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  1. RookieGuy80

    Moving Down the Road

    Oh yeah, the Alamo. I forgot all about that. Great finds! And good luck with the move. The little bits of Georgia I got to see from army base during training, it looks beautiful. And it's always great to be close to family. I never had that growing up, and my own children don't with my wife of...
  2. RookieGuy80

    Haunted Bookshop

    Haunted Bookshop was one of the first few tobaccos I smoked. And the first one I really "got". I think it's because I was/ am coming to pipes from cigarettes. When pushed, HB gets quite cigarette-ish. When slowed down, it's much different. That bit of cigarette helped me learn to smoke, I think...
  3. RookieGuy80

    Your Favorite Underrated Blend

    Peter Stokkebye's Natural Dutch Cavendish is quite a lovely blend that nobody talks about.
  4. RookieGuy80

    ***What Are You Smoking, September 2024?***

    Some what I think is Sutliff English Aromatic my local B&M relabeled and put in a jar.
  5. RookieGuy80

    A few beginner questions

    Corn cob pipes are the Toyota Hilux of pipes. They'll smoke forever on abuse and pipe cleaners and cost a quarter of what a decent cat or briar will (depending on which side of the metaphor you're on). I'd try to find a proper pipe cleaner though. You can get away with a lot of skimping...
  6. RookieGuy80

    Granpa's Tobacco

    That and finding a Grabow that looked like his. That makes a lot of sense. That's something I never thought of. Thank you.
  7. RookieGuy80

    Alternatives to Whiskey & Pipe

    I've never found an "alternative" to whiskey for anything. Maybe whisky, maybe. It's like trying to find an alternative to Frog Morton. Like "replacing" a beloved tin of FM, the best you can hope for is finding something you like just as much knowing it won't be whiskey. Me, I do not (or can...
  8. RookieGuy80

    Granpa's Tobacco

    Thanks everyone! I'm glad to hear Grampa wasn't puffing away on a cough syrup flavored junk. Of course, now I'm wondering why the old man smoked that. Maybe it was the cheapest in his neck of the woods, or the most available, or Grammy just like that one. I do know those Greatest Generation guys...
  9. RookieGuy80

    Rustica Characteristics

    Hmm. I have a motorcycle, well used bbq pit, pork, and I'm sure I can find some rust around, Baltimore is a port city. A different kind of aromatic is achievable. We can make it happen. Cosmic Blend or Folklore Mixture?
  10. RookieGuy80

    Granpa's Tobacco

    Maybe. I guess if I really don't like it, I can smoke it in a latakia or Lakeland dedicated pipe. Let the ghosts work for me. I might check out WVSmokeshop in the not distant future and see if I can get an ounce. Very little cherry flavor is promising.
  11. RookieGuy80

    Granpa's Tobacco

    His dad called us all soft for shaving with safety razors instead of cutthroats. I think we weren't too far from each other though. He was smoking the best he had easy access to, just like the rest of us. We just have access to a bigger store on the internet.
  12. RookieGuy80

    Granpa's Tobacco

    I never saw mine with anything. He was very careful not to let his grandchildren see him smoking.
  13. RookieGuy80

    Storing your Pipe Cleaners?

    One of my pipe stands has that humidor/box/ whatever. It's a little box with a hinged lid. It keeps my cleaners and reamers and filters accessible yet out of sight.
  14. RookieGuy80

    Granpa's Tobacco

    I just found out my maternal grandfather's preferred tobacco brand. Middleton Cherry. This is great news! I knew he smoked a pipe. Nobody could remember what the blend was though. He quit long before I was born. Looking through some old photos of him, I saw in the background several tins of...
  15. RookieGuy80

    Recommendations Needed On English-Aro Crossovers

    Kramer's Blend for Carry Grant is a good one. I've heard Blend for Danny Kaye is just as good only more English than aromatic, but that's second hand. Black Frigate from C&D is a very rummy almost English. I'm currently enjoying a house blend that I'm 90% certain is rebranded Sutliff English...
  16. RookieGuy80

    Pipes On Instagram

    No, I'll pass. I realize I'm throwing the baby out with the bathwater, but some talented pipe carvers aren't enough to get me on social media. I have too many problems with Instagram. I'm happy to either get contact info from one of you fine gentlemen or pick up their offerings second hand from...
  17. RookieGuy80

    Preference: Rubbed or Doubled?

    The only flakes I've had any kind of success folding has been Stokkebye and Capstans. Otherwise I'm cube cutting. I'll try new flakes folding and stuffing, but odds are good they'll get the scissor treatment. Which is too bad. I like the flavors I get from flakes more.
  18. RookieGuy80

    Pipe Shapes

    They're both good. I like choices. I do find bents easier to clench for times I need both hands doing other things. But a light straight pipe can easily work as well.
  19. RookieGuy80

    Fishing With Your Pipes

    That's nice if you have the option. Here in Maryland, blue and flat head catfish (as well as northern snakehead) are considered invasive. One can get some pretty hefty fines for releasing them back into the water. And rightly so, in my own opinion. As the blue cats moved in, our native channel...
  20. RookieGuy80

    ***What Are You Smoking, September 2024?***

    2-1/2 year old Orion's Arrow in a Bones pipe. I think this one is called "Arbutus Sitter". Good stuff. It's along the lines of Oriental Silk or Sunday Picnic, but more perique forward.
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