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  1. Epip Oc'Cabot

    Tongue burn question

    I think you will get the most obvious improvement by drying out your pipe tobacco QUITE a bit. Perhaps a day or two in fact. I think it is easier for a new pipe smoker to have success by having very, very dry tobacco. As Sable suggested, slowing down is also very helpful, but I think that...
  2. Epip Oc'Cabot

    Pipes in art

    Haha! Too rich for me. But if he/she made prints…. maybe…
  3. Epip Oc'Cabot

    Pipes in art

    I actually really like this art piece a lot. I wonder if he or she made prints of the original to sell?
  4. Epip Oc'Cabot

    Exhaust Fan For New Smoking Room?

    Hmm. I know we do like our pipe tobacco and the smoke that is inherent in its combustion…… but……. as highlighted in what I quoted in your statement….. you do NOT want air to enter the room?!? That seems a bit risky, if you ask me, even the most stalwart pipe smoker still needs SOME air. 🤣
  5. Epip Oc'Cabot

    Erinmore Flake, dizzy after more than 1 hour of smoke

    To my manner of thinking, that sort of impact is a very pleasant bonus feature when it occurs. For me it is akin to full body relaxation. Though after 45+ years of enjoying pipes and pipe tobaccos this sort of impact is now regrettably rare and very infrequent….. I always enjoyed that “bonus”...
  6. Epip Oc'Cabot

    Has Anybody Seen My Pack of Brigham Filters?

    Well… not pipe “accessory” related….. but, what the hell….a pipe IS an accessory to the smoking experience, so I will count it….. I had an old, well used, and well loved Dr. Grabow that I had for at least 15 years or so at that time….. very well worn. I had been working in the garage on things...
  7. Epip Oc'Cabot

    How Many Bowls do You Smoke a Day?

    Just a thought question…. since I have never smoked RYO…. except one time way back when my future father-in-law asked if I wanted to try a RYO (I kind of think he was wondering if I knew how to roll a joint, as he was perhaps wondering if I smoked marijuana 😂 and he did not want that for his...
  8. Epip Oc'Cabot

    Wellington Pipe

    Looks beautiful! Do you have any photos of the BEFORE condition you could post? If so, we could tell even better how much work went into the rejuvenation.
  9. Epip Oc'Cabot

    Twigs and Stems: Do You All Care?

    All part of the smoking experience, for me. It all goes into the bowl of my pipe.
  10. Epip Oc'Cabot

    Bulldog vs Rhodesian

    Ah, you meant it differently I see. I was thinking you meant any standard, consistent, symmetrically “milled shape”. The way I read your original statement, I was thinking you only preferred freehand shapes. My misunderstanding.
  11. Epip Oc'Cabot

    Bulldog vs Rhodesian

    Interesting phrase….. “too machined”…. I do think it is an apt term. For me…. The “machined” precision is what gives the pipe (any type of machined pipe) a “traditional” look…. which I tend to prefer over freehands.
  12. Epip Oc'Cabot

    GMO Tobacco/No Nicotine

    The issue though, is more about the “tag-along genes” (CRISPR cannot as it currently stands bring only one gene) along with it. These genes that are “tag-along” genes are often less understood in terms of their role in the genome. Inserting these genes into a different species could easily...
  13. Epip Oc'Cabot

    GMO Tobacco/No Nicotine

    “Transgenic tech has basically been labeled a boogeyman…” What you have said is true, but it is incomplete. Selective breeding and even mutagenesis through irradiation both retain the original organism’s DNA (albeit modified in the irradiation example). What transgenic tech does, however, is...
  14. Epip Oc'Cabot

    Nicotine Sensitivity as I Age

    As I have gotten older, I tend to feel LESS effects from nicotine compared to when younger. Some of the effects are ones I miss, too. And they have not returned even if I have taken a fast from smoking.
  15. Epip Oc'Cabot

    Nicotine Sensitivity as I Age

    While it is very true that any of us could drop dead today… I think you may have mistakenly read beyond what the OP was meaning…. When he said “growing older is guaranteed” I think he was meaning more that you CANNOT grow younger. Contextually, he was (IMO) saying it in terms of a guaranteed...
  16. Epip Oc'Cabot

    Stimulation or Relaxation?

    It (for me anyhow) can be either stimulating or relaxing. It depends on what I am desiring. I perhaps smoke differently to have it be one way or the other (perhaps faster for stimulation, slower for relaxation).
  17. Epip Oc'Cabot

    Why are estate pipes ok?

    Just about everything new or old is covered with various biologicals. If you were to look at the dust mites that are associated with shed skin, it is unlikely a phobic person would survive the onslaught to their imagination. We are biological creatures who live in a world of biological...
  18. Epip Oc'Cabot

    Biggest cob bowl?

    Hmmm…. referencing the GMO thread that was going on yesterday…… now THAT is what GMO damn well SHOULD be used for….. to make a giant corncob so we have have a bigger Missouri Meerschaum pipe! 😂
  19. Epip Oc'Cabot

    GMO Tobacco/No Nicotine

    I replied earlier about my opinions broadly about GMO life forms. But in regards to no nicotine pipe tobacco….. I might try it at least one time, but I tend to think it would be rather dull or uninspired for me. I do enjoy pipe tobacco flavors, but I also do enjoy nicotine. Pipe tobacco...
  20. Epip Oc'Cabot

    GMO Tobacco/No Nicotine

    In regards to GMO food items, while much of the fear is due to the lack of knowing how and why the GMO process is being used, and while it is also true we as a species have been altering genetics through selective breeding of crops for hundreds and hundreds of years…. IMO there is actual value...
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