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  1. huntertrw

    What Are You Listening To? - December, 2024

    And now for something completely different:
  2. huntertrw

    What Are You Listening To? - December, 2024

    A favorite version of a favorite song by a favorite artist:
  3. huntertrw

    Who Would Be In Your Dream Rock/Blues Band?

    You could also factor in Jeff Beck (who passed last year) as a lead guitarist and have the start of a great band.
  4. huntertrw

    Who Would Be In Your Dream Rock/Blues Band?

    Lead guitar: Stevie Ray Vaughn Lead guitar & vocals: Buddy Guy Saxophone: King Crimson Bass: Ray Brown Piano: Dr. John Drums: John Bonham Sadly, all of these musicians have passed on except for Mr. Guy.
  5. huntertrw

    Cleaning your rubbers?

    Now THAT paints a picture...:)
  6. huntertrw

    What Are You Listening To? - December, 2024

    King Curtis' rendition of "The Christmas Song." I heard this today on Tom Petty's Buried Treasure Show on SiriiusXM and thoroughly enjoyed it. I hope that you do, too!
  7. huntertrw

    No. Can't.

    That would be a favorite of Dr. Ben Dover...
  8. huntertrw

    H&H, Bengal Slices, and War Horse are done

    Yes, the War Horse is dead... Incidentally, do you know how hard it was to get Filbert to pose like that? :)
  9. huntertrw

    Hello from Minnesota

    Welcome to the Forums from a former resident of Rochester.
  10. huntertrw

    Home Infusions?

    I had good luck placing some cubed Burley in a small Tupperware-type container which also contained a shot glass full of Pusser's Navy Rum. Note that there was no contact between the tobacco and the liquor. I sealed the lid, then left it alone for a week. At the end of that time I found that...
  11. huntertrw

    Is It Possible To Make Flake At Home

    Given the fact that I sliced flakes from the cake, and that they held together beautifully, I would say that they were indeed flakes.
  12. huntertrw

    Is It Possible To Make Flake At Home

    Yes, it is possible to make your own flake tobacco. In December of 2022 I posted the following describing how I make mine: "I made a simple rectangular poplar wood frame that was the same inside-length as a flake of Sliced Edgeworth. and the same inside-width as four Slices laid side-by-side...
  13. huntertrw

    Drones over New Jersey

    Could this be what's really behind the drones over New Jersey? Remember: Resistance is futile! :)
  14. huntertrw

    What Pipes Do You Wish You Had?

    Apropos of my post above, there is a black-and-white image in one of my family's photograph albums of my paternal grandfather smoking a rusticated, saddle-bit, billiard pipe, and the look on his face is one of pure enjoyment. That's one pipe I surely wish I had!
  15. huntertrw

    Do You Associate Pipe Smoking with a Sense of Spirituality?

    The late C.S. (Clive Staples) Lewis once wrote, "I believe that many who find that "nothing happens" when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and...
  16. huntertrw

    A Progress Report

    Are you sure it was an Indian buffet and not a Camel cigarette that provided the allure? :) Pleased to read you are progressing. Keep up the good work!
  17. huntertrw

    I should have posted here earlier! Greetings from Japan!

    あいさつ! Welcome to the Forums!
  18. huntertrw

    John Cotton Smyrna

    Here's a Pipesmagazine.com hidden-camera image of woodsroad and condorlover1 taken immediately after the dissolution of the Standard Tobacco Company of Pennsylvania: "Nobody knows the trouble we've seen!"
  19. huntertrw

    What are You Reading Now?

    "Drummer in the Woods" by Burton L. Spiller. I recently obtained a first-edition (1962) copy of this book of 21 grouse-hunting stories and am enjoying it immensely.