Like always my girlfriend spoiled me again... had me look on the bay for a estate and found a Curtis Draper Bulldog. The description was alright, 5 1/2" long bowl diameter 1 1/2" but one thing... that is the outside diameter and they neglected to reveal that it is almost 2" tall which makes it a pretty small pipe. One of my best smokers is a small pipe that I use for aeros and seems to make the flavor POP so I am hoping that this one will fair well.
I soaked/sanitized the stem and retorted the pipe about 4 times. Still has a small ghost so once it dries I will give it another cleaning. This thing was DIRTY! Had very little cake but once I removed the steam I realized the previous owner neglected to ever remove it as there was a considerable amount of build up on the tenon, throughout the shank, and blocking the stem from even passing a pipe cleaner! 5 or 6 pip cleaners later it was clean. The rim had a scorch mark but came off fairly easy with saliva and a q-tip. Although I may of scrubbed a tad too hard and faded the finish a little :roll: Well, luckily it doesn't seem to me to of been a latakia forward blend or something else that will ghost badly so after my last retort and it dries I will be able to try it out!!
Here are pics as I opened it up: (was excited so the pics were rushed.... and I am not too savvy with this big thing, too many knobs and settings)
You can see there are some small chips in the wood, dont seem to be fills to me, but should be fine.
And once cleaned up:
ok... now I notice this pic is kinda blurry, too lazy to take another :rofl:
And off topic a bit...
She also picked my brain like a sneak and found out I couldn't wait to have some PS LBF (aging) in a few years and she asked why I didn't just smoke it now. So she went and got 8oz along with her other findings of me wanting to try 1Q and PS LTF she got me some samples :D
My thoughts so far:
1Q- very wet... its alright. My B&M blends better stuff for less
PS Luxury Twist Flake- WOW, smells like butter!! It might just be me but man it does. Also tastes great but smokes a tad hot for me. Relights will happen with this one
I soaked/sanitized the stem and retorted the pipe about 4 times. Still has a small ghost so once it dries I will give it another cleaning. This thing was DIRTY! Had very little cake but once I removed the steam I realized the previous owner neglected to ever remove it as there was a considerable amount of build up on the tenon, throughout the shank, and blocking the stem from even passing a pipe cleaner! 5 or 6 pip cleaners later it was clean. The rim had a scorch mark but came off fairly easy with saliva and a q-tip. Although I may of scrubbed a tad too hard and faded the finish a little :roll: Well, luckily it doesn't seem to me to of been a latakia forward blend or something else that will ghost badly so after my last retort and it dries I will be able to try it out!!
Here are pics as I opened it up: (was excited so the pics were rushed.... and I am not too savvy with this big thing, too many knobs and settings)
You can see there are some small chips in the wood, dont seem to be fills to me, but should be fine.
And once cleaned up:
ok... now I notice this pic is kinda blurry, too lazy to take another :rofl:
And off topic a bit...
She also picked my brain like a sneak and found out I couldn't wait to have some PS LBF (aging) in a few years and she asked why I didn't just smoke it now. So she went and got 8oz along with her other findings of me wanting to try 1Q and PS LTF she got me some samples :D
My thoughts so far:
1Q- very wet... its alright. My B&M blends better stuff for less
PS Luxury Twist Flake- WOW, smells like butter!! It might just be me but man it does. Also tastes great but smokes a tad hot for me. Relights will happen with this one