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    Tell Me About John Aylesbury Luxury/Classic Flake

    I find it surprising how close the JA Luxury/Classic Flake is to the same brand's Sir John's Flake. They are in the same realm as Wessex Gold Slice, which for awhile stood out within Wessex's offerings as being in cardboard tins rather than the usual Euro-Brit coin-operated tins. Curiously...
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    Todd Johnson Pipe Thursday on Zoom

    Wow SQ - your pix of the ToddJ are really excellent. I saw you puffing it on the ZOOM, and although your lighting was pretty good, that pipe looked good but nothing like what you just posted. Glad you and yours were able to join the ZOOM. A good time was had by all. hp les
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    What Can You do with Mouldy Tobacco, if Anything?

    Woodsroad uses a 0.5% solution of calcium proprionate. It's used by blenders to keep mold from reproducing and growing. Mold spores are everywhere, including in the tobacco processing facilities. The trick is to keep the amount of mold down by preventing them from growing. hp les
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    Glad to be Here!

    Yo Rai - welcome from near Philly. You ought to tap into the New York Pipe Club. They meet monthly downtown and have an active website as well as a FB Page. hp les
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    Brown Flakes to Try.

    Got Brown Capstan from The Danish Pipe Shop. Ir's listed under Paul Olsen My Own Blend in TR. hp les
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    WTB Unsmoked Mark Tinsky

    Yo cap - welcome to the site. MarkT (and son Glenn) have had a long-standing webpage American Smoking Pipe Company Home Page - http://www.amsmoke.com/ which lists loads of stuff about their pipes, and also is a store. Mark has been one of my go-tos for the bulldog shape, which some artisans...
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    Starting a pipe club, tips?

    Yo Lia - social media is your friend, although there is a vocal minority of FaceBook haters out there. One of my pals out West had a tiny core of 4 members meeting at t friendly B&M until they went on FB, at which point the attendance multiplied. A FB Page is much easier to set up than your...
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    Favourite Tin Illustration

    Yo tzi - Skiff! hp les
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    Kaywoodie pipes

    Yo Eti - Kaywoodies, new and old, are greatly undervalued. I have several dozen and some of them are my best puffers. The stingers in the older pipes don't bother me though I prefer pipes without metal in there. The current production uses very old wood: I was in the Kaywoodie factory for...
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    Example how to NOT ship tobacco....

    Not defending the seller/shipper's practice of shipping naked bottles, but that Margate I would smoke up. Assuming the black garbage bag had no cruddy contamination on it, the tobacco if anything might be a little dried out - but that's how I like most of my tobaccos anyway, including the Eso...
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    Greetings from Berks County

    Yo terry - welcome from West Chester in Chester County. You might be interested in the Lehigh Valley Pipe Club, which meets 4th Tuesdays at The Wooden Match in downtown Bethlehem. We have quite a few regulars that come in from Berks, even from Lebanon. Hope to see you this next month. hp les
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    Hello from Philly Area

    Yo jc. Welcome from West Chester. Actually Dilworthtown. The Philly pipe club Christopher Morley Pipe Club has been COVIDbound for a year and a half, since we meet at the Pen & Pencil Club in Center City (a block away from Holt's Cigars), and we are waiting on P&P to get comfortable enough to...
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    So now I have a Bulldog

    Yo GD - beauty! And with a story to boot. Was the pipe (literally: if that cigar store had had just one more pipe, it would have been a pipeS store - lol) store in College Town? Decades ago, there was a quaint store that sold things like newspapers from foreign lands, but more importantly...
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    This Is Why

    Does the new Briarworks shop use CNC? I gather they are more highly automated than the legacy companies.
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    Hey from PA

    Yo Mike! Welcome from near West Chester. Do you know about the pipe clubs in the Lehigh Valley and Center City? hp les
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    Conclave Of Richmond Pipe Smokers and Sutliff Tobacco Pipe Smokers' Gathering

    We're off to a great start. The weather is perfect. The Richmond Club had a goodly bunch of folks at the Legends Beverage Co, and the BBQ, suds, conviviality and weather went perfectly with the puffing.
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    Anyone Test Their Taste Buds to Understand Their Smoking Preferences?

    Not all types of smoking affect taste equally. I have a couple of chef friends who I got to switch from cigs to pipes (DGT helps) and their taste function improves. May have something to do with inhalation affecting the cilia or little hairs in the throat.
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    New Piper from Richmond, VA

    Yo Greg = welcome from PA. The Richmond pipe show CORPS will be in your town in October. Looks like you can attend without having to rent a hotel room. That will be a great place to soak up a lot of pipe knowledge and contacts, as well as puffing a variety of interesting tobaccos. hp les
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    There are Two Kinds of People

    Half are above average, and half aren't. Is that mean? hp les
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    How Are Slow Smoking Contests Judged?

    I find SloSmoking contests to be very Zen, despite no expectation of conventional enjoyment due to having to break in the (usually) new pipe - an exercise I dread in of itself - and often having to suffer through a blend that I might not normally puff. Concentration is paramount, and I find the...
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