Welcome and thank you for visiting The Seattle Pipe Club

 

• WHAT: Seattle Pipe Club -- regular meetings
• WHERE: Smokey Joe's Cigar Lounge (high atop BJ's Casino)
  4411 Pacific Hwy E, Fife, WA 98424   tel (253) 922-0430
• DIRECTIONS: Google Maps
• WHEN: 6-10 pm, the 2nd Wednesday of every month (come early for good seats and enjoy the hospitality)

NEXT MEETING

WHEN:  Wednesday May 14th 
6:00 - 10:00 pm 

Bloody hell!  It's springtime in the NW.  You know what that means?  Perfect Plum Pudding smoking season.  But I digress.   We'll be giving a Chicago Pipe Show REPORT so come hear what you missed from one of the Greatest Pipe Shows On Earth.  

PETERSEN PIPE SALE NIGHT Continues!
ONLY 3 Pipes remain...better hurry.

Last summer we received a generous donation of some FANTASTIC Petersen pipes.  All unsmoked and with their original boxes & sleeves. 
At least 20+ pipes.  Petersen's are world famous for being some of the best made and best smoking pipes you can buy. 

We were planning to put them up for sale with a dealer for the Club's benefit, but we'd rather have our members benefit.  Most of them were sold to our members at the March and April meetings, but there are just four of them left, plus one tobacco/pipe pourch.  So, for the last time. we are offering them up at wholesale prices to Seattle Pipe Club members at the May meeting. 

Cash, checks,PayPal and Venmo accepted.  (Sorry, no credit cards. Purchases mustbe made in-person only .)

So if you want your last chance at a smokin' deal on the most Irish pipe there ever was, don't miss the May meeting and go home with a gorgeous Petersen pipe.

Pipe Restoration Workshop #4

May 3rd 1-5 pm

We still have people that wish to attend the workshop, so Tom Wolfe will once again be hosting a demonstration and workshop on restoring briar pipes at his home in Fircrest, WA.

The demo will include basic cleaning and reaming, as well as advanced techniques such as buffing, hand polishing, and boiling alcohol treatment. After the demo, participants can then work on their own pipes in his shop.

We have boxes of briar pipes that have been donated to the club.  Each participant can pick a pipe to work on in the shop, so you don't have to risk your own pipe learning the techniques.  Better yet, you get to take that pipe home with you.

Tom has been restoring pipes for over 40 years. Check out his "Smokeshop" Magazine article on Pipe Restoration in our "Sherlock's Corner" section of the website.

Space is limited to the first 5 active members to sign up. You must be an active member to participate, so now is a good time to sign up or renew your membership..  A waiting list is available if there are any last minute cancellations.

Register Here 

23rd Annual Slow Smoke Contest

November 13th 7-9 pm

To the Slowest Goes the Victory! 

And this year was no exception.  Mike Bergstom (left) zoned out to win the contest with a time of 55 minutes and 56 seconds.  He beat out contenders, Craig Wattness and Tom Wolfe by over 5 minutes. 

After collecting his trophy, Mike commented that he was disappointed not to have made the one hour mark.  He went over that during this year's World Cup slow smoke when he went 1 hour 13 minutes and 10 seconds.  This is his 4th SPC victory in a row.






A total of 12 contestants participated in the event, with even the lowliest competitors making a respectable time of over 22 minutes.  (We usually have a couple of people bowing out before the 15 minute mark.



2024 Contest Results


Contest Photos

Broken Pipe...  
I have very sad news to report.  Roni Moorhead, our dear brother in the club, passed away in November after a brief but devastating illness.   Roni was always a larger than life guy with a big laugh, enviable beard and warm companionship for all who knew him.  None of us are here for very long, but our friend Roni certainly wasn't here long enough.  Roni is survived by his beloved husband Chris Moorhead.  Services will be in the springtime.

Seattle Pipe Club - The first 10 years