Good deals here

If you've heard of Ed Burak and Connoisseur Pipes but haven't yet been to New York to visit the shop, you'll enjoy visiting my new website
connoisseurpipeshoponline.com, the exclusive internet representative of the work of this master artist of pipe design. - Rob Denholtz

There are now RSS feeds for the site that contains the newest links, events, and stories. Point your RSS reader to

• http://www.pipes.org/backend/links.rss
• http://www.pipes.org/backend/events.rss
• http://www.pipes.org/backend/stories.rss

This site has many people to thank for its rich content.

Mike Penix is doing a great job of keeping track of all the links

Jim Beard and Melvin Schwartz do wonderful work keeping the discussion groups running.

Marc Fargas of the Barcelona Pipa Club (http://www.bpipaclub.com) is kindly donated a server for the discussions.

Tony Coronado deserves many thanks for sponsoring the web space and helping keep everything running.

Before Tony, Vince Callaway generously sponsored the site.

Steve Masticola ran the Pipes Digest for many years which was the initial inspiration for the site.

If I've missed thanking you, please let me know and I'll be happy to add you!

• Steve Masticola has scanned in some images from the Pipe Smokers Ephemeris.
• There's the pipe picture gallery.
• There's the library of past images that have graced this page.

• There is the a page on books and magazines for pipe and cigar smoking.
• An article from the Atlantic Monthly of August 1860 about Tobacco by David William Cheever.
• Here's an article entitled More U.S. Smokers Ponder Merits of the Bowl and Stem from the Chicago Tribune of Jan 6, 1997.
• Here is a Chicago Tribune article from December 14, 1996 entitled Like Their Cigar Cousins, Pipes Are Hot Again
• Here's an article entitled Tobacco and the Soul by Michael P. Foley found in First Things: A Journal on Religion and Public Life.
• Here's an article entitled More U.S. Smokers Ponder Merits of the Bowl and Stem from the Chicago Tribune of Jan 6, 1997.
• The St. Paul (Minnesota) PioneerPlanet newspaper ran an article entitled "Tamptations" that interviewed some of the members of the Great Northern pipe club.
• L'Observateur published a story on perique tobacco.
• There are two articles with information on meerschaum pipes: one and two.
• Here's a page on Dunhill nomenclature that should help decipher the date and type of Dunhill pipes.
• Here are descriptions of various pipe brands seconds lines.
  
• Here's where you can purchase blocks of briar to make your own pipes The American Smoking Pipe Company
• Here's Pimo's Pipe Craft that has tools and materials for making your own pipe.
• Woodcraft carries blocks of carnauba and beeswax, look under: Catalog - Finishing - Waxes.