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    What Dye Can be Used on Briar?

    "SHARPIE MARKERS" use alcohol dyes, and come in many colors. A cheap-o way to dye a pipe if you have just a few pipes that need some artful enhancements. Draw directly on the pipe, or, with pliers, just crack open a SHARPIE marker and soak the felt wick in some denatured alcohol. You can use...
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    How Do I Turn Aromatics Into Aroenglishes?

    ^^^^^^ some good suggestions, above. Yes...... you can add Latakia of other blending tobaccos to a blend. But first, try crossover English-aromatics like e.g, Lane Ltd: "HGL" and other bulk selections that are marketed and formulated as: "Aromatics-with-(some) Latakia". You can also start...
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    9/11 Memories

    That day's events were, and will still remain, a crime against freedom, and humanity. Twenty years later, American's....... have still, learned NOTHING!
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    Greetings from New York City!

    Check out the "New York Pipe Club" for other kindred spirits and additional brothers-of-the-briar. This fraternal group used to (pre COVID) meet in your neck of the woods, lower Manhattan, once a month, to shoot the breeze and to enjoy a few hours of smoldering camaraderie. Nice bunch of guys...
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    Going to Try Rusticating.

    LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!! Great job. A silk purse was born! BTW, "SHARPIE MARKERS" that are sold everywhere....are loaded with alcohol dyes, and besides black and brown, come in a wide range of other colors. Alcohol dyes are perfect to use for staining a briar pipe. Crack open the SHARPIE MARKER...
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    Going to Try Rusticating.

    Good luck with your efforts to turn this sow's ear pipe into a silk purse. You've got nothing to lose, but you'll surely gain some valuable experience, and beneficial techniques that you can use when you decide to rusticate the next pipe(s) that come your way.
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    Top B&M Shops in New York?

    Just some friendly advice......AVOID MANHATTAN! It's literally, a filthy shit-hole! I "live" in New York City.... which is a hellish curse that I will have to suffer. However, it's my duty, a civil act of brotherly charity, my fraternal obligation, to forewarn you. Trust me....NYC sucks...
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    Smoking To Ash.

    Not wishing to be contentious, but smoking down to white powdery ash is not, and never was a goal, for me. I generally dump out the last shreds of tobacco when they lose their ember of life, and go out. In fact, I never really think about smoking all the way to the white-ash stage when I...
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    How Many of Your Shirts Have Burned Cinder Holes in Them? ?

    I've got a few shirts and jackets with some burn holes in them....from errant sparks. I've also got a soul that's full of tiny burn holes..... from the profane cursing that comes when those original holes were burnt into my good shirts! The burnt holes in my shirts can't ever be...
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    Figs.

    Starting back around 2007, I started to grow a few containerized, fig trees. Fig trees do very well in large 15-25 gallon containers, and they can be moved into a cool, garage for overwintering. I use to keep my fig trees in an unheated garden shed. Not a great choice, but it was the only...
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    What is a Danish Blend

    Interesting information....thanks for the definitions, comments, explanations, etc.
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    What Do You Use for a 5-Minute Smoking Break

    Use a miniature TOM THUMB pipe. Most have thumb-nail size bowls, and very small tobacco chambers..... SHORT SNORTERS...ditto. Packed firmly, they work great for those short, "coffee-break" smokes.
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    Mankind’s Greatest Achievement

    Man's greatest achievement.......when Man finally realized he was not and never will be God. Just ask Adam. He'll tell you all about it, if Eve can keep her nagging mouth shut, and not interrupt.
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    How About Some Squash Blossoms?

    I've seen Daylily flowers used as a substitute for those tissue-paper thin squash blossoms. Mom R.I.P. - would take some of the freshly picked squash blossoms, dip them in egg-wash, dust them in flour and fry them up three or four at a time, like a small pattie, in some light veg. oil. Since...
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    How Do You Feel About Lanes Blends

    My pleasure. I started adding some cigar-leaf to many of the available blends that seem a bit neutral, too sweet, or just, meh. Most blends can benefit from some additions of condiment tobaccos. In a minor role, Cigar-leaf adds creaminess, and makes the smoke thicker and more flavorful...
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    How Do You Feel About Lanes Blends

    Ditto..... I smoked "HGL" for years...as a substitute for Lane's -now defunct- "10 Downing Street". Both, nice and mellow, and very easy to smoke. BUT!......HGL is slightly more ballsy with the addition of some cigar-leaf. Start at 3 parts HGL : 1 part cigar-leaf for some thick, creamy...
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    Can You Identify This Tool?

    My guess is similar to some other's guesses ^^^^^. Just speculation: The thin slot is probably for twisting, bending, sheet metal?, and the hammer end + the short handle probably was used for light knocking/adjusting-by-tapping (metal). I think roofing-tar used to come in metal buckets...
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    Wilke Latakia Blends... Really Worth the Hype?

    If it's those English mixtures that gives me an itch....it's "Wilke's "High Hat" that will do the scratching. Try some of that in a pipe. It's only been around since the 1870s. Even better, imo....mix "High Hat" with some rubbed out PS-"Luxury Bullseye Flake" (1 part of each by volume).... and...
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    Unfortunate Christian & Surnames.

    A contestant on an old, 1970s TV game show...her name was...... Ima Hogg. I hope the hapless lady had a good sense-of-humor, because the audience went into hysterics. Gene Rayburn was the TV host and could barely stifle himself from laughing right into the woman's face. Ima.... is obviously...
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    Hello from Borneo

    Love it! Truly an international coterie of pipe-smokers and kindred spirits! WELCOME!...from New York City.
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