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    Floridian Pipe Smoker

    Another Floridian here! Welcome!
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    HU Tobacco Coming to the States

    Same! Had to resort to a screwdriver to open my Indaba, and thought I was going to punch a hole in the tin. This is my first HU, and one bowl in I wouldn't try to describe it, but I completely enjoyed it and found it distinct from other blends, so I'm hopeful that we're not all really doomed...
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    HU Tobacco Coming to the States

    Rattray's Exotic Passion comes in a big tin that's not sealed, and in the tin the tobacco is wrapped in an unsealed cellphone bag held shut with a sticker. Don't know why, but some companies do it. I was surprised, too.
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    HU Tobacco Coming to the States

    Just ordered a couple of tins. I haven't tried any HU blend. I do wish they were available in 50g.
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    HU Tobacco In The US?

    I called Smokingpipes this afternoon to ask what happened to the listings that were up yesterday. I was told next Tuesday they'll be released.
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    Jim's C&D Warped: Scarecrow 2024 Review.

    I'm just finishing up a tin of 2022, was hoping this release would be as good. Thanks for the review!
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    WTB : Scarecrow (09/22/24)

    And Maple Shadows II just dropped today too
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    Favorite Holiday Blends?

    Dang it, JS, your post has been bugging me all week. I definitely have seasonal preferences, and never thought about that. I grew up rural and agrarian in Alabama, so maple syrup wasn't a local thing, but sorghum was. It's pressed in the late summer or fall, so maybe it's just a sugar syrup...
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    Do You Associate Pipe Smoking with a Sense of Spirituality?

    Re: contemplative- "Two things fill the mind with ... awe,...the starry sky above me and the moral law within me. Neither of them need I seek... as if shrouded in obscurity... I see them before me and connect them immediately with my existence. " -Immanuel Kant, pipe smoker
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    Do You Associate Pipe Smoking with a Sense of Spirituality?

    Just me, or did nobody else hear anyone arguing about religion? Having a good conversation, I thought, about the inate transcendental potential of pipe smoking as a human activity. Terribly sorry if that's offensive, but I for one am still interested in what others might have to say about it...
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    Favorite Holiday Blends?

    Heads-up y'all- C&D's page says Golden Days of Yore is being released next week. I haven't tried it.
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    Do You Associate Pipe Smoking with a Sense of Spirituality?

    I avoid the word "spiritual" because it has very specific meaning for some, and I've talked with some who use the word a lot who don't seem to have any ides what they mean by it. But yes, I get what you mean. And also, some traditions would say anything done with mindfulness is meditation.
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    Favorite Holiday Blends?

    I just dug out my fall blend jars this week. Red Hunt, Maple Shadows, Scarecrow, From Beyond, and Potlatch. Might open a tin of Capstan too.
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    Your Own "Best" Tobacco

    If I had to choose today, Miskatonic Mixture. It's complex enough I wouldn't get bored with it.
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    Factory Pipes

    My most expensive is a Cavicchi, which doesn't smoke any better than the basket pipe I got in a Tinder Box starter pack. The Cavicchi is prettier, but since smoking any pipe makes one more attractive, I'm thinking there's less payoff on the investment the more one spends.
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    Overclocked Stem Self-correcting?

    Thanks, I did look through those here and elsewhere, but got impatient to try it out, and then noticed it self-correcting. Still seems like I read about that somewhere.
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    Overclocked Stem Self-correcting?

    Yep, back to one o'clock the next day.
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    Overclocked Stem Self-correcting?

    Hi folks, I'm perplexed. I picked up a NOS, late model LHS second ("London Royal") a couple of weeks ago. I only have a couple of pipes with screw tenons, when I bought my first pipe in the 80s those were pretty much going away. I thought this pipe (straight apple/pot) was flawed, with a...
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    Sun bear 2024

    Looking forward to this. I've only tried Mountain Flower and Tupelo, and completely enjoyed them both, but prefer the Tupelo. I find it more earthy, less sweet and tangy. As others have noted, for some reason they both are better in a cob than a briar, for me.