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  1. mpjetset

    New Member in Nova Scotia

    Welcome from SE Florida.
  2. mpjetset

    Hello from South Central Pennsylvania.

    SE Florida waves hi.
  3. mpjetset

    Pipes With a Restrictive Draw

    Great discussion! I'll add that a buddy drilled out some of my very expensive pipes after a few rounds of spirits late one night. I didn't like the tight draw at the time, and couldn't avoid wet, unsmokable dottle. Over the next few weeks I shed the dread and remorse of the morning after because...
  4. mpjetset

    Ruminations on Keeping Cheap Shag Tobacco Humidified

    I was at a Florida cigar shop last week and heard they have to sell a pouch of Captain Black for $21 now because of tax. Jeez Louise...
  5. mpjetset

    Pack Like Drinking Through a Straw?

    I'm glad you brought this topic back up. "Sipping through a straw" has to be the worst possible advice for a new pipe smoker, and over the last week or so I've entertained the idea that the advisor was either joking, hated the OP, or a troll. Yes, you have packed too tight if you have not...
  6. mpjetset

    Greetings from Ohio

    That was my thought exactly, but found one at the Newark show for pennies on the dollar in the early 1990s so couldn't say no. It disappeared sometime during a move, a hurricane, and a home renovation. My hope is that someone's enjoying it. I didn't smoke latakia or aromatics in anything but...
  7. mpjetset

    Greetings from Ohio

    Welcome from Florida! I like calabash, too. I lost a good one somehow and am waiting for delivery of a "pre-smoked" replacement. I even ordered a pouch of Capital Black (platinum for me), even though I have tons of old VA tins and bulks on hand. The Captain goes well with a calabash gourd. I...
  8. mpjetset

    How Ya Doing? From New York

    Welcome from everywhere, originally Buffalo! When I relocated to a commercial real estate firm in Atlanta, as the low man on the totem pole, I drove all over the SE. Cigars were a big deal in my crowd but the embers ruined two suits on drives. I was looking at tobacco land and it seemed like I...
  9. mpjetset

    ***What Are You Smoking, August 2024?***

    What a great eye you have! I thought of it as a Peterson 302 for 20+ years until your comment. Checking, it is a Rovera Curva Bent Apple SYSTEM PIPE with a P-Lip. I recall being very happy with a recently (finally) broken-in 302 in the early 1990s, and was recently attracted to Rovera, which was...
  10. mpjetset

    ***What Are You Smoking, August 2024?***

    Dang, it seems to ne a Peterson Sunday. Was there a memo?
  11. mpjetset

    ***What Are You Smoking, August 2024?***

    F&P Inverness in a ... well, y'all know what this is...
  12. mpjetset

    Pack Like Drinking Through a Straw?

    YES! Add different objectives (the spectrum between quick smoke to relaxation), and every smoke will be different. For relaxation, I like no draw, where a pipe can "smoke itself" and I fill my mouth with moist flavor with my lips partly open. When I'm grabbing a quick smoke during an activity...
  13. mpjetset

    Pack Like Drinking Through a Straw?

    This will cause you much delay: impatience. But, "Enjoy the learning process" is ideal. The fact is, your mouth will learn - whether consciously or unconsciously - to avoid unpleasantness and find flavor. Slower is better while you gain experience. Good luck!
  14. mpjetset

    ***What Are You Smoking, August 2024?***

    This is a Luigi Viprati loosely filled with F&P Inverness, and this is how I smoke a horn. It's the only way the bowl is upright; otherwise the bowl leans forward burning into the stem-side. Its also much more comfortable in the hand since horns are imbalanced by design and difficult to...
  15. mpjetset

    ***What Are You Smoking, July 2024?***

    "Serves Me Righr to Suffer" by JT Hooker finishing Fez in this gifted Becker and Musico and a nice Rye, neat.
  16. mpjetset

    Your First Briar

    ASAP. Because it's probably 90% up to the smoker, and only 10% the pipe, you can theoretically buy anything in your budget according to your aesthetic preferences and learn to smoke it well. You will always love that pipe even if it's a $10 basket pipe. However, your briar will probably...
  17. mpjetset

    Collecting Ethos

    Collections like variations of the same shape here, so I guess I have an assortment of collections.
  18. mpjetset

    Cultivating a Taste for Tobacco

    Don't waste your money yet. See my other answer. Just go slow and don't have high expectations for the first month. Good luck!
  19. mpjetset

    Cultivating a Taste for Tobacco

    All good recommendations here so far, and great you started with the cob. The fact is, it's probably too soon to know what you're going to like. Your mouth first has to learn to avoid pain, and then how to avoid generating wet steam. The cob will help. Smoke anything that sounds interesting to...
  20. mpjetset

    ***What Are You Smoking, July 2024?***

    Grouse Moore in a huge Ardor sapphire. I don't smoke this pipe much because the handball size bowl is intimidating. I can jam two fingers all the way down to my first knuckles. It smokes itself so any draw starts to generate steam. The smoke just plays over the tongue as long as I don't do...
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