Feel free to post tobaccos (no weed allowed), pipes, collections, pics of favorite combos for going /out/, pics of what you're doing with your pipe and any questions you might have.
Want to get into smoking pipes without spending too much cash?
Get a Missouri Meerschaum Legend corncob pipe and a pouch of either Prince Albert, Carter Hall or Half and Half tobacco, available at most drugstores.
What you'll need: pipe, tobacco, lighter or matches, pipe cleaners, and either a regular old nail or a pipe tool (combination tamper, scoop, and small pick).
All of these together should run you less than $20.
Having trouble keeping your pipe lit? Fill it with less tobacco and smoke it slower than you think you need to, lightly tamping as needed when the smoke starts thinning out.
If you're still having trouble, try filling your pipe this way:
https://youtu.be/0XHYPso7TXs Old thread
>>1199411 Come on in and get comfy.
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>>1222649 so, just curious, I know that all good things in life are unhealthy, but how does pipe smoking compare to other tobacco usage?
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>>1222668 Much safer than cigarettes and somewhat safer than cigars. You don't inhale smoke, and you don't allow any tobacco touching your lips. If you smoke conservatively (<5 bowls per dayevery other day) I think your chances of contracting tongue or throat cancer are something like 5%. This is compared to the average cigarette smoker of ~1600% chance of contracting a form of cancer, be it mouth, tongue, lung, or otherwise.
>http://www.seattlepipeclub.org/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=969877&module_id=17020 Has a fair amount of more information and is typically well respected around here and other forums.
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>>1222675 Thanks for the good solid data anon.
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>>1222668 >>1222675 It's also worth pointing out that you can potentially reduce your risk further by using pipe filters. Less popular in the USA than Europe, but still widely available. The three common choices are paper filters, charcoal filters, and balsa filters. Paper is just that - absorbent paper that picks up tar as it passes around or through. Charcoal filters are tubes containing activated charcoal with caps on both ends that allow smoke to pass through. Balsa filters are wedges of absorbent balsa wood that the smoke flows around, sold by Savinelli.
All three have a verifiable benefit in obstructing smoke, resulting in a cooler (and by association, safer) bowl. But that benefit can be reproduced by technique, or through an unfiltered pipe implementing something like the Peterson's 'standard system'.
What can't be easily reproduced without a filter is the accompanying reduction in tar and nicotine. All three do reduce the presence of tar and nicotine in smoke - however as there is a variety of producers (and styles) of paper and charcoal filters, it's unclear to what level presence of t/n is reduced. In the case of balsa; Savinelli contracted the European Union's research arm to study their filters, and found “..the filter has the ability to absorb 77% of the nicotine and 91% of the tar contained in tobacco without altering the flavour of same”.
That's their quote, and you'll notice they only say it's capable of absorbing those percentages - not that it always will. I can't find the full set of results anywhere so I can't vouch for them. But it certainly does absorb a ton of moisture and nicotine, and at least some tar. Here's a picture of a filter (6mm) after one use, snagged from the pipes magazine forums.
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Woodcraft and camping by George Washington Sears is a great read for outdoorsy pipe smokers and generally a comfy read.
"You rouse the fire, and, as the bright light shines to the furthest recesses of your forest den, get out the little pipe, and reduce a bit of navy plug to its lowest denomination. The smoke curls lazily upward; the fire makes you warm and drowsy, and again you lie down—to again awaken with a sense of chilliness—to find the fire burned low, and daylight breaking. You have slept better than you would in your own room at home."
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/34607/34607-h/34607-h.htm Anonymous
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just smoked some royal yacht, senpaitachi.
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>>1223127 Could you describe the taste compared to nightcap? Is it as earthy?
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>>1223146 Earthy? Not really, but then again my pipe is dirty as all fuck.
I don't know how to describe the flavor but it's strong and smells like raisins in the tin.
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>>1223146 I don’t know that I’d call Royal Yacht earthy. To me that word describes cigars, and that’s not the flavor profile of RY.
It’s super strong and rich, but without any of the Latakia that makes Nightcap or 965 what they are-it’s a straight Virginia blend. It also has a bit of a fruit flavoring (I think it’s plum) that adds some extra richness to the flavor.
It may be a Virginia blend, but it’s a fine example of what Dunhill can do with a full-strength blend. It’s brawny without being harsh, rich without being cloying.
It’s my favorite tobacco
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>>1223127 I just had a bowl of each the other day. The RY was better, but only because it didn't have the orientals and lat. The virginias in each tasted like they were the same thing. Mostly a sort of sickening bready taste. My palate could have been having an off day though.
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opened up one of my tobacco clamp presses.
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>>1223106 Will soon friend
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>>1223420 What is the point of compressing baccy?
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>>1223606 it marries all the different tobacco together and also exposes some of the oils in the leaves which helps in aging the tobacco, also helps it from drying out.
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>>1223606 Oxygen is one of the primary reasons why flavors fade. If you compress your tobacco, you push most of the oxygen out, which makes for a richer-tasting tobacco when you finally go to smoke it.
The aromatic oils in the tobacco leaves themselves will also mingle better. This allows the different flavors of the individual component leaves to meld and taste like one unified blend, rather than just a collection of different things.
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>>1223702 Yup. Over time I have stopped buying anything that is ribbon cut. If it isn't a single variety like Semois, it going to be a flake or plug. Being able to fit more tobacco in the Flapjack is nice as well.
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Anyone have a falcon? Bought a cob to try piping out and i'm a fan, but the cob itself not so much. Falcons look like a perfect out pipe to me, since they're easy to clean and can pack down small. Also, any substitutes for dunhill flake? Was my first smoke and i've heard it's going away for good.
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>>1223853 Never had a Falcon, but I did have a Kirsten that I liked a lot. Not the same but similar.
What don't you like about the cob?
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>>1223853 Can't speak to the Falcons, but another option along those lines is a pipe with an army or spigot mount. Lots of manufacturers make them, so you wouldn't just be stuck with whatever one brand offers.
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>>1222863 HURR lets absorb all the nicotine so the smoker is getting none of the benefits but all of the faults, including finer smoke particulate that invades deeper into the lungs' alveoli
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>>1224003 Nearly all pipe smokers of the sort this thread is focused on do not inhale, so particle size is moot.
I'm with you on the nicotine though. Removing the medicinal part of the smoke seems a bit silly.
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>>1224003 Finer particles can’t do damage to your lungs if you don’t inhale them, and most pipe smokers don’t.
What does matter, though, is that filtered smoke tastes milder than unfiltered, and that often defeats the purpose of buying premium tobacco.
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How did you lads first get into piping?
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>>1223986 Bought a shitty cheap one. Bet I'd like one of the MM ones better. The cob i bought started to flake and off and stuff after a month of daily use.
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>>1224107 That’d do it.
If you want to get a premium pipe for a change, I don’t blame you.
Unless you live in an extremely wet environment, a no-name briar pipe should serve you just as well as a Falcon andmaybe even better, even as an /out/ pipe. Despite their low price, they smoke well and are some of the best deals going in pipes.
But do try a MM cob at least once. They smoke wonderfully, hold up to hard use very well, and are just $7 at most drugstores.
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>>1224107 I own a $140 briar and have almost entirely stopped smoking my briar pipes after getting a MM cob. They smoke really well and I find the standard sized cobs have the perfect sized bowl where the smoke isn't ridiculously long as I prefer somewhat shorter smokes. They're also really light which makes clenching easy.
On the topic of these MM cobs, I've seen a few posts here about the Dagner poker cob. That thing doesn't take a filter, does it? Whenever I smoke my cobs without the filter I find I pull in tobacco flakes into my mouth, I imagine it'd be worse with the super short stem. Any ways to fix this apart from learning to not do that? I'm really liking the look of the Dagner cob...
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>>1224252 I don't have a Dagner, but pretty sure it doesn't have a filter. I use aftermarket stems on all my cobs. The cobs are made for MM filter stems, but the stem I use do not take a filter. The smaller hole of a nonfiltered stem keeps anything from getting through. The filter MM stems have a pretty huge airway.
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>>1223106 Here’s my newest.
>>1224085 Got tired of cigars all tasting the same and thought I’d try out a pipe instead. So glad I did-it’s so much better.
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>>1224085 Had lots of kids. Can only smoke in garage, outside and the car and never had the time for my cigars. Sold the humidor and cigars and got some pipes. Much easier to maintain and much more convenient when free time is short and sporadic. I still keep a few stogies around, but only my favorite which happens to be quite small.
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>>1224085 Smoked cigars for a couple years, then realized pipes were a thing, and that I'd have more taste variety at a far better price:smoking time ratio. And in leafland price matters a lot, even when you order from the US to evade our outrageous tobacco taxes, because you can't evade the exchange rate.
Still smoke cigars occasionally when I meet with friends, but for the most part piping has become the dominant method of tobacco consumption. Which is also nice on the cigar front, because a box lasts so much longer when you're not smoking it on the regular.
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>>1224606 looking super nice!
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>>1224742 Ought to-it’s unsmoked.
All I need to do now is decide what to break it in with.
Royal Yacht? 965? Nightcap? Irish flake? Carter Hall? Ye Olde Signe? Nording Beagle flake? Plumcake? Vintage Syrian?
Too much to choose from. I need help deciding.
What say you, /pipegen/?
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>>1224606 My exact feeling on pipes and cigars after trying a pipe. Not gonna go back, pipe's my shiet!
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>>1224797 i vote for: whatever you wanna smoke man
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>>1224797 Ye Olde Signe. Just because I like to do break ins with a not aromatic VA.
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fuck, i cant wait for spring so i can go /out/ more and smoke outside without being cold.
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>>1224734 Hey you from Canada? Where do you usually order from?
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>>1224971 Holt's for cigars, 4noggins for pipe tobacco.
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Been swamped with exams, got done with the last paper, time for some of the things that make life with living! Figured special Dublin could benefit from some real liquor on the side and might as well give the ol' choppa choppa's some love
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>>1225367 What's with the charring on the rim? I see this often with some cob smokers, like they intentionally do it. Is it some sort of a gang sign or something?
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>>1225375 I have shit depth perception
but i guess cobs char easier too. On my MM legend I just take a file to it when it gets too bad
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>>1225375 You do understand what happens when fire is introduced to organic material, right?
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>>1225375 It’s the telltale sign of notorious pipe gang the MM Legends.
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I know this thread is for pipes, but how have you guys done with rolling papers? I used to roll my own with zigzag, but they don't make that anymore. Can you use pipe tobacco in rolling papers? I know a lot of people who roll their own with shooters and tubes, but those things smell terrible - probably low quality tobacco, I dunno.Got no problem sifting reviews and looking for decent tobacco, but I'm not sure.
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>>1226202 yes and McClelland
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>>1226332 peter stokkebye Norwegian is great for RYO
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>>1226375 >google name >first review >Burns well, nice strong but not overpowering aroma. For the Vikings, not for the beta males Cmon man. Alright I'll try it.
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>>1226332 A lot of “pipe tobacco” is just RYO cigarette tobacco labeled as pipe stuff to avoid the higher tax rates on cigarette supplies. You’ll know because it’s cut very finely and comes in huge bags that sell for about the same price as a 50g tin of premium pipe tobacco.
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>>1226437 I smoked bull durham in a cob when i was poor. Please don't judge.
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make sure to take a lot of pictures outside when spring comes so that /pipegen/ can continue to exist. we are very unique
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>>1226901 Not even judging.
The experience itself was likely punishment enough, I imagine.
I tried smoking plug chewing tobacco once.
Yeah, don’t do that.
It tasted like burnt molasses and sadness.
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>>1227004 yeah, its not enjoyable. In the end I sold what I had to a buddy and got a small tin of prince albert and enjoyed it.
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A great morning starts with a nice cup of english tea, mixed well with milk and honey, before heading out for a stroll.
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>>1227299 Got up, kids screaming, crammed ten pills down sick dog's throat, smoked half a bowl of PS LBE in a new cob on the way to work. After work will be the same events in reverse.
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>>1227299 Came into work to get some overtime today, but because it’s a day before St Patrick’s Day in a heavy Irish town, it’s been dead here, so I got to drive around for a while. Stopped next to the lake on this chilly, windy day, and smoked some of my Lowcountry Waccamaw. I posted in the previous /pipegen/ about having issues keeping flake lit, and your suggestions have worked well. Thanks.
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How do you guys keep your pipes lit? I've tried smoking a pipe several times and I've never been able to keep the tobacco lit for more than about 20 seconds before having to relight it. I've tried doing the "false light" before actually lighting it, and even drying the tobacco out for weeks until it was falling apart and I still had the same problem. Is there a secret or is it just something you have to learn over time?
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>>1227398 Do you have a tamper, or tamp with your finger? If not, the tobacco can expand when it burns and fluffs up in the bowl. This can cause it to go out.
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>>1227411 I have a tamper and try to keep it packed. Maybe I just need to give it another try, it's been a while
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>>1227398 Either you're packed too tightly, or too loose. Maybe also your smoking pace, suction duration, etc.
Try packing it with the Frank method and see if it makes a difference.
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>>1227398 The biggest problem most new smokers have is putting way too much tobacco into their pipes. When I started I thought the bowl had to be crammed completely full. This is not so, as I found out after going through a large box of matches in my first couple of weeks.
After filling your pipe with tobacco and before lighting, try drawing on the mouthpiece. You should not detect much of any restriction from the tobacco. If you do, dump the tobacco back out and refill it more loosely.
Once you’ve got it filled right, it’s a simple matter of keeping the ember in contact with the unburnt tobacco with your tamper. A few light tamps with just the weight of the tamper is often enough to keep a well-filled pipe lit until the bowl is done.
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I decided to take a nice leisurely walk around town today after work and found a cute little teahouse with an outdoor patio on which to smoke my new pipe. It was absolutely lovely. The only problem, I thought, was the tobacco. The Dunhill 965 is just a little too light to be paired with Puerh. Anyone have suggestions for a good tobacco to pair with a strong tea?
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>>1227601 Not knowing how the flavor profile of pu-erh differs from regular tea I can’t say. I don’t know whether any Latakia would accentuate the flavors or clash with it. I am thinking it’s the latter.
I’m also thinking a little more bitterness would work better with the pu-erh. A perique flavor like you’d get from Escudo flake or Dunhill Elizabethan might play off of it very well. If you think that might be too much, maybe try it with Three Nuns.
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>>1227615 Puerh tends to taste earthier, almost like spinach. I have the Elizabethan blend, but I've not gotten around to smoking it. I'll try it next time I have some tea! Thanks for the suggestion!
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>>1227621 Now I'm going to have to order some pu-erh to try this out. It's been on my list for quite a while but haven't bought any yet.
Will report back when I try it.
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>>1227646 Coolio. I'm interested to hear what you find out!
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Been trying out milder blends lately, as well as virginia flakes, instead of my usual strong english blends, and I grabbed some Match Presby from P&C as well as some PS LNF, and I have been enjoying them as smokes, but noticed that when I returned to my englishes, that they had become so much more enjoyable. Anyone have any super mild blends that I can smoke back to back and use as palate cleansers?
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also, any of you guys have any experiences with straight virginias? I was thinking about PS Virginia or C&D Yorktown as my mellow blend.
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>>1227716 Hmm, I would recommend FMC, but...
For a nice mild and in stock tobacco, try peterson's university flake or peterson's perfect plug. The former is a nice virginia/burley, while the second is a great straight burley.
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>>1227730 Honestly, I haven't had much good experience with Burleys, my first pipe was carter hall, and I just couldn't stand it, the sour sweetness it had reminded me of spoiled milk. I have been interested in trying a more quality burley blend, maybe these will be interesting, any other suggestions knowing that? Also, I'm a cheap ass and buy only bulk.
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>>1227601 >outdoor patio on which to smoke Goddamn the communists in my city who banned all smoking in public establishments, including outdoor patios.
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>>1227748 It's funny, I live in one of the furthest-left mid-Atlantic cities, yet, because of the sillinesses that are the hookah and vaping crazes that have infected the local youth, I don't think the city council could ban smoking in the city without severe public outcry.
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>>1227716 There’s always Carter Hall.
It’s like the golden delicious apple of pipe tobacco-available everywhere, super mild, tastes ok and nobody hates it.
But that sells it short-it really is good, and one of my very favorite non-aromatic American blends.
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>>1227732 >>1227810 Looks like he doesn't care for it. I personally think University Flake is worth the try, since its more virginia than burly. Perfect Plug might not be great for you then. As another suggestion, I would recommend Luxury Bulls-eye flake or some other bulk virginia based stokkebye blend.
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>>1227940 JMO, but any blend you try and hate when you’re just starting out ought to get a second try when you know what you’re doing. Early on, it may not be the fault of the tobacco so much as you not knowing what to do.
I started on PA, but like the other guy with CH, hated the heck out of it. A few years later I pick up a pouch, try it again, and it’s not half bad. The only difference in the equation was me and my experience level. So what I’m trying to get at is if a blend’s been around awhile, it’s usually not because it sucks.
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Seems like a good day to take the 102 out for a spin.
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>>1226437 That kind of bullshit leads to higher taxes on pipe tobacco.
Cigarette smokers are nearly as cancerous as pot smokers. Like fuck off and leave our hobby alone.
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>>1228005 This mentality is what's cancerous. Cigarette smokers are doing it because the government won't fuck off and leave their hobby alone. Is it any wonder that they'd exploit a loophole so they don't get jewed as hard as they would normally? Don't blame other smokers for something the government orchestrated.
It's like fudd gun owners crying about people who own ARs.
>fuck off and leave our hobby alone, your scary salt weapons and bump stocks are going to get my durr rifle banned! Blame the people doing the regulation, not the people enjoying their hobby.
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>>1227998 what the fuck is that background?
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>>1228048 Oaxacan green dent corn. I grew it.
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>>1228051 thats neat as heck!
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>>1222649 Wife got me a Peterson for Christmas. I usually smoke an aromatic blend from my local tobacconist but am interested in trying a real tobacco. Does anyone have a recommendation.
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>>1228201 Peterson Irish Flake
Dunhill My Mixture 965
Three Nuns
Samuel Gawith Squadron Leader
Dunhill Royal Yacht is a personal favorite, but quite strong.
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>>1228201 orlik dark Kentucky dark fire is a great start.
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>>1228201 Nice pipe! Finally, another Peterson shows up for St. Paddy's day.
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>>1228201 Orlik Golden Sliced is a popular one.
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>>1228235 That's cute.
At least it's green though!
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>>1228201 For straight VA try Dunhill flake, Vaper try Escudo, for KY try Macbaren ODF, for burley try Solani ABF. There are many others that are just as good, and maybe better, but these are well known blends that you can jump off from.
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Bowl depth 85mm jesus the campfire would be out before you got done smoking this thing
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>>1229121 That would be a bitch to relight.
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new to pipes. Any rec's for a good starter tobacco?
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>>1229158 If you have a tobacconist available I'd ask them. But I guess I personally would recommend something like Orlik golden sliced. Good flavour bit not too overwhelming. Burns easy and won't kick your ass with Vitamnin-N
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>>1229121 By the time that bowl was done, I would be puking in the bushes from the nicotine nausea.
I can barely smoke some of my bigger pipes as it is.
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>>1229158 Standard recommendations for people in the US are in the OP.
As for why:
Most people immediately seek out flavored tobaccos (we call them “aromatics”) like captain black. They will smell good to the people around you, but won’t taste great to you and are hard to keep lit. You’ve really got to have good technique to smoke them well. That’s why we don’t recommend them for absolute beginners.
Something that’s easier for a beginner to smoke well is a burley-based all tobacco blend like Prince Albert, Carter Hall or Half and Half. They’re almost tailor-made for introducing people to pipe smoking.
First, new smokers tend to cram way too much tobacco into their pipes, and those are more tolerant of such mistakes. Second, Burley is much lower in natural sugars than other tobacco types, so it doesn't attract as much moisture. This is important, as that moisture ends up turning to steam when the burning ember hits it, which can burn your tongue if you smoke it too fast. Generally, if you see the words “mild and mellow” “never a bite”, “cool smoking” or the like, that’s a Burley blend.
Finally, Burley blends are very widely available in America, and have been for over a century. These are the blends that you can get at grocery and drug stores for $5 or less per pouch, so getting into pipe smoking won’t cost too much to start with.
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I recently got some comoys double English. Had only ever tried the otc blends. Pouch note is a hickory bbq. Taste is a pleasant bbq like smokiness. Room note is comfy campfire. English blends are way different than the carter Hall I'm used to, but really was enjoyable. Just a little review for beginners like me.
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Honestly. We pipe smokers are a rapidly dying breed. Tobacco companies shutting down. Government regulation. Style changes etc
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>>1230260 If it makes you feel better, it is about leveled off on the drop in sales. Just that if a brand gets unpopular it might just go poof.
If push comes to shove there will always be some VA/NC farmers who will grow some pipeweed.
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>>1230292 Or homegrown. The only reason I haven't done it yet is it isn't worth it when I can buy what I like.
Was going to do a small experimental crop this year, but it will have to wait until next season.
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>>1230351 >Or homegrown How much tobacco does one have to grow for a year's supply? Do you need a whole field, or will a garden's worth produce enough for casual smoking?
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>>1230357 depends on type, but outside of the Tobacco belt you looking at 3-4 ounces per plant.
Inside the belt you get 5-6.
>Actually grow tobacco to keep my wife happy even if there not much money in it anymore. Anonymous
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>>1230357 Not sure. Some varieties get quite big. A quick search says 1/2 to 1 lb per plant. I was planning on around 12 plants. Seems like that would do it for a year supply. But, not having done it before I don't know. I have done a lot of vegetable gardening over the years and I know that a lot of unexpected issues that affect yield can, and usually do, pop up.
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>>1230366 Note, that AFTER it cured
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>>1230366 Tell more.
What varieties? What is your processing method? Is it for pipes or cigs? How big is your crop?
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>>1230375 I grow Burley, and not much of it (2 rows near the house) mostly to keep the wife happy as she grew up on a tobacco farm. It is sold for cigarettes (and not for that much I just break even but the wife is happy). For most pipe tobaccos you would want a blend.
However if there becomes a market for home grown tobacco for pipes, it will be easily sold on. Though I suspect that just as much pipe tobacco is sold for water pipes then traditional pipes.
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>>1230357 General rule of thumb is that one tobacco plant yields about 100-150g (2-3 tins) worth of tobacco ready to smoke at the end of the curing process, depending on growing conditions.
So if you’re like me and go through about 4 tins a year, two plants is more than enough to satisfy the immediate need, with anything extra going to aging.
Virginia and Burley are by far the most common varieties in pipe tobacco as well as cigs, so that part of things doesn’t change. The main thing different from cigs is the cut-most pipe tobacco is cut rougher.
As for curing, it’s as simple as tying leaves into bundles and hanging them up in a shed until they are completely brown. From there you cut out the main rib of the leaves and process them how you see fit.
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>>1224128 an update: Bought a MM cob and im loving it. Just ordered some GS, Dunhill flake and a bit of granger to try. Very excite.
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Having a weekday off is all too rare, so I had to take advantage, even if it’s still a little too cold for the fish to be biting.
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>>1230967 Been wanting to try some granger. Let me know how it is.
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>>1230967 Good choices. OGS and DF are two of my favorites. Makes my mustache smell like some sort of spiced graham cracker.
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smokingpipes.com i just email them a photo to the address they gave me right?
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Could anyone recommend a pipe with a smallish bowl? I just have a regular old MM cob. Looking for a quicker smoke for walks and whatnot. Maybe something that's nice and easy to clench for when im fishing on canoe trips.
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>>1231630 hmm those MM mini pipes come to mind and ive been meaning to get one myself, but i havnt personally used them so i cant say. i would use it almost exclusively as a bar pipe, so when my m8s hop out for a cig i am not trapped with the disgusting non-smokers
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>>1231613 it worked. how soon can i expect their shipment if i just used the cheapest shipping? it doesnt have any tracking info or anything.
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>>1231630 MM Morgan or Little Devil. I hate the stems on the standard versions so I get mine on ebay which have a short filter shank to fit normal size stems. Both have smallish bowls. I get 30 min to an hour out of them on a full fill depending on the tobacco. They both have their charms, but the Little Devil acorn is pretty fuckin neat with a short aftermarket stem. By far my favorite MM.
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Tried two new (to me) blends today. Erinmore Flake and GLP Triple Play.
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>>1231840 I found that the Erinmore tasted markedly better when I rubbed out the flake. I don’t know why that was, but it did. When the flake was intact I couldn’t stand it, when rubbed out it was much more enjoyable.
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Just heard a few days ago that Dunhill is going under.
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>>1232076 I'm holding up quite well. Gives me an incentive to engage in political life.
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>>1232076 You would think that BAR would licence out the name to another company...
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>>1231653 >order from smokingpipes >pick cheapest shipping >it says i wont get a tracking number >few hours later i get a tracking number anyway lol, it will be here monday. anyway, i limited myself to $20 so i got a hardwood pipe and 1.5 oz each of half&half and some stuff called sail. i already know everyone's opinion of half&half, but i never heard of sail and apparently its mostly available only in the netherlands
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>>1232076 >How are you holding up to government bureaucracy killing any minute thing good and decent in this world? Where did you hear that that was the reason? Read this:
http://pipesmagazine com/forums/topic/dunhill-pipe-tobacco-a-message-from-stg-lane
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>>1232076 It wasn’t politics as much as low sales.
Pipe smokers are a minute portion of smokers, let alone the population at large.
If you notice, BAT’s not killing off the Dunhill cig line-it sells and is nice and profitable. But a large batch of pipe tobacco can take years to sell out. Visit your local tobacco shop regularly and see how fast their bulk blends move-the same jar will only slowly go down in quantity week by week. Scale that up to industrial quantities and the amounts that move get bigger, but they still pale in comparison to the oceans of tobacco that is constantly being used for cigs.
Anonymous
>>1232283 Yep, reminds me of the film business. Tons of companies went out of business and a lot of products just are gone. However now it stabilized and a lot of the companies no longer have the huge factories, but they use there old research labs to make right sized batches.
I know it one shop, but we sold 100x more tobacco for self rolling and for hookahs then for classic pipes. Let alone the number of ciggs, chewing, and cigars.
Anonymous
>>1232331 When I bought some Mac Baren flake, I looked at the back label and they had a production date on there. Though I bought it last year, it was produced back in 2013-four years before. That’s how long it took to go from it being made to me cracking it open. That’s 16 business quarters. Sure the tin is sealed so it’s not going bad in the meantime, but that’s a LONG time to keep inventory in stock before you can make money on it.
To put that in perspective, cigarettes more than 6 months old get bought back and dumped. Car dealers that have new stuff sitting for more than two quarters start slashing prices to move them off the lots.
Pipe tobacco?
>Well these things just don’t move quickly and blah blah blah... We’d better take advantage of what we’ve got while it’s here, because once it goes away, there’s going to be a lot of stuff that won’t come back, and we’re going to have much less choice than we do right now.
Anonymous
>>1232376 Where do you see the production date on Mac Baren tins? I have 10+ tins from them and none of them have dates on them.
Anonymous
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>>1232376 Yep, its a very slow moving product.
There is about 30 million pounds a year of pipe tobacco sold, however if you remove the cigg tobacco sold as pipe tobacco it down to 3 million pounds. (US numbers)
Thus it still a market, but it a very small one with a lot of brands. You will see more and more brands slowly fade away.
Anonymous
>>1232397 It’s on the back label.
Here’s the production date on a tin of Three Nuns, as made by Mac Baren.
Madsen Maskingevær !!o9Rj2xAYif5
>>1232525 >Made in Denmark warms my heart
Anonymous
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>>1232525 I see... Strange they dont include the date on tins they sell in Denmark.
Anonymous
>>1232525 How's Three Nuns?
I've been enjoying the shit out of C&D Three Friars, might try the "genuine" article if it's especially good/better.
Also anyone smoked C&D Pegasus or Orion's Arrow? Stupidly bought a variety of Englishes last time I got samples but just haven't been in the mood lately, not a huge fan of lat 2bh.
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>>1232601 It is awesome. When I tried it out, one bowl turned into four and I quickly decided it needed to be on my short list of blends I don’t want to be without.
Don’t believe all the reviews you read about it online. They’re from 10 or so years ago, and the manufacturing has since switched from orlik to Mac Baren. By all accounts the Mac Baren made stuff is much better than the Orlik version was.
I also think I convinced a tobacco shop owner to stock some. I put in special request for a tin and he got 6 tins to see if they would sell. By the time I stopped in to get mine the day after they came in, he had already sold all the others.
Anonymous
Lol pipe tobacco will never cease being a thing, you guys are ridiculous.
Anonymous
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>>1232999 sure, but our fav brand or taste might
Anonymous
>>1232999 A number of great old blends already have.
Sugar Barrel, Walnut, Edgeworth Ready Rubbed and Kentucky Club are all classic American blends that went away in the last few years. Dunhill stuff is also going to go away at some point in the near future. And the new FDA mandates are onerous enough that bringing any new blends to market is going to be near-impossible until everything gets hashed out in the courts. So while, yes, pipe smoking may never go away, what will be there to smoke in the future may not be what we most enjoy today.
Anonymous
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>>1233240 I predict thay by 2037 the only tobacco available for pipe smokers will be Captain Black, the cockroach of pipe tobacco.
Anonymous
>>1233240 Pipe tobaccos being discontinued is not some new thing and there are many reasons for it. Honestly some people in these threads come off as conspiracy theorists talking about this kind of stuff.
Anonymous
>>1233261 You do realize that the "conspiracy theory" meme was started by the CIA to discredit people looking into actual true conspiracies, right? Don't be a tool. Just look and see with your own eyes what is happening in the US and elsewhere regarding tobacco. If that isn't conspiracy then the word should be redacted from the dictionary because it no longer has a definition. For an example, do a little digging into how the "second hand smoke causes cancer" meme was formulated and then relentlessly hammered on by the (((media))). Also, please know that when the US (((government))) provides grant money for a study, they expect to get certain results. If they don't, no more grants for you. Science isn't science anymore.
Anonymous
>>1233284 Look, I am in the tobacco market. It not hard to set up a new brand.
Just that there no reason to enter into the overcrowded pipe market when there only about 3 million pounds of it sold in the US
Anonymous
>>1233293 Not hard, but how expensive?
Why are sales so low?
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>>1233351 Sales are low since almost no one smokes a pipe anymore and pipe smokers in general do not smoke that much tobacco. Compare how much a pipe smoker smokes compared to a cigg smoker, then recall that pipe smokers are like 2% of tobacco users.
It doesn't take much cost red tape wise to produce tobacco. You just need to get a permit from the TTB and your state permits. The TTB doesn't even charge a fee. They just want to make sure your have a legal company and that you pay your taxes that the manufacture has to pay.
There is cost of advertising and so on. but the issue is that there only about 3 million pounds of pipe tobacco sold.
Anonymous
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Took some Three Nuns out fishing with me today.
Anonymous
Saw a girl smoking a pipe. While wearing a suit
Anonymous
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>>1234666 that was a man, anon. also checked.
Anonymous
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>>1230984 Cant wait for the ice to break so that I can go fishing again. With a good pipe it doesnt even matter if the fish bites or not.
Anonymous
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/Pipegen/ has really slowed down. Cant wait for spring/summer so we can get more pictures
Anonymous
>>1232252 same guy. my palate may not be as refined as some of you guys here but i gotta say that the sail was pretty lame, tasted about the same as cigarette, smelled a little better. first bowl ive ever smoked though so i maybe just did something wrong. the half and half was pretty good though, i liked it.
Anonymous
>>1235126 Never heard of Sail, but if its got virginia mainly, you really have to smoke it slow to get the right taste out of it. I smoked a handful different blends starting out, but it wasnt until I tried Orlik Golden Sliced (a pure virginia blend) that I really understood how to pace my smokes. Also when you retrohale (exhale throught your nose) you usually detect more and/or different flavours.
Anonymous
>>1235126 >sail was pretty lame, tasted about the same as cigarette, smelled a little better Speaking of, this is how I'm feeling about my current supply of Dunhill 965. Maybe it's a bad batch, or the quality has gone down like some reviewers claim, but I don't find it particularly amazing. I'm slowly getting into English blends, but evidently the search must continue.
Anonymous
>>1235126 Never had sail but enjoy half and half sometimes. It has a lot of added flavors so that is kind of annoying. The tobacco taste is like a hearty cigarette, which I do enjoy. I believe lucky strike is one of the halves of the blend and its s really comfy taste.
Anonymous
>>1235241 >>1235445 >>1235168 after another bowl of it i have found that it was probably just me smoking it wrong, as that was my first pipe smoke ever, not just that particular blend. i tried it again and found it wasn't as bad as it was before, i still am preferring the half and half though and i'm going to pick up some other stuff tomorrow when i go to the city for an appointment
Anonymous
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>>1235750 No big worry.
My first bowl tasted like cheap cigs too. My second was markedly better, and once I got the hang of filling my pipe it got better still. Hang in there.
Anonymous
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>"So, anon, how did you get into pipe smoking?" >"uh, yeah it was just a sudden thing I just got into it and it took off from there" >reality is I got into pipe smoking because some /r9k/ autist made a thread a few years ago
Anonymous
shit, the best way to clean the pipe seems to suck rubbing alcohol through it. works like a charm. But i have to spit out a little rubbing alcohol. man this is some bull shit. kek
Anonymous
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>>1222675 i inhale a little, but since switching to a pipe i don't cough my lungs out anymore. there is no mucus. if i smoke a few packs of cigarettes i start getting a cough and the mucus starts. weezings all gone.
Anonymous
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>>1236437 You know you can soak pipe cleaners in rubbing alcohol, right?
Anonymous
>>1236437 you probably shouldn't do that anon. they put poisons in the alcohol so people don't drink it. i'm pretty sure they use methanol actually, which a few drops of is enough to make you go blind.
Anonymous
>>1236503 It takes a fair bit more than a few drops. And the solution is to drink ethanol, because it binds preferentially to the alcohol dehydrogenase enzymes and acts to inhibit the effects of methanol. But rubbing alcohol (at least, all the ones I've seen) is usually isopropyl alcohol, which is not as toxic as methanol. You won't go blind, and you need a couple hundred milliliters before you get poisoned.
Either way, he's not going to be affected by the amount it takes to clean a pipe. Pipe cleaners are probably a better solution, though.
Anonymous
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>/out/ has a pipe smoking thread
Anonymous
this might be a idiot question, but is there a way to use cigg tobacco in a pipe without it sucking ass?
Anonymous
>>1236537 If its dry, humidify it and smoke it like you normally would. But really its never gonna taste as good as pipe tobacco. Ive done when ive been out of cigarette paper, but I never liked it. Good enough for a nic hit though.
I think that's what Stalin did too actually, he crumbled his cigarettes and put the tobacco in a pipe because he liked the look of it iirc.
Anonymous
>>1236543 what the best way to humidify it?
>I ask since I might get access to like 30 cartons of ciggs that I can't sell and Fuck if I am going to smoke ciggs. Anonymous
>>1236561 Its never gonna taste well desu, I would not recommend doing it unless youre desperate for nicotine and if thats the case I think they would smoke/taste best as they are.
Why cant you sell them?
Anonymous
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>>1236561 Put a bit of water on a cotton ball (or paper towel, or anything), put that cotton ball inside a little bowl or pouch made of tin foil or whatever, and keep it and the tobacco in an airtight container or bag. Periodically check until it feels humid enough. Depending on how much tobacco there is, you'll have to give the container a shake so it humidifies evenly.
Anonymous
>>1235168 Pure virginia is where it's at. Love me some perique, but a good straight virginia is the pinnacle for me. Had a bowl of G.L Pease Union Square this morning and it was sublime.
Anonymous
>>1236573 Tax reasons. I can just smoke them or give them away. Was seeing if I could use them or if I should just give packs out to homeless.
Anonymous
Can anyone reccomend a tobacco that is good at relieving stress? I'm not really after the vitamin N, more the flavor. In case it helps orientals and virginia are my favorite general blend types. (I haven't had the chance to try many specific blends)
Anonymous
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>>1236652 >Can anyone reccomend a tobacco that is good at relieving stress? Anything high in Nic-oh-teen muh nigga
i.e. perique
Anonymous
>>1236644 What this place you inhabit where the concept of private autonomy is a foreign one?
Anonymous
>>1236632 Agree somewhat, I do like occasional balkans, but not for all day smoking..
You should try Mac Baren's Virginia No 1, best pure virginia ive had
>>1236644 Dont you have a friend who smokes cigs that could take them off your hands? No reason to involve taxes.. I knew a guy once who had a way of getting cigs by the carton and sold them illegally to friends, it works out for everybody.
Anonymous
>>1236855 >illegally Not even.
Big Brother’s already gotten his tax money for those cigs. They’re now Anon’s to do with as he wishes.
In a more perfect world, he could sell them on the street corner and nobody should even care.
And speaking of which, the big case that could be brought against Anon is not paying his cig taxes. If he can produce a receipt showing he’s already paid for all of them in one way or another, any case that may be brought against him will go away quickly and quietly.
>>1236632 Indeed. People may look down on “plain Jane” Virginias, but when it’s done right, it’s a great flavor.
>>1236652 Like the other anon said, nicotine is what gives that sensation. And if that’s all you want, a straight Burley like Manil Semois or Five Brothers will get you there, as Burley is slightly higher in nicotine content than other varieties.
But Burley isn’t the most flavorful stuff. It doesn’t have the natural sugars in its leaves that other varieties do, and that’s where most of the natural richness in tobacco flavor comes from. Which is why Burleys are most often blended with Virginia, to bring some of that flavor back to the party.
Anonymous
Ausfag here.
Anonymous
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>>1236919 >$10 for me locally Well shit, I would just quit on the spot if I had to move to AUS.
Anonymous
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>>1236903 >Not even. >Big Brother’s already gotten his tax money for those cigs. They’re now Anon’s to do with as he wishes. Not sure what you're getting at there.. If the taxes are paid then there's truly no problem selling them on. I figured he was hesitant to sell them because the taxes had NOT been paid..
Anonymous
>>1236511 the pipe cleaners work ok sometimes. but alcohol cleans it right out. I guess maybe I could use real alcohol.
Anonymous
>>1236855 >Dont you have a friend who smokes cigs that could take them off your hands? They don't want to smoke that brand basicly.
>>1236822 Its not the government, its that I do not want to involve myself with the gangsters who DO sell untaxed and they don't like competition.
Anonymous
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>>1236966 But I am going to take it as a general no then.
Anonymous
>>1236962 You don't need to use expensive ethanol, isopropyl or even methanol is perfectly fine. It evaporates quickly and it's not like you'll be inhaling alcohol vapors when you smoke. But you shouldn't be rinsing your pipe with it; just soak a pipe cleaner in it, run it through, and then run some dry ones through afterward to clean any residue. Realistically, you don't need your pipe to be squeaky clean or anything.
>>1236644 >giving cigarettes to the homeless At the very least, give them cigs in exchange for information or completing tasks. That way you could have a homeless spy network all over the city.
Anonymous
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>>1236996 >That way you could have a homeless spy network all over the city. Slow clap
that sounds more 1000x more fun then smoking bad tobacco.
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>1236919 Jesus. I thought we had it bad in England. Have you thought about growing your own tobacco? It isn’t a great replacement for the selection on the market, but you’ve got a great climate for growing it, so you could probably come up with some half way decent blends with a little effort. I’m sure the guys in the gardening thread would be willing to help.
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>>1236919 >$80 a tin Australia was a mistake.
Anonymous
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>>1236919 >Ausfag here. >Recently got into Pipe smoking. Incredibly expensive here, $80 a tin! Jesus, find a rhodie and let him show you how to grow tobacco on the sly.
Anonymous
what sort of tobacco is most present within cigarettes?
Anonymous
>>1237344 IIRC they use burley and bright
then for the other 90% they use additives.
Anonymous
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>>1237345 thanks m8, thats what i thought it was. i've started off with burley tobaccos and apparently they smell quite a lot like cigarettes to my family, so i'm going to stray from them... for the most part anyway.
Anonymous
Here's my tobacco smoking device
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>1237154 Aus is particularly hellish when it comes to growing your own. The laws are so bad that none of the big brands even attempt to grow any tobacco in-country.
They dredged up a 100-plus-year-old law about not interfering with imports and decided to apply that to tobacco growing in any aspect. You need a permit to grow even for personal use, and there are no procedures for getting said permit even though it is technically possible.
Anonymous
>>1237432 So, it's illegal to grow but the government likes to pretend it's not.
For what purpose must they put it at such an outrageous price?
Anonymous
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>>1237437 For the same purpose all other political busybodies do-taxing things they don’t like out of existence. And they don’t like tobacco.
Here are more details on the law and its penalties:
https://boltonsmokersclub.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/the-australian-law-on-growing-tobacco-plants/ NZ’s even worse in the retail tobacco aspect (average price is over NZ$100 per tin), but at least they allow people to grow their own for personal consumption.
Anonymous
>>1237437 >Illegal to grow As if they go around and check. Most people don't even know what a tobacco plant looks like, so how are they going to bust you for a few plants in your garden?
Anonymous
>>1237565 Does it not smell while it's growing?
Anonymous
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>>1237568 Pretty sure it only smells when it's curing. Tobacco barns are notorious for the smell.
Anonymous
>>1237565 Live tobacco doesn't smell like tinned pipe tobacco. It smells like plant.
Anonymous
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>>1237565 >>1237573 You can grow ornamental tobacco plants and then learn how to cure them.
Anonymous
Any love for opium pipes here?
Anonymous
Anonymous
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>>1237750 Do people even sell opium anymore? I guess it isn't hard if you have a few somniferum plants, but it seems like a hipster drug at this point.
Anonymous
trying out a zippo. burnt through 20 bics. it kinda works, it's not perfect.
Anonymous
>>1237882 >burned through 20 bics Over how long?
Just a single bic lasts me at least a month. When I don’t lose them, that is.
Anonymous
>>1237882 Why not get a refillable and some gas?
Anonymous
>>1237565 No, but your neighbors certainly know what you’re doing.
Have a dickhead next door, be a dickhead or get into a spat, and they can drop a dime on you.
It’s how most of the old illegal moonshiners were caught. Either their neighbors or their competition turned them in.
Besides, check the Ausland fine schedule in the law
>500 penalty units for any amount >look up current penalty unit rate >AUS$210 That’s a $105,000 fine. For one plant.
Can you afford that?
Anonymous
>>1237906 about 3 months. i smoke a lot.
>>1237909 well i mean the zippos refillable. but i might need a bic refillable.
Anonymous
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>>1237912 i do everything big except eating. i smoke 3 times as much. if i drink a glass of milk i drink a gallon.
Anonymous
>>1237911 I'm in leafland so maybe it's different, but I don't know anyone who I think could identify a tobacco plant. Especially if you have a few in your garden, growing alongside tomatoes and peas and all the other shit you should be growing anyway.
I guess it's possible if you live next to a shitcunt who wants to use a little-known law against you, but I can't imagine the actual risk is all that high.
Anonymous
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>>1237943 Now, if you have a curing setup out in the open, that might attract attention. But a few broad-leaved tomatoey plants? I doubt it.
Anonymous
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>>1237911 Jesus, You are fucked one way to another by your government. Tobacco plants are weeds here.
Anonymous
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>>1224003 If you’re only smoking a pipe for the nic hit, you might as well just use snuff, or vape. Pipes are comparatively shit at providing high doses of nicotine - it’s just an added benefit that goes along with everything else. And There’s plenty to get out of smoking a pipe.
Hell, not every blend is Dunhill’s Nightcap. You can go from bowls that are chock full of vitamin N to bowls that don’t even compare to second hand cigarette smoke.
Anonymous
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>>1237416 Never had it. Name too cringy
Anonymous
Hey /pipegen/ any experience with porcelain pipes?
Anonymous
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>>1238595 Have a LePeltier. It’s ok, but doesn’t smoke as well as your average briar. The air hole at the bottom of the bowl is small and easily gets clogged with ash.
Anonymous
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i want to eat this
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my pipes not hitting right. oh wait i forgot to put anything in it.
Anonymous
Found a tin of Nightcap at a local shop and got the last one. While being possibly the best tasting pipe tobacco I've had I didn't feel much of a nic hit like people described. I'm pretty used to smoking shisha tobacco though, even though I don't smoke either often. Think that's possibly why? I also used a filter in the pipe which I read can lower the nicotine by a lot as well.
Anonymous
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>>1239145 Filters absorb some, but what’s more likely is that the nicotine itself is not absorbing nearly as fast as you’re used to.
The mouth and nose together have less than 1/2500th the surface area of the lungs. So when you smoke a pipe and don’t inhale, the nicotine gets absorbed much more slowly than when you do.
Anonymous
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>>1239145 Latakia has a low nicotine content in general, but as it's strong in flavour, many people, I think, confuse the strength of taste with high nicotine content. That's my guess anyway...
I smoked cigs for 5 years before starting on pipes and in my experience pipe tobacco nic hits doesnt compare to cigarettes. Sometimes I can feel a bit of nicotine, but its never overwhelming.
Anonymous
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>>1230985 Hey! finally smoked a few bowls of it. Granger's great for the price. Really nutty, tastes like almonds to me. Would recommend. Packs a bit weird you have to get used to it.
Anonymous
Madsen Maskingevær !!o9Rj2xAYif5
was in Lisbon for this past week, and of course i forgot my pipes, tool, tobacco and even lighter at home. i though, eh what the heck, might buy myself a new pipe to commemorate the visit,
Anonymous
>>1240703 >Eu estou procurando tabaco para cachimbo would at least get you to someone who sells pipe tobacco
Madsen Maskingevær !!o9Rj2xAYif5
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>>1240715 eh, i am back home now so doesn't really matter.
Anonymous
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latakia sort of reminds me of armpits
Anonymous
>>1240691 Do clay pipes feel weird in your mouth? Like. They aren't glazed ... so .... won't they be kind of gritty?
Anonymous
>>1241411 They’re not gritty. Sticky might be a better word because the unglazed ceramic absorbs the moisture on your lips. But either way it’s not bad. About the worst feeling thing about a ceramic pipe is when you grab the hot bowl by mistake.
Anonymous
>>1241433 does it really get that hot?
Anonymous
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>>1226332 I actually have some experience using my pipe tobacco in a roll your own cigarette. Ribbon cuts were easy to pack with as well as coarse cut. But it needs to be quite dry. Don't even try to use a blend that is quite moist. Honestly for some blends that I haven't finished and that have been sitting in the mason jars for too long, using them for RYO is a great way to finish off a blend. Virginia/Perique doesn't smoke well in a ryo unless it is Peter stokkebye. I used a few English blends like nightcap and white knight before in a ryo and it worked very well. Latakia tastes pretty good in a cigarette. Probably because it burns very cool compared to other tobacco.
Anonymous
>>1232548 >>1224858 From Denmark I guess?
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>>1241476 Yes.
Think about it: you’re burning something in a ceramic bowl that’s 3mm thick at most. The clay can take the heat and be ok, but it does get very hot.
That’s why a lot of clay pipes have very long stems. You grab the pipe by the stem a few inches away from the bowl where it’s much cooler.
Madsen Maskingevær !!o9Rj2xAYif5
Anonymous
>>1241538 I just got this.
Madsen Maskingevær !!o9Rj2xAYif5
>>1241725 looks sweet! what maker? and is there a cap on the sump?
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>>1241836 I bought it of a guy, I myself do not kniw anything about it since it has no inscriptions.
Anonymous
the little drug user pipe works good i had problems cleaning the big fancy pipe.
Anonymous
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>>1241847 so i put it on the mantel, looks good.
Anonymous
>>1241725 Nice one.
If that mouthpiece has a single small hole on top, it’ll be kind of finicky to clean the mouthpiece. Getting some tapered pipe cleaners will help with that. They’re available at better tobacco shops and all the big online pipe sellers.
What’s it made out of? Does it feel like wood or something else?
Anonymous
Really really miss the earthy taste and smell of cigars.
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>>1242220 I haven’t found a pipe tobacco that REALLY tastes like a cigar. And for good reason-they use different tobacco varieties and different prep methods.
So if you’ve got the craving, fire up a cigar. It’s what you want anyway. Might as well get it rather than get frustrated trying a thousand things that will never be that.
Anonymous
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>>1242052 Wood, metal and the mouth piece is synthetic.
Anonymous
what are you anons smoking today? im smoking some peterson irish flake
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>>1242287 My last bit of special Dublin.
Probably gonna try something new next time
Madsen Maskingevær !!o9Rj2xAYif5
>>1242287 and Peterson Irish flake is hella good my man! one of my faves, but the last two times ive had a tin of it it seems to have changed a bit, less "oily" and less heavy, no picture of Peterson on the seal,
Anonymous
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>>1242298 My first time smoking it. I rubbed it out pretty good. The flavor is much milder than I expected. Next time I should fold and stuff it and see how that goes.
Anonymous
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>>1242287 Dunhill Flake. But, I've been smoking Union Square for a week, so the topping on the Flake seems really strong, almost too much. Flake is a favorite and tastes very natural and unflavored after smoking heavier blends, but now it almost seems like an aromatic.
Anonymous
Weathers turning in the American Nor’ East. Started a new job as a linemen and my then my stem breaks. Taped it up till pay day. Ain’t pretty but it’s been good.
Anonymous
>>1242416 Rode my bike out into the woods to a lake. Found a tree shaped like a throne on a cliff overlooking it. Great day off
Anonymous
Anonymous
Does perique pipe tobacco taste anything like perique American Spirits (the black box)? I see it described as spicy which I wouldn't call the cigs.
Madsen Maskingevær !!o9Rj2xAYif5
>>1242416 >>1242417 congrats on the job man, the pipe is lovely, are you gonna get it repaired? also, super crazy how trees can grow sometimes, i know one birch tree up near Karlshamn (Sweden) that basically grows in mid air because the rock it was on fell away under it but its supported by its roots, i´l snap a pic next time i am there
>>1242605 hmm, cant say ive had tobacco that struck me as "sweet" can tobacco even be sweet? like, is that a taste tobacco can do?
Anonymous
>>1242611 I see some get called sweet. What do those plug tobaccos that are soaked in honey taste like?
Anonymous
>>1242605 From my experience, pure perique tastes and smells like oscuro cigars.
The sweetest tobacco I've had was C&D After Hours. I'm fairly certain it's not the kind of sweetness you're looking for, though.
Anonymous
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>>1242622 Guess I'll have to just see what's around. I'm pretty new to the pipe thing. I had been given one and some blueberry flavored tobacco many years ago and decided to get back into it.
Anonymous
>>1242605 Are you looking for tobacco that is naturally sweet, or tobacco that has sugar and flavorings added to make it sweet?
Madsen Maskingevær !!o9Rj2xAYif5
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>>1242615 I wouldn't know. Never heard of that. But my guess would be kinda caramel-like some your burning sugar
Anonymous
>>1242653 Guess I'm just seeing if anything is similar to my former pack of choice from when I used to smoke cigs. I guess they tasted sweet to me but looking at online comments people say they're tart with a little spice or "like a musky cigar." They're also quite strong which isn't a big deal for me but I've always been adverse to weak and light stuff in cigarettes anyway.
Anonymous
>>1242667 I would say get some Escudo and go from there.
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>>1242687 That sounds pretty nice. I'll grab that and maybe some samplers of other stuff next time I order.
Anonymous
>>1242605 >good tobacco that's smooth and dark with a slight molasses like sweetness What you're describing is Mac Baren's Dark Twist. It's a natural tobacco taste but it tastes like they add a bit of sugar water to sweeten it slightly. It's like a brown sugary taste.
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sitting around smoking my pipe having a little drink, good times.
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>>1242605 Pipe tobacco with perique is a much stronger flavor than what you describe, or at least it has been in the blends i’ve tried. To me it adds a bitter edge kind of the way chicory does in coffee.
Also for a naturally sweet tobacco, let me second the other anon’s recommendation for Mac Baren’s Dark Twist. It tastes exactly how you describe when smoked slow. It comes in coins, but tastes its best to me when rubbed out.
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>>1242730 It's maple sugar.
Anonymous
>buy a pipe >find out you're supposed to have multiple pipes and rotate them
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>>1242968 It's sort of important. 2 bowls is fine. Yes, get some cobs.
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I smoked for a couple years, switched to dipping, then smoked for another year.
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>>1222886 /lit/ visitor here.... thanks for this awesome recommendation.
I didn't even think to find good out books. I'm gonna make a thread on /out/ books here or on /lit/ soon.
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>>1242979 I'd definitely check out that thread. I usually just read genre fiction or horror anthologies or something like that. Not very outdoorsy but for some reason I've always enjoyed the combination of camping and reading that sort of thing.
It'd be nice to broaden my purview.
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>>1242968 2 briars and a bunch of cobs is what i have and it works out for me. i test out blends in the cobs and smoke my regulars in the briar
Anonymous
We all that that one pipe the we love a little bit more then the rest. Post it
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any anons have a clay pipe?
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>>1243102 Same anon as before. Just finished smoking a VaPer curly cut that was folded and stuffed into the clay pipe. It smoked very well and no gurgle at all. Very dry smoke for a coin that was still quite moist.
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>>1222649 Look I smoke a pipe, I get it. But this isn't reddit and these threads are always
shit.Post /out/ related content or heck off.
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>>1243160 >Look I smoke a pipe, No you don't.
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>>1243102 No but I've considered one.
Madsen Maskingevær !!o9Rj2xAYif5
>>1243160 >I came into a thread expressly for posting things i dont like and people are posting things i dont like how could this happen!?!
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>>1242968 >How important is this really Not crucial. If you only have one pipe, you can use it day in and day out, and lots of people do.
That said, getting a second pipe to smoke (and yes, it can be a corncob) is recommended. It allows one pipe to dry out while you smoke the other. This will help both pipes last longer, and if one dies a horrible death, you’ve still got a backup.
>>1243066 Pic related.
Love the heck out of this pipe.
>>1243160 >Literally dozens of gear queer threads daily with literally no other /out/ content >no problem there! >Let’s start another knife thread! >one thread has pictures of people being /out/ while smoking pipes, as well as related equipment discussions >GTFO REEEE Take your own advice, please.
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Anyone here ever tried C&D's Derringer or Yorktown? I find myself craving that bran flakes flavor of virginias. Pipes and Cigars is doing a 15% bulk deal at the moment, and I grabbed a pound of the Derringer. I also got an ounce of Old Joe Krantz. I hear that shit's crazy.
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How often do you guys clean your pipe? I usually have to once maybe twice a day.
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>>1243594 Does anyone know how to clean a used screen? I save them, they are just gummed up. I tried soaking in alcohol, didn't really work great.
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>>1243594 Actually I havent cleaned my pipes with pipe cleaners since I ran out of them in december...
Havent noticed a difference in flavour, honestly I think people nowadays "overprotect" their pipes.
Some of the estate pipes ive restored have had cake buildup all the way through the stem and were probably never cleaned. People didnt always take pipe cleaning so serious..
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>>1243594 Regular maintenance cleaning with a pipe cleaner and a paper towel bowl swab after every bowl. Deeper clean with polish, vodka, and wax when it goes into the drawer to rest. It's more than most people do, but It works for me. My pipes stay clean and sweet and never need any major work like stem restoration or reaming.
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>>1243595 Like a metal screen? None of my pipes have that, but if its what I think it is, you could probably burn it clean
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>>1243666 i haven't used pipe cleaners in a while but i have to force alcohol through it a couple times every day. I can't get a hit to go through the thing by the end of the day.
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>>1243689 Hmm, I dont have that problem at all.. I give my pipes a good blow when im done using it to get rid of excess ashes and moisture and then it never clogs.
Are you the Anon who talked about sucking alcohol through the stem earlier in the thread? You use the same pipe many times a day?
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>>1243066 >>1243582 They also have 15% off on Briarworks pipes. These are high quality pipes and this is a pretty good deal. Although each of my pipes is my favorite while I'm smoking it, I have a soft spot for this one that I'm smoking today. It has near perfect construction and balance, it holds and sits well, and it smokes extremely well, at least with Dunhill Flake because it's a DF pipe and that is all she's ever had. Made with a delrin tenon for durability of the stem. About to pull the trigger on another piece from this maker. The value Briarworks offers at their price point is pretty amazing.
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>>1243695 yeah quite a lot. I learned how to just push it through, but it's not easy. i take a nap and it just locks up.
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>>1243698 You need a new pipe.
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>>1243594 Usually at the end of a day when i’ve been smoking it. Unlike some, I have had a pipe give me off-flavors, and it’s no fun. Old rotten tobacco residue does not pair well with anything.
>>1243595 They make replacement metal screens.
They’re pretty cheap too.
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Ever thought of dumping tobacco straight on a campfire? Especially in an enclosed space like a lavvu?
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>>1244061 Campfire’s too hot. For best results you want the tobacco smoldering.
Plus that would take A LOT of tobacco.
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>>1244061 In "Nak og Æd" (danish hunting/cooking tv show) they tried smoking meat with tobacco by dumping 2kg harsh african tobacco on their campfire. The meat was from some rodent I dont remember and it tasted horrible iirc.
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>>1222675 >1600% chance of contracting wat
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First bowl of 2018. School, work, weather and kind of a loss of interest has prevented me from doing so. Smoking some Deluxe Navy Flake I jarred a few months ago.
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i buy a pack of smokes every once in a while. they have lasted all day and i still have most the pack. it's working, it's working!
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>>1244276 I always go through cigs really quickly. I'll take one if offered or I might bum one in social situations but I don't buy them anymore. I'd get some decent cheroots or cigarillos if you want something relatively quick and less fussy than a pipe.
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>>1242611 Oh wow that sounds amazing. I'd love to see it if you could. I am gonna get a new stem this week but i'm always considering machining a bakelite stem for this weird pipe i bought the other day. I'll try and find it so I can post a pic..
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>>1243506 If leatherface was a pipe. Reminds me of baseball too. Nice pipe
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Hey guys i'm interested in carving my own pipe next out of some briar. Anyone got a .pdf (or similar format) OR web page that goes in depth on pipe carving. I want to take my time and make it perfect.
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>>1244134 Means you're gonna get cancer AT LEAST 16 different times.
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>>1244369 You can buy a hobby block to practice.
https://www.pipesandcigars.com/p/hobby-blocks-pipes/1502028/ Basically just get a chisel or whatever and carve whatever shape you want.
Madsen Maskingevær !!o9Rj2xAYif5
Post your lighter
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>>1244389 just a refillable single flame jet lighter or a bic
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>>1244391 Does jet lighters work well with pipes? I always thought they would char the bowl rim
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>>1244396 They do an alright enough job, I try to make sure I only nuke the middle of the bowl. Regular lighter flames lick the rim as well, though it's not as hot of a flame I guess
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>>1244396 They can if you let them sit.
If you wave them around quick enough, however, all of your tobacco gets lit in a single second and your pipe rim barely gets warm.
World long-smoking champion Achim Frank (inventor of the Frank Method of packing a pipe) uses a torch lighter, and shows you how to use it without damage.
https://youtu.be/OMtHOAiO8CI Anonymous
have any of you guys ever gotten in trouble with your employers over smoking? like them preasureing you to stop or not being allowed to smoke while on company time or on company ground? also, what do you do for a living? smokings fucking expensive yo
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>>1244389 i just use a disposable or matches
>>1244788 I'm pretty sure most places have to give you a smoke break every x hours. When I smoked cigs I was working somewhere where I could just sneak out for a smoke when it wasn't busy and nobody minded. With pipes and cigars I can just not smoke.
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>>1244788 I'm trying to convert the lads at work over to pipes. Gonna stock up on corncobs for em in case they wanna try. I'm new and they all find it funny that I smoke a pipe but they seem interested. Boss even said it's neat. We'll be the coolest cable company around.
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>>1244788 No. Nobody gives a shit. I'm in the white collar sector of construction. I could come in high, drunk, and re-up at lunch and nobody would care as long as I got the job done right. A tobacco pipe is so far off the radar it's not even a thing.
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Holy fuck, Old Joe Krantz is incredibly heavy on the nicotine. I love this shit though, Anyone know how similar it is to Haunted Bookshop? Thinking about getting a pound or two of the stuff, as long as it's essentially the same as Old Joe Krantz but without so much damn perique.
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