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  1. pharaohfitz

    New C&D Small Batch? Steamworks?

    I’ve smoked 5 bowls in 5 different pipes and think that, like other real St. James perique blends, needs time for that leaf to do its work. Very creamy more oriental forward. Like Anthology, the perique took time to fully round out the overall offering. The moisture content keeps me trying to...
  2. pharaohfitz

    What's the Lowdown on Uhle's?

    I’m partial to 300 and like PPB and 00. I normally don’t smoke a lot of burley but these folks have the best.
  3. pharaohfitz

    ***What Are You Smoking, August 2022?***

    Enjoying an Ed Burak Cavalier with some 2008 St. James Woods - celebrating new job starting in two weeks
  4. pharaohfitz

    Who has Smoked Cornell and Diehl Anthology 1992-2022?

    Just went through thread. If you want to smoke it now, I like the advice to open and let it rest a few weeks. The moisture content was a bit high in my first tin with the paper inside almost damp. The perique seems to really be more moisture sensitive than the other tobacco as it taste like...
  5. pharaohfitz

    Ruminations on Why Better Briar Smokes Better

    An age old discussion about briar and a quality smoke. I made a few pipes and visited with others, just one “Danish Master.” Boiling and drying at the Briar mill is critical as is the drying or curing method- oil cured, air cured or processing it to mechanically remove moisture, etc. I do find...
  6. pharaohfitz

    Confessions of a Back-to-back-bowl Smoker

    Try to switch up pipes and tobacco. I get dulled on my favorites sometimes, as well
  7. pharaohfitz

    Confessions of a Back-to-back-bowl Smoker

    Hang in there. Trying to get the hang of the forum myself. Great pipe smokers on the site, caps are just a bump in the road :)
  8. pharaohfitz

    Confessions of a Back-to-back-bowl Smoker

    Try to smoke complimentary blends back to back whenever I have the time - HU Director’s Cut and Edward G currently in play
  9. pharaohfitz

    ***What Are You Smoking, July 2022?***

    GH&Co Rich Dark Honeydew, rare and elusive. Enjoy!
  10. pharaohfitz

    Hello from North Carolina

    Welcome from The Asheville area. Va or flue cured fan also. Like your favorite blends
  11. pharaohfitz

    ***What Are You Smoking, July 2022?***

    HU Director’s Cut in a Castello G 287 Poker Just opened up a 2 year old jar and am in tobacco bliss
  12. pharaohfitz

    Back Home After 10 years of Travel

    Greetings from Western NC and occasionally The Piedmont Triad.
  13. pharaohfitz

    Back Home After 10 years of Travel

    thank you sir - greetings from the mountains of North Carolina
  14. pharaohfitz

    Back Home After 10 years of Travel

    Nice place but the taxes - ugh. The real question is about which football team you follow though :)
  15. pharaohfitz

    Back Home After 10 years of Travel

    Greetings from Western NC. Looking for good pipe shops and tobacco.
  16. pharaohfitz

    Back Home After 10 years of Travel

    Thank you sir, I am currently in Western NC looking for pipe shops. Road trips for good tobacco and company are about 250 mile radius from Asheville area.
  17. pharaohfitz

    Back Home After 10 years of Travel

    Greetings all, I have been traveling and missed about a decade of all things pipes, after being a pipe smoker for over 40 years. I've made about 2 dozen pipes over the years but no way to set up a full-time workshop traveling). I see the industry is overly regulated and companies have given up...