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  1. hairvise

    Help with Meerschaum Stem

    I've really been enjoying smoking my dad's CAO Meerschaum but I'm not happy with the stem. As you can see here, there's some serious teeth marks: The draw isn't the best on it either, but it works: I would appreciate suggestions as to how to improve this pipe--repair or replace the stem...
  2. hairvise

    Danish Pipe Shop Tobacco Recommendations?

    Hi all, I’m in Copenhagen for the next couple of days, and figured I’d post a visit to this store to buy some tobacco that I can’t find easily in the states: I bought these two blends but was wondering if there are any house blends in the Virginia, vaper or light aromatic range that folks have...
  3. hairvise

    Smoking an Entire Tin as a Learning Process

    As I have been moving from English blends to Vapers and Virginia-orientals (thanks to samples provided by @musicman as well as purchases from Watch City), I decided to dedicate my pipe smoking to learning about straight Virginias. To do so, I cracked open a new tin of Wessex Campaign Dark flake...
  4. hairvise

    Revisiting Air Pocket Packing

    Lately, I have been using the air pocket packing technique while smoking Virginia and vaper blends. When I first started smoking, I tried this technique and found it very frustrating. I couldn’t keep the tobacco lit and I moved away from this approach. However, now that I understand how...
  5. hairvise

    Reviving My Father's Meerschaum Pipe

    Hi all, I recently took my dad's meerschaum out of its case and began smoking it: Since it's inaugural smoke in probably 30 years, I cleaned up the rim and removed as much cake as possible. Here's my question: Any tips for how to remove the cake that surrounds the draft hole at the bottom of...
  6. hairvise

    Cellar or Smoke?

    Hi all, I stopped by a tobacco shop here in San Francisco, saw these two tins, and decided on a whim to buy them (I've never tried either): The Virginia is from April 2016 and the Scottish Mixture is from October 2018. I'm thinking of cracking one open soon--which would you open now and which...
  7. hairvise

    TAD and Frustration

    Within the last couple of weeks, I've missed out on two Watch City Releases (as many of you might have as well). As someone who has been smoking for maybe 18 months, it's had me rethink my acquisition of tobacco. I have already acquired many tobaccos through purchases and the generosity of a...
  8. hairvise

    Tobacco from Germany?

    Hi all, My wife is over in Berlin and will be returning to the states in a couple of weeks. I am sure that she is dying to bring me over a couple of tens of tobacco. Any suggestions of blends that she might find there that either I couldn’t get easily here or are just too expensive? I really...
  9. hairvise

    Worst Smoking Experience to Date

    So, I sat down in my backyard to have a smoke to relax before the election madness, and i thought that I'd try Byronic Slices again--hadn't smoked it in a while. It didn't seem too moist, so I let it sit for 5-10 minutes and then loaded it up by gravity filling my Peterson, which has been a...
  10. hairvise

    Burning VS. Vaporizing

    I'm sure that we've all had the experience of absentmindedly drawing on a tobacco too hard or too fast and having the pipe deliver harsh, ashy smoke to our mouths. Then, when we return to sipping (say, a Vaper), we once again taste the bready, sweet and/or plummy flavor that we are searching...
  11. hairvise

    Ashing Peterson System Pipes?

    Within the last couple of months, I have acquired two estate Peterson system pipes and have been smoking them almost exclusively to really learn the optimal way of smoking them. I smoke in my backyard and so I typically need to ash my pipes at some point so I don’t end up covered in dust...
  12. hairvise

    Second Half of the Bowl

    EDIT: Fixed Capitalization in Title (See Rule 9) Hi all, Working at home for the last couple of months has really allowed me to improve my pipe smoking technique. I have learned to slow down, to sip at the pipe and to not pack too tightly. The first half of the ball generally goes very well...
  13. hairvise

    Pipe Tobacco While Working?

    Being that many of us are stuck working from home, I'm curious what folks smoke while they are working. I'm at a computer a lot of the day, and I notice that if I'm smoking some delicious Vaper (Solani 633 right now), and I'm not paying full attention to it, I lose out on a lot of the flavor and...
  14. hairvise

    Between First and Second Pipes

    Thanks to the knowledge gained through members of this forum, my pipe smoking abilities have improved tremendously. Whereas previously, I couldn't "taste" VaPers, I have been really enjoying them, but packing lighter, drying the tobacco more, and sipping while slowing down my cadence. So, here's...
  15. hairvise

    Tobacco Recommendations for Cigarette Smoker?

    Hi all, A friend of mine has been a cigarette smoker for many, many years. I wanted to see if she might like pipe smoking instead (she had tried it in her youth). I ordered a couple of corn cob pipes (one for her, one for me) and I wanted to provide her with some tobacco samples. She smokes...
  16. hairvise

    Help with Keeping Fillmore Lit

    Hi all, I've been trying to stick more or less to one tobacco (in this case, GLP Fillmore) to really learn how to smoke a VaPer. I've tried it it several pipes, and while I'm improving my ability to taste it, the number of relights makes me think that I could improve my packing. I've tried...
  17. hairvise

    Reflections on Smoking My First Dr. Grabow Pipe

    EDIT: Fixed Capitalization in Title (See Rule 9) A bit over a year ago now, I began smoking a pipe after cleaning up my father’s old pipe collection. Since then, I have bought a couple of estate pipes including, as of a week ago, a Dr. Grabow Westbrook. I have smoked the Grabow twice now and...
  18. hairvise

    New Pipe Smoker from San Francisco

    Hello everyone, I just began smoking a pipe about a month ago after my father, who is 82, brought me his collection (ten or so) or pipes that he used to smoke during the 70s-80s as a lawyer in Los Angeles. He hasn't smoked them in twenty years or so, so I thought that I'd give them a try. I've...