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   Just wondering what you guys do with empty tins? I'm praying the answer is not "throw them all in the bin"!!!!

   If you do, please think about posting the smaller ones this way (I'd pay of course) because the tobacco I buy from my guy interstate only comes in ziplock bags and I was hoping to find something neat to store it in - no, jars are way too big, I only get 50gms of each one at a time, and that costs $40 flippin' bucks plus postage!

   If you keep them, or they're a valuable commodity, please forgive my naive question

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   Throw them away.
   Some here have fun uses for them. I think Cyndi made clocks from a few.

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   Ooooh no, don't throw them away, send them downunder to the poor little Colonist who can't get any - deface them as much as you like, peel the paper off etc. I promise I won't sell them, honestly, I just want them to store my modest baccy collection, not that you could call it that. Hell, I need lidded thimbles to store the $10 samples in grrrr.

   I'll pay shipping, AND I got some fancy smancy pipe related stickers I can send - an Italian seller sent them to me and they need a ute (that's what we call a Pick-up) to go on

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   Trash can...duh!

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   I throw them at my wife and tell her I need more.

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   lmao @ Paul the Pipe Ninja!

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   So Paul, after she gives you back your head, does she get you some?

   There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods.
   To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

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   So Paul, after she gives you back your head, does she get you some?

   Oh I am tempted to wake her up to sign on and answer this one herself.

   But yeah, I usually do...but only because she picks up the pipe as well, so she can be as bad as me with TAD/PAD.

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    Sometimes I wake up grumpy, most times I let her sleep.

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    I only have one metal tin. The rest are the ones with the plastic lid. If i Get more of the metal kind, i''ll be sure to let you know. If you need some thing to store your collection of tobacco, then put them in mason jars. They're hermeticaly sealed, so they stay fresh for a long time

    As long as I got a pipe full of baccy and a nose full of snuff, I'm a happy camper
    Cigarettes are an addiction, cigars are a hobby, pipes are a religion

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    Cheers uber, that would be great. No Mason jars near me, and they'd be miles too large anyways, because I can never afford to buy more than 50gms of one type at a time.

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    Beguiled by the exquisite Arcadia, the days and the years passed from me in delicate rings of smoke,
    and I contentedly watched them sailing to the skies. - J.M. Barrie

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    That's awesome Loborx. Is it fully functional?

    "I was born to lose. So I'll die to win." -Breaking Benjamin

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    Yes. I cut out a hole in the box to snug fit the tin. It has a bit of a resonator/banjo tone. I also slapped a piezo transducer to the bottom of the tin with a volume knob and jack so it can be plugged in. Sounds really dirty and nasty through my tube amp. Put the reverb to ten and let that black snake moan!

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    very cool cigar box guitar!

    my tins store tobacco and some random herbs.

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    remind me Aussie and I'll send you some once I get some duplicates. I collect mine but I don't need more of one kind

    A man without a pipe is a man unprepared

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    So Paul, after she gives you back your head, does she get you some?

    I let him keeps his head, I just threaten to keep his balls.

    But in all seriousness, we keep some tins around in the garage for screws, nails and crap like that, but we also have a large selection of empty tins Paul is hording, but will most likely never be used.

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    I know I am not the first but I use them as emergency pipe kits. I also take one of the pipe kits with me when I am about town and might want a smoke. I have a larger tin that actually houses the lighter as well.

    

    

    

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    If you need some thing to store your collection of tobacco, then put them in mason jars

    This. Jars are really cheap.

    I keep one tin of every tobacco I try and the rest I throw away.

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    Loborx - damn that's the most amazing thing I've ever seen - reminds me of "Where'd you go black-eyed joe" or whatever that redneck song was.

    Oh how I envy you guys having prerty tins everywhere & being able to pack them up with baccy, tamper & pipe to put one in each car, one in each handbag, one in every drawer, sigh.

    Mason jars cost an absolute squillion here & they've got to be trucked in from the other side of the country

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    Loborx you stole my idea! Haha I was going to try that on one of my own CBG builds! I figured it would give it a banjo sort of tone and I'm glad I was right. How'd you secure it? Did you rout a sound hole underneath so the bridge is contact with raw tin or leave the wood underneath?

    Yep Loborx had the exact same idea I had for my empty tins.

    "Enjoy every sandwich."

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    If Mason jars are not practical consider re-using the jars from fruit jams, jellies and preserves. They usually seal very well and won't have unpleasant odors.

    I find myself sitting idly on the line dividing past and future,
    as if I could kill time without injuring eternity. -- Thoreau

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    I do all kinds of nifty things with my empty tins, namely using them to store homebrew tobacco concoctions that I make in small doses. I have an old tin of 3 Oaks Syrian that is currently home to a few bowls worth of a 50/50 mix of Mississippi Mud and 1Q. I dont even want to tell you fellas (and lasses) how badass this homebrew smoke is!

    

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    @ aussielass I may have a couple empty tins up in the cabinets. I'll check. in the meantime, PM me your addy and If I have what I think I do, I'll ship 'em. Beats thinking about trashing them. I like that someone wants them.
    Some tins I keep because in the years to come they'll be collector's items. have you looked what a tin in nice shape on Ebay brings for a tin in great shape?
    But I have extras and currently they don't have any real value. so I can share some. lol

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    Save, remove label, and refill with bulk blends.

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    There is one size ,wide- mason jar that almost fits a 50gm tin. I use them over the can mostly....better seal.

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    After washing out, my wife and I use them for storing small items for out hobbies...great sizes for small electronic parts, sewing stuff, etc.

    Take a look at my vintage railroad postcard collection at http://www.railroadpostcards.blogspot.com!

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    I give them to needy smokers from other countries that need to store stuff. Send an address Aussielass and I'll send some tins. Would that be empty or full?

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    aussielass, use small tubberware or plastic food storage containers with the snap on lids, they come in a variety of shapes and sizes.

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    A thousand thanks WolfScout & jcsnaps, PMs sent & I insist on paying shipping for your EMPTY tins, bless your collective cotton socks. I'm wondering what I could send you over as gifts to repay your kindness - I suppose you hate Vegemite, every o/seas person does - oh, that's right, they made it illegal in USA didn't they, dang fools, it was what made this race of Convicts so big & strong!

    Marc, ticky tacky placcy in my handbag when heading out to a cafe, walking 20' away to pack a pipe, I'm afraid pulling tupperware out of a fancy smancy purse just doesn't do it for me, I'd feel like a green weed smoker. I bought a job lot of bags thinking they were the ones that take pipes, tools, baccy, matches, pipe cleaners etc - turns out they were all mouldy old (ancient) and perished plastic things, gaaargh. There was only one in the entire batch I will cherish, an antique french rubber one that on first glance looks like a puckered elephant's anus = I'll be taking pics & putting up a thread about these magnificent things that you just don't get anymore real soon.

    Our jars in markets all have plastic screw on type lids, checked out the peanut butter, not a single metal lid on the shelf.

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    Aussielass have you concidered Ebay? Here is a lot of twelve 1/2 pint jars, they are great for 20oz or 50 Gram tins!!

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    No Mason jars near me, and they'd be miles too large anyways, because I can never afford to buy more than 50gms of one type at a time.

    
    they dont sell any kind of canning jar near you? I've got real small mason jars that only hold 100g of tobacco

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    aussielass, the plastic containers were a storage recommendation, get a leather roll up pouch like the rest of us for using while out and about town...

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    Cheers Baskerville but $53 for shipping is a tad out of my league.

    Marc, unfortunate any leather pouch rockin' & rollin' in my purse is going to get totally mashed up, hence the need for lightweight tins. I went on eBay searching for non-collectibles & they wanted a small fortune for Bob Marley, strange big green leaves, black skulls with flames coming out of where their nostrils once were, sigh.

    I have 2 lovely gents who've offered to send me they're tins that would otherwise become landfill so I'm extremely grateful and forever indebted. I offered to send them pure gum-leaf baccy but they didn't seem keen

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    Aussielass, what you need is the ever elusive "baccy flap". Keep your eyes peeled on eBay and snatch it up if you come across one...

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    Oooh yes, I've been a lookin' and a biddin' but you boyz keep pipping me at the post, and I'm damned if I'll pay $50 for something that was probably a shilling and sixpence

    Besides, with the tins the boyz are sending, I'm going to have little "Pipe Survival Kits" stashed in front & back of house, every car glovebox, my purse etc. That way, when I'm really doddery they'll be laying all over the place so I don't get too frantic wondering where I can lay my hands on one. I suppose I'll just get into this & the buggers will introduce those damn ring-pull tops like coke cans.

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    Paint them white or orange and use them as air rifle targets.

    A tattoo on a beautiful woman is like graffiti on a Ferrari.

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    lass, the song was cotton eye joe....

    i have an aussie ex-pat for a buddy and will be picking his brains re our pm exchange...

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    Hey Aussielass - I went through my old tins, like some I tend to keep one of each blend, but I have loads of duplicates that 1. I really don't want to throw out, 2. have no use for. So if you are still in need of some more tins I can send them down under.

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    Howdies Paul, that's ever so sweet of you. I don't know what the other 2 lads have in mind at this point, so how's about I commit your very kind offer to memory and let you know in due course. Cheers, Di

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    No prob !!! I hate to throw them out, so yeah, commit it to memory, because by time you may realize you need more, I will probably have more empties !!

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    I keep a couple of old square tins to carry flake tobaccos, but the rest get nailed to the rafters in my workshop.

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    Neat clock bootleg!

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    For sure on the neat clock!
    Wonder why I never come up with clever ideas like that!

    Snus, snuff and briar.
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    on the subject of a baccy flap, is this a baccy flap? Also I really like that clock. have you ever considered making and selling them? Might make some decent cash on ebay
    

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    logandow
    The Baccy-Flap is made of bakelite. The 2 halves are threaded.
    What you have pictured looks like a large snuff tin or perhaps even a snus can.

    ETA: Also reminds me of a patch tin for muzzle loaders.

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    thank you kindly

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    A bit late on the draw here but I gotta say

    " I suppose you hate Vegemite, every o/seas person does " --- Lies and slander! . . well, liable anyway. I love vegemite.

    Sincerely,
    
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    I'm restarting this thread because ichbinmuede asked a question regarding the cigar box guitar and I never answered it.

    I routed a soundhole out of the top of the box to snug fit the lower part of the Dunhill tin. The lip of the upper tin rests against the box top. The bridge floats on top of the tin. I then drilled out two smaller sound holes to add more volume. I can use the tin two ways: without the bottom tin which gives a more open banjo like effect or with the bottom tin which gives a tighter more resonator guitar effect.

    The neck is kind of a hybrid in the sense that it doesn't go thru the body and string up along the same stick of wood like most traditional CBG's. I went more with a bolt on style, which I regret. The tailpiece is an old hinge I modified. I built another CBG sans tin in a more traditional way and I like it quite a bit more. I'm planning another tin style CBG with a better neck design this time.

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    Excellent basic design right there! I was thinking about the same for my next CBG (after this one I'm working on now) except I was thinking of gluing some wood on to make a heel and doing the Martin thing and dove tailing the heel in to a support in the body and bracing inside as well as reinforcing the tail. I may be accused of over-engineering the CBG but gosh darn it mine will last!

    I had the same instability issue (I assume that's what your problem was) with the neck on my other so I'm going to rout a 1/4" channel down the middle and put a piece of square aluminum stock to really make that thing stable.

    Okay so maybe a little over-engineered...

    Also sorry for the little thread-jacking there. Well I guess it's a little related but it takes a bit of stretching to call it that.

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    Collect it and some used as ashtray.

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    loborx - your work is awesome! CBG hero below:

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    J Lee: That's what I'm talkin'bout!

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    Wow, it warms the wee cockles of my heart to see so many wonderful ideas come out in this thread to save tins from ending up as landfill.

    The guitar & Cyndi's & Bootleg's clocks are amazing, even things like turning them into target practice, whoever would've thought!

    I'm no-where near as "green" as I should be, but have just given myself a hell of a shock - in 5 years I've thrown away an absolute minimum of 3,650 Cafe Creme cigarello tins - I cannot imagine what they would look like piled up at a rubbish dump.

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    I save my empty tins. Might try and do some collage of them or get a table with a glass top and put them in the bottom for decoration in the man cave.

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