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  1. WhiteCrown

    Double Edged Razor Blades

    As many have stated, feather makes a fine blade and beautifully sharp too. I would like to add that in addition to sharpness, smoothness is also an enjoyable quality in a DE blade, which is why I prefer Dorco Titans. I am on my 186th Titan blade and while not as sharp as a feather, they are...
  2. WhiteCrown

    Corn Cob form Missouri Meerschaum...

    They are all the best. I recommend buying one naked and one plastered. From that point shape and size is the only difference and as stated is subjective. I've been preferring the naked cobs lately though.
  3. WhiteCrown

    What Music Are You Listening To? December, 2023

    Not sure why I'm admitting this but I'm on a reinvigorated Jewel kick. May be that Alaska grit backing that's sending it home. I'm late to the show making the connection to atz kilcher... love the last frontier.
  4. WhiteCrown

    ***What Are You Smoking, December 2023?***

    This morning, after a 24hr shift, I grabbed my coffee mug and a Brigham, intending to brew some coffee. I started fondling a few Mac Baren tins... Then it came over me, this was a hard working day deserving of a blue collar working man's smoke. I poured a splash (or three) of Hose Cuervo into...
  5. WhiteCrown

    Missouri Stems

    Very well stated, but you just made me realize that while I won't buy one for $18 for my cobs, I have a briar being re-stemmed in acrylic for over twice that price as we speak. What strange logic I have... it's not even going to fit on any of my other pipes like a VFH stem will 😂
  6. WhiteCrown

    Missouri Stems

    Maybe part of the conspiracy 😜 but I'll add the cheap plastic stems also come in white and green, though you have to buy the whole pipe to get one... Look at the riverboat gambler and Boone/bracken pipes, since they aren't acrylic they are about the same price as a country gent. Same stem...
  7. WhiteCrown

    Missouri Stems

    This is not because of the color option. It is because the material is superior and the cost to make it is more than their $2 cheap plastic stems. They just happen to be in different colors, but it's not the colors that drive the cost. You can't expect to get an$18 acrylic stem for the same...
  8. WhiteCrown

    Um, Interesting Pipe

    Clearly they are doing yet another remake of Alice in Wonderland, live action with a hipster twist. Hookahs are out, pipes are in, and this one is the caterpillar's. I bet this alone cost as much as their entire skinny-jean budget. Y'all were pretty close with the Smurfs though.
  9. WhiteCrown

    Stem replacements

    I agree, but I didn't used to see it this way for grabow-class pipes. However, I realized a pipe with no stem is useless and I either have to spend the money to make it smokeable, or spend the same money to get a new one. Either way that same $40-50 gets me a smokeable pipe. With a stem...
  10. WhiteCrown

    Stop The Gurgle.

    Deja vu lol. I also do this from time to time, it works well but also reminds me to sip a little more lightly thereafter, as I am usually the cause of the gurgle in the first place. In addition to Peterson systems as mentioned, I have found that Brigham pipes are also highly resistant to...
  11. WhiteCrown

    MM Quality Expectations

    I expect things to be off center with a MM, and I'm delighted when they aren't. I'd throw an extra $2 stem in my next order and use the off center one for camping/fishing/yard work etc, maybe even get a short one and make it a pocket nose warmer.
  12. WhiteCrown

    Shortwave Radio and QSL Cards

    Isn't a SDR just a radio you build yourself by adapting an antenna to the hardware you already have (computer) with a dongle? This doesn't seem much different than buying a purpose built piece of equipment with an new board and chips and pre-loaded firmware/software. Unless you all are talking...
  13. WhiteCrown

    Shortwave Radio and QSL Cards

    I need to send off for some cards, I never thought to do it and assumed it was uncommon now days. QSL cards might give me a reason to get a radio out more than a few times a year, thanks for sharing these!
  14. WhiteCrown

    Punchline Only!

    and Invisible Man said, "I don't know, but my butt suddenly hurts."
  15. WhiteCrown

    "Scottish" Bag End

    Thanks for the replies. I've just started really exploring straight VAs in the past couple months. It very well may be the VA in Bag End that I liked, I just didn't know it yet. As I start searching once again, I am noticing a trend of perique in almost all of the "Scottish" blends that...
  16. WhiteCrown

    "Scottish" Bag End

    Are there an blends similar to Bag End from The Country Squire? This has been one of my favorite non-aromatics, but I have for some reason forgotten about it until recently. A few smokes of mine have brought it back into my thoughts, it was so smooth and almost creamy, but without being sweet...
  17. WhiteCrown

    New Pipe Smoker: Tobacco Choices

    Are you inhaling? If so, Half and Half in a filtered pipe has done it for a couple friends of mine. You also may not want to try to suck down some of the suggestions above, such as HH Old Dark Fired, almost like inhaling a cigar. If not, all above are good suggestions, I'll add Briar Fox...
  18. WhiteCrown

    MM Corncobs - Chewing Gum as Pipe Mud

    Some of it can if you don't use a light touch. If it does just re-apply some mud, but only if you want to, it's not critical to anything but your own desires.
  19. WhiteCrown

    YMMV?

    Only Americans who aren't familiar with the Hundred Acre Woods.
  20. WhiteCrown

    MM Corncobs - Chewing Gum as Pipe Mud

    Pipe mud is not necessary at all, as others stated. I use it because I don't like digging out the leftover tobacco in between the shank and the wall at the bottom, but you probably don't even need to do that. My biggest problem with pipe mud is the last bits of leaves sticking to it when I try...
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