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  1. Casual

    New Presbyterian Flake?

    I stumbled across this 3 page PDF with product announcements from Mac Baren. Does anyone know anything about this? See especially page 3, a new Presbyterian flake and a Sutliff crumble cake no. 4. I also note smokingpipes has a placeholder page already set up for the new Presbyterian...
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    Vintage Versus Modern Factory Pipes

    I recently had an inaugural Virginia flake in a little NOS Chacom apple, which I was informed was likely made in the 1950s. I bought it because I like light pipes (but without thin walls), simple finishes, and unobtrusive bits. I am inexperienced with the properties of vintage pipes, and it got...
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    Palate Changes in Three Years

    Here is my progression over the last three years: Month 1: Why doesn’t this 1-Q taste like cookies? Month 3: Wow! Englishes are all I need because they don’t taste like cigarettes! Month 6: Virginias are just Canadian Cigarettes. Month : This Dark Fired stuff is so incredibly tasty, why...
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    Canadians: RedBird Match Switcheroo

    The last time I picked up some red bird matches from Canadian Tire, I didn’t notice until I got home that they had changed to strike-on-box, “safety” matches! When I discovered this heresy, I went back to the store and found the old and new stock all mixed up on the shelf. So I pulled out...
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    Semois As Condiment

    I love the flavour of semois, but prefer the smoking characteristics of pressed tobacco. While I have never blended my own pipe tobacco, preferring the concoctions of blenders with far more experience than me, I decided to try my hand at trivial blending at home. I have found a sprinkle of...
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    Do You Have a Lakeland Pipe?

    Do you only smoke Lakeland tobaccos in a specific pipe or pipes? I have taken the stories of difficult ghosts as admonishment, and decided to dedicate a pipe to the more perfumey Lakelands. Blends such as FVF, in which I can detect no floral topping go in any pipe I regularly use for...
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    Covered/Capped Pipe Experiences

    I’ve decided to try out my Hurricane pipe this summer, to see what sort of windy conditions it helps with, to define when to use it. I think this would apply similarly to pipes with metalwork caps, or just using a wind cap on a regular pipe. Any tips from experienced members is appreciated. I...
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    Canadian Carver Corner

    I’m accumulating some pipes from Canadian carvers. It looks like we are past the heyday of Canadian carvers, so I‘m glad to get unsmoked examples of pipes from these men, two of which are deceased, and one in the game for over 60 years. I am blessed that Canadian carvers seem to have produced...
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    Loading the Night Before

    Based on tales here, I decided to try loading some blends into a pipe the night before. So far I have tried it with some Virginia flakes, like FVF and Newminster 400. I have found that I like it; one gets drier tobacco, but without the crumbly dust that comes with manipulating a dried flake into...
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    Smokingpipes Phased Release

    For heavily demanded tobacco, SP appears to phase the distribution to try to make people happy. It’s a tricky business, but they seem to have a good strategy for the time and customer base. Here’s what I saw yesterday with the Gawith blends. Feel free to fill me in if there’s more to it. 1...
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    Ceramic Match Striker

    If you like matches and old tech, you can’t beat a ceramic match striker. Luckily for me, Etsy is lousy with them. This one is very stable thanks to the large base, and lets you select a match and strike it one-handed. Great for when you have an unwieldy pipe you’d rather not clench while...
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    Progression Through the Tobacco Blend Genres.

    I’ve been at this a bit over a year and a half. My progression: I like this 1-Q. Better get more aros. I like this English. Better get more Englishes. What will I do with all these aros? I like this burley. Better get more burleys. What will I do with all these aros and Englishes? I like this...
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    Best Way to Remove Stain From the Chamber?

    Got a half price Summertime 2019 Pete, and learned two things: the bowl coating comes off in warm water, and they leaked stain all the way down the bowl. What’s the best way to remove it? Alcohol and paper towels? Hopefully not sandpaper.
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    Baccy Song

    If you like the folk music of Newfoundland, accordions and fiddles with a heavy old Irish flavour, these guys are hard to beat. Baccy Song By Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers A few years ago when the times were rough, Worked like a devil and you had to be tough. Worked in the garden...
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    Dottle and Stummel Absorbency

    I’d love some more educated opinions on a phenomenon I think I’m seeing. If I smoke the same blend in different pipes, I get vastly different amounts of dottle, from zero to quite a bit. I’m wondering if this is because some pipes absorb more moisture during the smoke, and so it doesn’t collect...
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    Savinelli Janus, Juno, and Jupiter

    So what do we know about them? Who makes them? Anyone try them yet? I ordered some Jupiter sight unseen as I’m into VaBurs and Vaburkeys these days.
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    How Does the Cold Affect the Burn?

    The weather here has turned. Just around freezing, with lots of cloudcover, freezing rain, and snow. I had two bowls in the garage over the last couple of days in this weather, and both times I had a lot more dottle, and it was a lot more moist. Is this the result of the weather? Perhaps the...
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    Canadian vs American

    Tastes, that is. I often see burley pipe tobacco reviews that say the taste can be reminiscent of cigarettes. I think this must be an American thing. In Canada, cigarette tobacco is highly regulated, and it’s definitely Virginia. Straight Virginia pipe tobacco blends, which seem to be valued...
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    The Problem of Too Much Selection

    Since I’m new to this, I am trying to survey the breadth of blends available. I started with thirty or so well-rated blends from all sorts of the spectrum, to get a feel for what’s available. That took quite a while to get through, at my pace. Each time I find something I like, which is often...
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    Will Presbyterian Change?

    I’d love to hear from those of you who have lived through the sale of tobacco brands between manufacturers. What do you think we should expect from the recent Mac Baren purchase of Planta? Will Presbyterian be almost the same, or much different? And if different, could it possibly be better? Or...
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