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Post by johnlawitzke on Mar 6, 2024 22:23:56 GMT -5
My hotel room is booked and I’ve pre-ordered my ticket for the Show.
If anyone else is going this year, be sure to visit chicagopipeshow.com and read the information there. Several changes for the Show this year. Some schedule switch ups so don’t assume everything is on its usual day and time. Also, in past years, you just had to buy an entry ticket to go into the vendor halls. Now, you have to buy a 4 day Show pass for $50 which you have to have to enter anything at the Show including the smoking tent. There is a pre-order 10% discount until something like March 10 or 11.
I'll be there for my usual Thursday afternoon through Monday morning.
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Post by daveinlax on Mar 7, 2024 11:41:33 GMT -5
I’m also planning on attending Thursday to Monday. Really looking forward to it!  |
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Post by lestrout on Apr 10, 2024 10:27:48 GMT -5
All set to arrive Friday afternoon. I see significant changes to the schedule, which are improvements for me: the Swap has moved from before the Show to later - this should help the vendors who have paid for show tables, when customers don't shoot their wad before the main event. And the Slow Smoke is Saturday, thereby no causing schedule binds for folks needing to fly or drive home on Sunday. My roomie got beset by famblyt issues, but I'm a coming anyway.
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Post by Silver on Apr 10, 2024 11:10:25 GMT -5
My hotel room is booked and I’ve pre-ordered my ticket for the Show. If anyone else is going this year, be sure to visit chicagopipeshow.com and read the information there. Several changes for the Show this year. Some schedule switch ups so don’t assume everything is on its usual day and time. Also, in past years, you just had to buy an entry ticket to go into the vendor halls. Now, you have to buy a 4 day Show pass for $50 which you have to have to enter anything at the Show including the smoking tent. There is a pre-order 10% discount until something like March 10 or 11. I'll be there for my usual Thursday afternoon through Monday morning. I'm predicting several new pipes for your great collection. Enjoy! |
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Post by johnlawitzke on Apr 10, 2024 20:20:13 GMT -5
My hotel room is booked and I’ve pre-ordered my ticket for the Show. If anyone else is going this year, be sure to visit chicagopipeshow.com and read the information there. Several changes for the Show this year. Some schedule switch ups so don’t assume everything is on its usual day and time. Also, in past years, you just had to buy an entry ticket to go into the vendor halls. Now, you have to buy a 4 day Show pass for $50 which you have to have to enter anything at the Show including the smoking tent. There is a pre-order 10% discount until something like March 10 or 11. I'll be there for my usual Thursday afternoon through Monday morning. I'm predicting several new pipes for your great collection. Enjoy! Probably. Although my wife reminds me that I just got that Eltang a week and a half ago. My intent is to keep it down to 2 or maybe 3 really great pipes rather than a bunch of good pipes. My real goal is to find a few decent deals on aged tins. I’ll be stopping past the NASPC table to see if they still have any tins of Curmudgeon on the Can left. I seem to smoke through a tin of that rather quickly. I’ll also be checking out Greywoodie's table as he has a new batch of Kaywoodies. Bill started them before he got sick and he recently asked Nathan to finish them. If Mads from Denmark shows up, I'm doomed though. He is an estate dealer and brings Stanwells the like of which we never saw in the US. |
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Post by urbino on Apr 10, 2024 23:48:59 GMT -5
I'm predicting several new pipes for your great collection. Enjoy! Probably. Although my wife reminds me that I just got that Eltang a week and a half ago. My intent is to keep it down to 2 or maybe 3 really great pipes rather than a bunch of good pipes. My real goal is to find a few decent deals on aged tins. I’ll be stopping past the NASPC table to see if they still have any tins of Curmudgeon on the Can left. I seem to smoke through a tin of that rather quickly. I’ll also be checking out Greywoodie's table as he has a new batch of Kaywoodies. Bill started them before he got sick and he recently asked Nathan to finish them. If Mads from Denmark shows up, I'm doomed though. He is an estate dealer and brings Stanwells the like of which we never saw in the US. Nice news on the Kaywoodies. Any chance Nathan (or whomever) continues the business? |
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Post by johnlawitzke on Apr 11, 2024 7:28:43 GMT -5
Probably. Although my wife reminds me that I just got that Eltang a week and a half ago. My intent is to keep it down to 2 or maybe 3 really great pipes rather than a bunch of good pipes. My real goal is to find a few decent deals on aged tins. I’ll be stopping past the NASPC table to see if they still have any tins of Curmudgeon on the Can left. I seem to smoke through a tin of that rather quickly. I’ll also be checking out Greywoodie's table as he has a new batch of Kaywoodies. Bill started them before he got sick and he recently asked Nathan to finish them. If Mads from Denmark shows up, I'm doomed though. He is an estate dealer and brings Stanwells the like of which we never saw in the US. Nice news on the Kaywoodies. Any chance Nathan (or whomever) continues the business? A lot of us hope so. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Apr 11, 2024 11:12:23 GMT -5
Nice news on the Kaywoodies. Any chance Nathan (or whomever) continues the business? A lot of us hope so. I bought the very last Yello Bowl before they went away. I haven't smoked it because, 230 pipes. I just wanted to see what so many others raved about. I will eventually smoke it. It's a Dublin and I like the way they they smoke with some blends. |
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Post by johnlawitzke on Apr 11, 2024 14:46:57 GMT -5
See the Kaywoodie thread I just started!!!
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Post by johnlawitzke on Apr 12, 2024 2:31:52 GMT -5
My hotel room is booked and I’ve pre-ordered my ticket for the Show. If anyone else is going this year, be sure to visit chicagopipeshow.com and read the information there. Several changes for the Show this year. Some schedule switch ups so don’t assume everything is on its usual day and time. Also, in past years, you just had to buy an entry ticket to go into the vendor halls. Now, you have to buy a 4 day Show pass for $50 which you have to have to enter anything at the Show including the smoking tent. There is a pre-order 10% discount until something like March 10 or 11. I'll be there for my usual Thursday afternoon through Monday morning. I'm predicting several new pipes for your great collection. Enjoy! I held out for 2.5 hours today before I bought a pipe at the Show. My second Jason Patrick. Last year, he brought 14 pipes and sold out by Friday. This year, he brought 15 pipes. One called to me and I wasn’t about to wait and think about it because it would go fast. The pipe is a group 2 to 3 blasted Lovat with mammoth tooth stem accent. I’ll upload a pic when I get a chance. |
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Post by johnlawitzke on Apr 12, 2024 20:57:57 GMT -5
Pipe #2: patent era 1949 Dunhill Shell Briar group 3 Billiard with a craggy blast
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Post by Ronv69 on Apr 12, 2024 21:06:27 GMT -5
Pipe #2: patent era 1949 Dunhill Shell Briar group 3 Billiard with a craggy blast Dang, you just missed my birth year by one! |
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Post by johnlawitzke on Apr 13, 2024 14:32:07 GMT -5
Pipe #3 is a Kaywoodie Standard Billiard.
Pipe #4 is a Doug Finlay bamboo Elephant Foot.
7 tins and a bag of coffee beans
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Post by urbino on Apr 13, 2024 16:01:36 GMT -5
Pipe #3 is a Kaywoodie Standard Billiard. Pipe #4 is a Doug Finlay bamboo Elephant Foot. 7 tins and a bag of coffee beans Weren't you given orders about some kind of limit?  |
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Post by johnlawitzke on Apr 13, 2024 19:09:07 GMT -5
Pipe #3 is a Kaywoodie Standard Billiard. Pipe #4 is a Doug Finlay bamboo Elephant Foot. 7 tins and a bag of coffee beans Weren't you given orders about some kind of limit? Kaywoodies are inexpensive and don’t count. |
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Post by johnlawitzke on Apr 13, 2024 19:11:25 GMT -5
Stavros - Good to meet you in person!
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Post by daveinlax on Apr 13, 2024 19:38:35 GMT -5
lestrout repeats as The USA Slow Smoking Champion! 
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Post by johnlawitzke on Apr 13, 2024 19:46:09 GMT -5
lestrout repeats as The USA Slow Smoking Champion! Hoorah!!!! |
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Post by trailboss on Apr 14, 2024 10:22:25 GMT -5
lestrout repeats as The USA Slow Smoking Champion! What? Tiger Woods of the Pipe Smoking world. |
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Post by johnlawitzke on Apr 14, 2024 13:49:45 GMT -5
Pipe #5: patent era 1939 Dunhill Bruyere group 4 Billiard
Pipe #6: Robert Amundsen blasted Brandy
And finally…. a 6 pipe pipe rack
Went $8 over budget with the rack
If I don’t post on Monday, my wife has put my body in our swamp…
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Post by Plainsman on Apr 14, 2024 14:08:24 GMT -5
A great haul!
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Post by urbino on Apr 14, 2024 14:37:01 GMT -5
After John was done, they had to shut down the show.
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Post by trailboss on Apr 14, 2024 14:46:06 GMT -5
Pipe #5: patent era 1939 Dunhill Bruyere group 4 Billiard Pipe #6: Robert Amundsen blasted Brandy And finally…. a 6 pipe pipe rack Went $8 over budget with the rack If I don’t post on Monday, my wife has put my body in our swamp…<encrypted to Lawitzke>%#$*(.if that were to happen...hey single guys, pretty sure tom Eltang has his home phone number, and with his taste in pipes, his wife is sure to be a beaut, and she put up with him to this point, so a normal collector would be safe. As a married guy I regularly show my wife John's finds and my fines are absolved......>>>%^( end Lawitzke encryption. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Apr 14, 2024 15:19:18 GMT -5
Pipe #5: patent era 1939 Dunhill Bruyere group 4 Billiard Pipe #6: Robert Amundsen blasted Brandy And finally…. a 6 pipe pipe rack Went $8 over budget with the rack If I don’t post on Monday, my wife has put my body in our swamp… Isn't it great to have a handy swamp? 😁 |
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Post by johnlawitzke on Apr 15, 2024 0:30:42 GMT -5
Finally some pictures for you. The smoking tent closed at midnight and about 30 of us had to leave. The Chicago Show 2024 has ended. 😢 A group picture of the pipes who insisted on following me home. Down the left column and then the right: - patent era 1939 Dunhill Bruyere group 4 Billiard - patent era 1949 Dunhill Shell group 3 Billiard with craggy blast - Kaywoodie Standard Billiard - this pipe was worked on by both Bill and Nathan (old owner and new) - Jason Patrick blasted Billiard - Doug Finlay bamboo shank Elephant Foot - Robert Amundson blasted Brandy  The full haul: - The bag is coffee - 1x 2002 50gm McClelland OGF (Organically Grown Flake); only year of production; extremely rare; extremely tasty - 1x 4oz (not the modern 100gm) Rattray’s Black Mallory - 5x 2oz C&D Chicagoland 2022 Mature English (tinned Dec 2021) - Pipe Rack - Uncanny?! (that's the brand) Moth Man T-shirt (for more about Uncanny?! see www.instagram.com/uncannymaterial/ )  |
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Post by isett2860 on Apr 15, 2024 7:48:17 GMT -5
Hi John.
How was the turnout this year?
Folks having a good time, now that things are back to more or less normal?
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Stavros
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Favorite Pipe: Paulsson pipe, Reum pipe
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Post by Stavros on Apr 16, 2024 22:54:30 GMT -5
John
It was great to meet you. I thought the show was great and I enjoyed our visit in the smoking tent. I look forward to seeing you again next year.
Steven (Stavros)
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Post by Silver on Apr 18, 2024 10:45:25 GMT -5
Finally some pictures for you. The smoking tent closed at midnight and about 30 of us had to leave. The Chicago Show 2024 has ended. 😢 A group picture of the pipes who insisted on following me home. Down the left column and then the right: - patent era 1939 Dunhill Bruyere group 4 Billiard - patent era 1949 Dunhill Shell group 3 Billiard with craggy blast - Kaywoodie Standard Billiard - this pipe was worked on by both Bill and Nathan (old owner and new) - Jason Patrick blasted Billiard - Doug Finlay bamboo shank Elephant Foot - Robert Amundson blasted Brandy Very nice haul, John! I'm in the process of acquiring a few for my collection, myself. You can take credit for this latest bout of PAD, if you'd like! |
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Post by johnlawitzke on Apr 18, 2024 11:10:26 GMT -5
Finally some pictures for you. The smoking tent closed at midnight and about 30 of us had to leave. The Chicago Show 2024 has ended. 😢 A group picture of the pipes who insisted on following me home. Down the left column and then the right: - patent era 1939 Dunhill Bruyere group 4 Billiard - patent era 1949 Dunhill Shell group 3 Billiard with craggy blast - Kaywoodie Standard Billiard - this pipe was worked on by both Bill and Nathan (old owner and new) - Jason Patrick blasted Billiard - Doug Finlay bamboo shank Elephant Foot - Robert Amundson blasted Brandy Very nice haul, John! I'm in the process of acquiring a few for my collection, myself. You can take credit for this latest bout of PAD, if you'd like! Thanks! Glad to hear that my secret superpower of pipe enabler is still working. 😂 I love all my new toys, but I am especially happy with my Dunhill finds. Before the Show, I didn’t own any patent era Dunhills and my oldest was 1955. The '49 Shell is my first with that old time craggy moon crater blast. The '39 Bruyere was a coup as the seller hadn’t decoded date pricing and had it priced more like a '60s Root Briar. 😎 I’ve dealt with that dealer several times. So, I did give him a chance to change his mind on his pricing. He didn’t and although he is a dealer who will usually negotiate price, I paid him what it was marked. 😀 |
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Post by daveinlax on Apr 18, 2024 11:43:18 GMT -5
I had a good time at the show but my haul this year was small. I added another Jeremiah Sandahl to this growing collection. We have plans for more. I picked up a couple of books, a couple of tins and a few pounds of bulk tobacco but I didn’t see any pipes I was interested in. I don’t mind because usually a must have piece shows up around this time. Other than the tub shower I loved the new locations the restaurants were good and well staffed and my roommate enjoyed the balcony. I hope the club and the hotel did well and we establish a new tradition here. The room is very flexible with lots of room to grow! Sunday afternoon in the tent I smoked the first bowl with some vintage Balkan Sobranie kindly gifted by my buddy Abi. That’s Jeremiah in the background.  
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