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Accidentally Removed Some Finish off the Rim
Half on a whim, half for practice deep-cleaning, I tried my hand at refurbing some filthy old thrift store pipes the other day. Finished 'em with Ebony Oil (which as I understand is mostly just mineral oil with a higher price tag and a magical incantation said over it) and Renaissance Wax. Seem...- Pooh-Bah
- Post #57
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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SmokingPipes Gift
I once read that gold was something like $30,000 in total lifetime purchases, don't know how accurate that was.- Pooh-Bah
- Post #22
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Thriving in the Upcoming Tobacco Apocalypse
I had five Samsun in the first year - fifteen or so plants, culled down to the best/biggest ones, then stuck in buckets in the corner of the garden. Those got me basically enough leaf for one noodle press hockeypuck of... Probably about 1.5 oz- Pooh-Bah
- Post #59
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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H&H, Bengal Slices, and War Horse are done
I suspect P&C is out of War Horse now (though it doesn't say "Backorder" at present). Received email that I had three tins each of War Horse Bar and HH Bold Kentucky coming my way. Do you really think that I, Lord High Everything Else, would be content ordering ONLY three tins of War Horse? Exactly.- Pooh-Bah
- Post #29
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Thriving in the Upcoming Tobacco Apocalypse
Next year'll be my third adventure in home growing, and I'm feeling optimistic about getting something I actually want to smoke this year. Year 1, cured too dry. Year 2, cured too wet.- Pooh-Bah
- Post #23
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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No. Can't.
That is a silly pipe, and I use the cleavage of my meerschaum mermaid as a finger rest, so you'd think I'd be in the target demographic here. At least I ASSUME that "finger rest" is the nominal purpose of this artisan butt crack. -
Home Infusions?
I've had very pleasant results with Latakia blends, creme de menthe, and Ernie's method as cited by khiddy. And! you can drink the booze when the infusion period has ended (some of the tobacco aroma will have infused into it, too). I infused for two or three weeks and didn't bother pressing it...- Pooh-Bah
- Post #6
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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A Look at STG Internal Documents Regarding the Mac Baren / Sutliff Buyout
...Well, time to go spend my holiday bonus on War Horse from the stores that still have it.- Pooh-Bah
- Post #270
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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What Cigar Are You Smoking? 2025
Sweet Jane Dia De Los Muertos. ...sweetened cap, vanilla infusion. I like it more than most Aromatic pipe tobacco I've had.- Pooh-Bah
- Post #2,959
- Forum: Cigar Discussion
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What Pipes Do You Wish You Had?
I speak of the historical Lady Trieu, who was nine feet tall, had breasts four feet long, and was quoted as wanting to kill whales. Maybe an image in profile of her on an elephant, murdering an aquatic mammal. -
What Pipes Do You Wish You Had?
I regularly gaze longingly at the Tsuge Urushi line. Another, more eccentric pipe dream: Lady Trieu depicted in meerschaum, sure to start many interesting conversations. -
Thuoc Lao Tien Lang
I'm gonna say it's under the same principle as Mr Jeppsen getting away with selling Malort door-to-door during prohibition: "No one is using this for pleasure, it actually IS medicine. Carry on."- Pooh-Bah
- Post #7
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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What Sutliff Products to Purchase?
Disregard the advice of the coyote, I'm hoarding War Horse to protect you! Why, if you go plumbing through old threads, you'll see all sorts of horrible things being said about War Horse! ...by its developers, as a joke and/or brilliant advertising campaign. I'd recommend picking up some of the...- Pooh-Bah
- Post #83
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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What's Your Favorite Non-traditional Christmas Song?
Stan Rogers, glad to finally have the decorations up. Stan again, weaving some sort of eye-fogging spell into it.- Pooh-Bah
- Post #14
- Forum: General Discussion
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I Am Once Again Asking For Custom Meer Stem Work
I once sent my Altinok billiard to Briarville for shank repair last year, I'm satisfied with their work. Don't know if they can do anything for a stem. -
***What Are You Smoking, December 2024?***
My meers rest, until the cheap and filthy estates I bought from Goodwill arrive in the mail. So that I can clean them, and know if that's cake I'm scraping at, or if I'm destroying my pipes. Meanwhile, a cob of Nat Sherman 314 (which I bought at a B&M a few years ago and finally decided to start on)- Pooh-Bah
- Post #1,365
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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TAD Acquisitions 2024
#20 is open right now, so it's not in the picture. Not that it would've fit on my dinky little collapsible table anyway.- Pooh-Bah
- Post #1,157
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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TAD Acquisitions 2024
Disclaimer, only half of this is new, the rest was from TAD a few months ago.- Pooh-Bah
- Post #1,155
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Still getting a little tingle.
I recently discovered that if I'm drinking, Latakia tingles/numbs my lips. Doesn't have that effect without liquor, so if you consistently consume or don't consume anything with your pipes maybe experiment with that a little and see if it changes anything.- Pooh-Bah
- Post #11
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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What are You Reading Now?
After a few months away from it, I'm back to reading Umineko. On book/episode 8 now, the last one, Twilight of the Golden Witch. The truth of the murders being revealed in the previous volume - whodunnit, howdunnit, and whydunnit - this one is unique in being the only entry in the series with...- Pooh-Bah
- Post #680
- Forum: General Discussion