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    How to clean a corn cob properly

    In many places, smoking a corncob pipe gives people the impression you're a squirelly white-eyeballed yayhoo likely to be fifty shades of mean in a fight, so it may never come down to having to use it as a weapon.
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    Trouble Wit Aromatics

    I agree GLP's VA Cream is in a different dimension from the sea of typical aros which are mostly cheap, second-rate burley infused with flavored glop. However I found VA Cream could bite like a crocodile, which is not unusual for blends comprised mainly of straight VA, but I think perhaps...
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    Recommended Cavendish for the New Guy

    Cavendish is a process, not a leaf or blend. It could be natural or flavored with any topping. The ones you like are flavored with vanilla. Lane's BCA is probably the most ubiquitous of pure-vanilla cavendish blends as it has been sold for years by countless B&M's relabelling it under their...
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    Hi, what would be a good pipe to get me started? and which tobacco?

    As to tobacco, my advice from personal history is stay away from OTC/drugstore/codger blends and any aros marked as "mild" (which is most of them). They will taste like chemical waste, and bite/burn your tongue, not to mention tainting the pipe with their noxious stank. If I'd started out with...
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    Lane Limited Ready Rubbed One Year Later

    Makes no sense to me, considering Lane has the original recipe, that they chose to change the cut. Makes it smoke faster/hotter/bite more than the original or Sutliff's match.
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    Bulk Nightcap substitutes....

    +1. I get trying to find a substitute for blends that are either discontinued or difficult to obtain or hideously expensive. Something as obiquitous and reasonably-priced (for a premium blend) as Nightcap, I'd just smoke the real McCoy.
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    Sweetest Virginia Ever

    I'm a Dunhill guy and smoked a lot of their Flake, but never found anything I could call sweetness. It and other straight VA flakes taste bland and one-note to me, as I imagine a cigarette would taste (if puffed for taste, not dragged for a nic nit). I do not however, love "grassy, haylike...
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    Half & Half - Not Nearly As Bad As I Remember

    I had a similar experience revisting H&H after some years. At one time, a veteran pipesmoker (you know, the kind who just called it smoking a pipe, not "a hobby") told me it was called Half and Half because it was 50% horse manure and 50% cow manure. I tried some and agreed wholeheartedly...
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    Trouble Wit Aromatics

    Try Erik Stokkebye's 4th Generation 1931 Flake. Every tin has been perfect moisture, it burns slow and cool, has a nice but not overpowering honey taste that lets the natural tobacco flavor through, room note everyone seems to like, and a respectable nic content. I don't know why people bend...
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    Lane Limited Ready Rubbed One Year Later

    Tried it, it was ok but I wouldn't buy more. Tried the Sutliff match and liked it better. Taste very close but it's a cube cut more like the original, and the smoking properties are more to my liking.
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    Inhaling?

    I intend to. I could always mix a spoonful of Blood Red Moon or BCA into the 5 brothers if the taste is too one-note for me. The Brown #4 being an oily mess sounds like every other Gawith blend I've tried, and liked. I'm curious to see if I feel any nic from these, as I have never felt any...
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    Matches or Lighters?

    Keep the flame above the pipe not down into it, and suck harder.
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    What are you smoking British style-November

    Several Dunhill blends in several Dunhill pipes. Anything less and you should be banished to the EU.
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    Not so much a review...

    OP you basically arrived at the same conclusion as the vast majority of pre-internet pipe connosieurs (in other words, excepting the blue-collar codgers who wouldn't have known dung from donuts and didn't care as long as it was cheap and readily available at the drugstore where they cashed their...
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    Inhaling?

    Funny, no place rates it as particularly strong in the nic department. I've always been curious to try Brown #4 and 5 Brothers (singly, not blended), but the taste review profiles kept me from it.
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    Burning My Cane

    When I read the thread title I thought some hooligans set fire to your walking stick as a Halloween prank.
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    Matches or Lighters?

    I'd prefer matches (wood ones you can strike anywhere), but as I only smoke outdoors anymore, they're more frustration and mess than they're worth. I use a Zippo except when I travel by plane. Then I buy a disposible butane when I land. They're a PITA outdoors but at least they work...
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    Peter Stokebye Cube Cut vs Sutliff ERR Match

    Never tried the Stokkebye, but if it's actually got some nicotene, unlike LRR and the Sutliff match, I'm game. To answer the OP question, LRR is not a cube cut like the Sutliff. I've tried both and prefer the latter. Plus it's available in small quantities, you don't need to buy a huge...
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    A Slice Of Apple

    Never heard of a slice of apple as a palate-cleanser. Just lemon sorbet, as they serve in fine restaurants between courses. I have heard of a slice of apple in a humidor to keep the tobacco from drying out. Of course that was back before internet forums declared pipesmoking "a hobby", and...
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    The Pipecleaner Debate

    I use the regulars. Considering they come out brown and gunky I've no reason to doubt they're doing their job. I use the long ones on my Bings.
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