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What's the Appeal of a Churchwarden?
I have never smoked one but I have wanted a chruchwarden since I started smoking a pipe and researched the history of pipe smoking. I am a huge history nerd and the history of the churchwarden has made the pipe style very interesting to me. Reading this thread has done nothing to curb my desire... -
Corncob Conundrum
thanks for all the advice. i cleaned out the bowl with a pocket knife and chared it a bit with a torch liter and it improved it greatly. on my next tobacco order which is coming up soon, i will try a burly blend that looks promising. I will also try again to get an old dominion cob. i have tried...- Big Bear
- Post #46
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Creative Alternatives to Ziplock Bags for Daily Amount?
I stepped in to a local leather worker in the next town over and had him make me an old fashioned buckskin baccy pouch, it works well for me. The pouch smells like the English tobacco I keep in it but I have not really noticed my pack or any of my gear smelling like it. Although I would not mind...- Big Bear
- Post #44
- Forum: Pipes Accessories
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Looking for a Club
I will have to stop in and visit him the next time I’m in that part of the country then.- Big Bear
- Post #14
- Forum: Pipe Clubs
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Corncob Conundrum
Thanks for the advice. I will scrape the inside of the bowl with a pocket knife, or maybe drill it out, and keep smoking until I get them broke in. It would especially be nice to have some good smoking cobs to take fishing and camping. As for what tobacco I smoke it is predominantly latakia...- Big Bear
- Post #18
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Looking for a Club
I thought it might be a long shot, the only other pipe smoker I have known outside of my ad and I is a guy I knew in college, he was from California and I think he moved back there after school. It would be cool to convert the cig smokers to smoking. I reckon it is a good thing I joined this...- Big Bear
- Post #12
- Forum: Pipe Clubs
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Looking for a Club
Does anyone know of any active pipe clubs in Montana? In the town where I live no one else except for my dad smokes a pipe, a lot of cigarette smokers, but no pipe smokers.- Big Bear
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- Forum: Pipe Clubs
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Corncob Conundrum
That would explain why I can’t taste the tobacco. I’ll have to try that thank you.- Big Bear
- Post #3
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Corncob Conundrum
I bought a couple of corncob pipes from Missouri meerschaum, and I can’t get much flavor at all out of the best smoking of the two and I get a nasty flavor out of the other. When I smoke the same blends out of my briars or my clay it is delicious and I enjoy it greatly. I have heard others rave...- Big Bear
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- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Howdy from Montana
Thank y’all for the welcome. Yes we still have elbow room out here and I like that. If you don’t mind a good hike or horseback ride, you can still get to some places that you can forget what century your in. I enjoy setting up a little camp way back into the mountains or along the wild and...- Big Bear
- Post #4
- Forum: New Member Introductions
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Howdy from Montana
Howdy, I go by Bear. I have been smoking a pipe for a little bit now, I started in order to deal with stress when my mother passed for to early. Since then I have come to greatly enjoy the hobby and find it to be one of the most effective ways to relax, unwind, and de stress. I look forward to...- Big Bear
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- Forum: New Member Introductions