what is your latest pipe purchase

[NeverBend]

I swear that I'm no longer bidding, I have PAD but it's under control but it wasn't as evidenced by close to 30 pipes waiting for restoration so you guys understand the depths of my sickness. Had to buy a car, had to stop the PAD. Done.

No more bids but on eBay some auctions last a week or more. I knew that I had bid on the Jacopo (below) but I completely forgot that I had a low 'place-holder' bid on this Barling and I'd forgotten about it until I got an email saying that I purchased it. Had to man up and pay for it, wait for the pipe, restore it and smoke it. PAD destroys. I like destruction but I promise that my PAD is under control from now on. Really, I do.

Yes, there is one other item that i will bid on but that's an excepton. No more PAD.

[JustTroItIn]

No more PAD.

I remember saying that. Nice Barling!

[Branzig]

I swear that I'm no longer bidding, I have PAD but it's under control but it wasn't as evidenced by close to 30 pipes waiting for restoration so you guys understand the depths of my sickness. Had to buy a car, had to stop the PAD. Done.

No more bids but on eBay some auctions last a week or more. I knew that I had bid on the Jacopo (below) but I completely forgot that I had a low 'place-holder' bid on this Barling and I'd forgotten about it until I got an email saying that I purchased it. Had to man up and pay for it, wait for the pipe, restore it and smoke it. PAD destroys. I like destruction but I promise that my PAD is under control from now on. Really, I do.

Yes, there is one other item that i will bid on but that's an excepton. No more PAD.

Excellent Barling Pete. Unexpected, but I am sure it will be money well spent.

If you need me to buy you out on this, or put that Coral sticker on that Jacopo stem for ya, let me know

[Alligator Gar]

Excellent Barling Pete. Unexpected, but I am sure it will be money well spent.

If you need me to buy you out on this, or put that Coral sticker on that Jacopo stem for ya, let me know

If either one of you come across a decent bent apple I'll help you make bank. Any condition other than broke (the pipe, not the buyer.)

[BryGuySC]

I just received a smoky gray mini-churchwarden forever stem for my cobs. The tenon is a bit off-center, but I still like it a lot. It looks really nice.

[Horsefeathers]

A couple of pics of my latest acquisition, a Neerup bent apple. My wife surprised me with it earlier this week. She said I'd looked at it so many times she wanted me to have it. I didn't realize I'd looked at so many times; it's what inspired the eyeballin' thread.

[NeverBend]

A couple of pics of my latest acquisition, a Neerup bent apple. My wife surprised me with it earlier this week. She said I'd looked at it so many times she wanted me to have it. I didn't realize I'd looked at so many times; it's what inspired the eyeballin' thread.

Hi Ryan,

Lovely pipe with some nice grain and you proved a point in your narrative - you married a good woman! Nice!

[tmoran]

That's a beaut, Ryan. Not many pipes REALLY grab my eye, but that one sure does. Love the little adornment, and that stem is very unique. Perfect blast and some purty ring grain. Congrats!

[Bruck]

Nice lookin' pipe, Ryan.

[NeverBend]

This was the exception that I mentioned, and I'd have bought it even if I were destitute.

Savinelli Fitsall Reamer


The rest of the lot is, literally, garbage but the Fitsall Reamer is an item has great meaning to me. I looked for one for so long that finally just stopped looking until last week when a kind gent pointed me towards this one on eBay..

I signed onto Puff forum in 2009 but I didn't stay long. When I returned in 2014 my first post was to ask if anyone knew where I could get one of these reamers and though no one knew anything about them, I did hang around long enough to meet @Branzig and @freestoke and I feel fortunate to have stayed to meet the rest of the good folks, now here on Cigar Bum.

Happens to be the best reamer I ever used and I've probably reamed over 1,000 pipes with one. I had two of them (if it's good - do it twice) but my former partner made off with them (that's the least of what he made off with) but it's like getting a little piece of myself back.

So I've come full circle here on Cigar Bum. Brandon, this is what I was looking for.