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  1. rakovsky

    Stealth Blends for Family Vacation

    @BriaronBoerum I have a free bag of 8 oz of Sutliff's Ultralite if you want something very very light. I haven't found any takers for it. It's so light that people aren't interested.
  2. rakovsky

    Stealth Blends for Family Vacation

    I got Supervalue Ultralite made by Sutliff and STG and still have some. It really is very light. Last week I smoked 6 unrehydrated 20 year old bowls in a row because they were so light. The downside was that my mouth got dry afterward. Carter Hall is very very light, although personally it's a...
  3. rakovsky

    How Do You Refill Clippers So That They Light Well?

    This evening I used a paperclip to purge the air and liquid from the Clipper. I held the Clipper rightside up, pushed the paperclip wire right into the refill hole and liquid spurted out. I did the same thing with it upside down. Next I set the lighter's switch all the way to the right, the...
  4. rakovsky

    Danish Sir Walter Raleigh

    I tried Sutliff's Ultra Lite last year after smoking a Winston Select Light cigarette. The cigarette flavor carried over into the pipe smoke. Yesterday evening I smoked 5-6 bowls of Ultra Lite in a row. It was so light that smoking all those bowls was feasible. The taste was less cigarette...
  5. rakovsky

    Danish Sir Walter Raleigh

    It looks like a toy train car to me. Cute.
  6. rakovsky

    Danish Sir Walter Raleigh

  7. rakovsky

    Which Are the Most Incenselike Blends? ⚗️⛪🪔🥢💭

    Karam, Thanks for fleshing out more your sensations. I got the barnstall flavor from about 1/3 of Latakia blends, especially Sutliff's Latakia, Star of the East, Wellauer's English blend, and two English house blends from a local B and M. Those two house blends were the first English blends I...
  8. rakovsky

    Which Are the Most Incenselike Blends? ⚗️⛪🪔🥢💭

    Sutliff pure Latakia tastes/smells like musty old wood barrels and a horse and cow barnstall's overripe hay to me, not incense or curry. I don't like it, so I can't call it savory either. It feels that if I were living on a farm it would blend in with the farm's smells fine enough that it would...
  9. rakovsky

    Which Are the Most Incenselike Blends? ⚗️⛪🪔🥢💭

    Karam, Can you please describe the feeling that it gave you? Do you mean that it had the consistency/body of incense, as in being oily, or that it made you feel relaxed, like in church? By comparison, My Mixture 965 had a charcoal smell and I associate that with incense, but I didn't notice MM...
  10. rakovsky

    Which Are the Most Incenselike Blends? ⚗️⛪🪔🥢💭

    When I burned drops from Mastuc gum today, they burn quickly and turn into yellow ooze and give off a solid amount of smoke. The main smell is lemon, with secondary good smells reminding me of frankincense, brown hippie incense cones, a light clean fresh new house smell, and a good light soap smell.
  11. rakovsky

    Your Most Challenging Blend

    Dear Khiddy, I got N. Rustica Whole Leaf as a gift from a friend, who in turn got it from a Whole Leaf company. About 1/4 of Indonesians smoke tobacco, and Tambolaka is one of the Indonesian tobacco products, so if you have Indonesian friends or connections, that would be a way to get it. I...
  12. rakovsky

    Your Most Challenging Blend

    I recall the texture being between beef jerkey, plastic, and rubber. It was thin. I recall reading that it had a sudden strong effect, so I was very careful to avoid smoking a full chamber-worth. I put some strips in my pipe and didn't stuff the chamber full. I smoked ~ 1/3 of the bowl. The...
  13. rakovsky

    Which Are the Most Incenselike Blends? ⚗️⛪🪔🥢💭

    I got Mastic gum from the local Greek Orthodox church office. The jar is imported by the Krinos company. For me the jar smells like light waxy white soap and licorice, and is sweet, light and lemony. The outside is hard like frankincense drops, the inside is waxy and sticks together like chewing...
  14. rakovsky

    Have You Heard of Škija Ravnjak / Drina / Herzegovina Flor?

    I was watching "The Real Causes of Yugoslavia's Collapse" (Реальные причины распада Югославии) on Youtube and saw this photo in the video.
  15. rakovsky

    How Do You Refill Clippers So That They Light Well?

    I have one of those transparent tank torches somewhere. I used it on a possible ebony wood cheap Chang Feng pipe and got nausea. Ultimately I gave up using both the pipe and the torch. Thanks very much to you and everyone on the thread for all these tips.
  16. rakovsky

    How Do You Refill Clippers So That They Light Well?

    Thanks, Sig.
  17. rakovsky

    How Do You Refill Clippers So That They Light Well?

    How do you pump or warm the can? Put it in the oven at 150 degrees?
  18. rakovsky

    How Do You Refill Clippers So That They Light Well?

    I'm thinking of waiting until the now-tiny flame left on the longtail Clipper stops working. If I drain the air and refuel, it might not work again at all, based on my experience with the standard Clipper. My big box of Diamond kitchen matches works as a backup, but Diamond brand matches often...
  19. rakovsky

    How Do You Refill Clippers So That They Light Well?

    That's a good idea.
  20. rakovsky

    Pipe Brand Identification Help

    The first symbol in the writing is hard to see. It looks to me like it says "C1", but with the top of the 1 extending leftward through the C. The second word says "Handcaved", which I take to be a misspelling of "Handcarved". Next, there are three "8s" in different directions. Are those all the...
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