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Morning Wake up Call
Knock out your shoes before you put them on.- mso489
- Post #19
- Forum: General Discussion
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The Right Pipe for the Right Tobacco
It's not an original idea with me, but I have found that blends with more different tobaccos play best in broad chambered pipes, maybe because a greater variety of tobacco is in the ember at once making for a better melding of flavors. I'd say this is true once you get to four tobaccos in a...- mso489
- Post #15
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Iwan Ries & Co., America’s Oldest Pipe and Tobacco Store
They have a phenomenal inventory of about 15,000 pipes, so if there is anything you are looking for they may have it. Also, their house pipes are well above their price point in quality. Currently they are sourced from Genod, which is the source of their first house pipes. Many years ago I...- mso489
- Post #4
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Recommendations for Moving Away from Aromatics.
Maybe something with cigar leaf like GLP Key Largo. C&D Billy Budd has cigar leaf but is strong.- mso489
- Post #22
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Another Breaking-in-a-Cob Thread
MM cobs dependably smoke down to gray ash most smokes, without modifying the bottom of the bowl in any way, or at least that is my experience. It's gotten so that I can smoke down to ash with most of my briars too, but with the MM cobs it's a sure bet. Maybe dry your tobacco a little more...- mso489
- Post #7
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Pipe Tobacco at International Airports.
I haven't seen any, but I haven't traveled overseas in a long time. My impression is that the duty-free shops go for high volume items that they can sell in volume to a stream of walkthrough travelers. I don't think pipe smokers generate enough demand with their limited numbers to generate...- mso489
- Post #13
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Any Other Nording Fans Out There?
I have a zebra hunting pipe (gift from my wife), a Signature freehand, and an econo-pipe Eriksen. They're all A+. Nording is a stickler for engineering on his pipes. Nothing sloppy or half done. And he does some of the best factory freehand pipes in the business, the real Danish deal.- mso489
- Post #25
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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RIP, Brooks Robinson.
Lovely to see the greats at work. It's like they stop time. RIP.- mso489
- Post #6
- Forum: General Discussion
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Covid and Pipe Smoking
I don't smoke through health issues on the basis that nicotine constricts capillaries (the smallest blood vessels) and could impede healing. For a while, I wondered if nicotine or another aspect of pipe smoke warded off the virus, but I wouldn't try to sell that idea to anyone else. Between...- mso489
- Post #14
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Neerup Pipe Question
I've always thought Neerups look a little front loaded in terms of balance, but owners love them a say they smoke great. You may find a trick for smoking this one in a pleasurable way, but if not, I think it is that pipe and not the brand. I had an artisan bent ball shape pipe that just didn't...- mso489
- Post #9
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Core Four
I seem to enjoy different blends over time, variety being part of the joy. My dad smoked for fifty years, owning one pipe at a time until burn-out, and smoking only Granger from the foil pouch. The single blend seemed to be a plus for him, dependable and entirely enjoyable. He sort of looked...- mso489
- Post #2
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Hawkbill pipe shape?
I won a Caminetto Hawkbill pipe in a Forums limerick contest for vets sponsored by a Forums member. It is a great pipe, rather short so really easy to clench, and with an ample bowl. It is my first Hawkbilll and I am glad to have it. -
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Mac Baren Mixture Modern
I was given a tin of some iteration of that blend about twelve years ago, and it was nothing but MacBite. I tried aging it. I tried mixing it. I tried drying it. It is the blend with the most edges I have ever tasted, to the degree I couldn't taste the tobacco. Maybe it ia greatly...- mso489
- Post #9
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Who Would you Initiate?
Jackie Gleason, Dwight Eisenhower, Soupy Sales, Leon Redbone, Queen Elizabeth II, Maurice Chevalier, Thomas Edison, Daniel Boone, Jerry Lewis, Lord Horatio Nelson, Louis Armstrong, Little Richard, Dolly Madison, Henry Ford, Bob Hope, Jonas Salk, Irving Berlin, Mae West, Ira Gershwin, John...- mso489
- Post #44
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Whats Some Local Slang from Your Neck of the Woods?
Hey is a standard greeting in N.C. In the South, "Well bless his heart" can be meant sincerely or with stinging irony. Our minister used the word lousy today, and he's from the Chicago area where I grew up and that was a common expression, whereas in other regions people don't know what you...- mso489
- Post #19
- Forum: General Discussion
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Sign of a Healthy Forum: Fast Moving Threads with Multiple Responses
Forums is usually lively. What impresses me most is the way expertise emerges on specific subjects from time to time. There are some real craftsmen, pipe historians, tobacconists, tobacco growers, and other areas of expertise that are impressive. I've gotten some good input on...- mso489
- Post #22
- Forum: General Discussion
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What Retired Blends Would you Bring Back?
It's probably already been mentioned, but I remember the ever-popular McClelland 5100 Virginia. Everyone who loved Virginias liked it, it seemed, and it was a good mixing tobacco for home blends. I'm a burley smoker first, but I've found some Virginia blends I like, and lately I've been...- mso489
- Post #97
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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American Pipes
There are great American artisan pipe carvers, and there are still a few factory made briar pipes though they are becoming rare. The artisans can speak for themselves and are priced starting at two or three hundred, and some less. At the top, the sky is the limit. Among the factory made...- mso489
- Post #38
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Museum Quality Wax for Briars
I really enjoy not using wax on my pipes. I have some I bought new I've had for nearly forty years. I buff them off after every smoke with a slightly abrasive cloth or paper towel. I don't like the residue of wax or polishes, and don't want the shiny new look, rather the enjoyably used aura...- mso489
- Post #31
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion