Anyone else have a pipe that "marries up" to Plum Pudding like that? If so, what else would likely work, too? I'll put them on my next order.
I bought a pipe that retails at about $200. I have several less expensive styles by the same manufacture. Much as I'm in love with its looks and its feel -- I didn't like the way it smoked. I was about to put it up on eBay.
-- But a couple days ago, it was the cleanest pipe handy. So... I slipped in some Seattle Pipe Club Plum Pudding, and lo and behold, a match!!!
Love the way Plum Pudding smokes in it.
Now, since I'm superficially enamored with the pipe's aesthetics, and I've been able to match *one* tobacco to it, I'd like to match others.
Suggestions for tobaccos that might also work in this king-sized (7/8" wide by 1 1/2" deep or so (22 x 38 mm) flawless thick-walled briar bowl slightly bent pipe with wide draw? In size, it's like my Sav 320 and my older Sav billiard. Like the 320, this one's a conversion pipe.
Pups
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Oh dang it -- should have mentioned what I didn't care for in it due to excessive moisture and problems getting an even, consistent burn, or ashy-ness, or just constantly smothering out in spite of all kinds of tweaks on how I fill it, how I smoke it, whether I use a filter, what kind of filter I use. It was to the point where the next step was setting up a laboratory to carefully catalog each variable I changed.
Pipe shouldn't be *that* difficult, right? I was disappointed in these, though they are standards for me in my other pipes:
- Captain Black. Not so good.
- Prince Albert. Eh, not so much.
- Stanwell vanilla. No.
- Savinelli vanilla. Hey... not too bad, but better in every other pipe I have.
- Molto Dulce. Okay, but... Relight. Relight. Relight... prefer in my others.
- Comoy Cask No. 1. No. Very ashy. Fine ash repeatedly smothers it. Tilt, tilt, tilt. Dump.
- Home made blend of Virginia, Latakia, Perique. Almost.
- Crown Achievement. No.
So I was surprised by the Plum Pudding. Maybe it's just this sample, but I'm not going to sell this pretty pipe if I find a set of tobaccos that smoke this well in it. No moisture. Long, slow, even, tasty cool burn. Flavor is wonderful. Smoking it right now and just about out of Plum Pudding, ordering more.
I bought a pipe that retails at about $200. I have several less expensive styles by the same manufacture. Much as I'm in love with its looks and its feel -- I didn't like the way it smoked. I was about to put it up on eBay.
-- But a couple days ago, it was the cleanest pipe handy. So... I slipped in some Seattle Pipe Club Plum Pudding, and lo and behold, a match!!!
Love the way Plum Pudding smokes in it.
Now, since I'm superficially enamored with the pipe's aesthetics, and I've been able to match *one* tobacco to it, I'd like to match others.
Suggestions for tobaccos that might also work in this king-sized (7/8" wide by 1 1/2" deep or so (22 x 38 mm) flawless thick-walled briar bowl slightly bent pipe with wide draw? In size, it's like my Sav 320 and my older Sav billiard. Like the 320, this one's a conversion pipe.
Pups
-
Oh dang it -- should have mentioned what I didn't care for in it due to excessive moisture and problems getting an even, consistent burn, or ashy-ness, or just constantly smothering out in spite of all kinds of tweaks on how I fill it, how I smoke it, whether I use a filter, what kind of filter I use. It was to the point where the next step was setting up a laboratory to carefully catalog each variable I changed.
Pipe shouldn't be *that* difficult, right? I was disappointed in these, though they are standards for me in my other pipes:
- Captain Black. Not so good.
- Prince Albert. Eh, not so much.
- Stanwell vanilla. No.
- Savinelli vanilla. Hey... not too bad, but better in every other pipe I have.
- Molto Dulce. Okay, but... Relight. Relight. Relight... prefer in my others.
- Comoy Cask No. 1. No. Very ashy. Fine ash repeatedly smothers it. Tilt, tilt, tilt. Dump.
- Home made blend of Virginia, Latakia, Perique. Almost.
- Crown Achievement. No.
So I was surprised by the Plum Pudding. Maybe it's just this sample, but I'm not going to sell this pretty pipe if I find a set of tobaccos that smoke this well in it. No moisture. Long, slow, even, tasty cool burn. Flavor is wonderful. Smoking it right now and just about out of Plum Pudding, ordering more.
