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    A Tasty New Blend

    huntertrw.....love the anal ogy! Frank NYC
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    Recording Tobacco Preparation......

    Absolutely, record and note everything you do when preparing a mixture, or when you use a special treatment method, etc. How else can you remember everything? What if you come up with a favorite blend of your own making, and want to duplicate it? Think how awful you'd feel if you couldn't...
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    Tobacco Secret Sauce?

    Just how much do casings/toppings really influence the basic blend of tobaccos? I wonder. I've read that: 10 parts Black Cavendish 4 parts White Burley 2 parts Virginia was the starting point for "Captain Black". Interesting, but I doubt these three tobaccos when mixed would evoke...
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    Tobacco Secret Sauce?

    Fascinating subject ..... but the horse jizz casing ..... not so much. BTW, do any "secret archives" exist for tobacco blending recipes- for the common mixtures? Just wondering. Frank NYC
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    A Tasty New Blend

    @ perdurabo .....Well said. In other words....we're screwed, again. Frank NYC
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    A Tasty New Blend

    @ blendtobac: Thanks for this information. Sounds pretty serious, these tyrannical deeming rules. So.... will this type of DIY "hybridizing" of older, existing blends be the future for us pipe smokers if we want to try some new mixtures? In other words, WE, not the professional tobacco...
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    Alienist Anyone?

    Now, I must read these books, too. BTW, also enjoyed "Shutter Island"... both movie and book. Movie almost exactly follows the book. Frank NYC
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    A Tasty New Blend

    More intrigued when reading about these "hybrid" blends, than those mixtures that are "made from scratch". Wish those members that post the recipes of their hybrid blending experiments would describe the results of their mixtures. I see that many start off with codger blends like Carter...
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    Alienist Anyone?

    Fantastic period piece and story. Love seeing all the old style buildings, clothing, and all the various cigar and pipe smokers. Can't wait for the story to unfold. Well acted, and artistically photographed. Actually, worth watching. Frank NYC
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    Questions About Driftwood or Suede Finishes

    Loved reading all the speculative comments regarding this blasted "suede" finish. georged... suggested that I was an uncouth slob for having less than fastidious smoking habits. I laughed. Georged is right. A pipe to me is an object of utility, a hunk of wood that has two intersecting...
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    We Used To Sniff Glue And Drink Cough Syrup

    Some even suck the smoldering end of a rolled paper tube, inhale burning plant leaves, and other volatilized toxic chemicals, to the point of inducing deadly cancer to corrupt their lungs..... Go figure. Frank NYC
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    Questions About Driftwood or Suede Finishes

    As a surface treatment, I wonder how durable that blasted "suede" finish would be if the pipe is knocked around or worse, dropped onto a hard surface? Bet those delicate, blasted interstices will crush and chip out if the pipe is roughly treated. An unwanted chip in that finish will stick out...
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    What You Do When You Decide You No Longer Want Your Churchwarden

    Orley.....I thought so. When I first peep the pic, I said:..."WTF!".... You're right. That pipe reminds me of a Baroque trumpet..... Thanks for the laugh. Frank NYC
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    Lane Limited HGL

    Yep....Smoke it straight, and mixed with some cigar leaf. Straight "HGL" is good stuff. "Captain Black" with a little hit of Latakia, for a more interesting smoke... Frank NYC
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    Pipe Cleaners & "Quality"....Who Cares?

    Well.....I glad that I asked. You guys took me to school. Thanks for getting my head straight when it comes to pipe cleaners. Much obliged. Frank NYC
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    What You Do When You Decide You No Longer Want Your Churchwarden

    Just a suggestion: If this is not a joke question.....have a traditional, new stem made for it, to convert the pipe into something more "conventional", and less circuitous. Frank NYC
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    Pipe Cleaners & "Quality"....Who Cares?

    When a pipe needs a good swabbing out to reduce gurgles, or to be cleaned, I reach for the packet of pipe-cleaners. Never ever gave a thought about brands, quality, etc. In fact I go to the crafts stores, like Hobby Lobby, Michael's, and buy my pipe cleaners there....the extra long...
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    Distinguished Penguin + Captain Morgan = Drunken Penguin

    Question: Do you actually taste the booze, or, does the booze just help marry the tobacco flavors....or, both? I was thinking of lightly spritzing some Rum on a few different blends and pressing the Rum moistened mixtures into a crumble-cake and aging them for a few months for mellowing. Thanks...
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    Lane Limited - "Crown Achievement"

    @oldgeezersmoker: Thanks for the background info. Very interesting. From another old geezer.... Frank NYC
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    Lane Limited - "Crown Achievement"

    Just asking..... When "Crown Achievement" was originally conceived by the "master blender" and a batch was mixed together....did Lane Ltd send out trial samples to some experienced, "pipe tobacco reviewers" for critiques, suggestions, etc. before the blend went on the market for sale to the...
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