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  1. M

    How Do You Clench?

    With most of my pipes I can hook my teeth onto part of the stem and dangle it, so I tend not to clench very much at all
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    Tobacconist in Glasgow, Scotland

    I live in Scotland but not in the Central Belt (where Glasgow and Edinburgh are, I'm technically in the Highlands) so I just buy all my tobacco-related stuff online. I have heard of the Smoke Lounge & bought a few pipes online from the Pipe Shop in Edinburgh, which is meant to be quite good...
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    My three rules of pipe smoking

    I got a friend of mine that smokes cigarettes into smoking a pipe to take the strain off his lungs a bit. I gave him that exact advice, though admittedly I don't follow it myself. My pipe right now is so hot I can't touch it and I'm puffing away but I don't really care
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    Just A Pipe

    When I first smoked a pipe I'd never smoked a cigarette, and I still never have. I would consider smoking a cigarette in my pipe & gladly smoke rolling tobacco in it, but I don't have access to any cigarettes worth trying that with & cigarettes are prohibitively expensive anyway. I would maybe...
  5. M

    Should I superglue my stem back together?

    The pipe is a "Zorr" (I think Czech or Ukrainian) pipe. It served me well until now
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    Should I superglue my stem back together?

    I was cleaning one of my pipes and accidentally split my pipe stem in half when reinserting it. I believe it's acrylic, not vulcanite. It broke quite cleanly in half, I'm not sure why exactly but I must have put force on the wrong part. I want to try supergluing it back together because the...
  7. M

    Cigari di Toscano

    Regarding Toscanos and other Italian-style cigars (like Nostrano del Brenta & Ambasciator Italico), what are folks' thoughts on cutting them? My inclination is to smoke them amezzatto/in halves at all times as I have tried smoking them intero/whole before, but it lasted forever and had a tight...
  8. M

    Lapsang Souchong Smokey Tea

    I'm no tea expert but I think I prefer black teas from Assam and Ceylon because that's what I've grown up drinking, albeit not the best quality examples. We start drinking tea young in the UK; my first cup of tea with milk and sugar must have been at age 5 or 6, although I don't take sugar...
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    Lapsang Souchong Smokey Tea

    Those "Russian caravan" teas you can get from various companies are also quite nice I think. It has a degree of smokiness as it contains Lapsang Souchong along with other leaves. I always drink tea when I smoke a pipe, but due to my UK/Irish heritage that means it's just standard black tea from...
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    Lapsang Souchong Smokey Tea

    There was a good channel on Youtube called Tea 'n' Tobacco. Unfortunately it is no longer active.
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    Adenoids Affecting Pipe Smoking?

    @bluto Haemorrhoids? That depends on what end you're smoking from. That's a pretty novel technique though, I'll give you that; I mean, I've heard of the "breath method" but... @Hap Arnold Wow that's great, thank you so much!
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    Adenoids Affecting Pipe Smoking?

    Hi there, I'm not sure if this is the correct forum for this but I wanted to run a question past you guys. Would the adenoids (or lack thereof) have an effect on tasting tobacco? I ask because I had mine removed at a young age along with my tonsils and I sometimes find I can't taste things as...
  13. M

    Tobacco Recommendations

    I like to smoke Toscano cigars in a cheroot holder I bought on ebay from Italy. It is slightly longer than my other cigar holders/mouthpieces because it accepts a 9mm filter, which is handy for retrohaling Toscano Anticos to get more flavour. It also provides a more clenchable, pipe-like...
  14. M

    My Final Dunhill Order

    I bought the whole line up of Dunhill tins in the last two months, with extras for the few blends I actually liked. My hope is this will be good trading stock for the future
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    Effect of Cavendish in Latakia blends?

    I'm currently enjoying some Rattray's 7 Reserve and I'm just wondering about why cavendish has been added to Rattray Scottish blends - specifically Black Malloray, Red Rapparee and so on. I do definitely get some kind of similar experience to full black cavendish aromatics I've smoked in that...
  16. M

    First Smoke Clay Pipe

    @Halfdan If you want you could try that thing the Irish allegedly used to do and dip the stem of your clay pipe in a pint of beer before smoking. The liquid helps prevent the unglazed stem sticking to your lips, I hear
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    Tobacco Recommendations

    St. Bruno and Ogden's Walnut Flake in the UK have quite prominent Kentucky leaf, though it's not very dark fired I don't think. Italian Toscano cigars (cheroots really) are also rolled with Kentucky leaf if you would be so inclined; I recommend the Antico ones as they are very dark and...
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    Pipe Smoking Villain in "The Harder They Come" (1972), Jamaica

    @dottiewarden It's a nice sitter, isn't it? It seems to fit his character really well, I wonder if it was a part of his costume or just something the actor smoked already. @mikethompson That's really interesting, I wonder if they based it on a real example someone in production had?
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    Pipe Smoking Villain in "The Harder They Come" (1972), Jamaica

    I was just enjoying Jimmy Cliff's movie "The Harder They Come" about a talented reggae artist that turns to crime to make ends meet. In this scene I noticed the evil record company boss guy is smoking a pipe, quite a nice one at that. I just saw it and thought you guys may be interested. For...
  20. M

    Fishermen...Your Batter Recipe?

    That sounds delicious, Bluto. I'd like to try capelin. On the subject of roe, cod roe is a favourite of mine - first cooked in water gently then chilled, sliced, dipped in egg & breadcrumbs and fried in discs.