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  1. btsteve

    Tobacco Field Visits?

    If you want to see how Kentucky Dark fired is done. Drew Estate has a barnsmoker cigar event in Kentucky and they go through the process. It is a cigar event but you eat lunch in the barn with tobacco overhead and they take you into a barn where they are actually smoking the dark fired.
  2. btsteve

    DunHill Lighter Rebuild

    There is a group on facebook which is a great resource for these lighters and their repair. Vintage dunhill Rollagas Lighter Collectors
  3. btsteve

    Restoring Old Star Tobacco Plug Cutter

    Great looking cutter. I have two of these I want to restore one and leave the other with the old patina. I just love the old tobacco paraphernalia. Did you ever find a scale?
  4. btsteve

    Kiribi Kabuto Filling Issue

    I have used Xikar, Lotus, and Zippo butane all with standard tips that came with them to fill my Kiribi.
  5. btsteve

    Looking For A Really Good Pipe Lighter

    I have a used Dunhill and Kiribi I like the Kiribi most and it just works. Keep it clean and use good butane and most will work well.
  6. btsteve

    Kiribi Lighter Requires Several Strikes Before Lighting?

    I clean the gas nozzle with everclear on a pipe cleaner every couple of weeks to prevent this.
  7. btsteve

    Virginia, Latakia and Perique blends

    Maybe F&K Merde de Cheval what burley is in it is in the background very much so.
  8. btsteve

    Navy Flake

    I agree Newminster #400
  9. btsteve

    What is the Best Tip or Advice You've Ever Gotten About Smoking a Pipe?

    Do not worry about relighting. If it goes out just relight. Trying to keep it going by puffing like crazy is a recipe for disaster.
  10. btsteve

    Cigar Smoker looking for Pipe Tabacco

    I did the same years ago and could never replicate cigar taste with pipe tobacco. Although I think some of the cigar blends have some of that flavor. I found that pipe tobacco is much different and there is much more to explore, IMO. If you like any of the Kentucky Dark fired cigars like the...
  11. btsteve

    Empty Space in Jar

    I would think the difference in that amount of air would be minimal either way. Although more oxygen in the jar in my opinion would age it quicker. Most anything oxygen is in contact with ages it quicker. I am just not sure whether that would be good or bad. Then we get into the anaerobic...
  12. btsteve

    Louisville-Kentucky- Area

    I do not know of a Pipe Club that meets in Louisville, but it would be nice. There is a facebook group, Derby City Mortise & Tenon Club, though posts have been sparse lately. I live in southern Indiana near Louisville. It would be great if we could get some people together.
  13. btsteve

    New Corncob Questions

    I also chisel out the wood shank and then pipe mud up to the draft hole. I think the cobs smoke better this way and I do not get the foul burning wood taste when they are new that way.
  14. btsteve

    What are You Reading?

    Just finished Blood Aces The Wild ride of Benny Binion The Texas Gangster who created Vegas Poker It was a great read. Moving on to Still Searching for Pipe Dreams
  15. btsteve

    Cellar App/Logging

    I use a spreadsheet and have it in Dropbox so I can access it from anywhere. The question is what does everyone's spreadsheets layout look like? Do you keep cost, and how do you track amounts on hand once a tin is opened?
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