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Gaylord's pipe
Hey, I know this thread is a bit old, but I recently bought an estate Gaylord's pipe from eBay for less than $20, and it's the same with me: Google turns up nothing about this company. The pipe is a straight, diamond-shank squat bulldog with a tapered vulcanite stem. The stem screws into the... -
First Latakia blend that I didn't hate.
wow, i have never seen this stuff and i thought i'd smoked everything from middleton years and years ago. i never knew the middleton factory had ever seen so much as a whiff of latakia. next time i'm home in the states i'll search out a tub of it. if it's light on the latakia i probably won't...- iwbiek
- Post #8
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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University Flake........ Wow!
hmmm, well, i guess i see why i wasn't that into those flakes when i tried them years ago--no latakia! i had just left aromatics behind and had already been smoking old dublin and gawith commonwealth for a while. i think the last serious aromatic i ever bought was a tin of peterson sunset...- iwbiek
- Post #17
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Aro's To Be Banned In The EU
oh wow, "young people." which means what exactly? minors? preteens? young adults in their twenties? what? and just how will they go about demonstrating "a substantial change in circumstances"? when the language is this vague, it basically means "we can change it whenever the mood strikes...- iwbiek
- Post #25
- Forum: Tobacco Legislation
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The Oldest Available Pipe Tobacco Blend
ugh, do not care for 1792. that tonquin ruined it for me. my tastes are not so refined that "ghosting" has ever been a problem for me.- iwbiek
- Post #19
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Cigars....I Just Don't Like Them Anymore
as another poster said, i typically gravitate toward cigars in summer and pipes every other time. i like my robustos; i like my cigars on the short and thick side. i used to do churchills but actually found many of them burned down more quickly than robustos or torpedoes, and they looked...- iwbiek
- Post #30
- Forum: General Discussion
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University Flake........ Wow!
eh, i don't remember being too impressed with it compared to gawith commonwealth or navy flake, but maybe i'll make it my next purchase after my current tin of navy runs out. it's been about 5 years, i guess, since i tried it. i used to be as big a devotee of peterson tobaccos as i am of their...- iwbiek
- Post #15
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Aro's To Be Banned In The EU
yeah, i've been doing preemptive protesting of that sort for a number of years now. ;)- iwbiek
- Post #8
- Forum: Tobacco Legislation
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Aro's To Be Banned In The EU
well, as someone who has been living in an EU member country for 9 years now, this is the first i've heard of it. pipe-smoking is not experiencing the same massive hipster/college student resurgence here that it is back home in the states, so it's mostly ignored. it's seen as quaint and...- iwbiek
- Post #7
- Forum: Tobacco Legislation
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Walking On the Wild Side--My First Nording
i own three petersons: a bent killarneyn (i think it's a 338), a system standard 307, and a sherlock holmes deerstalker smooth. peterson is by far my favorite brand of pipe and if I had the money, i'd buy damn near the whole line. i've been lusting after a spigot for years- iwbiek
- Post #34
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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The Oldest Available Pipe Tobacco Blend
yeah, and lose your lunch.- iwbiek
- Post #8
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Walking On the Wild Side--My First Nording
it's late here in europe so i'll take a picture of it tomorrow. in my defense, the majority of damage to it was sustained within 2 years of when i started smoking. i'm going on 12 years now.- iwbiek
- Post #28
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Walking On the Wild Side--My First Nording
i purchased one of nording's erik the red series back in college. they're rather small, inexpensive,conservative looking pipes with smooth shanks and rugged bowls and a beautiful deep red finish with black grain. i don't know if they're considered free-hand or not, but each one is definitely...- iwbiek
- Post #23
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Looking For Ideas for Carter Hall Plus
oh yeah, CH and PA both, i inhale like a fiend. it's practically like smoking a cigarette for me. in fact, i've been known to make CH rollies (unfiltered of course), although i generally prefer PA because it has a slightly longer cut and stays in the papers better. in fact, other than the...- iwbiek
- Post #13
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Can Anyone Identify My Meerschaum?
hi, any help with this would be greatly appreciated. i bought this meerschaum in a pipe shop in london (on charing cross road, i believe) in 2003. it cost me 80 pounds. i'm ashamed to admit i bought it when i had only been casually smoking for a year and knew practically nothing about pipes... -
Latakia
no, i have not, but i'm going to have to delve more into that site! that's a damn good price compared to the exhorbitant rates my tobacconist in slovakia charges! luckily a small tin lasts me at least a month, usually longer, so i can afford it. i gripe about my wife not letting me smoke...- iwbiek
- Post #13
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Am I Tasting Latakia?
by cool they mean latakia doesn't tend to burn as hot or bite as easily as, say, burley, which i definitely concur with. the pure latakia i once bought was very dry in the tin (a huge disappointment), but even then my pipe didn't get too hot. of course, the type and quality of the pipe itself...- iwbiek
- Post #17
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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New Members, Introduce Yourself!
thank you for your service, djengle, and hope you rack up as many years of pleasure from pipe-smoking as i have (11+ now, and i'm a babe in the woods compared to a lot of folks here).- iwbiek
- Post #1,365
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Am I Tasting Latakia?
my experience is the opposite. latakia has a stout, woody taste (for me, reminiscent of coal smoke from a chimney, which i like), but almost no body on its own. when i smoked pure latakia, the flavor was strong but went as quickly as it came, and the smoke was thin and lacked any depth at all...- iwbiek
- Post #15
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Latakia
i've never in my life thought latakia smelled remotely like ketchup. as an eastern kentucky boy, i grew up surrounded by burley. my family grew it for at least 3 generations (sold their shares five years ago). that being said, i don't like it in pipes. too sweet and nutty. i'm a die-hard...- iwbiek
- Post #10
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions