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  1. samon

    Best Way To Smoke Aromatics? Erinmore Flake

    Yeah, as per title I'm curious as to the best way to smoke aromatics. I'll add I never buy aromatics, mainly because the loose variety is usually cheap, sticky horrible old crap that tastes foul compared to how it smells. But! I do smoke Condor which is considered an aromatic I suppose, but imo...
  2. samon

    Made A Rack From A Hazel Branch

    Yo, I was bored today so I packed my rucksack with a folding saw and a knife and took my pooch for a walk in the woods. There is an abundant load of hazel trees around in some areas and plenty good straight bits for me to take and work with. Figured I'd make a pipe rack! :) Nothing fancy, just...
  3. samon

    St.Bruno Flake - Is This New Packaging..??

    Take a look at that! ^ Standard outer packet but with a black plastic and foil sealed little tray?? Is this standard? or a new thing? Never bought a pack before as I've only had it given to me in baggies. Took me by surprise today when in the baccy shop. I usually open all my tins infornt of the...
  4. samon

    Bargain Buy - Carey Magic Inch Pipes. Thoughts?

    Yo, Got these 4 Carey magic inchers on ebay for a total bargain of £4 as the guy listed them buy it now for 99p + £3 postage instead of bid starting at 99p and still let me have them! All in really good condition and barely needed reaming or much cleaning. I ordered about 60 little paper filters...
  5. samon

    How To Heat Bend A MM Cob Stem???

    How do you bend these things without turning the cheese stems into bubbley stinkers? lol I've used a lighter at a distance but it always seems to burn it and cause bubbles to form.. Heat gun?.. don't have one.. Any thoughts?
  6. samon

    Top 5 USA Blends For ENglishman To Try!?

    Yo, My buddy lives across the pond and has said he will send me some baccy along with a gift he wants to send. Naturally I brough up the topic and he's happy to oblige/ ;) So.. what's good? I can get all the great English made stuff here but none of the seemingly endless unheard round here stuff...
  7. samon

    Where There's Smoke.. There's A Pile Of Tins!?

    This is about 2/3's of the tins I've gotten through over the last year of returning to pipe smoking after nearly a decade! This does not include the tins I've given away, used for tools bits, traded and the mountain of baccy packets from Condor, St Bruno etc.. What do you guys do with your tins?
  8. samon

    I'd like a good intro in to strong Burley blends. Is Orlik dark strong Kentucky

    Yo, as per title I'm looking at trying some Burley heavy blends that are strong also. I've seen Orlik dark strong Kentucky reviewed a few times in various places and it's stocked by my go to shop. Is this a good place to start with the Burley adventure? It's because I've been learning lately...
  9. samon

    Full flavour, strong latakia, strong nicotine blend like Nightcap!?

    Right, I've come to terms that I don't get on with sweet tobaccos. They burn hot, taste acrid to me and toppings even make me feel a little sickly.. I like my baccy strong, raw tasting and pungent in the mouth. It took a while for me to figure out what I was looking for and I've come to the...
  10. samon

    So much infamy, hype and hysteria! I'll explain..

    Ever hear or read those guys talking about blends of baccy that so nicotine heavy they cannot be smoked on an emtpy stomache, by a beginner or while standing? A flavour so intense and an aquired taste that no way a novice could not vommit or so strong that even Dave had to chuck it away as it...
  11. samon

    Mr.Brog 'Old boy' duel colour - Modifications!

    Yo! I ordered an 'Old Boy' model in two tone pear wood with rustication. This one looked cack and I could do better myself with a dremel and 5 minuts. Anyway, I used the pipe for some time to be fair to it as it only cost £15 posted. Soon after the coating on the bowl began to flake off so I...
  12. samon

    Bought two tins of snuff.. ACHOO!

    Lol as per title, I bought two tins of snuff. Wilsons of sharrow 'Crumbs of comfort' and 'Saint George'. I asked for nothing minty and as natural as possible! Honestly, Crums of comfort is minty, and is quite the nose kicker! I passed it around outside the pub and everyone had a snort. Some...
  13. samon

    Sour taste in mouth.. and it's not the pipe causing it?

    Right, the last few days my initial light and first 2 thirds of the bowl have a sour burnt paper taste, the end third starts the taste normal and sweet but still not exact. I've tried 4 different tobaccos - English blends and Virginia heavy blends. 3 different pipes - various briars which are...
  14. samon

    My modest collection! grew with a recent cob buy.

    Not been collecting long, but have always been passionate about 'smoke'. It's trippy, ephemeral and something that trigger parts of my brain that just about everything else does not! Gave up the coffin nails about 6 years ago, dabbled with cigars pipes etc then but fears of bad health drove me...
  15. samon

    Collection of old Corncobs in need repairs - Advice please!

    Ok, I have a collection of 4 old estate Cobs that need some tlc. All 4 aren't air tight and need some filler on the outsides near the shank hole, the odd corn seam line and inside the bowl base and rim etc. The insides are fine, I can do that with pipe mud and wood base plugs for one in...
  16. samon

    Interesting conversation with a stranger!

    Story time! :D Today I was sat in the grey skied outsdoors on a bench near a local library. Puffing away on my Mr.brog No.38 Old boy with some chocolately Mac Baren Old fired dark flake. Minding my own business, I had a few stares, couple of odler woemn turning up their noses at me.. and one who...
  17. samon

    Flakes! - what can we agree on?

    Alas, I have found it easier to find out what we can all agree on, rather than the 'what's your favourite colour' approach. ;) Flake tobbacco. Hard pressed, sliced into strips and usuable in many different ways. The best way? hmm. The best variety, brand and type? Hm.. Can't answer those but I...
  18. samon

    Please help indentify these pipes!

    Yo, morning gent's and gentettes..? Anyway, I have an opportunity to aquire these 5 pipes and rack in a trade. SO far I can only make out one name, 'Jethro'! ;) I've asked for more info on the others with pictures and names etc but I figured why not ask you pro's in the mean time. I'll update...
  19. samon

    Puffing:Short and plenty or Long and full?

    Yeah, short, sweet but plentifull puffs or long, slow and full puffs? (or somewhere in the middle) What's your style? Type of pipe, baccy and what not obviously dictate to a degree, but what is your preferrence in ideal conditions? I'm leaning towards short but plenty. It gives off more smoke...
  20. samon

    Matches.! The good, the bad and the ugly.

    Morning gents', let's talk matches! Alof of us use them when the weather is right, but which ones are 'best', favoured, most used etc? I've tried a bunch over the years, some of which taste vile, sour, phosferousy and/or are too bloody short and wet! It must be due to the pine sticks they are...
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