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  1. proteus

    Olympics- What Do/Did you Like?

    US women's volleyball. Were there other events?
  2. proteus

    Why?

    That's true in the collector's prices. I was quoting original retail not auction. F1 is highly collectible now since 1990s when it came out and fetches a collector's premium. F1 was about 800,000 USD in 1994 not counting inflation. But you understood my point. Value is intrinsic and sentiment...
  3. proteus

    Why?

    Why does a McClaren P1 cost more than an F1. Because someone is willing to pay more based on perceived value. Both are fast cars. Both are exotic. But one is more so. I personally think the F1 is the better car but some feel the P1 is more refined. The F1 is older and the P1 is the new darling...
  4. proteus

    Creating your own Cigar Leaf blends?

    I grab some CT shade leaf grown in CT and layer that with VA and St James Perique leaf when building my plugs. The leafs are big.
  5. proteus

    Cigarette Ash, Anyone?

    I personally don't mind that taste myself but I can see why others might not enjoy that. But I've smoked cigars and pipes and I grew up with smokers during the 70s at a time when no one stopped smoking around anyone even children pregnant women and infants. I remember burnt melamine ashtrays...
  6. proteus

    Cigarette Ash, Anyone?

    As I see it from my own experience sometimes the air coming through the thick ash cake in some tobaccos that form a lot of dry ash you get the flavor of the ash with the tobacco. Kind of like when you take a pipe out of the rack and just inhale from it. You get the old stale taste.
  7. proteus

    Retrohaling

    Close mouth around stem and inhale through nose. Smoke enters your mouth. Keep mouth closed around stem. Exhale and smoke leaves your nose. Repeat the process two or three times. If you keep doing it though you might get light headed from not inhaling enough oxygen. So you do that retrohale...
  8. proteus

    Cigarette Ash, Anyone?

    Shake your ash.
  9. proteus

    Favorite Youtube Channel?

    I mostly prefer watching the inside of my eyelids. But not while smoking...
  10. proteus

    How Many Open Tins is Too Many?

    Nah that's not a lot. You're just getting started...
  11. proteus

    Taste

    You should introduce a yourself in the new member forum! Tell us about where your from. You probably need to gain a lot of experience. Sounds like your new to pipes. Give it a chance and read these forums well.
  12. proteus

    Pack Like Drinking Through a Straw?

    As for humidity using a moisture meter with prongs I find non aro burn best between about 12 to 18 percent and aros well some never go below 30 on my meter. Incidentally Ive seen pictures of tobacco makers using the same kind of meter. I'm not sure if there is a specific tobacco purpose made...
  13. proteus

    Pack Like Drinking Through a Straw?

    The straw analogy is not quite accurate as I see it. For me I use a continuous pack method using my finger to pull tobacco into the chamber in one long continuous stream. I don't press hard. I move my finger like I am writing a number 1 in the sand until the pipe is full and then I tap the...
  14. proteus

    Which Perique Blending Tobacco is Your Favorite?

    The raw whole leaf. I use this in a lot of my own blends. This is St James perique.
  15. proteus

    Experimental Boswell's Best Northwoods

    Oceano pipes stems are absolutely fantastic. I am Boswell fan. I have mixed Northwoods and Railroad Station with my enjoyment. Now I have to try this blend as well!
  16. proteus

    ***What Are You Smoking, July 2024?***

    Closing out the month with a couple bowls of Boswell Premium Burley in a Boswell
  17. proteus

    Cuts and Blends

    One other HH bold Kentucky hot press
  18. proteus

    Cuts and Blends

    Search using smokingpipes.com. Select what tobacco you want and what ones you say to exclude.if any. First out for me is MacB HH Dark Fired and bullseye flake and newminster 400 and on the light side is Boswell premium burley. Old Joe blue might also fit the bill. CD burley flakes too. Eight...
  19. proteus

    Advice on Blends for New Smoker

    Oh and I will add WCC has amazing va per when they are in stock for some of them.
  20. proteus

    Advice on Blends for New Smoker

    Va per try escudo and evening flake.
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