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jwh784
- Sep 8, 2021
- 5 min
Grinder and Paint
Grinder and paint makes me the welder I ain’t, goes the rueful old saw uttered by just about everybody who hasn’t practiced enough to...
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jwh784
- Sep 1, 2021
- 4 min
One Bite at a Time
A hot, humid midwest afternoon. The highway patrol cruiser, LED lights lasering red and blue, is parked off the left shoulder of I-80...
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jwh784
- Jul 7, 2021
- 5 min
Long, Strange Trip
Somehow, I expected the first concert back to feel more . . . different. Like my first rehearsal with the Pittsburgh Symphony in 1996,...
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jwh784
- Jun 9, 2021
- 3 min
Irreproducible Results
One of the reasons for this blog to exist is to offer a bit of my perspective on the pipe maker's craft, to expand on some detail or...
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jwh784
- Jun 2, 2021
- 2 min
Strong Impressions
New Zealand is an amazing, unforgettable place. It is peculiarly habitable in many respects; unlike its larger and hotter neighbor down...
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jwh784
- May 19, 2021
- 2 min
Silent Service
Every so often someone asks about the Zippo in my pipe photos. Most photos of pipes for sale include something to give an idea of scale....
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jwh784
- May 12, 2021
- 1 min
Shorts #2
For anyone interested in writing, I recommend Stephen King’s On Writing, and The Deer on a Bicycle by Patrick McManus as an interesting...
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jwh784
- Apr 28, 2021
- 1 min
Pause
Mark Twain wrote, “We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat...
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jwh784
- Apr 21, 2021
- 5 min
The Cruelest Box
Casinos have never held any attraction for me, but I do play golf. And make pipes. I don’t know how many of you remember Psych 100 and...
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jwh784
- Apr 14, 2021
- 5 min
Coveting My Neighbor’s Solo
This is something I wrote months ago when someone in management asked me to “write something about music” for a newsletter. "Maybe write...
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jwh784
- Mar 31, 2021
- 8 min
Warmed Over
Another firewood, score, and just in time. Too little firewood, too much maple, that was the issue. While I’ve got nothing against maple,...
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jwh784
- Mar 24, 2021
- 3 min
Daylight
Perhaps I had forgotten how this felt. Last spring wasn’t much of a spring, what with the world coming to an end and all, and I can’t...
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jwh784
- Mar 17, 2021
- 13 min
Not For Munchers
Somewhere, I read that half the value of an artisan pipe lies in the hand cut stem. Even if that’s off by some substantial percent, it...
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jwh784
- Mar 10, 2021
- 6 min
Rust Never Sleeps
The anniversary will be slightly different for each of us, as the pandemic spread and shut things down. For me, it’s March 13. There, I...
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jwh784
- Mar 3, 2021
- 7 min
More Commissions
Perhaps you’d be interested in seeing more pipes I’ve made on commission in the past few months. Maybe even in reading a little...
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jwh784
- Feb 24, 2021
- 4 min
Choices
My dad used to say, “Life is full of choices.” This may be a slender premise for a blog post, but it can’t be any more slender than the...
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