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    Show Off Your Sandblasts Here

    PLEASE.... Start a thread just like this for rusticated pipes. Hand-carved, Dremel, burrs, wire brushing, hand-rustication, all the finishes that are done with tools, and an explanation as to how the finish was acquired by: staining, buffing, sanding techniques, etc... Thanks to all with the...
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    Show Off Your Sandblasts Here

    Been following, and admire all the beautiful surfaces. More weathered-looking crevices shown here than in an Ansel Adams exhibit. I'm thinking that I prefer the more textured and tactile surfaces on my pipes as opposed to the boring, smooth pipes. A "smooth" is only as good as the grain, the...
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    John Mahoney: British-born Frasier Actor Dies Aged 77.

    Sit Tibi Terra Levis ..... May the earth rest gently on thee. RIP John Mahoney Frank NYC
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    Ignoring the Super Bowel, Cooking Instead

    The Super Bowel......Hilarious!....but accurate. The biggest load of crap in the world of sports. Frank NYC
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    Introduction From an Old Newbie

    Fredo... Welcome, greetings and salutations. The gents on this forum will have you smoking your brains out in no time at all, and lovin' it, too. Follow the above suggestions and if all the advice and options fail to un-haunt your pipe....send it out for the Ozone treatment. Ozone will rid...
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    Stanwell Old Briar 877 with Patent Number

    Owen- Nice pipe. Thanks for sharing. Open question to pipe-makers: How do you get that surface finish on the briar? Looks like the pipe was first blasted, and possibly, then buffed, to smooth any roughness and to take off any sharp ridges? I love that blasted, but yet smooth finish. Thanks...
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    Blending with Cigar Leaf

    My samples of John Patton's "Storm Front" and "Dark and Stormy" pipe tobaccos arrived late this afternoon. A severe cold, and clogged nose arrived early this morning. I'm so congested that I could sniff Ammonia without flinching. I sniffed the tobacco samples when they arrived, and smelled...
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    A Palate for Tobacco

    I have also become aware that while and after sucking on a Extra Strength-Cepacol cough drop, the tobaccos lose flavor. I can't seem to taste any oatmeal, nuts, figs, raisins, oats, graham crackers, vanilla candy, popcorn, butter.....or detect any floral notes. But seriously....a clogged nose...
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    A Palate for Tobacco

    I posted some comments about 3 weeks ago. I basically admitted that I could only discern the strengths of different blends but could not pick out any individual tobaccos. I think I might have noticed some different flavors between some blends I have been smoking. Here's how I think this...
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    Blending with Cigar Leaf

    I'm thinking that the cigar-leaf does act, or should act, as a condimental component when mixed into other tobaccos, as molach95 noted. When I mixed up an experimental batch of "Pleasant Moments" I never wanted or expected the cigar-leaf to dominate. My goal was to fortify and create a more...
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    New Guy From Down Under

    Welcome to this forum. Nice guys and gals here. You'll like it. Dame Edna Everage, and the always rigid, Sir Les Patterson.....two absolute gems from Land Down Under. Frank NYC
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    How to Destroy a Pipe in 17 Pictures or Less

    I feel your pain....being no stranger to ruining work in the final stages, after spending hours of designing, set-up time, and then, delicate machining. A perfect example of beautiful workmanship....and the demerits of working with natural, unpredictable materials, like briar and Meerschaum...
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    Mystery Tobacco Review #1

    @ kaleehb.... Excellent site!... Wish there was far more of this kind of objective critiquing when it comes to pipe tobacco blends and mixtures. If there are more such sites, I haven't found them. Yes....pipe forums do have "pipe tobacco review" sections, but the blends -and the...
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    Tobacco Secret Sauce?

    My God!.... Incredible amounts of information! Great reading through all this posted material. Thanks for sharing. Frank NYC
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    New Pipe Smokers/Young Pipe Smokers

    Welcome to this forum and the world of pipe smokers. You couldn't even begin to know how lucky you are. I've been smoking pipes, on and off, since I was 16 years old, back in 1966. Yep, the olden days to you. Back then, there were no computers, and very few places to find out answers to basic...
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    A Tasty New Blend

    huntertrw.....love the anal ogy! Frank NYC
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    Recording Tobacco Preparation......

    Absolutely, record and note everything you do when preparing a mixture, or when you use a special treatment method, etc. How else can you remember everything? What if you come up with a favorite blend of your own making, and want to duplicate it? Think how awful you'd feel if you couldn't...
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    Tobacco Secret Sauce?

    Just how much do casings/toppings really influence the basic blend of tobaccos? I wonder. I've read that: 10 parts Black Cavendish 4 parts White Burley 2 parts Virginia was the starting point for "Captain Black". Interesting, but I doubt these three tobaccos when mixed would evoke...
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    Tobacco Secret Sauce?

    Fascinating subject ..... but the horse jizz casing ..... not so much. BTW, do any "secret archives" exist for tobacco blending recipes- for the common mixtures? Just wondering. Frank NYC
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    A Tasty New Blend

    @ perdurabo .....Well said. In other words....we're screwed, again. Frank NYC
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