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Castello Inclusion
Ordinarily I'd say "no big deal" to a little pit in the briar. In this case, there's a definite line of dark brown weaving through the briar right at the pit, and that wood is softer and more prone to burning. Will it immediately fall apart? No. But it's not a good quality piece of wood.- sasquatch
- Post #3
- Forum: Pipe Repair and Maintenance
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Rattray’s Pipe Tobacco Discontinued?
Well I for one am pretty miffed that whatever it is we're talking about is or isn't happening. How dare they?- sasquatch
- Post #22
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Advantages of Factory Pipes
This is really what I was poking at. Are we talking about some specific point of beauty, a perfect sandblast for example, or exemplary shaping, or perfect stem work, or a perfect shine, or are we talking about a pipe of character, balanced perfectly and designed to smoke dry and pure... -
Advantages of Factory Pipes
So allow me to summarize: we fail to agree on what "better" might be, and fail to agree on how important it is for any given pipe, and then argue that factory pipes are or are not that way in the first place? Frankly, I'm shocked. -
Rattray’s Hall O Wynd Aging
It's great both ways. Super fresh it's pretty lively, might offer a little nip on the tongue. Sharp, sweet, and spicy. Aged, the kentucky comes more forward, the blend seems sweeter, or at least easier to get along with, the flavors are more to the red virginia and woody kentucky end. It's...- sasquatch
- Post #6
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Reviews
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Dunhill Pipe identification
http://www.pipephil.eu/logos/en/dunhill/cledat-en1a.html- sasquatch
- Post #3
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Dunhill Pipe identification
Looks dead legit, 1966 is the year, Bruyere the finish (as denoted by the "A"), group 4, Fishtail stem.- sasquatch
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- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Kaywoodie Dating?
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/kaywoodie/kaywoodie-master-list-t7.html There's guys who know every kaywoodie ever made. -
Which Other Italian Brand Uses 10 Year Old Briar?
Briar was being harvested like crazy for many years - big pipe companies produced a half million pipes a year and there were many of them. Today's demand for briar is probably not 1/10th of what it was in the 50s, say. Talking to cutters in Greece, Spain, and Italy, it sounds like they all...- sasquatch
- Post #19
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Which Other Italian Brand Uses 10 Year Old Briar?
And yes, Sable's point about the actual age of the burl versus the "age" or curing time of the block is right on. All briar is "30 years old" in that the plant is not big enough to harvest before then.- sasquatch
- Post #13
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Which Other Italian Brand Uses 10 Year Old Briar?
Amorelli uses old briar too. Savinelli "brags" about using 3 year aged briar in their punto pipes, so the rest ain't ten years old, that's for sure. Briar blocks change over time, they oxydize and the lignin crystallizes or something.... fresh briar tastes a little... fresh. It doesn't...- sasquatch
- Post #12
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Suggestions for a Sweet Virginia
Hit some Savinelli Brunello. Sweet, spicy, weird.- sasquatch
- Post #17
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Is Standard the Same as London
Which is really to say, London Mixture and Durbar didn't make it into the re-brand as far as I can tell.- sasquatch
- Post #4
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Is Standard the Same as London
London Mixture is not the same as Standard Mixture (formerly known as Standard Mixture Medium) in any of the catalogs of yore (there was also Standard Mixture Mellow and Standard Mixture Full). The Standard Medium is just that, a medium English, plenty of turkish and latakia, pretty full stuff...- sasquatch
- Post #3
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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John Aylesbury Sir John's Flake Virginia
I like Sir John's. It's not always available, but it's not impossible to find.- sasquatch
- Post #9
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Do Varnished Pipes Smoke Hotter?
Wood, all wood, contains moisture. Briar absorbs ambient humidity. If you live in a really dry place, your pipes will be more dry than if you live in a really humid place. And you can see this, depending where you live, your pipes might swell or shrink seasonally. When you heat up wood... -
Mold In Pipe Chamber?
Yeah that doesn't look good at all. Where was this thing stored? It's quite likely mold, should be cleanable (unlikely to me more than on surface-deep, briar is difficult stuff to penetrate).- sasquatch
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- Forum: Pipe Repair and Maintenance
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Favourite Mac Baren Roll Cake?
Club is far sweeter than stockton, and the interplay between the sugar flavors and the kentucky is fun, like a toasted marshmallow. Stockton is a far "purer" tobacco, I also find it bites like hell where Club and Dark Twist I have no problems with.- sasquatch
- Post #10
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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The Importance of Breaking in All the Way Down
"Attacked by a rabid file" and "hand cut" are not the same thing at all. At one point, @Briar Lee you put up a picture of a higher grade Lee, a 5 star or so, and that stem had a rather different look to it, slotting etc. But absolutely none of these factory pipes at factory pipe prices...- sasquatch
- Post #70
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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The Importance of Breaking in All the Way Down
I don't own a Lee, but I do have pipes with stems of a similar ilk, the old MasterCrafts are made with some form of vulcanite or para that basically doesn't need any care either, where my otherwise acidic saliva (or perhaps just my personality) will turn an ordinary vulcanite stem green in two...- sasquatch
- Post #40
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion