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***What Are You Smoking, November 2025?***
Smoking some MB Burley Flake in a Castello as I wait for the next cold front to roll through, should get an inch of rain today.- VDL_Piper
- Post #441
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Cloves
I love tobacco with clove as a topping/casing and it really does hark back to older times when clove cigarettes and tobacco was highly desirable.- VDL_Piper
- Post #2
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Need help with Japanese
Thanks guys, have cracked the translation code using this here modern thingamajig, who'd a thunk it!- VDL_Piper
- Post #5
- Forum: General Discussion
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What about half-smoked bowls?
I don't think many do to be honest mate, blackmarket and clandestine product is what everyone is smoking. Australia was founded on criminals and the Government just made us all criminals again because "they" think that "they" know what's best for us. Time to become ungovernable and that's what...- VDL_Piper
- Post #32
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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What about half-smoked bowls?
I'm a tight arse so I smoke it all, take no prisoners I say......- VDL_Piper
- Post #29
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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My blending experiments
Did you press the leaves or shred and jar. Reason I ask is a viewed a YouTube video some time back and the guys was using whole leaf and he had made a wooden press and to my eye the results looked very very good. I'll try to find the video as its worth a watch. Found it 👇- VDL_Piper
- Post #2
- Forum: Home Blending
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Sara Eltang Pipes
Any way you skin the cat this hobby and the industry attached is dying. Pipe prices, tobacco prices, loss of growing area, loss of manufacturing, Government intervention, the list is long and growing. -
***What Are You Smoking, November 2025?***
Happy Sunday everyone and a new month begins. I‘ll kick it off with some Dark Fragrant in a Castello #33 panel and it’s paired with a pot of English Breakfast tea, lemon, honey.- VDL_Piper
- Post #145
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Sara Eltang Pipes
I agree Mike the Sara's are nice but like so many they are pricing themselves out of the market (maybe that's what he wants). Tom has been carving for a lot of years and those hands must be starting to age and feel it. -
🌟 🎄 🎅 The UnOfficial Official 2025 PM Secret Santa Thread 🎅 🎄 🌟
Postage bill would be the least of your troubles. The $68,000 + duty bill might get his attention though!- VDL_Piper
- Post #332
- Forum: General Discussion
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Modern Day British High End Pipe Makers, That Still Make Classical Style British Pipes?
Two that come to mind...... https://blakemar.co.uk/ https://www.northernbriars.co.uk/- VDL_Piper
- Post #2
- Forum: British Pipes
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Need help with Japanese
Just seeing if we have anyone who can translate Japanese here.- VDL_Piper
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- Forum: General Discussion
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Castello Sea Rock KKKK
I'm a Castello fan and that is a lovely pipe with a unique shape with that extended wood shank, nice #84 Hawkbill.- VDL_Piper
- Post #2
- Forum: Italian Pipes
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Peterson p-lip Pipes
The pipe is the tool and you must serve an apprenticeship before you have the skill to call yourself a tradesman- VDL_Piper
- Post #5
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Peterson p-lip
The pipe is the tool and you must serve an apprenticeship before you have the skill to call yourself a tradesman -
Anyone else have an “anything palate”?
When cellaring "deep" it's wise to consider a few things. 1. How much you smoke. I see quite a few guys who are light smokers on here and as such a cellar for them is a vastly different equation than someone who is smoking 6 to 10 bowls a day but also be aware that some guys here have the time...- VDL_Piper
- Post #3
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Tongue burn question
Whiskey and at least 4 fingers. Repeat until you're no longer worried about your mouth and more concerned with the headache the next morning.- VDL_Piper
- Post #27
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Take a break question.
Maybe just go back to a codger blend to rest your palate or try something you have never had as this just might open up a new genre for you.- VDL_Piper
- Post #13
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Reviews
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Daughter
Whoo Hoooo Stacy, what a superstar ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Proud moment for a Papa too, you done good Brad.- VDL_Piper
- Post #9
- Forum: General Discussion
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Show Off Your Castello Pipes Here!
Lovely brace of Castello's there, enjoy them in good health.- VDL_Piper
- Post #1,006
- Forum: Pipes: Show Us Your (fill in the blank) Pipes