I was always interested in the raccoons but D&R closing caught me by surprised and all the raccoons fled from the floodlight.
If only things had been different.
If you’re undecided, you could jar it and keep an eye on it. Put the spot facing the outside of the jar and check in every few months. If it spreads like wild fire at least you have your answer.
Where is it getting caught? If it’s tenon-mortise, it may be just the pipe-cleaner’s tip catching onto the soft insert
How is it when you remove the stem and just run through the stummel?
What Hoosier said. They probably only make Oriental Silk once or twice a year and this time your order happened to be new batch day 1.
At least, that’s the hopeful way of looking at it.
I’m smoking a whole leaf blend of bright Virginia rolled with perique, sliced into coins and rubbed out.
Including a sneak peak of my March “What have you been reading” post.