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Kramer's Pipe Tobacco-new product or old?
I live close to the shop and it is a very nice old style tobacconist. If you like English blends Father Demspsey is one of the best. If you come to Beverly Hills you should definitely visit the shop.- 64alex
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- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Peretti Tashkent and Peretti Oriental No 40
[So... I just sent Alex an LJPeretti sampler: Cuban Mixture, Tashkent, British Mixture. Each an ancient and classic from their respective lines of a great US blender. Maybe somebody'll send him some of this Oriental 40, you speak of... [PM me for his mailing addresss, as he's sort of a...- 64alex
- Post #18
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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How to handle wet tobacco
How do you handle tobacco which is too wet when you open the tin and which you are planning to use in few months or even later on? Do you leave it initially in the opened tin for few days in order to dry to the correct level before jarring, or do you put it in the jar as it is, drying the part...- 64alex
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- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Pipe screens
[I was always afraid of drawing in tiny pieces of metal. If you want the bottom of the bowl free, you could try the air pocket or cannon ball packing methods.] Even reusing multiple times good quality ones do not break out at all. Thing is that I mastered and love packing with the bowl turned...- 64alex
- Post #4
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Finally A Tin Of Penzance
I got a tin of Penzance. I think it is a very good tobacco, from the good "mechanic" (easy to pack, easy to light, not too many relights) and definitely you can feel it is used top notch quality leaves. If you like oriental forward blends it is not going to disappoint. What I would prefer is...- 64alex
- Post #61
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Pipe screens
In a recent post I said I found useful to leave free space at the bottom of the bowl as it gives a better smoke. This is not easy to accomplish if for packing of the bowl it is used what I would call the "palm method" of packing the pipe, basically rotating the pipe turned upside down over a...- 64alex
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- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Leaving some free space at the bottom of the bowl
I found that packing the pipe leaving some free space at the bottom of the bowl gives overall a drier, more flavorful and overall smoke with less or no moisture. Is this found true and used by others?- 64alex
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- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Wooden filters vs charcoal filters
[The Savinelli balsa filter system is a filter. From Savinelli's site: http://www.savinelli.it/en/balsa-system They call it a filter, it removes particulates like a filter, and reduces nicotine (77%) like a filter. Walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, must be a filter ( or something like...- 64alex
- Post #13
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Wooden filters vs charcoal filters
As said do your personal test and see what is best for you. In part depends also from the pipe you use. Pipes designed for filters such as most of the corn cob and some of the Savinelli are more likely to benefit from filtering. The reason of filters is to absorb moisture and block tobacco...- 64alex
- Post #9
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Removing Ash at mid bowl
[Perhaps the reason you are getting a better smoke after tipping ash is because you are allowing slightly more oxygen to the furnace than with a thick layer of ash atop it?] I think allowing more oxygen after removing ash could very well be a reason. In addition it could be that the ash may in...- 64alex
- Post #18
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Removing Ash at mid bowl
The discussion is shifting toward the relight issue which is a secondary issue to me. My main comment with dumping ash at mid bowl is that to me it improves the taste of the smoke in the second half making it more similar to the first half and in some way decreasing the harshness that I find in...- 64alex
- Post #13
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Removing Ash at mid bowl
[What kinds of tobacco are you smoking when you experience this? :puffpipe:] More marked with complex English/Oriental blends, it looks in the second half of the bowl the taste tend to be compressed to a similar harsher taste where it is difficult to distinguish the single components. It is...- 64alex
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- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Removing Ash at mid bowl
I am smoking pipe for more than a year. I find the first half of the bowl better than the second. To me in the first half I can better taste tobacco and discern its components particularly when using complex blends. The second bowl looks more monotonous and harsher. Until now I was always...- 64alex
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- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Parafilm To Seal Tins
Question for both of you. When you are using these methods, are you getting any tin note aroma at all, if you were to isolate the can in a plastic container with a lid on it for example, and checking it over a few days? Using my method with aluminum foil I do not detect any aroma coming out of...- 64alex
- Post #9
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Parafilm To Seal Tins
For opened tins I use double folded aluminum foil placed between the tin and its cap, modeling the foil around the margin of the tin and cut about 1/2 inch below the border of the tin, then I seal it with electric tape stretched between the cap and below the margin of the aluminum foil. So far...- 64alex
- Post #4
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Oldest blend in production?
I am curious to find out the oldest pipe tobacco blend still in production with no interruption in production from the same manufacturer with no change in recipe. Any ideas?- 64alex
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- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Meerschaum or Morta?
Hello everybody. I am smoking pipes in the last couple of years using corn cob and clay (Lapeltier) pipes which I enjoy. I smoke mainly Em/orientals but also Va/Per and occasionally Burley, never aromatics. I am thinking to expand my pipe mainly for exploring other materials. My criteria are... -
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Best tobacco packing method?
As said before there is no right method. I really think the key is avoiding overpacking which is the real issue here. Personally I prefer putting the tobacco on my hand and rolling the pipe over it until it's filled. Once it is filled I turn the pipe 5 or times over the palm of my hand using...- 64alex
- Post #42
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Matching tobacco with pipe
[I think touching on bowl size/shape would be helpful. I've seen people look at a pipe and say how great it would be for such and such blend or such and such genre. Flakes, plugs, churchwardens, 320s, Black Frigate, Stonehaven etc. How does a particular pipe compliment a tobacco in this way?] It... -
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Matching tobacco with pipe
I would like to hear about the best matching pipe material for each different tobacco types. For tobacco I put down: -Virginia -Burley -Oriental/English For pipe materials: -Briar -Olive wood -Other woods (lemon, cherrywood...) -Morta -Meerschaum -Gould Calabash Please note for tobacco...