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***What Are You Smoking, May 2022?***
I've been smoking a variety of tobaccos but probably most enjoying Captain Earle's Ten Russians. I read the reviews on TobaccoReviews and don't particularly agree with them. I don't find the nicotine-hit over-whelming at all. It's definitely and Latakia-bomb, but it's also not one-dimensional...- Anchovies
- Post #3,994
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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New Piper. Bitter, Ashy taste
Hello mate, I only did a quick scan of the replies and didn't see anyone mention it, although it's probably the cause of your problems in my opinion: Pipes need to rest. The briar absorbs moisture and tar and what was a nice smoke can become sour and rank tasting. The general rule is to let a...- Anchovies
- Post #28
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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How Far down the Bowl do You Go?
Here are a few photos of my pipe. I tried to get the camera inside the bowl so you can see the "repair job" I did with the pipe-mud - and then a coating of bowl-liner made of charcoal and sour cream applied with a small brush and left to dry. I smoked my first bowl in it this morning and it is...- Anchovies
- Post #39
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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How Far down the Bowl do You Go?
I much prefer the pipe-mud to be honest. I don't want to have a metal basket at the bottom of my pipe. lols.- Anchovies
- Post #38
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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How Far down the Bowl do You Go?
No, it is not like that pipe. It has a huge fat stem and takes a 9mm filter. However, I take the point that the drilling may have been intentional. Intentional or not, I didn't like it from the very first bowl. And it was really high up. Like over 1cm from the bottom of the bowl. I'm still...- Anchovies
- Post #35
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Ash Holes Put my Pipe Out!
I didn't even know "getting the ash out" was a thing in pipe-smoking. I've never done it. The thing about tobacco ash is that it crushes down to an extremely small volume. Even an entire cigar barely makes a teaspoon of ash if you crush it all down (I discovered this recently making pipe mud)...- Anchovies
- Post #21
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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How Far down the Bowl do You Go?
I hear you man, and I expect what you say is mostly spot-on. I can't quite get a mental picture of why exactly a flushly-drilled hole would cause more goop to be sucked through a bent pipe rather than any other, but I'll take your word for it. I'm sure the pipe-maker knows what he is doing -...- Anchovies
- Post #32
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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How Far down the Bowl do You Go?
I hear you man, and I expect what you say is mostly spot-on. However ... well, see below. I feel it really ruined an otherwise beautiful pipe to be honest. I can't be 100% it was due solely that issue because it's not even yet properly broken-in, but tobacco just didn't taste good in that...- Anchovies
- Post #31
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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How Far down the Bowl do You Go?
Well, if it was intentional then I don't like it very much. It just wastes tobacco by collecting it in a damp plug at the bottom of the bowl. I looked up pipe mud. Guess I have to go and buy a cigar. Haha.- Anchovies
- Post #13
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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How Far down the Bowl do You Go?
What is pipe mud?- Anchovies
- Post #10
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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How Far down the Bowl do You Go?
Hey guys, I guess most people consider their smoke finished when it's somewhere about 4/5th smoked right? I know if my own experience that last 1/4 to 1/5 of the bowl is just not as good as the first part. The reasons being obvious - the tobacco underneath has acted like a filter and sucked in...- Anchovies
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- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Why Switch from Cigarettes to Pipe?
Ha! Thanks for the tip.- Anchovies
- Post #48
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Why Switch from Cigarettes to Pipe?
It’s always best to look reality dead in the eye. That said I do believe that the health risks of moderate pipe smoking without inhalation are probably negligible. I don’t know for a fact but it’s my bet. The claim that regular pipe smokers (or any smoker) who inhales the smoke is just as...- Anchovies
- Post #46
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Why Switch from Cigarettes to Pipe?
Take it easy. You're getting very defensive over a totally reasonable post. The thing about the meditative effects is not something I just made up. Although if it were it would still be totally reasonable to speculate upon it. From memory, it's actually exactly what the paper you are are...- Anchovies
- Post #41
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Buying American tobaccos in Europe?
Certainly not! I was talking in broad cultural strokes. Definitely not about "every American". America produces perhaps the the widest and most diverse and most friendly and welcoming population of people in history. I would never intentionally paint all with the same brush. In the same vein...- Anchovies
- Post #40
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Smoking Half a Bowl and Finishing it Later
Interesting difference in opinion here. I must say, since starting this thread I've tried it a few more times, I definitely just don't get it at all. Not only is the taste not improved, I find it's so bad it's barely smokable. From now on I feel I will just dump it and start again. More often...- Anchovies
- Post #28
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Why Switch from Cigarettes to Pipe?
I don't really have any problem with cigarettes apart from the filters. If people want to smoke, be my guest. Just be conscious of other people around you who are totally within their rights to not be exposed to your smell and smoke (the same of course goes for cigars and pipes). The one thing...- Anchovies
- Post #29
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Why Switch from Cigarettes to Pipe?
I have read that too. And that pipe-smokers who do not inhale actually have a slightly longer life expectancy than a non-smoker. If that second thing is true, my guess is that it is due to the meditative and mindfulness aspects of pipe smoking. When I'm smoking a pipe it's usually alone and...- Anchovies
- Post #27
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Why Switch from Cigarettes to Pipe?
Cigarettes are obviously far worse for your health. At least if you smoke a pipe without inhaling it, which is the intended method of smoking pipe tobacco. If you inhale your pipe tobacco then I guess the health benefits of a pipe are probably small or non-existent. But even if you do choose to...- Anchovies
- Post #26
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Buying American tobaccos in Europe?
There are some reasons I can think of. Maybe they're not the right reasons, and maybe they're not good reasons, depending on your perspective, but I can imagine some. In the United States it seems that making money is the alter on which all else is sacrificed. Not a judgement, just an...- Anchovies
- Post #34
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion