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The Furlough: A Virtual Pipe Club.
A couple friends and I have been video chatting every other evening on Google Meets as a virtual happy hour during our self-quarantine. I see no reason why a few of us couldn't do the same thing for a pipe and a little chit chat. I think I have started a google calendar event with conferencing...- chilllucky
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Bucolic Gold. Homemade Periqued Virginias
One of my favorite tobaccos of the last few years has consistently been Russ Oullette's "Arcadian Gold". It's a collaborative experiment between Mark Ryan of Daughters and Ryan Tobacco and he to process some Flue Cured Virginia tobacco by the same method Perique is made. This summer I grew and...- chilllucky
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Any Arduino Programmers In The House?
I am going to try to build an automatic flue curing chamber for next year's crop of home-grown Virginia Tobaccos. Growing the plants; I have one year of experience at. Building a box; I have many, many years experience doing. Getting a computer to take temperature and humidity readings and...- chilllucky
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Any Chicagoland Folks Who Can Produce Video?
I've developed a traveling pipe cabinet that I would like to produce a one minute (or less) commercial for, to be displayed on a website for the product to be put up next month. Is there anyone in the local pipe world who can help me with this? I can pay you in product for sure, or actual money...- chilllucky
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Iwan Ries Chicago Meet-up 1/10/19
I am going to be hanging out at the Iwan Ries smoking lounge after 6PM next Thursday, January 10th. I got a bunch of 1oz bags of blending tobaccos and a couple of clay pipes as a tasting experiment, but I won't need more than a bowl-full of each to learn what I'm after. If anyone wants to join...- chilllucky
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A Question For The Blenders
Do you know the seed stock/variety name of the source tobacco? Or do you buy it by grade in mixed lots? There are disconnects and changes in nomenclature between planters - graders - blenders - consumers that I am trying to sort out just well enough to be able to plant a garden. For anyone else...- chilllucky
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Chilllucky Crop 2019
Took the first steps towards growing some tobacco next year on our property in Southern Wisconsin. This will be my first ever attempt at gardening, and therefore necessarily at growing tobacco, so there will likely be some hilarious amateur mistakes you all can learn from or laugh at or...- chilllucky
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Would You Join An Adventure/Back Country Pipe Club?
I just came back from a week in the Scottish Highlands. For one afternoon of this week long, wife-and-I vacation, we were able to meet up with a few members of The Kearvaig Pipe Club on their Annual General Meeting. Their club meets not monthly for a couple hours in tobacconists or...- chilllucky
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What Tobacco Can't You Get in the UK?
I will be visiting the Scottish Highlands in a couple of weeks. I have made contact with a pipe club up there who, as it happens, will be having their regular meeting at a time and place that lines up well enough with our travel plans. Seeing as in America tobacco is cheap and Scotch Whisky is...- chilllucky
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Tin Society September 2018 box
Ole Shenandoah Applicaian Harvest, The Country Squire Shepard's Pie, Cornell & Diehl Kajun Kake, and Hearth & Home Sweet and Smoky. Plus, matches, cleaners, and my first ever cob in 25 years of smoking.- chilllucky
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Testing Sugar and Nic Content
A question for the blenders: When watching/reading/listening to interviews with pipe tobacco blenders, they pretty much universally cite sugar and nicotine content of any tobacco as the decisive factor in deciding how to nudge a blend in a certain flavor direction. How is that tested? Do you...- chilllucky
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Terroir, Tobacco Species, and Curing Methods
I'm a curious guy. I love knowing how things are done and consider it real fun to beat my head against walls of various densities trying to figure out if and how I can do it myself. To that end; I would like to grow, cure, and age some tobacco next year just to see what I can come up with...- chilllucky
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