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    What Tobacco Do You Recommend for a Corn Cob?

    The wide open airways make it too easy to smoke a VA flake too quickly - I prefer to leave corn cobs for ribbons - maybe I should get a forever stem
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    High End Pipes vs Artisans.

    Any pipe makers that do more British shapes? Most makers do free styles/Danish which are not my cup of tea. Dunhill and savinelli catalog shapes are my jam.
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    Your Best Vintage Savinellis?

    Wow, those Capri and blasts are gorgeous - I know you can get non filtered new Savinelli's, but the grain on them is usually nothing special
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    2 Questions: Smoking Cadence & Sipping

    I come from cigars and I'm still trying to "slow down" I know everyone says sip the smoke but how long of a sip too long? I take my time between sips, but sometimes I get zero smoke even after relights (maybe packing too tight?)
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    Pipe companies still based in the UK?

    Besides the White Spot and Northern Briars - any pipe companies left in the UK (not counting custom pipemakers)?
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    Your Best Vintage Savinellis?

    Wow - I need to start looking harder - I know Savinelli can make some nice stuff, but everytime I pick one up off ebay, I go "oh, that's why that Giubileo D'oro/Punto Oro went for so little"
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    New GL Pease Blend

    I should pack shag tighter, no?
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    Your Best Vintage Savinellis?

    Were vintage Punto Oros in smooth ever "fill free"?
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    Your Best Vintage Savinellis?

    I always liked Savinelli as a brand (Italian Dunhill?), and flipping through a 1970s catalog made me want to search for a nice older (pre 6mm) Savinelli pipes - So I ended up picking a Giubileo D'Oro (which has okay cross grain) and a Punto Oro 4 digit billiard (which has a tiny fill) - so I'm...
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    Viprati PAD

    Very nice! I love Luigi's older stuff more (more traditional looking) - but man does he know how to work grain