Anyone Had Any Experience With Nording?

[ukparagolfer]

So I have one of these. Smokes nice but does taste really woody sometimes takes the taste away from the tobacco.

Anyone had any experience with nording? Is this a thing of his?

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I've had the pleasure of hanging out with Erik several times and dinner once, when he has come down to visit The Briary. Great guy with lots of great hunting stories, and some fun jokes. I own six of his pipes, but none of his raw pipes.

However, I love the aroma of the first few smokes in a new pipe, that warmed briar aroma. After a while we get used to it, but I believe it is the briar that gives the smoke that pipe-y aroma to begin with, which is probably why I can't stand meers or those nasty corn cobs.
Just smoke through it. You will notice it less and less, no matter how much you want to hang on to those aromas of the first few smokes. I like to think of it as programming yourself to the DNA of the new pipe.
That's a beautiful pipe, and you will enjoy watching it patina as much as enjoying how it squeezes every last drop of flavor from your tobaccos.
Skál!!

 

[mikethompson]

@bnichols23 is a big Nording fan, he should chime in here.

I have one Nording and it is a great pipe. I'm sure yours will serve you well. The 'woody' taste may just be new briar as Cosmic suggests.

Here's mine:

 

[python]

How many times have you smoked it?

Is it completely broken in?

A pipe with no chamber coating (which I prefer) will sometime give a little bit of a woody flavor every now and then until it's fully broken in.

Or you could be smoking too hot.

 

[mso489]

I have several Nording pipes and have a good opinion of them. I have one of those unfinished Signature freehand pipes I received as a gift. Any woody flavor ceased after the third bowl of burley blend, whatever it was, and it is like most Nording pipes well made and dependable. My others are one of his econopipes from yore when it was just a standard briar, bent billiard, called an Eriksen, not inspired rustication but a good work horse. Then my wife gave me an upmarket Nording Zebra Hunter, long-stemmed but not quite a churchwarden, with carved stripes on the zebra theme. I don't think Nording does all his production in Denmark, but the designs are his, more or less, and the sourcing keeps the prices moderate, unless you wish to splurge on one of his high-end pipes. Your Signature will break in and taste great in no time.