Search results
SmokingPipes.com Updates
Watch for Updates Twice a Week
PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor
Site Sponsors
PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor
PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor
PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor
PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor
-
Carter Hall in Buffalo NY
I'm hoping someone can tell me where, exactly, I can get Carter Hall tobacco in Buffalo NY. I actually live In canada, but I'm going to be across the border long enough to bring back some tobacco.- bassbug
- Thread
- Replies: 14
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
-
Why do pipes have a personality?
I'm finding out that different pipes somehow "prefer" different types of tobaccos. My new (to me) Pete give an amazing smoke with a burley virginia blend, but a really mediocre one with a black cavendish blend that tastes great in my Lorenzetti. I accept the reality and I just simply don't smoke...- bassbug
- Thread
- Replies: 15
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
-
60 days in
Its been a couple of months since I had my first pipe smoke. I'm finally at the point where I can really relax, enjoy the smoke and not feel like I'm working at it. The biggest change though has been what I can only call the evolution (still in its infancy) of my palette. The first few weeks...- bassbug
- Thread
- Replies: 8
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
-
Any other AFV builders here?
In particular 1:35 scale WWII armour?- bassbug
- Thread
- Replies: 9
- Forum: General Discussion
-
I fondled a 70 year old today
Before you go off on me...it was a 70 year old Peterson 307 that had just arrived in the mail from fellow member ashdigger. I promised a first smoke report when I bought it from ashdigger and here it is, short and sweet. OMFG....60 minutes of pure heaven. Dry as a bone and cool as a cucumber...- bassbug
- Thread
- Replies: 10
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
-
Tobacco blends..up or down?
I've been reading about the discontinuation of several blends over the last few days here and it got me wondering. Being a complete newbie, I certainly have no answer, but maybe some of the more established pipe smokers here can help. Overall, if we compare today to lets say 1980 or a bit...- bassbug
- Thread
- Replies: 24
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
-
Going between jar and pouch
You're going out for the day, or maybe even overnight and you fill your pouch with tobacco from your jar at home. Do you put in a small humidification disc or soaked piece of terracotta so that when you return the unsmoked portion to the jar its not too dry? What if you're going someplace like...- bassbug
- Thread
- Replies: 19
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
-
What's the difference between casing and topping?
In another thread I started, one of the comments referred to casing rather than topping in tobacco. What exactly is the difference? Does every tobacco that have a casing or a topping or both automatically get classified as aromatic? So much to learn....- bassbug
- Thread
- Replies: 8
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
-
Are competitions real smoking?
Not a rhetorical question, or designed to offend anyone. I think it would be fair to say that we smoke pipes for the pleasure it gives us. The smell, the taste, the tactile sensations of holding your pipe. In a slow smoke competition, do the competitors spend so much time in controlling the...- bassbug
- Thread
- Replies: 26
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
-
My first burley smoke
I guess technically, this belongs in the tobacco review section, but I'm really not qualified to do a "real" review. Last weekend I got together with a fellow forum member, dottie warden and we shared some good conversation and a smoke. We also exchanged a couple of blends. One of the blends...- bassbug
- Thread
- Replies: 23
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
-
My first cob smoke
Finally got a chance to try the MM Legend that was kindly sent to me. In a nutshell...I am impressed. I really didn't think a corn cob pipe would smoke so well. With the exception of the last few puffs, as I was charring the bottom of the bowl, the smoke was consistently cool and dry. I got the...- bassbug
- Thread
- Replies: 9
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
-
A big thank you and my first taste of Latakia
First and foremost, a huge thank you to "pagan" for the box in the mail today. It was unbelievably so much more than I dared imagine. This brotherhood of the pipe is amazingly generous. Among the goodies in the box was a tin of Captain Black "Black Sea" blend. According to the description, a...- bassbug
- Thread
- Replies: 5
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
-
Movie Pipe Bloopers
Since I've started smoking a pipe, I now seem to see them in a lot more places. The other night, being a western movie fan, I watched "The good the bad and the ugly", which, as many probably know features Lee Van Cleef in the role of "The Bad" and there a few scenes in which he smokes what...- bassbug
- Thread
- Replies: 21
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
-
Help me choose my second pipe
New member here and new pipe smoker. I got my first pipe a month or so ago. Its a Lorenzetti Constantine and, considering I had no clue what I was doing, it turned out OK. After a mildly frustrating couple of weeks I now pack the pipe consistently and smoke a bowl down to the final ash in about...- bassbug
- Thread
- Replies: 32
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions