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    Advice Please! Amping It Up A Bit

    All great advice....but also, try buying a few ounces of bulk, Cigar-Leaf, that's been processed for blending. Just add some - (try small amounts first) - to your favorite mixture(s) for some interest and flavor. Mild Cigar-Leaf (Maduro) adds some extra creaminess, and smoke volume, without...
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    Preventing Ebonite Oxidation

    Thanks guys, for the comments, which I will definitely follow.
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    Preventing Ebonite Oxidation

    I just went through the difficult process of removing the foggy oxidation from a Charatan stem. What a pain in the ass! On a sheer whim... while watching TV....I decided that the straight, very boring, stem needed a little more pizzazz, an ever-so-slight bend. So, I removed my fat butt out of...
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    Your Least Favorite Tobacco

    Latakia......evokes: burnt feathers, scorched hair- leather, creosote, roofing tar...... Just can't deal with the smell of too much Latakia, either smoked or unsmoked.... Many years ago I was a member of the New York Pipe Club, back when Sailor Man Jack was Prez. He smoked a very strong...
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    Smoky Tobacco

    Try adding some mild, cigar-leaf to any blends, for more thick, creamy, smoke and some extra flavor and a more interesting smoke.
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    Nic-Hit

    Last year I experienced my first, and hopefully, my last case of nic-hit. It was bad! it was so bad that I thought I had suffered a mild heart attack, at first.....but then I remembered that I had smoked my pipe about one hour previous to the first waves of violent nausea, sweating, chills...
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    What Are Hotel Administrations Thinking-Smoking Banned

    I wish there were bans for men's colognes and women's perfumes. Both sexes reek when doused with this overly concentrated, nostril-curling swill. Try eating/dining next to some "skirt" who took a bath in perfume..... The food tastes like soap, and it's just as offensive and annoying as any...
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    Quick Mix Query

    I think you might be on the right track by "diluting" the strong cherry topping by mixing it into some neutral tobaccos, like Cavendish, Burleys, etc. Try: bulk Captain Black/RPL-6, or 1-Q, etc, for your unflavored aro "base". I would start experimenting by mixing very small amounts of the...
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    What's Your Favorite Bulk Aromatic?

    Try: John Patton's 'STORM FRONT" @ 4Noggins. Great tobacco blend, def not the usual OTC. Sweet smoking, mild with flavor, nice aroma....good stuff.
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    Good Smokes vs. Habitual Smokes

    Hello, and Merry Christmas to all... Peace on earth to all men of good will. Since I started smoking and blending my own special mixture, I have enjoyed the routine and experience of smoking my pipe(s). I didn't enjoy every bowlful when I was less discerning, and still searching and sampling...
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    TobaccoReviews.com Lore Discussion

    If memory serves me, Sailorman Jack, was at one time, back about 20+ years ago, the president of the New York Pipe Club. This club is still active. Jack was literally, quite a larger-than-life character, to say the least. I was a new member of the NY Pipe Club back in those days, and Jack was...
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    Coffee House Special

    Perfect..... Many thanks, for the directions, etc.....and forgive MY ambiguity.
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    Coffee House Special

    Edwin...thanks. I don't think I was clear...sorry. How much of the Milan's "Black and Gold" base tobacco do you start with? How many drops of the coffee essences do you add.... to the Black and Gold base? For example: Do you add three drops of coffee essences to one pound of base...
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    Coffee House Special

    Hello Ed.... Your special home-brewed, coffee blend pipe tobacco sound like a good smoke. Can you share the recipe, or, give some batch proportions? Who makes/retails the Black and Gold base tobacco that you are using? The "Espresso" and "coffee bean oil" essences used as a topping, also...
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    Polishing Before or After Dying the Briar?

    Take a piece of scrap briar, or work on a junked pipe....and try both methods, to sharpen up your finishing techniques. Experience, is the best teacher.
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    Commissioning A Pipe

    Send the pipe maker a picture, or, life-size drawing (side view) of the pipe you want to have custom made. Give the maker some options....and some wiggle room in case flaws/defects show up in the briar. Specify dimensions and overall length of pipe. Specify stem: material, shape, color, etc...
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    Halloween Horror Flicks - What is Everyone Watching?

    1- "The Grudge"....the version with Sarah Michelle Gellar/Bill Pullman 2- Boris Karloff's (1963) "Black Sabbath"...."A Drop of Water" by Ivan Chekov 3- Original (1955 ) French version of "Diabolique" w/ Simone Signoret
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    Personal Blends

    Very interesting postings from our forum members. Always interesting to read through the formulas/recipes, and processing rituals that go into making a great smoke. My approach, is to add small amounts of some other tobaccos, (or even small percentages of another mixture) to a "base" of a...
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    Lane Ltd Ready Rub

    This might sound like a ridiculous request, but can you guys recommend a mixture that's consistently loaded with too much PG and other additives, and a contrasting blend that is not? I'm almost reluctant to admit that I cannot, or maybe I don't discern the flavor of PG. Maybe I do taste PG and...
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    Denicool crystals are....what ?

    Take a hammer and crush a unglazed terra-cotta flower pot or red brick, into 1/4"-3/8" nuggets. Nuggets should be small, but not small enough to clog the smoke hole. Discard all the tiny granules, and dust, but keep only the little nuggets. Drop a few into the bottom of your pipe bowl, and...
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