I haven't, but I hear a lot of praise for them. I usually just stick with a few tried and true blends from Dunhill and Germain's. Maybe I'm getting codgerly like that :D

PM sent! Thanks Jim!

Happy birthday! Been a while!

This Peterson smokes as well as any Dunhill, Castello, or Eltang I've had. Bowls of HB and Elizabethan yesterday, caking up nicely! Stinking upside down phone photos. How do you fix that?

Been burning through a lot of Haunted Bookshop lately, breaking in a few pipes. Tonight, HB in a 1950 Dunhill Root Briar, a straight apple shape 254. Long stem, thick shank, ample walled pipe with straight grain all around. Working on the breath smoking technique and my tongue is better for it!

Bummer! Going abroad for a few weeks next Saturday, wouldn't get here in time. I'll catch the next one, Jim.

The mainstay, Dunhill Elizabethan in a 1950 Dunhill Root Briar billiard.

HU Director's Cut in a '48 Dunhill Shell bent billiard. Great stuff!

Stonehenge Flake in a 1948 Dunhill Shell 53 F/T. Folded and stuffed, then left the pipe out for 24 hours (got pulled away from it last night). Firing it up now, and it's smoking wonderfully. Stonehenge ships a little wet.

Miss having you around MadMonk. Smoking a big bowl of Dunhill Elizabethan in a three star Ferndown.

Jorgan is firing more missiles than Kim Jong!

I'm thinking about it, my wife wouldn't complain, lol! Which one do you like?

You know, a therapist might be able to peel back the layers and get down to what really fuels that desire. :D

Haha! It takes a few hours to restore one. I soak the stems in a water/oxyclean bath, the first round for a few hours before dumping the water and making a fresh solution, soaking them the second round for about 20 hours. I use a magic eraser to get as much of the oxidation off as possible...

I was just going to post that ... if you're trying to sell those and are currently keeping them in a non-airtight cigar box with a boveda pack, depending on your ambient RH, they could be dying as we speak. Get the paper trail from where these came from, and keep them in a humidor. If you...

I didn't take many before photos, I should have! Here's one of the whole lot as they arrived from the U.K. Smoking the second of the two '48s tonight, this one a shape 53 with a fishtail stem. The walls of this pipe are quite a bit thicker, and it smokes a touch better than it's twin...

Warms the soul. Or perhaps that's the whisky. Either way, well done :D

Recently picked up a handful of patent Dunhills to restore. Finished this 1948 shape 53, and it smokes like heaven. Just love these craggy old beasts. Post up your Dunnies in this thread and let's share the love!

You did the right thing. Would have been funny to make a vid of making your cigar bonfire without explaining that they were counterfeit first :D

Nice! Thanks kann. We'll just miss the tattoo but are heading up to the Braemar Games on the 2nd =)