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  1. Zapasta

    What Pipe Brand Don’t You Own But Want To?

    Many of the fine Italian pipes: Castello, Caminetto, Viprati, Ser Jacopo. The thing is I would rarely smoke them anyway because I love meers so much, and they tend to be quite expensive for me.
  2. Zapasta

    Are You Using an Asbestos Wick?

    I will say, if it is asbestos, it is very harmful. Wicks by nature are fibrous and potentially friable, especially being that old. And with you lighting it up, that would be releasing fibers into the air that you wind up inhaling and it can cause irreversible health problems years down the road.
  3. Zapasta

    Are You Using an Asbestos Wick?

    You could always take off a small piece and send it to a lab to test. I know EMSL does this. I'm not sure how much it would cost but then you would know for sure at least. They charge per sample, so if you just sent one small sample, I don't think it would be much at all.
  4. Zapasta

    Keeping Pipes in Cars

    I don't know about a briar, but I always keep a particular meerschaum in my car as my car pipe and it has held up fine. In Florida, so it definitely gets hot here.
  5. Zapasta

    I Think I've Been Ghosted...

    I seem to get far more precise flavor out of my meers, whereas my briars taste like a jumbled mess, I had always assumed from ghosting. Maybe my meers are different 🙃
  6. Zapasta

    Tobacco Reviews Website Update

    I miss the old site two or three changes ago where is was just white with some green accents, looked like it was from the 90s. It was so much more functional.
  7. Zapasta

    PS Luxury BEF and Navy Flake

    Exactly. It would make no sense to call it a navy flake and not top it with rum.
  8. Zapasta

    What are You Reading Now?

    I've been working on this one
  9. Zapasta

    Which Tobacco after Which Meal?

    It's whatever you want. Whatever you're feeling like at the moment. No need to overcomplicate things.
  10. Zapasta

    Central Florida Pipe Smokers Get Together Saturday March 4

    I should have one or two more guys coming unless something pops up for them. They're great guys.
  11. Zapasta

    Central Florida Pipe Smokers Get Together Saturday March 4

    I'll make it.
  12. Zapasta

    Tool to Expand Draw Hole in Stem?

    I have a lovely meerschaum, but I always thought it was a wet smoker. I've been smoking it without the stem and it turns out the stem is the cause of the moisture buildup. It's a very bent stem and I think the hole is a little small. Does anyone know of a kind of tool that I could use to file...
  13. Zapasta

    Would-you-rather: On Pipes and Dreams

    I'd rather own one good meerschaum!
  14. Zapasta

    Tobacco still good??

    I bet that Old Gowrie is real good about now
  15. Zapasta

    Meerschaum Lined Pipes

    I don't believe you are wrong. In my experience they smoke nothing like block meerschaum. They are usually marketed as having the durability of briar with the smoking qualities of meerschaum but I find them to be subpar.
  16. Zapasta

    StillWell Star. A Pipe Tobacco Cigar

    First of all, they are an expensive cigar (at least for me). About $17 is the local price for me and so I have only smoked a couple. I've had the virginia perique Bayou cigar every time. It's so good I can't bring myself to take a gamble and try one of the other Stillwell Stars. It really brings...
  17. Zapasta

    Are You a Pipe Smoker or a Pipe Collector?

    To me, if you smoke the pipes you own, then you are a pipe smoker. But if you smoke Grabows while having all your nice pipes unsmoked on a shelf, then you are a collector.
  18. Zapasta

    Reliable Soft Flame Pipe Lighters

    You can never go wrong with a Zippo. They are so simple and reliable, and their simplicity makes them very easy to fix if needed.
  19. Zapasta

    Zippo Butane Pipe Inserts

    I tried to buy two different kinds from their website and was not sent a tracking number. I reached out to them and they never got back to me, after which I believe they cancelled my order, because the charge was removed from my card. I try to avoid Vector now lmao
  20. Zapasta

    Torch Lighter and Pipes

    The only time I'd consider using a torch, is with a pipe I don't care about at all, in very windy conditions.this guy seems to think that a torch will light the tobacco more evenly, but this is simply not the case. The tobacco can be lit and burn evenly with a soft flame as well.
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