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How to identify a tobacco?
The tobacco shop I go to has old style candy jars full of various blends, with little or no information as to what goes in the blend. But when I was in yesterday I heard a side comment, that the tobacco company only identifies them by number. So I took some photos of some jars to help me...- bprivateaerdric
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Bad experience with tongue bite
I've been reading and I think I am talking about bite and not burn. What it feels like is something between red pepper burn and raw onion burn. Although it is strong on the tip of my tongue, it also extends to my upper palate and my gums and cheeks. What happened is that I smoked way too much...- bprivateaerdric
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Tobacco flavored tobacco?
I'm still new to this, but I seem to be developing preferences. I don't much like the flavored tobaccos, which I guess are the aromatics. And the English tobaccos scare me. The ones I have sniffed in the store make me think I will be smoking black peppercorns. Because so far, sniffing in the...- bprivateaerdric
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- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Sun drying pipe?
This guy in my apartment complex sits his pipes out in a bowl in the sun and says it dries them out. Other than possible fading, is this reasonable? Maybe using a warmer? (My porch is well shaded)- bprivateaerdric
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High draught holes
I got to hold another churchwarden pipe (there's another pipe smoker in my apartment complex!) much like mine and it also has a very high hole. Both are bent egg shaped so I now wonder if it's just that they can't really get a hole to go into the right place in a curved up neck.- bprivateaerdric
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Introduction and stuff
Hi, I'm a retired guy who stopped smoking cigarettes 35 years ago, but I recently decided to smoke a pipe because I have such a nice back porch for it. I started with a corncob on the advice of Fayette Cigar Store, then bought a more expensive pipe after a week, during which I really enjoyed...- bprivateaerdric
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