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  1. makhorkasmoker

    Well It Finally Happened

    I keep waiting, and occasionally trying, but I’ve yet to have this happen. So far, if I don’t care for something, I just don’t. Doesn’t matter if I wait years, I still don’t. But I haven’t given up hope. I have shelf full of blends that I don’t like but one day might (according to you all)
  2. makhorkasmoker

    Deertongue Fragrance Fading?

    I’ve never smoked that blend, but I smoke crooner and I sometimes pick deer tongue and blend it with burley. In my experience its flavor and scent are pretty persistent. When a deer tongue blend ages, the tobacco seems to change more than the deer tongue. That said I sometimes hang deer tongue...
  3. makhorkasmoker

    The Clear Coats on Inexpensive Factory Pipes

    Thank you both. I’m smoking a pipe right now with a half worn off coating.
  4. makhorkasmoker

    The Clear Coats on Inexpensive Factory Pipes

    What did you use to strip the coat off the pipes?
  5. makhorkasmoker

    What are You Reading Now?

    Rereading a favorite
  6. makhorkasmoker

    Virginia / Burley (VABUR) Recipes

    Depending on what you’re going for, you might try blending some of c&d ‘s white burley into that. The dark is strong in flavor with some cigar notes. Though a bit harsh on its own , the white makes a good base.
  7. makhorkasmoker

    Virginia / Burley (VABUR) Recipes

    I blend Kentucky burley, burley red tips, and dark air cured in roughly the same amounts . I used to add a smidgin of either red Virginia or ripe Virginia to soften it—but eventually figured out I prefer the air cured tobaccos on their own
  8. makhorkasmoker

    Waterflush Cobs & Meers?

    Every once in a great while I will water flush my cobs then run pipe cleaners through them and wipe out the bowl til it’s mostly dry. It’s the closest thing to a deep clean I ever do with them. It freshens them up, removes a good bit of cake and gunk, and generally improves them. I’ve been...
  9. makhorkasmoker

    Broken Stem Bulldog

    If I like a pipe and it has no other damage, I think it is worth the cost of stem replacement or repair.
  10. makhorkasmoker

    What are You Reading Now?

  11. makhorkasmoker

    What are You Reading Now?

    I haven’t been posting what I’ve been reading lately. So I’ll catch up a little
  12. makhorkasmoker

    Peeped a Dr. Grabow and some junk at the cigarette store

    You can find them on line at West Virginia smoke shop. Unlike most sellers they take grabows out of the plastic pack, take a pic of the actual pipe. They tell you if it is smooth, grooved or spot carved. I take my grabow apart after every smoke for cleaning. Never had a problem with the tenon
  13. makhorkasmoker

    Peeped a Dr. Grabow and some junk at the cigarette store

    I smoke a modern Dr Grabow Savoy every day, often multiple times a day. I’m ok with the plastic stem. It does develop bite marks, but they’re like the bite marks in soft vulcanite. Smooth. It forms to my usual clenches. It never develops the rough feel that my MM plastic stems do. It’s About a...
  14. makhorkasmoker

    Spritzing Hydrogen Peroxide on Whole Leaf

    I smoke whole leaf almost exclusively. I control mold by drying the tobacco to just the point where mold won’t grow. You can store it a long time this way, no problem. If mold does start to grow, it usually begins on the central rib, which you probably aren’t smoking anyway. If that happens...
  15. makhorkasmoker

    Recommend me a New All Day Smoke to Replace Carter Hall and Prince Albert

    Just to throw out something different: you might try some of the “RYO” “pipe tobaccos”, focusing on those with cocoa/carob toppings. Largo sun grown, for example. I anyway find it as pleasurable as 5 bros blended with milder OTC tobaccos, and the price is very low
  16. makhorkasmoker

    Same pipe, same tobacco, different experience

    Many things can make a tobacco taste different from one smoke to the next. Humidity, temperature, your mood, the setting, etc. what’s more tobacco is not a uniform product, though blenders try to achieve that. One leaf of the same tobacco can differ from the next. And the state of the pipe...
  17. makhorkasmoker

    Rainy Weather Smokes?

    I love smoking in the rain. I don’t smoke anything different—my usual air cured home blend—but the moisture in the air , or just the mood of rainy day smokes, seems to bring out certain flavors I enjoy
  18. makhorkasmoker

    Moving to the EU

    I hope to face a similar problem. if /when I ever get to live full time in Spain, I will view tobacco taxes as a small price to pay for all of the advantages of living over there
  19. makhorkasmoker

    When and Where.

    Thanks. I was wondering. I THINK here in the USA whole leaf is taxed differently, at a lower rate. And I see that some whole leaf is shipped internationally. I guess they wouldn’t let it into Australia . Or tax it the same as they would any blend.
  20. makhorkasmoker

    When and Where.

    Out of curiosity, is whole leaf tobacco taxed at the same rate down there?
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