as a condiment with pipe tobacco, but occasionally offered by itself. Also called Smyrna.<br />
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'''Jar''': Tobacco jars have been used for nearly three hundred years as the predominant method for storage of pipe tobacco, whether made from tin, wood, pewter, porcelain, majolica or bisque. By far the most common choice is the simple Ball jar or Mason jar.<br />
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'''Jatim''': A form of Indonesian tobacco and the abbreviated name of the province of East Java (Jawa Timur), where the tobacco is grown.<br />
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'''Kabakolak''': A family of Turkish tobacco strains similar to Basibali, but with wings on their leaf stems in addition to distinct stems.<br />
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'''Katerini''': A Turkish varietal of the Samsun basibali type, with a milder, sweeter leaf. Grown southwest of Thessaloniki in the Greek province of Macedonia.<br />
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'''Kentucky''': Dark-Fired Kentucky is a type of pipe tobacco made from burley which is cured over a fire and flavored by its smoke.<br />
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'''Latakia''': Named for the principal port city of Syria, latakia is not a specific plant varietal, but rather one of a number of Turkish varietals which are fire cured over a stone pine or oak wood fire, giving it a smoky flavor. Most latakia, despite the name, is now grown in Cyprus, not Syria, and camel dung has nothing to do with the process of its creation.<br />
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'''Lovat''': A pipe shape, according to the [[Lovat|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], which is essentially a Canadian but with a round shank instead of oval and a saddle stem.<br />
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'''Lucite''': Lucite is a trade name for acrylic, or polyacrylate, which is derived from natural gas. It is a composition of Methyl Methacrylate and Poly Methyl Methacrylate resin. Lucite is used for pipe stems due to its lack of oxidation, but is criticized for a harder feel on the teeth.<br />
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'''Lületaşi''': A Turkish word literally meaning sea foam and used to refer to meerschaum in that country.<br />
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'''Macedonia''': 1. A province of north-central Greece, west of Thrace, which includes the sea port of Thessaloniki (Salonika) and the Katerini tobacco region 2. A recently independent republic, formerly part of Soviet Yugoslavia, located immediately north of the Greek province of Macedonia, and the source of Prilep tobacco.<br />
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'''Mahale''': A Turkish tobacco with a basma leaf type grown downslope from Xanthi.<br />
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'''Maryland''': An extremely mild tobacco used in a number of American tobacco blends, especially to add a nutty flavor to Burley. Sadly the state of Maryland now pays farmers not to grow tobacco.<br />
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'''Meerschaum''': A mineral hydrous magnesium silicate called sepiolite, primarily found in Turkey near Eskisehr, which is used in the making of tobacco pipes. The word means "seafoam".<br />
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'''Melding''': The term used to refer to a tobacco blend's property to acquire a single homogeneous taste over time, as a result of aging in an airtight container.<br />
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'''Mellowing''': Particularly used in referring to Latakia's tendency to be less overpowering after some aging, the term is sometimes used to refer to a general tendency of tobacco to become more smooth with age.<br />
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'''Mortise''': A mortise is at its most basic a hole cut or drilled to accept a smaller tenon and make a joint. The joint has been used in woodworking for thousands of years, and in pipe construction generally appears as a hole drilled larger than the airway and at the same depth as the stem tenon. Variations, however, are unlimited.<br />
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'''Mouthpiece''': A term used interchangeably with stem and to a lesser degree bit, the mouthpiece is the portion of the pipe meant to be placed in the smoker's mouth, and includes the entire pipe from the end of the shank to the slot. Often made from vulcanite or lucite/acrylic.<br />
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'''Nautilus''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and named for its obvious resemblance to the shell of a nautilus, resulting in an airway passing through a shank curved in a loop and pierced in the center to suggest the closed portion of the shell, a bowl shaped like the long open mouth of the shell, and a foot curving in a near half circle beneath.<br />
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'''Nail''': The simplest form of pipe tool is the venerable Pipe Nail, which generally looks much like its namesake, one end flat to tamp with and another coming to a point or spoon for clearing ash and tar.<br />
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'''Nomenclature''': A general term used to refer to the stamping on a pipe in its entirety, including brand names, models, year and shape codes and the like.<br />
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'''Oliphant''': A traditional name for a hunter's horn made from an elephant tusk, the oliphant shape was first designed by [[Sixten Ivarsson]] for the [[Pibe-Dan]] shop in the late 1950s. According to the [[Horn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]]The shape is a variation of the horn meant to resemble the tusk of an elephant, and with a flat curve and even and gradual tapering throughout.<br />
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'''Oom Paul''': A shape name which actually means Uncle Paul in Dutch, Oom Paul pipes are full bent billiards, according to the [[Oom Paul/Hungarian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]]. The name comes from the nickname for Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, president of the South African Republic from 1883 to 1900 and the face of the Boer cause against Britain during the Second Boer War of 1899 to 1902. Also called a Hungarian.<br />
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'''Opera Pipe''': A shape which the [[Oval|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] refer to as an "Oval" or Pocket pipe, the opera pipe is a billiard with a bowl "squashed" into an oval, with the long side of the oval parallel with the shank and stem. In fact, "opera" pipe is a misnomer. The original name of the pipe was the au pair pipe, as it gained popularity with domestic workers unable to smoke around children.<br />
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'''Oriental''': Used interchangeably with "Turkish" to refer to sun cured condimental tobaccos grown in the Eastern Mediterranean. This category of tobaccos includes Yenidje, Smyrna, Samsun, Izmir, Drama, Xanthe, and often Basma, which is not a particular leaf but a generic Turkish blend, and all that pipe tobacco blenders are often able to find due to the purchase of most oriental varietals by cigarette manufacturers.<br />
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'''Panel Billiard''': According to the [[Panel Billiard|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the Panelled Billiard, also called a foursquare, is a basic billiard shape with flat, or panelled, sides. The classic panel has four flat sides and a round shank.<br />
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'''Pear''': More commonly called an acorn today, according to the [[Pear/Accorn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] the pear is a sort of softened dublin shape, with a conical bowl and tobacco chamber but with all sharp edges rounded.<br />
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'''Perique''': Mistakenly believed to be a nickname for Pierre Chenet and actually a French mispronunciation of an American slang word for a part of the anatomy, perique is a type of tobacco grown only in St. James Parish, Louisiana, sauced and kept under massive pressure in barrels until it turns nearly black. Perique has flavors of spice and plum, and is prized as the truffle of pipe tobaccos.<br />
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'''Pickaxe''': According to the [[Pickaxe|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pickaxe is a freehand style of pipe characterized by a paneled, triangular bowl.<br />
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'''Pipe''': A tube with a small bowl at one end used for the smoking of tobacco.<br />
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'''P-Lip''': A type of pipe mouthpiece invented by Peterson of Dublin and relying on a small hole on the top of a stem rather than a hole at its end. Meant to reduce tongue bite by directing the flow of smoke away from the tongue.<br />
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'''Plug''': Whole leaf, pressed with moisture, becomes a plug, from which flakes can be sliced. Plug tobacco is prepared by slicing off and then rubbing out pieces of the block of tobacco.<br />
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'''Poker''': According to the [[Poker|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the poker is a straight pipe with a cylindrical, flat bottomed bowl designed so that the pipe will stand on its own.<br />
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'''Pot''': According to the [[Pot|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pot is a billiard with a shorter bowl, but not a shorter shank than a standard billiard.<br />
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'''Prilep''': A Sirdily variety of Turkish tobacco commonly grown in the region of the town of Prilep, which is located in the Independent Republic of Macedonia.<br />
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'''Prince''': According to the [[Prince|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the prince is a pipe shape characterized by a squat rounded bowl and along, usually slightly bent stem with a short shank. The pipe was named after Prince Albert, later King Edward VII, the Prince of Wales.<br />
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'''Push/Pull''': The term generally used to describe a two part mortise and tenon system used in meerschaum pipes and developed by Andreas Bauer originally. A push/pull consists of a threaded Delrin tenon and a separate threaded plastic mortise. The preferred method of connecting stem and shank in meerschaum pipes, which lack the durability for long term use of a standard mortise/tenon connection.<br />
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'''Quaint''': A pipe shape hallmarked, generally, by more than four panels, especially with a paneled shank as well.<br />
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'''Ramses''': A pipe shape created by Bo [[Nordh]] and later named by a visiting customer for its resemblance to the statue of Ramses II in Abu Simbel, Egypt. Characterized by a long, wide sloping shank which also serves as the foot of the pipe and a long, tapered bowl which rests almost vertically on the shank. Stems are generally partially bent.<br />
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[[File:Bo Nordh Ramses01.jpg|thumb|center|100px|A Nordh Ramses]]<br />
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'''Reaming''': Trimming back cake from the bowl of a tobacco pipe.<br />
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'''Reamer''': A tool used to trim pipe cake back to an acceptable level. These have been made in countless different forms, adjustable and non-adjustable, for well over a century. Some simply use a pipe knife or sandpaper to accomplish the same task.<br />
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'''Rhodesian''': A subject of great dispute. Unlikely to have been named for Cecil Rhodes, and more likely to have taken its name from Rhodesian tobacco, a Rhodesian is considered by some to be any bent bulldog, by others to be any bulldog with a round shank, and by others any bulldog shape with a greater bowl width than height. For each accepted definition of the word there is a pipe sold which contradicts it, and no consensus is likely.<br />
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'''Room Note''': The smell of a particular tobacco as it is being smoked. Easier to detect by those not smoking the blend, and a key component to the choice of a pipe tobacco blend especially for those who smoke in public environments. Simply put, how pleasing the smoke would be to a bystander.<br />
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'''Samsun''': A Turkish tobacco of the basibali variety with a heart-shaped leaf, grown near the town of Samsun, Turkey on the shores of the Black Sea. Low nicotine tobacco, but with strong flavor and dark color.<br />
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'''Samsun-Maden''': Also called Bafra for the village near Samsun, Samsun-Maden is a basibali Turkish tobacco characterized by leaves which are are small sized and ovalThe leaf faces are red to bright red. This strain can be smoked without blending. Nicotine content is often lower than 1% and sugar content is 9-12%. <br />
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'''Shank''': The portion of a stummel between the bowl and mouthpiece, and generally containing the mortise. The length of the pipe shank is one of the key variables in the shape of a pipe, as is it's shape, whether square, diamond, oval or round.<br />
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'''Shirazi''': Named for the ancient city of Shiraz in south-western Iran and claimed to be native to that country, Shirazi tobacco is thought to have reached Iran from the Americas in the mid 1500s. Once called ''Nicotiana Persica''.<br />
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'''Sirdily''': A category of Turkish basma subvarietals characterized by small, narrow, acutely pointed leaves.<br />
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'''Slot''': A slot is the wide opening at the end of the mouthpiece tapering into the airway of the pipe. Generally seen only on vulcanite and acrylic stems from the last century, the slot is funneled both to make the insertion of a pipe cleaner easier and to make for a smoother flow for the smoke.<br />
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'''Smyrna''': A type of Turkish tobacco with rich flavor, low nicotine, and cool smoke. It has a very aromatic nature and is often blended with Latakia to somewhat subdue this property. Primarily used as a condiment with pipe tobacco, but occasionally offered by itself. Also called Izmir.<br />
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'''Sokhoum''': A type of Turkish varietal of the Samsun basibali type which is deeply fermented. Grown in the mountains above the town of Sokhoum Kale (Sokhumi) in the Republic of Georgia.<br />
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'''Soppeng''': A type of Indonesian tobacco prepared much like a traditional cavendish but using palm sugar as the sweetener, and then fired. Primarily smoked in cigarettes but enjoyed as pipe tobacco also, Soppeng is sometimes flavored with cinnamon or other tastes during preparation.<br />
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'''Sphinx''': A shape created by Bo [[Nordh]] and characterized by a wide domed bowl front cut so as to show birdseye at the center with straight grain radiating out from that point, giving a sunburst pattern. A similar shape, the Mounted Sphinx, was created by [[Geiger Pipes|Love and Sara Geiger]], but was not created as a variation on the shape.<br />
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'''Spiderwebbing''': A term used to describe a possible condition of estate pipes, spiderwebbing is the result of oversmoking but, rather than showing in a single spot like char in the bowl or a burnout, is characterized by a pattern of char lines, which look like shallow cracks and are actually burnt into the wood of the bowl. Can be concealed by any amount of cake or even a bowl coating, and so it is usually only evident in a bowl which has been sanded back to bare wood.<br />
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'''Spur''': A small protrusion at the bottom of traditional clay pipes to ensure a hot bowl does not burn the table. Frequently included in cutty pipes made even in briar and meerschaum in later decades as an ornamental element of the cutty shape. Seen only occasionally today.<br />
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[[File:Spur.jpg|thumb|center|100px|Clay Pipe Resting on Spur]]<br />
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'''Srintil''': A type of heavily fermented, air cured Indonesian tobacco grown in the Java region in the Temangung valley which grows at the top of a plant and by abnormality produces an extreme amount of resin, making it highly potent. Fermentation details are thought to be similar to perique, and in 1983 approximately 3 tons a year of Srintil were grown worldwide. Sometimes extracted in an aqueous solution for use as a flavoring agent.<br />
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'''Stummel''': German for stump, the stummel is a complete pipe minus only a stem and any final adornments, including the bowl, shank, and transition between the two.<br />
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'''Tambolaka''': An Indonesian tobacco grown in limestone heavy soil and after harvesting rolled into long sticks which are bound and stored for five years. Sold both as pipe tobacco and as a component of Indonesian cigars. Very high in nicotine with a tin note best described as pungent. <br />
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'''Tamp''': Using a tool or finger to compress the contents of the pipe bowl so as to bring unburnt tobacco into contact with the ember.<br />
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'''Tamper''': A tool used to tamp a pipe, generally with a flat end designed for that purpose and a handle. A tamper can be as simple as a piece of dowel or as ornate as the buyer may wish. While it seems inconsequential, tamping is important both for the care of the pipe and the coolness of the smoke.<br />
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'''Tenon''': The tenon is the smaller diameter protrusion at the end of a pipe stem which holds the stem to the stummel. It takes its name from one of the oldest joints in woodworking, the mortise and tenon joint. Over the last two centuries tenons have been made separately with bone screws, cut integrally into a vulcanite stem to fit a cut mortise in the stummel, made from threaded aluminum or plastic, made from aluminum to fit a pre-drilled mortise so as to hold a filter, made from delrin and placed into a drilled hole in the stem, and in other fashions as well. <br />
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'''Tin Note''': As opposed to the aroma of burning tobacco, the tin note is the scent which can be smelled from the unsmoked tobacco when opened, and is considered a good way to begin to understand a new blend and determine to some degree its components and their relative strength.<br />
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'''Trebizond''': No known as Trabzon, Trebizond is grown in Turkey at the southeast shores of the Black Sea. A basibali varietal resembling Samsun, but coarser and stronger.<br />
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'''Turkish''': A term used to refer not only to tobaccos grown in modern day Turkey, but rather to any tobacco grown under the Ottoman Empire, particularly at the height of its power under Suleiman the Magnificent. As a result, while the town of Yenidje, for example, would today be in Greece, yenidje tobacco is still classified as Turkish.<br />
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'''Twist''': A form of tobacco, also known as rope tobacco, which is spun into a roll, largely by hand, rather than being pressed into flakes. One of the oldest forms of smoking tobacco.<br />
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'''Ukulele''': A pipe shape first designed by [[Sixten Ivarsson]] for the [[Pibe-Dan]] shop in the 1950s and named ukulele, some credit Ed [[Burak]] for the design which he considered a bulldog. A ukulele is characterized by a domed, wide bowl and a wide oval shank with a flat bowl bottom, according to the [[Ukulele|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''VaPer''': A portmanteau of Virginia and Perique, vaper is simply the contraction used to refer to blends primarily composed of these two types of tobacco. <br />
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'''Vestpocket''': A pipe characterized by its ability to fit in a vest pocket, notable for its stem, which swivels over the bowl for carrying and swings out for use, according to the [[Vestpocket|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts]]. Generally all corners on the pipe are rounded to make it easier to remove from a pocket.<br />
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'''Virginia''': More appropriately called Brightleaf tobacco, Virginia is used to refer to milder tobacco leaf, lighter in color, which is grown in infertile, sandy soil, largely in North Carolina and Virginia, and which was first grown in approximately 1839. <br />
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'''Volcano''': A pipe shape characterized by a conical bowl narrowing towards the top, usually with a rounded base and a bent shank and saddle stem, according to the [[Volcano|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts]].<br />
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'''Vulcanite''': Hard black vulcanized rubber used for making pipe stems. Made from rubber containing up to 30% sulfur, vulcanite is soft on the teeth but prone to turning brownish yellow and taking on a sulfur smell on exposure to sunlight. This process is called oxidation.<br />
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'''White Burley''': First grown in Brown County, Ohio in 1865 by George Webb, White Burley is the result of planting Red Burley seeds purchased from Kentucky in the different soil of Ohio, which resulted in a mutation of whitish, sickly looking plants. White Burley soon became the chief ingredient in chewing tobacco, American pipe tobacco, and American-style cigarettes. As Red Burley no longer exists, White Burley is simply referred to as Burley today.<br />
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'''Xanthi''': Sometimes spelled Xanthe, this grade of Basma tobacco is named for a city in the Thrace region of northeastern Greece, first led into prosperity around 1715 due to the quality of its highly aromatic tobacco. The scientific name of the leaf is ''Nicotiana tabacum'' L. cv Xanthi.<br />
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'''Yacht''': Another name for the Zulu pipe shape, with a canted dublin bowl, oval shank and 1/8 bent stem. Among others, Kaywoodie used the term Yacht for pipes of this shape.<br />
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'''Yenidje''': Named for the town of Yenidje, Thrace, today called Genisea, Greece, Yenidje is also called Yenice, Jenidze, Yenidge, and Yeniji, and is a variety of Yaka tobacco, the best regarded form of Xanthi. Yenidje was an Ottoman tobacco production center until 1843 when the town burned and the growers moved up the slopes of the Rhodope Mountain range. Those slopes, called the Yaka, were made of a red clay loam mixed with small flint stones giving rise to short, low-yielding plants of the basma type, meaning (in this usage) that the leaves are small, almost round and with no free stem. The leaf burns badly on its own and was traditionally mixed with Bafra to cure this issue.<br />
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'''Zulu''': A shape of smoking pipe hallmarked by a canted dublin style bowl, an oval shank and a 1/8th bent stem. Also referred to as a Woodstock or a Yacht.<br />
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'''Zeppelin''': A name often used to refer to a cigar-shaped pipe of briar with a separate mouthpiece often of vulcanite, usually with a metal cap at the end to hold in the tobacco. Also called a Torpedo.<br />
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'''Acorn''': A pipe shape characterized by a conical shape sometimes extending to a point or near point below the shank or else with a bent shank flowing into the "point" of the acorn shape. Distinguishable from a dublin by a wider and more rounded rim in most cases. <br />
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'''Acrylic''': In pipe parlance, acrylic stems are those made of polymers of acrylic acid or acrylates, most often polymethyl methacrylate, also called acrylic glass. Some prefer this material for pipe stems due to the lack of oxidation, while others prefer a traditional vulcanite stem due to softness.<br />
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'''Aging''': The term used to describe the tendency of pipe tobacco to improve over time through either aerobic or anaerobic fermentation. The term is used interchangeably to describe increased sweetness on the part of Virginias, mellowing on the part of Latakia, or a generally more complete melding of the blend. The effect is often simulated through the use of heat or pressure.<br />
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'''Agonya''': A type of Turkish tobacco of a kabakolak leaf type, meaning it has distinct stems with "wings" on the leaf stems, Agonya was originally grown in the foothills below Xanthi, but is now grown south of the Sea of Marmara, in the region east of Kanakhale, Turkey.<br />
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'''Air-cured''': Air-cured tobacco is hung in well-ventilated barns immediately after plants are cut or leaves pulled from the field and allowed to dry for a period of one to two months. During this process the yellow colors of the leaf turn to varying shades of brown, until they are ready to be fermented and processed. Burley is an air-cured tobacco.<br />
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'''Amber''': Prior to the wide adoption of vulcanite, first invented in 1844 by Charles Goodyear, as a substance for pipe stem making, by far the most common form of pipe stem was one carved from amber. The stems were carved by hand from fossilized tree resin, at which point they could be bent only after heating in oil and over an alcohol flame. While amber is a beautiful natural material which comes in a large variety of colors, the stems are exceedingly brittle and hard on the teeth. Amber stems are still made only in very rare cases.<br />
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'''Apple''': According to the [[Apple|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the classic apple shape is a rounded version of the billiard, and may be had in either bent or straight shanked and tapered and saddle stemmed versions. Popular variations of this shape include the Prince and Author.<br />
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'''Aromatic''': A type of tobacco which is either cased or top flavored in order to produce a taste and room note other than the tobacco's natural smell, whether simply sugar or molasses, whiskey or other alcohols, or many other flavorings. Used as a major category for pipe tobaccos, along with non-aromatic and latakia based blends.<br />
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'''Army Mount''': Also called a "military bit", a pipe with an army mount stem is designed to permit the stem to be removed from the pipe while hot by inclusion of a shank cap, often made of silver, to reinforce the briar. A more elaborate variation of the army mount is the spigot. According to most likely mythological history, the first army mount was invented when a World War One soldier fixed a broken pipe shank by inserting a spent rifle casing into it and piercing a hole for the stem. <br />
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'''Author''': According to the [[Author|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the Author is a beefed-up prince, featuring a flattened ball-shaped bowl and a heavy 1/8 to 1/4 bent stem.<br />
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'''Bafra''': Bafra is a district and village in the Samsun province of Turkey, and the name sometimes given to the Samsun-Maden strain of tobacco, which is a smaller basibali Turkish varietal with low nicotine and a rich flavor.<br />
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'''Ball''': The ball shape, also referred to as a tomato, is described by the [[Author|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], is very similar to an author but with a spherical bowl and thinner shank. According to Mr. Burney the ball generally features a tapered stem with a 1/4 to 1/2 bent.<br />
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'''Ballerina''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and resembling a ballet dancer's foot while en pointe, curving from the heel at the front of the bowl to the toe at the meeting of bowl and shank, itself characterized by a full enough bend to permit the pipe to stand on its own. <br />
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[[File:Nordh Ballerina.jpg|thumb|center|100px|A Bo Nordh Ballerina]]<br />
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'''Bakelite''': A trade name for Polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride. Harder than vulcanite and softer than acrylic, bakelite stems do not oxidize. Largely seen in shades of white and amber yellow.<br />
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'''Basma''': 1. The group of Turkish small-leaf varietals in which the stem of the leaf does not extend beyond the leaf at the main stalk 2. The larger leaves primed from the middle of any variety of Turkish tobacco plant 3. A long, rectangular bale-style of packing cured Turkish leaf, approximately 50-60 pounds, of any variety.<br />
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'''Bead''': Now generally represented by two straight lines around the bowl of a bulldog or rhodesian, a bead is one of only three shapes which can be produced on a lathe, along with a flat and a cove. A bead is a rounded projection from the wood, and in the case of pipes today most beads are cut as inset beads, in that the surrounding wood is level with the top of the bead. Older pipes occasionally featured intricately carved beads. Today, however, rather than cutting a true bead the projection is left flat and only signified by the lines around it.<br />
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'''Bent Pipe''': A generic term used to refer to any pipe where the shank is not a straight horizontal line, regardless of the nature or amount of the shank bend.<br />
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'''Billiard''': The [[Billiard|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] describe a billiard as a pipe shape having a cylindrical bowl and tobacco chamber with a shank about the same length as the height of the bowl. Variations on the billiard shape include the pot and chimney.<br />
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'''Basibali''': A family of Turkish tobaccos characterized by a distinct stem separating the leaf from the stalk. Sometimes referred to as Bashi Bagli.<br />
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'''Bit''': A less than precise term, usually used to refer to the entirety of the stem or mouthpiece on a pipe, but occasionally also used to refer to the bite zone.<br />
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'''Bite Zone''': The last approximately three quarters of an inch of the mouthpiece or stem of a tobacco pipe, including the button.<br />
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'''Bloom''': Also referred to as plume, bloom is a fine white powder which appears on well aged tobacco on occasion, and despite the tendency to confuse it with mold is actually a good sign that the leaf is maturing well. Bloom is caused by the crystallization of sugars on the surface of the tobacco leaf. <br />
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'''Blowfish''': Per the [[Blowfish|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the blowfish is a pipe shape characterized by an asymmetrical flattened ball for a bowl, a bent stem blending into the body, and a combination of birdseye grain on the large panels and straight grain between.<br />
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'''Brandy''': Also referred to as a bent brandy or brandyglass, a pipe shape which resembles the glassware for which it is named. According to the [[Brandy|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pipe is characterized by a rounded base tapering up to a smaller rim, often in a 1/4 bent pipe.<br />
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'''Briar''': Actually a mistranslation of the French bruyère, briar among pipe smokers refers to the wood of the ''erica arborea'', a species of flowering plant in the heather family. After 30 to 60 years of growing time, the football sized plants are harvested, cooked, dried for several months, and further processed before they are made into pipes. <br />
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'''Bullcap''': According to the [[Bullcap|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the bullcap is a squat straight rhodesian with a large bowl diameter.<br />
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'''Bulldog''': According to the [[Bulldog|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the classic bulldog has a tapered stem, diamond shank and slightly forward canted bowl shaped someone like two cones joined at the bases with the top cone cut off. The pipe is traditionally adorned with a bead around the bowl. <br />
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'''Bullmoose''': According to the [[Bullcap|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a bullmoose is a squat rhodesian with a very heavy 1/4 bent stem.<br />
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'''Burley''': A tobacco of light-colored variety grown primarily in Kentucky and Tennessee, the bulk of burley tobacco produced in the United States is used for cigarette production. All burley today is of the white burley variety, and is often sweetened due to the low natural sugars present in the leaf. Most aromatics use a base of burley due to its ready ability to absorb flavors. While some claim burley does not age, it does improve with time. However, this takes time measured in the several decades at least.<br />
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'''Burnout''': A term used to refer to a possible condition in estate pipes which, short of extraordinary effort on the part of a capable restorer, generally means the death of a particular pipe. A burnout is a spot where char has actually penetrated or begun to penetrate the outer layer of the bowl. Usually caused by hot smoking, although some claim burnout is always the fault of an unseen flaw in the briar. Uneven packing can also result in one spot suffering more damage than others. While most smokers stop smoking a particular pipe when burnout begins to appear, some continue smoking until they have burned straight through a wall or the foot of the pipe.<br />
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'''Button''': The button is the raised portion at the end of a pipe mouthpiece or stem intended to permit the teeth purchase to hold the pipe.<br />
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== C ==<br />
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'''Cake''': Cake refers to the buildup of residual carbon that forms in the bowl of a pipe. Most recommend trimming back the buildup to keep it at roughly the width of a dime in a briar pipe in order to create a protective layer which cools the pipe and reduces moisture. Cake is frowned upon in meerschaums, and the subject of much debate among corn cob pipe smokers.<br />
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'''Calabash''': According to the [[Calabash|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the calabash is a solid wood interpretation of the gourd calabash with a tapered bowl flared at the rim and a dome shaped top. The tobacco chamber is usually tapered and the pipe 3/4 bent, but there are variations.<br />
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'''Canadian''': According to the [[Canadian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the canadian is a long-shanked billiard with an oval shank and a tapered bit. The shank is roughly twice as long as the height of the bowl. Variations on this shape include the lumbermand, lovat and liverpool.<br />
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'''Casing''': Whether sprayed with or soaked in a sauce, casing refers to the addition of flavoring, sugar or the like prior to the finishing of the tobacco, as opposed to top-flavouring, which is added by spraying the finished blend with scents and flavours.<br />
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'''Cavendish''': There are two forms of Cavendish, which is more a process of curing and a method of cutting tobacco than a type of it. Common cavendish is made when tobacco leaves are pressed into a cake about an inch thick and heated before being allowed to ferment, resulting in a mild and sweet tobacco. Flavoring is often added before the leaves are pressed. English Cavendish uses a dark flue or fire cured Virginia , which is steamed and then stored under pressure to permit it to cure and ferment for several days or weeks.<br />
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'''Char''': Used to refer to wood that has actually begun to burn, usually at the start of a burnout in a bowl or, far more likely and most often due to lighter abuse, at the rim. <br />
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'''Cherrywood''': According to the [[Cherrywood|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a cherrywood is a bent poker. The name cherrywood derives from the pipe shape's origin as a copy of the cherry wood pipes made by Eugène-Léon Ropp and others in mid-19th century France.<br />
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'''Churchwarden''': According to the [[Churchwarden|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the churchwarden is the only pipe defined by the shape of its stem, rather than its bowl. Whether bent or straight, the stem on a churchwarden is 9 to 18 inches long, but not so long as to make lighting the pipe while holding it in the mouth impossible.<br />
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'''Cigar Leaf''': A generic term used to describe a great many different types of leaf primarily used in cigars which are also included in pipe tobacco. Connecticut Broadleaf and Cuban-Seed Varietals are frequently used among others to add flavor to a blend.<br />
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'''Cob''': The common parlance for a corn cob pipe, which in its loosest definition is simply any pipe with a bowl made from a dried and drilled corncob. Traditionally fitted with river cane stems, most modern cobs have wood shanks and plastic bits. <br />
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'''Cumberland''': Called brindle by Dunhill and others, cumberland is a form of vulcanite made with brown and red pigment added to the rubber to give it a marble like appearance.<br />
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'''Cut''': Pipe tobacco may be cut as shag, ribbon, flake, plug, rope, discs, coins, or in other forms. These terms simply refer to the manner in which the finished product is reduced into a small enough size to consume. The most common cut is ribbon cut.<br />
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'''Cutty''': According to the [[Cutty|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a cutty has a very canted tulip shaped bowl and a slightly bent stem with a tapered bit. The word cutty simply means "cut shorter". Cutty pipes occasionally and traditionally sport a "spur", or a small foot protruding from the base of the bowl.<br />
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'''Czech Tool''': Also called a 3-way pipe tool, a combined tamper, shank clearing tool and dottle spoon on a single rotating rivet. Called a Czech tool for the original country of manufacture of most of the tools, they are largely Chinese made today.<br />
[[File:Czech Tool.jpg|center|thumb|A Czech Tool.]]<br />
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== D ==<br />
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'''Delayed Gratification Technique''': Or DGT, the habit of some pipe smokers to light a pipe and leave it to sit for hours or even days before completing the smoke. Many blends gain a far different taste profile from this technique which some find pleasant.<br />
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'''Delrin''': A brand name for polyoxymethylne or POM, also called acetal, polyacetal, or polyformaldehyde, delrin is a thermoplastic used by pipe makers as a material for non-integral stem tenons, and for screw-in tenons for meerschaum push/pull connections. Delrin is appreciated as a "self-lubricating" material, meaning that it has a low drag coefficient to interfere with the smooth passage of smoke, and for the ease of reliance on separate stems and tenons.<br />
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'''Devil Anse''': The name of a notorious West Virginia Confederate veteran suspected of murdering Asa McCoy after the war ended and starting the infamous Hatfield/McCoy feud. Devil Anse Hatfield was portrayed in a recent television series by Kevin Costner, who, despite the lack of any historical support, smoked a nosewarmer cutty in the role, now popular and given the name of the character. <br />
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'''Diplomat''': According to the [[Diplomat|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a diplomat is a pipe shape similar to a prince but a bit larger generally and with an oval shank and stem.<br />
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'''Djebel''': Sometimes referred to as Xanthi-Djebel, Dejebel tobacco is grown closer to the ridge, or djebel, of the Rhodope mountains above Xanthi. While the leaf is probably of the same strain as Yaka leaf, it is much less highly regarded.<br />
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'''Don''': A pipe shape, according to the [[Duke/Don|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], similar to a Duke but with a rudimentary shank and a vulcanite bit. Sometimes, such as by [[Peterson]], called a tankard.<br />
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'''Dottle''': The leftover plug of unburnt tobacco and ash left in the heel of a pipe bowl after smoking. Dottle is avoided by smokers as a waste of tobacco and occasionally souring of the bowl, but is sometimes unavoidable.<br />
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'''Drama''': A sweet type of tobacco with a natural olive oil fragrance grown on the Southern slopes and foothills of the Rhodope Mountains in Greek Eastern Macedonia, and taking its name from the town of the same name. A kabakolak variety, meaning that the leaf has a distinct separate stem similar to basibali, but with "wings" on its leaf stems.<br />
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'''Draught Hole''': Also Draft Hole, the point at which the airway enters the bowl of the pipe, preferably in the center back of the heel to avoid leaving excessive dottle.<br />
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'''Dubec''': 1. The smaller leaves from the upper portion of any variety of Turkish tobacco plant 2. A round package of cured Turkish leaf of any variety, approximately 25-30 pounds in weight.<br />
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'''Dublin''': According to the [[Dublin|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the dublin is a pipe shape with the same proportions as a billiard but with a conical bowl and tapered combustion chamber.<br />
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'''Duke''': A [[Dunhill]] pipe shape that features a cylindrical bowl with no shank, a bone or vulcanite stem and a poker-type canted bottom, according to the [[Duke/Don|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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== E ==<br />
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'''Ebonite''': The brand name for a very hard rubber first created by Charles Goodyear by vulcanizing rubber for prolonged periods, Ebonite was named for its intended purpose, a replacment for ebony. Commonly referred to as vulcanite in pipe parlance, vulcanite is with acrylic one of the two most popular materials from which stems are made.<br />
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'''Egg''': According to the [[Egg|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the egg is usually but not always a bent pipe with a bowl shaped like an egg, which can be thought of as an elongated apple shape.<br />
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'''Elephant's Foot''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and characterized by straight grained side panels and wide front and back domed surfaces on the bowl exhibiting birdseye. <br />
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'''English''': Aside from the obvious geographical uses, the word "English" is often used among pipe smokers to refer to blends with latakia in them. In reality, however, the term only developed to differentiate blends made in the United Kingdom, especially in the days of the now defunct Tobacco Purity Laws, which prohibited humectants and most flavorings from being added to the tobacco. A more precise term is "latakia based".<br />
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'''English Cavendish''': The name commonly used to refer to dark flue-cured or fire-cured Virginia tobacco which is steamed and then pressed over a period of several days to weeks. It is not flavored as other forms of Cavendish generally are. Rattray's ''Dark Fragrant'' is one example of an available English Cavendish blend. <br />
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'''Eskimo''': According to the [[Ukulele|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a pipe shape by Tom Eltang created as a variation on Ed Burak's bulldog design and sporting a smooth, flat stem and shank with a canted, domed bowl.<br />
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'''Estate Pipe''': A previously owned pipe, whether smoked or un-smoked.<br />
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== F ==<br />
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'''Fire Cured''': Unlike flue cured tobacco, which is cured by indirect heat without smoke, fire cured tobacco is cured with smoke, in the tobacco equivalent of barbecuing. Dark Fired Kentucky and Latakia are both fire cured, and the process results in lower sugars and higher nicotine in the leaf.<br />
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'''Flake''': Flake tobacco is made by slicing thin sheets off of a cube, which in turn is formed by pressing whole tobacco leaves into a compressed form, usually under significant pressure for long periods of time. Flake tobacco may be sold in slices, or fully or partially broken or rubbed out.<br />
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'''Flue Cured''': Flue cured tobacco is cured by heat without smoke, generally by being hung from sticks in a barn exposed to heat from external fires through flues. Traditionally the method for curing brightleaf tobacco, this method results in sweeter leaf with lower nicotine.<br />
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'''Foot''': The bottom of the outside of the bowl, as opposed to the heel, which is the bottom of the inside of the bowl.<br />
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'''Freehand''': Not to be confused with the fixed freehand shapes made by some companies, a true freehand shape is defined by the pipemaker's choice to let the grain of the briar shape the pipe, rather than forcing the pipe into a predetermined shape, according to the [[Freehand|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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== G ==<br />
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'''Gesteckpfeife''': Literally "pipe in parts", a traditional European pipe made up of several interconnecting parts, usually held together with cork tenons. Bowls can be meerschaum, briar, or porcelain, commonly.<br />
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'''Ghost''': A ghost is the taste or smell of a previously smoked tobacco remaining in a pipe and coloring the taste of a different blend smoked in the same pipe. Generally the cause of tar in the shank, but usually blamed on cake.<br />
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'''Gourd Calabash''': According to the [[Gourd Calabash|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a gourd calabash is a pipe made from a calabash gourd which is dried and the seeds removed, and then fitted with a stem and meerschaum bowl cap. The driest and smoothest of all pipes.<br />
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'''Hand''': A hand is a bundle of tobacco tied at the end and hung from the knot for curing purposes.<br />
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'''Hawkbill''': According to the [[Hawkbill|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the hawkbill is a pipe shape characterized by an enlarged ball or tomato style with a long, tapering bent shank. The premiere example is the Castello 84.j<br />
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'''Heel''': The heel is the bottom of the combustion chamber, the inside of the bowl.<br />
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'''Horn''': According to the [[Horn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the horn is a graceful freehand shape varying from a straight tapering tube to a more standard bent pipe, but in all cases with a smooth tapering from bowl to shank and no abrupt transitions.<br />
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'''Hungarian''': More commonly referred to as an Oom Paul, the Hungarian is a fully bent billiard named for former South African President Paulus Kruger, according to the [[Oom Paul/Hungarian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''Intricate Curve''': In pipemaking, a term sometimes used to describe the transition from the rear wall of the bowl to the top of the shank.<br />
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'''Izmir''': A type of Turkish tobacco with rich flavor, low nicotine, and cool smoke. It has a very aromatic nature and is often blended with Latakia to somewhat subdue this property. Primarily used as a condiment with pipe tobacco, but occasionally offered by itself. Also called Smyrna.<br />
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'''Jar''': Tobacco jars have been used for nearly three hundred years as the predominant method for storage of pipe tobacco, whether made from tin, wood, pewter, porcelain, majolica or bisque. By far the most common choice is the simple Ball jar or Mason jar.<br />
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'''Jatim''': A form of Indonesian tobacco and the abbreviated name of the province of East Java (Jawa Timur), where the tobacco is grown.<br />
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== K ==<br />
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'''Kabakolak''': A family of Turkish tobacco strains similar to Basibali, but with wings on their leaf stems in addition to distinct stems.<br />
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'''Katerini''': A Turkish varietal of the Samsun basibali type, with a milder, sweeter leaf. Grown southwest of Thessaloniki in the Greek province of Macedonia.<br />
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'''Kentucky''': Dark-Fired Kentucky is a type of pipe tobacco made from burley which is cured over a fire and flavored by its smoke.<br />
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'''Latakia''': Named for the principal port city of Syria, latakia is not a specific plant varietal, but rather one of a number of Turkish varietals which are fire cured over a stone pine or oak wood fire, giving it a smoky flavor. Most latakia, despite the name, is now grown in Cyprus, not Syria, and camel dung has nothing to do with the process of its creation.<br />
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'''Lovat''': A pipe shape, according to the [[Lovat|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], which is essentially a Canadian but with a round shank instead of oval and a saddle stem.<br />
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'''Lucite''': Lucite is a trade name for acrylic, or polyacrylate, which is derived from natural gas. It is a composition of Methyl Methacrylate and Poly Methyl Methacrylate resin. Lucite is used for pipe stems due to its lack of oxidation, but is criticized for a harder feel on the teeth.<br />
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'''Lületaşi''': A Turkish word literally meaning sea foam and used to refer to meerschaum in that country.<br />
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== M ==<br />
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'''Macedonia''': 1. A province of north-central Greece, west of Thrace, which includes the sea port of Thessaloniki (Salonika) and the Katerini tobacco region 2. A recently independent republic, formerly part of Soviet Yugoslavia, located immediately north of the Greek province of Macedonia, and the source of Prilep tobacco.<br />
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'''Mahale''': A Turkish tobacco with a basma leaf type grown downslope from Xanthi.<br />
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'''Maryland''': An extremely mild tobacco used in a number of American tobacco blends, especially to add a nutty flavor to Burley. Sadly the state of Maryland now pays farmers not to grow tobacco.<br />
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'''Meerschaum''': A mineral hydrous magnesium silicate called sepiolite, primarily found in Turkey near Eskisehr, which is used in the making of tobacco pipes. The word means "seafoam".<br />
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'''Melding''': The term used to refer to a tobacco blend's property to acquire a single homogeneous taste over time, as a result of aging in an airtight container.<br />
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'''Mellowing''': Particularly used in referring to Latakia's tendency to be less overpowering after some aging, the term is sometimes used to refer to a general tendency of tobacco to become more smooth with age.<br />
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'''Mortise''': A mortise is at its most basic a hole cut or drilled to accept a smaller tenon and make a joint. The joint has been used in woodworking for thousands of years, and in pipe construction generally appears as a hole drilled larger than the airway and at the same depth as the stem tenon. Variations, however, are unlimited.<br />
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'''Mouthpiece''': A term used interchangeably with stem and to a lesser degree bit, the mouthpiece is the portion of the pipe meant to be placed in the smoker's mouth, and includes the entire pipe from the end of the shank to the slot. Often made from vulcanite or lucite/acrylic.<br />
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== N ==<br />
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'''Nautilus''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and named for its obvious resemblance to the shell of a nautilus, resulting in an airway passing through a shank curved in a loop and pierced in the center to suggest the closed portion of the shell, a bowl shaped like the long open mouth of the shell, and a foot curving in a near half circle beneath.<br />
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'''Nail''': The simplest form of pipe tool is the venerable Pipe Nail, which generally looks much like its namesake, one end flat to tamp with and another coming to a point or spoon for clearing ash and tar.<br />
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'''Nomenclature''': A general term used to refer to the stamping on a pipe in its entirety, including brand names, models, year and shape codes and the like.<br />
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== O ==<br />
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'''Oliphant''': A traditional name for a hunter's horn made from an elephant tusk, the oliphant shape was first designed by [[Sixten Ivarsson]] for the [[Pibe-Dan]] shop in the late 1950s. According to the [[Horn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]]The shape is a variation of the horn meant to resemble the tusk of an elephant, and with a flat curve and even and gradual tapering throughout.<br />
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'''Oom Paul''': A shape name which actually means Uncle Paul in Dutch, Oom Paul pipes are full bent billiards, according to the [[Oom Paul/Hungarian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]]. The name comes from the nickname for Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, president of the South African Republic from 1883 to 1900 and the face of the Boer cause against Britain during the Second Boer War of 1899 to 1902. Also called a Hungarian.<br />
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'''Opera Pipe''': A shape which the [[Oval|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] refer to as an "Oval" or Pocket pipe, the opera pipe is a billiard with a bowl "squashed" into an oval, with the long side of the oval parallel with the shank and stem. In fact, "opera" pipe is a misnomer. The original name of the pipe was the au pair pipe, as it gained popularity with domestic workers unable to smoke around children.<br />
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'''Oriental''': Used interchangeably with "Turkish" to refer to sun cured condimental tobaccos grown in the Eastern Mediterranean. This category of tobaccos includes Yenidje, Smyrna, Samsun, Izmir, Drama, Xanthe, and often Basma, which is not a particular leaf but a generic Turkish blend, and all that pipe tobacco blenders are often able to find due to the purchase of most oriental varietals by cigarette manufacturers.<br />
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== P ==<br />
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'''Panel Billiard''': According to the [[Panel Billiard|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the Panelled Billiard, also called a foursquare, is a basic billiard shape with flat, or panelled, sides. The classic panel has four flat sides and a round shank.<br />
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'''Pear''': More commonly called an acorn today, according to the [[Pear/Accorn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] the pear is a sort of softened dublin shape, with a conical bowl and tobacco chamber but with all sharp edges rounded.<br />
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'''Perique''': Mistakenly believed to be a nickname for Pierre Chenet and actually a French mispronunciation of an American slang word for a part of the anatomy, perique is a type of tobacco grown only in St. James Parish, Louisiana, sauced and kept under massive pressure in barrels until it turns nearly black. Perique has flavors of spice and plum, and is prized as the truffle of pipe tobaccos.<br />
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'''Pickaxe''': According to the [[Pickaxe|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pickaxe is a freehand style of pipe characterized by a paneled, triangular bowl.<br />
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'''Pipe''': A tube with a small bowl at one end used for the smoking of tobacco.<br />
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'''P-Lip''': A type of pipe mouthpiece invented by Peterson of Dublin and relying on a small hole on the top of a stem rather than a hole at its end. Meant to reduce tongue bite by directing the flow of smoke away from the tongue.<br />
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'''Plug''': Whole leaf, pressed with moisture, becomes a plug, from which flakes can be sliced. Plug tobacco is prepared by slicing off and then rubbing out pieces of the block of tobacco.<br />
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'''Poker''': According to the [[Poker|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the poker is a straight pipe with a cylindrical, flat bottomed bowl designed so that the pipe will stand on its own.<br />
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'''Pot''': According to the [[Pot|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pot is a billiard with a shorter bowl, but not a shorter shank than a standard billiard.<br />
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'''Prilep''': A Sirdily variety of Turkish tobacco commonly grown in the region of the town of Prilep, which is located in the Independent Republic of Macedonia.<br />
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'''Prince''': According to the [[Prince|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the prince is a pipe shape characterized by a squat rounded bowl and along, usually slightly bent stem with a short shank. The pipe was named after Prince Albert, later King Edward VII, the Prince of Wales.<br />
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'''Quaint''': A pipe shape hallmarked, generally, by more than four panels, especially with a paneled shank as well.<br />
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'''Ramses''': A pipe shape created by Bo [[Nordh]] and later named by a visiting customer for its resemblance to the statue of Ramses II in Abu Simbel, Egypt. Characterized by a long, wide sloping shank which also serves as the foot of the pipe and a long, tapered bowl which rests almost vertically on the shank. Stems are generally partially bent.<br />
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[[File:Bo Nordh Ramses01.jpg|thumb|center|100px|A Nordh Ramses]]<br />
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'''Reaming''': Trimming back cake from the bowl of a tobacco pipe.<br />
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'''Reamer''': A tool used to trim pipe cake back to an acceptable level. These have been made in countless different forms, adjustable and non-adjustable, for well over a century. Some simply use a pipe knife or sandpaper to accomplish the same task.<br />
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'''Rhodesian''': A subject of great dispute. Unlikely to have been named for Cecil Rhodes, and more likely to have taken its name from Rhodesian tobacco, a Rhodesian is considered by some to be any bent bulldog, by others to be any bulldog with a round shank, and by others any bulldog shape with a greater bowl width than height. For each accepted definition of the word there is a pipe sold which contradicts it, and no consensus is likely.<br />
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'''Room Note''': The smell of a particular tobacco as it is being smoked. Easier to detect by those not smoking the blend, and a key component to the choice of a pipe tobacco blend especially for those who smoke in public environments. Simply put, how pleasing the smoke would be to a bystander.<br />
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'''Samsun''': A Turkish tobacco of the basibali variety with a heart-shaped leaf, grown near the town of Samsun, Turkey on the shores of the Black Sea. Low nicotine tobacco, but with strong flavor and dark color.<br />
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'''Samsun-Maden''': Also called Bafra for the village near Samsun, Samsun-Maden is a basibali Turkish tobacco characterized by leaves which are are small sized and ovalThe leaf faces are red to bright red. This strain can be smoked without blending. Nicotine content is often lower than 1% and sugar content is 9-12%. <br />
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'''Shank''': The portion of a stummel between the bowl and mouthpiece, and generally containing the mortise. The length of the pipe shank is one of the key variables in the shape of a pipe, as is it's shape, whether square, diamond, oval or round.<br />
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'''Shirazi''': Named for the ancient city of Shiraz in south-western Iran and claimed to be native to that country, Shirazi tobacco is thought to have reached Iran from the Americas in the mid 1500s. Once called ''Nicotiana Persica''.<br />
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'''Sirdily''': A category of Turkish basma subvarietals characterized by small, narrow, acutely pointed leaves.<br />
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'''Slot''': A slot is the wide opening at the end of the mouthpiece tapering into the airway of the pipe. Generally seen only on vulcanite and acrylic stems from the last century, the slot is funneled both to make the insertion of a pipe cleaner easier and to make for a smoother flow for the smoke.<br />
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'''Smyrna''': A type of Turkish tobacco with rich flavor, low nicotine, and cool smoke. It has a very aromatic nature and is often blended with Latakia to somewhat subdue this property. Primarily used as a condiment with pipe tobacco, but occasionally offered by itself. Also called Izmir.<br />
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'''Sokhoum''': A type of Turkish varietal of the Samsun basibali type which is deeply fermented. Grown in the mountains above the town of Sokhoum Kale (Sokhumi) in the Republic of Georgia.<br />
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'''Soppeng''': A type of Indonesian tobacco prepared much like a traditional cavendish but using palm sugar as the sweetener, and then fired. Primarily smoked in cigarettes but enjoyed as pipe tobacco also, Soppeng is sometimes flavored with cinnamon or other tastes during preparation.<br />
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'''Sphinx''': A shape created by Bo [[Nordh]] and characterized by a wide domed bowl front cut so as to show birdseye at the center with straight grain radiating out from that point, giving a sunburst pattern. A similar shape, the Mounted Sphinx, was created by [[Geiger Pipes|Love and Sara Geiger]], but was not created as a variation on the shape.<br />
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'''Spiderwebbing''': A term used to describe a possible condition of estate pipes, spiderwebbing is the result of oversmoking but, rather than showing in a single spot like char in the bowl or a burnout, is characterized by a pattern of char lines, which look like shallow cracks and are actually burnt into the wood of the bowl. Can be concealed by any amount of cake or even a bowl coating, and so it is usually only evident in a bowl which has been sanded back to bare wood.<br />
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'''Spur''': A small protrusion at the bottom of traditional clay pipes to ensure a hot bowl does not burn the table. Frequently included in cutty pipes made even in briar and meerschaum in later decades as an ornamental element of the cutty shape. Seen only occasionally today.<br />
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[[File:Spur.jpg|thumb|center|100px|Clay Pipe Resting on Spur]]<br />
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'''Srintil''': A type of heavily fermented, air cured Indonesian tobacco grown in the Java region in the Temangung valley which grows at the top of a plant and by abnormality produces an extreme amount of resin, making it highly potent. Fermentation details are thought to be similar to perique, and in 1983 approximately 3 tons a year of Srintil were grown worldwide. Sometimes extracted in an aqueous solution for use as a flavoring agent.<br />
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'''Stummel''': German for stump, the stummel is a complete pipe minus only a stem and any final adornments, including the bowl, shank, and transition between the two.<br />
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'''Tambolaka''': An Indonesian tobacco grown in limestone heavy soil and after harvesting rolled into long sticks which are bound and stored for five years. Sold both as pipe tobacco and as a component of Indonesian cigars. Very high in nicotine with a tin note best described as pungent. <br />
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'''Tamp''': Using a tool or finger to compress the contents of the pipe bowl so as to bring unburnt tobacco into contact with the ember.<br />
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'''Tamper''': A tool used to tamp a pipe, generally with a flat end designed for that purpose and a handle. A tamper can be as simple as a piece of dowel or as ornate as the buyer may wish. While it seems inconsequential, tamping is important both for the care of the pipe and the coolness of the smoke.<br />
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'''Tenon''': The tenon is the smaller diameter protrusion at the end of a pipe stem which holds the stem to the stummel. It takes its name from one of the oldest joints in woodworking, the mortise and tenon joint. Over the last two centuries tenons have been made separately with bone screws, cut integrally into a vulcanite stem to fit a cut mortise in the stummel, made from threaded aluminum or plastic, made from aluminum to fit a pre-drilled mortise so as to hold a filter, made from delrin and placed into a drilled hole in the stem, and in other fashions as well. <br />
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'''Tin Note''': As opposed to the aroma of burning tobacco, the tin note is the scent which can be smelled from the unsmoked tobacco when opened, and is considered a good way to begin to understand a new blend and determine to some degree its components and their relative strength.<br />
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'''Trebizond''': No known as Trabzon, Trebizond is grown in Turkey at the southeast shores of the Black Sea. A basibali varietal resembling Samsun, but coarser and stronger.<br />
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'''Turkish''': A term used to refer not only to tobaccos grown in modern day Turkey, but rather to any tobacco grown under the Ottoman Empire, particularly at the height of its power under Suleiman the Magnificent. As a result, while the town of Yenidje, for example, would today be in Greece, yenidje tobacco is still classified as Turkish.<br />
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'''Twist''': A form of tobacco, also known as rope tobacco, which is spun into a roll, largely by hand, rather than being pressed into flakes. One of the oldest forms of smoking tobacco.<br />
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'''Ukulele''': A pipe shape first designed by [[Sixten Ivarsson]] for the [[Pibe-Dan]] shop in the 1950s and named ukulele, some credit Ed [[Burak]] for the design which he considered a bulldog. A ukulele is characterized by a domed, wide bowl and a wide oval shank with a flat bowl bottom, according to the [[Ukulele|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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== V ==<br />
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'''VaPer''': A portmanteau of Virginia and Perique, vaper is simply the contraction used to refer to blends primarily composed of these two types of tobacco. <br />
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'''Vestpocket''': A pipe characterized by its ability to fit in a vest pocket, notable for its stem, which swivels over the bowl for carrying and swings out for use, according to the [[Vestpocket|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts]]. Generally all corners on the pipe are rounded to make it easier to remove from a pocket.<br />
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'''Virginia''': More appropriately called Brightleaf tobacco, Virginia is used to refer to milder tobacco leaf, lighter in color, which is grown in infertile, sandy soil, largely in North Carolina and Virginia, and which was first grown in approximately 1839. <br />
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'''Volcano''': A pipe shape characterized by a conical bowl narrowing towards the top, usually with a rounded base and a bent shank and saddle stem, according to the [[Volcano|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts]].<br />
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'''Vulcanite''': Hard black vulcanized rubber used for making pipe stems. Made from rubber containing up to 30% sulfur, vulcanite is soft on the teeth but prone to turning brownish yellow and taking on a sulfur smell on exposure to sunlight. This process is called oxidation.<br />
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'''White Burley''': First grown in Brown County, Ohio in 1865 by George Webb, White Burley is the result of planting Red Burley seeds purchased from Kentucky in the different soil of Ohio, which resulted in a mutation of whitish, sickly looking plants. White Burley soon became the chief ingredient in chewing tobacco, American pipe tobacco, and American-style cigarettes. As Red Burley no longer exists, White Burley is simply referred to as Burley today.<br />
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'''Xanthi''': Sometimes spelled Xanthe, this grade of Basma tobacco is named for a city in the Thrace region of northeastern Greece, first led into prosperity around 1715 due to the quality of its highly aromatic tobacco. The scientific name of the leaf is ''Nicotiana tabacum'' L. cv Xanthi.<br />
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== Y ==<br />
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'''Yacht''': Another name for the Zulu pipe shape, with a canted dublin bowl, oval shank and 1/8 bent stem. Among others, Kaywoodie used the term Yacht for pipes of this shape.<br />
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'''Yenidje''': Named for the town of Yenidje, Thrace, today called Genisea, Greece, Yenidje is also called Yenice, Jenidze, Yenidge, and Yeniji, and is a variety of Yaka tobacco, the best regarded form of Xanthi. Yenidje was an Ottoman tobacco production center until 1843 when the town burned and the growers moved up the slopes of the Rhodope Mountain range. Those slopes, called the Yaka, were made of a red clay loam mixed with small flint stones giving rise to short, low-yielding plants of the basma type, meaning (in this usage) that the leaves are small, almost round and with no free stem. The leaf burns badly on its own and was traditionally mixed with Bafra to cure this issue.<br />
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'''Zulu''': A shape of smoking pipe hallmarked by a canted dublin style bowl, an oval shank and a 1/8th bent stem. Also referred to as a Woodstock or a Yacht.<br />
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'''Zeppelin''': A name often used to refer to a cigar-shaped pipe of briar with a separate mouthpiece often of vulcanite, usually with a metal cap at the end to hold in the tobacco. Also called a Torpedo.<br />
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'''Acorn''': A pipe shape characterized by a conical shape sometimes extending to a point or near point below the shank or else with a bent shank flowing into the "point" of the acorn shape. Distinguishable from a dublin by a wider and more rounded rim in most cases. <br />
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'''Acrylic''': In pipe parlance, acrylic stems are those made of polymers of acrylic acid or acrylates, most often polymethyl methacrylate, also called acrylic glass. Some prefer this material for pipe stems due to the lack of oxidation, while others prefer a traditional vulcanite stem due to softness.<br />
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'''Aging''': The term used to describe the tendency of pipe tobacco to improve over time through either aerobic or anaerobic fermentation. The term is used interchangeably to describe increased sweetness on the part of Virginias, mellowing on the part of Latakia, or a generally more complete melding of the blend. The effect is often simulated through the use of heat or pressure.<br />
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'''Agonya''': A type of Turkish tobacco of a kabakolak leaf type, meaning it has distinct stems with "wings" on the leaf stems, Agonya was originally grown in the foothills below Xanthi, but is now grown south of the Sea of Marmara, in the region east of Kanakhale, Turkey.<br />
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'''Air-cured''': Air-cured tobacco is hung in well-ventilated barns immediately after plants are cut or leaves pulled from the field and allowed to dry for a period of one to two months. During this process the yellow colors of the leaf turn to varying shades of brown, until they are ready to be fermented and processed. Burley is an air-cured tobacco.<br />
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'''Amber''': Prior to the wide adoption of vulcanite, first invented in 1844 by Charles Goodyear, as a substance for pipe stem making, by far the most common form of pipe stem was one carved from amber. The stems were carved by hand from fossilized tree resin, at which point they could be bent only after heating in oil and over an alcohol flame. While amber is a beautiful natural material which comes in a large variety of colors, the stems are exceedingly brittle and hard on the teeth. Amber stems are still made only in very rare cases.<br />
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'''Apple''': According to the [[Apple|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the classic apple shape is a rounded version of the billiard, and may be had in either bent or straight shanked and tapered and saddle stemmed versions. Popular variations of this shape include the Prince and Author.<br />
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'''Aromatic''': A type of tobacco which is either cased or top flavored in order to produce a taste and room note other than the tobacco's natural smell, whether simply sugar or molasses, whiskey or other alcohols, or many other flavorings. Used as a major category for pipe tobaccos, along with non-aromatic and latakia based blends.<br />
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'''Army Mount''': Also called a "military bit", a pipe with an army mount stem is designed to permit the stem to be removed from the pipe while hot by inclusion of a shank cap, often made of silver, to reinforce the briar. A more elaborate variation of the army mount is the spigot. According to most likely mythological history, the first army mount was invented when a World War One soldier fixed a broken pipe shank by inserting a spent rifle casing into it and piercing a hole for the stem. <br />
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'''Author''': According to the [[Author|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the Author is a beefed-up prince, featuring a flattened ball-shaped bowl and a heavy 1/8 to 1/4 bent stem.<br />
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'''Bafra''': Bafra is a district and village in the Samsun province of Turkey, and the name sometimes given to the Samsun-Maden strain of tobacco, which is a smaller basibali Turkish varietal with low nicotine and a rich flavor.<br />
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'''Ball''': The ball shape, also referred to as a tomato, is described by the [[Author|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], is very similar to an author but with a spherical bowl and thinner shank. According to Mr. Burney the ball generally features a tapered stem with a 1/4 to 1/2 bent.<br />
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'''Ballerina''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and resembling a ballet dancer's foot while en pointe, curving from the heel at the front of the bowl to the toe at the meeting of bowl and shank, itself characterized by a full enough bend to permit the pipe to stand on its own. <br />
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'''Bakelite''': A trade name for Polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride. Harder than vulcanite and softer than acrylic, bakelite stems do not oxidize. Largely seen in shades of white and amber yellow.<br />
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'''Basma''': 1. The group of Turkish small-leaf varietals in which the stem of the leaf does not extend beyond the leaf at the main stalk 2. The larger leaves primed from the middle of any variety of Turkish tobacco plant 3. A long, rectangular bale-style of packing cured Turkish leaf, approximately 50-60 pounds, of any variety.<br />
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'''Bead''': Now generally represented by two straight lines around the bowl of a bulldog or rhodesian, a bead is one of only three shapes which can be produced on a lathe, along with a flat and a cove. A bead is a rounded projection from the wood, and in the case of pipes today most beads are cut as inset beads, in that the surrounding wood is level with the top of the bead. Older pipes occasionally featured intricately carved beads. Today, however, rather than cutting a true bead the projection is left flat and only signified by the lines around it.<br />
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'''Bent Pipe''': A generic term used to refer to any pipe where the shank is not a straight horizontal line, regardless of the nature or amount of the shank bend.<br />
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'''Billiard''': The [[Billiard|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] describe a billiard as a pipe shape having a cylindrical bowl and tobacco chamber with a shank about the same length as the height of the bowl. Variations on the billiard shape include the pot and chimney.<br />
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'''Basibali''': A family of Turkish tobaccos characterized by a distinct stem separating the leaf from the stalk. Sometimes referred to as Bashi Bagli.<br />
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'''Bit''': A less than precise term, usually used to refer to the entirety of the stem or mouthpiece on a pipe, but occasionally also used to refer to the bite zone.<br />
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'''Bite Zone''': The last approximately three quarters of an inch of the mouthpiece or stem of a tobacco pipe, including the button.<br />
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'''Bloom''': Also referred to as plume, bloom is a fine white powder which appears on well aged tobacco on occasion, and despite the tendency to confuse it with mold is actually a good sign that the leaf is maturing well. Bloom is caused by the crystallization of sugars on the surface of the tobacco leaf. <br />
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'''Blowfish''': Per the [[Blowfish|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the blowfish is a pipe shape characterized by an asymmetrical flattened ball for a bowl, a bent stem blending into the body, and a combination of birdseye grain on the large panels and straight grain between.<br />
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'''Brandy''': Also referred to as a bent brandy or brandyglass, a pipe shape which resembles the glassware for which it is named. According to the [[Brandy|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pipe is characterized by a rounded base tapering up to a smaller rim, often in a 1/4 bent pipe.<br />
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'''Briar''': Actually a mistranslation of the French bruyère, briar among pipe smokers refers to the wood of the ''erica arborea'', a species of flowering plant in the heather family. After 30 to 60 years of growing time, the football sized plants are harvested, cooked, dried for several months, and further processed before they are made into pipes. <br />
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'''Bullcap''': According to the [[Bullcap|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the bullcap is a squat straight rhodesian with a large bowl diameter.<br />
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'''Bulldog''': According to the [[Bulldog|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the classic bulldog has a tapered stem, diamond shank and slightly forward canted bowl shaped someone like two cones joined at the bases with the top cone cut off. The pipe is traditionally adorned with a bead around the bowl. <br />
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'''Bullmoose''': According to the [[Bullcap|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a bullmoose is a squat rhodesian with a very heavy 1/4 bent stem.<br />
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'''Burley''': A tobacco of light-colored variety grown primarily in Kentucky and Tennessee, the bulk of burley tobacco produced in the United States is used for cigarette production. All burley today is of the white burley variety, and is often sweetened due to the low natural sugars present in the leaf. Most aromatics use a base of burley due to its ready ability to absorb flavors. While some claim burley does not age, it does improve with time. However, this takes time measured in the several decades at least.<br />
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'''Button''': The button is the raised portion at the end of a pipe mouthpiece or stem intended to permit the teeth purchase to hold the pipe.<br />
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'''Cake''': Cake refers to the buildup of residual carbon that forms in the bowl of a pipe. Most recommend trimming back the buildup to keep it at roughly the width of a dime in a briar pipe in order to create a protective layer which cools the pipe and reduces moisture. Cake is frowned upon in meerschaums, and the subject of much debate among corn cob pipe smokers.<br />
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'''Calabash''': According to the [[Calabash|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the calabash is a solid wood interpretation of the gourd calabash with a tapered bowl flared at the rim and a dome shaped top. The tobacco chamber is usually tapered and the pipe 3/4 bent, but there are variations.<br />
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'''Canadian''': According to the [[Canadian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the canadian is a long-shanked billiard with an oval shank and a tapered bit. The shank is roughly twice as long as the height of the bowl. Variations on this shape include the lumbermand, lovat and liverpool.<br />
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'''Casing''': Whether sprayed with or soaked in a sauce, casing refers to the addition of flavoring, sugar or the like prior to the finishing of the tobacco, as opposed to top-flavouring, which is added by spraying the finished blend with scents and flavours.<br />
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'''Cavendish''': There are two forms of Cavendish, which is more a process of curing and a method of cutting tobacco than a type of it. Common cavendish is made when tobacco leaves are pressed into a cake about an inch thick and heated before being allowed to ferment, resulting in a mild and sweet tobacco. Flavoring is often added before the leaves are pressed. English Cavendish uses a dark flue or fire cured Virginia , which is steamed and then stored under pressure to permit it to cure and ferment for several days or weeks.<br />
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'''Char''': Used to refer to wood that has actually begun to burn, usually at the start of a burnout in a bowl or, far more likely and most often due to lighter abuse, at the rim. <br />
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'''Cherrywood''': According to the [[Cherrywood|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a cherrywood is a bent poker. The name cherrywood derives from the pipe shape's origin as a copy of the cherry wood pipes made by Eugène-Léon Ropp and others in mid-19th century France.<br />
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'''Churchwarden''': According to the [[Churchwarden|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the churchwarden is the only pipe defined by the shape of its stem, rather than its bowl. Whether bent or straight, the stem on a churchwarden is 9 to 18 inches long, but not so long as to make lighting the pipe while holding it in the mouth impossible.<br />
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'''Cigar Leaf''': A generic term used to describe a great many different types of leaf primarily used in cigars which are also included in pipe tobacco. Connecticut Broadleaf and Cuban-Seed Varietals are frequently used among others to add flavor to a blend.<br />
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'''Cob''': The common parlance for a corn cob pipe, which in its loosest definition is simply any pipe with a bowl made from a dried and drilled corncob. Traditionally fitted with river cane stems, most modern cobs have wood shanks and plastic bits. <br />
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'''Cumberland''': Called brindle by Dunhill and others, cumberland is a form of vulcanite made with brown and red pigment added to the rubber to give it a marble like appearance.<br />
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'''Cut''': Pipe tobacco may be cut as shag, ribbon, flake, plug, rope, discs, coins, or in other forms. These terms simply refer to the manner in which the finished product is reduced into a small enough size to consume. The most common cut is ribbon cut.<br />
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'''Cutty''': According to the [[Cutty|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a cutty has a very canted tulip shaped bowl and a slightly bent stem with a tapered bit. The word cutty simply means "cut shorter". Cutty pipes occasionally and traditionally sport a "spur", or a small foot protruding from the base of the bowl.<br />
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'''Czech Tool''': Also called a 3-way pipe tool, a combined tamper, shank clearing tool and dottle spoon on a single rotating rivet. Called a Czech tool for the original country of manufacture of most of the tools, they are largely Chinese made today.<br />
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'''Delayed Gratification Technique''': Or DGT, the habit of some pipe smokers to light a pipe and leave it to sit for hours or even days before completing the smoke. Many blends gain a far different taste profile from this technique which some find pleasant.<br />
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'''Delrin''': A brand name for polyoxymethylne or POM, also called acetal, polyacetal, or polyformaldehyde, delrin is a thermoplastic used by pipe makers as a material for non-integral stem tenons, and for screw-in tenons for meerschaum push/pull connections. Delrin is appreciated as a "self-lubricating" material, meaning that it has a low drag coefficient to interfere with the smooth passage of smoke, and for the ease of reliance on separate stems and tenons.<br />
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'''Devil Anse''': The name of a notorious West Virginia Confederate veteran suspected of murdering Asa McCoy after the war ended and starting the infamous Hatfield/McCoy feud. Devil Anse Hatfield was portrayed in a recent television series by Kevin Costner, who, despite the lack of any historical support, smoked a nosewarmer cutty in the role, now popular and given the name of the character. <br />
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'''Diplomat''': According to the [[Diplomat|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a diplomat is a pipe shape similar to a prince but a bit larger generally and with an oval shank and stem.<br />
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'''Djebel''': Sometimes referred to as Xanthi-Djebel, Dejebel tobacco is grown closer to the ridge, or djebel, of the Rhodope mountains above Xanthi. While the leaf is probably of the same strain as Yaka leaf, it is much less highly regarded.<br />
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'''Don''': A pipe shape, according to the [[Duke/Don|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], similar to a Duke but with a rudimentary shank and a vulcanite bit. Sometimes, such as by [[Peterson]], called a tankard.<br />
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'''Dottle''': The leftover plug of unburnt tobacco and ash left in the heel of a pipe bowl after smoking. Dottle is avoided by smokers as a waste of tobacco and occasionally souring of the bowl, but is sometimes unavoidable.<br />
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'''Drama''': A sweet type of tobacco with a natural olive oil fragrance grown on the Southern slopes and foothills of the Rhodope Mountains in Greek Eastern Macedonia, and taking its name from the town of the same name. A kabakolak variety, meaning that the leaf has a distinct separate stem similar to basibali, but with "wings" on its leaf stems.<br />
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'''Draught Hole''': Also Draft Hole, the point at which the airway enters the bowl of the pipe, preferably in the center back of the heel to avoid leaving excessive dottle.<br />
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'''Dubec''': 1. The smaller leaves from the upper portion of any variety of Turkish tobacco plant 2. A round package of cured Turkish leaf of any variety, approximately 25-30 pounds in weight.<br />
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'''Dublin''': According to the [[Dublin|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the dublin is a pipe shape with the same proportions as a billiard but with a conical bowl and tapered combustion chamber.<br />
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'''Duke''': A [[Dunhill]] pipe shape that features a cylindrical bowl with no shank, a bone or vulcanite stem and a poker-type canted bottom, according to the [[Duke/Don|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''Ebonite''': The brand name for a very hard rubber first created by Charles Goodyear by vulcanizing rubber for prolonged periods, Ebonite was named for its intended purpose, a replacment for ebony. Commonly referred to as vulcanite in pipe parlance, vulcanite is with acrylic one of the two most popular materials from which stems are made.<br />
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'''Egg''': According to the [[Egg|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the egg is usually but not always a bent pipe with a bowl shaped like an egg, which can be thought of as an elongated apple shape.<br />
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'''Elephant's Foot''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and characterized by straight grained side panels and wide front and back domed surfaces on the bowl exhibiting birdseye. <br />
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'''English''': Aside from the obvious geographical uses, the word "English" is often used among pipe smokers to refer to blends with latakia in them. In reality, however, the term only developed to differentiate blends made in the United Kingdom, especially in the days of the now defunct Tobacco Purity Laws, which prohibited humectants and most flavorings from being added to the tobacco. A more precise term is "latakia based".<br />
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'''English Cavendish''': The name commonly used to refer to dark flue-cured or fire-cured Virginia tobacco which is steamed and then pressed over a period of several days to weeks. It is not flavored as other forms of Cavendish generally are. Rattray's ''Dark Fragrant'' is one example of an available English Cavendish blend. <br />
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'''Eskimo''': According to the [[Ukulele|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a pipe shape by Tom Eltang created as a variation on Ed Burak's bulldog design and sporting a smooth, flat stem and shank with a canted, domed bowl.<br />
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'''Estate Pipe''': A previously owned pipe, whether smoked or un-smoked.<br />
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'''Fire Cured''': Unlike flue cured tobacco, which is cured by indirect heat without smoke, fire cured tobacco is cured with smoke, in the tobacco equivalent of barbecuing. Dark Fired Kentucky and Latakia are both fire cured, and the process results in lower sugars and higher nicotine in the leaf.<br />
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'''Flake''': Flake tobacco is made by slicing thin sheets off of a cube, which in turn is formed by pressing whole tobacco leaves into a compressed form, usually under significant pressure for long periods of time. Flake tobacco may be sold in slices, or fully or partially broken or rubbed out.<br />
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'''Flue Cured''': Flue cured tobacco is cured by heat without smoke, generally by being hung from sticks in a barn exposed to heat from external fires through flues. Traditionally the method for curing brightleaf tobacco, this method results in sweeter leaf with lower nicotine.<br />
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'''Foot''': The bottom of the outside of the bowl, as opposed to the heel, which is the bottom of the inside of the bowl.<br />
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'''Freehand''': Not to be confused with the fixed freehand shapes made by some companies, a true freehand shape is defined by the pipemaker's choice to let the grain of the briar shape the pipe, rather than forcing the pipe into a predetermined shape, according to the [[Freehand|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''Gesteckpfeife''': Literally "pipe in parts", a traditional European pipe made up of several interconnecting parts, usually held together with cork tenons. Bowls can be meerschaum, briar, or porcelain, commonly.<br />
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'''Ghost''': A ghost is the taste or smell of a previously smoked tobacco remaining in a pipe and coloring the taste of a different blend smoked in the same pipe. Generally the cause of tar in the shank, but usually blamed on cake.<br />
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'''Gourd Calabash''': According to the [[Gourd Calabash|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a gourd calabash is a pipe made from a calabash gourd which is dried and the seeds removed, and then fitted with a stem and meerschaum bowl cap. The driest and smoothest of all pipes.<br />
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'''Hand''': A hand is a bundle of tobacco tied at the end and hung from the knot for curing purposes.<br />
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'''Hawkbill''': According to the [[Hawkbill|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the hawkbill is a pipe shape characterized by an enlarged ball or tomato style with a long, tapering bent shank. The premiere example is the Castello 84.j<br />
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'''Heel''': The heel is the bottom of the combustion chamber, the inside of the bowl.<br />
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'''Horn''': According to the [[Horn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the horn is a graceful freehand shape varying from a straight tapering tube to a more standard bent pipe, but in all cases with a smooth tapering from bowl to shank and no abrupt transitions.<br />
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'''Hungarian''': More commonly referred to as an Oom Paul, the Hungarian is a fully bent billiard named for former South African President Paulus Kruger, according to the [[Oom Paul/Hungarian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''Intricate Curve''': In pipemaking, a term sometimes used to describe the transition from the rear wall of the bowl to the top of the shank.<br />
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'''Izmir''': A type of Turkish tobacco with rich flavor, low nicotine, and cool smoke. It has a very aromatic nature and is often blended with Latakia to somewhat subdue this property. Primarily used as a condiment with pipe tobacco, but occasionally offered by itself. Also called Smyrna.<br />
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'''Jar''': Tobacco jars have been used for nearly three hundred years as the predominant method for storage of pipe tobacco, whether made from tin, wood, pewter, porcelain, majolica or bisque. By far the most common choice is the simple Ball jar or Mason jar.<br />
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'''Jatim''': A form of Indonesian tobacco and the abbreviated name of the province of East Java (Jawa Timur), where the tobacco is grown.<br />
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'''Kabakolak''': A family of Turkish tobacco strains similar to Basibali, but with wings on their leaf stems in addition to distinct stems.<br />
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'''Katerini''': A Turkish varietal of the Samsun basibali type, with a milder, sweeter leaf. Grown southwest of Thessaloniki in the Greek province of Macedonia.<br />
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'''Kentucky''': Dark-Fired Kentucky is a type of pipe tobacco made from burley which is cured over a fire and flavored by its smoke.<br />
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'''Latakia''': Named for the principal port city of Syria, latakia is not a specific plant varietal, but rather one of a number of Turkish varietals which are fire cured over a stone pine or oak wood fire, giving it a smoky flavor. Most latakia, despite the name, is now grown in Cyprus, not Syria, and camel dung has nothing to do with the process of its creation.<br />
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'''Lovat''': A pipe shape, according to the [[Lovat|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], which is essentially a Canadian but with a round shank instead of oval and a saddle stem.<br />
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'''Lucite''': Lucite is a trade name for acrylic, or polyacrylate, which is derived from natural gas. It is a composition of Methyl Methacrylate and Poly Methyl Methacrylate resin. Lucite is used for pipe stems due to its lack of oxidation, but is criticized for a harder feel on the teeth.<br />
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'''Lületaşi''': A Turkish word literally meaning sea foam and used to refer to meerschaum in that country.<br />
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'''Macedonia''': 1. A province of north-central Greece, west of Thrace, which includes the sea port of Thessaloniki (Salonika) and the Katerini tobacco region 2. A recently independent republic, formerly part of Soviet Yugoslavia, located immediately north of the Greek province of Macedonia, and the source of Prilep tobacco.<br />
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'''Mahale''': A Turkish tobacco with a basma leaf type grown downslope from Xanthi.<br />
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'''Maryland''': An extremely mild tobacco used in a number of American tobacco blends, especially to add a nutty flavor to Burley. Sadly the state of Maryland now pays farmers not to grow tobacco.<br />
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'''Meerschaum''': A mineral hydrous magnesium silicate called sepiolite, primarily found in Turkey near Eskisehr, which is used in the making of tobacco pipes. The word means "seafoam".<br />
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'''Melding''': The term used to refer to a tobacco blend's property to acquire a single homogeneous taste over time, as a result of aging in an airtight container.<br />
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'''Mellowing''': Particularly used in referring to Latakia's tendency to be less overpowering after some aging, the term is sometimes used to refer to a general tendency of tobacco to become more smooth with age.<br />
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'''Mortise''': A mortise is at its most basic a hole cut or drilled to accept a smaller tenon and make a joint. The joint has been used in woodworking for thousands of years, and in pipe construction generally appears as a hole drilled larger than the airway and at the same depth as the stem tenon. Variations, however, are unlimited.<br />
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'''Mouthpiece''': A term used interchangeably with stem and to a lesser degree bit, the mouthpiece is the portion of the pipe meant to be placed in the smoker's mouth, and includes the entire pipe from the end of the shank to the slot. Often made from vulcanite or lucite/acrylic.<br />
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'''Nautilus''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and named for its obvious resemblance to the shell of a nautilus, resulting in an airway passing through a shank curved in a loop and pierced in the center to suggest the closed portion of the shell, a bowl shaped like the long open mouth of the shell, and a foot curving in a near half circle beneath.<br />
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'''Nail''': The simplest form of pipe tool is the venerable Pipe Nail, which generally looks much like its namesake, one end flat to tamp with and another coming to a point or spoon for clearing ash and tar.<br />
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'''Nomenclature''': A general term used to refer to the stamping on a pipe in its entirety, including brand names, models, year and shape codes and the like.<br />
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'''Oliphant''': A traditional name for a hunter's horn made from an elephant tusk, the oliphant shape was first designed by [[Sixten Ivarsson]] for the [[Pibe-Dan]] shop in the late 1950s. According to the [[Horn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]]The shape is a variation of the horn meant to resemble the tusk of an elephant, and with a flat curve and even and gradual tapering throughout.<br />
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'''Oom Paul''': A shape name which actually means Uncle Paul in Dutch, Oom Paul pipes are full bent billiards, according to the [[Oom Paul/Hungarian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]]. The name comes from the nickname for Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, president of the South African Republic from 1883 to 1900 and the face of the Boer cause against Britain during the Second Boer War of 1899 to 1902. Also called a Hungarian.<br />
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'''Opera Pipe''': A shape which the [[Oval|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] refer to as an "Oval" or Pocket pipe, the opera pipe is a billiard with a bowl "squashed" into an oval, with the long side of the oval parallel with the shank and stem. In fact, "opera" pipe is a misnomer. The original name of the pipe was the au pair pipe, as it gained popularity with domestic workers unable to smoke around children.<br />
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'''Oriental''': Used interchangeably with "Turkish" to refer to sun cured condimental tobaccos grown in the Eastern Mediterranean. This category of tobaccos includes Yenidje, Smyrna, Samsun, Izmir, Drama, Xanthe, and often Basma, which is not a particular leaf but a generic Turkish blend, and all that pipe tobacco blenders are often able to find due to the purchase of most oriental varietals by cigarette manufacturers.<br />
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'''Panel Billiard''': According to the [[Panel Billiard|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the Panelled Billiard, also called a foursquare, is a basic billiard shape with flat, or panelled, sides. The classic panel has four flat sides and a round shank.<br />
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'''Pear''': More commonly called an acorn today, according to the [[Pear/Accorn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] the pear is a sort of softened dublin shape, with a conical bowl and tobacco chamber but with all sharp edges rounded.<br />
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'''Perique''': Mistakenly believed to be a nickname for Pierre Chenet and actually a French mispronunciation of an American slang word for a part of the anatomy, perique is a type of tobacco grown only in St. James Parish, Louisiana, sauced and kept under massive pressure in barrels until it turns nearly black. Perique has flavors of spice and plum, and is prized as the truffle of pipe tobaccos.<br />
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'''Pickaxe''': According to the [[Pickaxe|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pickaxe is a freehand style of pipe characterized by a paneled, triangular bowl.<br />
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'''Pipe''': A tube with a small bowl at one end used for the smoking of tobacco.<br />
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'''P-Lip''': A type of pipe mouthpiece invented by Peterson of Dublin and relying on a small hole on the top of a stem rather than a hole at its end. Meant to reduce tongue bite by directing the flow of smoke away from the tongue.<br />
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'''Plug''': Whole leaf, pressed with moisture, becomes a plug, from which flakes can be sliced. Plug tobacco is prepared by slicing off and then rubbing out pieces of the block of tobacco.<br />
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'''Poker''': According to the [[Poker|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the poker is a straight pipe with a cylindrical, flat bottomed bowl designed so that the pipe will stand on its own.<br />
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'''Pot''': According to the [[Pot|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pot is a billiard with a shorter bowl, but not a shorter shank than a standard billiard.<br />
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'''Prilep''': A Sirdily variety of Turkish tobacco commonly grown in the region of the town of Prilep, which is located in the Independent Republic of Macedonia.<br />
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'''Prince''': According to the [[Prince|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the prince is a pipe shape characterized by a squat rounded bowl and along, usually slightly bent stem with a short shank. The pipe was named after Prince Albert, later King Edward VII, the Prince of Wales.<br />
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'''Quaint''': A pipe shape hallmarked, generally, by more than four panels, especially with a paneled shank as well.<br />
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'''Ramses''': A pipe shape created by Bo [[Nordh]] and later named by a visiting customer for its resemblance to the statue of Ramses II in Abu Simbel, Egypt. Characterized by a long, wide sloping shank which also serves as the foot of the pipe and a long, tapered bowl which rests almost vertically on the shank. Stems are generally partially bent.<br />
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[[File:Bo Nordh Ramses01.jpg|thumb|center|100px|A Nordh Ramses]]<br />
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'''Reaming''': Trimming back cake from the bowl of a tobacco pipe.<br />
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'''Reamer''': A tool used to trim pipe cake back to an acceptable level. These have been made in countless different forms, adjustable and non-adjustable, for well over a century. Some simply use a pipe knife or sandpaper to accomplish the same task.<br />
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'''Rhodesian''': A subject of great dispute. Unlikely to have been named for Cecil Rhodes, and more likely to have taken its name from Rhodesian tobacco, a Rhodesian is considered by some to be any bent bulldog, by others to be any bulldog with a round shank, and by others any bulldog shape with a greater bowl width than height. For each accepted definition of the word there is a pipe sold which contradicts it, and no consensus is likely.<br />
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'''Room Note''': The smell of a particular tobacco as it is being smoked. Easier to detect by those not smoking the blend, and a key component to the choice of a pipe tobacco blend especially for those who smoke in public environments. Simply put, how pleasing the smoke would be to a bystander.<br />
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'''Samsun''': A Turkish tobacco of the basibali variety with a heart-shaped leaf, grown near the town of Samsun, Turkey on the shores of the Black Sea. Low nicotine tobacco, but with strong flavor and dark color.<br />
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'''Samsun-Maden''': Also called Bafra for the village near Samsun, Samsun-Maden is a basibali Turkish tobacco characterized by leaves which are are small sized and ovalThe leaf faces are red to bright red. This strain can be smoked without blending. Nicotine content is often lower than 1% and sugar content is 9-12%. <br />
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'''Shank''': The portion of a stummel between the bowl and mouthpiece, and generally containing the mortise. The length of the pipe shank is one of the key variables in the shape of a pipe, as is it's shape, whether square, diamond, oval or round.<br />
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'''Shirazi''': Named for the ancient city of Shiraz in south-western Iran and claimed to be native to that country, Shirazi tobacco is thought to have reached Iran from the Americas in the mid 1500s. Once called ''Nicotiana Persica''.<br />
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'''Sirdily''': A category of Turkish basma subvarietals characterized by small, narrow, acutely pointed leaves.<br />
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'''Slot''': A slot is the wide opening at the end of the mouthpiece tapering into the airway of the pipe. Generally seen only on vulcanite and acrylic stems from the last century, the slot is funneled both to make the insertion of a pipe cleaner easier and to make for a smoother flow for the smoke.<br />
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'''Smyrna''': A type of Turkish tobacco with rich flavor, low nicotine, and cool smoke. It has a very aromatic nature and is often blended with Latakia to somewhat subdue this property. Primarily used as a condiment with pipe tobacco, but occasionally offered by itself. Also called Izmir.<br />
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'''Sokhoum''': A type of Turkish varietal of the Samsun basibali type which is deeply fermented. Grown in the mountains above the town of Sokhoum Kale (Sokhumi) in the Republic of Georgia.<br />
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'''Soppeng''': A type of Indonesian tobacco prepared much like a traditional cavendish but using palm sugar as the sweetener, and then fired. Primarily smoked in cigarettes but enjoyed as pipe tobacco also, Soppeng is sometimes flavored with cinnamon or other tastes during preparation.<br />
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'''Sphinx''': A shape created by Bo [[Nordh]] and characterized by a wide domed bowl front cut so as to show birdseye at the center with straight grain radiating out from that point, giving a sunburst pattern. A similar shape, the Mounted Sphinx, was created by [[Geiger Pipes|Love and Sara Geiger]], but was not created as a variation on the shape.<br />
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'''Spiderwebbing''': A term used to describe a possible condition of estate pipes, spiderwebbing is the result of oversmoking but, rather than showing in a single spot like char in the bowl or a burnout, is characterized by a pattern of char lines, which look like shallow cracks and are actually burnt into the wood of the bowl. Can be concealed by any amount of cake or even a bowl coating, and so it is usually only evident in a bowl which has been sanded back to bare wood.<br />
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'''Spur''': A small protrusion at the bottom of traditional clay pipes to ensure a hot bowl does not burn the table. Frequently included in cutty pipes made even in briar and meerschaum in later decades as an ornamental element of the cutty shape. Seen only occasionally today.<br />
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[[File:Spur.jpg|thumb|center|100px|Clay Pipe Resting on Spur]]<br />
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'''Srintil''': A type of heavily fermented, air cured Indonesian tobacco grown in the Java region in the Temangung valley which grows at the top of a plant and by abnormality produces an extreme amount of resin, making it highly potent. Fermentation details are thought to be similar to perique, and in 1983 approximately 3 tons a year of Srintil were grown worldwide. Sometimes extracted in an aqueous solution for use as a flavoring agent.<br />
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'''Stummel''': German for stump, the stummel is a complete pipe minus only a stem and any final adornments, including the bowl, shank, and transition between the two.<br />
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'''Tambolaka''': An Indonesian tobacco grown in limestone heavy soil and after harvesting rolled into long sticks which are bound and stored for five years. Sold both as pipe tobacco and as a component of Indonesian cigars. Very high in nicotine with a tin note best described as pungent. <br />
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'''Tamp''': Using a tool or finger to compress the contents of the pipe bowl so as to bring unburnt tobacco into contact with the ember.<br />
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'''Tamper''': A tool used to tamp a pipe, generally with a flat end designed for that purpose and a handle. A tamper can be as simple as a piece of dowel or as ornate as the buyer may wish. While it seems inconsequential, tamping is important both for the care of the pipe and the coolness of the smoke.<br />
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'''Tenon''': The tenon is the smaller diameter protrusion at the end of a pipe stem which holds the stem to the stummel. It takes its name from one of the oldest joints in woodworking, the mortise and tenon joint. Over the last two centuries tenons have been made separately with bone screws, cut integrally into a vulcanite stem to fit a cut mortise in the stummel, made from threaded aluminum or plastic, made from aluminum to fit a pre-drilled mortise so as to hold a filter, made from delrin and placed into a drilled hole in the stem, and in other fashions as well. <br />
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'''Tin Note''': As opposed to the aroma of burning tobacco, the tin note is the scent which can be smelled from the unsmoked tobacco when opened, and is considered a good way to begin to understand a new blend and determine to some degree its components and their relative strength.<br />
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'''Trebizond''': No known as Trabzon, Trebizond is grown in Turkey at the southeast shores of the Black Sea. A basibali varietal resembling Samsun, but coarser and stronger.<br />
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'''Turkish''': A term used to refer not only to tobaccos grown in modern day Turkey, but rather to any tobacco grown under the Ottoman Empire, particularly at the height of its power under Suleiman the Magnificent. As a result, while the town of Yenidje, for example, would today be in Greece, yenidje tobacco is still classified as Turkish.<br />
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'''Twist''': A form of tobacco, also known as rope tobacco, which is spun into a roll, largely by hand, rather than being pressed into flakes. One of the oldest forms of smoking tobacco.<br />
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'''Ukulele''': A pipe shape first designed by [[Sixten Ivarsson]] for the [[Pibe-Dan]] shop in the 1950s and named ukulele, some credit Ed [[Burak]] for the design which he considered a bulldog. A ukulele is characterized by a domed, wide bowl and a wide oval shank with a flat bowl bottom, according to the [[Ukulele|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''VaPer''': A portmanteau of Virginia and Perique, vaper is simply the contraction used to refer to blends primarily composed of these two types of tobacco. <br />
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'''Vestpocket''': A pipe characterized by its ability to fit in a vest pocket, notable for its stem, which swivels over the bowl for carrying and swings out for use, according to the [[Vestpocket|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts]]. Generally all corners on the pipe are rounded to make it easier to remove from a pocket.<br />
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'''Virginia''': More appropriately called Brightleaf tobacco, Virginia is used to refer to milder tobacco leaf, lighter in color, which is grown in infertile, sandy soil, largely in North Carolina and Virginia, and which was first grown in approximately 1839. <br />
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'''Volcano''': A pipe shape characterized by a conical bowl narrowing towards the top, usually with a rounded base and a bent shank and saddle stem, according to the [[Volcano|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts]].<br />
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'''Vulcanite''': Hard black vulcanized rubber used for making pipe stems. Made from rubber containing up to 30% sulfur, vulcanite is soft on the teeth but prone to turning brownish yellow and taking on a sulfur smell on exposure to sunlight. This process is called oxidation.<br />
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'''White Burley''': First grown in Brown County, Ohio in 1865 by George Webb, White Burley is the result of planting Red Burley seeds purchased from Kentucky in the different soil of Ohio, which resulted in a mutation of whitish, sickly looking plants. White Burley soon became the chief ingredient in chewing tobacco, American pipe tobacco, and American-style cigarettes. As Red Burley no longer exists, White Burley is simply referred to as Burley today.<br />
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'''Xanthi''': Sometimes spelled Xanthe, this grade of Basma tobacco is named for a city in the Thrace region of northeastern Greece, first led into prosperity around 1715 due to the quality of its highly aromatic tobacco. The scientific name of the leaf is ''Nicotiana tabacum'' L. cv Xanthi.<br />
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'''Yacht''': Another name for the Zulu pipe shape, with a canted dublin bowl, oval shank and 1/8 bent stem. Among others, Kaywoodie used the term Yacht for pipes of this shape.<br />
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'''Yenidje''': Named for the town of Yenidje, Thrace, today called Genisea, Greece, Yenidje is also called Yenice, Jenidze, Yenidge, and Yeniji, and is a variety of Yaka tobacco, the best regarded form of Xanthi. Yenidje was an Ottoman tobacco production center until 1843 when the town burned and the growers moved up the slopes of the Rhodope Mountain range. Those slopes, called the Yaka, were made of a red clay loam mixed with small flint stones giving rise to short, low-yielding plants of the basma type, meaning (in this usage) that the leaves are small, almost round and with no free stem. The leaf burns badly on its own and was traditionally mixed with Bafra to cure this issue.<br />
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'''Zulu''': A shape of smoking pipe hallmarked by a canted dublin style bowl, an oval shank and a 1/8th bent stem. Also referred to as a Woodstock or a Yacht.<br />
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'''Zeppelin''': A name often used to refer to a cigar-shaped pipe of briar with a separate mouthpiece often of vulcanite, usually with a metal cap at the end to hold in the tobacco. Also called a Torpedo.<br />
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'''Acorn''': A pipe shape characterized by a conical shape sometimes extending to a point or near point below the shank or else with a bent shank flowing into the "point" of the acorn shape. Distinguishable from a dublin by a wider and more rounded rim in most cases. <br />
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'''Acrylic''': In pipe parlance, acrylic stems are those made of polymers of acrylic acid or acrylates, most often polymethyl methacrylate, also called acrylic glass. Some prefer this material for pipe stems due to the lack of oxidation, while others prefer a traditional vulcanite stem due to softness.<br />
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'''Aging''': The term used to describe the tendency of pipe tobacco to improve over time through either aerobic or anaerobic fermentation. The term is used interchangeably to describe increased sweetness on the part of Virginias, mellowing on the part of Latakia, or a generally more complete melding of the blend. The effect is often simulated through the use of heat or pressure.<br />
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'''Agonya''': A type of Turkish tobacco of a kabakolak leaf type, meaning it has distinct stems with "wings" on the leaf stems, Agonya was originally grown in the foothills below Xanthi, but is now grown south of the Sea of Marmara, in the region east of Kanakhale, Turkey.<br />
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'''Air-cured''': Air-cured tobacco is hung in well-ventilated barns immediately after plants are cut or leaves pulled from the field and allowed to dry for a period of one to two months. During this process the yellow colors of the leaf turn to varying shades of brown, until they are ready to be fermented and processed. Burley is an air-cured tobacco.<br />
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'''Amber''': Prior to the wide adoption of vulcanite, first invented in 1844 by Charles Goodyear, as a substance for pipe stem making, by far the most common form of pipe stem was one carved from amber. The stems were carved by hand from fossilized tree resin, at which point they could be bent only after heating in oil and over an alcohol flame. While amber is a beautiful natural material which comes in a large variety of colors, the stems are exceedingly brittle and hard on the teeth. Amber stems are still made only in very rare cases.<br />
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'''Apple''': According to the [[Apple|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the classic apple shape is a rounded version of the billiard, and may be had in either bent or straight shanked and tapered and saddle stemmed versions. Popular variations of this shape include the Prince and Author.<br />
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'''Aromatic''': A type of tobacco which is either cased or top flavored in order to produce a taste and room note other than the tobacco's natural smell, whether simply sugar or molasses, whiskey or other alcohols, or many other flavorings. Used as a major category for pipe tobaccos, along with non-aromatic and latakia based blends.<br />
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'''Army Mount''': Also called a "military bit", a pipe with an army mount stem is designed to permit the stem to be removed from the pipe while hot by inclusion of a shank cap, often made of silver, to reinforce the briar. A more elaborate variation of the army mount is the spigot. According to most likely mythological history, the first army mount was invented when a World War One soldier fixed a broken pipe shank by inserting a spent rifle casing into it and piercing a hole for the stem. <br />
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'''Author''': According to the [[Author|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the Author is a beefed-up prince, featuring a flattened ball-shaped bowl and a heavy 1/8 to 1/4 bent stem.<br />
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'''Bafra''': Bafra is a district and village in the Samsun province of Turkey, and the name sometimes given to the Samsun-Maden strain of tobacco, which is a smaller basibali Turkish varietal with low nicotine and a rich flavor.<br />
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'''Ball''': The ball shape, also referred to as a tomato, is described by the [[Author|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], is very similar to an author but with a spherical bowl and thinner shank. According to Mr. Burney the ball generally features a tapered stem with a 1/4 to 1/2 bent.<br />
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'''Ballerina''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and resembling a ballet dancer's foot while en pointe, curving from the heel at the front of the bowl to the toe at the meeting of bowl and shank, itself characterized by a full enough bend to permit the pipe to stand on its own. <br />
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[[File:Nordh Ballerina.jpg|thumb|center|100px|A Bo Nordh Ballerina]]<br />
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'''Bakelite''': A trade name for Polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride. Harder than vulcanite and softer than acrylic, bakelite stems do not oxidize. Largely seen in shades of white and amber yellow.<br />
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'''Basma''': 1. The group of Turkish small-leaf varietals in which the stem of the leaf does not extend beyond the leaf at the main stalk 2. The larger leaves primed from the middle of any variety of Turkish tobacco plant 3. A long, rectangular bale-style of packing cured Turkish leaf, approximately 50-60 pounds, of any variety.<br />
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'''Bead''': Now generally represented by two straight lines around the bowl of a bulldog or rhodesian, a bead is one of only three shapes which can be produced on a lathe, along with a flat and a cove. A bead is a rounded projection from the wood, and in the case of pipes today most beads are cut as inset beads, in that the surrounding wood is level with the top of the bead. Older pipes occasionally featured intricately carved beads. Today, however, rather than cutting a true bead the projection is left flat and only signified by the lines around it.<br />
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'''Bent Pipe''': A generic term used to refer to any pipe where the shank is not a straight horizontal line, regardless of the nature or amount of the shank bend.<br />
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'''Billiard''': The [[Billiard|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] describe a billiard as a pipe shape having a cylindrical bowl and tobacco chamber with a shank about the same length as the height of the bowl. Variations on the billiard shape include the pot and chimney.<br />
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'''Basibali''': A family of Turkish tobaccos characterized by a distinct stem separating the leaf from the stalk. Sometimes referred to as Bashi Bagli.<br />
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'''Bit''': A less than precise term, usually used to refer to the entirety of the stem or mouthpiece on a pipe, but occasionally also used to refer to the bite zone.<br />
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'''Bite Zone''': The last approximately three quarters of an inch of the mouthpiece or stem of a tobacco pipe, including the button.<br />
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'''Bloom''': Also referred to as plume, bloom is a fine white powder which appears on well aged tobacco on occasion, and despite the tendency to confuse it with mold is actually a good sign that the leaf is maturing well. Bloom is caused by the crystallization of sugars on the surface of the tobacco leaf. <br />
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'''Blowfish''': Per the [[Blowfish|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the blowfish is a pipe shape characterized by an asymmetrical flattened ball for a bowl, a bent stem blending into the body, and a combination of birdseye grain on the large panels and straight grain between.<br />
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'''Brandy''': Also referred to as a bent brandy or brandyglass, a pipe shape which resembles the glassware for which it is named. According to the [[Brandy|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pipe is characterized by a rounded base tapering up to a smaller rim, often in a 1/4 bent pipe.<br />
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'''Briar''': Actually a mistranslation of the French bruyère, briar among pipe smokers refers to the wood of the ''erica arborea'', a species of flowering plant in the heather family. After 30 to 60 years of growing time, the football sized plants are harvested, cooked, dried for several months, and further processed before they are made into pipes. <br />
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'''Bullcap''': According to the [[Bullcap|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the bullcap is a squat straight rhodesian with a large bowl diameter.<br />
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'''Bulldog''': According to the [[Bulldog|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the classic bulldog has a tapered stem, diamond shank and slightly forward canted bowl shaped someone like two cones joined at the bases with the top cone cut off. The pipe is traditionally adorned with a bead around the bowl. <br />
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'''Bullmoose''': According to the [[Bullcap|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a bullmoose is a squat rhodesian with a very heavy 1/4 bent stem.<br />
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'''Burley''': A tobacco of light-colored variety grown primarily in Kentucky and Tennessee, the bulk of burley tobacco produced in the United States is used for cigarette production. All burley today is of the white burley variety, and is often sweetened due to the low natural sugars present in the leaf. Most aromatics use a base of burley due to its ready ability to absorb flavors. While some claim burley does not age, it does improve with time. However, this takes time measured in the several decades at least.<br />
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'''Button''': The button is the raised portion at the end of a pipe mouthpiece or stem intended to permit the teeth purchase to hold the pipe.<br />
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'''Cake''': Cake refers to the buildup of residual carbon that forms in the bowl of a pipe. Most recommend trimming back the buildup to keep it at roughly the width of a dime in a briar pipe in order to create a protective layer which cools the pipe and reduces moisture. Cake is frowned upon in meerschaums, and the subject of much debate among corn cob pipe smokers.<br />
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'''Calabash''': According to the [[Calabash|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the calabash is a solid wood interpretation of the gourd calabash with a tapered bowl flared at the rim and a dome shaped top. The tobacco chamber is usually tapered and the pipe 3/4 bent, but there are variations.<br />
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'''Canadian''': According to the [[Canadian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the canadian is a long-shanked billiard with an oval shank and a tapered bit. The shank is roughly twice as long as the height of the bowl. Variations on this shape include the lumbermand, lovat and liverpool.<br />
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'''Casing''': Whether sprayed with or soaked in a sauce, casing refers to the addition of flavoring, sugar or the like prior to the finishing of the tobacco, as opposed to top-flavouring, which is added by spraying the finished blend with scents and flavours.<br />
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'''Cavendish''': There are two forms of Cavendish, which is more a process of curing and a method of cutting tobacco than a type of it. Common cavendish is made when tobacco leaves are pressed into a cake about an inch thick and heated before being allowed to ferment, resulting in a mild and sweet tobacco. Flavoring is often added before the leaves are pressed. English Cavendish uses a dark flue or fire cured Virginia , which is steamed and then stored under pressure to permit it to cure and ferment for several days or weeks.<br />
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'''Char''': Used to refer to wood that has actually begun to burn, usually at the start of a burnout in a bowl or, far more likely and most often due to lighter abuse, at the rim. <br />
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'''Cherrywood''': According to the [[Cherrywood|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a cherrywood is a bent poker. The name cherrywood derives from the pipe shape's origin as a copy of the cherry wood pipes made by Eugène-Léon Ropp and others in mid-19th century France.<br />
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'''Churchwarden''': According to the [[Churchwarden|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the churchwarden is the only pipe defined by the shape of its stem, rather than its bowl. Whether bent or straight, the stem on a churchwarden is 9 to 18 inches long, but not so long as to make lighting the pipe while holding it in the mouth impossible.<br />
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'''Cigar Leaf''': A generic term used to describe a great many different types of leaf primarily used in cigars which are also included in pipe tobacco. Connecticut Broadleaf and Cuban-Seed Varietals are frequently used among others to add flavor to a blend.<br />
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'''Cob''': The common parlance for a corn cob pipe, which in its loosest definition is simply any pipe with a bowl made from a dried and drilled corncob. Traditionally fitted with river cane stems, most modern cobs have wood shanks and plastic bits. <br />
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'''Cumberland''': Called brindle by Dunhill and others, cumberland is a form of vulcanite made with brown and red pigment added to the rubber to give it a marble like appearance.<br />
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'''Cut''': Pipe tobacco may be cut as shag, ribbon, flake, plug, rope, discs, coins, or in other forms. These terms simply refer to the manner in which the finished product is reduced into a small enough size to consume. The most common cut is ribbon cut.<br />
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'''Cutty''': According to the [[Cutty|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a cutty has a very canted tulip shaped bowl and a slightly bent stem with a tapered bit. The word cutty simply means "cut shorter". Cutty pipes occasionally and traditionally sport a "spur", or a small foot protruding from the base of the bowl.<br />
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'''Czech Tool''': Also called a 3-way pipe tool, a combined tamper, shank clearing tool and dottle spoon on a single rotating rivet. Called a Czech tool for the original country of manufacture of most of the tools, they are largely Chinese made today.<br />
[[File:Czech Tool.jpg|center|thumb|A Czech Tool.]]<br />
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== D ==<br />
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'''Delayed Gratification Technique''': Or DGT, the habit of some pipe smokers to light a pipe and leave it to sit for hours or even days before completing the smoke. Many blends gain a far different taste profile from this technique which some find pleasant.<br />
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'''Delrin''': A brand name for polyoxymethylne or POM, also called acetal, polyacetal, or polyformaldehyde, delrin is a thermoplastic used by pipe makers as a material for non-integral stem tenons, and for screw-in tenons for meerschaum push/pull connections. Delrin is appreciated as a "self-lubricating" material, meaning that it has a low drag coefficient to interfere with the smooth passage of smoke, and for the ease of reliance on separate stems and tenons.<br />
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'''Devil Anse''': The name of a notorious West Virginia Confederate veteran suspected of murdering Asa McCoy after the war ended and starting the infamous Hatfield/McCoy feud. Devil Anse Hatfield was portrayed in a recent television series by Kevin Costner, who, despite the lack of any historical support, smoked a nosewarmer cutty in the role, now popular and given the name of the character. <br />
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'''Diplomat''': According to the [[Diplomat|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a diplomat is a pipe shape similar to a prince but a bit larger generally and with an oval shank and stem.<br />
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'''Djebel''': Sometimes referred to as Xanthi-Djebel, Dejebel tobacco is grown closer to the ridge, or djebel, of the Rhodope mountains above Xanthi. While the leaf is probably of the same strain as Yaka leaf, it is much less highly regarded.<br />
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'''Don''': A pipe shape, according to the [[Duke/Don|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], similar to a Duke but with a rudimentary shank and a vulcanite bit. Sometimes, such as by [[Peterson]], called a tankard.<br />
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'''Dottle''': The leftover plug of unburnt tobacco and ash left in the heel of a pipe bowl after smoking. Dottle is avoided by smokers as a waste of tobacco and occasionally souring of the bowl, but is sometimes unavoidable.<br />
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'''Drama''': A sweet type of tobacco with a natural olive oil fragrance grown on the Southern slopes and foothills of the Rhodope Mountains in Greek Eastern Macedonia, and taking its name from the town of the same name. A kabakolak variety, meaning that the leaf has a distinct separate stem similar to basibali, but with "wings" on its leaf stems.<br />
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'''Draught Hole''': Also Draft Hole, the point at which the airway enters the bowl of the pipe, preferably in the center back of the heel to avoid leaving excessive dottle.<br />
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'''Dubec''': 1. The smaller leaves from the upper portion of any variety of Turkish tobacco plant 2. A round package of cured Turkish leaf of any variety, approximately 25-30 pounds in weight.<br />
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'''Dublin''': According to the [[Dublin|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the dublin is a pipe shape with the same proportions as a billiard but with a conical bowl and tapered combustion chamber.<br />
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'''Duke''': A [[Dunhill]] pipe shape that features a cylindrical bowl with no shank, a bone or vulcanite stem and a poker-type canted bottom, according to the [[Duke/Don|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''Ebonite''': The brand name for a very hard rubber first created by Charles Goodyear by vulcanizing rubber for prolonged periods, Ebonite was named for its intended purpose, a replacment for ebony. Commonly referred to as vulcanite in pipe parlance, vulcanite is with acrylic one of the two most popular materials from which stems are made.<br />
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'''Egg''': According to the [[Egg|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the egg is usually but not always a bent pipe with a bowl shaped like an egg, which can be thought of as an elongated apple shape.<br />
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'''Elephant's Foot''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and characterized by straight grained side panels and wide front and back domed surfaces on the bowl exhibiting birdseye. <br />
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'''English''': Aside from the obvious geographical uses, the word "English" is often used among pipe smokers to refer to blends with latakia in them. In reality, however, the term only developed to differentiate blends made in the United Kingdom, especially in the days of the now defunct Tobacco Purity Laws, which prohibited humectants and most flavorings from being added to the tobacco. A more precise term is "latakia based".<br />
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'''English Cavendish''': The name commonly used to refer to dark flue-cured or fire-cured Virginia tobacco which is steamed and then pressed over a period of several days to weeks. It is not flavored as other forms of Cavendish generally are. Rattray's ''Dark Fragrant'' is one example of an available English Cavendish blend. <br />
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'''Eskimo''': According to the [[Ukulele|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a pipe shape by Tom Eltang created as a variation on Ed Burak's bulldog design and sporting a smooth, flat stem and shank with a canted, domed bowl.<br />
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'''Estate Pipe''': A previously owned pipe, whether smoked or un-smoked.<br />
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'''Fire Cured''': Unlike flue cured tobacco, which is cured by indirect heat without smoke, fire cured tobacco is cured with smoke, in the tobacco equivalent of barbecuing. Dark Fired Kentucky and Latakia are both fire cured, and the process results in lower sugars and higher nicotine in the leaf.<br />
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'''Flake''': Flake tobacco is made by slicing thin sheets off of a cube, which in turn is formed by pressing whole tobacco leaves into a compressed form, usually under significant pressure for long periods of time. Flake tobacco may be sold in slices, or fully or partially broken or rubbed out.<br />
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'''Flue Cured''': Flue cured tobacco is cured by heat without smoke, generally by being hung from sticks in a barn exposed to heat from external fires through flues. Traditionally the method for curing brightleaf tobacco, this method results in sweeter leaf with lower nicotine.<br />
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'''Foot''': The bottom of the outside of the bowl, as opposed to the heel, which is the bottom of the inside of the bowl.<br />
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'''Freehand''': Not to be confused with the fixed freehand shapes made by some companies, a true freehand shape is defined by the pipemaker's choice to let the grain of the briar shape the pipe, rather than forcing the pipe into a predetermined shape, according to the [[Freehand|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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== G ==<br />
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'''Gesteckpfeife''': Literally "pipe in parts", a traditional European pipe made up of several interconnecting parts, usually held together with cork tenons. Bowls can be meerschaum, briar, or porcelain, commonly.<br />
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'''Ghost''': A ghost is the taste or smell of a previously smoked tobacco remaining in a pipe and coloring the taste of a different blend smoked in the same pipe. Generally the cause of tar in the shank, but usually blamed on cake.<br />
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'''Gourd Calabash''': According to the [[Gourd Calabash|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a gourd calabash is a pipe made from a calabash gourd which is dried and the seeds removed, and then fitted with a stem and meerschaum bowl cap. The driest and smoothest of all pipes.<br />
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'''Hand''': A hand is a bundle of tobacco tied at the end and hung from the knot for curing purposes.<br />
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'''Hawkbill''': According to the [[Hawkbill|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the hawkbill is a pipe shape characterized by an enlarged ball or tomato style with a long, tapering bent shank. The premiere example is the Castello 84.j<br />
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'''Heel''': The heel is the bottom of the combustion chamber, the inside of the bowl.<br />
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'''Horn''': According to the [[Horn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the horn is a graceful freehand shape varying from a straight tapering tube to a more standard bent pipe, but in all cases with a smooth tapering from bowl to shank and no abrupt transitions.<br />
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'''Hungarian''': More commonly referred to as an Oom Paul, the Hungarian is a fully bent billiard named for former South African President Paulus Kruger, according to the [[Oom Paul/Hungarian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''Intricate Curve''': In pipemaking, a term sometimes used to describe the transition from the rear wall of the bowl to the top of the shank.<br />
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'''Izmir''': A type of Turkish tobacco with rich flavor, low nicotine, and cool smoke. It has a very aromatic nature and is often blended with Latakia to somewhat subdue this property. Primarily used as a condiment with pipe tobacco, but occasionally offered by itself. Also called Smyrna.<br />
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'''Jar''': Tobacco jars have been used for nearly three hundred years as the predominant method for storage of pipe tobacco, whether made from tin, wood, pewter, porcelain, majolica or bisque. By far the most common choice is the simple Ball jar or Mason jar.<br />
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'''Jatim''': A form of Indonesian tobacco and the abbreviated name of the province of East Java (Jawa Timur), where the tobacco is grown.<br />
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'''Kabakolak''': A family of Turkish tobacco strains similar to Basibali, but with wings on their leaf stems in addition to distinct stems.<br />
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'''Katerini''': A Turkish varietal of the Samsun basibali type, with a milder, sweeter leaf. Grown southwest of Thessaloniki in the Greek province of Macedonia.<br />
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'''Kentucky''': Dark-Fired Kentucky is a type of pipe tobacco made from burley which is cured over a fire and flavored by its smoke.<br />
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'''Latakia''': Named for the principal port city of Syria, latakia is not a specific plant varietal, but rather one of a number of Turkish varietals which are fire cured over a stone pine or oak wood fire, giving it a smoky flavor. Most latakia, despite the name, is now grown in Cyprus, not Syria, and camel dung has nothing to do with the process of its creation.<br />
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'''Lovat''': A pipe shape, according to the [[Lovat|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], which is essentially a Canadian but with a round shank instead of oval and a saddle stem.<br />
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'''Lucite''': Lucite is a trade name for acrylic, or polyacrylate, which is derived from natural gas. It is a composition of Methyl Methacrylate and Poly Methyl Methacrylate resin. Lucite is used for pipe stems due to its lack of oxidation, but is criticized for a harder feel on the teeth.<br />
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'''Lületaşi''': A Turkish word literally meaning sea foam and used to refer to meerschaum in that country.<br />
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'''Macedonia''': 1. A province of north-central Greece, west of Thrace, which includes the sea port of Thessaloniki (Salonika) and the Katerini tobacco region 2. A recently independent republic, formerly part of Soviet Yugoslavia, located immediately north of the Greek province of Macedonia, and the source of Prilep tobacco.<br />
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'''Mahale''': A Turkish tobacco with a basma leaf type grown downslope from Xanthi.<br />
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'''Maryland''': An extremely mild tobacco used in a number of American tobacco blends, especially to add a nutty flavor to Burley. Sadly the state of Maryland now pays farmers not to grow tobacco.<br />
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'''Meerschaum''': A mineral hydrous magnesium silicate called sepiolite, primarily found in Turkey near Eskisehr, which is used in the making of tobacco pipes. The word means "seafoam".<br />
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'''Melding''': The term used to refer to a tobacco blend's property to acquire a single homogeneous taste over time, as a result of aging in an airtight container.<br />
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'''Mellowing''': Particularly used in referring to Latakia's tendency to be less overpowering after some aging, the term is sometimes used to refer to a general tendency of tobacco to become more smooth with age.<br />
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'''Mortise''': A mortise is at its most basic a hole cut or drilled to accept a smaller tenon and make a joint. The joint has been used in woodworking for thousands of years, and in pipe construction generally appears as a hole drilled larger than the airway and at the same depth as the stem tenon. Variations, however, are unlimited.<br />
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'''Mouthpiece''': A term used interchangeably with stem and to a lesser degree bit, the mouthpiece is the portion of the pipe meant to be placed in the smoker's mouth, and includes the entire pipe from the end of the shank to the slot. Often made from vulcanite or lucite/acrylic.<br />
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'''Nautilus''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and named for its obvious resemblance to the shell of a nautilus, resulting in an airway passing through a shank curved in a loop and pierced in the center to suggest the closed portion of the shell, a bowl shaped like the long open mouth of the shell, and a foot curving in a near half circle beneath.<br />
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'''Nail''': The simplest form of pipe tool is the venerable Pipe Nail, which generally looks much like its namesake, one end flat to tamp with and another coming to a point or spoon for clearing ash and tar.<br />
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'''Nomenclature''': A general term used to refer to the stamping on a pipe in its entirety, including brand names, models, year and shape codes and the like.<br />
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'''Oliphant''': A traditional name for a hunter's horn made from an elephant tusk, the oliphant shape was first designed by [[Sixten Ivarsson]] for the [[Pibe-Dan]] shop in the late 1950s. According to the [[Horn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]]The shape is a variation of the horn meant to resemble the tusk of an elephant, and with a flat curve and even and gradual tapering throughout.<br />
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'''Oom Paul''': A shape name which actually means Uncle Paul in Dutch, Oom Paul pipes are full bent billiards, according to the [[Oom Paul/Hungarian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]]. The name comes from the nickname for Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, president of the South African Republic from 1883 to 1900 and the face of the Boer cause against Britain during the Second Boer War of 1899 to 1902. Also called a Hungarian.<br />
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'''Opera Pipe''': A shape which the [[Oval|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] refer to as an "Oval" or Pocket pipe, the opera pipe is a billiard with a bowl "squashed" into an oval, with the long side of the oval parallel with the shank and stem. In fact, "opera" pipe is a misnomer. The original name of the pipe was the au pair pipe, as it gained popularity with domestic workers unable to smoke around children.<br />
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'''Oriental''': Used interchangeably with "Turkish" to refer to sun cured condimental tobaccos grown in the Eastern Mediterranean. This category of tobaccos includes Yenidje, Smyrna, Samsun, Izmir, Drama, Xanthe, and often Basma, which is not a particular leaf but a generic Turkish blend, and all that pipe tobacco blenders are often able to find due to the purchase of most oriental varietals by cigarette manufacturers.<br />
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'''Panel Billiard''': According to the [[Panel Billiard|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the Panelled Billiard, also called a foursquare, is a basic billiard shape with flat, or panelled, sides. The classic panel has four flat sides and a round shank.<br />
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'''Pear''': More commonly called an acorn today, according to the [[Pear/Accorn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] the pear is a sort of softened dublin shape, with a conical bowl and tobacco chamber but with all sharp edges rounded.<br />
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'''Perique''': Mistakenly believed to be a nickname for Pierre Chenet and actually a French mispronunciation of an American slang word for a part of the anatomy, perique is a type of tobacco grown only in St. James Parish, Louisiana, sauced and kept under massive pressure in barrels until it turns nearly black. Perique has flavors of spice and plum, and is prized as the truffle of pipe tobaccos.<br />
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'''Pickaxe''': According to the [[Pickaxe|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pickaxe is a freehand style of pipe characterized by a paneled, triangular bowl.<br />
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'''Pipe''': A tube with a small bowl at one end used for the smoking of tobacco.<br />
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'''P-Lip''': A type of pipe mouthpiece invented by Peterson of Dublin and relying on a small hole on the top of a stem rather than a hole at its end. Meant to reduce tongue bite by directing the flow of smoke away from the tongue.<br />
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'''Plug''': Whole leaf, pressed with moisture, becomes a plug, from which flakes can be sliced. Plug tobacco is prepared by slicing off and then rubbing out pieces of the block of tobacco.<br />
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'''Poker''': According to the [[Poker|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the poker is a straight pipe with a cylindrical, flat bottomed bowl designed so that the pipe will stand on its own.<br />
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'''Pot''': According to the [[Pot|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pot is a billiard with a shorter bowl, but not a shorter shank than a standard billiard.<br />
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'''Prilep''': A Sirdily variety of Turkish tobacco commonly grown in the region of the town of Prilep, which is located in the Independent Republic of Macedonia.<br />
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'''Prince''': According to the [[Prince|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the prince is a pipe shape characterized by a squat rounded bowl and along, usually slightly bent stem with a short shank. The pipe was named after Prince Albert, later King Edward VII, the Prince of Wales.<br />
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'''Quaint''': A pipe shape hallmarked, generally, by more than four panels, especially with a paneled shank as well.<br />
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'''Ramses''': A pipe shape created by Bo [[Nordh]] and later named by a visiting customer for its resemblance to the statue of Ramses II in Abu Simbel, Egypt. Characterized by a long, wide sloping shank which also serves as the foot of the pipe and a long, tapered bowl which rests almost vertically on the shank. Stems are generally partially bent.<br />
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[[File:Bo Nordh Ramses01.jpg|thumb|center|100px|A Nordh Ramses]]<br />
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'''Reaming''': Trimming back cake from the bowl of a tobacco pipe.<br />
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'''Reamer''': A tool used to trim pipe cake back to an acceptable level. These have been made in countless different forms, adjustable and non-adjustable, for well over a century. Some simply use a pipe knife or sandpaper to accomplish the same task.<br />
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'''Rhodesian''': A subject of great dispute. Unlikely to have been named for Cecil Rhodes, and more likely to have taken its name from Rhodesian tobacco, a Rhodesian is considered by some to be any bent bulldog, by others to be any bulldog with a round shank, and by others any bulldog shape with a greater bowl width than height. For each accepted definition of the word there is a pipe sold which contradicts it, and no consensus is likely.<br />
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'''Room Note''': The smell of a particular tobacco as it is being smoked. Easier to detect by those not smoking the blend, and a key component to the choice of a pipe tobacco blend especially for those who smoke in public environments. Simply put, how pleasing the smoke would be to a bystander.<br />
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'''Samsun''': A Turkish tobacco of the basibali variety with a heart-shaped leaf, grown near the town of Samsun, Turkey on the shores of the Black Sea. Low nicotine tobacco, but with strong flavor and dark color.<br />
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'''Samsun-Maden''': Also called Bafra for the village near Samsun, Samsun-Maden is a basibali Turkish tobacco characterized by leaves which are are small sized and ovalThe leaf faces are red to bright red. This strain can be smoked without blending. Nicotine content is often lower than 1% and sugar content is 9-12%. <br />
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'''Shank''': The portion of a stummel between the bowl and mouthpiece, and generally containing the mortise. The length of the pipe shank is one of the key variables in the shape of a pipe, as is it's shape, whether square, diamond, oval or round.<br />
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'''Shirazi''': Named for the ancient city of Shiraz in south-western Iran and claimed to be native to that country, Shirazi tobacco is thought to have reached Iran from the Americas in the mid 1500s. Once called ''Nicotiana Persica''.<br />
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'''Sirdily''': A category of Turkish basma subvarietals characterized by small, narrow, acutely pointed leaves.<br />
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'''Slot''': A slot is the wide opening at the end of the mouthpiece tapering into the airway of the pipe. Generally seen only on vulcanite and acrylic stems from the last century, the slot is funneled both to make the insertion of a pipe cleaner easier and to make for a smoother flow for the smoke.<br />
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'''Smyrna''': A type of Turkish tobacco with rich flavor, low nicotine, and cool smoke. It has a very aromatic nature and is often blended with Latakia to somewhat subdue this property. Primarily used as a condiment with pipe tobacco, but occasionally offered by itself. Also called Izmir.<br />
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'''Sokhoum''': A type of Turkish varietal of the Samsun basibali type which is deeply fermented. Grown in the mountains above the town of Sokhoum Kale (Sokhumi) in the Republic of Georgia.<br />
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'''Soppeng''': A type of Indonesian tobacco prepared much like a traditional cavendish but using palm sugar as the sweetener, and then fired. Primarily smoked in cigarettes but enjoyed as pipe tobacco also, Soppeng is sometimes flavored with cinnamon or other tastes during preparation.<br />
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'''Sphinx''': A shape created by Bo [[Nordh]] and characterized by a wide domed bowl front cut so as to show birdseye at the center with straight grain radiating out from that point, giving a sunburst pattern. A similar shape, the Mounted Sphinx, was created by [[Geiger Pipes|Love and Sara Geiger]], but was not created as a variation on the shape.<br />
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'''Spur''': A small protrusion at the bottom of traditional clay pipes to ensure a hot bowl does not burn the table. Frequently included in cutty pipes made even in briar and meerschaum in later decades as an ornamental element of the cutty shape. Seen only occasionally today.<br />
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[[File:Spur.jpg|thumb|center|100px|Clay Pipe Resting on Spur]]<br />
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'''Srintil''': A type of heavily fermented, air cured Indonesian tobacco grown in the Java region in the Temangung valley which grows at the top of a plant and by abnormality produces an extreme amount of resin, making it highly potent. Fermentation details are thought to be similar to perique, and in 1983 approximately 3 tons a year of Srintil were grown worldwide. Sometimes extracted in an aqueous solution for use as a flavoring agent.<br />
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'''Stummel''': German for stump, the stummel is a complete pipe minus only a stem and any final adornments, including the bowl, shank, and transition between the two.<br />
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'''Tambolaka''': An Indonesian tobacco grown in limestone heavy soil and after harvesting rolled into long sticks which are bound and stored for five years. Sold both as pipe tobacco and as a component of Indonesian cigars. Very high in nicotine with a tin note best described as pungent. <br />
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'''Tamp''': Using a tool or finger to compress the contents of the pipe bowl so as to bring unburnt tobacco into contact with the ember.<br />
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'''Tamper''': A tool used to tamp a pipe, generally with a flat end designed for that purpose and a handle. A tamper can be as simple as a piece of dowel or as ornate as the buyer may wish. While it seems inconsequential, tamping is important both for the care of the pipe and the coolness of the smoke.<br />
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'''Tenon''': The tenon is the smaller diameter protrusion at the end of a pipe stem which holds the stem to the stummel. It takes its name from one of the oldest joints in woodworking, the mortise and tenon joint. Over the last two centuries tenons have been made separately with bone screws, cut integrally into a vulcanite stem to fit a cut mortise in the stummel, made from threaded aluminum or plastic, made from aluminum to fit a pre-drilled mortise so as to hold a filter, made from delrin and placed into a drilled hole in the stem, and in other fashions as well. <br />
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'''Tin Note''': As opposed to the aroma of burning tobacco, the tin note is the scent which can be smelled from the unsmoked tobacco when opened, and is considered a good way to begin to understand a new blend and determine to some degree its components and their relative strength.<br />
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'''Trebizond''': No known as Trabzon, Trebizond is grown in Turkey at the southeast shores of the Black Sea. A basibali varietal resembling Samsun, but coarser and stronger.<br />
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'''Turkish''': A term used to refer not only to tobaccos grown in modern day Turkey, but rather to any tobacco grown under the Ottoman Empire, particularly at the height of its power under Suleiman the Magnificent. As a result, while the town of Yenidje, for example, would today be in Greece, yenidje tobacco is still classified as Turkish.<br />
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'''Twist''': A form of tobacco, also known as rope tobacco, which is spun into a roll, largely by hand, rather than being pressed into flakes. One of the oldest forms of smoking tobacco.<br />
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'''Ukulele''': A pipe shape first designed by [[Sixten Ivarsson]] for the [[Pibe-Dan]] shop in the 1950s and named ukulele, some credit Ed [[Burak]] for the design which he considered a bulldog. A ukulele is characterized by a domed, wide bowl and a wide oval shank with a flat bowl bottom, according to the [[Ukulele|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''VaPer''': A portmanteau of Virginia and Perique, vaper is simply the contraction used to refer to blends primarily composed of these two types of tobacco. <br />
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'''Vestpocket''': A pipe characterized by its ability to fit in a vest pocket, notable for its stem, which swivels over the bowl for carrying and swings out for use, according to the [[Vestpocket|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts]]. Generally all corners on the pipe are rounded to make it easier to remove from a pocket.<br />
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'''Virginia''': More appropriately called Brightleaf tobacco, Virginia is used to refer to milder tobacco leaf, lighter in color, which is grown in infertile, sandy soil, largely in North Carolina and Virginia, and which was first grown in approximately 1839. <br />
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'''Volcano''': A pipe shape characterized by a conical bowl narrowing towards the top, usually with a rounded base and a bent shank and saddle stem, according to the [[Volcano|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts]].<br />
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'''Vulcanite''': Hard black vulcanized rubber used for making pipe stems. Made from rubber containing up to 30% sulfur, vulcanite is soft on the teeth but prone to turning brownish yellow and taking on a sulfur smell on exposure to sunlight. This process is called oxidation.<br />
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'''White Burley''': First grown in Brown County, Ohio in 1865 by George Webb, White Burley is the result of planting Red Burley seeds purchased from Kentucky in the different soil of Ohio, which resulted in a mutation of whitish, sickly looking plants. White Burley soon became the chief ingredient in chewing tobacco, American pipe tobacco, and American-style cigarettes. As Red Burley no longer exists, White Burley is simply referred to as Burley today.<br />
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'''Xanthi''': Sometimes spelled Xanthe, this grade of Basma tobacco is named for a city in the Thrace region of northeastern Greece, first led into prosperity around 1715 due to the quality of its highly aromatic tobacco. The scientific name of the leaf is ''Nicotiana tabacum'' L. cv Xanthi.<br />
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== Y ==<br />
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'''Yacht''': Another name for the Zulu pipe shape, with a canted dublin bowl, oval shank and 1/8 bent stem. Among others, Kaywoodie used the term Yacht for pipes of this shape.<br />
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'''Yenidje''': Named for the town of Yenidje, Thrace, today called Genisea, Greece, Yenidje is also called Yenice, Jenidze, Yenidge, and Yeniji, and is a variety of Yaka tobacco, the best regarded form of Xanthi. Yenidje was an Ottoman tobacco production center until 1843 when the town burned and the growers moved up the slopes of the Rhodope Mountain range. Those slopes, called the Yaka, were made of a red clay loam mixed with small flint stones giving rise to short, low-yielding plants of the basma type, meaning (in this usage) that the leaves are small, almost round and with no free stem. The leaf burns badly on its own and was traditionally mixed with Bafra to cure this issue.<br />
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== Z ==<br />
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'''Zulu''': A shape of smoking pipe hallmarked by a canted dublin style bowl, an oval shank and a 1/8th bent stem. Also referred to as a Woodstock or a Yacht.<br />
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'''Zeppelin''': A name often used to refer to a cigar-shaped pipe of briar with a separate mouthpiece often of vulcanite, usually with a metal cap at the end to hold in the tobacco. Also called a Torpedo.<br />
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'''Acorn''': A pipe shape characterized by a conical shape sometimes extending to a point or near point below the shank or else with a bent shank flowing into the "point" of the acorn shape. Distinguishable from a dublin by a wider and more rounded rim in most cases. <br />
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'''Acrylic''': In pipe parlance, acrylic stems are those made of polymers of acrylic acid or acrylates, most often polymethyl methacrylate, also called acrylic glass. Some prefer this material for pipe stems due to the lack of oxidation, while others prefer a traditional vulcanite stem due to softness.<br />
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'''Aging''': The term used to describe the tendency of pipe tobacco to improve over time through either aerobic or anaerobic fermentation. The term is used interchangeably to describe increased sweetness on the part of Virginias, mellowing on the part of Latakia, or a generally more complete melding of the blend. The effect is often simulated through the use of heat or pressure.<br />
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'''Agonya''': A type of Turkish tobacco of a kabakolak leaf type, meaning it has distinct stems with "wings" on the leaf stems, Agonya was originally grown in the foothills below Xanthi, but is now grown south of the Sea of Marmara, in the region east of Kanakhale, Turkey.<br />
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'''Air-cured''': Air-cured tobacco is hung in well-ventilated barns immediately after plants are cut or leaves pulled from the field and allowed to dry for a period of one to two months. During this process the yellow colors of the leaf turn to varying shades of brown, until they are ready to be fermented and processed. Burley is an air-cured tobacco.<br />
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'''Amber''': Prior to the wide adoption of vulcanite, first invented in 1844 by Charles Goodyear, as a substance for pipe stem making, by far the most common form of pipe stem was one carved from amber. The stems were carved by hand from fossilized tree resin, at which point they could be bent only after heating in oil and over an alcohol flame. While amber is a beautiful natural material which comes in a large variety of colors, the stems are exceedingly brittle and hard on the teeth. Amber stems are still made only in very rare cases.<br />
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'''Apple''': According to the [[Apple|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the classic apple shape is a rounded version of the billiard, and may be had in either bent or straight shanked and tapered and saddle stemmed versions. Popular variations of this shape include the Prince and Author.<br />
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'''Aromatic''': A type of tobacco which is either cased or top flavored in order to produce a taste and room note other than the tobacco's natural smell, whether simply sugar or molasses, whiskey or other alcohols, or many other flavorings. Used as a major category for pipe tobaccos, along with non-aromatic and latakia based blends.<br />
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'''Army Mount''': Also called a "military bit", a pipe with an army mount stem is designed to permit the stem to be removed from the pipe while hot by inclusion of a shank cap, often made of silver, to reinforce the briar. A more elaborate variation of the army mount is the spigot. According to most likely mythological history, the first army mount was invented when a World War One soldier fixed a broken pipe shank by inserting a spent rifle casing into it and piercing a hole for the stem. <br />
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'''Author''': According to the [[Author|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the Author is a beefed-up prince, featuring a flattened ball-shaped bowl and a heavy 1/8 to 1/4 bent stem.<br />
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== B ==<br />
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'''Bafra''': Bafra is a district and village in the Samsun province of Turkey, and the name sometimes given to the Samsun-Maden strain of tobacco, which is a smaller basibali Turkish varietal with low nicotine and a rich flavor.<br />
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'''Ball''': The ball shape, also referred to as a tomato, is described by the [[Author|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], is very similar to an author but with a spherical bowl and thinner shank. According to Mr. Burney the ball generally features a tapered stem with a 1/4 to 1/2 bent.<br />
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'''Ballerina''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and resembling a ballet dancer's foot while en pointe, curving from the heel at the front of the bowl to the toe at the meeting of bowl and shank, itself characterized by a full enough bend to permit the pipe to stand on its own. <br />
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'''Bakelite''': A trade name for Polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride. Harder than vulcanite and softer than acrylic, bakelite stems do not oxidize. Largely seen in shades of white and amber yellow.<br />
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'''Basma''': 1. The group of Turkish small-leaf varietals in which the stem of the leaf does not extend beyond the leaf at the main stalk 2. The larger leaves primed from the middle of any variety of Turkish tobacco plant 3. A long, rectangular bale-style of packing cured Turkish leaf, approximately 50-60 pounds, of any variety.<br />
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'''Bead''': Now generally represented by two straight lines around the bowl of a bulldog or rhodesian, a bead is one of only three shapes which can be produced on a lathe, along with a flat and a cove. A bead is a rounded projection from the wood, and in the case of pipes today most beads are cut as inset beads, in that the surrounding wood is level with the top of the bead. Older pipes occasionally featured intricately carved beads. Today, however, rather than cutting a true bead the projection is left flat and only signified by the lines around it.<br />
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'''Bent Pipe''': A generic term used to refer to any pipe where the shank is not a straight horizontal line, regardless of the nature or amount of the shank bend.<br />
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'''Billiard''': The [[Billiard|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] describe a billiard as a pipe shape having a cylindrical bowl and tobacco chamber with a shank about the same length as the height of the bowl. Variations on the billiard shape include the pot and chimney.<br />
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'''Basibali''': A family of Turkish tobaccos characterized by a distinct stem separating the leaf from the stalk. Sometimes referred to as Bashi Bagli.<br />
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'''Bit''': A less than precise term, usually used to refer to the entirety of the stem or mouthpiece on a pipe, but occasionally also used to refer to the bite zone.<br />
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'''Bite Zone''': The last approximately three quarters of an inch of the mouthpiece or stem of a tobacco pipe, including the button.<br />
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'''Bloom''': Also referred to as plume, bloom is a fine white powder which appears on well aged tobacco on occasion, and despite the tendency to confuse it with mold is actually a good sign that the leaf is maturing well. Bloom is caused by the crystallization of sugars on the surface of the tobacco leaf. <br />
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'''Blowfish''': Per the [[Blowfish|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the blowfish is a pipe shape characterized by an asymmetrical flattened ball for a bowl, a bent stem blending into the body, and a combination of birdseye grain on the large panels and straight grain between.<br />
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'''Brandy''': Also referred to as a bent brandy or brandyglass, a pipe shape which resembles the glassware for which it is named. According to the [[Brandy|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pipe is characterized by a rounded base tapering up to a smaller rim, often in a 1/4 bent pipe.<br />
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'''Briar''': Actually a mistranslation of the French bruyère, briar among pipe smokers refers to the wood of the ''erica arborea'', a species of flowering plant in the heather family. After 30 to 60 years of growing time, the football sized plants are harvested, cooked, dried for several months, and further processed before they are made into pipes. <br />
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'''Bullcap''': According to the [[Bullcap|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the bullcap is a squat straight rhodesian with a large bowl diameter.<br />
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'''Bulldog''': According to the [[Bulldog|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the classic bulldog has a tapered stem, diamond shank and slightly forward canted bowl shaped someone like two cones joined at the bases with the top cone cut off. The pipe is traditionally adorned with a bead around the bowl. <br />
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'''Bullmoose''': According to the [[Bullcap|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a bullmoose is a squat rhodesian with a very heavy 1/4 bent stem.<br />
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'''Burley''': A tobacco of light-colored variety grown primarily in Kentucky and Tennessee, the bulk of burley tobacco produced in the United States is used for cigarette production. All burley today is of the white burley variety, and is often sweetened due to the low natural sugars present in the leaf. Most aromatics use a base of burley due to its ready ability to absorb flavors. While some claim burley does not age, it does improve with time. However, this takes time measured in the several decades at least.<br />
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'''Button''': The button is the raised portion at the end of a pipe mouthpiece or stem intended to permit the teeth purchase to hold the pipe.<br />
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'''Cake''': Cake refers to the buildup of residual carbon that forms in the bowl of a pipe. Most recommend trimming back the buildup to keep it at roughly the width of a dime in a briar pipe in order to create a protective layer which cools the pipe and reduces moisture. Cake is frowned upon in meerschaums, and the subject of much debate among corn cob pipe smokers.<br />
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'''Calabash''': According to the [[Calabash|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the calabash is a solid wood interpretation of the gourd calabash with a tapered bowl flared at the rim and a dome shaped top. The tobacco chamber is usually tapered and the pipe 3/4 bent, but there are variations.<br />
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'''Canadian''': According to the [[Canadian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the canadian is a long-shanked billiard with an oval shank and a tapered bit. The shank is roughly twice as long as the height of the bowl. Variations on this shape include the lumbermand, lovat and liverpool.<br />
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'''Casing''': Whether sprayed with or soaked in a sauce, casing refers to the addition of flavoring, sugar or the like prior to the finishing of the tobacco, as opposed to top-flavouring, which is added by spraying the finished blend with scents and flavours.<br />
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'''Cavendish''': There are two forms of Cavendish, which is more a process of curing and a method of cutting tobacco than a type of it. Common cavendish is made when tobacco leaves are pressed into a cake about an inch thick and heated before being allowed to ferment, resulting in a mild and sweet tobacco. Flavoring is often added before the leaves are pressed. English Cavendish uses a dark flue or fire cured Virginia , which is steamed and then stored under pressure to permit it to cure and ferment for several days or weeks.<br />
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'''Cherrywood''': According to the [[Cherrywood|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a cherrywood is a bent poker. The name cherrywood derives from the pipe shape's origin as a copy of the cherry wood pipes made by Eugène-Léon Ropp and others in mid-19th century France.<br />
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'''Churchwarden''': According to the [[Churchwarden|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the churchwarden is the only pipe defined by the shape of its stem, rather than its bowl. Whether bent or straight, the stem on a churchwarden is 9 to 18 inches long, but not so long as to make lighting the pipe while holding it in the mouth impossible.<br />
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'''Cigar Leaf''': A generic term used to describe a great many different types of leaf primarily used in cigars which are also included in pipe tobacco. Connecticut Broadleaf and Cuban-Seed Varietals are frequently used among others to add flavor to a blend.<br />
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'''Cob''': The common parlance for a corn cob pipe, which in its loosest definition is simply any pipe with a bowl made from a dried and drilled corncob. Traditionally fitted with river cane stems, most modern cobs have wood shanks and plastic bits. <br />
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'''Cumberland''': Called brindle by Dunhill and others, cumberland is a form of vulcanite made with brown and red pigment added to the rubber to give it a marble like appearance.<br />
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'''Cut''': Pipe tobacco may be cut as shag, ribbon, flake, plug, rope, discs, coins, or in other forms. These terms simply refer to the manner in which the finished product is reduced into a small enough size to consume. The most common cut is ribbon cut.<br />
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'''Cutty''': According to the [[Cutty|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a cutty has a very canted tulip shaped bowl and a slightly bent stem with a tapered bit. The word cutty simply means "cut shorter". Cutty pipes occasionally and traditionally sport a "spur", or a small foot protruding from the base of the bowl.<br />
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'''Czech Tool''': Also called a 3-way pipe tool, a combined tamper, shank clearing tool and dottle spoon on a single rotating rivet. Called a Czech tool for the original country of manufacture of most of the tools, they are largely Chinese made today.<br />
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'''Delayed Gratification Technique''': Or DGT, the habit of some pipe smokers to light a pipe and leave it to sit for hours or even days before completing the smoke. Many blends gain a far different taste profile from this technique which some find pleasant.<br />
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'''Delrin''': A brand name for polyoxymethylne or POM, also called acetal, polyacetal, or polyformaldehyde, delrin is a thermoplastic used by pipe makers as a material for non-integral stem tenons, and for screw-in tenons for meerschaum push/pull connections. Delrin is appreciated as a "self-lubricating" material, meaning that it has a low drag coefficient to interfere with the smooth passage of smoke, and for the ease of reliance on separate stems and tenons.<br />
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'''Devil Anse''': The name of a notorious West Virginia Confederate veteran suspected of murdering Asa McCoy after the war ended and starting the infamous Hatfield/McCoy feud. Devil Anse Hatfield was portrayed in a recent television series by Kevin Costner, who, despite the lack of any historical support, smoked a nosewarmer cutty in the role, now popular and given the name of the character. <br />
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'''Diplomat''': According to the [[Diplomat|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a diplomat is a pipe shape similar to a prince but a bit larger generally and with an oval shank and stem.<br />
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'''Djebel''': Sometimes referred to as Xanthi-Djebel, Dejebel tobacco is grown closer to the ridge, or djebel, of the Rhodope mountains above Xanthi. While the leaf is probably of the same strain as Yaka leaf, it is much less highly regarded.<br />
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'''Don''': A pipe shape, according to the [[Duke/Don|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], similar to a Duke but with a rudimentary shank and a vulcanite bit. Sometimes, such as by [[Peterson]], called a tankard.<br />
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'''Dottle''': The leftover plug of unburnt tobacco and ash left in the heel of a pipe bowl after smoking. Dottle is avoided by smokers as a waste of tobacco and occasionally souring of the bowl, but is sometimes unavoidable.<br />
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'''Drama''': A sweet type of tobacco with a natural olive oil fragrance grown on the Southern slopes and foothills of the Rhodope Mountains in Greek Eastern Macedonia, and taking its name from the town of the same name. A kabakolak variety, meaning that the leaf has a distinct separate stem similar to basibali, but with "wings" on its leaf stems.<br />
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'''Draught Hole''': Also Draft Hole, the point at which the airway enters the bowl of the pipe, preferably in the center back of the heel to avoid leaving excessive dottle.<br />
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'''Dubec''': 1. The smaller leaves from the upper portion of any variety of Turkish tobacco plant 2. A round package of cured Turkish leaf of any variety, approximately 25-30 pounds in weight.<br />
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'''Dublin''': According to the [[Dublin|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the dublin is a pipe shape with the same proportions as a billiard but with a conical bowl and tapered combustion chamber.<br />
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'''Duke''': A [[Dunhill]] pipe shape that features a cylindrical bowl with no shank, a bone or vulcanite stem and a poker-type canted bottom, according to the [[Duke/Don|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''Ebonite''': The brand name for a very hard rubber first created by Charles Goodyear by vulcanizing rubber for prolonged periods, Ebonite was named for its intended purpose, a replacment for ebony. Commonly referred to as vulcanite in pipe parlance, vulcanite is with acrylic one of the two most popular materials from which stems are made.<br />
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'''Egg''': According to the [[Egg|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the egg is usually but not always a bent pipe with a bowl shaped like an egg, which can be thought of as an elongated apple shape.<br />
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'''Elephant's Foot''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and characterized by straight grained side panels and wide front and back domed surfaces on the bowl exhibiting birdseye. <br />
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'''English''': Aside from the obvious geographical uses, the word "English" is often used among pipe smokers to refer to blends with latakia in them. In reality, however, the term only developed to differentiate blends made in the United Kingdom, especially in the days of the now defunct Tobacco Purity Laws, which prohibited humectants and most flavorings from being added to the tobacco. A more precise term is "latakia based".<br />
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'''English Cavendish''': The name commonly used to refer to dark flue-cured or fire-cured Virginia tobacco which is steamed and then pressed over a period of several days to weeks. It is not flavored as other forms of Cavendish generally are. Rattray's ''Dark Fragrant'' is one example of an available English Cavendish blend. <br />
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'''Eskimo''': According to the [[Ukulele|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a pipe shape by Tom Eltang created as a variation on Ed Burak's bulldog design and sporting a smooth, flat stem and shank with a canted, domed bowl.<br />
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'''Estate Pipe''': A previously owned pipe, whether smoked or un-smoked.<br />
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'''Fire Cured''': Unlike flue cured tobacco, which is cured by indirect heat without smoke, fire cured tobacco is cured with smoke, in the tobacco equivalent of barbecuing. Dark Fired Kentucky and Latakia are both fire cured, and the process results in lower sugars and higher nicotine in the leaf.<br />
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'''Flake''': Flake tobacco is made by slicing thin sheets off of a cube, which in turn is formed by pressing whole tobacco leaves into a compressed form, usually under significant pressure for long periods of time. Flake tobacco may be sold in slices, or fully or partially broken or rubbed out.<br />
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'''Flue Cured''': Flue cured tobacco is cured by heat without smoke, generally by being hung from sticks in a barn exposed to heat from external fires through flues. Traditionally the method for curing brightleaf tobacco, this method results in sweeter leaf with lower nicotine.<br />
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'''Foot''': The bottom of the outside of the bowl, as opposed to the heel, which is the bottom of the inside of the bowl.<br />
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'''Freehand''': Not to be confused with the fixed freehand shapes made by some companies, a true freehand shape is defined by the pipemaker's choice to let the grain of the briar shape the pipe, rather than forcing the pipe into a predetermined shape, according to the [[Freehand|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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== G ==<br />
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'''Gesteckpfeife''': Literally "pipe in parts", a traditional European pipe made up of several interconnecting parts, usually held together with cork tenons. Bowls can be meerschaum, briar, or porcelain, commonly.<br />
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'''Ghost''': A ghost is the taste or smell of a previously smoked tobacco remaining in a pipe and coloring the taste of a different blend smoked in the same pipe. Generally the cause of tar in the shank, but usually blamed on cake.<br />
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'''Gourd Calabash''': According to the [[Gourd Calabash|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a gourd calabash is a pipe made from a calabash gourd which is dried and the seeds removed, and then fitted with a stem and meerschaum bowl cap. The driest and smoothest of all pipes.<br />
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'''Hand''': A hand is a bundle of tobacco tied at the end and hung from the knot for curing purposes.<br />
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'''Hawkbill''': According to the [[Hawkbill|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the hawkbill is a pipe shape characterized by an enlarged ball or tomato style with a long, tapering bent shank. The premiere example is the Castello 84.j<br />
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'''Heel''': The heel is the bottom of the combustion chamber, the inside of the bowl.<br />
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'''Horn''': According to the [[Horn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the horn is a graceful freehand shape varying from a straight tapering tube to a more standard bent pipe, but in all cases with a smooth tapering from bowl to shank and no abrupt transitions.<br />
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'''Hungarian''': More commonly referred to as an Oom Paul, the Hungarian is a fully bent billiard named for former South African President Paulus Kruger, according to the [[Oom Paul/Hungarian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''Intricate Curve''': In pipemaking, a term sometimes used to describe the transition from the rear wall of the bowl to the top of the shank.<br />
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'''Izmir''': A type of Turkish tobacco with rich flavor, low nicotine, and cool smoke. It has a very aromatic nature and is often blended with Latakia to somewhat subdue this property. Primarily used as a condiment with pipe tobacco, but occasionally offered by itself. Also called Smyrna.<br />
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'''Jar''': Tobacco jars have been used for nearly three hundred years as the predominant method for storage of pipe tobacco, whether made from tin, wood, pewter, porcelain, majolica or bisque. By far the most common choice is the simple Ball jar or Mason jar.<br />
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'''Jatim''': A form of Indonesian tobacco and the abbreviated name of the province of East Java (Jawa Timur), where the tobacco is grown.<br />
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'''Kabakolak''': A family of Turkish tobacco strains similar to Basibali, but with wings on their leaf stems in addition to distinct stems.<br />
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'''Katerini''': A Turkish varietal of the Samsun basibali type, with a milder, sweeter leaf. Grown southwest of Thessaloniki in the Greek province of Macedonia.<br />
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'''Kentucky''': Dark-Fired Kentucky is a type of pipe tobacco made from burley which is cured over a fire and flavored by its smoke.<br />
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'''Latakia''': Named for the principal port city of Syria, latakia is not a specific plant varietal, but rather one of a number of Turkish varietals which are fire cured over a stone pine or oak wood fire, giving it a smoky flavor. Most latakia, despite the name, is now grown in Cyprus, not Syria, and camel dung has nothing to do with the process of its creation.<br />
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'''Lovat''': A pipe shape, according to the [[Lovat|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], which is essentially a Canadian but with a round shank instead of oval and a saddle stem.<br />
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'''Lucite''': Lucite is a trade name for acrylic, or polyacrylate, which is derived from natural gas. It is a composition of Methyl Methacrylate and Poly Methyl Methacrylate resin. Lucite is used for pipe stems due to its lack of oxidation, but is criticized for a harder feel on the teeth.<br />
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'''Lületaşi''': A Turkish word literally meaning sea foam and used to refer to meerschaum in that country.<br />
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'''Macedonia''': 1. A province of north-central Greece, west of Thrace, which includes the sea port of Thessaloniki (Salonika) and the Katerini tobacco region 2. A recently independent republic, formerly part of Soviet Yugoslavia, located immediately north of the Greek province of Macedonia, and the source of Prilep tobacco.<br />
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'''Mahale''': A Turkish tobacco with a basma leaf type grown downslope from Xanthi.<br />
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'''Maryland''': An extremely mild tobacco used in a number of American tobacco blends, especially to add a nutty flavor to Burley. Sadly the state of Maryland now pays farmers not to grow tobacco.<br />
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'''Meerschaum''': A mineral hydrous magnesium silicate called sepiolite, primarily found in Turkey near Eskisehr, which is used in the making of tobacco pipes. The word means "seafoam".<br />
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'''Melding''': The term used to refer to a tobacco blend's property to acquire a single homogeneous taste over time, as a result of aging in an airtight container.<br />
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'''Mellowing''': Particularly used in referring to Latakia's tendency to be less overpowering after some aging, the term is sometimes used to refer to a general tendency of tobacco to become more smooth with age.<br />
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'''Mortise''': A mortise is at its most basic a hole cut or drilled to accept a smaller tenon and make a joint. The joint has been used in woodworking for thousands of years, and in pipe construction generally appears as a hole drilled larger than the airway and at the same depth as the stem tenon. Variations, however, are unlimited.<br />
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'''Mouthpiece''': A term used interchangeably with stem and to a lesser degree bit, the mouthpiece is the portion of the pipe meant to be placed in the smoker's mouth, and includes the entire pipe from the end of the shank to the slot. Often made from vulcanite or lucite/acrylic.<br />
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'''Nautilus''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and named for its obvious resemblance to the shell of a nautilus, resulting in an airway passing through a shank curved in a loop and pierced in the center to suggest the closed portion of the shell, a bowl shaped like the long open mouth of the shell, and a foot curving in a near half circle beneath.<br />
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'''Nail''': The simplest form of pipe tool is the venerable Pipe Nail, which generally looks much like its namesake, one end flat to tamp with and another coming to a point or spoon for clearing ash and tar.<br />
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'''Nomenclature''': A general term used to refer to the stamping on a pipe in its entirety, including brand names, models, year and shape codes and the like.<br />
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'''Oliphant''': A traditional name for a hunter's horn made from an elephant tusk, the oliphant shape was first designed by [[Sixten Ivarsson]] for the [[Pibe-Dan]] shop in the late 1950s. According to the [[Horn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]]The shape is a variation of the horn meant to resemble the tusk of an elephant, and with a flat curve and even and gradual tapering throughout.<br />
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'''Oom Paul''': A shape name which actually means Uncle Paul in Dutch, Oom Paul pipes are full bent billiards, according to the [[Oom Paul/Hungarian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]]. The name comes from the nickname for Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, president of the South African Republic from 1883 to 1900 and the face of the Boer cause against Britain during the Second Boer War of 1899 to 1902. Also called a Hungarian.<br />
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'''Opera Pipe''': A shape which the [[Oval|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] refer to as an "Oval" or Pocket pipe, the opera pipe is a billiard with a bowl "squashed" into an oval, with the long side of the oval parallel with the shank and stem. In fact, "opera" pipe is a misnomer. The original name of the pipe was the au pair pipe, as it gained popularity with domestic workers unable to smoke around children.<br />
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'''Oriental''': Used interchangeably with "Turkish" to refer to sun cured condimental tobaccos grown in the Eastern Mediterranean. This category of tobaccos includes Yenidje, Smyrna, Samsun, Izmir, Drama, Xanthe, and often Basma, which is not a particular leaf but a generic Turkish blend, and all that pipe tobacco blenders are often able to find due to the purchase of most oriental varietals by cigarette manufacturers.<br />
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'''Panel Billiard''': According to the [[Panel Billiard|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the Panelled Billiard, also called a foursquare, is a basic billiard shape with flat, or panelled, sides. The classic panel has four flat sides and a round shank.<br />
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'''Pear''': More commonly called an acorn today, according to the [[Pear/Accorn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] the pear is a sort of softened dublin shape, with a conical bowl and tobacco chamber but with all sharp edges rounded.<br />
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'''Perique''': Mistakenly believed to be a nickname for Pierre Chenet and actually a French mispronunciation of an American slang word for a part of the anatomy, perique is a type of tobacco grown only in St. James Parish, Louisiana, sauced and kept under massive pressure in barrels until it turns nearly black. Perique has flavors of spice and plum, and is prized as the truffle of pipe tobaccos.<br />
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'''Pickaxe''': According to the [[Pickaxe|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pickaxe is a freehand style of pipe characterized by a paneled, triangular bowl.<br />
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'''Pipe''': A tube with a small bowl at one end used for the smoking of tobacco.<br />
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'''P-Lip''': A type of pipe mouthpiece invented by Peterson of Dublin and relying on a small hole on the top of a stem rather than a hole at its end. Meant to reduce tongue bite by directing the flow of smoke away from the tongue.<br />
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'''Plug''': Whole leaf, pressed with moisture, becomes a plug, from which flakes can be sliced. Plug tobacco is prepared by slicing off and then rubbing out pieces of the block of tobacco.<br />
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'''Poker''': According to the [[Poker|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the poker is a straight pipe with a cylindrical, flat bottomed bowl designed so that the pipe will stand on its own.<br />
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'''Pot''': According to the [[Pot|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pot is a billiard with a shorter bowl, but not a shorter shank than a standard billiard.<br />
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'''Prilep''': A Sirdily variety of Turkish tobacco commonly grown in the region of the town of Prilep, which is located in the Independent Republic of Macedonia.<br />
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'''Prince''': According to the [[Prince|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the prince is a pipe shape characterized by a squat rounded bowl and along, usually slightly bent stem with a short shank. The pipe was named after Prince Albert, later King Edward VII, the Prince of Wales.<br />
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'''Quaint''': A pipe shape hallmarked, generally, by more than four panels, especially with a paneled shank as well.<br />
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'''Ramses''': A pipe shape created by Bo [[Nordh]] and later named by a visiting customer for its resemblance to the statue of Ramses II in Abu Simbel, Egypt. Characterized by a long, wide sloping shank which also serves as the foot of the pipe and a long, tapered bowl which rests almost vertically on the shank. Stems are generally partially bent.<br />
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[[File:Bo Nordh Ramses01.jpg|thumb|center|100px|A Nordh Ramses]]<br />
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'''Reaming''': Trimming back cake from the bowl of a tobacco pipe.<br />
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'''Reamer''': A tool used to trim pipe cake back to an acceptable level. These have been made in countless different forms, adjustable and non-adjustable, for well over a century. Some simply use a pipe knife or sandpaper to accomplish the same task.<br />
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'''Rhodesian''': A subject of great dispute. Unlikely to have been named for Cecil Rhodes, and more likely to have taken its name from Rhodesian tobacco, a Rhodesian is considered by some to be any bent bulldog, by others to be any bulldog with a round shank, and by others any bulldog shape with a greater bowl width than height. For each accepted definition of the word there is a pipe sold which contradicts it, and no consensus is likely.<br />
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'''Room Note''': The smell of a particular tobacco as it is being smoked. Easier to detect by those not smoking the blend, and a key component to the choice of a pipe tobacco blend especially for those who smoke in public environments. Simply put, how pleasing the smoke would be to a bystander.<br />
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'''Samsun''': A Turkish tobacco of the basibali variety with a heart-shaped leaf, grown near the town of Samsun, Turkey on the shores of the Black Sea. Low nicotine tobacco, but with strong flavor and dark color.<br />
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'''Samsun-Maden''': Also called Bafra for the village near Samsun, Samsun-Maden is a basibali Turkish tobacco characterized by leaves which are are small sized and ovalThe leaf faces are red to bright red. This strain can be smoked without blending. Nicotine content is often lower than 1% and sugar content is 9-12%. <br />
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'''Shank''': The portion of a stummel between the bowl and mouthpiece, and generally containing the mortise. The length of the pipe shank is one of the key variables in the shape of a pipe, as is it's shape, whether square, diamond, oval or round.<br />
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'''Shirazi''': Named for the ancient city of Shiraz in south-western Iran and claimed to be native to that country, Shirazi tobacco is thought to have reached Iran from the Americas in the mid 1500s. Once called ''Nicotiana Persica''.<br />
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'''Sirdily''': A category of Turkish basma subvarietals characterized by small, narrow, acutely pointed leaves.<br />
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'''Slot''': A slot is the wide opening at the end of the mouthpiece tapering into the airway of the pipe. Generally seen only on vulcanite and acrylic stems from the last century, the slot is funneled both to make the insertion of a pipe cleaner easier and to make for a smoother flow for the smoke.<br />
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'''Smyrna''': A type of Turkish tobacco with rich flavor, low nicotine, and cool smoke. It has a very aromatic nature and is often blended with Latakia to somewhat subdue this property. Primarily used as a condiment with pipe tobacco, but occasionally offered by itself. Also called Izmir.<br />
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'''Sokhoum''': A type of Turkish varietal of the Samsun basibali type which is deeply fermented. Grown in the mountains above the town of Sokhoum Kale (Sokhumi) in the Republic of Georgia.<br />
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'''Soppeng''': A type of Indonesian tobacco prepared much like a traditional cavendish but using palm sugar as the sweetener, and then fired. Primarily smoked in cigarettes but enjoyed as pipe tobacco also, Soppeng is sometimes flavored with cinnamon or other tastes during preparation.<br />
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'''Sphinx''': A shape created by Bo [[Nordh]] and characterized by a wide domed bowl front cut so as to show birdseye at the center with straight grain radiating out from that point, giving a sunburst pattern. A similar shape, the Mounted Sphinx, was created by [[Geiger Pipes|Love and Sara Geiger]], but was not created as a variation on the shape.<br />
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'''Spur''': A small protrusion at the bottom of traditional clay pipes to ensure a hot bowl does not burn the table. Frequently included in cutty pipes made even in briar and meerschaum in later decades as an ornamental element of the cutty shape. Seen only occasionally today.<br />
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[[File:Spur.jpg|thumb|center|100px|Clay Pipe Resting on Spur]]<br />
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'''Srintil''': A type of heavily fermented, air cured Indonesian tobacco grown in the Java region in the Temangung valley which grows at the top of a plant and by abnormality produces an extreme amount of resin, making it highly potent. Fermentation details are thought to be similar to perique, and in 1983 approximately 3 tons a year of Srintil were grown worldwide. Sometimes extracted in an aqueous solution for use as a flavoring agent.<br />
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'''Stummel''': German for stump, the stummel is a complete pipe minus only a stem and any final adornments, including the bowl, shank, and transition between the two.<br />
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'''Tambolaka''': An Indonesian tobacco grown in limestone heavy soil and after harvesting rolled into long sticks which are bound and stored for five years. Sold both as pipe tobacco and as a component of Indonesian cigars. Very high in nicotine with a tin note best described as pungent. <br />
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'''Tamp''': Using a tool or finger to compress the contents of the pipe bowl so as to bring unburnt tobacco into contact with the ember.<br />
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'''Tamper''': A tool used to tamp a pipe, generally with a flat end designed for that purpose and a handle. A tamper can be as simple as a piece of dowel or as ornate as the buyer may wish. While it seems inconsequential, tamping is important both for the care of the pipe and the coolness of the smoke.<br />
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'''Tenon''': The tenon is the smaller diameter protrusion at the end of a pipe stem which holds the stem to the stummel. It takes its name from one of the oldest joints in woodworking, the mortise and tenon joint. Over the last two centuries tenons have been made separately with bone screws, cut integrally into a vulcanite stem to fit a cut mortise in the stummel, made from threaded aluminum or plastic, made from aluminum to fit a pre-drilled mortise so as to hold a filter, made from delrin and placed into a drilled hole in the stem, and in other fashions as well. <br />
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'''Tin Note''': As opposed to the aroma of burning tobacco, the tin note is the scent which can be smelled from the unsmoked tobacco when opened, and is considered a good way to begin to understand a new blend and determine to some degree its components and their relative strength.<br />
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'''Trebizond''': No known as Trabzon, Trebizond is grown in Turkey at the southeast shores of the Black Sea. A basibali varietal resembling Samsun, but coarser and stronger.<br />
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'''Turkish''': A term used to refer not only to tobaccos grown in modern day Turkey, but rather to any tobacco grown under the Ottoman Empire, particularly at the height of its power under Suleiman the Magnificent. As a result, while the town of Yenidje, for example, would today be in Greece, yenidje tobacco is still classified as Turkish.<br />
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'''Twist''': A form of tobacco, also known as rope tobacco, which is spun into a roll, largely by hand, rather than being pressed into flakes. One of the oldest forms of smoking tobacco.<br />
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'''Ukulele''': A pipe shape first designed by [[Sixten Ivarsson]] for the [[Pibe-Dan]] shop in the 1950s and named ukulele, some credit Ed [[Burak]] for the design which he considered a bulldog. A ukulele is characterized by a domed, wide bowl and a wide oval shank with a flat bowl bottom, according to the [[Ukulele|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''VaPer''': A portmanteau of Virginia and Perique, vaper is simply the contraction used to refer to blends primarily composed of these two types of tobacco. <br />
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'''Vestpocket''': A pipe characterized by its ability to fit in a vest pocket, notable for its stem, which swivels over the bowl for carrying and swings out for use, according to the [[Vestpocket|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts]]. Generally all corners on the pipe are rounded to make it easier to remove from a pocket.<br />
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'''Virginia''': More appropriately called Brightleaf tobacco, Virginia is used to refer to milder tobacco leaf, lighter in color, which is grown in infertile, sandy soil, largely in North Carolina and Virginia, and which was first grown in approximately 1839. <br />
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'''Volcano''': A pipe shape characterized by a conical bowl narrowing towards the top, usually with a rounded base and a bent shank and saddle stem, according to the [[Volcano|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts]].<br />
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'''Vulcanite''': Hard black vulcanized rubber used for making pipe stems. Made from rubber containing up to 30% sulfur, vulcanite is soft on the teeth but prone to turning brownish yellow and taking on a sulfur smell on exposure to sunlight. This process is called oxidation.<br />
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'''White Burley''': First grown in Brown County, Ohio in 1865 by George Webb, White Burley is the result of planting Red Burley seeds purchased from Kentucky in the different soil of Ohio, which resulted in a mutation of whitish, sickly looking plants. White Burley soon became the chief ingredient in chewing tobacco, American pipe tobacco, and American-style cigarettes. As Red Burley no longer exists, White Burley is simply referred to as Burley today.<br />
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'''Xanthi''': Sometimes spelled Xanthe, this grade of Basma tobacco is named for a city in the Thrace region of northeastern Greece, first led into prosperity around 1715 due to the quality of its highly aromatic tobacco. The scientific name of the leaf is ''Nicotiana tabacum'' L. cv Xanthi.<br />
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'''Yacht''': Another name for the Zulu pipe shape, with a canted dublin bowl, oval shank and 1/8 bent stem. Among others, Kaywoodie used the term Yacht for pipes of this shape.<br />
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'''Yenidje''': Named for the town of Yenidje, Thrace, today called Genisea, Greece, Yenidje is also called Yenice, Jenidze, Yenidge, and Yeniji, and is a variety of Yaka tobacco, the best regarded form of Xanthi. Yenidje was an Ottoman tobacco production center until 1843 when the town burned and the growers moved up the slopes of the Rhodope Mountain range. Those slopes, called the Yaka, were made of a red clay loam mixed with small flint stones giving rise to short, low-yielding plants of the basma type, meaning (in this usage) that the leaves are small, almost round and with no free stem. The leaf burns badly on its own and was traditionally mixed with Bafra to cure this issue.<br />
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'''Zulu''': A shape of smoking pipe hallmarked by a canted dublin style bowl, an oval shank and a 1/8th bent stem. Also referred to as a Woodstock or a Yacht.<br />
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'''Zeppelin''': A name often used to refer to a cigar-shaped pipe of briar with a separate mouthpiece often of vulcanite, usually with a metal cap at the end to hold in the tobacco. Also called a Torpedo.<br />
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'''Acorn''': A pipe shape characterized by a conical shape sometimes extending to a point or near point below the shank or else with a bent shank flowing into the "point" of the acorn shape. Distinguishable from a dublin by a wider and more rounded rim in most cases. <br />
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'''Acrylic''': In pipe parlance, acrylic stems are those made of polymers of acrylic acid or acrylates, most often polymethyl methacrylate, also called acrylic glass. Some prefer this material for pipe stems due to the lack of oxidation, while others prefer a traditional vulcanite stem due to softness.<br />
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'''Aging''': The term used to describe the tendency of pipe tobacco to improve over time through either aerobic or anaerobic fermentation. The term is used interchangeably to describe increased sweetness on the part of Virginias, mellowing on the part of Latakia, or a generally more complete melding of the blend. The effect is often simulated through the use of heat or pressure.<br />
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'''Agonya''': A type of Turkish tobacco of a kabakolak leaf type, meaning it has distinct stems with "wings" on the leaf stems, Agonya was originally grown in the foothills below Xanthi, but is now grown south of the Sea of Marmara, in the region east of Kanakhale, Turkey.<br />
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'''Air-cured''': Air-cured tobacco is hung in well-ventilated barns immediately after plants are cut or leaves pulled from the field and allowed to dry for a period of one to two months. During this process the yellow colors of the leaf turn to varying shades of brown, until they are ready to be fermented and processed. Burley is an air-cured tobacco.<br />
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'''Amber''': Prior to the wide adoption of vulcanite, first invented in 1844 by Charles Goodyear, as a substance for pipe stem making, by far the most common form of pipe stem was one carved from amber. The stems were carved by hand from fossilized tree resin, at which point they could be bent only after heating in oil and over an alcohol flame. While amber is a beautiful natural material which comes in a large variety of colors, the stems are exceedingly brittle and hard on the teeth. Amber stems are still made only in very rare cases.<br />
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'''Apple''': According to the [[Apple|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the classic apple shape is a rounded version of the billiard, and may be had in either bent or straight shanked and tapered and saddle stemmed versions. Popular variations of this shape include the Prince and Author.<br />
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'''Aromatic''': A type of tobacco which is either cased or top flavored in order to produce a taste and room note other than the tobacco's natural smell, whether simply sugar or molasses, whiskey or other alcohols, or many other flavorings. Used as a major category for pipe tobaccos, along with non-aromatic and latakia based blends.<br />
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'''Army Mount''': Also called a "military bit", a pipe with an army mount stem is designed to permit the stem to be removed from the pipe while hot by inclusion of a shank cap, often made of silver, to reinforce the briar. A more elaborate variation of the army mount is the spigot. According to most likely mythological history, the first army mount was invented when a World War One soldier fixed a broken pipe shank by inserting a spent rifle casing into it and piercing a hole for the stem. <br />
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'''Author''': According to the [[Author|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the Author is a beefed-up prince, featuring a flattened ball-shaped bowl and a heavy 1/8 to 1/4 bent stem.<br />
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'''Bafra''': Bafra is a district and village in the Samsun province of Turkey, and the name sometimes given to the Samsun-Maden strain of tobacco, which is a smaller basibali Turkish varietal with low nicotine and a rich flavor.<br />
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'''Ball''': The ball shape, also referred to as a tomato, is described by the [[Author|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], is very similar to an author but with a spherical bowl and thinner shank. According to Mr. Burney the ball generally features a tapered stem with a 1/4 to 1/2 bent.<br />
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'''Ballerina''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and resembling a ballet dancer's foot while en pointe, curving from the heel at the front of the bowl to the toe at the meeting of bowl and shank, itself characterized by a full enough bend to permit the pipe to stand on its own. <br />
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'''Bakelite''': A trade name for Polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride. Harder than vulcanite and softer than acrylic, bakelite stems do not oxidize. Largely seen in shades of white and amber yellow.<br />
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'''Basma''': 1. The group of Turkish small-leaf varietals in which the stem of the leaf does not extend beyond the leaf at the main stalk 2. The larger leaves primed from the middle of any variety of Turkish tobacco plant 3. A long, rectangular bale-style of packing cured Turkish leaf, approximately 50-60 pounds, of any variety.<br />
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'''Bead''': Now generally represented by two straight lines around the bowl of a bulldog or rhodesian, a bead is one of only three shapes which can be produced on a lathe, along with a flat and a cove. A bead is a rounded projection from the wood, and in the case of pipes today most beads are cut as inset beads, in that the surrounding wood is level with the top of the bead. Older pipes occasionally featured intricately carved beads. Today, however, rather than cutting a true bead the projection is left flat and only signified by the lines around it.<br />
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'''Bent Pipe''': A generic term used to refer to any pipe where the shank is not a straight horizontal line, regardless of the nature or amount of the shank bend.<br />
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'''Billiard''': The [[Billiard|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] describe a billiard as a pipe shape having a cylindrical bowl and tobacco chamber with a shank about the same length as the height of the bowl. Variations on the billiard shape include the pot and chimney.<br />
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'''Basibali''': A family of Turkish tobaccos characterized by a distinct stem separating the leaf from the stalk. Sometimes referred to as Bashi Bagli.<br />
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'''Bit''': A less than precise term, usually used to refer to the entirety of the stem or mouthpiece on a pipe, but occasionally also used to refer to the bite zone.<br />
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'''Bite Zone''': The last approximately three quarters of an inch of the mouthpiece or stem of a tobacco pipe, including the button.<br />
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'''Bloom''': Also referred to as plume, bloom is a fine white powder which appears on well aged tobacco on occasion, and despite the tendency to confuse it with mold is actually a good sign that the leaf is maturing well. Bloom is caused by the crystallization of sugars on the surface of the tobacco leaf. <br />
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'''Blowfish''': Per the [[Blowfish|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the blowfish is a pipe shape characterized by an asymmetrical flattened ball for a bowl, a bent stem blending into the body, and a combination of birdseye grain on the large panels and straight grain between.<br />
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'''Brandy''': Also referred to as a bent brandy or brandyglass, a pipe shape which resembles the glassware for which it is named. According to the [[Brandy|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pipe is characterized by a rounded base tapering up to a smaller rim, often in a 1/4 bent pipe.<br />
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'''Briar''': Actually a mistranslation of the French bruyère, briar among pipe smokers refers to the wood of the ''erica arborea'', a species of flowering plant in the heather family. After 30 to 60 years of growing time, the football sized plants are harvested, cooked, dried for several months, and further processed before they are made into pipes. <br />
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'''Bullcap''': According to the [[Bullcap|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the bullcap is a squat straight rhodesian with a large bowl diameter.<br />
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'''Bulldog''': According to the [[Bulldog|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the classic bulldog has a tapered stem, diamond shank and slightly forward canted bowl shaped someone like two cones joined at the bases with the top cone cut off. The pipe is traditionally adorned with a bead around the bowl. <br />
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'''Bullmoose''': According to the [[Bullcap|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a bullmoose is a squat rhodesian with a very heavy 1/4 bent stem.<br />
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'''Burley''': A tobacco of light-colored variety grown primarily in Kentucky and Tennessee, the bulk of burley tobacco produced in the United States is used for cigarette production. All burley today is of the white burley variety, and is often sweetened due to the low natural sugars present in the leaf. Most aromatics use a base of burley due to its ready ability to absorb flavors. While some claim burley does not age, it does improve with time. However, this takes time measured in the several decades at least.<br />
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'''Button''': The button is the raised portion at the end of a pipe mouthpiece or stem intended to permit the teeth purchase to hold the pipe.<br />
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'''Cake''': Cake refers to the buildup of residual carbon that forms in the bowl of a pipe. Most recommend trimming back the buildup to keep it at roughly the width of a dime in a briar pipe in order to create a protective layer which cools the pipe and reduces moisture. Cake is frowned upon in meerschaums, and the subject of much debate among corn cob pipe smokers.<br />
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'''Calabash''': According to the [[Calabash|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the calabash is a solid wood interpretation of the gourd calabash with a tapered bowl flared at the rim and a dome shaped top. The tobacco chamber is usually tapered and the pipe 3/4 bent, but there are variations.<br />
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'''Canadian''': According to the [[Canadian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the canadian is a long-shanked billiard with an oval shank and a tapered bit. The shank is roughly twice as long as the height of the bowl. Variations on this shape include the lumbermand, lovat and liverpool.<br />
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'''Casing''': Whether sprayed with or soaked in a sauce, casing refers to the addition of flavoring, sugar or the like prior to the finishing of the tobacco, as opposed to top-flavouring, which is added by spraying the finished blend with scents and flavours.<br />
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'''Cavendish''': There are two forms of Cavendish, which is more a process of curing and a method of cutting tobacco than a type of it. Common cavendish is made when tobacco leaves are pressed into a cake about an inch thick and heated before being allowed to ferment, resulting in a mild and sweet tobacco. Flavoring is often added before the leaves are pressed. English Cavendish uses a dark flue or fire cured Virginia , which is steamed and then stored under pressure to permit it to cure and ferment for several days or weeks.<br />
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'''Cherrywood''': According to the [[Cherrywood|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a cherrywood is a bent poker. The name cherrywood derives from the pipe shape's origin as a copy of the cherry wood pipes made by Eugène-Léon Ropp and others in mid-19th century France.<br />
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'''Churchwarden''': According to the [[Churchwarden|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the churchwarden is the only pipe defined by the shape of its stem, rather than its bowl. Whether bent or straight, the stem on a churchwarden is 9 to 18 inches long, but not so long as to make lighting the pipe while holding it in the mouth impossible.<br />
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'''Cigar Leaf''': A generic term used to describe a great many different types of leaf primarily used in cigars which are also included in pipe tobacco. Connecticut Broadleaf and Cuban-Seed Varietals are frequently used among others to add flavor to a blend.<br />
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'''Cob''': The common parlance for a corn cob pipe, which in its loosest definition is simply any pipe with a bowl made from a dried and drilled corncob. Traditionally fitted with river cane stems, most modern cobs have wood shanks and plastic bits. <br />
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'''Cumberland''': Called brindle by Dunhill and others, cumberland is a form of vulcanite made with brown and red pigment added to the rubber to give it a marble like appearance.<br />
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'''Cut''': Pipe tobacco may be cut as shag, ribbon, flake, plug, rope, discs, coins, or in other forms. These terms simply refer to the manner in which the finished product is reduced into a small enough size to consume. The most common cut is ribbon cut.<br />
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'''Cutty''': According to the [[Cutty|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a cutty has a very canted tulip shaped bowl and a slightly bent stem with a tapered bit. The word cutty simply means "cut shorter". Cutty pipes occasionally and traditionally sport a "spur", or a small foot protruding from the base of the bowl.<br />
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'''Czech Tool''': Also called a 3-way pipe tool, a combined tamper, shank clearing tool and dottle spoon on a single rotating rivet. Called a Czech tool for the original country of manufacture of most of the tools, they are largely Chinese made today.<br />
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== D ==<br />
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'''Delayed Gratification Technique''': Or DGT, the habit of some pipe smokers to light a pipe and leave it to sit for hours or even days before completing the smoke. Many blends gain a far different taste profile from this technique which some find pleasant.<br />
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'''Delrin''': A brand name for polyoxymethylne or POM, also called acetal, polyacetal, or polyformaldehyde, delrin is a thermoplastic used by pipe makers as a material for non-integral stem tenons, and for screw-in tenons for meerschaum push/pull connections. Delrin is appreciated as a "self-lubricating" material, meaning that it has a low drag coefficient to interfere with the smooth passage of smoke, and for the ease of reliance on separate stems and tenons.<br />
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'''Devil Anse''': The name of a notorious West Virginia Confederate veteran suspected of murdering Asa McCoy after the war ended and starting the infamous Hatfield/McCoy feud. Devil Anse Hatfield was portrayed in a recent television series by Kevin Costner, who, despite the lack of any historical support, smoked a nosewarmer cutty in the role, now popular and given the name of the character. <br />
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'''Diplomat''': According to the [[Diplomat|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a diplomat is a pipe shape similar to a prince but a bit larger generally and with an oval shank and stem.<br />
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'''Djebel''': Sometimes referred to as Xanthi-Djebel, Dejebel tobacco is grown closer to the ridge, or djebel, of the Rhodope mountains above Xanthi. While the leaf is probably of the same strain as Yaka leaf, it is much less highly regarded.<br />
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'''Don''': A pipe shape, according to the [[Duke/Don|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], similar to a Duke but with a rudimentary shank and a vulcanite bit. Sometimes, such as by [[Peterson]], called a tankard.<br />
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'''Dottle''': The leftover plug of unburnt tobacco and ash left in the heel of a pipe bowl after smoking. Dottle is avoided by smokers as a waste of tobacco and occasionally souring of the bowl, but is sometimes unavoidable.<br />
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'''Drama''': A sweet type of tobacco with a natural olive oil fragrance grown on the Southern slopes and foothills of the Rhodope Mountains in Greek Eastern Macedonia, and taking its name from the town of the same name. A kabakolak variety, meaning that the leaf has a distinct separate stem similar to basibali, but with "wings" on its leaf stems.<br />
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'''Draught Hole''': Also Draft Hole, the point at which the airway enters the bowl of the pipe, preferably in the center back of the heel to avoid leaving excessive dottle.<br />
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'''Dubec''': 1. The smaller leaves from the upper portion of any variety of Turkish tobacco plant 2. A round package of cured Turkish leaf of any variety, approximately 25-30 pounds in weight.<br />
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'''Dublin''': According to the [[Dublin|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the dublin is a pipe shape with the same proportions as a billiard but with a conical bowl and tapered combustion chamber.<br />
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'''Duke''': A [[Dunhill]] pipe shape that features a cylindrical bowl with no shank, a bone or vulcanite stem and a poker-type canted bottom, according to the [[Duke/Don|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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== E ==<br />
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'''Ebonite''': The brand name for a very hard rubber first created by Charles Goodyear by vulcanizing rubber for prolonged periods, Ebonite was named for its intended purpose, a replacment for ebony. Commonly referred to as vulcanite in pipe parlance, vulcanite is with acrylic one of the two most popular materials from which stems are made.<br />
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'''Egg''': According to the [[Egg|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the egg is usually but not always a bent pipe with a bowl shaped like an egg, which can be thought of as an elongated apple shape.<br />
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'''Elephant's Foot''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and characterized by straight grained side panels and wide front and back domed surfaces on the bowl exhibiting birdseye. <br />
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'''English''': Aside from the obvious geographical uses, the word "English" is often used among pipe smokers to refer to blends with latakia in them. In reality, however, the term only developed to differentiate blends made in the United Kingdom, especially in the days of the now defunct Tobacco Purity Laws, which prohibited humectants and most flavorings from being added to the tobacco. A more precise term is "latakia based".<br />
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'''English Cavendish''': The name commonly used to refer to dark flue-cured or fire-cured Virginia tobacco which is steamed and then pressed over a period of several days to weeks. It is not flavored as other forms of Cavendish generally are. Rattray's ''Dark Fragrant'' is one example of an available English Cavendish blend. <br />
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'''Eskimo''': According to the [[Ukulele|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a pipe shape by Tom Eltang created as a variation on Ed Burak's bulldog design and sporting a smooth, flat stem and shank with a canted, domed bowl.<br />
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'''Estate Pipe''': A previously owned pipe, whether smoked or un-smoked.<br />
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== F ==<br />
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'''Fire Cured''': Unlike flue cured tobacco, which is cured by indirect heat without smoke, fire cured tobacco is cured with smoke, in the tobacco equivalent of barbecuing. Dark Fired Kentucky and Latakia are both fire cured, and the process results in lower sugars and higher nicotine in the leaf.<br />
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'''Flake''': Flake tobacco is made by slicing thin sheets off of a cube, which in turn is formed by pressing whole tobacco leaves into a compressed form, usually under significant pressure for long periods of time. Flake tobacco may be sold in slices, or fully or partially broken or rubbed out.<br />
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'''Flue Cured''': Flue cured tobacco is cured by heat without smoke, generally by being hung from sticks in a barn exposed to heat from external fires through flues. Traditionally the method for curing brightleaf tobacco, this method results in sweeter leaf with lower nicotine.<br />
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'''Foot''': The bottom of the outside of the bowl, as opposed to the heel, which is the bottom of the inside of the bowl.<br />
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'''Freehand''': Not to be confused with the fixed freehand shapes made by some companies, a true freehand shape is defined by the pipemaker's choice to let the grain of the briar shape the pipe, rather than forcing the pipe into a predetermined shape, according to the [[Freehand|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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== G ==<br />
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'''Gesteckpfeife''': Literally "pipe in parts", a traditional European pipe made up of several interconnecting parts, usually held together with cork tenons. Bowls can be meerschaum, briar, or porcelain, commonly.<br />
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'''Ghost''': A ghost is the taste or smell of a previously smoked tobacco remaining in a pipe and coloring the taste of a different blend smoked in the same pipe. Generally the cause of tar in the shank, but usually blamed on cake.<br />
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'''Gourd Calabash''': According to the [[Gourd Calabash|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a gourd calabash is a pipe made from a calabash gourd which is dried and the seeds removed, and then fitted with a stem and meerschaum bowl cap. The driest and smoothest of all pipes.<br />
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== H ==<br />
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'''Hand''': A hand is a bundle of tobacco tied at the end and hung from the knot for curing purposes.<br />
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'''Hawkbill''': According to the [[Hawkbill|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the hawkbill is a pipe shape characterized by an enlarged ball or tomato style with a long, tapering bent shank. The premiere example is the Castello 84.j<br />
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'''Heel''': The heel is the bottom of the combustion chamber, the inside of the bowl.<br />
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'''Horn''': According to the [[Horn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the horn is a graceful freehand shape varying from a straight tapering tube to a more standard bent pipe, but in all cases with a smooth tapering from bowl to shank and no abrupt transitions.<br />
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'''Hungarian''': More commonly referred to as an Oom Paul, the Hungarian is a fully bent billiard named for former South African President Paulus Kruger, according to the [[Oom Paul/Hungarian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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== I ==<br />
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'''Intricate Curve''': In pipemaking, a term sometimes used to describe the transition from the rear wall of the bowl to the top of the shank.<br />
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'''Izmir''': A type of Turkish tobacco with rich flavor, low nicotine, and cool smoke. It has a very aromatic nature and is often blended with Latakia to somewhat subdue this property. Primarily used as a condiment with pipe tobacco, but occasionally offered by itself. Also called Smyrna.<br />
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== J ==<br />
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'''Jar''': Tobacco jars have been used for nearly three hundred years as the predominant method for storage of pipe tobacco, whether made from tin, wood, pewter, porcelain, majolica or bisque. By far the most common choice is the simple Ball jar or Mason jar.<br />
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'''Jatim''': A form of Indonesian tobacco and the abbreviated name of the province of East Java (Jawa Timur), where the tobacco is grown.<br />
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== K ==<br />
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'''Kabakolak''': A family of Turkish tobacco strains similar to Basibali, but with wings on their leaf stems in addition to distinct stems.<br />
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'''Katerini''': A Turkish varietal of the Samsun basibali type, with a milder, sweeter leaf. Grown southwest of Thessaloniki in the Greek province of Macedonia.<br />
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'''Kentucky''': Dark-Fired Kentucky is a type of pipe tobacco made from burley which is cured over a fire and flavored by its smoke.<br />
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== L ==<br />
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'''Latakia''': Named for the principal port city of Syria, latakia is not a specific plant varietal, but rather one of a number of Turkish varietals which are fire cured over a stone pine or oak wood fire, giving it a smoky flavor. Most latakia, despite the name, is now grown in Cyprus, not Syria, and camel dung has nothing to do with the process of its creation.<br />
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'''Lovat''': A pipe shape, according to the [[Lovat|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], which is essentially a Canadian but with a round shank instead of oval and a saddle stem.<br />
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'''Lucite''': Lucite is a trade name for acrylic, or polyacrylate, which is derived from natural gas. It is a composition of Methyl Methacrylate and Poly Methyl Methacrylate resin. Lucite is used for pipe stems due to its lack of oxidation, but is criticized for a harder feel on the teeth.<br />
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'''Lületaşi''': A Turkish word literally meaning sea foam and used to refer to meerschaum in that country.<br />
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== M ==<br />
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'''Macedonia''': 1. A province of north-central Greece, west of Thrace, which includes the sea port of Thessaloniki (Salonika) and the Katerini tobacco region 2. A recently independent republic, formerly part of Soviet Yugoslavia, located immediately north of the Greek province of Macedonia, and the source of Prilep tobacco.<br />
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'''Mahale''': A Turkish tobacco with a basma leaf type grown downslope from Xanthi.<br />
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'''Maryland''': An extremely mild tobacco used in a number of American tobacco blends, especially to add a nutty flavor to Burley. Sadly the state of Maryland now pays farmers not to grow tobacco.<br />
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'''Meerschaum''': A mineral hydrous magnesium silicate called sepiolite, primarily found in Turkey near Eskisehr, which is used in the making of tobacco pipes. The word means "seafoam".<br />
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'''Melding''': The term used to refer to a tobacco blend's property to acquire a single homogeneous taste over time, as a result of aging in an airtight container.<br />
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'''Mellowing''': Particularly used in referring to Latakia's tendency to be less overpowering after some aging, the term is sometimes used to refer to a general tendency of tobacco to become more smooth with age.<br />
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'''Mortise''': A mortise is at its most basic a hole cut or drilled to accept a smaller tenon and make a joint. The joint has been used in woodworking for thousands of years, and in pipe construction generally appears as a hole drilled larger than the airway and at the same depth as the stem tenon. Variations, however, are unlimited.<br />
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'''Mouthpiece''': A term used interchangeably with stem and to a lesser degree bit, the mouthpiece is the portion of the pipe meant to be placed in the smoker's mouth, and includes the entire pipe from the end of the shank to the slot. Often made from vulcanite or lucite/acrylic.<br />
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== N ==<br />
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'''Nautilus''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and named for its obvious resemblance to the shell of a nautilus, resulting in an airway passing through a shank curved in a loop and pierced in the center to suggest the closed portion of the shell, a bowl shaped like the long open mouth of the shell, and a foot curving in a near half circle beneath.<br />
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'''Nail''': The simplest form of pipe tool is the venerable Pipe Nail, which generally looks much like its namesake, one end flat to tamp with and another coming to a point or spoon for clearing ash and tar.<br />
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'''Nomenclature''': A general term used to refer to the stamping on a pipe in its entirety, including brand names, models, year and shape codes and the like.<br />
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== O ==<br />
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'''Oliphant''': A traditional name for a hunter's horn made from an elephant tusk, the oliphant shape was first designed by [[Sixten Ivarsson]] for the [[Pibe-Dan]] shop in the late 1950s. According to the [[Horn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]]The shape is a variation of the horn meant to resemble the tusk of an elephant, and with a flat curve and even and gradual tapering throughout.<br />
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'''Oom Paul''': A shape name which actually means Uncle Paul in Dutch, Oom Paul pipes are full bent billiards, according to the [[Oom Paul/Hungarian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]]. The name comes from the nickname for Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, president of the South African Republic from 1883 to 1900 and the face of the Boer cause against Britain during the Second Boer War of 1899 to 1902. Also called a Hungarian.<br />
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'''Opera Pipe''': A shape which the [[Oval|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] refer to as an "Oval" or Pocket pipe, the opera pipe is a billiard with a bowl "squashed" into an oval, with the long side of the oval parallel with the shank and stem. In fact, "opera" pipe is a misnomer. The original name of the pipe was the au pair pipe, as it gained popularity with domestic workers unable to smoke around children.<br />
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'''Oriental''': Used interchangeably with "Turkish" to refer to sun cured condimental tobaccos grown in the Eastern Mediterranean. This category of tobaccos includes Yenidje, Smyrna, Samsun, Izmir, Drama, Xanthe, and often Basma, which is not a particular leaf but a generic Turkish blend, and all that pipe tobacco blenders are often able to find due to the purchase of most oriental varietals by cigarette manufacturers.<br />
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== P ==<br />
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'''Panel Billiard''': According to the [[Panel Billiard|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the Panelled Billiard, also called a foursquare, is a basic billiard shape with flat, or panelled, sides. The classic panel has four flat sides and a round shank.<br />
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'''Pear''': More commonly called an acorn today, according to the [[Pear/Accorn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] the pear is a sort of softened dublin shape, with a conical bowl and tobacco chamber but with all sharp edges rounded.<br />
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'''Perique''': Mistakenly believed to be a nickname for Pierre Chenet and actually a French mispronunciation of an American slang word for a part of the anatomy, perique is a type of tobacco grown only in St. James Parish, Louisiana, sauced and kept under massive pressure in barrels until it turns nearly black. Perique has flavors of spice and plum, and is prized as the truffle of pipe tobaccos.<br />
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'''Pickaxe''': According to the [[Pickaxe|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pickaxe is a freehand style of pipe characterized by a paneled, triangular bowl.<br />
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'''Pipe''': A tube with a small bowl at one end used for the smoking of tobacco.<br />
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'''P-Lip''': A type of pipe mouthpiece invented by Peterson of Dublin and relying on a small hole on the top of a stem rather than a hole at its end. Meant to reduce tongue bite by directing the flow of smoke away from the tongue.<br />
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'''Plug''': Whole leaf, pressed with moisture, becomes a plug, from which flakes can be sliced. Plug tobacco is prepared by slicing off and then rubbing out pieces of the block of tobacco.<br />
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'''Poker''': According to the [[Poker|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the poker is a straight pipe with a cylindrical, flat bottomed bowl designed so that the pipe will stand on its own.<br />
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'''Pot''': According to the [[Pot|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pot is a billiard with a shorter bowl, but not a shorter shank than a standard billiard.<br />
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'''Prilep''': A Sirdily variety of Turkish tobacco commonly grown in the region of the town of Prilep, which is located in the Independent Republic of Macedonia.<br />
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'''Prince''': According to the [[Prince|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the prince is a pipe shape characterized by a squat rounded bowl and along, usually slightly bent stem with a short shank. The pipe was named after Prince Albert, later King Edward VII, the Prince of Wales.<br />
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'''Quaint''': A pipe shape hallmarked, generally, by more than four panels, especially with a paneled shank as well.<br />
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== R ==<br />
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'''Ramses''': A pipe shape created by Bo [[Nordh]] and later named by a visiting customer for its resemblance to the statue of Ramses II in Abu Simbel, Egypt. Characterized by a long, wide sloping shank which also serves as the foot of the pipe and a long, tapered bowl which rests almost vertically on the shank. Stems are generally partially bent.<br />
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[[File:Bo Nordh Ramses01.jpg|thumb|center|100px|A Nordh Ramses]]<br />
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'''Reaming''': Trimming back cake from the bowl of a tobacco pipe.<br />
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'''Reamer''': A tool used to trim pipe cake back to an acceptable level. These have been made in countless different forms, adjustable and non-adjustable, for well over a century. Some simply use a pipe knife or sandpaper to accomplish the same task.<br />
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'''Rhodesian''': A subject of great dispute. Unlikely to have been named for Cecil Rhodes, and more likely to have taken its name from Rhodesian tobacco, a Rhodesian is considered by some to be any bent bulldog, by others to be any bulldog with a round shank, and by others any bulldog shape with a greater bowl width than height. For each accepted definition of the word there is a pipe sold which contradicts it, and no consensus is likely.<br />
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'''Room Note''': The smell of a particular tobacco as it is being smoked. Easier to detect by those not smoking the blend, and a key component to the choice of a pipe tobacco blend especially for those who smoke in public environments. Simply put, how pleasing the smoke would be to a bystander.<br />
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'''Samsun''': A Turkish tobacco of the basibali variety with a heart-shaped leaf, grown near the town of Samsun, Turkey on the shores of the Black Sea. Low nicotine tobacco, but with strong flavor and dark color.<br />
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'''Samsun-Maden''': Also called Bafra for the village near Samsun, Samsun-Maden is a basibali Turkish tobacco characterized by leaves which are are small sized and ovalThe leaf faces are red to bright red. This strain can be smoked without blending. Nicotine content is often lower than 1% and sugar content is 9-12%. <br />
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'''Shank''': The portion of a stummel between the bowl and mouthpiece, and generally containing the mortise. The length of the pipe shank is one of the key variables in the shape of a pipe, as is it's shape, whether square, diamond, oval or round.<br />
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'''Shirazi''': Named for the ancient city of Shiraz in south-western Iran and claimed to be native to that country, Shirazi tobacco is thought to have reached Iran from the Americas in the mid 1500s. Once called ''Nicotiana Persica''.<br />
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'''Sirdily''': A category of Turkish basma subvarietals characterized by small, narrow, acutely pointed leaves.<br />
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'''Slot''': A slot is the wide opening at the end of the mouthpiece tapering into the airway of the pipe. Generally seen only on vulcanite and acrylic stems from the last century, the slot is funneled both to make the insertion of a pipe cleaner easier and to make for a smoother flow for the smoke.<br />
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'''Smyrna''': A type of Turkish tobacco with rich flavor, low nicotine, and cool smoke. It has a very aromatic nature and is often blended with Latakia to somewhat subdue this property. Primarily used as a condiment with pipe tobacco, but occasionally offered by itself. Also called Izmir.<br />
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'''Sokhoum''': A type of Turkish varietal of the Samsun basibali type which is deeply fermented. Grown in the mountains above the town of Sokhoum Kale (Sokhumi) in the Republic of Georgia.<br />
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'''Soppeng''': A type of Indonesian tobacco prepared much like a traditional cavendish but using palm sugar as the sweetener, and then fired. Primarily smoked in cigarettes but enjoyed as pipe tobacco also, Soppeng is sometimes flavored with cinnamon or other tastes during preparation.<br />
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'''Sphinx''': A shape created by Bo [[Nordh]] and characterized by a wide domed bowl front cut so as to show birdseye at the center with straight grain radiating out from that point, giving a sunburst pattern. A similar shape, the Mounted Sphinx, was created by [[Geiger Pipes|Love and Sara Geiger]], but was not created as a variation on the shape.<br />
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'''Spur''': A small protrusion at the bottom of traditional clay pipes to ensure a hot bowl does not burn the table. Frequently included in cutty pipes made even in briar and meerschaum in later decades as an ornamental element of the cutty shape. Seen only occasionally today.<br />
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[[File:Spur.jpg|thumb|center|100px|Clay Pipe Resting on Spur]]<br />
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'''Srintil''': A type of heavily fermented, air cured Indonesian tobacco grown in the Java region in the Temangung valley which grows at the top of a plant and by abnormality produces an extreme amount of resin, making it highly potent. Fermentation details are thought to be similar to perique, and in 1983 approximately 3 tons a year of Srintil were grown worldwide. Sometimes extracted in an aqueous solution for use as a flavoring agent.<br />
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'''Stummel''': German for stump, the stummel is a complete pipe minus only a stem and any final adornments, including the bowl, shank, and transition between the two.<br />
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'''Tambolaka''': An Indonesian tobacco grown in limestone heavy soil and after harvesting rolled into long sticks which are bound and stored for five years. Sold both as pipe tobacco and as a component of Indonesian cigars. Very high in nicotine with a tin note best described as pungent. <br />
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'''Tamp''': Using a tool or finger to compress the contents of the pipe bowl so as to bring unburnt tobacco into contact with the ember.<br />
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'''Tamper''': A tool used to tamp a pipe, generally with a flat end designed for that purpose and a handle. A tamper can be as simple as a piece of dowel or as ornate as the buyer may wish. While it seems inconsequential, tamping is important both for the care of the pipe and the coolness of the smoke.<br />
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'''Tenon''': The tenon is the smaller diameter protrusion at the end of a pipe stem which holds the stem to the stummel. It takes its name from one of the oldest joints in woodworking, the mortise and tenon joint. Over the last two centuries tenons have been made separately with bone screws, cut integrally into a vulcanite stem to fit a cut mortise in the stummel, made from threaded aluminum or plastic, made from aluminum to fit a pre-drilled mortise so as to hold a filter, made from delrin and placed into a drilled hole in the stem, and in other fashions as well. <br />
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'''Tin Note''': As opposed to the aroma of burning tobacco, the tin note is the scent which can be smelled from the unsmoked tobacco when opened, and is considered a good way to begin to understand a new blend and determine to some degree its components and their relative strength.<br />
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'''Trebizond''': No known as Trabzon, Trebizond is grown in Turkey at the southeast shores of the Black Sea. A basibali varietal resembling Samsun, but coarser and stronger.<br />
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'''Turkish''': A term used to refer not only to tobaccos grown in modern day Turkey, but rather to any tobacco grown under the Ottoman Empire, particularly at the height of its power under Suleiman the Magnificent. As a result, while the town of Yenidje, for example, would today be in Greece, yenidje tobacco is still classified as Turkish.<br />
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'''Twist''': A form of tobacco, also known as rope tobacco, which is spun into a roll, largely by hand, rather than being pressed into flakes. One of the oldest forms of smoking tobacco.<br />
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'''Ukulele''': A pipe shape first designed by [[Sixten Ivarsson]] for the [[Pibe-Dan]] shop in the 1950s and named ukulele, some credit Ed [[Burak]] for the design which he considered a bulldog. A ukulele is characterized by a domed, wide bowl and a wide oval shank with a flat bowl bottom, according to the [[Ukulele|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''VaPer''': A portmanteau of Virginia and Perique, vaper is simply the contraction used to refer to blends primarily composed of these two types of tobacco. <br />
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'''Vestpocket''': A pipe characterized by its ability to fit in a vest pocket, notable for its stem, which swivels over the bowl for carrying and swings out for use, according to the [[Vestpocket|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts]]. Generally all corners on the pipe are rounded to make it easier to remove from a pocket.<br />
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'''Virginia''': More appropriately called Brightleaf tobacco, Virginia is used to refer to milder tobacco leaf, lighter in color, which is grown in infertile, sandy soil, largely in North Carolina and Virginia, and which was first grown in approximately 1839. <br />
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'''Volcano''': A pipe shape characterized by a conical bowl narrowing towards the top, usually with a rounded base and a bent shank and saddle stem, according to the [[Volcano|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts]].<br />
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'''Vulcanite''': Hard black vulcanized rubber used for making pipe stems. Made from rubber containing up to 30% sulfur, vulcanite is soft on the teeth but prone to turning brownish yellow and taking on a sulfur smell on exposure to sunlight. This process is called oxidation.<br />
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'''White Burley''': First grown in Brown County, Ohio in 1865 by George Webb, White Burley is the result of planting Red Burley seeds purchased from Kentucky in the different soil of Ohio, which resulted in a mutation of whitish, sickly looking plants. White Burley soon became the chief ingredient in chewing tobacco, American pipe tobacco, and American-style cigarettes. As Red Burley no longer exists, White Burley is simply referred to as Burley today.<br />
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'''Xanthi''': Sometimes spelled Xanthe, this grade of Basma tobacco is named for a city in the Thrace region of northeastern Greece, first led into prosperity around 1715 due to the quality of its highly aromatic tobacco. The scientific name of the leaf is ''Nicotiana tabacum'' L. cv Xanthi.<br />
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== Y ==<br />
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'''Yacht''': Another name for the Zulu pipe shape, with a canted dublin bowl, oval shank and 1/8 bent stem. Among others, Kaywoodie used the term Yacht for pipes of this shape.<br />
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'''Yenidje''': Named for the town of Yenidje, Thrace, today called Genisea, Greece, Yenidje is also called Yenice, Jenidze, Yenidge, and Yeniji, and is a variety of Yaka tobacco, the best regarded form of Xanthi. Yenidje was an Ottoman tobacco production center until 1843 when the town burned and the growers moved up the slopes of the Rhodope Mountain range. Those slopes, called the Yaka, were made of a red clay loam mixed with small flint stones giving rise to short, low-yielding plants of the basma type, meaning (in this usage) that the leaves are small, almost round and with no free stem. The leaf burns badly on its own and was traditionally mixed with Bafra to cure this issue.<br />
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== Z ==<br />
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'''Zulu''': A shape of smoking pipe hallmarked by a canted dublin style bowl, an oval shank and a 1/8th bent stem. Also referred to as a Woodstock or a Yacht.<br />
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'''Zeppelin''': A name often used to refer to a cigar-shaped pipe of briar with a separate mouthpiece often of vulcanite, usually with a metal cap at the end to hold in the tobacco. Also called a Torpedo.<br />
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'''Acorn''': A pipe shape characterized by a conical shape sometimes extending to a point or near point below the shank or else with a bent shank flowing into the "point" of the acorn shape. Distinguishable from a dublin by a wider and more rounded rim in most cases. <br />
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'''Acrylic''': In pipe parlance, acrylic stems are those made of polymers of acrylic acid or acrylates, most often polymethyl methacrylate, also called acrylic glass. Some prefer this material for pipe stems due to the lack of oxidation, while others prefer a traditional vulcanite stem due to softness.<br />
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'''Aging''': The term used to describe the tendency of pipe tobacco to improve over time through either aerobic or anaerobic fermentation. The term is used interchangeably to describe increased sweetness on the part of Virginias, mellowing on the part of Latakia, or a generally more complete melding of the blend. The effect is often simulated through the use of heat or pressure.<br />
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'''Agonya''': A type of Turkish tobacco of a kabakolak leaf type, meaning it has distinct stems with "wings" on the leaf stems, Agonya was originally grown in the foothills below Xanthi, but is now grown south of the Sea of Marmara, in the region east of Kanakhale, Turkey.<br />
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'''Air-cured''': Air-cured tobacco is hung in well-ventilated barns immediately after plants are cut or leaves pulled from the field and allowed to dry for a period of one to two months. During this process the yellow colors of the leaf turn to varying shades of brown, until they are ready to be fermented and processed. Burley is an air-cured tobacco.<br />
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'''Amber''': Prior to the wide adoption of vulcanite, first invented in 1844 by Charles Goodyear, as a substance for pipe stem making, by far the most common form of pipe stem was one carved from amber. The stems were carved by hand from fossilized tree resin, at which point they could be bent only after heating in oil and over an alcohol flame. While amber is a beautiful natural material which comes in a large variety of colors, the stems are exceedingly brittle and hard on the teeth. Amber stems are still made only in very rare cases.<br />
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'''Apple''': According to the [[Apple|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the classic apple shape is a rounded version of the billiard, and may be had in either bent or straight shanked and tapered and saddle stemmed versions. Popular variations of this shape include the Prince and Author.<br />
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'''Aromatic''': A type of tobacco which is either cased or top flavored in order to produce a taste and room note other than the tobacco's natural smell, whether simply sugar or molasses, whiskey or other alcohols, or many other flavorings. Used as a major category for pipe tobaccos, along with non-aromatic and latakia based blends.<br />
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'''Army Mount''': Also called a "military bit", a pipe with an army mount stem is designed to permit the stem to be removed from the pipe while hot by inclusion of a shank cap, often made of silver, to reinforce the briar. A more elaborate variation of the army mount is the spigot. According to most likely mythological history, the first army mount was invented when a World War One soldier fixed a broken pipe shank by inserting a spent rifle casing into it and piercing a hole for the stem. <br />
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'''Author''': According to the [[Author|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the Author is a beefed-up prince, featuring a flattened ball-shaped bowl and a heavy 1/8 to 1/4 bent stem.<br />
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== B ==<br />
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'''Bafra''': Bafra is a district and village in the Samsun province of Turkey, and the name sometimes given to the Samsun-Maden strain of tobacco, which is a smaller basibali Turkish varietal with low nicotine and a rich flavor.<br />
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'''Ball''': The ball shape, also referred to as a tomato, is described by the [[Author|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], is very similar to an author but with a spherical bowl and thinner shank. According to Mr. Burney the ball generally features a tapered stem with a 1/4 to 1/2 bent.<br />
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'''Ballerina''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and resembling a ballet dancer's foot while en pointe, curving from the heel at the front of the bowl to the toe at the meeting of bowl and shank, itself characterized by a full enough bend to permit the pipe to stand on its own. <br />
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[[File:Nordh Ballerina.jpg|thumb|center|100px|A Bo Nordh Ballerina]]<br />
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'''Bakelite''': A trade name for Polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride. Harder than vulcanite and softer than acrylic, bakelite stems do not oxidize. Largely seen in shades of white and amber yellow.<br />
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'''Basma''': 1. The group of Turkish small-leaf varietals in which the stem of the leaf does not extend beyond the leaf at the main stalk 2. The larger leaves primed from the middle of any variety of Turkish tobacco plant 3. A long, rectangular bale-style of packing cured Turkish leaf, approximately 50-60 pounds, of any variety.<br />
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'''Bead''': Now generally represented by two straight lines around the bowl of a bulldog or rhodesian, a bead is one of only three shapes which can be produced on a lathe, along with a flat and a cove. A bead is a rounded projection from the wood, and in the case of pipes today most beads are cut as inset beads, in that the surrounding wood is level with the top of the bead. Older pipes occasionally featured intricately carved beads. Today, however, rather than cutting a true bead the projection is left flat and only signified by the lines around it.<br />
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'''Bent Pipe''': A generic term used to refer to any pipe where the shank is not a straight horizontal line, regardless of the nature or amount of the shank bend.<br />
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'''Billiard''': The [[Billiard|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] describe a billiard as a pipe shape having a cylindrical bowl and tobacco chamber with a shank about the same length as the height of the bowl. Variations on the billiard shape include the pot and chimney.<br />
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'''Basibali''': A family of Turkish tobaccos characterized by a distinct stem separating the leaf from the stalk. Sometimes referred to as Bashi Bagli.<br />
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'''Bit''': A less than precise term, usually used to refer to the entirety of the stem or mouthpiece on a pipe, but occasionally also used to refer to the bite zone.<br />
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'''Bite Zone''': The last approximately three quarters of an inch of the mouthpiece or stem of a tobacco pipe, including the button.<br />
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'''Bloom''': Also referred to as plume, bloom is a fine white powder which appears on well aged tobacco on occasion, and despite the tendency to confuse it with mold is actually a good sign that the leaf is maturing well. Bloom is caused by the crystallization of sugars on the surface of the tobacco leaf. <br />
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'''Blowfish''': Per the [[Blowfish|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the blowfish is a pipe shape characterized by an asymmetrical flattened ball for a bowl, a bent stem blending into the body, and a combination of birdseye grain on the large panels and straight grain between.<br />
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'''Brandy''': Also referred to as a bent brandy or brandyglass, a pipe shape which resembles the glassware for which it is named. According to the [[Brandy|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pipe is characterized by a rounded base tapering up to a smaller rim, often in a 1/4 bent pipe.<br />
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'''Briar''': Actually a mistranslation of the French bruyère, briar among pipe smokers refers to the wood of the ''erica arborea'', a species of flowering plant in the heather family. After 30 to 60 years of growing time, the football sized plants are harvested, cooked, dried for several months, and further processed before they are made into pipes. <br />
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'''Bullcap''': According to the [[Bullcap|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the bullcap is a squat straight rhodesian with a large bowl diameter.<br />
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'''Bulldog''': According to the [[Bulldog|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the classic bulldog has a tapered stem, diamond shank and slightly forward canted bowl shaped someone like two cones joined at the bases with the top cone cut off. The pipe is traditionally adorned with a bead around the bowl. <br />
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'''Bullmoose''': According to the [[Bullcap|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a bullmoose is a squat rhodesian with a very heavy 1/4 bent stem.<br />
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'''Burley''': A tobacco of light-colored variety grown primarily in Kentucky and Tennessee, the bulk of burley tobacco produced in the United States is used for cigarette production. All burley today is of the white burley variety, and is often sweetened due to the low natural sugars present in the leaf. Most aromatics use a base of burley due to its ready ability to absorb flavors. While some claim burley does not age, it does improve with time. However, this takes time measured in the several decades at least.<br />
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'''Button''': The button is the raised portion at the end of a pipe mouthpiece or stem intended to permit the teeth purchase to hold the pipe.<br />
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== C ==<br />
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'''Cake''': Cake refers to the buildup of residual carbon that forms in the bowl of a pipe. Most recommend trimming back the buildup to keep it at roughly the width of a dime in a briar pipe in order to create a protective layer which cools the pipe and reduces moisture. Cake is frowned upon in meerschaums, and the subject of much debate among corn cob pipe smokers.<br />
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'''Calabash''': According to the [[Calabash|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the calabash is a solid wood interpretation of the gourd calabash with a tapered bowl flared at the rim and a dome shaped top. The tobacco chamber is usually tapered and the pipe 3/4 bent, but there are variations.<br />
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'''Canadian''': According to the [[Canadian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the canadian is a long-shanked billiard with an oval shank and a tapered bit. The shank is roughly twice as long as the height of the bowl. Variations on this shape include the lumbermand, lovat and liverpool.<br />
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'''Casing''': Whether sprayed with or soaked in a sauce, casing refers to the addition of flavoring, sugar or the like prior to the finishing of the tobacco, as opposed to top-flavouring, which is added by spraying the finished blend with scents and flavours.<br />
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'''Cavendish''': There are two forms of Cavendish, which is more a process of curing and a method of cutting tobacco than a type of it. Common cavendish is made when tobacco leaves are pressed into a cake about an inch thick and heated before being allowed to ferment, resulting in a mild and sweet tobacco. Flavoring is often added before the leaves are pressed. English Cavendish uses a dark flue or fire cured Virginia , which is steamed and then stored under pressure to permit it to cure and ferment for several days or weeks.<br />
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'''Cherrywood''': According to the [[Cherrywood|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a cherrywood is a bent poker. The name cherrywood derives from the pipe shape's origin as a copy of the cherry wood pipes made by Eugène-Léon Ropp and others in mid-19th century France.<br />
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'''Churchwarden''': According to the [[Churchwarden|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the churchwarden is the only pipe defined by the shape of its stem, rather than its bowl. Whether bent or straight, the stem on a churchwarden is 9 to 18 inches long, but not so long as to make lighting the pipe while holding it in the mouth impossible.<br />
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'''Cigar Leaf''': A generic term used to describe a great many different types of leaf primarily used in cigars which are also included in pipe tobacco. Connecticut Broadleaf and Cuban-Seed Varietals are frequently used among others to add flavor to a blend.<br />
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'''Cob''': The common parlance for a corn cob pipe, which in its loosest definition is simply any pipe with a bowl made from a dried and drilled corncob. Traditionally fitted with river cane stems, most modern cobs have wood shanks and plastic bits. <br />
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'''Cumberland''': Called brindle by Dunhill and others, cumberland is a form of vulcanite made with brown and red pigment added to the rubber to give it a marble like appearance.<br />
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'''Cut''': Pipe tobacco may be cut as shag, ribbon, flake, plug, rope, discs, coins, or in other forms. These terms simply refer to the manner in which the finished product is reduced into a small enough size to consume. The most common cut is ribbon cut.<br />
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'''Cutty''': According to the [[Cutty|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a cutty has a very canted tulip shaped bowl and a slightly bent stem with a tapered bit. The word cutty simply means "cut shorter". Cutty pipes occasionally and traditionally sport a "spur", or a small foot protruding from the base of the bowl.<br />
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'''Czech Tool''': Also called a 3-way pipe tool, a combined tamper, shank clearing tool and dottle spoon on a single rotating rivet. Called a Czech tool for the original country of manufacture of most of the tools, they are largely Chinese made today.<br />
[[File:Czech Tool.jpg|center|thumb|A Czech Tool.]]<br />
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== D ==<br />
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'''Delayed Gratification Technique''': Or DGT, the habit of some pipe smokers to light a pipe and leave it to sit for hours or even days before completing the smoke. Many blends gain a far different taste profile from this technique which some find pleasant.<br />
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'''Delrin''': A brand name for polyoxymethylne or POM, also called acetal, polyacetal, or polyformaldehyde, delrin is a thermoplastic used by pipe makers as a material for non-integral stem tenons, and for screw-in tenons for meerschaum push/pull connections. Delrin is appreciated as a "self-lubricating" material, meaning that it has a low drag coefficient to interfere with the smooth passage of smoke, and for the ease of reliance on separate stems and tenons.<br />
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'''Devil Anse''': The name of a notorious West Virginia Confederate veteran suspected of murdering Asa McCoy after the war ended and starting the infamous Hatfield/McCoy feud. Devil Anse Hatfield was portrayed in a recent television series by Kevin Costner, who, despite the lack of any historical support, smoked a nosewarmer cutty in the role, now popular and given the name of the character. <br />
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'''Diplomat''': According to the [[Diplomat|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a diplomat is a pipe shape similar to a prince but a bit larger generally and with an oval shank and stem.<br />
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'''Djebel''': Sometimes referred to as Xanthi-Djebel, Dejebel tobacco is grown closer to the ridge, or djebel, of the Rhodope mountains above Xanthi. While the leaf is probably of the same strain as Yaka leaf, it is much less highly regarded.<br />
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'''Don''': A pipe shape, according to the [[Duke/Don|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], similar to a Duke but with a rudimentary shank and a vulcanite bit. Sometimes, such as by [[Peterson]], called a tankard.<br />
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'''Dottle''': The leftover plug of unburnt tobacco and ash left in the heel of a pipe bowl after smoking. Dottle is avoided by smokers as a waste of tobacco and occasionally souring of the bowl, but is sometimes unavoidable.<br />
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'''Drama''': A sweet type of tobacco with a natural olive oil fragrance grown on the Southern slopes and foothills of the Rhodope Mountains in Greek Eastern Macedonia, and taking its name from the town of the same name. A kabakolak variety, meaning that the leaf has a distinct separate stem similar to basibali, but with "wings" on its leaf stems.<br />
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'''Draught Hole''': Also Draft Hole, the point at which the airway enters the bowl of the pipe, preferably in the center back of the heel to avoid leaving excessive dottle.<br />
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'''Dubec''': 1. The smaller leaves from the upper portion of any variety of Turkish tobacco plant 2. A round package of cured Turkish leaf of any variety, approximately 25-30 pounds in weight.<br />
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'''Dublin''': According to the [[Dublin|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the dublin is a pipe shape with the same proportions as a billiard but with a conical bowl and tapered combustion chamber.<br />
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'''Duke''': A [[Dunhill]] pipe shape that features a cylindrical bowl with no shank, a bone or vulcanite stem and a poker-type canted bottom, according to the [[Duke/Don|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''Ebonite''': The brand name for a very hard rubber first created by Charles Goodyear by vulcanizing rubber for prolonged periods, Ebonite was named for its intended purpose, a replacment for ebony. Commonly referred to as vulcanite in pipe parlance, vulcanite is with acrylic one of the two most popular materials from which stems are made.<br />
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'''Egg''': According to the [[Egg|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the egg is usually but not always a bent pipe with a bowl shaped like an egg, which can be thought of as an elongated apple shape.<br />
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'''Elephant's Foot''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and characterized by straight grained side panels and wide front and back domed surfaces on the bowl exhibiting birdseye. <br />
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'''English''': Aside from the obvious geographical uses, the word "English" is often used among pipe smokers to refer to blends with latakia in them. In reality, however, the term only developed to differentiate blends made in the United Kingdom, especially in the days of the now defunct Tobacco Purity Laws, which prohibited humectants and most flavorings from being added to the tobacco. A more precise term is "latakia based".<br />
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'''English Cavendish''': The name commonly used to refer to dark flue-cured or fire-cured Virginia tobacco which is steamed and then pressed over a period of several days to weeks. It is not flavored as other forms of Cavendish generally are. Rattray's ''Dark Fragrant'' is one example of an available English Cavendish blend. <br />
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'''Eskimo''': According to the [[Ukulele|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a pipe shape by Tom Eltang created as a variation on Ed Burak's bulldog design and sporting a smooth, flat stem and shank with a canted, domed bowl.<br />
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'''Estate Pipe''': A previously owned pipe, whether smoked or un-smoked.<br />
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'''Fire Cured''': Unlike flue cured tobacco, which is cured by indirect heat without smoke, fire cured tobacco is cured with smoke, in the tobacco equivalent of barbecuing. Dark Fired Kentucky and Latakia are both fire cured, and the process results in lower sugars and higher nicotine in the leaf.<br />
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'''Flake''': Flake tobacco is made by slicing thin sheets off of a cube, which in turn is formed by pressing whole tobacco leaves into a compressed form, usually under significant pressure for long periods of time. Flake tobacco may be sold in slices, or fully or partially broken or rubbed out.<br />
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'''Flue Cured''': Flue cured tobacco is cured by heat without smoke, generally by being hung from sticks in a barn exposed to heat from external fires through flues. Traditionally the method for curing brightleaf tobacco, this method results in sweeter leaf with lower nicotine.<br />
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'''Foot''': The bottom of the outside of the bowl, as opposed to the heel, which is the bottom of the inside of the bowl.<br />
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'''Freehand''': Not to be confused with the fixed freehand shapes made by some companies, a true freehand shape is defined by the pipemaker's choice to let the grain of the briar shape the pipe, rather than forcing the pipe into a predetermined shape, according to the [[Freehand|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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== G ==<br />
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'''Gesteckpfeife''': Literally "pipe in parts", a traditional European pipe made up of several interconnecting parts, usually held together with cork tenons. Bowls can be meerschaum, briar, or porcelain, commonly.<br />
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'''Ghost''': A ghost is the taste or smell of a previously smoked tobacco remaining in a pipe and coloring the taste of a different blend smoked in the same pipe. Generally the cause of tar in the shank, but usually blamed on cake.<br />
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'''Gourd Calabash''': According to the [[Gourd Calabash|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a gourd calabash is a pipe made from a calabash gourd which is dried and the seeds removed, and then fitted with a stem and meerschaum bowl cap. The driest and smoothest of all pipes.<br />
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'''Hand''': A hand is a bundle of tobacco tied at the end and hung from the knot for curing purposes.<br />
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'''Hawkbill''': According to the [[Hawkbill|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the hawkbill is a pipe shape characterized by an enlarged ball or tomato style with a long, tapering bent shank. The premiere example is the Castello 84.j<br />
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'''Heel''': The heel is the bottom of the combustion chamber, the inside of the bowl.<br />
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'''Horn''': According to the [[Horn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the horn is a graceful freehand shape varying from a straight tapering tube to a more standard bent pipe, but in all cases with a smooth tapering from bowl to shank and no abrupt transitions.<br />
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'''Hungarian''': More commonly referred to as an Oom Paul, the Hungarian is a fully bent billiard named for former South African President Paulus Kruger, according to the [[Oom Paul/Hungarian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''Intricate Curve''': In pipemaking, a term sometimes used to describe the transition from the rear wall of the bowl to the top of the shank.<br />
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'''Izmir''': A type of Turkish tobacco with rich flavor, low nicotine, and cool smoke. It has a very aromatic nature and is often blended with Latakia to somewhat subdue this property. Primarily used as a condiment with pipe tobacco, but occasionally offered by itself. Also called Smyrna.<br />
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'''Jar''': Tobacco jars have been used for nearly three hundred years as the predominant method for storage of pipe tobacco, whether made from tin, wood, pewter, porcelain, majolica or bisque. By far the most common choice is the simple Ball jar or Mason jar.<br />
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'''Jatim''': A form of Indonesian tobacco and the abbreviated name of the province of East Java (Jawa Timur), where the tobacco is grown.<br />
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'''Kabakolak''': A family of Turkish tobacco strains similar to Basibali, but with wings on their leaf stems in addition to distinct stems.<br />
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'''Katerini''': A Turkish varietal of the Samsun basibali type, with a milder, sweeter leaf. Grown southwest of Thessaloniki in the Greek province of Macedonia.<br />
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'''Kentucky''': Dark-Fired Kentucky is a type of pipe tobacco made from burley which is cured over a fire and flavored by its smoke.<br />
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'''Latakia''': Named for the principal port city of Syria, latakia is not a specific plant varietal, but rather one of a number of Turkish varietals which are fire cured over a stone pine or oak wood fire, giving it a smoky flavor. Most latakia, despite the name, is now grown in Cyprus, not Syria, and camel dung has nothing to do with the process of its creation.<br />
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'''Lovat''': A pipe shape, according to the [[Lovat|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], which is essentially a Canadian but with a round shank instead of oval and a saddle stem.<br />
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'''Lucite''': Lucite is a trade name for acrylic, or polyacrylate, which is derived from natural gas. It is a composition of Methyl Methacrylate and Poly Methyl Methacrylate resin. Lucite is used for pipe stems due to its lack of oxidation, but is criticized for a harder feel on the teeth.<br />
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'''Lületaşi''': A Turkish word literally meaning sea foam and used to refer to meerschaum in that country.<br />
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'''Macedonia''': 1. A province of north-central Greece, west of Thrace, which includes the sea port of Thessaloniki (Salonika) and the Katerini tobacco region 2. A recently independent republic, formerly part of Soviet Yugoslavia, located immediately north of the Greek province of Macedonia, and the source of Prilep tobacco.<br />
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'''Mahale''': A Turkish tobacco with a basma leaf type grown downslope from Xanthi.<br />
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'''Maryland''': An extremely mild tobacco used in a number of American tobacco blends, especially to add a nutty flavor to Burley. Sadly the state of Maryland now pays farmers not to grow tobacco.<br />
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'''Meerschaum''': A mineral hydrous magnesium silicate called sepiolite, primarily found in Turkey near Eskisehr, which is used in the making of tobacco pipes. The word means "seafoam".<br />
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'''Melding''': The term used to refer to a tobacco blend's property to acquire a single homogeneous taste over time, as a result of aging in an airtight container.<br />
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'''Mellowing''': Particularly used in referring to Latakia's tendency to be less overpowering after some aging, the term is sometimes used to refer to a general tendency of tobacco to become more smooth with age.<br />
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'''Mortise''': A mortise is at its most basic a hole cut or drilled to accept a smaller tenon and make a joint. The joint has been used in woodworking for thousands of years, and in pipe construction generally appears as a hole drilled larger than the airway and at the same depth as the stem tenon. Variations, however, are unlimited.<br />
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'''Mouthpiece''': A term used interchangeably with stem and to a lesser degree bit, the mouthpiece is the portion of the pipe meant to be placed in the smoker's mouth, and includes the entire pipe from the end of the shank to the slot. Often made from vulcanite or lucite/acrylic.<br />
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'''Nautilus''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and named for its obvious resemblance to the shell of a nautilus, resulting in an airway passing through a shank curved in a loop and pierced in the center to suggest the closed portion of the shell, a bowl shaped like the long open mouth of the shell, and a foot curving in a near half circle beneath.<br />
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'''Nail''': The simplest form of pipe tool is the venerable Pipe Nail, which generally looks much like its namesake, one end flat to tamp with and another coming to a point or spoon for clearing ash and tar.<br />
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'''Nomenclature''': A general term used to refer to the stamping on a pipe in its entirety, including brand names, models, year and shape codes and the like.<br />
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'''Oliphant''': A traditional name for a hunter's horn made from an elephant tusk, the oliphant shape was first designed by [[Sixten Ivarsson]] for the [[Pibe-Dan]] shop in the late 1950s. According to the [[Horn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]]The shape is a variation of the horn meant to resemble the tusk of an elephant, and with a flat curve and even and gradual tapering throughout.<br />
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'''Oom Paul''': A shape name which actually means Uncle Paul in Dutch, Oom Paul pipes are full bent billiards, according to the [[Oom Paul/Hungarian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]]. The name comes from the nickname for Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, president of the South African Republic from 1883 to 1900 and the face of the Boer cause against Britain during the Second Boer War of 1899 to 1902. Also called a Hungarian.<br />
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'''Opera Pipe''': A shape which the [[Oval|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] refer to as an "Oval" or Pocket pipe, the opera pipe is a billiard with a bowl "squashed" into an oval, with the long side of the oval parallel with the shank and stem. In fact, "opera" pipe is a misnomer. The original name of the pipe was the au pair pipe, as it gained popularity with domestic workers unable to smoke around children.<br />
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'''Oriental''': Used interchangeably with "Turkish" to refer to sun cured condimental tobaccos grown in the Eastern Mediterranean. This category of tobaccos includes Yenidje, Smyrna, Samsun, Izmir, Drama, Xanthe, and often Basma, which is not a particular leaf but a generic Turkish blend, and all that pipe tobacco blenders are often able to find due to the purchase of most oriental varietals by cigarette manufacturers.<br />
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'''Panel Billiard''': According to the [[Panel Billiard|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the Panelled Billiard, also called a foursquare, is a basic billiard shape with flat, or panelled, sides. The classic panel has four flat sides and a round shank.<br />
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'''Pear''': More commonly called an acorn today, according to the [[Pear/Accorn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] the pear is a sort of softened dublin shape, with a conical bowl and tobacco chamber but with all sharp edges rounded.<br />
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'''Perique''': Mistakenly believed to be a nickname for Pierre Chenet and actually a French mispronunciation of an American slang word for a part of the anatomy, perique is a type of tobacco grown only in St. James Parish, Louisiana, sauced and kept under massive pressure in barrels until it turns nearly black. Perique has flavors of spice and plum, and is prized as the truffle of pipe tobaccos.<br />
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'''Pickaxe''': According to the [[Pickaxe|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pickaxe is a freehand style of pipe characterized by a paneled, triangular bowl.<br />
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'''Pipe''': A tube with a small bowl at one end used for the smoking of tobacco.<br />
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'''P-Lip''': A type of pipe mouthpiece invented by Peterson of Dublin and relying on a small hole on the top of a stem rather than a hole at its end. Meant to reduce tongue bite by directing the flow of smoke away from the tongue.<br />
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'''Plug''': Whole leaf, pressed with moisture, becomes a plug, from which flakes can be sliced. Plug tobacco is prepared by slicing off and then rubbing out pieces of the block of tobacco.<br />
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'''Poker''': According to the [[Poker|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the poker is a straight pipe with a cylindrical, flat bottomed bowl designed so that the pipe will stand on its own.<br />
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'''Pot''': According to the [[Pot|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pot is a billiard with a shorter bowl, but not a shorter shank than a standard billiard.<br />
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'''Prilep''': A Sirdily variety of Turkish tobacco commonly grown in the region of the town of Prilep, which is located in the Independent Republic of Macedonia.<br />
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'''Prince''': According to the [[Prince|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the prince is a pipe shape characterized by a squat rounded bowl and along, usually slightly bent stem with a short shank. The pipe was named after Prince Albert, later King Edward VII, the Prince of Wales.<br />
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'''Quaint''': A pipe shape hallmarked, generally, by more than four panels, especially with a paneled shank as well.<br />
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== R ==<br />
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'''Ramses''': A pipe shape created by Bo [[Nordh]] and later named by a visiting customer for its resemblance to the statue of Ramses II in Abu Simbel, Egypt. Characterized by a long, wide sloping shank which also serves as the foot of the pipe and a long, tapered bowl which rests almost vertically on the shank. Stems are generally partially bent.<br />
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[[File:Bo Nordh Ramses01.jpg|thumb|center|100px|A Nordh Ramses]]<br />
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'''Reaming''': Trimming back cake from the bowl of a tobacco pipe.<br />
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'''Reamer''': A tool used to trim pipe cake back to an acceptable level. These have been made in countless different forms, adjustable and non-adjustable, for well over a century. Some simply use a pipe knife or sandpaper to accomplish the same task.<br />
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'''Rhodesian''': A subject of great dispute. Unlikely to have been named for Cecil Rhodes, and more likely to have taken its name from Rhodesian tobacco, a Rhodesian is considered by some to be any bent bulldog, by others to be any bulldog with a round shank, and by others any bulldog shape with a greater bowl width than height. For each accepted definition of the word there is a pipe sold which contradicts it, and no consensus is likely.<br />
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'''Room Note''': The smell of a particular tobacco as it is being smoked. Easier to detect by those not smoking the blend, and a key component to the choice of a pipe tobacco blend especially for those who smoke in public environments. Simply put, how pleasing the smoke would be to a bystander.<br />
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'''Samsun''': A Turkish tobacco of the basibali variety with a heart-shaped leaf, grown near the town of Samsun, Turkey on the shores of the Black Sea. Low nicotine tobacco, but with strong flavor and dark color.<br />
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'''Samsun-Maden''': Also called Bafra for the village near Samsun, Samsun-Maden is a basibali Turkish tobacco characterized by leaves which are are small sized and ovalThe leaf faces are red to bright red. This strain can be smoked without blending. Nicotine content is often lower than 1% and sugar content is 9-12%. <br />
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'''Shank''': The portion of a stummel between the bowl and mouthpiece, and generally containing the mortise. The length of the pipe shank is one of the key variables in the shape of a pipe, as is it's shape, whether square, diamond, oval or round.<br />
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'''Shirazi''': Named for the ancient city of Shiraz in south-western Iran and claimed to be native to that country, Shirazi tobacco is thought to have reached Iran from the Americas in the mid 1500s. Once called ''Nicotiana Persica''.<br />
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'''Sirdily''': A category of Turkish basma subvarietals characterized by small, narrow, acutely pointed leaves.<br />
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'''Slot''': A slot is the wide opening at the end of the mouthpiece tapering into the airway of the pipe. Generally seen only on vulcanite and acrylic stems from the last century, the slot is funneled both to make the insertion of a pipe cleaner easier and to make for a smoother flow for the smoke.<br />
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'''Smyrna''': A type of Turkish tobacco with rich flavor, low nicotine, and cool smoke. It has a very aromatic nature and is often blended with Latakia to somewhat subdue this property. Primarily used as a condiment with pipe tobacco, but occasionally offered by itself. Also called Izmir.<br />
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'''Sokhoum''': A type of Turkish varietal of the Samsun basibali type which is deeply fermented. Grown in the mountains above the town of Sokhoum Kale (Sokhumi) in the Republic of Georgia.<br />
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'''Soppeng''': A type of Indonesian tobacco prepared much like a traditional cavendish but using palm sugar as the sweetener, and then fired. Primarily smoked in cigarettes but enjoyed as pipe tobacco also, Soppeng is sometimes flavored with cinnamon or other tastes during preparation.<br />
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'''Sphinx''': A shape created by Bo [[Nordh]] and characterized by a wide domed bowl front cut so as to show birdseye at the center with straight grain radiating out from that point, giving a sunburst pattern. A similar shape, the Mounted Sphinx, was created by [[Geiger Pipes|Love and Sara Geiger]], but was not created as a variation on the shape.<br />
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'''Spur''': A small protrusion at the bottom of traditional clay pipes to ensure a hot bowl does not burn the table. Frequently included in cutty pipes made even in briar and meerschaum in later decades as an ornamental element of the cutty shape. Seen only occasionally today.<br />
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[[File:Spur.jpg|thumb|center|100px|Clay Pipe Resting on Spur]]<br />
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'''Srintil''': A type of heavily fermented, air cured Indonesian tobacco grown in the Java region in the Temangung valley which grows at the top of a plant and by abnormality produces an extreme amount of resin, making it highly potent. Fermentation details are thought to be similar to perique, and in 1983 approximately 3 tons a year of Srintil were grown worldwide. Sometimes extracted in an aqueous solution for use as a flavoring agent.<br />
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'''Stummel''': German for stump, the stummel is a complete pipe minus only a stem and any final adornments, including the bowl, shank, and transition between the two.<br />
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'''Tambolaka''': An Indonesian tobacco grown in limestone heavy soil and after harvesting rolled into long sticks which are bound and stored for five years. Sold both as pipe tobacco and as a component of Indonesian cigars. Very high in nicotine with a tin note best described as pungent. <br />
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'''Tamp''': Using a tool or finger to compress the contents of the pipe bowl so as to bring unburnt tobacco into contact with the ember.<br />
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'''Tamper''': A tool used to tamp a pipe, generally with a flat end designed for that purpose and a handle. A tamper can be as simple as a piece of dowel or as ornate as the buyer may wish. While it seems inconsequential, tamping is important both for the care of the pipe and the coolness of the smoke.<br />
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'''Tenon''': The tenon is the smaller diameter protrusion at the end of a pipe stem which holds the stem to the stummel. It takes its name from one of the oldest joints in woodworking, the mortise and tenon joint. Over the last two centuries tenons have been made separately with bone screws, cut integrally into a vulcanite stem to fit a cut mortise in the stummel, made from threaded aluminum or plastic, made from aluminum to fit a pre-drilled mortise so as to hold a filter, made from delrin and placed into a drilled hole in the stem, and in other fashions as well. <br />
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'''Tin Note''': As opposed to the aroma of burning tobacco, the tin note is the scent which can be smelled from the unsmoked tobacco when opened, and is considered a good way to begin to understand a new blend and determine to some degree its components and their relative strength.<br />
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'''Trebizond''': No known as Trabzon, Trebizond is grown in Turkey at the southeast shores of the Black Sea. A basibali varietal resembling Samsun, but coarser and stronger.<br />
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'''Turkish''': A term used to refer not only to tobaccos grown in modern day Turkey, but rather to any tobacco grown under the Ottoman Empire, particularly at the height of its power under Suleiman the Magnificent. As a result, while the town of Yenidje, for example, would today be in Greece, yenidje tobacco is still classified as Turkish.<br />
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'''Twist''': A form of tobacco, also known as rope tobacco, which is spun into a roll, largely by hand, rather than being pressed into flakes. One of the oldest forms of smoking tobacco.<br />
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'''Ukulele''': A pipe shape first designed by [[Sixten Ivarsson]] for the [[Pibe-Dan]] shop in the 1950s and named ukulele, some credit Ed [[Burak]] for the design which he considered a bulldog. A ukulele is characterized by a domed, wide bowl and a wide oval shank with a flat bowl bottom, according to the [[Ukulele|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''VaPer''': A portmanteau of Virginia and Perique, vaper is simply the contraction used to refer to blends primarily composed of these two types of tobacco. <br />
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'''Vestpocket''': A pipe characterized by its ability to fit in a vest pocket, notable for its stem, which swivels over the bowl for carrying and swings out for use, according to the [[Vestpocket|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts]]. Generally all corners on the pipe are rounded to make it easier to remove from a pocket.<br />
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'''Virginia''': More appropriately called Brightleaf tobacco, Virginia is used to refer to milder tobacco leaf, lighter in color, which is grown in infertile, sandy soil, largely in North Carolina and Virginia, and which was first grown in approximately 1839. <br />
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'''Volcano''': A pipe shape characterized by a conical bowl narrowing towards the top, usually with a rounded base and a bent shank and saddle stem, according to the [[Volcano|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts]].<br />
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'''Vulcanite''': Hard black vulcanized rubber used for making pipe stems. Made from rubber containing up to 30% sulfur, vulcanite is soft on the teeth but prone to turning brownish yellow and taking on a sulfur smell on exposure to sunlight. This process is called oxidation.<br />
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'''White Burley''': First grown in Brown County, Ohio in 1865 by George Webb, White Burley is the result of planting Red Burley seeds purchased from Kentucky in the different soil of Ohio, which resulted in a mutation of whitish, sickly looking plants. White Burley soon became the chief ingredient in chewing tobacco, American pipe tobacco, and American-style cigarettes. As Red Burley no longer exists, White Burley is simply referred to as Burley today.<br />
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'''Xanthi''': Sometimes spelled Xanthe, this grade of Basma tobacco is named for a city in the Thrace region of northeastern Greece, first led into prosperity around 1715 due to the quality of its highly aromatic tobacco. The scientific name of the leaf is ''Nicotiana tabacum'' L. cv Xanthi.<br />
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'''Yacht''': Another name for the Zulu pipe shape, with a canted dublin bowl, oval shank and 1/8 bent stem. Among others, Kaywoodie used the term Yacht for pipes of this shape.<br />
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'''Yenidje''': Named for the town of Yenidje, Thrace, today called Genisea, Greece, Yenidje is also called Yenice, Jenidze, Yenidge, and Yeniji, and is a variety of Yaka tobacco, the best regarded form of Xanthi. Yenidje was an Ottoman tobacco production center until 1843 when the town burned and the growers moved up the slopes of the Rhodope Mountain range. Those slopes, called the Yaka, were made of a red clay loam mixed with small flint stones giving rise to short, low-yielding plants of the basma type, meaning (in this usage) that the leaves are small, almost round and with no free stem. The leaf burns badly on its own and was traditionally mixed with Bafra to cure this issue.<br />
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'''Zulu''': A shape of smoking pipe hallmarked by a canted dublin style bowl, an oval shank and a 1/8th bent stem. Also referred to as a Woodstock or a Yacht.<br />
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'''Zeppelin''': A name often used to refer to a cigar-shaped pipe of briar with a separate mouthpiece often of vulcanite, usually with a metal cap at the end to hold in the tobacco. Also called a Torpedo.<br />
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'''Acorn''': A pipe shape characterized by a conical shape sometimes extending to a point or near point below the shank or else with a bent shank flowing into the "point" of the acorn shape. Distinguishable from a dublin by a wider and more rounded rim in most cases. <br />
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'''Acrylic''': In pipe parlance, acrylic stems are those made of polymers of acrylic acid or acrylates, most often polymethyl methacrylate, also called acrylic glass. Some prefer this material for pipe stems due to the lack of oxidation, while others prefer a traditional vulcanite stem due to softness.<br />
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'''Aging''': The term used to describe the tendency of pipe tobacco to improve over time through either aerobic or anaerobic fermentation. The term is used interchangeably to describe increased sweetness on the part of Virginias, mellowing on the part of Latakia, or a generally more complete melding of the blend. The effect is often simulated through the use of heat or pressure.<br />
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'''Agonya''': A type of Turkish tobacco of a kabakolak leaf type, meaning it has distinct stems with "wings" on the leaf stems, Agonya was originally grown in the foothills below Xanthi, but is now grown south of the Sea of Marmara, in the region east of Kanakhale, Turkey.<br />
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'''Air-cured''': Air-cured tobacco is hung in well-ventilated barns immediately after plants are cut or leaves pulled from the field and allowed to dry for a period of one to two months. During this process the yellow colors of the leaf turn to varying shades of brown, until they are ready to be fermented and processed. Burley is an air-cured tobacco.<br />
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'''Amber''': Prior to the wide adoption of vulcanite, first invented in 1844 by Charles Goodyear, as a substance for pipe stem making, by far the most common form of pipe stem was one carved from amber. The stems were carved by hand from fossilized tree resin, at which point they could be bent only after heating in oil and over an alcohol flame. While amber is a beautiful natural material which comes in a large variety of colors, the stems are exceedingly brittle and hard on the teeth. Amber stems are still made only in very rare cases.<br />
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'''Apple''': According to the [[Apple|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the classic apple shape is a rounded version of the billiard, and may be had in either bent or straight shanked and tapered and saddle stemmed versions. Popular variations of this shape include the Prince and Author.<br />
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'''Aromatic''': A type of tobacco which is either cased or top flavored in order to produce a taste and room note other than the tobacco's natural smell, whether simply sugar or molasses, whiskey or other alcohols, or many other flavorings. Used as a major category for pipe tobaccos, along with non-aromatic and latakia based blends.<br />
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'''Army Mount''': Also called a "military bit", a pipe with an army mount stem is designed to permit the stem to be removed from the pipe while hot by inclusion of a shank cap, often made of silver, to reinforce the briar. A more elaborate variation of the army mount is the spigot. According to most likely mythological history, the first army mount was invented when a World War One soldier fixed a broken pipe shank by inserting a spent rifle casing into it and piercing a hole for the stem. <br />
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'''Author''': According to the [[Author|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the Author is a beefed-up prince, featuring a flattened ball-shaped bowl and a heavy 1/8 to 1/4 bent stem.<br />
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'''Bafra''': Bafra is a district and village in the Samsun province of Turkey, and the name sometimes given to the Samsun-Maden strain of tobacco, which is a smaller basibali Turkish varietal with low nicotine and a rich flavor.<br />
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'''Ball''': The ball shape, also referred to as a tomato, is described by the [[Author|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], is very similar to an author but with a spherical bowl and thinner shank. According to Mr. Burney the ball generally features a tapered stem with a 1/4 to 1/2 bent.<br />
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'''Ballerina''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and resembling a ballet dancer's foot while en pointe, curving from the heel at the front of the bowl to the toe at the meeting of bowl and shank, itself characterized by a full enough bend to permit the pipe to stand on its own. <br />
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[[File:Nordh Ballerina.jpg|thumb|center|100px|A Bo Nordh Ballerina]]<br />
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'''Bakelite''': A trade name for Polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride. Harder than vulcanite and softer than acrylic, bakelite stems do not oxidize. Largely seen in shades of white and amber yellow.<br />
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'''Basma''': 1. The group of Turkish small-leaf varietals in which the stem of the leaf does not extend beyond the leaf at the main stalk 2. The larger leaves primed from the middle of any variety of Turkish tobacco plant 3. A long, rectangular bale-style of packing cured Turkish leaf, approximately 50-60 pounds, of any variety.<br />
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'''Bead''': Now generally represented by two straight lines around the bowl of a bulldog or rhodesian, a bead is one of only three shapes which can be produced on a lathe, along with a flat and a cove. A bead is a rounded projection from the wood, and in the case of pipes today most beads are cut as inset beads, in that the surrounding wood is level with the top of the bead. Older pipes occasionally featured intricately carved beads. Today, however, rather than cutting a true bead the projection is left flat and only signified by the lines around it.<br />
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'''Bent Pipe''': A generic term used to refer to any pipe where the shank is not a straight horizontal line, regardless of the nature or amount of the shank bend.<br />
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'''Billiard''': The [[Billiard|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] describe a billiard as a pipe shape having a cylindrical bowl and tobacco chamber with a shank about the same length as the height of the bowl. Variations on the billiard shape include the pot and chimney.<br />
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'''Basibali''': A family of Turkish tobaccos characterized by a distinct stem separating the leaf from the stalk. Sometimes referred to as Bashi Bagli.<br />
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'''Bit''': A less than precise term, usually used to refer to the entirety of the stem or mouthpiece on a pipe, but occasionally also used to refer to the bite zone.<br />
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'''Bite Zone''': The last approximately three quarters of an inch of the mouthpiece or stem of a tobacco pipe, including the button.<br />
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'''Bloom''': Also referred to as plume, bloom is a fine white powder which appears on well aged tobacco on occasion, and despite the tendency to confuse it with mold is actually a good sign that the leaf is maturing well. Bloom is caused by the crystallization of sugars on the surface of the tobacco leaf. <br />
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'''Blowfish''': Per the [[Blowfish|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the blowfish is a pipe shape characterized by an asymmetrical flattened ball for a bowl, a bent stem blending into the body, and a combination of birdseye grain on the large panels and straight grain between.<br />
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'''Brandy''': Also referred to as a bent brandy or brandyglass, a pipe shape which resembles the glassware for which it is named. According to the [[Brandy|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pipe is characterized by a rounded base tapering up to a smaller rim, often in a 1/4 bent pipe.<br />
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'''Briar''': Actually a mistranslation of the French bruyère, briar among pipe smokers refers to the wood of the ''erica arborea'', a species of flowering plant in the heather family. After 30 to 60 years of growing time, the football sized plants are harvested, cooked, dried for several months, and further processed before they are made into pipes. <br />
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'''Bullcap''': According to the [[Bullcap|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the bullcap is a squat straight rhodesian with a large bowl diameter.<br />
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'''Bulldog''': According to the [[Bulldog|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the classic bulldog has a tapered stem, diamond shank and slightly forward canted bowl shaped someone like two cones joined at the bases with the top cone cut off. The pipe is traditionally adorned with a bead around the bowl. <br />
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'''Bullmoose''': According to the [[Bullcap|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a bullmoose is a squat rhodesian with a very heavy 1/4 bent stem.<br />
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'''Burley''': A tobacco of light-colored variety grown primarily in Kentucky and Tennessee, the bulk of burley tobacco produced in the United States is used for cigarette production. All burley today is of the white burley variety, and is often sweetened due to the low natural sugars present in the leaf. Most aromatics use a base of burley due to its ready ability to absorb flavors. While some claim burley does not age, it does improve with time. However, this takes time measured in the several decades at least.<br />
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'''Button''': The button is the raised portion at the end of a pipe mouthpiece or stem intended to permit the teeth purchase to hold the pipe.<br />
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'''Cake''': Cake refers to the buildup of residual carbon that forms in the bowl of a pipe. Most recommend trimming back the buildup to keep it at roughly the width of a dime in a briar pipe in order to create a protective layer which cools the pipe and reduces moisture. Cake is frowned upon in meerschaums, and the subject of much debate among corn cob pipe smokers.<br />
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'''Calabash''': According to the [[Calabash|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the calabash is a solid wood interpretation of the gourd calabash with a tapered bowl flared at the rim and a dome shaped top. The tobacco chamber is usually tapered and the pipe 3/4 bent, but there are variations.<br />
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'''Canadian''': According to the [[Canadian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the canadian is a long-shanked billiard with an oval shank and a tapered bit. The shank is roughly twice as long as the height of the bowl. Variations on this shape include the lumbermand, lovat and liverpool.<br />
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'''Casing''': Whether sprayed with or soaked in a sauce, casing refers to the addition of flavoring, sugar or the like prior to the finishing of the tobacco, as opposed to top-flavouring, which is added by spraying the finished blend with scents and flavours.<br />
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'''Cavendish''': There are two forms of Cavendish, which is more a process of curing and a method of cutting tobacco than a type of it. Common cavendish is made when tobacco leaves are pressed into a cake about an inch thick and heated before being allowed to ferment, resulting in a mild and sweet tobacco. Flavoring is often added before the leaves are pressed. English Cavendish uses a dark flue or fire cured Virginia , which is steamed and then stored under pressure to permit it to cure and ferment for several days or weeks.<br />
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'''Cherrywood''': According to the [[Cherrywood|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a cherrywood is a bent poker. The name cherrywood derives from the pipe shape's origin as a copy of the cherry wood pipes made by Eugène-Léon Ropp and others in mid-19th century France.<br />
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'''Churchwarden''': According to the [[Churchwarden|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the churchwarden is the only pipe defined by the shape of its stem, rather than its bowl. Whether bent or straight, the stem on a churchwarden is 9 to 18 inches long, but not so long as to make lighting the pipe while holding it in the mouth impossible.<br />
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'''Cigar Leaf''': A generic term used to describe a great many different types of leaf primarily used in cigars which are also included in pipe tobacco. Connecticut Broadleaf and Cuban-Seed Varietals are frequently used among others to add flavor to a blend.<br />
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'''Cob''': The common parlance for a corn cob pipe, which in its loosest definition is simply any pipe with a bowl made from a dried and drilled corncob. Traditionally fitted with river cane stems, most modern cobs have wood shanks and plastic bits. <br />
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'''Cumberland''': Called brindle by Dunhill and others, cumberland is a form of vulcanite made with brown and red pigment added to the rubber to give it a marble like appearance.<br />
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'''Cut''': Pipe tobacco may be cut as shag, ribbon, flake, plug, rope, discs, coins, or in other forms. These terms simply refer to the manner in which the finished product is reduced into a small enough size to consume. The most common cut is ribbon cut.<br />
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'''Cutty''': According to the [[Cutty|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a cutty has a very canted tulip shaped bowl and a slightly bent stem with a tapered bit. The word cutty simply means "cut shorter". Cutty pipes occasionally and traditionally sport a "spur", or a small foot protruding from the base of the bowl.<br />
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'''Czech Tool''': Also called a 3-way pipe tool, a combined tamper, shank clearing tool and dottle spoon on a single rotating rivet. Called a Czech tool for the original country of manufacture of most of the tools, they are largely Chinese made today.<br />
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'''Delayed Gratification Technique''': Or DGT, the habit of some pipe smokers to light a pipe and leave it to sit for hours or even days before completing the smoke. Many blends gain a far different taste profile from this technique which some find pleasant.<br />
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'''Delrin''': A brand name for polyoxymethylne or POM, also called acetal, polyacetal, or polyformaldehyde, delrin is a thermoplastic used by pipe makers as a material for non-integral stem tenons, and for screw-in tenons for meerschaum push/pull connections. Delrin is appreciated as a "self-lubricating" material, meaning that it has a low drag coefficient to interfere with the smooth passage of smoke, and for the ease of reliance on separate stems and tenons.<br />
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'''Devil Anse''': The name of a notorious West Virginia Confederate veteran suspected of murdering Asa McCoy after the war ended and starting the infamous Hatfield/McCoy feud. Devil Anse Hatfield was portrayed in a recent television series by Kevin Costner, who, despite the lack of any historical support, smoked a nosewarmer cutty in the role, now popular and given the name of the character. <br />
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'''Diplomat''': According to the [[Diplomat|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a diplomat is a pipe shape similar to a prince but a bit larger generally and with an oval shank and stem.<br />
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'''Djebel''': Sometimes referred to as Xanthi-Djebel, Dejebel tobacco is grown closer to the ridge, or djebel, of the Rhodope mountains above Xanthi. While the leaf is probably of the same strain as Yaka leaf, it is much less highly regarded.<br />
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'''Don''': A pipe shape, according to the [[Duke/Don|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], similar to a Duke but with a rudimentary shank and a vulcanite bit. Sometimes, such as by [[Peterson]], called a tankard.<br />
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'''Dottle''': The leftover plug of unburnt tobacco and ash left in the heel of a pipe bowl after smoking. Dottle is avoided by smokers as a waste of tobacco and occasionally souring of the bowl, but is sometimes unavoidable.<br />
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'''Drama''': A sweet type of tobacco with a natural olive oil fragrance grown on the Southern slopes and foothills of the Rhodope Mountains in Greek Eastern Macedonia, and taking its name from the town of the same name. A kabakolak variety, meaning that the leaf has a distinct separate stem similar to basibali, but with "wings" on its leaf stems.<br />
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'''Draught Hole''': Also Draft Hole, the point at which the airway enters the bowl of the pipe, preferably in the center back of the heel to avoid leaving excessive dottle.<br />
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'''Dubec''': 1. The smaller leaves from the upper portion of any variety of Turkish tobacco plant 2. A round package of cured Turkish leaf of any variety, approximately 25-30 pounds in weight.<br />
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'''Dublin''': According to the [[Dublin|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the dublin is a pipe shape with the same proportions as a billiard but with a conical bowl and tapered combustion chamber.<br />
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'''Duke''': A [[Dunhill]] pipe shape that features a cylindrical bowl with no shank, a bone or vulcanite stem and a poker-type canted bottom, according to the [[Duke/Don|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''Ebonite''': The brand name for a very hard rubber first created by Charles Goodyear by vulcanizing rubber for prolonged periods, Ebonite was named for its intended purpose, a replacment for ebony. Commonly referred to as vulcanite in pipe parlance, vulcanite is with acrylic one of the two most popular materials from which stems are made.<br />
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'''Egg''': According to the [[Egg|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the egg is usually but not always a bent pipe with a bowl shaped like an egg, which can be thought of as an elongated apple shape.<br />
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'''Elephant's Foot''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and characterized by straight grained side panels and wide front and back domed surfaces on the bowl exhibiting birdseye. <br />
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'''English''': Aside from the obvious geographical uses, the word "English" is often used among pipe smokers to refer to blends with latakia in them. In reality, however, the term only developed to differentiate blends made in the United Kingdom, especially in the days of the now defunct Tobacco Purity Laws, which prohibited humectants and most flavorings from being added to the tobacco. A more precise term is "latakia based".<br />
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'''English Cavendish''': The name commonly used to refer to dark flue-cured or fire-cured Virginia tobacco which is steamed and then pressed over a period of several days to weeks. It is not flavored as other forms of Cavendish generally are. Rattray's ''Dark Fragrant'' is one example of an available English Cavendish blend. <br />
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'''Eskimo''': According to the [[Ukulele|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a pipe shape by Tom Eltang created as a variation on Ed Burak's bulldog design and sporting a smooth, flat stem and shank with a canted, domed bowl.<br />
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'''Estate Pipe''': A previously owned pipe, whether smoked or un-smoked.<br />
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'''Fire Cured''': Unlike flue cured tobacco, which is cured by indirect heat without smoke, fire cured tobacco is cured with smoke, in the tobacco equivalent of barbecuing. Dark Fired Kentucky and Latakia are both fire cured, and the process results in lower sugars and higher nicotine in the leaf.<br />
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'''Flake''': Flake tobacco is made by slicing thin sheets off of a cube, which in turn is formed by pressing whole tobacco leaves into a compressed form, usually under significant pressure for long periods of time. Flake tobacco may be sold in slices, or fully or partially broken or rubbed out.<br />
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'''Flue Cured''': Flue cured tobacco is cured by heat without smoke, generally by being hung from sticks in a barn exposed to heat from external fires through flues. Traditionally the method for curing brightleaf tobacco, this method results in sweeter leaf with lower nicotine.<br />
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'''Foot''': The bottom of the outside of the bowl, as opposed to the heel, which is the bottom of the inside of the bowl.<br />
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'''Freehand''': Not to be confused with the fixed freehand shapes made by some companies, a true freehand shape is defined by the pipemaker's choice to let the grain of the briar shape the pipe, rather than forcing the pipe into a predetermined shape, according to the [[Freehand|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''Gesteckpfeife''': Literally "pipe in parts", a traditional European pipe made up of several interconnecting parts, usually held together with cork tenons. Bowls can be meerschaum, briar, or porcelain, commonly.<br />
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'''Ghost''': A ghost is the taste or smell of a previously smoked tobacco remaining in a pipe and coloring the taste of a different blend smoked in the same pipe. Generally the cause of tar in the shank, but usually blamed on cake.<br />
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'''Gourd Calabash''': According to the [[Gourd Calabash|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a gourd calabash is a pipe made from a calabash gourd which is dried and the seeds removed, and then fitted with a stem and meerschaum bowl cap. The driest and smoothest of all pipes.<br />
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'''Hand''': A hand is a bundle of tobacco tied at the end and hung from the knot for curing purposes.<br />
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'''Hawkbill''': According to the [[Hawkbill|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the hawkbill is a pipe shape characterized by an enlarged ball or tomato style with a long, tapering bent shank. The premiere example is the Castello 84.j<br />
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'''Heel''': The heel is the bottom of the combustion chamber, the inside of the bowl.<br />
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'''Horn''': According to the [[Horn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the horn is a graceful freehand shape varying from a straight tapering tube to a more standard bent pipe, but in all cases with a smooth tapering from bowl to shank and no abrupt transitions.<br />
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'''Hungarian''': More commonly referred to as an Oom Paul, the Hungarian is a fully bent billiard named for former South African President Paulus Kruger, according to the [[Oom Paul/Hungarian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''Intricate Curve''': In pipemaking, a term sometimes used to describe the transition from the rear wall of the bowl to the top of the shank.<br />
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'''Izmir''': A type of Turkish tobacco with rich flavor, low nicotine, and cool smoke. It has a very aromatic nature and is often blended with Latakia to somewhat subdue this property. Primarily used as a condiment with pipe tobacco, but occasionally offered by itself. Also called Smyrna.<br />
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'''Jar''': Tobacco jars have been used for nearly three hundred years as the predominant method for storage of pipe tobacco, whether made from tin, wood, pewter, porcelain, majolica or bisque. By far the most common choice is the simple Ball jar or Mason jar.<br />
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'''Jatim''': A form of Indonesian tobacco and the abbreviated name of the province of East Java (Jawa Timur), where the tobacco is grown.<br />
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'''Kabakolak''': A family of Turkish tobacco strains similar to Basibali, but with wings on their leaf stems in addition to distinct stems.<br />
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'''Katerini''': A Turkish varietal of the Samsun basibali type, with a milder, sweeter leaf. Grown southwest of Thessaloniki in the Greek province of Macedonia.<br />
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'''Kentucky''': Dark-Fired Kentucky is a type of pipe tobacco made from burley which is cured over a fire and flavored by its smoke.<br />
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'''Latakia''': Named for the principal port city of Syria, latakia is not a specific plant varietal, but rather one of a number of Turkish varietals which are fire cured over a stone pine or oak wood fire, giving it a smoky flavor. Most latakia, despite the name, is now grown in Cyprus, not Syria, and camel dung has nothing to do with the process of its creation.<br />
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'''Lovat''': A pipe shape, according to the [[Lovat|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], which is essentially a Canadian but with a round shank instead of oval and a saddle stem.<br />
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'''Lucite''': Lucite is a trade name for acrylic, or polyacrylate, which is derived from natural gas. It is a composition of Methyl Methacrylate and Poly Methyl Methacrylate resin. Lucite is used for pipe stems due to its lack of oxidation, but is criticized for a harder feel on the teeth.<br />
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'''Lületaşi''': A Turkish word literally meaning sea foam and used to refer to meerschaum in that country.<br />
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'''Macedonia''': 1. A province of north-central Greece, west of Thrace, which includes the sea port of Thessaloniki (Salonika) and the Katerini tobacco region 2. A recently independent republic, formerly part of Soviet Yugoslavia, located immediately north of the Greek province of Macedonia, and the source of Prilep tobacco.<br />
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'''Mahale''': A Turkish tobacco with a basma leaf type grown downslope from Xanthi.<br />
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'''Maryland''': An extremely mild tobacco used in a number of American tobacco blends, especially to add a nutty flavor to Burley. Sadly the state of Maryland now pays farmers not to grow tobacco.<br />
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'''Meerschaum''': A mineral hydrous magnesium silicate called sepiolite, primarily found in Turkey near Eskisehr, which is used in the making of tobacco pipes. The word means "seafoam".<br />
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'''Melding''': The term used to refer to a tobacco blend's property to acquire a single homogeneous taste over time, as a result of aging in an airtight container.<br />
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'''Mellowing''': Particularly used in referring to Latakia's tendency to be less overpowering after some aging, the term is sometimes used to refer to a general tendency of tobacco to become more smooth with age.<br />
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'''Mortise''': A mortise is at its most basic a hole cut or drilled to accept a smaller tenon and make a joint. The joint has been used in woodworking for thousands of years, and in pipe construction generally appears as a hole drilled larger than the airway and at the same depth as the stem tenon. Variations, however, are unlimited.<br />
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'''Mouthpiece''': A term used interchangeably with stem and to a lesser degree bit, the mouthpiece is the portion of the pipe meant to be placed in the smoker's mouth, and includes the entire pipe from the end of the shank to the slot. Often made from vulcanite or lucite/acrylic.<br />
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'''Nautilus''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and named for its obvious resemblance to the shell of a nautilus, resulting in an airway passing through a shank curved in a loop and pierced in the center to suggest the closed portion of the shell, a bowl shaped like the long open mouth of the shell, and a foot curving in a near half circle beneath.<br />
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'''Nail''': The simplest form of pipe tool is the venerable Pipe Nail, which generally looks much like its namesake, one end flat to tamp with and another coming to a point or spoon for clearing ash and tar.<br />
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'''Nomenclature''': A general term used to refer to the stamping on a pipe in its entirety, including brand names, models, year and shape codes and the like.<br />
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'''Oliphant''': A traditional name for a hunter's horn made from an elephant tusk, the oliphant shape was first designed by [[Sixten Ivarsson]] for the [[Pibe-Dan]] shop in the late 1950s. According to the [[Horn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]]The shape is a variation of the horn meant to resemble the tusk of an elephant, and with a flat curve and even and gradual tapering throughout.<br />
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'''Oom Paul''': A shape name which actually means Uncle Paul in Dutch, Oom Paul pipes are full bent billiards, according to the [[Oom Paul/Hungarian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]]. The name comes from the nickname for Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, president of the South African Republic from 1883 to 1900 and the face of the Boer cause against Britain during the Second Boer War of 1899 to 1902. Also called a Hungarian.<br />
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'''Opera Pipe''': A shape which the [[Oval|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] refer to as an "Oval" or Pocket pipe, the opera pipe is a billiard with a bowl "squashed" into an oval, with the long side of the oval parallel with the shank and stem. In fact, "opera" pipe is a misnomer. The original name of the pipe was the au pair pipe, as it gained popularity with domestic workers unable to smoke around children.<br />
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'''Oriental''': Used interchangeably with "Turkish" to refer to sun cured condimental tobaccos grown in the Eastern Mediterranean. This category of tobaccos includes Yenidje, Smyrna, Samsun, Izmir, Drama, Xanthe, and often Basma, which is not a particular leaf but a generic Turkish blend, and all that pipe tobacco blenders are often able to find due to the purchase of most oriental varietals by cigarette manufacturers.<br />
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'''Panel Billiard''': According to the [[Panel Billiard|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the Panelled Billiard, also called a foursquare, is a basic billiard shape with flat, or panelled, sides. The classic panel has four flat sides and a round shank.<br />
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'''Pear''': More commonly called an acorn today, according to the [[Pear/Accorn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] the pear is a sort of softened dublin shape, with a conical bowl and tobacco chamber but with all sharp edges rounded.<br />
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'''Perique''': Mistakenly believed to be a nickname for Pierre Chenet and actually a French mispronunciation of an American slang word for a part of the anatomy, perique is a type of tobacco grown only in St. James Parish, Louisiana, sauced and kept under massive pressure in barrels until it turns nearly black. Perique has flavors of spice and plum, and is prized as the truffle of pipe tobaccos.<br />
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'''Pickaxe''': According to the [[Pickaxe|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pickaxe is a freehand style of pipe characterized by a paneled, triangular bowl.<br />
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'''Pipe''': A tube with a small bowl at one end used for the smoking of tobacco.<br />
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'''P-Lip''': A type of pipe mouthpiece invented by Peterson of Dublin and relying on a small hole on the top of a stem rather than a hole at its end. Meant to reduce tongue bite by directing the flow of smoke away from the tongue.<br />
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'''Plug''': Whole leaf, pressed with moisture, becomes a plug, from which flakes can be sliced. Plug tobacco is prepared by slicing off and then rubbing out pieces of the block of tobacco.<br />
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'''Poker''': According to the [[Poker|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the poker is a straight pipe with a cylindrical, flat bottomed bowl designed so that the pipe will stand on its own.<br />
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'''Pot''': According to the [[Pot|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pot is a billiard with a shorter bowl, but not a shorter shank than a standard billiard.<br />
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'''Prilep''': A Sirdily variety of Turkish tobacco commonly grown in the region of the town of Prilep, which is located in the Independent Republic of Macedonia.<br />
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'''Prince''': According to the [[Prince|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the prince is a pipe shape characterized by a squat rounded bowl and along, usually slightly bent stem with a short shank. The pipe was named after Prince Albert, later King Edward VII, the Prince of Wales.<br />
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'''Quaint''': A pipe shape hallmarked, generally, by more than four panels, especially with a paneled shank as well.<br />
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'''Ramses''': A pipe shape created by Bo [[Nordh]] and later named by a visiting customer for its resemblance to the statue of Ramses II in Abu Simbel, Egypt. Characterized by a long, wide sloping shank which also serves as the foot of the pipe and a long, tapered bowl which rests almost vertically on the shank. Stems are generally partially bent.<br />
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'''Reaming''': Trimming back cake from the bowl of a tobacco pipe.<br />
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'''Reamer''': A tool used to trim pipe cake back to an acceptable level. These have been made in countless different forms, adjustable and non-adjustable, for well over a century. Some simply use a pipe knife or sandpaper to accomplish the same task.<br />
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'''Rhodesian''': A subject of great dispute. Unlikely to have been named for Cecil Rhodes, and more likely to have taken its name from Rhodesian tobacco, a Rhodesian is considered by some to be any bent bulldog, by others to be any bulldog with a round shank, and by others any bulldog shape with a greater bowl width than height. For each accepted definition of the word there is a pipe sold which contradicts it, and no consensus is likely.<br />
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'''Room Note''': The smell of a particular tobacco as it is being smoked. Easier to detect by those not smoking the blend, and a key component to the choice of a pipe tobacco blend especially for those who smoke in public environments. Simply put, how pleasing the smoke would be to a bystander.<br />
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'''Samsun''': A Turkish tobacco of the basibali variety with a heart-shaped leaf, grown near the town of Samsun, Turkey on the shores of the Black Sea. Low nicotine tobacco, but with strong flavor and dark color.<br />
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'''Samsun-Maden''': Also called Bafra for the village near Samsun, Samsun-Maden is a basibali Turkish tobacco characterized by leaves which are are small sized and ovalThe leaf faces are red to bright red. This strain can be smoked without blending. Nicotine content is often lower than 1% and sugar content is 9-12%. <br />
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'''Shank''': The portion of a stummel between the bowl and mouthpiece, and generally containing the mortise. The length of the pipe shank is one of the key variables in the shape of a pipe, as is it's shape, whether square, diamond, oval or round.<br />
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'''Shirazi''': Named for the ancient city of Shiraz in south-western Iran and claimed to be native to that country, Shirazi tobacco is thought to have reached Iran from the Americas in the mid 1500s. Once called ''Nicotiana Persica''.<br />
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'''Sirdily''': A category of Turkish basma subvarietals characterized by small, narrow, acutely pointed leaves.<br />
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'''Slot''': A slot is the wide opening at the end of the mouthpiece tapering into the airway of the pipe. Generally seen only on vulcanite and acrylic stems from the last century, the slot is funneled both to make the insertion of a pipe cleaner easier and to make for a smoother flow for the smoke.<br />
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'''Smyrna''': A type of Turkish tobacco with rich flavor, low nicotine, and cool smoke. It has a very aromatic nature and is often blended with Latakia to somewhat subdue this property. Primarily used as a condiment with pipe tobacco, but occasionally offered by itself. Also called Izmir.<br />
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'''Sokhoum''': A type of Turkish varietal of the Samsun basibali type which is deeply fermented. Grown in the mountains above the town of Sokhoum Kale (Sokhumi) in the Republic of Georgia.<br />
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'''Soppeng''': A type of Indonesian tobacco prepared much like a traditional cavendish but using palm sugar as the sweetener, and then fired. Primarily smoked in cigarettes but enjoyed as pipe tobacco also, Soppeng is sometimes flavored with cinnamon or other tastes during preparation.<br />
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'''Sphinx''': A shape created by Bo [[Nordh]] and characterized by a wide domed bowl front cut so as to show birdseye at the center with straight grain radiating out from that point, giving a sunburst pattern. A similar shape, the Mounted Sphinx, was created by [[Geiger Pipes|Love and Sara Geiger]], but was not created as a variation on the shape.<br />
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'''Spur''': A small protrusion at the bottom of traditional clay pipes to ensure a hot bowl does not burn the table. Frequently included in cutty pipes made even in briar and meerschaum in later decades as an ornamental element of the cutty shape. Seen only occasionally today.<br />
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'''Srintil''': A type of heavily fermented, air cured Indonesian tobacco grown in the Java region in the Temangung valley which grows at the top of a plant and by abnormality produces an extreme amount of resin, making it highly potent. Fermentation details are thought to be similar to perique, and in 1983 approximately 3 tons a year of Srintil were grown worldwide. Sometimes extracted in an aqueous solution for use as a flavoring agent.<br />
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'''Stummel''': German for stump, the stummel is a complete pipe minus only a stem and any final adornments, including the bowl, shank, and transition between the two.<br />
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'''Tambolaka''': An Indonesian tobacco grown in limestone heavy soil and after harvesting rolled into long sticks which are bound and stored for five years. Sold both as pipe tobacco and as a component of Indonesian cigars. Very high in nicotine with a tin note best described as pungent. <br />
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'''Tamp''': Using a tool or finger to compress the contents of the pipe bowl so as to bring unburnt tobacco into contact with the ember.<br />
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'''Tamper''': A tool used to tamp a pipe, generally with a flat end designed for that purpose and a handle. A tamper can be as simple as a piece of dowel or as ornate as the buyer may wish. While it seems inconsequential, tamping is important both for the care of the pipe and the coolness of the smoke.<br />
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'''Tenon''': The tenon is the smaller diameter protrusion at the end of a pipe stem which holds the stem to the stummel. It takes its name from one of the oldest joints in woodworking, the mortise and tenon joint. Over the last two centuries tenons have been made separately with bone screws, cut integrally into a vulcanite stem to fit a cut mortise in the stummel, made from threaded aluminum or plastic, made from aluminum to fit a pre-drilled mortise so as to hold a filter, made from delrin and placed into a drilled hole in the stem, and in other fashions as well. <br />
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'''Tin Note''': As opposed to the aroma of burning tobacco, the tin note is the scent which can be smelled from the unsmoked tobacco when opened, and is considered a good way to begin to understand a new blend and determine to some degree its components and their relative strength.<br />
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'''Trebizond''': No known as Trabzon, Trebizond is grown in Turkey at the southeast shores of the Black Sea. A basibali varietal resembling Samsun, but coarser and stronger.<br />
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'''Turkish''': A term used to refer not only to tobaccos grown in modern day Turkey, but rather to any tobacco grown under the Ottoman Empire, particularly at the height of its power under Suleiman the Magnificent. As a result, while the town of Yenidje, for example, would today be in Greece, yenidje tobacco is still classified as Turkish.<br />
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'''Twist''': A form of tobacco, also known as rope tobacco, which is spun into a roll, largely by hand, rather than being pressed into flakes. One of the oldest forms of smoking tobacco.<br />
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'''Ukulele''': A pipe shape first designed by [[Sixten Ivarsson]] for the [[Pibe-Dan]] shop in the 1950s and named ukulele, some credit Ed [[Burak]] for the design which he considered a bulldog. A ukulele is characterized by a domed, wide bowl and a wide oval shank with a flat bowl bottom, according to the [[Ukulele|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''VaPer''': A portmanteau of Virginia and Perique, vaper is simply the contraction used to refer to blends primarily composed of these two types of tobacco. <br />
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'''Vestpocket''': A pipe characterized by its ability to fit in a vest pocket, notable for its stem, which swivels over the bowl for carrying and swings out for use, according to the [[Vestpocket|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts]]. Generally all corners on the pipe are rounded to make it easier to remove from a pocket.<br />
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'''Virginia''': More appropriately called Brightleaf tobacco, Virginia is used to refer to milder tobacco leaf, lighter in color, which is grown in infertile, sandy soil, largely in North Carolina and Virginia, and which was first grown in approximately 1839. <br />
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'''Volcano''': A pipe shape characterized by a conical bowl narrowing towards the top, usually with a rounded base and a bent shank and saddle stem, according to the [[Volcano|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts]].<br />
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'''Vulcanite''': Hard black vulcanized rubber used for making pipe stems. Made from rubber containing up to 30% sulfur, vulcanite is soft on the teeth but prone to turning brownish yellow and taking on a sulfur smell on exposure to sunlight. This process is called oxidation.<br />
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'''White Burley''': First grown in Brown County, Ohio in 1865 by George Webb, White Burley is the result of planting Red Burley seeds purchased from Kentucky in the different soil of Ohio, which resulted in a mutation of whitish, sickly looking plants. White Burley soon became the chief ingredient in chewing tobacco, American pipe tobacco, and American-style cigarettes. As Red Burley no longer exists, White Burley is simply referred to as Burley today.<br />
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'''Xanthi''': Sometimes spelled Xanthe, this grade of Basma tobacco is named for a city in the Thrace region of northeastern Greece, first led into prosperity around 1715 due to the quality of its highly aromatic tobacco. The scientific name of the leaf is ''Nicotiana tabacum'' L. cv Xanthi.<br />
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'''Yacht''': Another name for the Zulu pipe shape, with a canted dublin bowl, oval shank and 1/8 bent stem. Among others, Kaywoodie used the term Yacht for pipes of this shape.<br />
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'''Yenidje''': Named for the town of Yenidje, Thrace, today called Genisea, Greece, Yenidje is also called Yenice, Jenidze, Yenidge, and Yeniji, and is a variety of Yaka tobacco, the best regarded form of Xanthi. Yenidje was an Ottoman tobacco production center until 1843 when the town burned and the growers moved up the slopes of the Rhodope Mountain range. Those slopes, called the Yaka, were made of a red clay loam mixed with small flint stones giving rise to short, low-yielding plants of the basma type, meaning (in this usage) that the leaves are small, almost round and with no free stem. The leaf burns badly on its own and was traditionally mixed with Bafra to cure this issue.<br />
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'''Zulu''': A shape of smoking pipe hallmarked by a canted dublin style bowl, an oval shank and a 1/8th bent stem. Also referred to as a Woodstock or a Yacht.<br />
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'''Zeppelin''': A name often used to refer to a cigar-shaped pipe of briar with a separate mouthpiece often of vulcanite, usually with a metal cap at the end to hold in the tobacco. Also called a Torpedo.<br />
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'''Acorn''': A pipe shape characterized by a conical shape sometimes extending to a point or near point below the shank or else with a bent shank flowing into the "point" of the acorn shape. Distinguishable from a dublin by a wider and more rounded rim in most cases. <br />
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'''Acrylic''': In pipe parlance, acrylic stems are those made of polymers of acrylic acid or acrylates, most often polymethyl methacrylate, also called acrylic glass. Some prefer this material for pipe stems due to the lack of oxidation, while others prefer a traditional vulcanite stem due to softness.<br />
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'''Aging''': The term used to describe the tendency of pipe tobacco to improve over time through either aerobic or anaerobic fermentation. The term is used interchangeably to describe increased sweetness on the part of Virginias, mellowing on the part of Latakia, or a generally more complete melding of the blend. The effect is often simulated through the use of heat or pressure.<br />
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'''Agonya''': A type of Turkish tobacco of a kabakolak leaf type, meaning it has distinct stems with "wings" on the leaf stems, Agonya was originally grown in the foothills below Xanthi, but is now grown south of the Sea of Marmara, in the region east of Kanakhale, Turkey.<br />
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'''Air-cured''': Air-cured tobacco is hung in well-ventilated barns immediately after plants are cut or leaves pulled from the field and allowed to dry for a period of one to two months. During this process the yellow colors of the leaf turn to varying shades of brown, until they are ready to be fermented and processed. Burley is an air-cured tobacco.<br />
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'''Amber''': Prior to the wide adoption of vulcanite, first invented in 1844 by Charles Goodyear, as a substance for pipe stem making, by far the most common form of pipe stem was one carved from amber. The stems were carved by hand from fossilized tree resin, at which point they could be bent only after heating in oil and over an alcohol flame. While amber is a beautiful natural material which comes in a large variety of colors, the stems are exceedingly brittle and hard on the teeth. Amber stems are still made only in very rare cases.<br />
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'''Apple''': According to the [[Apple|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the classic apple shape is a rounded version of the billiard, and may be had in either bent or straight shanked and tapered and saddle stemmed versions. Popular variations of this shape include the Prince and Author.<br />
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'''Aromatic''': A type of tobacco which is either cased or top flavored in order to produce a taste and room note other than the tobacco's natural smell, whether simply sugar or molasses, whiskey or other alcohols, or many other flavorings. Used as a major category for pipe tobaccos, along with non-aromatic and latakia based blends.<br />
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'''Army Mount''': Also called a "military bit", a pipe with an army mount stem is designed to permit the stem to be removed from the pipe while hot by inclusion of a shank cap, often made of silver, to reinforce the briar. A more elaborate variation of the army mount is the spigot. According to most likely mythological history, the first army mount was invented when a World War One soldier fixed a broken pipe shank by inserting a spent rifle casing into it and piercing a hole for the stem. <br />
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'''Author''': According to the [[Author|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the Author is a beefed-up prince, featuring a flattened ball-shaped bowl and a heavy 1/8 to 1/4 bent stem.<br />
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'''Bafra''': Bafra is a district and village in the Samsun province of Turkey, and the name sometimes given to the Samsun-Maden strain of tobacco, which is a smaller basibali Turkish varietal with low nicotine and a rich flavor.<br />
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'''Ball''': The ball shape, also referred to as a tomato, is described by the [[Author|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], is very similar to an author but with a spherical bowl and thinner shank. According to Mr. Burney the ball generally features a tapered stem with a 1/4 to 1/2 bent.<br />
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'''Ballerina''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and resembling a ballet dancer's foot while en pointe, curving from the heel at the front of the bowl to the toe at the meeting of bowl and shank, itself characterized by a full enough bend to permit the pipe to stand on its own. <br />
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[[File:Nordh Ballerina.jpg|thumb|center|100px|A Bo Nordh Ballerina]]<br />
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'''Bakelite''': A trade name for Polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride. Harder than vulcanite and softer than acrylic, bakelite stems do not oxidize. Largely seen in shades of white and amber yellow.<br />
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'''Basma''': 1. The group of Turkish small-leaf varietals in which the stem of the leaf does not extend beyond the leaf at the main stalk 2. The larger leaves primed from the middle of any variety of Turkish tobacco plant 3. A long, rectangular bale-style of packing cured Turkish leaf, approximately 50-60 pounds, of any variety.<br />
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'''Bead''': Now generally represented by two straight lines around the bowl of a bulldog or rhodesian, a bead is one of only three shapes which can be produced on a lathe, along with a flat and a cove. A bead is a rounded projection from the wood, and in the case of pipes today most beads are cut as inset beads, in that the surrounding wood is level with the top of the bead. Older pipes occasionally featured intricately carved beads. Today, however, rather than cutting a true bead the projection is left flat and only signified by the lines around it.<br />
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'''Bent Pipe''': A generic term used to refer to any pipe where the shank is not a straight horizontal line, regardless of the nature or amount of the shank bend.<br />
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'''Billiard''': The [[Billiard|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] describe a billiard as a pipe shape having a cylindrical bowl and tobacco chamber with a shank about the same length as the height of the bowl. Variations on the billiard shape include the pot and chimney.<br />
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'''Basibali''': A family of Turkish tobaccos characterized by a distinct stem separating the leaf from the stalk. Sometimes referred to as Bashi Bagli.<br />
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'''Bit''': A less than precise term, usually used to refer to the entirety of the stem or mouthpiece on a pipe, but occasionally also used to refer to the bite zone.<br />
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'''Bite Zone''': The last approximately three quarters of an inch of the mouthpiece or stem of a tobacco pipe, including the button.<br />
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'''Bloom''': Also referred to as plume, bloom is a fine white powder which appears on well aged tobacco on occasion, and despite the tendency to confuse it with mold is actually a good sign that the leaf is maturing well. Bloom is caused by the crystallization of sugars on the surface of the tobacco leaf. <br />
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'''Blowfish''': Per the [[Blowfish|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the blowfish is a pipe shape characterized by an asymmetrical flattened ball for a bowl, a bent stem blending into the body, and a combination of birdseye grain on the large panels and straight grain between.<br />
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'''Brandy''': Also referred to as a bent brandy or brandyglass, a pipe shape which resembles the glassware for which it is named. According to the [[Brandy|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pipe is characterized by a rounded base tapering up to a smaller rim, often in a 1/4 bent pipe.<br />
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'''Briar''': Actually a mistranslation of the French bruyère, briar among pipe smokers refers to the wood of the ''erica arborea'', a species of flowering plant in the heather family. After 30 to 60 years of growing time, the football sized plants are harvested, cooked, dried for several months, and further processed before they are made into pipes. <br />
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'''Bullcap''': According to the [[Bullcap|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the bullcap is a squat straight rhodesian with a large bowl diameter.<br />
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'''Bulldog''': According to the [[Bulldog|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the classic bulldog has a tapered stem, diamond shank and slightly forward canted bowl shaped someone like two cones joined at the bases with the top cone cut off. The pipe is traditionally adorned with a bead around the bowl. <br />
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'''Bullmoose''': According to the [[Bullcap|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a bullmoose is a squat rhodesian with a very heavy 1/4 bent stem.<br />
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'''Burley''': A tobacco of light-colored variety grown primarily in Kentucky and Tennessee, the bulk of burley tobacco produced in the United States is used for cigarette production. All burley today is of the white burley variety, and is often sweetened due to the low natural sugars present in the leaf. Most aromatics use a base of burley due to its ready ability to absorb flavors. While some claim burley does not age, it does improve with time. However, this takes time measured in the several decades at least.<br />
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'''Button''': The button is the raised portion at the end of a pipe mouthpiece or stem intended to permit the teeth purchase to hold the pipe.<br />
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== C ==<br />
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'''Cake''': Cake refers to the buildup of residual carbon that forms in the bowl of a pipe. Most recommend trimming back the buildup to keep it at roughly the width of a dime in a briar pipe in order to create a protective layer which cools the pipe and reduces moisture. Cake is frowned upon in meerschaums, and the subject of much debate among corn cob pipe smokers.<br />
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'''Calabash''': According to the [[Calabash|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the calabash is a solid wood interpretation of the gourd calabash with a tapered bowl flared at the rim and a dome shaped top. The tobacco chamber is usually tapered and the pipe 3/4 bent, but there are variations.<br />
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'''Canadian''': According to the [[Canadian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the canadian is a long-shanked billiard with an oval shank and a tapered bit. The shank is roughly twice as long as the height of the bowl. Variations on this shape include the lumbermand, lovat and liverpool.<br />
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'''Casing''': Whether sprayed with or soaked in a sauce, casing refers to the addition of flavoring, sugar or the like prior to the finishing of the tobacco, as opposed to top-flavouring, which is added by spraying the finished blend with scents and flavours.<br />
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'''Cavendish''': There are two forms of Cavendish, which is more a process of curing and a method of cutting tobacco than a type of it. Common cavendish is made when tobacco leaves are pressed into a cake about an inch thick and heated before being allowed to ferment, resulting in a mild and sweet tobacco. Flavoring is often added before the leaves are pressed. English Cavendish uses a dark flue or fire cured Virginia , which is steamed and then stored under pressure to permit it to cure and ferment for several days or weeks.<br />
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'''Cherrywood''': According to the [[Cherrywood|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a cherrywood is a bent poker. The name cherrywood derives from the pipe shape's origin as a copy of the cherry wood pipes made by Eugène-Léon Ropp and others in mid-19th century France.<br />
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'''Churchwarden''': According to the [[Churchwarden|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the churchwarden is the only pipe defined by the shape of its stem, rather than its bowl. Whether bent or straight, the stem on a churchwarden is 9 to 18 inches long, but not so long as to make lighting the pipe while holding it in the mouth impossible.<br />
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'''Cigar Leaf''': A generic term used to describe a great many different types of leaf primarily used in cigars which are also included in pipe tobacco. Connecticut Broadleaf and Cuban-Seed Varietals are frequently used among others to add flavor to a blend.<br />
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'''Cob''': The common parlance for a corn cob pipe, which in its loosest definition is simply any pipe with a bowl made from a dried and drilled corncob. Traditionally fitted with river cane stems, most modern cobs have wood shanks and plastic bits. <br />
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'''Cumberland''': Called brindle by Dunhill and others, cumberland is a form of vulcanite made with brown and red pigment added to the rubber to give it a marble like appearance.<br />
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'''Cut''': Pipe tobacco may be cut as shag, ribbon, flake, plug, rope, discs, coins, or in other forms. These terms simply refer to the manner in which the finished product is reduced into a small enough size to consume. The most common cut is ribbon cut.<br />
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'''Cutty''': According to the [[Cutty|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a cutty has a very canted tulip shaped bowl and a slightly bent stem with a tapered bit. The word cutty simply means "cut shorter". Cutty pipes occasionally and traditionally sport a "spur", or a small foot protruding from the base of the bowl.<br />
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'''Czech Tool''': Also called a 3-way pipe tool, a combined tamper, shank clearing tool and dottle spoon on a single rotating rivet. Called a Czech tool for the original country of manufacture of most of the tools, they are largely Chinese made today.<br />
[[File:Czech Tool.jpg|center|thumb|A Czech Tool.]]<br />
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== D ==<br />
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'''Delayed Gratification Technique''': Or DGT, the habit of some pipe smokers to light a pipe and leave it to sit for hours or even days before completing the smoke. Many blends gain a far different taste profile from this technique which some find pleasant.<br />
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'''Delrin''': A brand name for polyoxymethylne or POM, also called acetal, polyacetal, or polyformaldehyde, delrin is a thermoplastic used by pipe makers as a material for non-integral stem tenons, and for screw-in tenons for meerschaum push/pull connections. Delrin is appreciated as a "self-lubricating" material, meaning that it has a low drag coefficient to interfere with the smooth passage of smoke, and for the ease of reliance on separate stems and tenons.<br />
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'''Devil Anse''': The name of a notorious West Virginia Confederate veteran suspected of murdering Asa McCoy after the war ended and starting the infamous Hatfield/McCoy feud. Devil Anse Hatfield was portrayed in a recent television series by Kevin Costner, who, despite the lack of any historical support, smoked a nosewarmer cutty in the role, now popular and given the name of the character. <br />
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'''Diplomat''': According to the [[Diplomat|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a diplomat is a pipe shape similar to a prince but a bit larger generally and with an oval shank and stem.<br />
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'''Djebel''': Sometimes referred to as Xanthi-Djebel, Dejebel tobacco is grown closer to the ridge, or djebel, of the Rhodope mountains above Xanthi. While the leaf is probably of the same strain as Yaka leaf, it is much less highly regarded.<br />
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'''Don''': A pipe shape, according to the [[Duke/Don|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], similar to a Duke but with a rudimentary shank and a vulcanite bit. Sometimes, such as by [[Peterson]], called a tankard.<br />
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'''Dottle''': The leftover plug of unburnt tobacco and ash left in the heel of a pipe bowl after smoking. Dottle is avoided by smokers as a waste of tobacco and occasionally souring of the bowl, but is sometimes unavoidable.<br />
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'''Drama''': A sweet type of tobacco with a natural olive oil fragrance grown on the Southern slopes and foothills of the Rhodope Mountains in Greek Eastern Macedonia, and taking its name from the town of the same name. A kabakolak variety, meaning that the leaf has a distinct separate stem similar to basibali, but with "wings" on its leaf stems.<br />
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'''Draught Hole''': Also Draft Hole, the point at which the airway enters the bowl of the pipe, preferably in the center back of the heel to avoid leaving excessive dottle.<br />
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'''Dubec''': 1. The smaller leaves from the upper portion of any variety of Turkish tobacco plant 2. A round package of cured Turkish leaf of any variety, approximately 25-30 pounds in weight.<br />
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'''Dublin''': According to the [[Dublin|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the dublin is a pipe shape with the same proportions as a billiard but with a conical bowl and tapered combustion chamber.<br />
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'''Duke''': A [[Dunhill]] pipe shape that features a cylindrical bowl with no shank, a bone or vulcanite stem and a poker-type canted bottom, according to the [[Duke/Don|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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== E ==<br />
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'''Ebonite''': The brand name for a very hard rubber first created by Charles Goodyear by vulcanizing rubber for prolonged periods, Ebonite was named for its intended purpose, a replacment for ebony. Commonly referred to as vulcanite in pipe parlance, vulcanite is with acrylic one of the two most popular materials from which stems are made.<br />
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'''Egg''': According to the [[Egg|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the egg is usually but not always a bent pipe with a bowl shaped like an egg, which can be thought of as an elongated apple shape.<br />
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'''Elephant's Foot''': A pipe shape originally created by Bo [[Nordh]] and characterized by straight grained side panels and wide front and back domed surfaces on the bowl exhibiting birdseye. <br />
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'''English''': Aside from the obvious geographical uses, the word "English" is often used among pipe smokers to refer to blends with latakia in them. In reality, however, the term only developed to differentiate blends made in the United Kingdom, especially in the days of the now defunct Tobacco Purity Laws, which prohibited humectants and most flavorings from being added to the tobacco. A more precise term is "latakia based".<br />
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'''English Cavendish''': The name commonly used to refer to dark flue-cured or fire-cured Virginia tobacco which is steamed and then pressed over a period of several days to weeks. It is not flavored as other forms of Cavendish generally are. Rattray's ''Dark Fragrant'' is one example of an available English Cavendish blend. <br />
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'''Eskimo''': According to the [[Ukulele|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a pipe shape by Tom Eltang created as a variation on Ed Burak's bulldog design and sporting a smooth, flat stem and shank with a canted, domed bowl.<br />
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'''Estate Pipe''': A previously owned pipe, whether smoked or un-smoked.<br />
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'''Fire Cured''': Unlike flue cured tobacco, which is cured by indirect heat without smoke, fire cured tobacco is cured with smoke, in the tobacco equivalent of barbecuing. Dark Fired Kentucky and Latakia are both fire cured, and the process results in lower sugars and higher nicotine in the leaf.<br />
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'''Flake''': Flake tobacco is made by slicing thin sheets off of a cube, which in turn is formed by pressing whole tobacco leaves into a compressed form, usually under significant pressure for long periods of time. Flake tobacco may be sold in slices, or fully or partially broken or rubbed out.<br />
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'''Flue Cured''': Flue cured tobacco is cured by heat without smoke, generally by being hung from sticks in a barn exposed to heat from external fires through flues. Traditionally the method for curing brightleaf tobacco, this method results in sweeter leaf with lower nicotine.<br />
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'''Foot''': The bottom of the outside of the bowl, as opposed to the heel, which is the bottom of the inside of the bowl.<br />
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'''Freehand''': Not to be confused with the fixed freehand shapes made by some companies, a true freehand shape is defined by the pipemaker's choice to let the grain of the briar shape the pipe, rather than forcing the pipe into a predetermined shape, according to the [[Freehand|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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== G ==<br />
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'''Gesteckpfeife''': Literally "pipe in parts", a traditional European pipe made up of several interconnecting parts, usually held together with cork tenons. Bowls can be meerschaum, briar, or porcelain, commonly.<br />
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'''Ghost''': A ghost is the taste or smell of a previously smoked tobacco remaining in a pipe and coloring the taste of a different blend smoked in the same pipe. Generally the cause of tar in the shank, but usually blamed on cake.<br />
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'''Gourd Calabash''': According to the [[Gourd Calabash|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a gourd calabash is a pipe made from a calabash gourd which is dried and the seeds removed, and then fitted with a stem and meerschaum bowl cap. The driest and smoothest of all pipes.<br />
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'''Hand''': A hand is a bundle of tobacco tied at the end and hung from the knot for curing purposes.<br />
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'''Hawkbill''': According to the [[Hawkbill|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the hawkbill is a pipe shape characterized by an enlarged ball or tomato style with a long, tapering bent shank. The premiere example is the Castello 84.j<br />
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'''Heel''': The heel is the bottom of the combustion chamber, the inside of the bowl.<br />
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'''Horn''': According to the [[Horn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the horn is a graceful freehand shape varying from a straight tapering tube to a more standard bent pipe, but in all cases with a smooth tapering from bowl to shank and no abrupt transitions.<br />
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'''Hungarian''': More commonly referred to as an Oom Paul, the Hungarian is a fully bent billiard named for former South African President Paulus Kruger, according to the [[Oom Paul/Hungarian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''Intricate Curve''': In pipemaking, a term sometimes used to describe the transition from the rear wall of the bowl to the top of the shank.<br />
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'''Izmir''': A type of Turkish tobacco with rich flavor, low nicotine, and cool smoke. It has a very aromatic nature and is often blended with Latakia to somewhat subdue this property. Primarily used as a condiment with pipe tobacco, but occasionally offered by itself. Also called Smyrna.<br />
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'''Jar''': Tobacco jars have been used for nearly three hundred years as the predominant method for storage of pipe tobacco, whether made from tin, wood, pewter, porcelain, majolica or bisque. By far the most common choice is the simple Ball jar or Mason jar.<br />
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'''Jatim''': A form of Indonesian tobacco and the abbreviated name of the province of East Java (Jawa Timur), where the tobacco is grown.<br />
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== K ==<br />
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'''Kabakolak''': A family of Turkish tobacco strains similar to Basibali, but with wings on their leaf stems in addition to distinct stems.<br />
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'''Katerini''': A Turkish varietal of the Samsun basibali type, with a milder, sweeter leaf. Grown southwest of Thessaloniki in the Greek province of Macedonia.<br />
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'''Kentucky''': Dark-Fired Kentucky is a type of pipe tobacco made from burley which is cured over a fire and flavored by its smoke.<br />
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'''Latakia''': Named for the principal port city of Syria, latakia is not a specific plant varietal, but rather one of a number of Turkish varietals which are fire cured over a stone pine or oak wood fire, giving it a smoky flavor. Most latakia, despite the name, is now grown in Cyprus, not Syria, and camel dung has nothing to do with the process of its creation.<br />
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'''Lovat''': A pipe shape, according to the [[Lovat|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], which is essentially a Canadian but with a round shank instead of oval and a saddle stem.<br />
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'''Lucite''': Lucite is a trade name for acrylic, or polyacrylate, which is derived from natural gas. It is a composition of Methyl Methacrylate and Poly Methyl Methacrylate resin. Lucite is used for pipe stems due to its lack of oxidation, but is criticized for a harder feel on the teeth.<br />
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'''Lületaşi''': A Turkish word literally meaning sea foam and used to refer to meerschaum in that country.<br />
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'''Macedonia''': 1. A province of north-central Greece, west of Thrace, which includes the sea port of Thessaloniki (Salonika) and the Katerini tobacco region 2. A recently independent republic, formerly part of Soviet Yugoslavia, located immediately north of the Greek province of Macedonia, and the source of Prilep tobacco.<br />
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'''Mahale''': A Turkish tobacco with a basma leaf type grown downslope from Xanthi.<br />
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'''Maryland''': An extremely mild tobacco used in a number of American tobacco blends, especially to add a nutty flavor to Burley. Sadly the state of Maryland now pays farmers not to grow tobacco.<br />
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'''Meerschaum''': A mineral hydrous magnesium silicate called sepiolite, primarily found in Turkey near Eskisehr, which is used in the making of tobacco pipes. The word means "seafoam".<br />
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'''Melding''': The term used to refer to a tobacco blend's property to acquire a single homogeneous taste over time, as a result of aging in an airtight container.<br />
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'''Mellowing''': Particularly used in referring to Latakia's tendency to be less overpowering after some aging, the term is sometimes used to refer to a general tendency of tobacco to become more smooth with age.<br />
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'''Mortise''': A mortise is at its most basic a hole cut or drilled to accept a smaller tenon and make a joint. The joint has been used in woodworking for thousands of years, and in pipe construction generally appears as a hole drilled larger than the airway and at the same depth as the stem tenon. Variations, however, are unlimited.<br />
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'''Mouthpiece''': A term used interchangeably with stem and to a lesser degree bit, the mouthpiece is the portion of the pipe meant to be placed in the smoker's mouth, and includes the entire pipe from the end of the shank to the slot. Often made from vulcanite or lucite/acrylic.<br />
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'''Nail''': The simplest form of pipe tool is the venerable Pipe Nail, which generally looks much like its namesake, one end flat to tamp with and another coming to a point or spoon for clearing ash and tar.<br />
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'''Nomenclature''': A general term used to refer to the stamping on a pipe in its entirety, including brand names, models, year and shape codes and the like.<br />
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'''Oliphant''': A traditional name for a hunter's horn made from an elephant tusk, the oliphant shape was first designed by [[Sixten Ivarsson]] for the [[Pibe-Dan]] shop in the late 1950s. According to the [[Horn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]]The shape is a variation of the horn meant to resemble the tusk of an elephant, and with a flat curve and even and gradual tapering throughout.<br />
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'''Oom Paul''': A shape name which actually means Uncle Paul in Dutch, Oom Paul pipes are full bent billiards, according to the [[Oom Paul/Hungarian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]]. The name comes from the nickname for Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, president of the South African Republic from 1883 to 1900 and the face of the Boer cause against Britain during the Second Boer War of 1899 to 1902. Also called a Hungarian.<br />
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'''Opera Pipe''': A shape which the [[Oval|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] refer to as an "Oval" or Pocket pipe, the opera pipe is a billiard with a bowl "squashed" into an oval, with the long side of the oval parallel with the shank and stem. In fact, "opera" pipe is a misnomer. The original name of the pipe was the au pair pipe, as it gained popularity with domestic workers unable to smoke around children.<br />
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'''Oriental''': Used interchangeably with "Turkish" to refer to sun cured condimental tobaccos grown in the Eastern Mediterranean. This category of tobaccos includes Yenidje, Smyrna, Samsun, Izmir, Drama, Xanthe, and often Basma, which is not a particular leaf but a generic Turkish blend, and all that pipe tobacco blenders are often able to find due to the purchase of most oriental varietals by cigarette manufacturers.<br />
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'''Panel Billiard''': According to the [[Panel Billiard|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the Panelled Billiard, also called a foursquare, is a basic billiard shape with flat, or panelled, sides. The classic panel has four flat sides and a round shank.<br />
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'''Pear''': More commonly called an acorn today, according to the [[Pear/Accorn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]] the pear is a sort of softened dublin shape, with a conical bowl and tobacco chamber but with all sharp edges rounded.<br />
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'''Perique''': Mistakenly believed to be a nickname for Pierre Chenet and actually a French mispronunciation of an American slang word for a part of the anatomy, perique is a type of tobacco grown only in St. James Parish, Louisiana, sauced and kept under massive pressure in barrels until it turns nearly black. Perique has flavors of spice and plum, and is prized as the truffle of pipe tobaccos.<br />
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'''Pickaxe''': According to the [[Pickaxe|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pickaxe is a freehand style of pipe characterized by a paneled, triangular bowl.<br />
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'''Pipe''': A tube with a small bowl at one end used for the smoking of tobacco.<br />
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'''P-Lip''': A type of pipe mouthpiece invented by Peterson of Dublin and relying on a small hole on the top of a stem rather than a hole at its end. Meant to reduce tongue bite by directing the flow of smoke away from the tongue.<br />
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'''Plug''': Whole leaf, pressed with moisture, becomes a plug, from which flakes can be sliced. Plug tobacco is prepared by slicing off and then rubbing out pieces of the block of tobacco.<br />
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'''Poker''': According to the [[Poker|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the poker is a straight pipe with a cylindrical, flat bottomed bowl designed so that the pipe will stand on its own.<br />
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'''Pot''': According to the [[Pot|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the pot is a billiard with a shorter bowl, but not a shorter shank than a standard billiard.<br />
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'''Prilep''': A Sirdily variety of Turkish tobacco commonly grown in the region of the town of Prilep, which is located in the Independent Republic of Macedonia.<br />
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'''Prince''': According to the [[Prince|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the prince is a pipe shape characterized by a squat rounded bowl and along, usually slightly bent stem with a short shank. The pipe was named after Prince Albert, later King Edward VII, the Prince of Wales.<br />
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'''Quaint''': A pipe shape hallmarked, generally, by more than four panels, especially with a paneled shank as well.<br />
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'''Ramses''': A pipe shape created by Bo [[Nordh]] and later named by a visiting customer for its resemblance to the statue of Ramses II in Abu Simbel, Egypt. Characterized by a long, wide sloping shank which also serves as the foot of the pipe and a long, tapered bowl which rests almost vertically on the shank. Stems are generally partially bent.<br />
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'''Reaming''': Trimming back cake from the bowl of a tobacco pipe.<br />
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'''Reamer''': A tool used to trim pipe cake back to an acceptable level. These have been made in countless different forms, adjustable and non-adjustable, for well over a century. Some simply use a pipe knife or sandpaper to accomplish the same task.<br />
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'''Rhodesian''': A subject of great dispute. Unlikely to have been named for Cecil Rhodes, and more likely to have taken its name from Rhodesian tobacco, a Rhodesian is considered by some to be any bent bulldog, by others to be any bulldog with a round shank, and by others any bulldog shape with a greater bowl width than height. For each accepted definition of the word there is a pipe sold which contradicts it, and no consensus is likely.<br />
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'''Room Note''': The smell of a particular tobacco as it is being smoked. Easier to detect by those not smoking the blend, and a key component to the choice of a pipe tobacco blend especially for those who smoke in public environments. Simply put, how pleasing the smoke would be to a bystander.<br />
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'''Samsun''': A Turkish tobacco of the basibali variety with a heart-shaped leaf, grown near the town of Samsun, Turkey on the shores of the Black Sea. Low nicotine tobacco, but with strong flavor and dark color.<br />
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'''Samsun-Maden''': Also called Bafra for the village near Samsun, Samsun-Maden is a basibali Turkish tobacco characterized by leaves which are are small sized and ovalThe leaf faces are red to bright red. This strain can be smoked without blending. Nicotine content is often lower than 1% and sugar content is 9-12%. <br />
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'''Shank''': The portion of a stummel between the bowl and mouthpiece, and generally containing the mortise. The length of the pipe shank is one of the key variables in the shape of a pipe, as is it's shape, whether square, diamond, oval or round.<br />
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'''Shirazi''': Named for the ancient city of Shiraz in south-western Iran and claimed to be native to that country, Shirazi tobacco is thought to have reached Iran from the Americas in the mid 1500s. Once called ''Nicotiana Persica''.<br />
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'''Sirdily''': A category of Turkish basma subvarietals characterized by small, narrow, acutely pointed leaves.<br />
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'''Slot''': A slot is the wide opening at the end of the mouthpiece tapering into the airway of the pipe. Generally seen only on vulcanite and acrylic stems from the last century, the slot is funneled both to make the insertion of a pipe cleaner easier and to make for a smoother flow for the smoke.<br />
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'''Smyrna''': A type of Turkish tobacco with rich flavor, low nicotine, and cool smoke. It has a very aromatic nature and is often blended with Latakia to somewhat subdue this property. Primarily used as a condiment with pipe tobacco, but occasionally offered by itself. Also called Izmir.<br />
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'''Sokhoum''': A type of Turkish varietal of the Samsun basibali type which is deeply fermented. Grown in the mountains above the town of Sokhoum Kale (Sokhumi) in the Republic of Georgia.<br />
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'''Soppeng''': A type of Indonesian tobacco prepared much like a traditional cavendish but using palm sugar as the sweetener, and then fired. Primarily smoked in cigarettes but enjoyed as pipe tobacco also, Soppeng is sometimes flavored with cinnamon or other tastes during preparation.<br />
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'''Sphinx''': A shape created by Bo [[Nordh]] and characterized by a wide domed bowl front cut so as to show birdseye at the center with straight grain radiating out from that point, giving a sunburst pattern. A similar shape, the Mounted Sphinx, was created by [[Geiger Pipes|Love and Sara Geiger]], but was not created as a variation on the shape.<br />
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'''Spur''': A small protrusion at the bottom of traditional clay pipes to ensure a hot bowl does not burn the table. Frequently included in cutty pipes made even in briar and meerschaum in later decades as an ornamental element of the cutty shape. Seen only occasionally today.<br />
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[[File:Spur.jpg|thumb|center|100px|Clay Pipe Resting on Spur]]<br />
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'''Srintil''': A type of heavily fermented, air cured Indonesian tobacco grown in the Java region in the Temangung valley which grows at the top of a plant and by abnormality produces an extreme amount of resin, making it highly potent. Fermentation details are thought to be similar to perique, and in 1983 approximately 3 tons a year of Srintil were grown worldwide. Sometimes extracted in an aqueous solution for use as a flavoring agent.<br />
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'''Stummel''': German for stump, the stummel is a complete pipe minus only a stem and any final adornments, including the bowl, shank, and transition between the two.<br />
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'''Tambolaka''': An Indonesian tobacco grown in limestone heavy soil and after harvesting rolled into long sticks which are bound and stored for five years. Sold both as pipe tobacco and as a component of Indonesian cigars. Very high in nicotine with a tin note best described as pungent. <br />
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'''Tamp''': Using a tool or finger to compress the contents of the pipe bowl so as to bring unburnt tobacco into contact with the ember.<br />
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'''Tamper''': A tool used to tamp a pipe, generally with a flat end designed for that purpose and a handle. A tamper can be as simple as a piece of dowel or as ornate as the buyer may wish. While it seems inconsequential, tamping is important both for the care of the pipe and the coolness of the smoke.<br />
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'''Tenon''': The tenon is the smaller diameter protrusion at the end of a pipe stem which holds the stem to the stummel. It takes its name from one of the oldest joints in woodworking, the mortise and tenon joint. Over the last two centuries tenons have been made separately with bone screws, cut integrally into a vulcanite stem to fit a cut mortise in the stummel, made from threaded aluminum or plastic, made from aluminum to fit a pre-drilled mortise so as to hold a filter, made from delrin and placed into a drilled hole in the stem, and in other fashions as well. <br />
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'''Tin Note''': As opposed to the aroma of burning tobacco, the tin note is the scent which can be smelled from the unsmoked tobacco when opened, and is considered a good way to begin to understand a new blend and determine to some degree its components and their relative strength.<br />
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'''Trebizond''': No known as Trabzon, Trebizond is grown in Turkey at the southeast shores of the Black Sea. A basibali varietal resembling Samsun, but coarser and stronger.<br />
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'''Turkish''': A term used to refer not only to tobaccos grown in modern day Turkey, but rather to any tobacco grown under the Ottoman Empire, particularly at the height of its power under Suleiman the Magnificent. As a result, while the town of Yenidje, for example, would today be in Greece, yenidje tobacco is still classified as Turkish.<br />
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'''Twist''': A form of tobacco, also known as rope tobacco, which is spun into a roll, largely by hand, rather than being pressed into flakes. One of the oldest forms of smoking tobacco.<br />
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'''Ukulele''': A pipe shape first designed by [[Sixten Ivarsson]] for the [[Pibe-Dan]] shop in the 1950s and named ukulele, some credit Ed [[Burak]] for the design which he considered a bulldog. A ukulele is characterized by a domed, wide bowl and a wide oval shank with a flat bowl bottom, according to the [[Ukulele|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].<br />
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'''VaPer''': A portmanteau of Virginia and Perique, vaper is simply the contraction used to refer to blends primarily composed of these two types of tobacco. <br />
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'''Vestpocket''': A pipe characterized by its ability to fit in a vest pocket, notable for its stem, which swivels over the bowl for carrying and swings out for use, according to the [[Vestpocket|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts]]. Generally all corners on the pipe are rounded to make it easier to remove from a pocket.<br />
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'''Virginia''': More appropriately called Brightleaf tobacco, Virginia is used to refer to milder tobacco leaf, lighter in color, which is grown in infertile, sandy soil, largely in North Carolina and Virginia, and which was first grown in approximately 1839. <br />
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'''Volcano''': A pipe shape characterized by a conical bowl narrowing towards the top, usually with a rounded base and a bent shank and saddle stem, according to the [[Volcano|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts]].<br />
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'''Vulcanite''': Hard black vulcanized rubber used for making pipe stems. Made from rubber containing up to 30% sulfur, vulcanite is soft on the teeth but prone to turning brownish yellow and taking on a sulfur smell on exposure to sunlight. This process is called oxidation.<br />
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'''White Burley''': First grown in Brown County, Ohio in 1865 by George Webb, White Burley is the result of planting Red Burley seeds purchased from Kentucky in the different soil of Ohio, which resulted in a mutation of whitish, sickly looking plants. White Burley soon became the chief ingredient in chewing tobacco, American pipe tobacco, and American-style cigarettes. As Red Burley no longer exists, White Burley is simply referred to as Burley today.<br />
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'''Xanthi''': Sometimes spelled Xanthe, this grade of Basma tobacco is named for a city in the Thrace region of northeastern Greece, first led into prosperity around 1715 due to the quality of its highly aromatic tobacco. The scientific name of the leaf is ''Nicotiana tabacum'' L. cv Xanthi.<br />
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'''Yacht''': Another name for the Zulu pipe shape, with a canted dublin bowl, oval shank and 1/8 bent stem. Among others, Kaywoodie used the term Yacht for pipes of this shape.<br />
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'''Yenidje''': Named for the town of Yenidje, Thrace, today called Genisea, Greece, Yenidje is also called Yenice, Jenidze, Yenidge, and Yeniji, and is a variety of Yaka tobacco, the best regarded form of Xanthi. Yenidje was an Ottoman tobacco production center until 1843 when the town burned and the growers moved up the slopes of the Rhodope Mountain range. Those slopes, called the Yaka, were made of a red clay loam mixed with small flint stones giving rise to short, low-yielding plants of the basma type, meaning (in this usage) that the leaves are small, almost round and with no free stem. The leaf burns badly on its own and was traditionally mixed with Bafra to cure this issue.<br />
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'''Zulu''': A shape of smoking pipe hallmarked by a canted dublin style bowl, an oval shank and a 1/8th bent stem. Also referred to as a Woodstock or a Yacht.<br />
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'''Zeppelin''': A name often used to refer to a cigar-shaped pipe of briar with a separate mouthpiece often of vulcanite, usually with a metal cap at the end to hold in the tobacco. Also called a Torpedo.<br />
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[[File:Zeppelin.jpg|thumb|center|100px|A Zeppelin Pipe]]</div>Flatticus