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  1. chopper

    Drying the Tobacco?

    Although I like aromatics, I'm not a fan of goopy too moist blends. The aro's that I smoke are good to go straight from the bag. May I suggest; Macbaren Vanilla Cream is the driest aro I've tried. It's very mild so I have a bowl first thing with my morning mugs of tea. Butternut Burley. The...
  2. chopper

    Drying the Tobacco?

    Many pipe smokers here prefer their tobacco real dry. I don't like smoking crispy dry tobacco. On the other hand I'm not a fan of overly moist blends either so most of the blends that I buy I know will be at a good moisture level for my needs straight from the bag. When I have bought a moist...
  3. chopper

    Recent TAD Pick-Ups

    The tobacco gods have been smiling upon me :col: 1lb Macbaren Vanilla Cream 8oz Match Balkan Sobranie 8oz Match Balkan Sobranie 759 Hope that my fellow Aussie pipe smokers have also been taking advantage of the Christmas mail rush. I've been so fortunate that when tracking showed that...
  4. chopper

    Cornell & Diehl Bailey’s Front Porch- The American/English Blend

    Low nicotine sounds right up my alley. Epiphany is good. When I smoke it in a small bowl I don't notice the nicotine [not that it's high in Vit N, just more than my usual fare]
  5. chopper

    Velvet 7 Ounce Can

    That's a very kind thought Romaso but any pipe smoker visiting Nanny State Australia is only allowed something like 50 grams duty free. A 50g tin is now $140 so the duty on anything above the 50g would be outrageous. So one would need to take care of oneself first [I'd compress as much baccy...
  6. chopper

    Bees Wax

    Uh-oh, Briar beat me to it by 2 minutes. Either your ears were burning or Chucky gave you a heads-up.
  7. chopper

    Bees Wax

    Oh it's one of that particular brand. Better not mention the name in case it's like Beetlejuice who will haunt my dreams . . . or was that Chucky? Either way I'm not risking it just in case.
  8. chopper

    School me on Mylar

    A cube you say? Shit, don't tell the Flat-Earthers or they'll really lose it.
  9. chopper

    A Question About "Nose Bite"

    Since I sport a white mustache I refrain from retro-haling or doing the Chinese drawback because a brown GT stripe would not be a good look.
  10. chopper

    A Question About "Nose Bite"

    Now I was quite adventurous in my youth where a few substances went up my nose that on reflection, I wish that it hadn't. But snorting chilli? Nah, that's just too out there even for me.
  11. chopper

    Bees Wax

    Say @Briar Lee I like that bent Apple. I've not before noticed the 3-star emblem on the stem. What brand does that signify?
  12. chopper

    Hot pockets?

    Yep. That's why when I prepack a bowl or two for when I'm out and about, I light it up before putting in a pocket because that way the tobacco stays in the bowl. @Old_Woodsman when I've got a half smoked bowl, I hold the pipe upside-down so any loose ash can fall out, then I just stick it in...
  13. chopper

    Bees Wax

    My briar and stem polish is bees wax and carnauba wax. Just melt the two together under a low heat. It works for me. puffy
  14. chopper

    Bees Wax

    Funny thing about that is that bees wax can help with both a tight fitting stem and a loose one.
  15. chopper

    I must be doing something wrong.....

    There's nothing 'wrong' with the 3-step method per se, it's just that newbies are usually tamping down too hard between each 'fill'. All of us here I'm sure, can recall when a newbie how not each bowl was just right and how sometimes, one had to empty out the tobacco and start again. Funny...
  16. chopper

    Can you make a cheap pipe good?

    Three Road Town pipes I bought through the U.S. all broke. I'd not ever buy another Chinese pipe as most are garbage. If yours smokes well then you lucked out. Enjoy it while you can [not that I'd trust it, I'd be waiting for it to self-destruct at any moment :eek:]
  17. chopper

    I must be doing something wrong.....

    How many is how many you'd like and have time for. Some members here smoke one bowl a day. others even less. Me? Depends what I'm doing and my mood. Usually half-a-dozen, sometimes more, sometimes less.
  18. chopper

    Howdy from a North Carolinian displaced to Maine

    G'day and welcome from Oz. I hear you on cigarettes. After 35 years the cravings became ridiculous. Switching to a pipe saved me from myself. I love tobacco and I enjoy my pipes so much that it's a crying shame that I didn't stick with pipes when I picked one up at 15yo. Oh well, better...
  19. chopper

    Hey Everyone!

    G'day and welcome from Oz @Ope! If you want to ditch the cigs entirely, the trick is to stop smoking them altogether. Before I switched to a pipe, all it took to fail a quit attempt was just one cigarette. Switching to a pipe was much easier than smoking nothing. Now I smoke mild blends...
  20. chopper

    Carter Hall Tobacco

    Carter Hall is one blend that if it was all I had to smoke, I would not complain. Although I do like Burley blends, I do think that Burley works better for me when it's mixed with some Virginia [and vice versa] as is the case with Carter Hall.
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