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  1. judcole

    ***What Are You Smoking, September 2025?***

    Amphora Original in an MM Scarecrow,
  2. judcole

    Do pipes need to be “Broken In”?

    When I get a new pipe, I follow a practice suggested in this forum many years ago. I smoke one bowl a day, of an uncomplicated blend that I know well, every day for two weeks. This allows me time to get to know the pipe. I of course run cleaners through it, and wipe out the bowl with a paper...
  3. judcole

    ***What Are You Smoking, September 2025?***

    MacB Burley Flake in an MM Washington.
  4. judcole

    ***What Are You Smoking, September 2025?***

    Lane RR in an MM Boone.
  5. judcole

    ***What Are You Smoking, September 2025?***

    H&H Bright Lights in a Sav Tre series 105.
  6. judcole

    Peterson's tobaccos and Wellauer's

    This is the first time I have seen Wellauer's mentioned here. I went out to Tobacco Reviews. Some of their blends are the same or similar names to old Dunhill blends that are now blended by STG (as are Peterson blends) as Peterson blends. The first review of Nightcap says that Wellauer used to...
  7. judcole

    ***What Are You Smoking, September 2025?***

    Prince Al in a Country Gent.
  8. judcole

    ***What Are You Smoking, September 2025?***

    Sutliff Virginia Slices in this little Ropp Etudiant J21.
  9. judcole

    ***What Are You Smoking, September 2025?***

    Golden Extra in a Mark Twain
  10. judcole

    ***What Are You Smoking, September 2025?***

    Amphora Original in a Mark Twain
  11. judcole

    What Are You Listening To? - September, 2025

    A little Graham Parker to start the day.
  12. judcole

    ***What Are You Smoking, September 2025?***

    Milan "Our" KC Mild in an MM Boone.
  13. judcole

    ***What Are You Smoking, September 2025?***

    Sutliff Virginia Slices in a nameless billiard of Algerian briar (the only stamping) with a slightly canted bowl and a prince-like 1/8 bent stem.
  14. judcole

    ***What Are You Smoking, September 2025?***

    Milan Milestone in an MM Boone.
  15. judcole

    Dottle

    You're overthinking it. Smoke until you aren't enjoying it any more, or until you can't relight, and then dump it.
  16. judcole

    ***What Are You Smoking, September 2025?***

    Prince Al in a Country Gent.
  17. judcole

    ***What Are You Smoking, September 2025?***

    Something different this morning: McCranie's Murdoch's Pipe, in an old Stanwell 3/4 bent egg that I won in a pipe smoking contest many years ago. I think that I won this in the "World Pipe Smoking Championship", sponsored by Paul's Pipe Shop in Flint. This would have been in the late 1970s -...
  18. judcole

    ***What Are You Smoking, September 2025?***

    Golden Extra in a Mark Twain
  19. judcole

    ***What Are You Smoking, September 2025?***

    Amphora Original in an MM Scarecrow.
  20. judcole

    What's the % of Dark Fired in Old Gowrie?

    I'd bet it's just a condiment - less than 1%.