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    Coffee House Special

    Perfect..... Many thanks, for the directions, etc.....and forgive MY ambiguity.
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    Coffee House Special

    Edwin...thanks. I don't think I was clear...sorry. How much of the Milan's "Black and Gold" base tobacco do you start with? How many drops of the coffee essences do you add.... to the Black and Gold base? For example: Do you add three drops of coffee essences to one pound of base...
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    Coffee House Special

    Hello Ed.... Your special home-brewed, coffee blend pipe tobacco sound like a good smoke. Can you share the recipe, or, give some batch proportions? Who makes/retails the Black and Gold base tobacco that you are using? The "Espresso" and "coffee bean oil" essences used as a topping, also...
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    Polishing Before or After Dying the Briar?

    Take a piece of scrap briar, or work on a junked pipe....and try both methods, to sharpen up your finishing techniques. Experience, is the best teacher.
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    New Guy from Oshawa

    Greetings from Da Bronx/NYC
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    Commissioning A Pipe

    Send the pipe maker a picture, or, life-size drawing (side view) of the pipe you want to have custom made. Give the maker some options....and some wiggle room in case flaws/defects show up in the briar. Specify dimensions and overall length of pipe. Specify stem: material, shape, color, etc...
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    Halloween Horror Flicks - What is Everyone Watching?

    1- "The Grudge"....the version with Sarah Michelle Gellar/Bill Pullman 2- Boris Karloff's (1963) "Black Sabbath"...."A Drop of Water" by Ivan Chekov 3- Original (1955 ) French version of "Diabolique" w/ Simone Signoret
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    Personal Blends

    Very interesting postings from our forum members. Always interesting to read through the formulas/recipes, and processing rituals that go into making a great smoke. My approach, is to add small amounts of some other tobaccos, (or even small percentages of another mixture) to a "base" of a...
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    Lane Ltd Ready Rub

    This might sound like a ridiculous request, but can you guys recommend a mixture that's consistently loaded with too much PG and other additives, and a contrasting blend that is not? I'm almost reluctant to admit that I cannot, or maybe I don't discern the flavor of PG. Maybe I do taste PG and...
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    Denicool crystals are....what ?

    Take a hammer and crush a unglazed terra-cotta flower pot or red brick, into 1/4"-3/8" nuggets. Nuggets should be small, but not small enough to clog the smoke hole. Discard all the tiny granules, and dust, but keep only the little nuggets. Drop a few into the bottom of your pipe bowl, and...
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    New blender.

    Try a different blending strategy. Start with a commercially available mixture -blended by professionals- that you enjoy smoking. This will be your "base". Add some other blending tobaccos to the original base mixture and try smoking a few bowls with these addition(s). Blend only small...
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    Have Some Regulars Become Lurkers Since the Switch?

    Some changes are terrible, some useless, some make changes just for the sake of changing....some changes can be good. On a scale of 1-10, I give the changes here, a 2. Why the changes? Why was it necessary to revamp the whole forum? But in the end, for me....it really doesn't matter. I...
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    One Year, Only One Brand Blender -- Which?

    I think I'd enjoy smoking my way thru most of John Patton's mixtures. "Storm Front" is real easy to live with.
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    How To Prevent Rim Charring?

    At my age, I could care less. A pipe to me is an object of utility....something to enjoy. When I kick, my pipes will either go in the garbage, or with some luck, they'll go to another pipe smoker. I'll let him worry about refurbishing/restorations. I won't abuse a pipe, but a discolored rim...
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    What’s Your Favorite English?

    Easy. Wilke's 'HIGH HAT"........been around since 1870s. Smoke it, and you'll know why. Top-notch stuff for both smokers and sniffers. Fragrance is heaven, with very little trace of that horrible, nose-curling, burnt-leather stench of Latakia. Not too strong either.
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    Negative Customer Psychology

    I delete, many times, the items that I have placed into a cart, when the shipping charges are added onto the order, and almost double or exceed the total price of the items. I very rarely buy impulsively because of ridiculous shipping charges. I can't tell you how many times I bought small...
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    Let’s Talk About Bags… (Long Post)

    Small, leather "possibles bag"......it's primitive and they come in all sizes. Over the shoulder/cross carry for convenience and free hands. "PEG AND AWL" makes some perfect bags/pouches for carrying pipes and stuff, they're made from heavy-duty, cotton duck/canvas....and they come in...
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    Pipespotting

    Never. Never saw any other guy smoking a pipe. When I was much younger (1960s) pipe-smokers were far more common. I had two uncles who were pipe smokers, but they both passed away, and that was that. Cigar-smoking guys are far more common and visible. Wish cigar smoke smelled as nice as...
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    Brass Pipe Nail?

    Got a friend with a metal lathe, or do you have a hand drill? Chuck a bronze carriage-bolt, and fashion your own. Ace Hardware sells bronze carriage bolts that can be sanded, and polished up to make a nice, heavy tamper. Cut to length and sink the treaded end into a short section of drilled...
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    Difference Between Vodka/Rubbing Alcohol/Everclear?

    I keep a small bottle of Rum Extract in my pipe kit. Dip the tip of a pipe cleaner and run it through the stem.. Removes tars, and all the sticky gunk that fouls up a pipe....and it smells and tastes good....but the residual taste quickly vanishes when the pipe gets smoked. It's cheap, it...
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