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  1. proteus

    Need Help Reducing The Size Of My First Tobacco Purchase

    Just...too...difficult...can't do...it. ugh just can't cut the list. Probably why I have about 75 maybe a hundred different blends in my cache. I am a tobacco collector. I thought Sut Van Cust is going to stick around. Maybe I'm wrong. If you want vanilla I would try these blends if they...
  2. proteus

    Comparing Virginia Flakes

    LTF is pure Virginia according to this from pipesandcigars.com "Peter Stokkebye Luxury Twist Flake is a wonderful, all-Virginia flake made in a singular way."
  3. proteus

    What's The Cure for Briar -and does it Make A Difference?

    I would think once a cake is formed the briar isn't adding much or nothing. If briar did add something why would tobacco ghost? I think the use of the pipe, forming a cake and seasoning it with use, would make a pipe have unique flavor qualities only that pipe has. I think the age of the briar...
  4. proteus

    Need Something Better Than A Tri-Tool

    Pipe dowel. 1/2 diamter oak sharpened to a blunt point. Corners rounded a bit. Stained with tobacco and beeswax coated to stop any charring. Tamp one side and a tobacco bowl pick for the other. If you need to poke the airway I have a length of quality metal coat hanger which works great. Cheap...
  5. proteus

    ***What Are You Smoking, May 2025?***

    Received my bag of FU STG! at noon today. Grabbing a bowl in a Boswell.
  6. proteus

    ***What Are You Smoking, April 2025?***

    Ps Evening Flake in a Prince Pete.
  7. proteus

    Wife Knows Tobacco Notes

    Just a quick story. Opened a jar of PS Evening Flake last night I aged for a year. Wife says, "Is that one of the ones I like?" "No idea but probably not. You like the smell of the cherry stuff more. You might not like this. But the winds blowing the other way you'll be fine." She asks for...
  8. proteus

    Cracks Around Draft Hole

    Here the McMaster reamer number 3106A17. I'm thinking it's cake. But if it's wood that burning away you'll see wood where you remove that thin cracked edge part. I'll add too that a wider hole is going to make draft easier. You'll be OK and have a newish pipe.
  9. proteus

    Cracks Around Draft Hole

    Run a reamer down it. Probably start with a smallish drill and work up until you clear some of that cake. If you have machinist drill set that will help. I ream mine to 11/64. Reamers are not drills but if you only have drills that's OK.
  10. proteus

    Things People Don't Post About

    A new web server busting limited edition pipe blend from...
  11. proteus

    Comparing Virginia Flakes

    Perhaps PS402 luxury twist flake.
  12. proteus

    Comparing Virginia Flakes

    Union square is very good!
  13. proteus

    Comparing Virginia Flakes

    When I referred to 507c it was to mean Sutliff 507c Virginia Slices. That's good to know it's staying after all. I have I think 10 lbs in half gallon jars and that should tide me over a while.
  14. proteus

    Naphtha and Mouth Health

    Take char cloth and capture the ember using flint steel. Get it going a bit and lay the cloth directly on the tobacco. Inhale as usual. I do black powder rifle cap locks and I use a small round piece of pillow ticking I use for loading rifle to make the char cloth. You can get in the pipe and...
  15. proteus

    Anybody Else Mashed the "Complete Order" too Soon?

    SP rocks!
  16. proteus

    Comparing Virginia Flakes

    Pure virginia CD opening night. Virginia based Sunday picnic. 507C as well. But 507c and nwm 400 going away.
  17. proteus

    HH Burley Flake Replacement Recommendations

    Now while not a flake with perhaps no DFK I'll say what's similar to me in the Peretti line Blend W, BPC all very good in their own right. DD 333 as well. For Ernie at WCC Ill say American Cut Plug also fits the bill.
  18. proteus

    HH Burley Flake Replacement Recommendations

    I'll say for me CD burley flake #2 fits the bill. I have one tin left of the HH just about 2 years old that I'll open up in a year or two.
  19. proteus

    $24.00 Electric Mason Jar Vacuum Sealer, Worth It.

    I've used vacuum sealers that seal food bags which come with a hose to seal mason jars. I'd say I've used these for 10 or so years now looking quickly at my stash dates. Maybe a bit longer. I have had great results preserving tobacco this way from what I have tasted from say 7 or 8 years back...
  20. proteus

    Corporate Pipe ?

    My guess it refers to a large faceless company that supplies large oil and gas pipes to build pipelines. Maybe that's not entirely accurate in this case come to think of it ... 🤔
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