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What Were Your Go-To Tobacco’s in 2025?
This is surprisingly close to what I was going to answer: Irish Flake McConnel's Scottish Flake HH Old Dark Fired But if no Irish Cask for me. I'm swapping in GL Pease Navigator.- litup
- Post #71
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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What's your favorite painting?
I am not well-versed in the art world so I don't know what makes a piece technically good or worthy of praise but as Brian says on his podcast, I am the expert on my own opinion and I've always found this painting to be particularly captivating. This is Winter Landscape by Caspar David Friedrich.- litup
- Post #98
- Forum: General Discussion
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Las Vegas Intl Pipe Show 2025
I think his pipes are around $300 give or take $50-$100 depending upon the particular pipe. Very reasonable for an artisan maker.- litup
- Post #32
- Forum: Pipe Events
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Las Vegas Intl Pipe Show 2025
I also came home from Vegas with some goodies. From top to bottom: Don Marshall, Josh Yee, J. Mouton. I also brought home some aged tins and some of the new High Roller cake.- litup
- Post #28
- Forum: Pipe Events
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***What Are You Smoking, October 2025?***
Stonehenge in a Northern Briars pipe reading the NASPC Newsletter.- litup
- Post #3,910
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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California Unflavored Tobacco Law Registration Deadline Passes- Dunbarton pulls out!
It's exhausting to live in this state.- litup
- Post #7
- Forum: Tobacco Legislation
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***What Are You Smoking, October 2025?***
Wessex Burley Slice in a bent billiard “Castello”- litup
- Post #380
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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New Samuel Gawith tins
For reference, the 1792 tin that was hard to open had the divots right at the corner: While this tin of Cabbies from 5 years ago has the divots on the flat side.- litup
- Post #41
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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New Samuel Gawith tins
Just opened a brand new tin of 1792 two days ago and had the same experience. I was afraid I was going to bend the pick tool from my tamper because the tin was so hard to open.- litup
- Post #29
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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***What Are You Smoking, September 2025?***
Puffing as lightly as I can on some 1792 Flake in a Rinaldo.- litup
- Post #3,738
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Christmas Pipes Question
These are Ardor Christmas pipes from various years: Way too much: Too little: Just about right: -
Pipe‑Tobacco Review, Tobacco & Pipe XML Standards
I was actually just questioning pipeandpencil's desire to mine the data out of the "what are you smoking threads?" to discover what's popular here. That said, I do know of a handful of people that like to record their smoking details in a journal whenever they smoke. That's pretty tedious, in...- litup
- Post #15
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Pipe‑Tobacco Review, Tobacco & Pipe XML Standards
Ahh, you prefer selection bias. Makes sense.- litup
- Post #11
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Pipe‑Tobacco Review, Tobacco & Pipe XML Standards
Why not just use Smokingpipes' Best Sellers list as a proxy for it?- litup
- Post #9
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Kopp Has Fancy Flake Presses
Honestly. I'd be embarrassed to film that part of the "process".- litup
- Post #16
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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What's Your Favorite C&D Small Batch Release??
2021 or 2022 Eight State Burley.- litup
- Post #11
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Tobacco Collection Database
To be fair, I wouldn't consider most of these queries to fall under "cellar management". Whether something is flake cut or ribbon cut seems more like satisfying idle curiosity than managing an inventory or planning for when to smoke a specific tin. And I think most people who are seriously...- litup
- Post #15
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Mac Baren Tin Dating
This^. To save you the calculation, that's October 21, 2015.- litup
- Post #3
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Rattray’s Old Gowrie OR McConnell’s Scottish Flake?
Scottish Flake for me. Primarily because I prefer the cut.- litup
- Post #18
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion