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  1. David_Lawrence

    Arrite? From London, England

    By way of Hertfordshire county but once a Londoner, and all that. My journey to the promised land of pipe smoking is probably quite an unusual one in that I haven't been a cigarette smoker since I was 18, some 16 years ago now, and my first exposure came when I discovered nasal snuff. I suppose...
  2. David_Lawrence

    Meerschaum...or Mere Scam?

    This is what concerns me somewhat. All that tends to be stated is that it's genuine Turkish block, with the most detail being Etsy seller 'Turmeermar' saying: Which is nice to know, although I could be unreasonably cynical and note that he's not actually saying his pipes are made from said...
  3. David_Lawrence

    Meerschaum...or Mere Scam?

    Thanks for all those replies, clearly I came to the right place. Kiko it is then, and it didn't take me long to find photos of all its cousins. Now I know that it is indeed real meerschaum albeit not the fabled high grade Turkish block (and I knew that much from the photos, just wasn't aware of...
  4. David_Lawrence

    Meerschaum...or Mere Scam?

    Yes, I smell a conspiracy, or more specifically some sort of plastic. So I recently posted a question regarding my new (estate) meerschaum as the bowl, internally and externally, and every part of the pipe besides the mouthpiece smelled of something industrial and synthetic, not at all what I...
  5. David_Lawrence

    Introducing Uncle Rasta

    A fellow man of the locks and pipe smoking novice! Welcome, though we probably arrived around the same time (and now I feel even more shameful for not properly introducing myself). I'd say it was my third or fourth smoke that really worked for me, and still I sometimes have lousy bowls even...
  6. David_Lawrence

    Should My 'New' Estate Meerschaum's Bowl Smell This Way?

    It was the entire bowl, nothing overpowering but not the pleasant or neutral smell I've always got from pipes whether new or preowned. So I smoked in it anyway and thankfully I didn't notice anything undesirable at all. My concern was that it had been coated in something that would be burned...
  7. David_Lawrence

    Should My 'New' Estate Meerschaum's Bowl Smell This Way?

    Thanks. I've just finished packing the bowl (Robert McConnell's Oriental blend). Dry drawing gives a very boozy brandy like taste so no real traces of that wood polish scent at this stage. I'll smoke dutifully and report back.
  8. David_Lawrence

    Should My 'New' Estate Meerschaum's Bowl Smell This Way?

    Or do I need to clean it out first and thus wait for it to dry out, which would mean no sampling it tonight? ..Ah you'll probably want more information, won't you? So it's a block meerschaum (or it bloody wants to be after all the customs I paid importing it) and it's fully matured to an aged...
  9. David_Lawrence

    Attn Newbies - If I Had It To Do Over Again.

    Yeah I love them. The briar in question has become my favourite (it's just a mid range Duncan brand 'Caldbeck', £30/$45) but while I was staving off buyer's remorse those first two nights, I had a fantastic smoke from the £10/$15 Missouri Meerschaum 'General' cob I bought alongside it...
  10. David_Lawrence

    Proper Tin-Opening Technique

    Wow, this is still going? Great because I was too ashamed to ask how the hell you get those things open without...cheating. At least that's what it feels like when you pop the vacuum seal and open it with relative ease. I always quietly fear that greater, mightier men open it with nothing but...
  11. David_Lawrence

    Attn Newbies - If I Had It To Do Over Again.

    Ah I wish I weren't already up too late on a school night* because one month in I've learned a few things that might help others. I'll 2nd 3rdguy's suggestion about starting with a cob because I was pretty disappointed after my first few smokes of what I believe is a pearwood pipe, though it...
  12. David_Lawrence

    Describing The Flavors of Pipe Tobacco

    This is a good point, I recently realised that most people use earthy as an undesirable flavour and likely aren't referring to what it means to my mind; I think of the scent of freshly tilled soil or autumn woods after rain (but without the fungus). I tend to characterise flavours in terms of...
  13. David_Lawrence

    Putting Stuff in Jars!

    Out of equal curiosity, were you thinking people might sterilise them so they didn't impart their own impure scent or for some kind of health reasons? I'm not here to take the piss or anything, I'd just find it odd if it were the latter because surely the burning of the leaf would both kill...
  14. David_Lawrence

    Cigar types - How close?

    Thanks all, that will temper my expectations appropriately! To my surprise, I found the Kendal Dark A to have the dark, full and heavy cigarish taste and feel that its description had noted. When it arrived and I smelled it in the tin, I thought I'd made a mistake in buying it as I really don't...
  15. David_Lawrence

    First Ultimate Bowl

    While it wasn't the single best smoke I've had (in my entire month of pipe smoking tenure), I think it has to be the huge bowl of Samuel Gawith's Full Virginia Flake mixed with Gawith & Hogarth's Skiff Mixture. I bought and mixed those two upon reading a reviewer noting how this was what he'd...
  16. David_Lawrence

    Cigar types - How close?

    Have you found any of the cigar-likes to be noteably cigar like when compared to other pipe tobaccos though? Setting aside their comparisons to cigars, are they significantly different to non cigar blends? Also, do you recall the names of any you enjoyed? Cheers.
  17. David_Lawrence

    Pipe Smoking Study, It Doesn't Look Good.

    It may not be strictly logical but the overall likelihood of developing cancer has risen so high that I've chosen to take up pipe smoking whereas previously I had lamentably avoided it for those reasons. Of course it would be more rational to say "If there's a significant chance for anyone to...
  18. David_Lawrence

    Cigar types - How close?

    This is about the pipe tobacco blends containing cigar leaf or otherwise being compared to our cousins of the tobacco world. Now I acknowledge there's a certain faux pas (I promise I won't resort to that language often) in joining a pipe forum to ask what most resembles cigars but I'm not a...
  19. David_Lawrence

    High and Dry (my quest for the holy toast)

    Well I can report that, though I haven't actually smoked it yet, I'd considered it a swing and a miss upon smelling as it strongly resembles the one type I didn't take to, that being the...okay, I'm a fool. Upon looking up the full name to remind myself, I'm speaking of the Kendal Type A Black...
  20. David_Lawrence

    What Are You UK Folks Doing Over There !?

    Cigarettes are obscenely expensive here in Britain, certainly, and rolling tobacco is pretty outrageous too—all my cigarette smoking friends switched to roll-ups, mostly due to the cost but also the taste - incidentally, people tend to use the little 'foam' filter tips these days which is a...
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