Hello everyone,
As a recent lurker and now new member, this will be my first but certainly not last post to this amazingly cool community. I've always enjoyed reading everyone's posts here, and the friendly and helpful nature of all members is refreshing and welcome when compared with many places on the Internet.
Ok, enough praise--now for my dilemma.
I am a new pipe smoker and recently I have acquired lots of tobacco but not many pipes. I currently live overseas in South Asia and most of the pipes available are incredibly expensive and significantly marked up in comparison to US prices. They have quality pipes like Savs and Petersons, but the cheapest pipe I can find is about $150.00. A Zippo pipe lighter one can find on Amazon for $12 costs around $40 here. However, tobacco is very inexpensive compared to US prices. Also the vast majority of tobacco available at my shop are aromatics. So I've gone a little crazy with the tobacco purchases as of late, and now I find myself in a dilemma--what to smoke in my 3 pipes?
My three pipes consist of a MM corn cob, a $15 basket pipe, and a $50.00 Jobey (all purchased in the States) The War Department (love this euphemism--stealing it from Lawrence) has since restricted funds for my TAD and any PAD and therefore purchasing one of the aforementioned pipes at a high price is not grounds for discussion at the moment.
Here are the blends currently in my arsenal:
1Q
BCA
MacBaren 7 Seas Gold
MacBaren Vanilla Cream Flake
Larsen Signature
Davidoff Danish Mixture
Peterson Deluxe Mixture
Peterson Sunset Breeze
Peterson Irish Whiskey
Thomas Radford Sunday Fantasy
Peterson Special Reserve 2012
Peterson Old Dublin
Dunhill Nightcap
Dunhill EMP
Dunhill Royal Yacht
Based on what I've read in previous posts, many pipers like to dedicate one genre or range of blends to a pipe to limit ghosting. Given the range of tobacco and my small number of pipes, are there any blends I should be careful of? Can I smoke anything out of my corncob (e.g. EMP one night, 1Q the next, Royal Yacht on the third)? Should I put all aro's in one pipe? I have yet to smoke the Jobey and since it's the most expensive of the lot, I don't want to prematurely ghost it--I'd much rather ghost the cheaper pipe if necessary. Thus far, I've smoked 1Q and BCA in the cob, and the 7 Seas and Larsen Signature in the basket pipe. I welcome all of your expert advice!
As a recent lurker and now new member, this will be my first but certainly not last post to this amazingly cool community. I've always enjoyed reading everyone's posts here, and the friendly and helpful nature of all members is refreshing and welcome when compared with many places on the Internet.
Ok, enough praise--now for my dilemma.
I am a new pipe smoker and recently I have acquired lots of tobacco but not many pipes. I currently live overseas in South Asia and most of the pipes available are incredibly expensive and significantly marked up in comparison to US prices. They have quality pipes like Savs and Petersons, but the cheapest pipe I can find is about $150.00. A Zippo pipe lighter one can find on Amazon for $12 costs around $40 here. However, tobacco is very inexpensive compared to US prices. Also the vast majority of tobacco available at my shop are aromatics. So I've gone a little crazy with the tobacco purchases as of late, and now I find myself in a dilemma--what to smoke in my 3 pipes?
My three pipes consist of a MM corn cob, a $15 basket pipe, and a $50.00 Jobey (all purchased in the States) The War Department (love this euphemism--stealing it from Lawrence) has since restricted funds for my TAD and any PAD and therefore purchasing one of the aforementioned pipes at a high price is not grounds for discussion at the moment.
Here are the blends currently in my arsenal:
1Q
BCA
MacBaren 7 Seas Gold
MacBaren Vanilla Cream Flake
Larsen Signature
Davidoff Danish Mixture
Peterson Deluxe Mixture
Peterson Sunset Breeze
Peterson Irish Whiskey
Thomas Radford Sunday Fantasy
Peterson Special Reserve 2012
Peterson Old Dublin
Dunhill Nightcap
Dunhill EMP
Dunhill Royal Yacht
Based on what I've read in previous posts, many pipers like to dedicate one genre or range of blends to a pipe to limit ghosting. Given the range of tobacco and my small number of pipes, are there any blends I should be careful of? Can I smoke anything out of my corncob (e.g. EMP one night, 1Q the next, Royal Yacht on the third)? Should I put all aro's in one pipe? I have yet to smoke the Jobey and since it's the most expensive of the lot, I don't want to prematurely ghost it--I'd much rather ghost the cheaper pipe if necessary. Thus far, I've smoked 1Q and BCA in the cob, and the 7 Seas and Larsen Signature in the basket pipe. I welcome all of your expert advice!